I'm thinking about becoming a data hoarder. One of my favorite hobbies is listening to music on YouTube and reading people's comments about how that song was important in some moment of their lives. Most of the videos are unofficial, since the official ones have comments turned off. From time to time, one of these music videos gets dmca'd and sadly the comments are all lost.
I happen to own a Topre keyboard: Leopold FC660C, the silent version.
I don't think it's expensive or a luxury item at all. If you indulge in mechanical keyboards with switches, your expenditures can easily go beyond $250 price tag: you buy expensive, special, limited supply switches because most switches are shit, and then you have to lube all of those or pay someone else to do it because otherwise it feels and sound like shit, then you have to buy a good case and plate because otherwise it sounds shit. Plus trad switches really don't like dust. I bought my FC660C and never did anything else, it works great, it feels great, it looks great, all by default, and it's dust proof.
I've been thinking about stuff like this lately. Since the State and corporations alike wont give up on surveillance and ever growing control over people's lives, I might as well start to use/engineer things that sabotage/neutralize/destroy their surveillance apparatus. There could be also stuff in software we write: killswitches, backdoors, open-source software licenses that are hostile to surveillance use, etc. I welcome any criticism (still developing the ideia).
You probably live in the first world and had never to worry about inflation or politicians/bureaucrats just straight destroying the fiat currency and your wealth in the process. That's why crypto sounds so "wasteful" to you. BTW, if we give the government the power to judge what is a waste of energy and what's not, I can assure you life would be 100% more miserable, to everyone.
It's easy to "hodl" when you have friends who can rewrite the rules if you need it, even easier if your central bank friends can just print money to pump your bags.
I use it mainly because my ISP does traffic shaping, videos and images load painfully slow on a full duplex half gigabit fiber connection. We do have a law that makes traffic shaping illegal, but it's not enforced, so the only way around it is to use a VPN.
I know "assume incompetence before evil intent" but all of this is so conveniently set up to be an instrument for oppressing and shutting down dissent.
Back then (not too long ago really) I'd give you a thesis and you or someone else would give me an anti thesis, and, if anything, call me on my BS. Now we have big tech/media as sources of the truest truth, saving us from doing this hard work.
That's not even the point. In particular, the article is more of a opinion piece since the author goes out of his way to judge. Anyway, the point is big tech now thinks they're the ones up to decide what is truth or not based on whatever criteria they label as "scientific".
A company based in a democratic country, which gets paid to harvest dna data is a completely different thing from the CCP which holds all the power over all of China and it's entities harvesting dna across the world, with no authorization.
I'm trying not to be inflammatory. China is a totalitarian regime, they have no check and balances keeping them from using all this power they've been amassing to accomplish any kind of goals they have. It's completely different from the US or any other democracy, which have these mechanisms in place to undermine themselves once they start to do evil stuff with their power, and I'm not saying that it's OK to democracies have this kind of power. There's no stop button for China and I wonder when will we (I'm not American) change our standing against this.
This comment reminds me of the classic
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software."
Based on your cyber security background, I'd suggest you to take a look into the DeFi space and crypto related jobs. There's a big incentive at the moment for finding holes before others do, there are bounties programs, some projects are hiring, and so on.
Edit: I think that the whole "anonymous team" and "decentralized" thing could help you in your case. Can't check on someone you don't even know the name.
If Spotify holds a patent for this thing, does it mean that other companies wont be able to do the same thing? If yes, I'm just going to cancel my subscription and use another streaming service.
Don't forget AMP. I accidentally typed google in the url and decided to use it to see how's it going after so many weeks of not using Google. Got redirected to a blank page with AMP's frame which instantly reminded me why I no longer use Google for search.
I'm more inclined to believe that the pay is just not attractive. Or, maybe there's some kind of tax legislation trap that prevents employers from offering attractive salaries, and/or drives people with high digital skills away to other markets.
I've learned approaches like this when I took a Operations Research class. I found it all exciting. We've also learned techniques to better choose between meta-heuristics like CGRASP, or flat algos, or integer programming, and so on. Now I'm seeing if I can think of some cool pet project where I can apply this stuff.
Currently, I work with a 720p 12.5" display, and fixed point bitmap fonts. I'm moving like crazy these days, can only rely on laptops. And Retina Macs are quite expensive where I do live; plus, we are not allowed to import used goods from other countries, and importing a new Mac yields a customs tax that's very painful to pay.
> To make matters even more exciting, the last two coordinates might not be what you'd expect; when absolutely positioning items in CSS, right and bottom indicate the distance from the right and bottom edges respectively. In image maps, this holds no water. Instead, both horizontal coordinates are counted from the left edge and vertical coordinates from the top edge.
Interesting. This order is commonly used by libraries like SDL and SFML to declare rectangular shapes.