Calling alt-right authoritarian regressives/reactionaries "conservatives" bothers me. It's like "Damn those democracies and republics, like North Korea", and "Nazis were nationalists and socialists - it's in the name".
Conservatism is being wary of change and sticking to what works. Like not fucking up the climate.
Psychotherapists treat mental health through comments.
Open source, open training set?
Owned by a company owned by billionaires, many of whom seem to like political manipulation in a certain direction.
Not a trusted party to do that.
Most cameras have native 4:3 aspect ratio. You may want to check the settings and crop later if needed.
To my knowledge, Samsung started this by calling "local display-shaped" aspect ratio as "full". To find the native one without reading the specs, hold the camera still and see which setting includes the most view.
There's optimal cheap and too cheap. Someone always wants to be the cheapest in its class, and they'll compromise on quality to get there.
I've owned several recumbent trikes like that one, all of which lifted the inner wheel in sporty driving below my preferred speed.
At which sideways acceleration will Aptera roll over? A heavy battery between the front wheels will help somewhat.
I assume fluorine is one of the many "any dose matters" slow poisons for the brain in which there is no safe dose, only undetectable in insufficiently controlled studies of intelligence development over decades.
… 21 of 23 recent epidemiological studies report an association between high fluoride exposure and reduced intelligence. The discrepancy between experimental and epidemiological evidence may be reconciled with deficiencies inherent in most of these epidemiological studies on a putative association between fluoride and intelligence, especially with respect to adequate consideration of potential confounding factors, e.g., socioeconomic status, residence, breast feeding, low birth weight, maternal intelligence, and exposure to other neurotoxic chemicals.
Black box feed shaping is sneaky propaganda, making undesirable messages effectively unseen. We shouldn't submit to it, or give credence to it.
European citizens' media feeds in the control of a hostile country enables the slow, strategic destruction of Europe by trillions of unnoticeable manipulations.
Every time Windows updates itself, my Linux disappears. Actually, it's just hidden, only the boot menu was overwritten. You need a computer maintenance technician to make a new boot menu. I use a USB stick with a live Linux with automatic boot repair tools.
Recently, Windows has become resistant to Boot Repair Disk. Now I have to open computer firmware by tapping "Esc" right after power-up, then select "Boot options", then "Linux".
EU must ban all US-made smart products for its own safety. All closed-source software and electronics that can be used for strategic manipulation and sabotage -- Google, Apple, Amazon, all of it.
We have functional, clunky open-source software that could easily be fitted for any purpose with the money we waste propping up foreign monopolies sabotaging us. Europe has taken a huge risk. I suspect bribery.
The destruction of OkCupid by Match Group looks like a politically motivated attack against the minorities and intellectual power users who used to flock there.
OkCupid used to be the best place to match diverse people.
They crowdsourced thousands of multiple choice questions from which you built your search filter:
The match results were factored into friendship, dating, and sex. "Friendship" contained ethics and communication style, so it also worked for business partnerships.
Then Match Group bought it.
For a while they let it be, but then they:
Plausibly deniable attack: "It's just business."
It cheats you in through a back door, looking like an ad-covered kiosk. The main entrance is on the other side.
In stalls, there are two screens playing ads, sound coming from the one you're facing.
Toilet paper brands advertise on dispensers, all brands owned by the same conglomerate.
Softest toilet paper has printed portraits of the toilet company's political enemies.
Facial recognition measures usage, you pay at exit.
Exiting after 5 minutes is expensive, but a monthly plan is cheaper.
The whole wash was estimated 72 minutes when it started.
It weighs the clothes by inertia in the beginning, I didn't overload, and the water (hot and cold) comes in fast through thick pipes, so there's no excuse for this.
How dumb must the program be to estimate one minute left in the beginning of the rinse cycle with two rinses and a spin cycle to go?
The building and presumably the machine were made 2018, and the maintenance log on the side says many repairs have been made since, so the software must have been updated many times already.
I wrote this.
[Preview]
Who invented the modern computer look and feel?
He had designed analog computers and founded the Manhattan Project that produced the first nuclear bomb.
Memex was to increase humanity’s collective wisdom enormously, comparable to the printing press revolution in science in the last few centuries.
“First do this,”
“then do that:”
“Massive progress in collaborative thinking!”
Memex as described by Bush in “As We May Think“
"enlarged intimate supplement to one's memory"
"mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility"
"Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified."
"The inheritance from the master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by which they were erected."
(emphasis mine)
Memex remembers knowledge and its creation process to be immediately learned from and built upon. It self-organises, integrating added information to the common knowledge tree.
It was designed for crowd work on all human knowledge.
WWW does not remember - it works like a paper pile. You can’t see a mesh of associative trails running through WWW any more than through a paper pile. The mental scaffolding by which knowledge was erected is lost. You can’t drop a knowledge structure into WWW and expect any amplification to happen.
It was made for publishing, not processing.
