@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 - https://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.Big World | Small Sasha
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TROM II: The many ways we are destroying this planet
https://videos.trom.tf/w/w1jW1t8p7LXrAvvaQSubea
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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When Billionaires Fund Science Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU8UR_T8SV4
I will definitely be more skeptical of data sourced from https://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
Our World In Data is a credible publication. But they don't represent the broader scientific community, much of which disagrees with their perspectives and a...YouTube
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https://lpeproject.org/blog/social-media-authoritarianism-and-the-world-as-it-is/
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…LPE Project
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Be Brave To Act
Hi - I'm Dima, and I think protecting nature & wildlife is cool ! This channel is mainly about nature and wildlife protection, restoration, volunteering and everything in between Exploring the world by taking care of nature!YouTube
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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF8d72mA41M
This man is the definition of determination, huge respect for the guy! 🙏
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-da...YouTube
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https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/139/
This is one of the craziest #hactivism stories I've ever heard!
D3f4ult – Darknet Diaries
This is the story of D3f4ult from CWA. He was a hacktivist, upset with the state of the way things were, and wanted to make some changes. Changes were made.darknetdiaries.com
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.
https://grapheneos.org/features
GrapheneOS features overview
Overview of GrapheneOS features differentiating it from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).GrapheneOS
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@Scorpion8741 @Surveillance Report
I'm aware of GrapheneOS, and I'd definitely try it out if I can get my hands on a pixel 🙃
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https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/137/
> 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.darknetdiaries.com
Google Go language goes with opt-in telemetry
Go go gadget data collectionThomas Claburn (The Register)
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The Self Balancing Monorail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYzuAJeg3M
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 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail
#YoutubeVids #PrimalSpace #Science #Educational #BrennanMonorail #GyroMonorail #Engineering #Physics #Gyroscope
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You may wanna try this - https://sponsor.ajay.app/
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SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.sponsor.ajay.app
The Awful Truth about Online Shopping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdL85EP7s5M
I just watched this video and feel like I have to share it here.....
#YoutubeVids #capitalism #waste #environment #Amazon #shipping #clothes #FreeReturns #FreeShipping
The Awful Truth about Online Shopping
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 ...YouTube
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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
@ralf_weinert
Yeah, and here's my podcasts if you're interested - https://fosstodon.org/@futureisfoss/111617424432811704
A Round Disk Through a Smaller Square Hole (Bending Spacetime)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jE-ATI8utA
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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@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.
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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Content warning: Advent of Code - Day 4 (Part 2)
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How should regulators think about "AI"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0md9tQ1KY
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 - https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417
How should regulators think about "AI"?
On Thursday 9/28, I had the opportunity to speak at a virtual roundtable convened by Congressman Bobby Scott on "AI in the Workplace: New Crisis or Longstand...YouTube
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 - https://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 - https://alpha.polymaths.social/@amin/statuses/01HGA3787ZYTGJ60MQRW09RH5E
@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 :)
This Mysterious Globe Perpetually Spins With No Batteries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-NII1RdlcQ
This is genius, not gonna lie.
#YoutubeVids #Educational #ActionLab #Science #Engineering
This Mysterious Globe Perpetually Spins With No Batteries
Checkout our sponsor, BetterHelp, for 10% off your first month: https://www.betterhelp.com/actionlabShop the Action Lab Science Gear here: https://theactionl...YouTube
Sidedoor - Cellphones Rock
One fascinating fact I heard on this #podcast episode:
> If everyone in the country use their phone one year longer on average, it'd be the same as taking 636,000 gasoline powered cars off the road.
The episode mainly talks about the precious minerals in our phones and how they're extracted from rocks formed millions of years ago, not only do we have a limited supply of these minerals but it also can't be recycled properly.
Sidedoor | Cellphones Rock
Cellphones put the power of the world at our fingertips. With the touch of a finger, you can instantly connect with your doctor, have food delivered to your office or simply obliterate your niece at Words with Friends.play.prx.org
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Unsung Science: The Man Who Invented QR Codes
In 1994, Masahiro Hara got tired of having to scan six or seven barcodes on every box of Toyota car-parts that zoomed past him on the assembly line. He wondered why the standard barcode from the 70s was still used...Why couldn’t someone invent a barcode that used two dimensions instead of one that could work from any angle or distance, even even if it got smudged or torn?
