I'm not a huge trek nerd, but recently watched the whole series, and the two main irritations were the blatant/unnecessary/annoying/offensive sexualization, and the theme song.
It's easy to skip the opening sequence but the gratuitous fetishizing was pretty awful. The whole series would have been better without.
They figured out how to resolve it weeks ago.
It has taken this long to implement the results, and to get usable data flowing again
All this tells us is that Russia has literally zero anti-aircraft/intercept capability --- even for national-level strategic sites.
They keep getting their turds pushed in by radio-controlled light civil aircraft pottering in thousands of km at highway-traffic speeds.
Pitiful.
Someone has no idea how memes work
An extremely moving story, and it's unconscionable that she had to travel to receive care.
I hope her advocacy touches people, but it seems like most of those 'representing' her and other mothers like her are not interested.
I think Signal shot themselves squarely in the dick by removing SMS functionality.
Previously, you could use Signal as the primary SMS/messenger app. Any conversations with other Signal clients secure. Conversations in SMS/MMS? Marked as not-secure.
But, out of some purity concerns, SMS functionality was removed and the dev team focused on adding useless shit like "stickers" and then the pin-code harassment.
Signal adoption plummeted as intended (?)
Easy! Just replace their usual SMS app with Signal, and then every contact they have that does use Signal is private and secure!
Oh. Wait. That's exactly the functionality that Signal removed in their effort to ensure that Signal is never widely adopted.....
Facesitting porn (of adults) is illegal in UK for the reason that it's potentially dangerous
Ehhhh im currently driving a Gen 1 Prius (2003) that I bought at auction for $500.
I have less than $2000 in it all-in (everything except fuel and insurance, even oil changes).
I've put about 55k miles on it and it pulls a steady 43-44 mpg
Hysteria over battery issues has turned out to be exactly that --- these 22 year old batteries are fine. Being used (within the design tolerance) keeps them fresh.
And it just links to a Twitter post as far as I can tell
Hemlock Society recommends an oven roaster bag (like for turkeys) and a bottle of inert gas (usually helium is easiest to get) and just flow enough in to keep the inert atmosphere in the bag "fresh"
Also, there is 'gas stunning' which is used in Europe for slaughter. There are some practices that use CO2 for this, but at a nearly 100% level it is pretty instantaneous, much like HS2 -- which you can't even smell at high concentration, because you're dead already.
Point, there is some state of the art around using gas to kill; it's not a brand new concept.
So,.like --- was this guy in a relatively large volume chamber/booth and they just trickled the N2 gas in?
If there was enough volume, it could take a long time for the O2 levels to get low enough for him to pass out... BUT does a human body produce enough CO2 to fill that space to the point of triggering the suffocation response? Seems unlikely...
OR did they just strap a rebreather mask to his face and turn on a few l/min?
Were any specifics about the actual setup published?
But -- nitrous (N2O) is more fun and has just as little usable oxygen -- zero
For easy access to an inert gas at-home, try a helium tank from the Party Store
Virtually every international border on the planet.
It's pretty well established that any biometric can just be taken from you --- facial recognition is super easy and it won't be hard to force your thumb onto the sensor.
This is also the case for things like blood draw for blood alcohol testing.
The only unlock key that's (probably) truly yours is something inside your brain.
I've mulled/wished for this for years. Also useful at borders, where in the past I have actually been asked (required) to unlock phones and laptops. Generally you have no rights whatsoever there.
Those shadow accounts would need to be 'lived in' to pass those border checks. My worst experience was traveling with new, obviously burner devices --- border agents were extremely suspicious.
Zenith Space Command --- fully mechanical and wireless
"By pressing a button on the remote, you set off a spring-loaded hammer that strikes a solid aluminum rod in the device, which then rings out at an ultrasonic frequency. "
Raleigh Vektar -- 1985
from: http://www.thebikecomesfirst.com/the-raleigh-vektar/
The Vektar, the worlds first computer bike, was launched in 1985 long before we had health and safety laws. Equipped with ‘micro chip technology’ the rider could see how fast they were going, how far they had gone and how long they had been riding for at the touch of a button. The head’s down display ensured that you would ride into the back of your mate or a kerb as you fiddled with the control panel.
If that wasn’t enough you could listen to the radio on one of the three AM preset stations either while riding the bike or parked up hanging out with their pals. Later models came with a MW tuner giving even less crappy sound quality.
The main feature though was the advanced warning and alarm system. Once you had chosen one of the eight sounds from the ‘revolutionary sound generator’ on the top tube mounted control panel, you could use the handlebar mounted controller to terrorise old ladies as you rallied around the housing estate
ADDS Envoy Traveling Terminal 600
#Source: ADDS Envoy Traveling Terminals - Hardware - Retro Computing#
Here’s an early 1970s portable terminal with fantastic looks, which might be rightfully called the “Polaroid SX-70” of terminals. Sadly, I wasn’t able to put a date to this. The artifact in question (sadly not mine) is the ADDS Envoy Traveling Terminal 600. The Envoy 620, which is also pretty stunning (see below) was introduced in June 1972. (Since this is looking a bit early, it may be 1970/71.)
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The ADDS Envoy 600, a sales brochure (PDF) can be found at archive.org 19.
And here’s the ADDS Envoy 620:
For more info and images see https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/ADDS_Envoy_620 38 and http://jimsoldtoys.blogspot.com/2016/05/adds-envoy-portable-terminal.html 16 on the similar ADDS Envoy 580.
terminals-wiki.org 2 writes on the company history:
“Applied Digital Data Systems, or simply ADDS, was a manufacturer of high-quality video terminals. In March, 1979, ADDS had delivered 100,000 CRT terminals. In 1980, ADDS became a wholly owned subsidiary of NCR. In 1991, ADDS become part of AT&T when AT&T purchased NCR. In 1994, AT&T sold ADDS to SunRiver Data Systems. In 1996, the company was renamed to Boundless Technology.”
P.S.: A nice source found in one of these pages, providing a comprehensive overview of 1970s terminals, is the “Handbook of interactive computer terminals” by Duane E. Sharp, 1977, available as a PDF at https://archive.org/details/handbookofintera00duan 19.
PPS: this is a repost from here
Cassette Futurism in lemmy
Some appreciation for cassette futurism in movies, series, and games, as well amazing artists incorporating the style.
as a recently-minted fan of the cassette futurism concept, i wanted to see some here on lemm.ee
the blog link and probably most of the content for a while will be 'flattery' of the reddit sub, and mods/community/everyone are welcome.
mods especially