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markenqualitaet··on Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
Organic maps isn't there yet IMO. OSMand is huge, but it's the only app to match Google Maps features.

I can also recommend BRouter (with OSMand) for bike navigation. It's ugly and hacky, but once it works, bike navigation is much, much better than Gmaps'. E.g. it's not sending you down cobblestone roads all the time.

markenqualitaet··on After two hours zinc oxide sunscreen loses effectiveness, becomes toxic: study
There is no threshold for harm*. It's a cost:benefit consideration. From a cancer/aging perspective, any amount of UV exposure is bad. Tanning is a consequence of DNA damage. If your skin gets darker from sun exposure, you see evidence of your skin cells reacting to increased DNA repair signals. Malignant transformation/senescence is a stochastic event of course, but age markers pretty much suffer in a dose dependent manner.

* Of course exhausting antioxidant capacity will greatly increase damage at a certain point. I am not exactly sure if UV light can cause single strand breakage by itself, or via ROS, but antioxidants are no "shield" in any case - more like a minefield.

markenqualitaet··on After two hours zinc oxide sunscreen loses effectiveness, becomes toxic: study
What a horrible article, repeating the ever same superficial factoid in variation, without ever adding more info.

So apparently zinc oxide acts as a catalyst, which reacts with some sunscreen ingredients to form substances toxic to zebra fish, under laboratory conditions.

No qualitative analysis of what's reacting with what? Which substances make the toxicity? Hardly worth anyone's time at that point no?

markenqualitaet··on Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
*opinions. Sorry can't edit.
markenqualitaet··on Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
Nah, it's not about having strong options. I've been around nerds forever, that doesn't bother me. Yours might be the impression on recent HN, but if you look around he is all over the place, attacking people on various platforms, while promoting some conspiracy narrative; derailing, gaslighting and manipulation. Whatever is going on with that guy, something is definitely going on. He doesn't inspire trust, he probably needs therapy.
markenqualitaet··on Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
Can I expect CalyxOS to support the Pixel 6 rather soon? Is e.g. camera performance dependent on closed source Google code/firmware? What are the limitations there?

I was going for GrapheneOS, but tbh seeing that one main developer's personality issues turned me off big time. I don't care about technical advantages, if I have to trust in that guy's impulse control. Too small a project for that.

markenqualitaet··on Neuroscientists roll out first comprehensive atlas of brain cells
I think you vastly overestimate our current understanding of the brain/neuronal processing, even singular (neuron) cell's workings. The fMRI enthusiasm turned out wrong a long time ago and there hasn't been much progress since, for all I know. And knowing a gene sequence wasn't enough either. We are still lacking theory big time. For most all of biology, we do not understand anything fully really. Not in neuro science, not in evolution theory, and god forbid not in genetics. Complex != complicated. Complexity is a hard barrier. We do not have abstraction for emergence, merely still recording thing's reactions when you poke them in different ways.
markenqualitaet··on Facebook's own data is not as conclusive about teens and mental health
How could you objectively measure the impact of social media, when pretty much everyone in that age group uses it. And those who don't, probably have factors not applicable to all. The very decision to abstain from social media may hint at a different neuronal setup/vulnerability.

If the research we got is the best we can realistically get, this author is making a dishonest and misleading argument.

markenqualitaet··on Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners To:Quit
Thanks.
markenqualitaet··on Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners To:Quit
Oh, yeah right. Thanks. I forgot the details there. This even goes to your e.g. .bashrc right?

Tho, couldn't vim overwrite this somehow?

In any case, this legacy feature is a major pain in the ass for beginners. Today ctrl-s/-c/-v and maybe ctrl-z have another meaning IMO and sticking to legacy is messing with heads unnecessarily. Pantheon terminal manages to e.g. make ctrl-c context dependent copy/cancel.

markenqualitaet··on Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mobile device
Why?
markenqualitaet··on Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners To:Quit
Personally I think, whatever ctrl-s is doing instead of saving, is the only really hostile default in vim. To a beginner it's the "mysteriously break vim for good" shortcut. And maybe the lack of ctrl-c/-v clipboard management. I hate pasting things into default vim.
markenqualitaet··on Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners To:Quit
Does (neo)vim offer a similar debugging experience? Visually stepping through code and setting break points and stuff?

I like vim's code navigation, but I miss the autocompletion features of bigger editors. Can you make vim tab complete like sublime? Last I tried, it was never as "one key to rule them all", but required some additional finger-fu and attention. Also moving selected code around (so I can make engine noises) is a must.

Something about VS Code just feels wrong, but it's pretty much exactly enough of an "IDE" for me. Tho, I strongly dislike the project based file management. Would like to have a solid vim setup instead.

markenqualitaet··on Clinical trial shows that the use of Vitamin D supplement improves sleep quality
I agree. Listened to the episode on ADHD and it was pretty lame, unstructured and somewhat wrong at times. Also saw there is an episode with Lex Fridman, so I guess it's the same pseudo intellectual bla bla bla sponsor juice. Not the best advertising for those big name universities, tbh.