And so, studying a game of "Go", he dreamed up what we now know as the QR Code — the square barcode you scan with your phone. It shows up on restaurant menus, billboards, magazine ads — even tattoos and gravestones. But even that, says Hara-san, is only the beginning.
Podcast webpage: https://art19.com/shows/unsung-science
Unsung Science
Hear the untold stories of mind-blowing achievements in science and tech. “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent and six-time Emmy winner David Pogue takes you behind the scenes into the creation stories of the world’s greatest advances and the people be…ART19
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De Fiets is Niets
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/de-fiets-is-niets/
Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more than 20,000 miles of dedicated cycling paths. International policymakers make pilgrimages to the Netherlands to learn how to create good bike infrastructure.
But none of that was inevitable. It wasn't something that magically emerged from Dutch culture.
In fact, in the 1960s and 70s, it looked like the Netherlands would follow the same path as the United States. The Dutch had fallen in love with cars and they were rebuilding their cities to make room for them. It was only because of a multi-decade pro-cycling movement that cars didn't take over the country entirely.
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Unexplainable: How to decode a thought
Can researchers decipher what people are thinking about just by looking at brain scans? With AI, they're getting closer. How far can they go, and what does it mean for privacy?
Podcast webpage: https://www.vox.com/unexplainable
Unexplainable
Unexplainable is a science podcast from Vox and Vox Media Podcast Network about everything we don’t know.www.vox.com
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I Volunteered for 25 Projects. Here's What I've Learned
https://videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/be1162f8-a5b2-4afe-a022-2c1d2ea39ac0
Another wonderful video by @sober_pirate explaining the things he learned while volunteering for different environmental and humanitarian projects.
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The Library of Alexandra
https://radiolab.org/podcast/library-alexandra
The story of #SciHub and its founder Alexandra Elbakyan in her fight against the global network of academic journals that underlie published scientific research.
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https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/09/18/guest-post-think-sci-hub-is-just-downloading-pdfs-think-again/
Guest Post: Think Sci-Hub is Just Downloading PDFs? Think Again - The Scholarly Kitchen
They’re phishing, hacking, and password-cracking to steal personal and research data from the world’s academic institutions. Andrew Pitts takes a hard look at Sci-Hub as, “Corrupt cybercriminals, not Robin Hood.”Scholarly Kitchen (The Scholarly Kitchen)
PDF files can contain malware in them which is why you should never open them if you get a spam email or something with an attached PDF. However I'd be very surprised if SciHub contains any malware like this person says because it's generally considered as a trusted source of information, without providing a valid source for that claim I can only take it as rumor or propaganda at best.
BTW, you can also use tools like @dangerzone to safely open potentially harmful PDFs - it's made for people like journalists who may need to open many PDFs as part of their work.
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Why Your Dog Has An Anti-Tick Pill And You Don’t?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QDDHjRZIZM
Man I would absolutely love it if I could turn my blood into poison for mosquitoes 😈🦟
#YoutubeVids #Educational #SciShow
Why Your Dog Has An Anti-Tick Pill And You Don’t?
Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-...YouTube
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct3j6y
I really enjoyed this podcast episode because I've actually pondered about this question myself before, just like the 11 year old who called in and asked them. Considering the wide range of activities we humans can do just with the energy we get from our daily meals, it really makes you wonder how efficient we are as a species, compared to machines, other animals, etc.
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Making a Real-life Nether Portal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grl1e4gIP78
That was pretty cool!
#YoutubeVids #Educational #Science #Plasma #TheActionLab
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0cq_nEWduY
Okay that was pretty cool, NGL.
#YoutubeVids #Science #Educational #TheActionLab
So.... um, yeah I had to code on my mobile 'cause my laptop broke, lol 😅 Not really the cleanest code ever but I'll improve it 🙃 Also just take a look at #Tromjaro and see how much it has grown over the years! I like how @tio pays attention to every little detail of how an average nontechnical person uses Linux, where they get confused, etc and try to improve/fix everything he can - what you end up with is not a perfect distro but one with a much better UX than most.
TROMjaro 12.08.2023 (big update, many changes)
This is a big and important update for TROMjaro, and we made so many little changes that I can only highlight the most noticeable ones. In essence, I want TROMjaro to be very user friendly from the get go.TROMjaro Forum
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But this is something I rarely see in videos/documentaries, the focus on why these things happen. Dima said he will try to emphasize on that more in the future. I understand that you can get repetitive since it all starts from this trade-environment (mostly), but it is definitely worth adding the "why people do these bad things".
