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@bigworldsmallsasha has finally released her new book that she had been working on for the last couple of years! I'm really excited to read her memoir because I know she has had one of the most interesting lives, if you're unfamiliar with Sasha I recommend taking a look at her website - bigworldsmallsasha.com

She has been traveling around the world for more than a decade with little to no money and has gained an extensive understanding about our world through these experiences.

Big World | Small Sasha

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022-2024 2007 Freed from slavery (finished high school). Drove across North America 3 times. Lived in Whistler, Canada. 2008 Lived in Canada and California.
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TROM II: The many ways we are destroying this planet

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We all know that humans are wreaking havoc on the natural ecosystems of our planet, but it's astonishing to see the actual scale of it all. Go ahead and watch the TROM II documentary if you haven't yet, because it's full of such amazing facts about our world.

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TROM II: The many ways we are destroying this planet


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When Billionaires Fund Science Education

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I will definitely be more skeptical of data sourced from ourworldindata.org after watching this video. And I'm honestly a bit concerned about how ubiquitous they are, their data often gets cited by a lot of other publications so it's worrisome to see how skewed they can be.

When Billionaires Fund Science Education

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I was reading this article by @Mer__edith, the president of Signal messenger app. There's a lot of insightful information there so I recommend giving it a read. I'm glad to see someone openly speak out about this and raising concerns about the increasing centralization of power and control in the hands of a few, both in the digital space and in the offline world.

Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is

Disagreement over recent TikTok legislation reveals a deep divide about our current political moment. Should we, like many of the bill’s proponents, assume the existence of a functional…
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yeah, it's true. Usually to count any species you need a lot of people. And even if there is a funding for some researches it's never so large that it can include every person who are participating. That's why they all rely on a group of volunteers. Which is great, because people are motivated by the science, nature, animals and many other reasons. They really want to do it. And in turn it's very interesting and fun. That's why I try to show, that's its quite cool thing to do. And every one can do it too !

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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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This man is the definition of determination, huge respect for the guy! 🙏

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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The AOSP-based custom OS GrapheneOS has PIN scrambling, which makes these attacks a bit harder and also improved fingerprint unlock security.

Highly recommend looking into the project because it has many amazing security features on top of AOSP, and is one of the few custom OSes with actual security researchers developing significant improvements.

grapheneos.org/features

GrapheneOS features overview

Overview of GrapheneOS features differentiating it from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).
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> A new type of mercenary spyware came on the radar called Predator. It’ll infect a mobile phone, and then suck up all the data from it. Contacts, text messages, location, and more. This malware is being sold to intelligence agencies around the world.

Listening to this episode opened my eyes about the crazy world of cyber mercenaries, a part of the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex profiting off of wars.

#Privacy #Security #Spyware #SurvaillenceCapitalism

Predator – Darknet Diaries

A new type of mercenary spyware came on the radar called Predator. It'll infect a mobile phone, and then suck up all the data from it. Contacts, text messages, location, and more. This malware is being sold to intelligence agencies around the world.
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The Self Balancing Monorail

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My mind is blown away by this video! 🤯 I wouldn't have believed if someone told me they made this shit work today, let alone in 1910. Sometimes the ingenuity of humans is unbelievable!

Here is also a #Wikipedia article about it - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_m…

#YoutubeVids #PrimalSpace #Science #Educational #BrennanMonorail #GyroMonorail #Engineering #Physics #Gyroscope

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#science #wikipedia #engineering #physics #youtubevids #educational #gyroscope #primalspace #brennanmonorail #gyromonorail

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The Awful Truth about Online Shopping

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I just watched this video and feel like I have to share it here.....

#YoutubeVids #capitalism #waste #environment #Amazon #shipping #clothes #FreeReturns #FreeShipping

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So-called "free returns” aren’t free at all. In this video, I share the surprising truth about the lies corporations tell you to make you buy more, and what ...
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@AntennaPod surprised me with this cool feature today!

