i think the word “engineer” has something to do with the word “ingenuity” … now ask yourself, how much creative thinking do you need as a coder?

what’s a reliable source? does the CIA world factbook, for example, count as a reliable source?

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

matching news from more sources

1. accept you don’t know what’s happening outside your 50km radius
2. ?

If tea tree oil and other bullshit actually worked, it would be a lot more expensive.

hmm disagree here. i’ve got very effective medicine for a problem i had a year ago and it worked wonders. cost: $10 to produce, $15 over the counter.

wait 10 years. worked for me. had the worst acne of anyone in the entire country. nothing worked, change of diet, antibiotics, skin care routine, etc failed as spectacularly as anything could possibly fail. it did nothing, and i mean absolutely nothing. anyone out there, reading this, saying “you should have just done x” shut up. it’s not working that way.

just wait 10 years and it will automagically disappear.

(and i mean disappear as in “it’s impossible that you’ve ever had acne. you have the cleanest skin that i’ve ever seen” type of disappear.)

oh yeah, the Halting Problem: a machine that can make active decisions (such as a computer or a human brain) cannot predict its own future reliably. Meanwhile, an entity that can predict its own future reliably, has no power to change that future.

Mining Energy in an Expanding Universe

In principle, the expansion of the universe can be harnessed to provide energy. In a gedankenexperiment, energy is gained by connecting together widely separated bodies with strings. The tension and the energy generated are calculated for single strings. Mining energy in an expanding universe in this way raises unresolved issues concerning the conservation of energy. Apparently, the tethered-body experiment delivers “nascent” energy that previously did not exist in any identifiable and quantifiable form. It is argued that energy in a homogeneous and unbounded universe, in general, is not conserved on the cosmic scale.

the problem of instagram is the addictive behavior, the gating of content behind you-need-an-account-to-view-this-content stuff, the neverending adware/spyware, etc.

all the things you say you like are because there’s no commercial incentive to get people hooked through addictive behavior. which automatically increases the platform’s quality.

i printed sticker and hand them out in real life

you wouldn’t download a pepperoni pizza

a woman who knows how to use her power

yes i know. sadly a lot of big scrappers don’t do that, instead they scrap the web interface. which is significantly inefficient so it slows down the service for everyone else.

that checks out

well it feels like one

wtf. why does my browser send such an uniquely identifying token. wtf

(there’s more to the right of it, i cut it to preserve privacy)

WTF

TIL. the way trackers can do stuff

yeah i get your point but that’s not what i meant. i’m using VPNs to do google searches, for example, in incognito browsing tab. so google knows the 10k searches i did, but it cannot connect them to each other, as session cookies between them are deleted each time i close the browser (which is about every few minutes). and i don’t log in to any account in the incognito tab either, so it can’t use account identities as fixed points either. and it cannot associate the queries by IP address either.

edit:

after seeing this website … https://amiunique.org/fingerprint i get what you mean now. i have to think about this.

hmm i’m not entirely sure either but it seems like fediverse content should be easily archivable.

probably this is another engineering challenge to think about once that i have checks notes a few months of free time …

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