Btw. I can wholeheartedly recommend the "big biology" podcast, if you are interested in biology in general.

markenqualitaet··on Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021
I don't follow your feed too closely, as it's usually not within my time budget, so I missed that.

Thank you very much for doing what you do! You are an inspiration to me and I admire the calm and structured way you work. Hope you keep enjoying what you do!

markenqualitaet··on Clinical trial shows that the use of Vitamin D supplement improves sleep quality
Podcast looks good. Thanks for sharing.

Heads-up for those who care: It's a commercial podcast with sponsors, trojan ads and all, sadly.

https://hubermanlab.libsyn.com/rss

markenqualitaet··on Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021
Do you know about Marcan's YouTube channel? He livestreams (some of) the hacking, so you can actually see exactly how to start! They are super huge packages, but make for excellent ambient stimulation.

I wish he was doing tutorial style videos, too. Pleasant voice, well-spoken and incredible knowledgeable. I bet he could do videos which don't have you thinking "Yeah, but why does this work?".

markenqualitaet··on Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021
If your MacBook is still working by then. Looks like there is a lawsuit against Apple, because there are hardware issues with the screens of M1 Air and Pro. Before there was the USB-C PD to brick issue, but that may have been fixed now. Overall, not the best track record for longevity.
markenqualitaet··on 2450MHz radiation induces stress and anxiety like behavior in rats (2019)
Have they controled for coil whine and similar (inaudible to humans) artifacts? Might explain a difference in frequency "response".
markenqualitaet··on Android and iOS data collection
That's a fallacy. The argument is not about "legitimacy", but Apple's compliant with government interference.
markenqualitaet··on The human tendency to over-water plants
From what I learned, the article has some bad tips and is overly verbose...

Do NOT let your plant sit in water over night. You need a good soil mix, which does not compress and regulates moisture. Water plenty, true, but dispose the water collected underneath the pot. Plants rely on flushing out excess salts and so on with rain (which is also why artificial watering will ruin soils in agriculture over time). Letting them sit long in the soup will disable this process and overtime the soil will kill the plant, e.g. starting with yellow-brown leaf tips.

Just put a finger in the soil to check humidity. Water when two thirds feel dry. works for most plants.

The hard part about watering plants is the "not every day; not rarely" schedule. A 3-4 days period is just shit for forming a habit.

As others have said, e.g. a dramatic plant like a Peace Lily can remind you to care for your plants. But use the finger to check the other plants to make sure they are dry enough.

Or get a snake plant (Beamtenspargel). They are really hard to kill.

markenqualitaet··on Socialist Cyborgs
No, I get what you mean, but I still think it's a different argument in nature. It's not two wrongs, it's one and the same.

For me typical fallacy would be something like

"You did A. A is bad."

"So what? You did B. B is bad."

This tries to dismiss A , while "Both did A." tells us something about A.

markenqualitaet··on Socialist Cyborgs
It is not, I think, if it's the _exact same relation in reverse.
markenqualitaet··on Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux
And glitter nail polish :)
markenqualitaet··on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
He invested 250k.
markenqualitaet··on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
The specs are open. Whatever is possible will happen. There are also people working on microcontroller cards and such niche things.
markenqualitaet··on A History of Leather at Pride: 1965-1995
I think consent here is trivial to understand when you talk about a kink most everyone understands: naked skin.

Being naked isn't per se a sexual act, obviously. I don't need anyone's consent exposing my body e.g. going swimming in a lake.

On the other hand, someone getting off exposing theirselves to strangers is involving unconsenting strangers sexually.

Wearing a harness or demonstrating the lifestyle perfomatively does not include strangers in a scene.

Playing in public for e.g. public humiliation on the other hand, is involving unconsenting strangers sexually.

It's really not that hard. These concern trolls have an agenda.

markenqualitaet··on Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords
Why would I call you a nazi? Do you get called a nazi a lot?

Your link proves what exactly? That there are politically left people involved at all? Yeah, no shit.

Here from the left wing propaganda Verfassungsschutz:

https://m.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/deutsche-wohnen-und-co-ente...

markenqualitaet··on Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords
The above comment is propaganda. I doubt the person is from Berlin or lives there still.

The Deutsche Wohnen Enteignung campaign has broad and diverse support across the population. This was actually proven in an investigation for possible "radical left" influences, suggested by the conservative opposition.

markenqualitaet··on Berlin buys thousands of apartments from corporate landlords
Maybe more complex.

Legally, you cannot increase rents above 10% of the respective average here. If Berlin-owned rents aren't increasing, this will slow down the whole market.

Now, this depends a lot on how the law will be enforced in the future.

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