TL;DR: Meta is beta testing advanced AI features on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. Beta testers in the US can opt-in for early access to features like camera aided visual translation/summarization of text and asking any questions related to the image or topic within a certain period of time. Meta plans to make it available to...
Dally, who works part-time at the public library, says her well is currently 15 feet deep, a fraction of some of her neighbours’ which have a depth of 500 feet.
Agreed. There’s a huge difference between a shallow well and a drilled well though; I know one person who had to switch around 15 years ago, for similar reasons, and they had to go down 740 feet to hit water — which turned out to be high in Boron so it wasn’t potable without filtering.
Anything in the tens of feet deep is just capturing ground runoff or is sitting on top of an artesian well. In a drought, that water either doesn’t exist in the first place, or is going to drop significantly lower with less pressure. Depending solely on surface water means your well WILL go dry somewhat regularly.
This person hasn’t lived there very long, and obviously didn’t know this about shallow wells.
Now as you point out, digging a deep well is no guarantee; there’s a high likelihood you’re tapping into the same aquifer as your neighbours, and so all it takes is one person to pump it down, and everyone loses their water for weeks until it fills back up.
Deep wells have the benefit that it takes a multi year drought to impact them significantly—that, or an increase in draw from the community. As long as everyone is being responsible and new wells are limited, a couple of years of drought will only have a minimal effect as the water table generally accumulates water from the surrounding rock, not just water that drained from the surface that year.
A newly discovered trade-off in the way time-keeping devices operate on a fundamental level could set a hard limit on the performance of large-scale quantum computers, according to researchers from the Vienna University of Technology.
This is a really interesting point; I tried flipping it on its head and the reasoning became even more obvious:
My thought was: “surely we can take advantage of relativistic effects to keep time at a slower pace locally but have it take a short enough time in the referent timeframe.” But in this case, there is a very obvious floor we’re working with: absolute zero. Because making things go relatively faster means making the other things go comparatively slower, and 0 is as slow as you can go. If subatomic particles have no movement, there’s nothing to measure, literally.
As a result, there is a very specific bound on timekeeping measurements no matter how you try to finesse things, with the amount of energy required to make minor improvements ramping up exponentially as that floor is approached.
In order to get around this, we’d have to come up with a different way to do error correction and results measurement, and I’m not sure there is one.
The mail service has to be affordable (around 10 euros per year). Tuta was an option but their plans are somewhat overpriced for me. Anyone using their (Tuta) free plan? How is it?
It’s sad to me that the answer can’t be “the one you run yourself.”
There’s theoretically no reason why everyone couldn’t run their own mail service who had a domain name. But with spam practices being what they are, self-hosted mail will get binned in most places.
Airline industry insiders say passengers have become carried away with carry-on baggage, leading to costly delays. That’s prompting calls for changes to how airplanes charge for baggage, with some discount airlines like Sunwing and Spirit already beginning to flip the fee structure so passengers pay for the privilege of...
I don’t get it — the planes haven’t changed size and the regulations for what you can carry on haven’t changed. So how come we’re seeing an increase in carry on baggage? Are they trying to squeeze more people on the planes than they were designed for?
I can see it from both sides. My gmail accounts (regular and throwaway) were roughly my fourth generation email addresses. I got my first email address in 1990. It was tied directly to an educational institution. When I switched institutions, I switched email addresses, and around that time got an ISP email address as well. Non-educational emails went to my ISP address and anything educational related went to my new edu address; everyone in edu circles knew to switch addresses because my .plan file associated with my old account advised them it was closed and what my new one was.
Eventually, I realized that neither my ISP nor edu institution would be with me forever, so I switched everything over to an email redirect service with Yahoo and Hotmail throwaway addresses for stuff that needed an account that was neither professional nor personal.
Then along came Google, Yahoo imploded, Hotmail got bought by Microsoft, and my email redirect service went out of business as the dot com bubble burst.
Oh, and I changed jobs which required moving which meant switching ISPs.
So GMail was a lifeline because I set all my other accounts to both forward to gmail AND set autoresponders informing the sender of my new address.
