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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids — DHS develops NEO robot for walking denial of service attacksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Isn’t that interesting…

    The anbility to prevent the getting-out of evidence of what the authorities do to the locals…

    Just like the unconstitutional state-laws which criminalize capturing-of-video-evidene of police executing people…

    “I wonder” if this would ever be abused by anti-accountability authorities…

    ( remember that the whole Christian religion is founded on a guy who was a kind of whistleblower, & had spikes hammered through his wrists, in his crucifixion, for his calling the legalists “hypocrites”…

    I wonder how “Christian” he’d find them to be, if he returned, & saw what they’re doing? )

    Human nature & demon nature seem … related?

    or is that too harsh?

    … perhaps … but wasn’t the Inquisition demon-law in the name of benJoseph?

    hmm…

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing BillionsEnglish
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    4 months ago

    IF you are in accounting, especially if you are in regulatory compliance accounting, or going into it, you NEED to know about a book named “Financial Shenanigans”.

    I’m not intellectually-equal to it ( or to accounting, for that matter: psychology’s much easier to crack, for me ), but it is THE most important book for forensic-accountants to know.

    The bullshit that they’ve been pulling, where “Between 2017 and 2021, Amazon had more than $25 billion in losses from its devices business, according to the documents. The losses for the years before and after that period couldn’t be determined.” didn’t produce criminal consequences…

    You’ve got to be kidding, right?

    Individual human goes to jail or prison for $2k tax fraud, but … big tech gets a free pass on that kind of “accounting”??

    couldn’t be determined??

    Either run a tight-ship or don’t be surprised when it sinks.

    Economies are the “ships” that carry our countries, & have to be properly regulated, exactly as a tightly-regulated ship has to be, to keep it afloat longer.

    It isn’t the sloppy mechanic-racers who win NASCAR, it is the ones who control everything correctly, with total right-regulation.

    I remember when I’d read that Cisco switched to closing their books out daily, so as to always know the exact position of the company…

    what an incredible degree of financial-operations integrity that was…

    Anyways, “Financial Shenanigans” is THE book to dig into, if you want to know if the business you’re considering investing in is cooking the books… and you’re capable of understanding that stuff at the level it’s speaking…

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPREnglish
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    4 months ago

    This escalation will continue,

    until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:

    They will simply say something like:

    "Either your government removes laws, regulations, accountability, etc, from us,

    XOR we are hamstringing your country: we OWN you, we POSSESS you, & you will obey OUR rule."

    I guarantee this will be happening between now & 2036.

    Remember how they can ratchet-up a genocide, anywhere??

    They’ve already done so, in some places…

    ( Facebook & … was it Myanmar? as 1 example )

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users reportEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is inevitable:

    Once the people in China can only see the CCP’s version of everything,

    & ALL stuff has been adulterated, either by AI or by some agency-or-other,

    THEN dissent should die-down in the Chinese population:

    Read Lanier’s “Foreign to Familiar” to understand how Tropical-Culture vs Nordic-Culture shapes people, & how old-cultures vs new-cultures shape people,

    then read Hofstede’s “Exploring Culture” to understand the dimensions of culture that his Cultural Dimensions Theory digs into ( power-distance, uncertainty-avoidance, “success”-orientation, & other dimensions )…

    & when you understand how we’re kind of “template” people, before being born into culture,

    but once born into it, our entire meaning gets framed within whatever culture we were born into…

    therefore, the CCP can simply remove most diversity-of-meaning from their completely-possessed-population, through a generation or 2 of that.

    Tibetan, Uyghur, Hongkonger, Taiwanese, Indian, South-Korean, Japanese, the intent is consistent: "the destruction of " … others … “is the midwife of Chinese supremacy”.

    I expect a similar kind of program to exist in all right-possessed countries, as the right is doing in the US, right now, with burning or banning books, eradicating proper education, suppressing libraries, etc, they’re just doing the same thing as what the CCP’s doing, only less-skillfully, is all.

    No real difference in their deeper heart/motivation/intent, though: supremacism, crushing/destroying all “other” kinds.

    Russia’s big on it, too, isn’t it?

    Islamism…

    The “Crusades” were good examples of this kind of idiocy?

    The “Inquisition”?

    The “Buddhist” genociding of Tamils?

    So long as the “home” story is … “coherent”, & “justifies” all, then … kids grow up … believing, right?

    There’s a book, & a Big Think yt video, on “Collective Illusions”, which is important!

    Please invest in seeing that video, & see how it’s actually a delusion-mechanism in our minds…

    …used by political-forces, yes, but they couldn’t use it if it didn’t exist, could they?

