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Hendrik Fleming
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Still trying to figure this thing out…
Too many projects, too little time and brain has only one functioning brain cell…
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Too many projects, too little time and brain has only one functioning brain cell…
#astronomy, #electronics, #biology, #3D printing, #space, #microscopes, #radio, #Linux, #Programming (C), #ScienceFiction, #retro-computing
paul
Anne Applebaum"Another concept implodes: Israel can’t be managed by a criminal defendant"
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-09/ty-article/.premium/another-concept-implodes-israel-cant-be-managed-by-a-criminal-defendant/0000018b-1382-d2fc-a59f-d39b5dbf0000
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-09/ty-article/.premium/another-concept-implodes-israel-cant-be-managed-by-a-criminal-defendant/0000018b-1382-d2fc-a59f-d39b5dbf0000
myrmepropagandist@finley @whetstone @lePetomaneAncien @natty @neckspike @adamp
"Right to Repair" laws start with simple things like:
Products should be designed so that parts that fail can be replaced.
Replacement parts should be purchasable, and there should not be barriers to generic versions being sold.
It should be possible to open and close a device without destroying it.
Universal parts should be used when possible.
The tough one is DRM. These companies want to use it to prevent generic parts.
@finley @whetstone @lePetomaneAncien @natty @neckspike @adamp
And as much as I get all weepy and joyful about "repairing it yourself" it also means that your friend can repair it, or that we might see general repair shops be more of a thing where you can take gadgets and some nerd will fix it for you for a modest fee.
But for years design conventions and greed has worked against this. Everything is glued and press-fit... batteries that die in 15 months are locked in un -openable cases.
Phil PlaitI am so, so, SO done with Twitter.
Erik Uden 🚩A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.
Paul VoosenMy latest, with my colleague Dan Clery: Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has claimed to have recovered interstellar debris in the Pacific Ocean, in a preprint rushed out two months after the field work.
We asked cosmochemists to put aside the hype and take a fair look at the evidence presented. It was not pretty.
https://www.science.org/content/article/did-interstellar-debris-fall-sea-floor-claim-meets-sea-doubt
13 barn owls in a trenchcoatI'd been wondering why I'd heard so little from Naomi Wu lately, and the reason is unhappily worse than Twitter breaking API based post mirroring to Mastodon.
(TL;DR, she's been silenced by the authorities.)
Worth reading in full, as the end includes a brief interview and suggests that her earlier highlighting of the security risks of compromised keyboards to E2E encrypted messaging turned out to be potentially relevant.
https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes/
Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was a confluence of state repression and the sometimes capricious attention of a Western audience that, as she asserts, often views Chinese activists more as ideological tokens
Corey S Powell
My Dad is Dracula