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One part of this is how hard it is to translate the impact to now-scientists.

E.g. 2 degrees temperature raise did not sound bad to me, untill someone explained to me this is from ground to space, and the actual raise is double or triple that. Then we looked on a map and found current day Morocco seems close to what my Belgium is expected to become in that scenario. I still am not capable of deciding how realistic this is.

So you made me surf to amocscenarios.org, and even if this thing is reliable, it still is hard to interprete. My winter goes from -5 every decade to -18. I've never had either in my life. What does this even mean? Can my ww2 rebuilt house deal with -5, as it supposedly already did? What to do forcdealing with -18?

And that's the opinion of someone knowing a little bit. Now go to someone who has to managed 10 of life's disasters over his lifetime and explain how bad this really is.

In my corner of the world, credit cards were for buying stuff on the internet and travelling outside the EU. Now the net has evelved enough to accept our normal means of payment. I always feel insecure when using a credit card.

I love my Roomba 600 so much that I bought a new Roomba a few months ago. Unfortunately, it is a strictly inferior product on just about any point.

You're proposing encrypting the only thing that merits recovery?

There is a midterm comming up in the USA. If you're living there and you're now not going to vote,I'm sorry but you're complicit. They might make it inconvenient, but you all still got some power left over there.

Afaik, either a few traditional red states turn blue and make it clear there is a limit to what's politically possible, or you're a dictatorship.

This is not the correct model. For a typical user, they can bring the laptop to someone knowledgeable, who will pop out the drive for them.

The main question is: What is the biggest risk: theft or data corruption.

In my experience, corruption and ransomware is more common so FDE should be off for households desktops or laptops, as these rarely leave the house. A business tends to have managed devices and data loss is a legal nightmare, so FDE should be on. The main thing is: people should be able to choose.

Basically, the whole protestant faction. A sibling comment mentions Lutheran (German) and Mennonites (Dutch). There is of course catholicism from the Irish, but the Anglicans are suspiciously small.

I've always thought of the USA as the east Roman Empire of the British Empire. The seat of the throne moved to the white house, but the USA is still culturally close to the UK. Except for the religion, which seems to come from The Netherlands and Germany.

Around here, I've never seen an ebike without speedometer, and everyone on the street should respect street signs and red lights. I see no reason to ignore red lights or stop signs just because you're powering yourself.

Belgian view here. Flanders is slowly getting the Dutch cycling culture. E-bikes are forbidden from assisting above 25 km/h. You can go faster, but you will be providing the power yourself.

Something changed on the biking paths when e-bikes became the norm. Average speed went from 15 km/h to 25 km/h. This, combined with the heavyer weight of these bikes, created new dangers. A big ebike bike hitting a pedestrian routinely throws the pedestrian in the hospital and with life long damage. The fat bikes, some esteps and the food delivery people are worse. They tend to drive asocial, and are commonly illegally modified for higher speeds. The law is behind, and stupid politicians make it worse by stopping the police checking the bikes.

Meanwhile, bike paths are a lot busier, and if near pedestrians, things are getting dangerous by default. I've decided for myself to limit my speed to 20 km/h in the city centers or at schools, and commonly go even lower. 25 is only for the ebike 'highways' next to secondary roads.

I am pro stricter regulation and follow-up for my ebike. Belgium famously only implemented laws against drunk driving after an idiot killed a whole class at once. Let's not wait for an ebike equivalent. Better to do this calmly and thoughtfully now.

There is this feeling where it's futile to do anything, the world is big and miserable and you're small and insignificant.

I'm slowly getting convinced that some political players are spreading this view on purpose. It is an easy way to block people who try to stop the erosion of society.

It also isn't true. You can easily improve the world on a small scale by doing anything positive. On world scale, trying to change things is like buying into a lottery. Most attempts will fail, but the more stakes you have, the bigger the chance of winning.

In my corner of the world, over my life, I saw flemish people, woman, LGBTQ, vegetarians all stand up and demand the rest of the world treat them as equals. They all started tiny and were laughed at for the futility of their dreams. But I speak dutch, woman go to universities, gays are holding hands publicly and getting married, and vegetarian options are normal in restaurants. These causes won, because lots of little nameless people fought for it, even if there are still haters pushing back each of them.

I would not describe it as incompetence, more as

1) current encryption not available in the 1990's. These are the age of DES and weapon-grade vs commercial encryption. There was a legal cost blocking strong encryption.

2) Manufacturers were not as strongly opposed to people touching the internals. After WW2, most people could fix anything, because survival depended on it. Even in the 60's radios etc. came with schematics, and building your own was normal and cost-effective. The shift happened in the '90s, with governements requiring licensing for everything, and mass manufacturing making repair less cost effective than buying a new one.

Our current culture where only people blessed by the manufacturer are allowed to do anything is very recent.

Right now, software is protected by the attacker not having enough competence. If that's over, the logical next step is using real encryption.

E.g. a synth has a public key embedded. To change settings, you upload them to the vendor, who blesses them with their private key.

Hacking such a synth requires either jailbreaking the synth, or the vendor losing their key . Both can be mitigated with tamper resistant hardware.

We're well ahead on this path already, I assume AI will accellerate it. This is very bad news for the right to repair.

As an older generation man, I've tried to understand the touchiness here. This is dangerous territory, so I hope you try to read my intent here, even if the packaging is not as strong as I want it to be.

