The catch is it’ll be enshittified as soon as it can.

The crazy thing is millionaires have more on common with us normal workers than they do with billionaires.

I get what you’re saying, that they are millionaires are closer to being broke than to being a billionaire, but they still have more in common with billionaires than normal workers. Once you reach the mid to high single digit millionaire you can pretty much choose your own adventure.

Oh, I know … and that’s what makes it sad is because he could help to make the world a better place.

home canned pickles.

But… that costs money.

And the fact that the US dollar is the basis for most economies.

In fact, a new UN wouldn’t even be necessary, instead everyone would just have to stop recognizing the veto powers of any country. But, again, that comes with other consequence.

The US isn’t part of the ICC and has veto power in the UN. The US is quite literally above the law and there isn’t anything anyone can really do about it.

You need to read The Sphinx by Edgar Allen Poe.

It’s about a man staying in the country when he sees this gigantic monster off in the distance from his bedroom window. He freaks out about it and becomes paranoid.

Turns out it was a moth on the window. That’s what this looks like too.

Turn out your lamps Lemmy or the moths will return!

This study is from 2015.

Right?

I got into brewing in the early 2000s and loved it. Made some great recipes and always had a good selection of beer on hand. Then microbreweries started popping up everywhere, it was great … until I realized that I could buy a keg from a local brewery cheaper than I could brew it. And I didn’t have to do all the cleaning.

No regrets. I still have the skill and equipment, so if I want or need to brew my own I can, and it gives me time to pursue other hobbies.

Good point.

I also want my smart glasses to shine an IR light on my face to help protect my identity from others recording me.

I would love a pair of smart glasses to augment what I’m seeing… Give me context, keep me informed, allow me to monitor things closely, yet passively, and let me do it all inconspicuously and unobtrusively! Even better if it has eye tracking navigation.

Oh, and make sure the hardware and software are open source and self-hosted. If it has all of that I’m in, 100%.

I was cleaning out my garage a few weeks ago and came across my old Commodore 64 Paperboy floppy.

The trick is to tap into that power, while keeping things looking nice and neat. Most vehicles now have the license plate lights tucked away in housings. It would be nice to be able to have something that only uses the 2-4 screw holes that are used to hold the plates on since those are universal on vehicles sold in the US.

The issue I see with that is you’d need to supply power to the lights, which wouldn’t be impossible, but isn’t exactly trivial.

I wonder if having a license plate frame that changes it to not be a rectangle would work? Maybe even cover the frame in reflective tape to help blind the camera?

I’ve not watched any of this, however there were investigations and "investigators interviewed Pormanove and one of his co-streamers who both appeared to be victims of violence and humiliation. They “strongly denied being victims of violence, stating that the events were staged in order to `generate a buzz’ and make money.” ". That seems to me that this was simulated torture, or at the very least consensual torture. I’ve watched and enjoyed many episodes of Jackass and I’d consider some of the things they did to be a form of torture… this just seems to be the natural progression of that genre of ‘shock entertainment’, which unfortunately went too far in this case.

Yet another great video from Benn… however, I’m a bit disappointed that he isn’t more explicit about how to protect your plates from these readers. I understand that he’s likely doing it to protect himself (and his viewers) from legal recourse, and it’s nice that he provides the code used to create and test the patterns, but I wish he had provided his research results to show which patterns were most effective at keeping the system from even detecting the presence of a plate.

I agree, however you’re never going to be able to fully control things that you’ve sent out for other people. Even this post can, and likely will, end up as training data for AI. ‘The only winning move is not to play’ applies to a lot of things in life, and if you truly want to protect your data then the best move is to not create any data. The second best move is to not share any data that you’ve created.

I actually appreciate this. The only place I use Word is at work, and nothing I create in Word at work is ‘mine’. I do not care at all about the security of things I do at work (that’s for our IT Security team to care about), and all this means is that if I accidentally screw up, or if my computer just up and dies on me… all of my work files should be ‘safe’.

My employer has been going very hard towards ensuring that our work computers can ONLY be used for work purposes. Once I accepted this and embraced it I found that I’m now 100% free of Microsoft for anything personal, and it is amazing.

lol, so now I can go into pointing out your logical fallacies… but, honestly I’ve already spent more than enough time on this conversation with someone who is clearly very toxic. Thanks for the quick response and for validating my initial impression that you’re someone whose opinion I can happily live without, and welcome to my blocked list.