Em Adespoton

You’re probably right, but steganography with FEC should be enough to do the job; any predictive text errors would be caught with the checksumming.

After all, Phil Zimmerman got the entirety of the PGP source code from the US to Germany as a book. OCR combined with predictive text reconstruction has come a LONG way since then. The big problem today with OCR is that it often corrects errors that were present in the original document.

Depends on the recipient.

And you could always encrypt a message against your recipient’s public key, print it out, and then mail it from a random drop box. You could even include a public key in the message so the recipient can send you back letters, and include an address in the letter they could reach you at.

It’d only really work if enough people were sending such letters to enough recipients though, or the act of encrypting your messages in such a manner would itself be a data point.

Also, you could print the messages on thermal paper, so they fade over time.

A good solution to China dumping green tech on the market?

Everyone else ALSO dumps green tech on the market.

Yeah, there’s the problem with rare earth refinement, but that just means someone has to come up with a green solution that’s cheaper than China abusing its population and destroying its ecosystem to provide rare earths.

In other words, the solution to China dumping and accruing the costs isn’t political, it’s to beat them at their own game, in an ethical way. And it should be possible. Maybe not with CEOs pulling down trillion dollar bonuses, but if the people at the top tightened their belts, it could easily be done.

Just imagine if a few countries considered ecological defense to be a significant part of their military budget.

Are you saying they allow it because they use cryptocurrency?

Because unlike cash, cryptocurrency is designed to be traced. Even Monero. That’s the entire point of a digital ledger on a blockchain.

Or, it could be random noise at this point.

Or It could be overwritten with copies of text from Richard Stallman saying “first post!” Over and over.

That would ignore the fishery though.

I’ve got some devices I’ve been fast charging for 8 years; it seems to be more of a problem as the device ages; but that’s offset by having it ready to use again quickly.

Depends what you mean by ‘learned’ — my grandparents talked about their time fighting the fascists from the time I was born.

The layoffs are usually due to a race to meet quarterly projections; when the projections slip, the fastest way to match them again is layoffs. And for companies to keep their stock prices up, quarterly numbers have to keep climbing.

There’s two layers to the warped reality; the second layer is in social media reacting to the news feeds instead of spending time and energy discussing forward-looking topics.

OK, you’re saying that deploying a docker container is too difficult, but somehow MPV assembly from the command line isn’t?

My point was, why should people be abandoning Jellyfin for MPV when there’s no observable gain in features or functionality, and it’s significantly more complicated to set up?

I’m still trying to figure out why I should stop running a jellyfin server. It does all this too, and I just had to deploy a docker container and point it at my NAS.

Who exactly are we talking about here? Are you saying I should be harassing the people in the marketing department at my company? Or are you saying we should have visibility campaigns about the companies involved in the Internet ad networks? Or someone else?

No; however, you essentially have a line between price and noise, and you need to check what they filter, how expensive the filters are, and how often they need to be replaced, as well as how much it costs to run them.

It’s totally achievable; he just glossed over the part where most of the world’s population is wiped out by global warming and the only people who survive are Elon and those he deems worthy.

Depends on what the air purifier was filtering. Mine does PM10, PM2.5, VOC and NO2. That means it’s filtering out particles down to 2.5mm plus volatile organic compounds (smoke, aerosolized oils, water vapour with pathogens, etc) and nitrous oxide.

The filter is a multi stage filter; the PM2.5 stuff passes right through the PM10 filter.

Interestingly, if I want to clear a room of smoke, sawdust, drywall dust or similar, what works the best is running my shop vac with a HEPA filter installed until I can’t smell the dust/smoke (usually around 5 minutes) and then I turn my air filter on full blast and it clears up the air in around 20 minutes. If I just used the air filter, I’d probably clog it up and then just have to replace the comparatively expensive filter.

Aliens (even illegal ones) are preferable to an asteroid strike, too.

Too bad they aren’t mutually exclusive.

ISPs route data packets between IP addresses; they don’t get to see the content of what I send/receive (it’s encrypted), and they don’t get domain info without deep packet inspection, because I don’t use their DNS servers.

It’s more like sometimes the city will put up speed cameras and ALPRs — but does that make them responsible for speeders?

You have a point about the DMCA though; I’ve had videos monetized by a third party because of music I wrote and performed myself — turned out, the company was stealing MY music and I got dinged for it.

Religion has to do with habits and practices. So someone can brush their teeth religiously.

Christianity is a religion, but it’s also a faith-based belief system that incorporates alternate planes of existence. Some people eschew the religion part but still have the belief system, and some people play inside the religion without actually believing in the spiritual side of things.

I like to explain Christianity as the belief in a multidimensional being who defines the dimensions we can observe and has done a bit of mucking around in a way that was measurable by us. Angelic appearances? Most would call them aliens, as they’d be extra terrestrial intelligences. Spiritual possession? A different dimension that has an effect on the ones we inhabit, but is currently beyond our capacity to fully understand.

Is it a blind spot? They did discover and shut down those Chinese “police stations” in Germany….