Of course, that happened 19 years ago. Back then, there were no SMS authentications, no real life accounts tied irrevocably to an email address. My eBay and PayPal accounts just needed an address update, and pretty much everyone else hadn’t got to the point where email address was even an option on a registration form.
That said, I recently did some email address shuffling, and all the accounts that really matter got switched relatively painlessly; I have a password manager, and part of changing addresses involves going through every entry in my password manager (which is already helpfully divided into personal, professional and throwaway) to update addresses as appropriate.
Everyone else gets the same autorespond and redirect treatment for a year. After that, anyone I’ve missed will have to locate me via someone else.
Of course, I’ve also maintained a PGP key since 1993 that has my chain of email addresses associated with it, so anyone who knows my key can just look up my current email address. It’s really the only thing I use that key for anymore. But there’s a very limited set of people that would even think to look me up by PGP, or even save a copy of my public key and remember the key exchange I use.
I disagree. Homeowners of multi-million-dollar properties have something others really want — property — but they also usually don’t actually OWN the property; they have mortgages.
And if they sold their property, some of them would be wealthy, but they’d also be homeless. And as soon as they attempted to buy another property (or even rent), they’d be back to having very limited disposable income.
So yeah; they’re still middle class. Someone else is holding the purse strings; the purse is just bigger.
Yeah; I agree with that point, but not how they couched it — those people are still middle class.
The real kicker is that all the people who currently don’t own a home and don’t have the cash… are lower class. Despite thinking of themselves as middle class.
It kinda sorta does, but even the article body flip flops between “homeowner” and “owner of $3.2mil property” and likewise between “landlord” and “airbnb magnate”. The headline implies that landowners don’t understand the plight of the renter, and asserts that the landowner isn’t middle class anymore.
While there are good points in there, the headline misses the point that the “wealthy” don’t need to work, and can be independently wealthy purely through extracting rent from use of what they own.
Most property-rich householders aren’t there; their equity isn’t enough to sustain them.
There’s no denying the gap between renters and landholders. Renters are way worse off. But those renting out a carriage house or basement suite to be able to make the mortgage payments aren’t in the same class as the likes of Dorset Realty and those who own them.
Google previously proposed putting restrictions on the functionality of this API for security reasons, potentially impacting the effectiveness of ad-blockers across all Chromium-based browsers including Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
Think antitrust may have had something to do with their change of heart?
The laughability of preventing content filtering for security reasons should have been so obvious that not even Google could argue that one with a straight face.
I don’t recommend buying a nothing phone because of iMessage integration. It’s unlikely to last long, and they obviously haven’t explained how they’re pulling it off while not breaking E2E encryption and account privacy.
Ah; that explains it; I have multiple accounts cross-linked as recovery accounts. Sounds like I’ll be fine as long as I don’t run afoul of their “inactive” rules.
Are you sure? I’ve had accounts before where only signing in to the official web UI or client counted (because that’s where they showed ads and grabbed telemetry).
So while WE would consider using third party clients to be signing in, THEY may define it differently.
Not having a social life and limiting your social life aren’t the same thing.
I’ve got multiple group chats going on Signal with people I spend time with in real life. I exchange emails and texts with people all day long, and spend time with my friends locally, as well as check in regularly with friends and family that aren’t local.
My social life is rather full, in fact.
And I’ve never had an account with a Meta property.
So don’t worry about limiting your social life, when there’s more opportunities to be actually social with people than there are hours in the day.
In a way, Instagram is a great filter for me. I tend to socialize with a lot of people from kids to the elderly. The type of Instagram-first people are exactly the ones I don’t want to spend much of my time on. People with common interests and the ability to relate to others of various generations are the type of people I want to spend time with, and they tend to show up in the same circles I hang out in.
When you’re dealing with a full set of more than 7.6 billion people, those sidelining people who don’t follow them on Instagram is a vanishingly small portion, and worth the privacy.
The misinformation being that the destruction was all caused by Hamas and the victims were all Jewish citizens at the hands of Hamas.
While there is coverage of the Israeli response in Gaza, there’s still not much coverage that a lot of the death and destruction during the original attack was actually by IDF soldiers with no defined targets responding to an invisible threat.
