It's disgusting how scientists come up with these elaborate excuses to do things they know everyone will object to. Stop playing god
Readit Newsunosama commented on "Wooly mice" a test run for mammoth gene editing arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/LorenDB
unosama commented on I found a backdoor into my bed trufflesecurity.com/blog/... · Posted by u/riverdroid
If you suffer from insomnia, there are so many other things you can do. Check your Vitamin D and B levels. Meditate. Don't get a bed that emits more EMF. That definitely won't help you.
before anyone tries to mock me for mentioning EMF: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5247706/
unosama commented on Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe? · Posted by u/julianpye
Good headlines for sure, but i wonder:
Suppose the war ends. Will the Europeans keep boycotting the cheap russian gas?
Tarriffs are a nuisance to the US - the US doesn't export much.
The US imports way too much and our economy has been slowly dying since the 70s. Tarriffs are only a nuisance for the upperclass, they're a boon for middle class Americans because they allow more industry to come back to the United States.
unosama commented on Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe? · Posted by u/julianpye
I was just thinking today how long will it be until Windows is turned into a weapon. I know I know, but its not really paranoid to think that anymore is it? Imagine the chaos around the world caused by Windows machines simultaneously reformatting hard disks except in America.
It's really funny to me that people are so partisan. You only worry about backdoors under Trump? As if the CIA has not be orchestrating coups around the world for half a century?
unosama commented on Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe? · Posted by u/julianpye
The majority of Americans do not care and do not really want US tech to be global. The majority of Americans are ashamed of US soft power and the way we meddle with other countries constantly. While loss of dollar hegemony will have economic implicatiosn for the US, American's just don't really care about having dollar hegemony. We don't care about any of these things or what Europe is doing.
unosama commented on Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above github.com/DiscordMesseng... · Posted by u/Tiberium
That's a morally questionable action—it might encourage some businesses to stay on Windows 98 even longer. And if that weren't bad enough already, the employees would also have to use Teams!
How is this any more morally questionable than forcing employees to upgrade to Windows 11?
unosama commented on Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above github.com/DiscordMesseng... · Posted by u/Tiberium
unosama commented on Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above github.com/DiscordMesseng... · Posted by u/Tiberium
Because there isn't a good replacement in open source software. Matrix and others are pretty normie hostile.
I help run a few Discord servers and due to financials, I'm always worried about extremely hostile actions by them to make money.
My list of things good open source replacement would have:
Decentralized chat servers with history
Run a optional centralized login service so users have one login
Optional centralized service knows what servers the user is a member of so any client they login to will automatically know which servers they are member of.
Centralized Mobile Notification service
Federation is absolutely not a requirement or a way around this.
Things become less normie hostile as more people adopt it. Two decades ago reddit was normie hostile.
unosama commented on Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above github.com/DiscordMesseng... · Posted by u/Tiberium
Just a gentle warning: try out alternative Discord clients with a non-important account first.
A few years ago, I used ripcord¹ and got automatically banned by Discord - probably because I had started the original Discord client on the same computer, and this triggered some heuristics.
Discord's first-level support was not willing to reinstate my account, and I had to² track down their head of security on Twitter to get my account reinstated.
¹) https://cancel.fm/ripcord/, no new releases since 2021
²) I'd not generally suggest this approach. However, since COVID we have been using Discord a lot for informal communication with our students. Losing access to a dozen course servers mid-semester was a huge problem for me.
Stop voluntarily communicating through platforms that so easily ban you.
Related news:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harvard-scientist-george-church...
> Church was partly funded from 2005 to 2007 by the nonprofit Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation.