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YOU ARE THE REASON
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Jules of Nature
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Programming Resources
Since I’ve been studying & accumulating resources for a few months now, I thought I’d share some of the gems I’ve found. There’s a staggering abundance of ways to self-teach. I wish more knowledge was treated like this! I’ll continue to update this list occasionally as I add more tools to my arsenal. To be clear, I’m not shilling for any of them. This is purely an ‘FYI’, just in case anyone else out there has any curiosity.
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Globus INK, Soviet spaceflight navigation computer
A terawatt laser filament is shown to be able to guide lightning over a distance of 50 m in field trials on the Säntis mountain in the Swiss
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Step by step guide on how to get to know new people*.
1. Check the source and make sure the metadata is attached.
2. Are they using geographic or projected coordinate system?
3. Is their coordinate system compatible with yours?
4. Ask questions to frame your knowledge gap.
5. Explore and prepare data.
6. Choose method and tools.
7. Preform analysis.
8. Examine and prepare results.
9. Use or present results.
This is an iterative process. Steps 4-9 should be repeated as many times as needed.
*This method has only been tested on GIS data but should work on real humans too, probably.
Some fun world map projections you might not have seen before.
None of these are more or less accurate than any other because remember:
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
Web Mercator, Aitoff (world), WGS 1984
South Pole Stereographic and Orthographic
Peirce quincuncial North Pole in a square (world)
Cassini (sphere)
Hotine
Goode Homosoline (Oceans)
Bonne (sphere)
North Pole Azimuthal Equidistant
Equal Earth (world) Asia-Pacific
A Seattle-based appellate judge ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handin
beginning in at least 2014 infotainment systems in the company’s vehicles began downloading and storing a copy of all text messages on smartphones when they were connected to the system. An Annapolis, Maryland-based company, Berla Corporation, provides the technology to some car manufacturers but does not offer it to the general public, the lawsuit said. Once messages are downloaded, Berla’s software makes it impossible for vehicle owners to access their communications and call logs but does provide law enforcement with access, the lawsuit said.
Yikes. Your car is probably keeping all your text messages and sending them to its manufacturer if you connect to your infotainment system.
The manufacturer does two things with this data:
shares it with law enforcement
sells it to advertisers for extra revenue
HOW WONDERFUL
What happens when the world’s knowledge is held in a quasi-public square owned by a private company that could soon go out of business?
Jesus, I hadn’t even thought of this, but of course.
This is something that historians have been warning about for a couple of decades. How much of our history was not just on Twitter, but on MySpace, on blogs and web sites that came down after a few years, on e-mail, on texts. None of that leaves a record. Once the file is deleted, the server shut down and scrapped, the backup disks decay into being unreadable junk, that history is gone.
Does anyone remember when Obama and Clinton each held town hall campaign events on MySpace? Good luck finding anything about those now other than some news articles that say they happened. How many business zoom calls have formal meeting minutes taken? We are not saving histories. We aren’t even writing letters. I’m as guilty as anyone. My art is online and kept in the cloud. I make my Christmas Card every year, but I haven’t printed and mailed one in over a decade. It’s all sent electronically. Meaning that a generation from now no one will remember.
So the problem is bigger than Twitter. We are now a couple of decades into an age that will not leave any detailed historical record.
That is not good.
In pseudo and acadamic circles this has routinely been called the ‘digital dark age’, I even wrote on the subject a few years ago but can’t find that article right now. [There is even a Wikipedia article on the concept] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age#:~:text=The%20digital%20dark%20age%20is,technologies%20evolve%20and%20data%20decay).
It’s thought this might just be a black spot of knowledge, there are organizations working to stop this — archival websites primarily, but these are not able to penetrate all these corporate gated gardens, where paywalls, sign up walls, and more block access to. There is an ongoing campaign by megacorps to shutdown as many archival sites as possible.
This coupled with the fallibility of hard drives, CDs (make sure to back them up! They only have a 20-30 year lifetime!), and more and there is a chance that even though there is more information than ever before, more primary and secondary sources than ever, we may become just a strange blank spot in societal and cultural history. Digital decay is a terrifying concept that we are already beginning to live through.
