It's true that these patterns and problems have existed and will likely continue. It's also true that common rhetoric and bias have changed dramatically in the last 10-15 years. I don't forsee any simple or easy ways to replace the social and political dams that tamed the pressures of power. It's very difficult to make power useful instead of destructive and it's very unlikely that this entropy will reverse. It's also illogical to do nothing about it.
Readit Newsuseless_foghorn commented on The 60 Minutes report that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband theverge.com/policy/84943... · Posted by u/lateforwork
useless_foghorn commented on (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore ericmigi.com/blog/re-intr... · Posted by u/duck
You don't get 2 weeks battery life with GPS. That drops it down to less than a day.
Garmin's Enduro 3 claims 13.3 days[1] of continuous GPS tracking with solar recharge and is tested to have 5 continuous days without[2].
[1] https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/GUID-7AD1A592-9044-4... [2] https://www.outdoorgearlab.com/reviews/camping-and-hiking/gp...
useless_foghorn commented on Noise cancelling a fan chillphysicsenjoyer.subst... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
> The way noise cancelling works is that a microphone picks up the sound-wave, and then another speaker plays a slightly delayed version of that wave, which cancels it out.
I always thought noise cancelling worked by playing an inverted version of the sound wave rather than just a delayed one.
In fact, wikipedia seems to back me up on this:
> A noise-cancellation speaker emits a sound wave with the same amplitude but with an inverted phase (also known as antiphase) relative to the original sound.
If you have a single amplitude wave then a delayed playback could be inversion of the wave. Not very sophisticated, but good enough for canceling a single frequency.
useless_foghorn commented on 12ft.io Taken Down newsmediaalliance.org/tak... · Posted by u/afeuerstein
It's a good question, and I can at least say something positive about every solution.
Ads let you make money long before you're big enough to compel subscriptions... but they basically make the least tech savvy people subsidize the rest of us which isn't fair.
Paywalls on everything seems fair, but it means that only some people will see things that everyone should read. Like a critical bit of investigative journalism.
Paywall + free articles per IP address (common solution) is almost good, but it requires every single content producer to polish the system, and IP address isn't the ideal fingerprint. Requiring everyone to quickly register (like Apple sign-in) seems decent, but once again now everyone has to polish this system. Though until you're big you could just use substack/wordpress/whatever.
Bundle subscriptions like Apple News is a decent solution—one of the few times I've paid for news—, but secures the domination for incumbents large enough to appear on Apple News. It doesn't answer the question for anyone else.
Microtransactions seem like they'd be a good way to throw some scraps to even tiny sites you visit once. But I think there's too much psychological overhead that isn't even worth the pennies. Like when you had to click the +1 Flattr button back in the day, even though it was a tiny donation, you'd still find yourself thinking if it was really worth it. Hmm I only read half the article, etc.
I'd partake in a microtransaction system that pays based on the percentage of the article I finished. Some assurance of high-quality journalism would be helpful.
If HN existed as pay-to-play for instance (it probably wouldn't), I wouldn't be opposed to paying based on my usage for the curation - knowing that I'm supporting the creators/authors of the content I'm enjoying. I don't think an unlimited plan makes sense - instead pay per article. I think the amount you pay per should be chosen when you create your account, not every time you open an article. I think this is most fair to the creators and consumers with the least organizational bloat.
useless_foghorn commented on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat theatlantic.com/politics/... · Posted by u/_tk_
> If you can get away with it, why wouldn't you set things up this way?
Ethics and morality.
> You can't try to view power plays like this through the lenses of ethics or morality.
Yes, you can, that's the entire point of ethics and morality.
> The point is to use rules to bind and punish your enemies and to make sure that only your friends can get away with breaking them.
Well, yes, that's the point of the specific actions being discussed; that doesn't make it impossible to look at them through a lens of ethics and morality, it just makes them look bad through such a lens.
Power is less appealing if you aren't seeking to abuse it. I agree that an ethics and morality lens is both useful and necessary, but I fear it doesn't illuminate the actions and motivations of the powerful. Perhaps in contrast or relief, but not directly.
So if I’m understanding correctly, the black hole is supposed to be between me and what I’m looking at, not in what I’m looking at?
If so, then my question is wouldn’t some light be lost to the black hole? Shouldn’t a substantial portion of the light coming at me from the other side of the black hole disappear into the black hole, making what does lens around dimmer?
A lot of light would be absorbed by the black hole. A lot of light paths would be bent and miss or nearly miss the black hole, making edges of the black hole quite bright. The dimming effect would be much larger than the (brighter) immediate periphery.
I’m confused by what I see.
It looks like nothing actually disappears. I expected a black hole to not just affect what an area looked like, but also to “disappear” some part of what was there.
I think that’s why this demonstration is interesting. It’s showing how the light can be bent around the black hole. Anything that crosses the event horizon won’t be coming back, but because of the lensing of the light you can “see” behind a black hole.
What is a TB?
Thunderbolt port
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useless_foghorn commented on Internet Archive: Security breach alert theverge.com/2024/10/9/24... · Posted by u/ewenjo
Curious, how trivially easy is that?
I use Bitwarden coupled with AnonAddy (0) for simple and free on demand email alias generation.