Vannevar Bush squiggling alone in his outer brain about a shared outer brain:
He specified a desktop computer to host Memex,
and suggested a quaint working principle,
which nobody thought could possibly work.
John von Neumann replied:
“Konrad Zuse already made it from ones and zeros - it’s fast and precise. Let me show you how to make one.”
Bush replied “It’s hideous and boring! Twiddling knobs is so much gayer than pressing buttons!”
"I tweak this - that there resists. I let go - it returns under the force set by this slider. I flip this clutch - these three start arguing, and it’s all chaos! It wiggles! Then you tweak the adjusters until order emerges. The point is collaboration.”
“It doesn’t matter which way you swing the data. All computers are born equal, so ours isn’t any worse”, explains Alan Turing.
“Also, we were being bombed when we made it, and beat Nazi Germany with it.”
“What will the machine do? Nobody knows. Is it thinking? Who cares? If it quacks, it’s a duck.”, says Turing.
“We’re selling them too. Can you afford to be without?”
U.K. Government drove Turing to suicide for his taste in companions.
Meanwhile:
U.S. military chose von Neumann’s architecture and made SAGE air traffic control computer for Soviet Russian bombers.
Inside the computer, bits of electricity were beamed off of red hot metal wires all the way to the display, X-raying the user.
Outside the computer, workers parked their cars.
They wanted reliability, so a backup computer ran in the background, ready to take over.
Meanwhile:
“See, when I scale the main part, all the sub-parts inherit the change. Then I start the simulation and we’ll see if the chair can bear the weight. Easy as C-A-D.”
He had a worry:
“What if an unforeseen danger is about to hit us? Can we solve the problem quickly enough? Doubtful.”
He had a vision:
"We should use computers to boost mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems."
He worked at ARPA IPTO with master craftsmen orchestrated by J. C. R. Licklider, Ivan Sutherland (the CAD guy), and Robert Taylor. In 1968 they launched “The Mother of All Demos” on the oN-Line System (NLS), a collaborative desktop environment.
Douglas Engelbart mousing around with other users’ pointers while typing on a 5-bit chord keyboard.
Talking about the structure of knowledge in a real-time collaborative-editing wiki.
Team of programmers wiggling the server’s logic graphs with their mice. No twiddle knobs, only unfeelable pictures under glass.
Internet, then ARPAnet, has been up since then - it may be the most reliable machine ever made.
Moments later:
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Unimpressed, the U.S. Congress fired ARPA IPTO in 1972.
Earlier, over the decades where the congress representatives live:
The Principal contaminants in used oil are Aluminium Dichlorodifluoromethane, Benzene, Antimony Trichclorotrifluorethane, Toluene Arsenic, 1,1,1-Trichloroethane Xylenes, Barium Trichloroethylene, Chromium Polychlorinated biphenyls Other PAHs, Cobalt Sulphur, Copper Nitrogen, Lead, Magnesium, Manganese. Mercury, Nickel, Phosphorus, Silicon, Sulphur and Zinc.
http://www.materialsciencejournal.org/vol7no1/environmental-impacts-of-used-oil/
Luckily a rich company, Xerox, immediately grabbed the project. Whew!
At Xerox PARC Alan Kay (the Dynabook guy) made a user-programmable desktop development environment virtual machine Smalltalk on the first modern personal computer Xerox Alto (“interim Dynabook”) 1973.
Children loved its learnability.
Users loved its understandability: Transparent meanings all the way down to what makes it tick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw&t=157s
"Doing with images makes symbols!”
It was highly learnable, user editable, and crowd collaborable in an unlimited number of persistent, shared workspaces.
It was supposed to make everyone fluent in computers in the same way that Ford Model T with its complete manual for disassembly, maintenance, and repair had birthed a generation of Americans fluent in mechanics who then went on to win World War II, to the Moon, and higher up skyscrapers than ever.
“Learn this as a child:”
“Do this as an adult:”
“Let’s do the same with computers?”, suggests Alan Kay.
[End of preview]
As there is no import function to Lemmy from Quora, and copy-paste removes formatting and links, this is too tedious for me to rebuild here entirely. Go read the original. More about boring dystopia further down the article.
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
If you can't stand Quora, here's a copy with all videos broken and images scaled down, with scripts to "mail [dot] ru" for some reason according to NoScript in Firefox: https://archive.ph/4Ka2l The other archiving options offered didn't work.
When feudalism was the old way, and human rights and freedoms were new, they were literally conserving the old way. The name was technically true.
Anyway, my point: Don't let enemies commandeer language with their newspeak where nothing means anymore what it apparently means and used to mean. If we agree to call them conservatives now, some literal-minded centrists (or whatever they are) will be fooled into voting them. We should repeat "that name is a lie, their actions are alt-right authoritarian". It's a mistake to go along with the lie and write on a map "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" or "Gulf of America".
Do we have a technical term for “fuck you, I’ve got mine”? Some opposite of socialism? Selfish?