Having red lights transition to yellow before switching to green is such an obvious optimization, I don't know why every country hasn't adopted it as the standard.
That awkward moment when you're just zoning out in a public place and someone turns their head toward you.
Your eyes instinctively jump to the movement.
Your eyes lock with their eyes.
You have a sudden moment of panic that from the other person's perspective, you may have been staring at them.
So you quickly avert your eyes in shame and go back to zoning out.
GOTO 1
Deepfake audio and video is already impressively accurate. Just needs to be optimized to render in realtime.
Once an attacker can train an LLM to act like a target and respond to conversation in realtime, it's game over.
The balkanization of social media networks along political and cultural lines is a net negative for humanity and quality of discourse. It will only contribute to the acceleration of polarization.
My fav part is how the zcash team handwaved away my points by saying that light wallet users were unaffected.
AKA "just accept a weaker security model and it's fine."
Did you know that Mastodon "private" messages aren't private? Aside from not being end-to-end encrypted (and thus readable by instance administrators), they CC anyone @-mentioned ANYWHERE in the body of the message (not just those listed at the start).
Also, if you "turn off" private messages, anyone can still send them to you. They're just silently ignored by your client, without warning to the sender.
Basically, Mastodon private messages are a dumpster fire.
Urban living is unsustainable without a massive network of supporting infrastructure.
If the supply chains break down, the cities will fall first, in a matter of weeks.
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Can't believe I've had a Nintendo Switch for several years and never thought to check if it could run Neo Geo games.
Looks like I'll be playing a lot of Metal Slug on my upcoming international flights!
Most of my pull requests to Bitcoin Core tend to be about 10 lines of code, though between my initial PR and the final merged commit, almost every line tend to get rewritten as a result of feedback from reviewers. 😬
Ask ChatGPT "What is" a penis, a clitoris, a g spot, a labia, a scrotum, a vulva, etc. Every anatomical term relating to a man results in an answer, and every term relating to a woman yields an answer that is quickly replaced with "this content may violate our content policy."
If you ask "what is sex?" you get a response. If you ask "what is gay sex?" you get a content violation.
I'm generally a fan of the believability of The Walking Dead universe, but whoever decided that decapitated zombie heads should still make raspy sounds sure screwed up.
It's always a nice added bonus when you're doing research and writing scripts to pull data from your node and you end up finding a bug in Bitcoin Core you can fix.
Just realized I've been traveling for months on multiple domestic and international flights with a straight punch tool in my backpack.
I'm pretty sure TSA would frown on that...
Every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them.
Every new dog who comes into my life gifts me with a piece of their heart.
If I live long enough, my heart will be 100% dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are.
I have a friend who can no longer do air travel without being harrassed by security and border control.
Why? He has a pretty common name, and it just so happens that one of the January 6 rioters who was arrested for attacking police has the same name.
Now he's screwed despite doing nothing wrong.
"When we exported 5,000 pages of PGP source code in a book through MIT Press in the 90s, we ran into some issues.
It turns out it's very hard to scan C source code via OCR. So what did we do? We wrote software that was specifically designed for OCR scanning of C source code and published it at the beginning of the book as a bootstrapping mechanism.
It was shortly after this point that I received word that the intelligence agencies had realized they had lost."
- Phil Zimmermann
Just running a node is like seeding a torrent. All you're really doing is sharing blockchain data.
Running a node to verify the transactions you send and receive is actually enforcing rules upon your money and thus participating in the organic bottom-up governance process of the network.
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