What do you suggest?
William Gibson described it as "High tech, low life." It's also described as a Genre that explores the connection and impacts between technology and the human experience.
Readit Newshacknewslogin commented on Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk” Letter to Gottfried Leibniz mynamelowercase.com/blog/... · Posted by u/Gormisdomai
hacknewslogin commented on How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle... · Posted by u/pixelmelt
This is going to date me, but I had a t-shirt with basically a code-golf version of DeCSS printed on it and it said "This shirt is illegal" on it or something like that. I never actually wore it in public.
There's a site somewhere that has various ASCII art renditions of that code. It's on my project list to print some of those on some shirts :P
hacknewslogin commented on Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time wsj.com/finance/commoditi... · Posted by u/thm
Four things are happening (and one of them is gold) that make a terrifying situation.
Facts:
- Gold has reached all time highs
- US debt (ie T-bills) selling at all time lows
- US equities are at all time highs
- USD falling day over day, month over month, year over year
All 4 of those facts cannot remain true indefinitely. The all time high equity prices are because it requires more USD(which is decreasing in value) to purchase them. Gold is at all time highs because USD is decreasing in value, and the flight to safety leads people to gold. US debt is falling in value because no one wants to buy it. At some point, equities will give up and crash, or gold will have to crash....and I don't think it's going to be gold crashing.
edit: formatting
It might also have something to do with Project 2025. There's a plan to return the US to the gold standard.
hacknewslogin commented on Open Source Blueprints for Civilization opensourceecology.org/... · Posted by u/vlugorilla
I was very excited when this project first came about, but it has been pretty dead for a while. It seems like the creators made a TED talk about it, got some financing, and moved on. They're now focused on selling classes on building their version of an inexpensive house that they say will "change the world."
hacknewslogin commented on Notesnook: Open-source, encrypted, local-first note taking app notesnook.com... · Posted by u/akyuu
I've been using it most of this year, it's been really handy. I do wish there was a better way to manage attachments. Right now if you attach an image or document to a note, there's no easy way to download it, at least from the android app. You can select the image and get details, but no save/dl option.
I'd also love a way to see attachments on a note in a list, with download options. I have several notes with multiple docs attached, and I would like the option of downloading them all at once.
I also wish they took feedback directly. The last time I checked, they ha
I think the fundamental problem is nobody does formal debates with rules and moderators (who actually do their job).
Its not like falacious arguments and bad faith rhetoric is a new phenomenon. They've been with us since the beginning of time. They are problems we have solutions to.
You might find Cambridge union to be refreshing.
hacknewslogin commented on When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun wisewolfmedia.substack.co... · Posted by u/douchecoded
Wasn't this only possible because Trump enacted "Operation Warp Speed?"
oligarchy appears to be the natural state of affairs in most human systems and, despite that, tends not to be discussed much (instead we hear about democracy, fascism, communism, etc)
i think the best solution to this dynamic is many smaller units (states, companies, etc) so that oligarchies compete with one another, but this requires a type of system design and a vibe largely out of favor in todays world (e.g. secession & trust-busting for governments & corporations, respectively)
That sounds like it would lead to Corpo-feudalism, aka techno-feudalism. Some billionaires are working to accomplish this.
I randomly found an anvil on sale for cheap and now our family has the blacksmithing bug. One of our favorite things to do is take a couple anvils and a small forge down to the park and let the kids smash red hot nails into "mini-swords". We have also started selling the swords on his lemonade cart, People actually buy them!
You would think this would be a dangerous activity but it turns out to be petty tame. About 1/20 kids burns a finger, and when they finish yelling they inevitably tough up and get back to work because they are having so much fun.
So anyway, scrounge up plumbing torch and some nails and let the kids make "mini-swords." You can use a sledge hammer or any big chunk of metal as your anvil.
If you want to see what the "swords" look like my kid has pictures on his site: https://lemonsword.com/
They look great! Double-headed nails make great mini swords. I use them to show that I can make a sword in one heat. Smash it flat, file some small tapers and you're set. Plus, it fits in the hand of a lego person :P
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