jonesjohnson

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

exactly!

I've been wondering about this for quite a while now. Why does everybody automatically assume that I'm using the decimal system when saying "orders of magnitude"?!

jonesjohnson

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

> Why should we expect/demand more generosity from only 1% of the population? Maybe everyone should spend 1% of their wealth on these efforts? It’s easy to be magnanimous with someone else’s wallet.

I was mainly referring to the "super rich" (Musk, Bezos, etc.) since this topic was about how SpaceX treats people and because "multi-planetary civilization" is primarily a thing I connect with their companies. I do donate ~10% of my income. Not sure how much the average FAANG-CEO does donate.

> If there’s a government anywhere that isn’t providing this for its citizens, perhaps looking into why that government is such a failure would yield greater and more durable change than a point patch of just a few vaccines.

Failed States and Corruption do exist. They have various complicated reasons which to address would certainly not be "a low-hanging fruit". Of course, solving these would be a good thing, but not within the scope of "donate food, donate medicine, pay teachers"

jonesjohnson

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

I can recommend the other way round:

For un-bricking my phone, I had to use some proprietary windows-only software. So I took an old Laptop and installed Windows 10.

Installing it was such a pain already. So many dark patterns, so many privacy issues. I even had to create a microsoft account!

After the deed was done, I closed the Laprop, went back to my Linux system and enjoyed it even more :-)

jonesjohnson

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

you know what would save lives?

If the top 1% would spend 1% of their wealth on preventing "low-hanging fruits" like

  * children starving
  * children dying from diseases whose vaccinations cost 1$
  * educating people on things like STDs, etc

You call "knowingly causing miscarriage" manslaughter, but boy have you looked at what "we" ("first world") are causing elsewhere in a global scale?

jonesjohnson

hace 7 mesesdiscuss

well, it has a lot to do with people growing up during cold war and german reunification.

There were many stories where people lost faith in politics (e.g. after Chernobyl), so people gathered together to do stuff on their own. I think being "social" (to all people), decentralized and mistrusting authorities is just a left thing. so that's just a natural thing imho

jonesjohnson

hace 7 mesesdiscuss

that post made me worry more tbh :(

jonesjohnson

hace 7 mesesdiscuss

time to use chaospost to send him a get-well card! :-)

jonesjohnson

hace 7 mesesdiscuss

I like your tool, but the schedule in the "hub" can now also filter for "recorded":

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/schedule?mode=lis...

jonesjohnson

hace 7 mesesdiscuss

it's because the congress has literally not started yet.

opening is tomorrow 10h30 CET

jonesjohnson

hace 7 mesesdiscuss

I'm surprised, no one mentioned https://f4pga.org/ yet.

jonesjohnson

hace 7 mesesdiscuss

What happened to servo? That looked pretty promising - is it dead?

jonesjohnson

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

what do you expect, when the tagline at the end of the page says "In crypto we trust."?

Honestly, it's a bit sad. There are many great people on that list, but some seem a bit random and some are just straight up cryptobros, which makes the whole thing a joke, unfortunately

jonesjohnson

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

Here's a good summary and legal analysis by noyb:

https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-first-legal-analysis

jonesjohnson

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

They warm up things that a) I don't want to put in a kettle and b) don't want to put in a dedicated pot to put on the stove.

Like the remainder of the soup i made yesterday that I've put in a china bowl in the fridge. I was able to eat warm soup out of that bowl without requiring to make any other dishes dirty. Pretty convenient if you ask me.

Bonus: you can take a cherry tomato or a single grape and make a small plasma arc in the microwave. Pretty cool trick to impress and scare people at house parties.

jonesjohnson

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

Then I propose you should support https://noyb.eu/

Their track record is pretty good.

jonesjohnson

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

the issue was never the law.

the issue were the 100s of tracking cookies and that websites would use dark patterns or simply not offer a "no to all" button at all (which is against the law, btw.)

Most websites do. not. need. cookies.

It's all about tracking and surveillance to show you different prices on airbnb and booking.com to maximise their profits.

https://noyb.eu/en/project/cookie-banners (edit: link)

jonesjohnson

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

like UK, you mean? boy that did really work out well for them!

jonesjohnson

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

Nickel Manganese Cobalt - a type of Lithium battery chemistry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_nickel_manganese_cobal...

jonesjohnson

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

Proper cooling seems to be the primary thing to do.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259017452...

Proper Home Storage systems are pretty safe:

https://www.bves.de/en/2024/12/17/study-home-batteries-fire-...

There are special containers for transport of (even damaged) lithium batteries, which don't look overly bulky:

https://www.zarges.com/en/solutions/transport-and-storage-of...

jonesjohnson

hace 8 mesesdiscuss

The thought that disposable vapes are still not forbidden in my country (EU) is making me sick.