"This is a threat", adds Google.
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I see the YouTube preview in German.
Decades of heavy metal pollution in that ground.
In online stores you can find extreme numbers of different brands.
My mom's cat ate Nestlé Purina until he stared vomiting too often. He had acquired allergies to the fillers in it and now has to eat hypoallergenic foods made of actual meat, or straight up meat. Read the ingredients and be appalled. It seems cheap, but there's very little cat-digestible food in it.
Same old trend of thoughtlessly offloading jobs onto the computer instead of collaborating with and over the computer.
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
Similarly, cars are designed to atrophy muscles.
Bite-sized chunks of chicken with the texture of whole...
You could easily be led to think so, skimming articles like
"Does Lead Have a Connection to Autism? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10536388/
This meta-analysis showed significantly higher Pb levels in all three types of biological material in cases than in controls, suggesting a higher body Pb burden in autistic children. Thus, environmental Pb exposure could be related to the genesis of autism.
There used to be a business catalog book called “yellow pages”. Now there are map applications, price comparison sites, customer review sites, and keyword search engines. All of those make advertisements unnecessary.
There used to be a business catalog book called "yellow pages". Now there are map applications, price comparison sites, customer review sites, and keyword search engines. All of those make advertisements unnecessary.
I raise you "cubic capacity" meaning volume.
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Share EU where? By sharing there, you submit to shadow ban while giving credence to propaganda.
(lemmy.world)
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.
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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.
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?
- Vannevar Bush invented the Memex crowd thinking desktop environment with redundancy-merging hypertext wiki 1939–1945.
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:
- Ivan Sutherland liked the pointable display and invented interactive computer graphics.
“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.”
- Douglas Engelbart, who had been inspired by Memex, looked at the new computers and the state of Earth’s collective intelligence.
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:
- Alan Kay working at the same ARPA IPTO designed the handheld computer Dynabook 1968. (He writes on Quora.)
“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.
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