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bobim··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
It's cheap because we are offsetting the cost if its ultimate pollution onto future generations. We do this for everything else, and nuclear is our best chance for a liveable planet - if we don't want to make the slightest effort to give up on our comfort. But we have the belief that humanity will be able to manage nuclear waste for the next 100k years while we don't know how the pyramids were built... and it was only 3k years ago.
bobim··on When your digital life vanishes
Sailfish has a native Nextcloud integration, photos land on your home server without any user action. On iOS it requires opening the app from time to time.
bobim··on General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1
A court could rule the seizing of a flat I rent to pay up my debts? I'm not getting how this could be legal.
bobim··on General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1
Maybe GM is still the legal owner since they were all leased, so that would be a possible sad outcome.
bobim··on My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
Well, in the end user agreement there are usually clauses that forbids it. It's tolerated in some geographies for interoperability, research and infosec, but you agreed on ToS already.
bobim··on My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
Won't they sue for the reverse engineering?
bobim··on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
Then make it an universal income, because deep down everyone is an artist waiting to be revealed.
bobim··on The Tulip Creative Computer
Why not passing it on to some friends?
bobim··on Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors
Probably not as lungs are behind the rib cage and filled with air, making two sources of spurious reflections that could be dangerous with high intensity ultrasounds.
bobim··on Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors
Getting the US through the skull bone is next to impossible due to the acoustic impedance mismatch with surrounding tissues. As a stranger I'm deeply sorry for your situation, and thought your question should be answered somehow...

If you want to dig a little bit, the team of Mathias Fink in Paris explored "time reversal" techniques to get through the skull: one have to emmit from the tumor location, listen with a huge array, reverse the signature and blast. I don't know if this ended with a medical device.

Take care.

bobim··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
Brillant, I'm stealing it.
bobim··on Smartphone without a battery (2022)
I need to know if this is running e-banking a.k.a. "we are secure, yet is that you that made this payment" apps?
bobim··on Learning music with Strudel
Yes, true, any music production oriented live distro recommendation to test if it's the case anyone?
bobim··on Learning music with Strudel
I can't tell, things like BespokeSynth are running ok with alsa or jack. I got the rt kernel, made a few things to audio priority, fiddled with governors, but no luck. Let's say that it happens quite quickly with the Stitch Angel fast trance example "the key needs to be G" supersaw synth.

Chromium is better at it than Firefox though.

Maybe this 5800X3D needs a buff up...

bobim··on Learning music with Strudel
True that compared to FoxDot, Sardine or Tidal, the syntax and visualization are just making the whole thing a real pleasure to use.

But this is way too taxing for my linux boxes that are ending stuttering quite badly sometimes. Are you all using macs or something?

bobim··on OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation
Teleportation? That would kill the hiking simulator vibe!
bobim··on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
I have a coworker who usually say that billions of flies can't be wrong. Maybe we should just start eating what they eat.
bobim··on Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy
That last point is even enough as demonstrated by the swiss people voting for the eID, democratically paving the way for future mass surveillance and total dependency to our iOS and Android locked bootloaders overlords. As stated further down this is all stemming from education.
bobim··on Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud
I was running it on an Odroid N2 for 2-3 years, and upgraded to a RK3588 Orange Pi something a couple of years ago. It's not fast but it's useable. At one point I succeded in making the collaborative editing working, but it stopped after updates. Maybe it needs more love than what I'm able to spare, but the feeling after years is that you have to accept some level of unreliability.
bobim··on Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference
GP bikes are faster than dirt bikes, but not on dirt. The context has some influence here.
bobim··on Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals
It seems more like 25%, a bigger market than US and with a lot of progression margin because of android dominance.
bobim··on BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells
Sure, but we have some difficulties to understand that we have to let go some of the comfort we were used to.

And we know that EVs are not for saving our climate, it's for saving the car industry. Don't look up.

bobim··on Brain Hyperconnectivity in Children with Autism and Its Links to Social Deficits (2013)
This is an interesting take, along the line of elephants who need a huge brain mainly to actuate their trunk.
bobim··on Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
If it's not leaving my house who's gonna care for the yellow dots?
bobim··on Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
I mean when I send letters I want people to know it's from me 99.999% of the time, that's all.
bobim··on Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
Ok, next to impossible then. Maybe printing tiny white text on solid black background could help obfuscate the dots. Or using a pen plotter...
bobim··on Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
In general you put your name on documents you print. But true that if you are a reporter in some country you might want to print stuff anonymously. How easy it is to modify a printer firmware to scramble those dots?
bobim··on Apple and SpaceX link up to support Starlink satellite network on iPhones
The world needs banking apps that run on Linux phones.
bobim··on Lightcell: An engine that uses light to make electricity
500 MW GE turbines claim 64% efficiency, and one can use the wasted heat for district heating. If we have to burn something then using these turbines seems to be the best option, running 2-3 electric cars for the emissions of one. And probably 3000 e-bikes. Shouldn't you compete in this range of efficiency?
bobim··on Microsoft won't support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th
Ouch! So much for the sustainability of all the work we pour into this ecosystem. I don't get why freedom to operate is so low on corporate priorities.
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