The best analogy I can come up with is the smurf village: Every smurf has an identity, describing a bunch of mannerism. Baker smurf, strong smurf, joke smurf ... The smurfette is both the only adult female and a separate identity. Her existence in a children's story serves to demonstrate to young humans how the female identity is supposed to work.

I think the smurf village echos a deep human archetype. A man is someone who can choose his identity. He is unbound. A woman is a man with an already fixed identity. She can't choose to be e.g. a baker as primary identity, her choice is made already.

While simplified, there is some truth in this worldview, and people, especially woman, are correct to protest teaching this archetype to new generations.

In the same way, the poster above uses 'Be a man' to probably mean something like: 'Be brave enough to choose a new identity'. Which is a valid message, but needs an implied ([*] woman are also men here) when this archetype is considered.

Re Onedrive, as someone who left windows ages ago: Why not just create folders outside your user home? Create some junctions from the inside. Then onedrive gets to sync only your desktop wallpaper and any random stuf apps drop in there, and your real data is safe outside its reach.

And still more than half of the USA voters believed him better than any other candidate. In fact, a decent chunk responded to his call for an insurgence when his previous presidency ended.

They can't be all total idiots. So what are they? I have never seen a decent deep analysis on why they behave like this. Afaik, they got the worst chances in the existing economy, and decided, as they are hurting anyway, they'll make the other half of the USA also hurt.

Question for every USAian: Someone must have thought deeper about it. Is there a decent book or long form internet article, readable by a more leftist public?

I know a few smart people from Europe who went to the USA. Several of the smartest went to Canada in Trump 1. More have followed now. They still prefer Canada above returning to the EU, even if it is legally harder.

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As someone considering buying a pocket operator for his son: How true is this? What are decent alternatives for PO?

I really like datagrip when working with SQL. It works on most common databases, and allows for inline query results, giving a workflow comparable to jupyter notebooks. All Jetbrains IDEs using the same keybindings for e.g. multi line edit is another big plus, I have to learn only 1 IDE.

But there are clouds on the horizon. Every time I install the big data tools plugin, instability follows swiftly, untill I uninstall it again. I've noticed some cosmetic changes disturbing my workflow for no good reason.

Last update broke datagrip's AI completely, the plugin simply won't download and datagrip is not in the list of supported IDEs anymore. I lived with it for 2 days, but reported an issue anyway. Either I have a specific breakage or use a very specific setup, because I found no duplicate reports. Which, for such a major feature breaking, makes me feel like I live in an abandoned city.

I will still pay for next year's licence, it is still best in class for my needs. But if things stay like this for long, I'll have to migrate

I remember them releasing it on an 1st of april l, we were all: Great joke. Then it turns out they were serious. That was some smart marketing.

That's an impressively thorough answer to a vague wonder. Thanks

I've been vaguely wondering lately:

The climate crisis is solar energy getting trapped on the planet instead of radiating into space.

Solar panels convert light to electricity to ultimately mostly heat, instead of reflecting it to space. So it also traps energy on our planet.

How big is the impact of this? Right now, it is probably ignorable, but will there be a theoretical point where solar itself becomes a climate crisis?

I see a lot of coherence in the ages used in the western world. Laws use age 16-18-21 to say almost adult - adult - need to be sure adult.

Strict is probably good. My company started to enable bitlocker this year on win11, and a non trivial amount of initial encryptions seem to be failing, destroying the user data and requiring a full reformat.

I last saw a psychology thing on TV about people reserving theur strong reaction to the second severe transgression. Bad guys get 1 abuse for free, modulo some stern looks and grumbling. Second time, the big hit comes. The number of transgressions is a more important fact than the time or size.

There is some truth to this, once you look at it. So Russia took Crimea as first abuse, and got some survivable sanctions. Then they hit Ukraine a second time.

Trump, well, it is hit after hit after hit. Liberation day, ICC, threatening greenland, backstabbing Ukraine, Iran. And we're not even halfway his term, and we got proof from the last 2 Republican presidencys that this is no outlayer.

I don't think Ukraine lost. They surely did a lot better than anyone expected. Right now, I'd say it can go both ways, with Ukranian deaths vs Russian economic crash and hurt for their rich class seeming the main determinaters. If Putin drops dead, if the rich feel enough bombs exploding in Moscow, .... Then Ukraine wins

I think the main EU fear is ex-soviet countries fearing they are next if Ukraine falls. So Ukraine should not necessary win, it should mainly bleed Russia and not loose. An eternal standstill is probably best, realpolitik-wise (To be clear, I am not happy with this analysis).

Before Trump, there was Bush Jr. The world's view on him was also dim, but 9/11/2001 made the world cut the USA a lot of slack. It turns out he was the new normal, instead of a temporary savage spot. Trump is not the only USA leader in the back of the world's mind.

Somerhing is finally happening. A consultant came talking about software choices. We asked for non US possibilities and he gave a few. While talking about ut, he mentioned the question came up a lot now, typically from governements and bigger corporations dealing with entities outside the EU. Discussion was done on management levels, not just on IT levels. It seems everyone is testing the waters.

It is indeed cool tech. But be aware that e.g. building weapons is also playing with cool tech.

The main problem I see: Who is the attacker and who is the defender. The presented scenario has the machine owner (renter?) as defender, so no problem. In quite a lot of cases, the machine owner is the attacker, and e.g. Microsoft is the defender. That's where things get nasty.