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rolph··on How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
something that cant be reduced would be the only entity, all other things are assemblages of that entity, the problem of variability occurs, if you can observe at the scale of absolute fundamental structure, how can difference occur?
rolph··on Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California
or use a different frontend.
rolph··on A Farmer Arrested for Going 5 Seconds over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting
technokarenism ?
rolph··on IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
possibilities exist.

a] they may be exhibitionists

b] they dont realise they are misconfigured

c] someone hacked them to whatever end

d] they are doing nothing wrong thus believe they have nothing to hide.

rolph··on How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
planck scale is the theoretical limit to disassembly.
rolph··on The case for physical media ownership
get the box that says kitchen, bring it into the kitchen turn it upside down, because the bottom is where you find all the things you put in first, the things most often used. basically flip the stack so that its now FIFO.

as you use a required item return it not to the packing box, but to the drawer shelf place your muscle memory prompts.

access initiated procedural unpacking !

rolph··on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
the thing is its not like a radio or TV broadcast. some countries consider open broadcast to be public domain so once its broadcast its public, you just cant sell it like its yours.

when a server downloads data to you, the server is creating a copy on your hardware right out of the gate.

a stream is a download. a central server, is pushing bits into your hardware, and making a copy on your hardware.

restricting any copying at all means your hardware cant use what you were legally given, because by a split hair definition, the bits are being copied when they move from memory address to register address vice versa.

appending header and footer to a data structure is not copying the data.

the real problem unilaterally, is when you are not a legal distributor, and you provide a copy to someone else. [dont do that]

rolph··on We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme
now that would be a curious looking AR15 with a california pistol grip, and a california magazine
rolph··on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
streaming is downloading, otherwise it wouldnt be visible on your hardware. if you pay for a stream and the distributor downloads it to your buffer, the only thing preventing it from persisting is wrapping the data to contain it in a file structure. if we really want to split hairs, everytime the data is accessed a streams bits are copied into registers, but those bits have no identity beyond 1 or 0

if you dont distribute this to others or brag on a forum about all your streams, no one will even know.

rolph··on The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
IP is not the only issue. BTW this discussion is being chilled so now an exercise in abusive DV harvesting.

Understanding DOCX Malware and Hidden Threats

https://cloudmersive.com/article/Understanding-DOCX-Malware-...

Hackers using Weaponized Office Document to Exploit Windows Search RCE

https://cybersecuritynews.com/office-document-to-exploit-win...

rolph··on The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
it is forseeable that MS would be very interested in taking a security stance vs a very possible vector.
rolph··on The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car
eventually all cars mounted with cameras may be tapped, so that cars are watching the nation, as well as each other.
rolph··on We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme
guess what, the state of california on the printer bed, depicted in the article, looks close to the profile of an AR15 pistol grip.

im looking forward to the idea that the outline of Ca. may trigger false positives

rolph··on Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed Police Drones
the only thing preventing a weapon from being mounted on a drone, is want for a couple of zipties, and a trigger servo.

once you start using such a construct, you will create a demand to aquire means of opposition.

if law enforceent starts using drones, they will prompt a state of affairs making it much more hazardous to be an LEO.

once a drone becomes an "armament" it appears at face value that 2A will mandate a right to bear arms in US jurisdictions.

just how will it be framed? drones currently are considered as aircraft thus FAA has say over who can mount a weapon system on an aircraft.

i forsee the concept of a flying gun being proffered, vs armed aircraft.

rolph··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
Heliopause
rolph··on Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study
Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: a critical perspective[2024]

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/epigenetics-and-epigeno...

rolph··on Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Largest AI Distillation Attack: 28.8M Fraudulent
in otherwords, anthropics model was "scraped"

anthropic is complaining about being scraped, scraping is not just for websites.

rolph··on New Mexico governor calls for criminal probe of DEA allowing fentanyl shipments
if gov has defined people who manufacture smuggle distribute traffic fentanyl to be narco-terrorists, then by that definition gov has willingly allowed a narco-terrorist attack to occur unhindered
rolph··on AI doesn't take jobs. It takes tasks
one of the most useful realizations regarding automation is that is not about making the operator superfluous, its about extending the operators reach.

the problem is you have to trust the automation until you swap back to that process and requalify the current parameters.

i cant afford to leave an AI unsupervised, and i cant operate if i have to remain at one station.

rolph··on FM Radio Is Being Nixed from New Vehicles, Too
in the US there are lots, i have a 2026 chevy product with a 3.5 power jack, and Aux audio jack, along with USB sockets all over the place but not all of them are for data some are for charging or powering small accessories.
rolph··on Why Does Everyone Hate AI?
it isnt so much the AI itself as its the proctodigital assault.

its being rammed into places where it has no business being, at no ones request, and despite admonitions.

rolph··on Dead Lithium Batteries Revived to 95% Capacity via Electrochemical Bath
gAItorAIde for replenishment of microfluidic systems.
rolph··on FM Radio Is Being Nixed from New Vehicles, Too
i think the next move is getting rid of auxillary plugs that allow you to use your own media, forcing consumption through onboard hardware and services. after that, disabling devices under the auspices of safety so that handheld or mobile media is not an option.
rolph··on Dead Lithium Batteries Revived to 95% Capacity via Electrochemical Bath
lets go further, lithium battery powered robots may replenish by drinking electrolyte, and excreting a counter-ion brine evacuated from the replenishing battery system.
rolph··on Hasbro's TV Contracts Ask Child Voice Actors to Sign Rights Away for AI Use
what is the future of having your own voice inaccessable as a chattel of labour due to contract law?
rolph··on YouTube Suspended Us [video]
patreon is loving youtube. theres nothing like playing jenga with your own platform, to the benefit of a competitor.
rolph··on Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study
do you mean intrinsically not capable, or systemicaly not capable.
rolph··on Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study
the size of the cohort isnt the problem, its the enshrinement of catechisms that perpetuate a mentality of blue collar legacy.
rolph··on Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study
it is manifestation of a physical law at a higher level of organization.

it is gene fitness, except the observer is focused on species population level dynamics rather than individual level dynamics.

they may look very different however the fundamental mechanism is contribution of a biopolymer to variations of biological fitness

rolph··on Early adversity leaves lasting molecular imprint across the body: primate study
Gattaca (1997) - IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177

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