So, funny story. Every cop's body cam is basically an AirTag. I did a talk at DEFCON explaining how you can detect and ID police body cams with your phone.
So, funny story. Every cop's body cam is basically an AirTag. I did a talk at DEFCON explaining how you can detect and ID police body cams with your phone.
My computer architect friend Elba often brings her dog Gigi over to run around my garden. When I hold up a stick, Gigi runs off to fetch it before I’ve even thrown it.
She clearly understands both branch prediction and pre-fetching.
Knowing the earth was curved is probably even older than that. Any seafarers traveling any substantial north/south distance would have seen the stars shift their positions in a way that's impossible for a flat earth.
A techno-optimist responded to my thread about societal collapse in the US by telling me how great things are now. Did you know we have smart phones? Did you know that goods and services are more readily available? Did you know things are getting better?
The critical corollary for any claim that things are getting better is “for whom?”
- Life expectancy in the US had been essentially flat since 2008 and has been declining since 2019, before the pandemic. It’s now about 76.4 years, erasing decades of gain.
- Americans are getting shorter. American heights peaked decades ago and have fallen both in comparison to other countries and absolutely, a sign of society-wide malnutrition.
- Nearly 2 million Americans are imprisoned and another 3 million are under supervision of the carceral system, the largest in the world.
- Fully 70% of Americans report financial stress and less than half have any emergency savings. Most people are one broken leg, busted furnace, or car collision from ruin.
But things are great! I have an iPhone! I’m richer than the kings of old!
Me: I despise computers; I will now abscond to the woods
*figures a thing out
Me: haha! Technology is the tits. I am the holy trinity of programming
Hey. I love you.