Go ahead and send me ads, and I’ll just block your site … never go there except when someone tries to trick me into it, and then my SITE-BLOCKER will refuse for me. Our now and future business IS OVER.

“But why don’t you just trust us?” Because I’ve been online for 30 years and it’s been downhill ever since.

The year of the four linux desktops, I hope! (I have 3, but two need to go to the landfill).

After the thousands of years of human history I’ve read about, getting rid of competitors seems to have been the primary concern of most of the ruling classes all over the world. Way back to Ur.

But I’m not in the field. My reasoning for posting this: I see news about PFAs a lot, this was fresh to me and I was glad to hear the news that chemists are at work on the problem (many communities in WA have contaminated water). And simply-enough for ‘newbs’ to learn from. I don’t find a ‘technology for experts’ ‘community’ on Lemmy.

Livescience is far from the best source, but I checked that they had a link to the study (Science) in it.

It appears, going by the comments, that others who are not ‘in the field’ were happy to learn about. It’d be great if more people ‘in the field’ would post about such discoveries now and then.

Blaming another business? Hmmm. Sounds like Boeing’s attempted solution.

AND they might have had miniature cameras in them for the past 20 years.

(The laws against this stuff are almost non-existing. Option left for those of us creeped out by constant surveillance: don’t leave home, unplug that webcam. Demand privacy or lose it.)

There’s a large org (@ hope.net) that has a non-profit convention every few years. It maintains a e-mail list to let its > 1000 previous attendees know about the upcoming convention and related info. In the past decades everything was fine.

This year (con in July) Gmail has been spam-binning ALL of those reminder e-mails aimed at attendees who use Gmail. Quite clearly it’s not the users making that choice. The org is left with no other way to contact those attendees.

Singapore has too many rich Chinese already.

FLAC is good, but not necessary for background listening. At 192k the average song is ~ 5Mb. 100k x 5 = 0.5 TB.

With a long, varied list of select internet radio stations, you can choose what genre (or special weekly show) you want to listen to at the moment. Picked by people, not algorithms. Keep a playlist of the stations you like best, startup your player (like VLC) with the list, and pick the one you’re in the mood for.

Or you could just collect mp3s locally for choosier days, dump a bunch of them into VLC, listen to them in album or random order. In either case, at no cost.

One of the rare examples of sci-fi mixed with a skillfully unfolded mystery. Even when you know ‘the answer’, there are plenty of ‘how did they do that’ film-making mysteries.

I forgot to mention his entirely ‘I, Robot’, VG 2004 film … maybe because robots don’t don’t seem so science-fictionish these days…

Hard to define ‘hard’, a few more I liked: (no ranking)

• The Time Machine (both the Pal and the Wells films; quite different)

• Dark City (1998, Pryas)

• Forbidden Planet (1956, Wilcox)

• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, Wise)

• Fifth Element (hilarious, Besson, 1997)

• Alien (Scott, 1979)

• 13th Floor (Rusnak, 1999)

• Stargate (1994, Emerich)

• Steamboy (2004, Otomo)

Movies made from famed series I’d REALLY LIKE to see:

• Ringworld (Niven, a crime noone’s DARED to try).

• Some setting of Riverworld. (Farmer)

• ANY of Neal Stephenson’s SF books, esp. Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age, Anathem.

(Not even the BBC? I mean, who expected Doctor Who to get THIS far?!)

Desperate strategy they’re hoping will fool some of the people some of the time.

Trusting complete strangers with highly personal information is never a good idea. Even if they promise to take good care of it, before or after they’ve already got your money.

Ur so right! Diffy-Q has its uses, but analog was too advanced for us to grok so we had to settle for it. Newton ‘discovered’ gravity, and calculus, then found out how useful calc was!

Non-linear? Hella faster! Nature went with analog long ago. No analog, no music!

Glad to hear that! Yep he’s got a sense of humor -and- knows his stuff.

Oh well … at least we’ve still got Popular Mechanics.

Gnome purists would be very offended tho…

Safer to try every keypress to find out how to get to the terminal.

Guess not, Gnome desktops have nothing on them.

Arthur C. Clarke’s stuff is like that… So are a lot of the old anthologies from 50s-60s (e.g. the Groff Conklin ones … Omnibus for one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groff_Conklin).

The ‘Riverworld’ series by Farmer and ‘Ring’ series by Niven are also.

It’s a great service. I found several of his expertly-created 78 tunes on there that I hadn’t heard in decades. (Some scarce stuff is almost never NOT available on 33 or 45rpm)

Another reason: Some people get deeper into multiple pieces of music because they like to compare performances of them. Fidelity doesn’t matter a whole lot. You want to compare how some bands or singers performed a (non-hit) song recorded in the 1930s or 1950s. You listen around the fidelity. People in the 1950s made million-selling hits everyone heard on AM radio or 45s. Fidelity is over-rated.