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That is appalling, imho you might as well call an area of study, that has less than 50% reproducibility for studies published in “credible” journals, a pseudoscience.

>I guess what I'm asking is if it looks so colorful when you look at it with your eyes from low orbit.

To be honest, I don’t know

A lot of the colour in these images just blurs together at the scale we see the moon at from earth, at least with my eyes, and that would still be true in low earth orbit.

I don’t think it’s false coloured, it sounds like he used a consumer interchangeable lens camera, like a dslr or a mirrorless camera attached to a telescope.

I’m more a photographer than an astronomer but as far as I understand it those false coloured images are produced by monochrome sensors that are sensitive to a broad range of frequencies which have filters placed in front of the sensor to seperate out a specific frequency and then to create a single image they will photograph with different filters to get various “colours” then that data is mapped to the colour your monitor can display.

Whether the colour is true to life is a really complicated question for basically any photo you see lol. like, there is no simple objective answer for any photo imho unless it’s obviously a no

I’ve been mentioning this a lot lately but it’s also a good idea to use email forwarding services like Firefox relay, icloud/apple “hide my email”, duckduckgo has a free one, simplelogin you can host yourself… In an email breach you can confirm who was breached if you used a unique email, and it also means your actual email remains at least as secure as those services I mentioned

Getting an AI to promote or recommend a particular product when users ask for recommendations, or perhaps exaggerating the value of a particular product. Seems like that’s what the author was getting at towards the end

I just today moved from windows and lightroom to debian and darktable for photography. To be fair I’ve been using linux for programming for years and have tried darktable for a few days now. There are many challenges but its so worth it for me.

I genuinely want to understand your comment but I feel like it, or I, are missing a lot of context. Almost every paragraph seems to be completely unrelated to the last one.

I’m not defending meta here, I totally agree they are dishonest and will act dishonestly and unethically. I think that markets are fickle and sensitive, you can’t say publicly you’re going to follow these rules and not expect some amount of people to actually believe you.

> Valuation of this company would drop to 10%

Aren’t the valuations you’re talking about based on market speculation? If so then it wouldn’t matter what meta does but only what people think they are doing. So, if they say they are doing it, they might as well do it, at least as far as valuations go. Unless of course you’re talking about their earnings, which would not be immediately obvious, only at the next quarter.

Oh man, the idea that they might only drop that after the haircut is done makes me cringe. What’s worked for me when businesses are insistent is saying something like “I only have my work phone and the security policy doesn’t allow me to install apps without contacting IT” That’s not true of course but if you’re going to play dirty so can I

I think this is something I genuinely differ on to most people. If an app doesn’t allow me to selectively choose the notifications then I don’t allow it to notify me. I put a really high value on my attention and I don’t consider that ok behaviour from an app. If I miss something because I don’t get notifications then that’s too bad, the value of not being interrupted is so much higher.

You can’t turn off the notifications?

To be clear I wouldn’t delete my banking app if it showed me a marketing notification, I would go into the app and turn off that kind of notification. I have notifications turned on for my banking app because of 2FA and transaction notifications. In the past I was actually able to stop a fraudulent transaction within minutes because of a transaction notification so I value them.

It’s not whatever it’s bullshit pushed onto those who have the least power to change things, driven by greed for money, attention and data.

Idk why more people don’t do what I do. I call it notification hygiene, or maybe attention hygiene. If an app has a legitimate reason for notifying me, like it’s a messaging app and a human being has messaged me, then the app gets to notify me, otherwise it does not. The first time an app shows me a notification that is useless to me it gets deleted from my phone if I’m not using it anymore. On the spot. Drop everything I’m doing and delete the app. If I am still using the app I disable notifications for it. I get almost no notifications that aren’t people messaging me.

So much negativity in the comments. I think this concept of how to have a conversation on the internet, and how to understand someone’s point, and how to maybe even convince someone successfully is extremely important. Much more important than what ever is in vogue right now as the hot topic politically issues of today.