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the best type of smart lock?
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    4 months ago

    Physical Abloy-style lock, not a “smart” lock.

    Go see some cybersecurity type people, & see that they put physical security in place where they value real security.

    ITIS ( Information Technology Information Systems ) has many vulnerability & attack-surfaces that “dumb” metal doesn’t.

    If you look, you will discover that there is a news-story about a company which did the hotel-locks for zillions of hotels in our world, that had a fundamental compromise in their design, & now everybody has to replace all those locks, but … that isn’t going to happen, is it?

    IOW, criminality-industry was helped by all that “convenient” ITIS.

    Please consider going with an Abloy Protec style physical-lock.

    The Lockpicking Lawyer could get in, as could some of his equals, in mere minutes, but for the opportunistic-jackassery of normal robberies?

    You can’t EMP a non-digital-lock to kill it, can you?

    There isn’t a backdoor in the thing ( unless you multi-key it, but even then, with 21 iirc discs in the thing… it’s still locked )

    etc.

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is it possible to simulate a sensory deprivation tank in your bathtub?
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    5 months ago

    Float-tanks are this:

    Imagine a bigger-than-normal bathtub, so you can sprawl-out ( arms & lega akimbo ) without hitting the sides…

    the water-density is upped with brine, instead of plain water ( the float-tanks place I used to go to used sacks of “bitter salts” & the texture of the brine was damn-near oily, and DO NOT EVER shave shortly before going into a brine-soak, or you’re going to discover what stinging really means )

    also it is brought up to a person’s body-temperature, or close to it.

    When there’s no temperature-difference, & you’re floating sooo high that drowning is much less likely ( the Dead Sea is probably the prototype for all float-tanks, btw ), & you aren’t bumping into the walls, then you’re in blissful sensory-deprivation ( total dark, too, obviously, probably use a timer, limit it to 2h max ), & meditation can be awesome in these conditions.

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How did you acquire the first 1000 words?
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    5 months ago

    TTBOMK, there are 3 things which change-the-rules, significantly.

    1. Pimsleur. Get the Pimsleur app, get the all-languages subscription, & do 1 session per day.

    2. Flashcards, or Anki, to get the visual imprinted into your automatic-mind, for any language you are trying to learn

    Later…

    1. Tandem, where you find a speech-learning partner, you help other people learn your languages better, other people help you learn your target-language better.

    Begin with Pimsleur & with some yt videos.

    ( they have no Sanskrit, which is the one I want, unfortunately )

    Do well!

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•CUDIMM Standard Set to Make Desktop Memory a Bit Smarter and a Lot More RobustEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Computational-Fluid-Dynamics simulations are RAM-limited, iirc.

    I’m presuming many AI models are, too, since some of them require stupendous amounts of RAM, which no non-server machine would have.

    “diminishing returns” is what Intel’s “beloved” Celeron garbage was pushing.

    When I ran Memtest86+ ( or the other version, don’t remember ), & saw how insanely slow RAM was, compared with L2 or L3 cache, & then discovered how incredible the machine-upgrade going from SATA to NVMe was…

    Get the fastest NVMe & RAM you can: it puts your CPU where it should have been, all along, and that difference between a “normal” build vs an effective build is the misframing the whole industry has been establishing, for decades.

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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Series: Conservatives of Lemmy: What do you think has gone awry in modern society and how might it be constructively addressed?
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    5 months ago

    Multiple conflicting definitions for “Conservative”, for 1 thing…

    WHEN you tolerate the:

    • moneyarchists
    • legalists
    • class-position worshippers / monarchists
    • authority-worshippers

    to claim that they define conservatism,

    & us who’re committed to conserving

    • G-D given LivingValidity
    • G-D given LivingWorth
    • G-D given LivingPotential
    • G-D offered LivingOpportunity

    … people are therefore defined to be not “conservative”…

    then the framing has been highjacked.

    Integrity-conservatives are conservatives.

    LivingPotential conservatives are conservatives, who’re interested in competent education for all, instead of accommodating the obliteration of LivingPotential through shit “education”…

    LivingOpportunity conservatives are conservatives, who want wastefulness-of-LivingOpportunity to be eradicated, so that we can be inhabiting it, instead of allowint it to be eradicated/wasted…

    etc.

    I’d begin with the correct qualification of the version of “conservative” that a person is claiming.

    Corrupt privilege-conservatives ought be called such, & not let get-away-with claiming that the’re the rightful definers of “conservative”.

    This should go for all “conservative” & “liberal” identifications:

    Let people claim whatever variant they want, and then enforce accountability through matching their actual-behavior against their claims, with indestructible public accountability.

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