solstice

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   by solstice 7y ago

   Woah, I never thought about this possibility.
2. 272.▲
   by solstice 7y ago

   Ah, my bad. It works on Android which is all I've ever used it on.
3. 273.▲
   by solstice 7y ago

   Does it need to be active (beyond possibly having to fix stuff after each new windows release)? Are there any big open issues? (Honest questionl
4. 274.▲
   by solstice 7y ago

   There's a backup function. You can set it to run at certain intervals. I included it in my syncthing sync so I have a backup of my whole signal whenever I run syncthing.
5. 275.▲
   by solstice 7y ago

   His whole point is to not weaken encryption but to strengthen it, despite the likely social costs that will incur. Have you read the conclusion of the article?
6. 276.▲
   by solstice 7y ago

   Have you read the whole (admittedly rather long) article? He has a pretty nuanced view of it imo, especially at the end and explicitly refers to the "golden age of surveillance"
7. 277.▲
   by solstice 7y ago

   啊呀, it seems I wasn't awake enough yet when posting. Thank you for the correction.
8. 278.▲
   by solstice 7y ago

   Another example: the Chinese name for SF is Laojinshan (老金山) afaik, which translates to Old Gold Mountain and sounds nothing like Hispanic/English name. I think it dates back to the California gold rush
9. 279.▲
   by solstice 7y ago

   France also removed most public bins in Paris after bomb attacks in the 90s (I think) but they ended up replacing them with hoops to which transparent plastic bags are attached. I'm not sure on the timeline (ie how long it took them to
10. 280.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    Try long-clicking on a link to YouTube. If you have an appropriate app installed (either official YouTube or sth like Newpipe) the last item in the menu popping up should be sth like "open with $APP" The same is true for some othe
11. 281.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    See also the unfolding Internet of Shit saga. While everybody is afraid of artificial intelligence, I am currently more afraid of Artificial Stupidity...
12. 282.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    Also, the word "wreck" seems really inappropriate because of the silent w.
13. 283.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    I'd like to encourage people to read this website for news about China and also to listen to the Sinica podcast, which is partly made by the same people (Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn). Supchina also has a newsletter
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    by solstice 7y ago

    I've got nothing of substance to comment on the technical aspects of the project but I find it amusing that Germans create a lot of pseudo-English words (Denglisch) such as "beamer" (projector) and "handy" (mobile p
15. 285.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    Could you elaborate? This would be news to me
16. 286.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    Afaik it is now well on its way towards a full-on techno-police state dystopia aimed at the uyghurs (ai, big data, facial recognition, ideological reeducation camps, politically reliable Han Chinese as forced live-ins in uyghur families tem
17. 287.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    I'm sorry, but that second sentence is just ridiculous. Conflating NK and PRC does no one any good. Sure, the space for civil society has tightened a lot since 2011, you've got the trade war and a ton of other simmering conflicts,
18. 288.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    It's been replaced by Open Shell which works well: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
19. 289.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    I'm picturing extremely slow moving cinematography like in DBZ in the battle against Cell (which was stretched over weeks' worth of episodes)
20. 290.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    would it be possible for them to rise above the storm systems and thus avoid them? Or is that where the jet streams are? I have wondered about a similar thing in the context of solar panels floating on the oceans: if the weather and the wav
21. 291.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    Oh wow, of course! I know salicorne from vacations in France. Totally forgot about it.
22. 292.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    A small counterpoint to your last point: the youngsters at Fridays for future and the folks of Extinction rebellion
23. 293.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    Wow interesting. Are there any edible such plants? Then their salt leaves could be used as natural seasoning
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    by solstice 7y ago

    There was a mini "scandal" in Germany not long ago during a meeting between the Australian PM and Angela Merkel, when a handout for Merkel had some info about said PM, including his name. Some German newspapers saw that as an emba
25. 295.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    Are you a generally nice person? Then be nice and empathetic to your future self.
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    by solstice 7y ago

    Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1105/
27. 297.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    I assume that humidity messes with the detection of particle size. I have a LaserEgg particulate matter detector and they use a laser beam to count the particles in the air that flows through the device (via a small aspirating fan). So if p
28. 298.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    Re: specialization. Most people aren't ambidextrous afaik and will have a hard time retraining to do things with another hand. So I think the metaphor still holds
29. 299.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    Signal works in Shanghai, albeit with occasional delays and hickups.
30. 300.▲
    by solstice 7y ago

    a generous amount of body hair can provide some early-detection capabilities.