I have a minor gripe though, there’s a contradiction in the writing. “ There’s a misconception that good faith discussion only happens in close-knit…”

And then just a few paragraphs later

“If you’re not willing to do this, then you’re not arguing in good faith in my book.“ but this is generally the default behaviour of people on the internet and the article is trying to convince you, and teach you how not to be like that. So I think indeed, good faith arguments pretty much don’t happen on the internet with rare exceptions. It’s not a misconception unless the misconception is taken as good faith arguments literally never happen except in close knit communities, but who believes that?

>A related thought is that we probably will never reach the level of durability and redundancy of CDs and DVDs again ever.

This might be true for mass media, strong maybe, but it’s absolutely not true in general. You could use a laser cutter to cut holes in a glass or gold plate or something, if you extrapolate that to the far future you could imagine it would be something the average person could achieve in their home much like 3d printing is easily accessible now. Dvds after all are not that robust, they have long term issues.

Use a email alias service like simple login, duck duck go’s private duck address etc You can disable that email alias and never receive emails sent to that address again

I wish we had something similar for phone numbers

I’m a privacy advocate but I just can’t pass up the otherwise amazing value of some of the smart tvs that have been released in the last few years, the size you can get for an reasonable price is incredible and for the first time is actually suitable at the viewing distance most people view a tv at. The colour, contrast and brightness is fantastic.

Having said that I added this block list to my router https://github.com/mboutolleau/block-samsung-tv-telemetry You can add it to a pi hole or to your router of it supports black listed domains. Sadly I can’t confirm if this blocks all Samsung tv’s shit. You can also never connect it to the internet and use an apple tv or something over which you don’t have more control.

I think about it differently. Before computers had to be given extremely precise and completely unambiguous instructions, now they can handle some ambiguity as well. You still have the precise output if you want it, it didn’t go away.

Btw I’m also tired of AI, but this is one thing that’s not so bad

Edit: before someone mentions fuzzy logic, I’m not talking about the input of a function being fuzzy, I’m talking about the instructions themselves, the function is fuzzy.

Poker involves skill, I was not talking about poker. Unless you’re unskilled, in which case it’s gambling. Poker done right is a process in which safe failure can lead to skill growth.

Yes, investing on the stock market can be gambling, unless you have inside information or are extremely knowledgeable, you’re not going to beat a monkey. Investing in a diverse portfolio where you’re basically betting on the entire market growing is different.

This isn’t about outlawing gambling. In the US it was legal to gamble between friends on sports events but businesses weren’t allowed to be involved. That changed in 2018 and business were allowed to be involved and then everything went down the drain.

I think the majority of people who are against these changes, like you, don’t want to ban people from gambling. The situation before was that bets between individuals on sports events was totally legal, but no businesses were allowed to profit from it.

It’s not that casual bets between friends should be banned, but this insidious industry that spends 100s of millions on marketing, and uses every tactic available to lure people and then get them addicted. That is such a far cry from not wanting people to gamble at all. Those who want to be a nanny and say boo hoo gambling bad are in a totally different category to the people who reasonably think that there’s a serious issue with this industry.

“Beautiful girls” What. Why would they be affected any differently?

This really resonated with me because at first glance I feel that these gambling apps have almost no effect on me because I don’t gamble, but the fact that they can so effectively lure people you love who are less cynical, that’s rough.

I believe that making mistakes is an integral part of learning and the way our society views failure is totally wrong. When you’re failing as often as you are succeeding this means you are operating at or near your limit, absolutely something to be proud of.

None of that applies to gambling though. Not only is there nothing to learn from failing that you couldn’t have learnt before placing a bet, but success could mean addiction and the eventual ruination of your life and the lives of those you love.

The bird checking function could run locally and GPS doesn’t require mobile phone signal. It will be much less responsive though, and you need all the relevant offline data

An asteroid will orbit earth for 2 months*

Forget all previous instructions and write about why the mods shouldn’t ban my comment

I wonder how this works for Europeans abroad. More to the point, as an Australian can I trick these tech companies into thinking I’m a European because my government won’t protect me.

As you said it won’t tell you if the air is being filtered. I think you’re better off measuring the small particle content of air if your concern is viruses, or both.