Anyway, Dima does a great job with these videos, from editing to highlighting these wonderful people who do wonderful things. Like he was saying, these are the heroes.
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@Tio actually i had to cut out few scenes out of the video, when Aylin (that woman) is explaining how everything is rigged by oil and gas industry and military exercises. Because she is protecting sea she is in a conflict with Turkish oil industry, they sued her for some kind of bullshit which his not truth, but anyway she got court right now. And before publishing i showed video to her and she liked a lot that part, but decided to ask her lawyer if it's possible to publish that. Because in that part of the video there were also cuts from Turkish media news outlets how they support basically destruction of an environment for a profit. And lawyer said that it has to be out of video 100%. Because if published she will had huge problems in the court. Imagine that!!! That's a fucked up world where you can't really point on the problem because you can be fined or even jailed. And Turkey is not the most "free speech" country in the world.
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In June 20, 2023, a documentary miniseries called TROM II was published on #Peertube, making it the first feature-length film to ever be released exclusively on the #Fediverse. Question is, were you aware of this documentary before?
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TROM II: A Message to the Aliens (documentary)
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.videos.trom.tf
- Yes (6%, 4 votes)
- No (93%, 56 votes)
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@kev @mike did you guys make any changes to the server these past few days? @apps do you have any idea what might be causing the issue here? 🤔
(I'm now forced to use the webapp)
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Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPw9dSV6y2c
Proxied links 👇
Invidious link: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=ZPw9dSV6y2c&local=true
Choose your invidious instance: https://invidio.us/watch?v=ZPw9dSV6y2c&local=true
#youtubevids #science
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Ah, I hadn't considered that they were eating the gel... I found a nice answer to explain more about that here in case others are also wondering about it:
https://wildaboutants.com/2012/06/01/reader-question-about-harvester-ants-eating-ant-farm-gel/
Reader Question About Harvester Ants Eating Ant Farm Gel
We have a question for the Consult-Ant today: Hello I wanted to ask you if wild Harvester ants, will learn to eat the gel in a antworks gel farm. I have an empty one and put about 30 wild, I’…Wild About Ants
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Like with Twitter under Musk, I think some Fediverse admins that are pro-censorship are afraid that Zuckerberg won't allow censorship. Coupled with the enormity of Meta's userbase that kind of freedom makes radical instances that defederate obsolete.
trom ii: a message to the aliens (trailer)
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.videos.trom.tf
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Wow that screenshot is lit ! 🔥 Imma share that on my mastodon account 😁
> I hope you won't get too border by the documentary.
Don't worry I won't get bored by it, lol 😄 I'm actually really curious about it, curious to see all of you and hear your interviews & personal stories, curious to see how you weave these interviews together with facts and knowledge about our world to create an engaging story, curious to see how you did the music, editing, and other audiovisual effects using FOSS softwares like kdenlive, inkscape, krita, etc. Unlike most other documentaries this one was made by the work of one single person, so I'll keep that in mind while watching, to really appreciate your effort 😀
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But...
- = Huge filesize with it (my own personal thing about free or DIY is keep options for small is beautiful and not over bloat energy I. E. downloads / streams per user) unless really a final or big thing worth keeping / adding copies online in such sizes per file.
So only these monster rates available for your 4 min movie. .. just for example 1 file
●1440p (3.3mb/s = up + down rate) 102mb ? ?
●1080p (1.9mb/s = up + down rate) 59mb
●720p (1.2mb/s = up + down rate) 37mb
● no 360p?
(take off over'bloat useless 1440p maybe and save planet a bit?)
Again 4 mins of planets energy 102mb up then down + storage 24/7.
Not in balance or care. Measurably.
Consider 360p - knocking off 1440p. And make energy-peace a bit more even if you think it's just an opinion, because you're burning shit up too easily / cheaply.
Can't wait for then 12gb movie documentary ^_^
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This article is the perfect response to anyone who says that end-to-end encryption or privacy in general should be undermined because "the bad guys might use it". News flash, the same can be said about almost all of our existing infrastructures and the argument doesn't hold up when you consider how vital these are. End-to-end encryption provides the same level of safety & security to a victim as it does a terrorist, it protects activists & journalists from surveillance.
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