I think Spotify had a similar feature for the songs you listen to, but I haven't been on Spotify for a long time so I don't know what it's called now. But it's cool to see this on a FOSS podcast app like #AntennaPod, and the amazing thing is that they generate it locally on your device so it's privacy friendly 🙂

#FOSS #Podcast #AntennaPodEcho

#foss #podcast #antennapod #antennapodecho @AntennaPod

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Yeah, and here's my podcasts if you're interested - fosstodon.org/@futureisfoss/11…

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Finally here's my favorite podcasts of the year according to #AntennaPodEcho

I will explain more about each #podcast in the thread below.


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A Round Disk Through a Smaller Square Hole (Bending Spacetime)

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TIL after watching this video that spacetime curvature doesn't actually mean it's bending into the 4th dimension, all this time I thought otherwise 😅

#YoutubeVids #Educational #ActionLab #Science #Physics #Spacetime #Gravity

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I feel like the puzzles are getting a bit too hard for me on #AdventOfCode, so I'll probably be slacking off from now on. Solving last day's 2D pipe maze with a loop was hard enough, and today's puzzle seem to be of a similar kind so I'll probably skip - I feel like these puzzles have more to do with math and geometry than programming itself :blobcatshrug:
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@bignose I can't summon up much enthusiasm for AoC this year. I don't need to:

* Learn a new language
* Learn to program
* Write yet more string parsing code
* Wrestle with algorithms that are vanishingly rare in the real world
* Prove anything, to myself or others
* Invest time/energy I could usefully spend elsewhere

But I'm delighted others enjoy it at least as much as I've enjoyed it in the past. Plus it's a great spectator sport.

#AdventOfCode

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This was actually my first year trying out AoC, as a beginner to programming it was kind of a fun learning experience, but being a beginner also means I'll have to stop sometime as the puzzles get harder. Last day's puzzle was a bit too hard for me, maybe today's is better I might give it a try but I certainly won't put any pressure on myself 😄

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I thought my code is never going to terminate, but after around an hour or so it did, LMAO 🤣

Because I had to refactor the code many times for this one my current iteration doesn't make much sense, so I'll publish it later maybe after doing some cleanup, IDK...... It's all spaghetti code anyway :blobcatgiggle:

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Well, after timing it I see it's not as bad as an hour, but 12 minutes is still too long for a program to finish running - in my mind it felt like an hour. Also note that this is a compiled language, LMAO 🤣
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Advent of Code - Day 4 (Part 2)

Update: I've made the code a lot more faster by following a tip by @sotolf. Basically now the program is doing a reverse brute-force by starting at the end point and working its way upwards. So now the code finishes running in about 2 minutes, but if you use the --opt:speed compiler flag in #Nim then it can finish in 20 seconds! For comparison, my previous code took 12 minutes to finish even with the compiler flag on!

Here's the Nim code - codeberg.org/rokosun/AOC/src/b…

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My solutions for Advent of Code.
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How should regulators think about "AI"?

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I was watching this video by @emilymbender and she made a lot of great points there, highly recommend watching it if you're curious about #AI and the hype around it. I was a bit surprised when she brought up magic 8 ball because I've been jokingly calling chatGPT magic ball in my friend circles, but it's such a great analogy tho 😄

Also check out her podcast with @alex where they break down the AI hype - buzzsprout.com/2126417

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I just made a git repo for my #AdventOfCode solutions, so if any of you wanna see my spaghetti code you can find it here on #Codeberg - codeberg.org/rokosun/AOC

I'm using the #Nim programming language since I started learning it a while ago, still very much a beginner tho 🙃

P.S. Also check out @amin's private leaderboard for #AOC - alpha.polymaths.social/@amin/s…

#AdventOfNim

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For people doing Advent of Code, I have a Private Leaderboard of Fediverse people you're welcome to join!

Join code is 382566-472d5a9a.


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@amin yeah, that's exactly how I'm thinking how can I represent the data, and then how can I get closer to what I want, or functions I need to do what I need. My way is just one way to do it, but it's the one I find the easiest to work with :)

Types are a bit daunting in the beginning but when you do they really help you think, and let's the compiler help you not do a quite big group of errors :)

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This Mysterious Globe Perpetually Spins With No Batteries

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This is genius, not gonna lie.

#YoutubeVids #Educational #ActionLab #Science #Engineering

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