This doesn’t mean that Hamas wasn’t killing people too, but their main goal seemed to be to break out and take hostages, not break out and kill anyone they saw.
I tend to think of it more that truth is what actually transpires, and my reality is a story I tell myself to approximate that truth.
The story I tell myself is 99% based on the stories told me by those around me, assuming they’re real and not just another part of my own narrative of invented inside my consciousness.
That last 1% is a mix of sensory experience, chemistry and randomness.
The RCMP has rejected 86 per cent of the allegations it’s reviewed so far against a controversial unit created to police resource protests in the Fairy Creek watershed in British Columbia, an analysis by CBC’s The Fifth Estate has found.
Considering the number of allegations against the unit, the RCMP saying that 12% were valid is rather troubling. Which 12% were valid and what corrective measures were taken?
The less charitable part of me thinks that it was intentional to send a message that putting yourself in a riskier situation is just going to increase the chance you get harmed because the police are going to take the exact same actions. A way to deter people attempting it again in the future.
Or it could be that this was becoming so commonplace to the police that they had disassociated the risk of harm from the action they took over and over again.
In any case, some retraining and possible rotation is obviously needed.
I know for a fact that I have at least 3 different shadow profiles about me being bought and sold on the Internet. They all have different inaccurate information about me. Because I don’t have a direct relationship with the brokers, any attempt by me to correct or remove one of the profiles would just result in yet another profile.
We need global legislation to make it illegal to hold PII on an individual without notifying them of the fact annually. Failure to do so would have GDPR level consequences.
Concluding her post, the Academy Award winner called for a ceasefire, writing: "Palestinian and Israeli lives—and the lives of all people globally—matter equally." "Anything that can prevent civilian casualties and save lives most be done," she said....
Oh, but they don’t just load jquery themselves… for each site “feature” they pull dynamically from a different CDN, loading the same code over and over again to call different functions.
And all it takes is for ONE of their CDNs to get poisoned and suddenly they’re serving malware.
hello everyone, I have a question that might turn out to be even stupid but I can’t find an answer, I am approaching the world of privacy and anonymity, the question is, even if I have an old laptop where previously there was windows and no methods were used to protect the identity is the pc still considered valid? because if...
The MAC address is a code on each of your networking chips that allows it to talk with local networking equipment. This means its only legitimate use is to be broadcast on your local network (or in the local broadcasts for WiFi).
However, it is also often part of the UUID generated by some software and sent to all sorts of online places.
The good news about this is that there are other components of the UUID that are easier to change that will change that ID.
And you can always software mask your MAC IDs if you’re running Linux. This enables your device to pretend the various MACs are numbers of your choosing.
I was thinking about how fire guns are very loud and how its worst in close environments (I had never shot a gun cuz im not american) and I remembered the Mirror room scene in John Wick Chapter 2....
I wonder if the discharge of a regular firearm would shatter movie glass — it’s essentially sheets of sugar, designed to crumble easily without sharp edges. Doesn’t take much force to break it and it’s not as flexible as real glass.
Death by opioids happens because you need an ever increasing dose to achieve the same effect. Eventually the dose required is higher than what’s needed to kill you.
People turn to black market opioids because they’re often cheaper than prescription, and while the dose just keeps going up, so does the price, unless you can find a cheaper supplier.
Cheaper suppliers are usually cheaper because they don’t have the same quality control, which again leads to accidental overdose or poisoning.
Because alcohol isn’t directly addictive and the same concentration will usually have the same effect per body mass, it doesn’t carry these issues despite overdoses still being deadly.
Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses will get smarter soon (mixed-news.com)
TL;DR: Meta is beta testing advanced AI features on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. Beta testers in the US can opt-in for early access to features like camera aided visual translation/summarization of text and asking any questions related to the image or topic within a certain period of time. Meta plans to make it available to...