@xkcd-for-that
This is exactly what I’ve been saying. It’s a loss of history. And, given how important it has been for activists of all sorts, it will be a loss for the future as well.
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Can a pro piracy girl and a pro physical media boy really fall in love
Yeah she pirates it and he converts it to physical media it's a match made in heaven and they're t4t also
So it turns out that ChatGPT not only uses a ton shit of energy, but also a ton shit of water. This is according to a new study by a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Riverside and the University of Texas Arlington, Futurism reports.
Which sounds INSANE but also makes sense when you think of it. You know what happens to, for example, your computer when it’s doing a LOT of work and processing. You gotta cool those machines.
And what’s worrying about this is that water shortages are already an issue almost everywhere, and over this summer, and the next summers, will become more and more of a problem with the rising temperatures all over the world. So it’s important to have this in mind and share the info. Big part of how we ended up where we are with the climate crisis is that for a long time politicians KNEW about the science, but the large public didn’t have all the facts. We didn’t have access to it. KNOWING about things and sharing that info can be a real game-changer. Because then we know up to what point we, as individuals, can have effective actions in our daily lives and what we need to be asking our legislators for.
And with all the issues AI can pose, I think this is such an important argument to add to the conversation.
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Hey, you! Yeah, you with the cool neocities!
You're doing great! Really love what you've done with the place so far. Now here's something important moving forward. If you are making a neocities - especially if you are doing so with the motivation to fight back against Web 3.0 and reclaim the web as a space for individual users instead of for companies - please, keep the following in mind:
An inaccessible web is not a free web.
Repeat after me: An inaccessible web is not a free web.
Resources for Beginners to Learn About Web Accessibility and Web Design:
W3C's Introduction to Web Accessibility | W3C is the organization that decides on the standards of Accessibility on the web. They are an invaluable direct resource.
A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Web Accessibility
Mozilla's Accessibility Overview
WebAIM's Introduction to Web Accessibility
What is Web Accesibility in 60 Seconds! [YouTube Video]
Accessibility: What's the difference between WCAG Levels A and AA? [YouTube Video]
FreeCodeCamp | FCC provides an extremely beginner friendly Responsive Web Design course. The lessons for this course integrate accessibility standards naturally, and also have individual lessons specifically for teaching accessibility.
FreeCodeCamp's Accessibility Tag on their News Page
HTML Dog's Tutorial's for HTML, CSS, and Javascript
MarkSheet's Free HTML and CSS Tutorial
W3C's Easy Checks
W3C's QuickRef on How to Meet WCAG | I have filtered the QuickRef link to only show Level A requirements. This is the easiest level to meet and is considered the "bare minimum."
WAVE: Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
Link to the gay porn library of Alexandria.
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Recommendation: Do Not Craft Your Music Online.
Ugh. Is it theoretically possible in this data-harvesting economy that a private entity (Spotify) which is noted for its recommendation algorithms won't take the work from thousands of artists crafting on this always online platform to build song writing algorithms? Technically, I guess. I do not personally believe it.
We have clear evidence of what's happened to artists and writers. All of their collective online work: ripped. Music's a little trickier because most musicians don't typically upload their start-to-finish process. Some artists and writers, on the other hand, share quite a lot of work in varying stages of development, which gives a clue into the process of creation. A lot of the musical mixing and cutting and testing isn't a visible part of the sharing process and that's what an always-online studio will grant the machine learning algorithms access to.
Is it inevitable that this will happen anyway?
Maybe. But it doesn't have to be your work. And if enough people refuse to participate, it might fail to achieve enough to justify its use. If it never gets good enough because the data simply can't be acquired in a meaningful way, that's a net win for musical artists.
To celebrate a decade since Metro: Last Light, we are giving away the original 2013 version away for free - PLUS the whole franchise is up t
Free game on Steam! :D If you grab it before the 25th, it'll be yours to keep.
Edit: Make that 2 free games, Death Stranding is also free from Epic.
Download and play DEATH STRANDING at the Epic Games Store. Check for platform availability and price!
