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Hi. Interesting idea.

Just a heads up: the text is not displayed on my Firefox (140.8.0esr 64bit, Win11) however. On Edge it is displayed correctly.

> The trick is not to play zero sum games. This is what I have been saying the whole time. Go create value for others and don’t worry about the returns. If you create more value than you consume, you are welcome in any well operating community.

Reminds me of Manfred Macx' attitude in the novel Accelerando by Charlie Stross

Very cool idea, documented in a calm and clear video. From the description:

> Upcycling a phone LCD into an optical contraption. > Pairing a DSLR lens with a mirrorless camera body leaves a gap that has to be filled by an adapter mount. I thought it would be fun to build a computer that fits in that mount.

> A transmissive LCD acts as a programmable iris, inserting digital effects into an otherwise purely optical pipeline. It enables some interesting manipulation of the lightfield such as in-camera parallax wobbles, as well as animated bokeh effects.

Whoa thank you!

After quickly googling, it seems that the plans do not go as far as they make them out to be. The things to be catalogued are only those relevant in the fight against money-laundering. That's hardly "full commie style inventory of every single item with any value".

Links (in German, unfortunately): - https://dpa-factchecking.com/germany/240812-99-93247/ - https://www.money-coaching.de/politik-und-meinung/eu-vermoeg... - https://creditanstalt.co.at/2025/10/08/vermoegensregister-in...

Oh yeah I remember that. I use to hang around the customize.org forums a lot in 2003 trying out a lot of the visual styles for XP and winamp themes.

To scan photo albums I found that the book scanner at the local library worked very well. You probably take a slight hit in quality but the overall result is still very good I find.

I had a similar experience with Kubuntu on a xps13 from 2016 with only 8GB of RAM and the system suddenly freezing so hard that a hard reboot was required. While looking for the cause, I noticed that the system had only 250 MB of swap space. After increasing that to 10 GB there have been no further instances of freezing so far.

I regret wasting ten minutes on reading all of that...

See my sibling comment about fraidc.at

There's fraidyc.at which is quirky but does exactly that for multiple platforms and is based on RSS (i think)

I get your general point but as others said things are getting better.

> Want to find any file anywhere instantly (including newly created)? No, impossible, there is only NTFS Everything app that does it.

Fsearch exists and is pretty much exactly that afaict. https://cboxdoerfer.github.io/fsearch/

What I meant was: Why are you talking about Sanders polical views when the issue at hand is Framework's tonedeaf response to the OP's concerns.

Your comment about Sanders might be true (although I doubt that he would espouse the same views as articulated in DHH's blog post https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64) but it does not add anything to the discussion here, which is why I mentioned whataboutism.

EDIT: and now I re-read the post you were replying to which was indeed about political orientations and how they are viewed over time. My bad.

Still, I think this particular avenue of debate is not going to yield much progress for anybody.

What does Bernie have to do with this? #whataboutism

While it can certainly be difficult for anyone to be aware of intra-community drama (especially if it's in semi-transient media like Discord), the moment someone makes you aware of deeply problematic issues is the moment when you have to make a choice how to respond.

The fact that framework leadership responded to this by effectively downplaying the issues raised in the OP shows me that they are deeply misguided. Very disappointing.

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> The fire broke out on Friday evening at the national information resources service in Daejeon, a major technology hub 140km (87 miles) south of Seoul. The facility is one of three operational government datacentres managing critical digital infrastructure across the country.

> Workers were relocating lithium-ion batteries from a fifth-floor server room to the basement for replacement when one ignited, with the fire spreading to other batteries and adjacent servers. One worker sustained first-degree burns, and firefighters extinguished the fire after 22 hours.

> By Saturday morning, officials had shut down 647 government systems fearing further damage. Government email and intranet systems ground to a halt. Mobile identification services went dark, as did postal banking, complaint portals, and major government websites.

Oh thank you! Should have listened to my inner voice pushing me to verify the quote's origin

Mindblowing to see the staggeringly high tower of tech upon which modern chips are build. Machines capable of nanometer-precision movements at speeds subjecting their parts to 7G of acceleration... 25KW lasergun pew-pewing tin droplets 50k times per second... The sheer complexity of modern chip designs...

It really evokes Douglas Adams' quip that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Oh wow, the second link I randomly clicked turned out to be the one on the Mr. Money toy robot I had as a child: https://www.theoldrobots.com/mrmoney.html What a "coin"cidence (ba-dum-tss). It's probably still somewhere in the attic.

AFAIK they recommend using a dedicated chatmail-enabled provider to avoid problems with using a "normal" email provider.

https://delta.chat/en/chatmail

Would be cool to use "ten giga-euros" to express "10 billion €". A bit like giga-gram in ... astronomy?

Germany and France do. It can be a PITA when dealing with English texts... But then again when dealing with things in an international context you'll also encounter Chinese and Indian systems for large numbers.

Chinese:

  1 yi
  10 shi
  100 bai
  1000 qian
  10000 wan
  10 x 10000 shi wan (hundred thousand)
  100 x 10000 bai wan (one million)
  1000 x 10000 qian wan (ten million)
  1 x 100.000.000 yì (hundred million)
  10 x 100.000.000 shi yi (one billion)

Indian: no idea how it works in practice but it involves crore and lakh...

Trevor Noah had a good take on the absurdity of stocks and unrealised gains with their Schrödinger's-cat-like qualities: https://youtu.be/Gqlbn2nPO-A?t=84

damn, that sucks. I fully agree with the sentiment of your last sentence.

I use them and like them. One thing to be aware of with the dialer (that might not be unique to Fossify): when dialing the number of an emergency service (like 112 in Germany), there is no indication in the app's UI that something is happening and it looks as if the call failed and you will be back looking at the dial pad, even though the call will eventually be connected. The reason is that these types of calls get handled by something deeper in the Android system and will show up neither in the "calling" UI of the dialer nor in the list of calls.

You might be thinking about Charlie Stross' text/speech from 2018 in which he talks about corporations as slow AIs: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...

Could we stick an rtg-powered tracking beacon on it during its next flyby so that we can better calculate its orbit?

That could work (given sufficiently good build-out of the data network), but for the mid-term you'd still need to have a way to receive SMS for 2FA etc.

Two things and one question:

1) While being a fantastic resource to get a first impression of what's out there, the Defense Universities Tracker has not been updated since about 2019. So it is starting to be outdated and anyone using it should be well aware of it. It seems that an update is in an early stage.

2) In order to assess the actual risks, the sources that are provided at each institution's page are crucial. These are ommitted in your version. Please consider linking back to each institutions page under https://unitracker.aspi.org.au/

The question: What is the value added of your page over the official page https://unitracker.aspi.org.au/ ? I only see the map. Am I missing something?