Readit Newswcerfgba commented on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row bbc.com/news/articles/cgj... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
The more I live I’m less concerned about what are often described as “bad actors”. The bad actors are often the state, and this kind of information is collected without thought to the risk of future politicians who don’t follow the rules or who don’t have any respect for the laws.
States are not inherently good, they are just large organisations with a monopoly on certain social functions. All large organisations have the capacity to inflict terrible harm.
wcerfgba commented on Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online t4t.social/... · Posted by u/t4t
This would be too risky IMHO ie in eastern Europe (I don't mean sh*thole of russia where this is even much worse, just eastern EU).
The general attitude is less tolerant. Most people in general population of course have 'live and let live' attitude, but small part of each country does actively attack such people, ie skinheads or other far right groups.
This is exactly why it's important to find each other, so we can keep each other safe. There is strength in numbers. If you put up your posters on community notice board and use a non-personal email (I just made a new Gmail account for it) then nobody can be identified, the worst case is someone pulls the poster down.
wcerfgba commented on Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online t4t.social/... · Posted by u/t4t
Last year I managed to connect with 10 other trans people in my Lancashire home town. This is a place with zero 'alternative' spaces, let alone dedicated queer spaces. I made a poster using the trans pride flag as the background, and wrote a bit of blurb on it and put an email address on. Then I stuck it up on community notice boards in supermarkets and in a pub window. My idea was that if you put these things in high footfall areas, someone is bound to walk past and get in touch. And they did! Plus, more pride flags being visible, especially if they are coming from the grassroots and not a giant company, shows that we are here and not alone, and makes us feel safer. So if you want to connect with people near you, maybe go analog and put up some posters ^__^
Good idea. Although, from the little exploration I did with examples for small n, given the low stopping times, the behaviour was very boring. Nothing necessarily interesting. But then again, I didn't explore it exhaustively.
Exactly, so I'm wondering if it's possible to detect those smaller patterns in the bigger ones?
I'd like to see this for smaller n, to see if there are motifs or patterns, which can be used to implement memoisation like Hashlife (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife), or to reveal new formulas for exploring Collatz sequences with.
wcerfgba commented on The hunt for the most efficient heat pump in the world wired.com/story/heat-pump... · Posted by u/ludsan
Using a temperature system built around water to measure air temperature. I mean I can use it but the range of fahrenheit is more useful.
What we really need is a combination of the two. Something that measures air temperature and water content because 68F at 5% humidity is a lot different than the same temp at 40%>
Wet bulb temperatures account for evaporation, but I don't know if weather stations report wet bulb or dry bulb.
wcerfgba commented on Making the Kinopio source code public pketh.org/open-sourcing-k... · Posted by u/bpierre
I don't use Kinopio for everything, but when I need to arrange ideas in a 2D way and think about webs of relationships, it's been an amazing addition to my set of "tools for thought". Thank you for all of your work on it <3
wcerfgba commented on Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022) freiheitsrechte.org/en/th... · Posted by u/Bluestein
It's a really nasty feeling to live in a society influenced by politicians in power with ideas so far away from my own, while also having little influence over their decisions, unless I give up what I like doing and go into lobbying (or politics, which seems to me like the poor man's lobbying)
I've sent an e-mail to the permanent representative in the country I live in, but I feel particularly blindsided knowing about such a decision on the same day it is voted. And angry for all the people, especially journalist friends, that are out there and unaware of what's going on.
I'm not sure this is what democracy is supposed to feel like, but if it is, it feels like shit.
This is why anarchism is an important philosophy and practice. It asks, how can we build societies which operate without coercion and hierarchies?