‘People are confused’: Survey suggests Canadians need education on Charter rights (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
A residential drinking well in northern B.C. has run dry, prompting concerns amid unprecedented drought (www.cbc.ca)
US funding for Ukraine set to run out by end of the year, White House warns (www.ft.com)
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Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers (www.sciencealert.com)
A newly discovered trade-off in the way time-keeping devices operate on a fundamental level could set a hard limit on the performance of large-scale quantum computers, according to researchers from the Vienna University of Technology.
What are some good private email service?
The mail service has to be affordable (around 10 euros per year). Tuta was an option but their plans are somewhat overpriced for me. Anyone using their (Tuta) free plan? How is it?
Finding room for carry-on baggage has become 'the Hunger Games' of air travel, analyst says (www.cbc.ca)
Airline industry insiders say passengers have become carried away with carry-on baggage, leading to costly delays. That’s prompting calls for changes to how airplanes charge for baggage, with some discount airlines like Sunwing and Spirit already beginning to flip the fee structure so passengers pay for the privilege of...
Canada's inflation rate slows to 3.1% (www.cbc.ca)
Is gmail the easiest Google service to replace or what?
Gmail is an email service. Like the fediverse, email is federated....
Homeowners Refuse to Accept the Awkward Truth: They’re Rich - Owners of the multi-million-dollar properties still see themselves as middle class, a warped self-image that has a big impact on renters (thewalrus.ca)
BC Is Clearing the Barriers for Skilled Foreign Workers | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)
Surrey highway closing for 24 hours for rail maintenance, Pattullo Bridge work (bc.ctvnews.ca)
Nothing pulls its iMessage app from the Play Store following privacy disaster (www.androidpolice.com)
Metro Vancouver residents slapped with $166K in fines for defying water restrictions (www.cbc.ca)
Google’s revised Chrome extension standard loosens restrictions on ad blockers - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Nothing Chats brings iMessage compatibility to Android - GSMArena.com news (www.gsmarena.com)
Google Announces to Delete Inactive Accounts, All You Need to Know (samrome58.substack.com)
Google decides to delete any account that has two years of inactivity. See how they decide to go about it.
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China has grown more new forest cover than any nation on Earth (media.mas.to)
visualcapitalist.com/mapped-30-years-of-deforesta…
Report: 7 October testimonies strike major blow to Israeli narrative (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Land of the Rule (files.mastodon.social)
I lose mine last month :( (telegra.ph)
I've unfortunately made this mistake at Costco of all places. (startrek.website)
I always believe what the people around me believe. Is that truth or what?
How do companies know if I use cracked software or assets for my personal gig?
For context, I want to run a small personal gig (offering stuff on Patreon). Nothing too fancy....
Do you prefer... part 2 (i.imgflip.com)
RCMP rejects majority of complaints it's reviewed against B.C. unit that polices resource protests (www.cbc.ca)
The RCMP has rejected 86 per cent of the allegations it’s reviewed so far against a controversial unit created to police resource protests in the Fairy Creek watershed in British Columbia, an analysis by CBC’s The Fifth Estate has found.
YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android)
Facebook Finally Puts a Price on Privacy: It’s $10 a Month (www.wired.com)
Angelina Jolie is losing fans over Israel-Gaza comment (www.newsweek.com)
Concluding her post, the Academy Award winner called for a ceasefire, writing: "Palestinian and Israeli lives—and the lives of all people globally—matter equally." "Anything that can prevent civilian casualties and save lives most be done," she said....
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privacy concerning (I'm a noob in this field)
hello everyone, I have a question that might turn out to be even stupid but I can’t find an answer, I am approaching the world of privacy and anonymity, the question is, even if I have an old laptop where previously there was windows and no methods were used to protect the identity is the pc still considered valid? because if...
Can a gun break glass with just sounds alone?
I was thinking about how fire guns are very loud and how its worst in close environments (I had never shot a gun cuz im not american) and I remembered the Mirror room scene in John Wick Chapter 2....
Why not just let people use opioids? It's cheap. People like it. Arguably healthier than weed, alcohol or tobacco. Addiction isn't an issue if you can stay supplied.
Canada needs a new political party... What is its platform?
I think a majority of Canadians are kind, hardworking, and want what’s best for their families, friends, neighbours, and the country....