feonixrift @feonixrift@hackers.town

@feonixrift @Mnemonic I did a podcast episode on password managers, if you're interested in that sort of thing. Theres video, audio, and transcript versions so you can consume in whatever way you prefer.

https://yoursecure.life/1

Like tbh, if someone had a tool that just sent me a digest of tags I follow in the fediverse, I'd use that a lot.

I find it ludicrous in the extreme that Amazon thinks their privacy policy stating that users must install the cameras so they can only view their own property has any meaning whatsoever. The vast majority of the cameras installed outside are obviously filming off of people's property, so they are facilitating mass surveillance of public spaces, knowingly and intentionally.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3038688/amazon-owned-ring-says-police-can-keep-and-share-surveillance-videos

I rarely comment on politics, but the US just passed H.R.3289 - Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 - text of the bill is here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3289/text

In the text of that bill is explicitly stated a reaffirmation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, done at Paris December 10, 1948. As in, when dealing with Hong Kong, China should follow that declaration.

The text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is here: https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html

Both those documents are worth reading, particularly the second - I'm a contract/consent ethicist so, I support the Declaration of Human Rights save where it suggests the breach of consent.

And it's in that context I figure it's worthwhile to assess to what degree one can observe violation of those claimed rights, rights which the US has just stated *someone else* should abide by, by the US.

The degree to which one can observe all signatories to the Universal Declaration of Human rights... ignore pieces of it at their convenience.

This doesn't''t mean I fully support the UDoH: There are elements of that document which breach consent. But I do hold that if one's going to lay claim to the thing, it might be better to lay claim in action as well as in word.

When someone wants credit for protecting rights, and cries out that other should do so as well, it's always a good plan to see what they're doing to their own.

*shrugs*

Which doesn't make *any* plea for, "Don't breach consent," Any less valid.

Image from page 418 of "Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Konigl.Preuss.Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin" (1855 - 1855)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/19744720163/

University Makes Bulletproof 3D Prints

Researchers at Rice University are studying 3D printing plastic structures that mimic tubulanes — theoretical nanotube structures predicted to have extraordinary strength. The result has been very strong and very c… https://hackaday.com/2019/11/20/university-makes-bulletproof-3d-prints/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1197351687759056903

Don't use "graduate students" when you mean "doctoral students."

It's removal of master's students and that's kind of crappy.

I’m only supposed to be my god.

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we used the corpses of dinosaurs to teach rocks how to do math and for some reason we decided the best way to utilize this is to make a global network of thinking rocks that make people sad

Does anyone know of a textbook or similar resource on designing catalysts for organic reactions (most likely metal-based, not enzymatic)? ... might need a prerequisite in metal coordination chemistry, so that too if you know of one.

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(No, seriously. I have some very interesting friends.)
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