datendefekt

Love it, change it or leave it, I guess?

I met my wife, umm, gosh, it was actually 30 years ago. Doesn’t feel like it’s been that long! Yeah sure we have our share of bickering but we also have a lot of laughs together and just enjoy being together. We’re best friends, soul buddies.

Wasn’t always like that, though. I was mentally in a bad space for a while, unhappy and unsatisfied. God I have no idea how she put up with me.

Something clicked when I realized all the unhappiness came from inside me, I was making myself miserable, no one else. And instead of misery, I chose love and remind myself

Always be loving and tolerant. But foremost, don’t be full of yourself

Meanwhile, phone-sized readers like the Boox Palma exist and are much more capable.

They also have a Gemini site gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/hundredrabbits/

Frozen oxygen?

… my sweetest friend / everyone I know / goes away in the end

Two things: decentralized generation (solar on roofs everywhere) and market forces (demand drives grid buildout)

Work at a larger organization and the only browser we’re allowed is fucking Edge. All other browsers are blocked as malicious processes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents lists over 30 nuclear accidents documented by the US armed forces.

And recycling panels and batteries is a lot more appealing than dealing with radioactive waste for hundreds and thousands of years!

No, just no. Nuclear might be better than fossil fuels in the short term, but there’s a lot we’re asking of from later generations.

We have perfectly viable non-poisonous and non-radioactive solutions, but I guess renewables aren’t manly enough for the military.

I don’t get the logic. Not criticizing you, because it’s one good explanation. Who generates the wealth for the billionaire class? Who receives the wealth? You’d want highly educated people and not peasants. Wouldn’t you rather grift in Taiwan than North Korea?

Watched a clip yesterday and learned that compared to just last year, there were four times as many contestants and they managed to complete the race in less than half the time.

But the really fascinating things were mundane tasks like chopping vegetables.

Comparing that to what Europe has got to offer is what scares me.

It’s a muli motor, a long john with a collapsible cargo compartment in the front and not much longer or wider than normal bikes.

I call it „my bike with a trunk“. The kids are too big for it, but the dog loves riding.

No joke. I got a cargo bike and couldn’t be happier. Easily transports a full shopping cart of groceries.

Goodacre catalogues this and related scenarios in a 37-page risk assessment prepared for CISOs evaluating Intel vPro hardware connected to corporate networks. Its conclusion is blunt: connecting an untouched-ME device to corporate resources “exposes the organization to a class of compromise that defeats the host security stack in its entirety.”

I hear a lot of concern about backdoors in Chinese hardware but this is just dystopian.

The megacorps can do anything they want with their product. The chef can change the menu anytime and he can refuse you service - it’s his restaurant. Our problem is that it’s a duopoly and there’s nowhere else to go.

The only way out is open standards and platforms, enabling true competition.