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  • Paragone@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devWhy?
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    check your permissions, & then check, on google, what those perms allow…

    IF you’re in Android, not iPhone, THEN there is nothing you can do to block google from knowing your phone-number.

    Whether iPhone users truly have privacy from google…

    i wouldn’t bet much on that…


    As former mafia man ( Firenzese, or something ) said:

    once they’ve got enough all-pervading leverage on you, then you cannot win: the leverage locks.

    I’m misphrasing it, and he was speaking about the mob, but the principle is true, globally not only in the context he was speaking.

    All of surveillance-capitalism is rooted in putting the subjects/serfs in a panopticon, & never letting them out, squeezing them all until the individuals die, being replaced by new inmates, but the population-as-a-whole never would be tolerated to escape…

    Perfect industrialized parasitism.

    sorry about the bitterness: i’m an old geek & had some idea of what good could be done, world-wide, with tech…

    DarkTriad’s incorporated-feudalism proved it won, totally, easily.

    🙏


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    from what i’ve read, ALL email ( possible 0.000something tolerance/error ) goes through google’s mail-transfer-agents.

    If they want a copy of every email that goes across the internet, they’ve got the saturation-of-core-servers to have that.

    There simply isn’t any way to bypass that.


    on an irrelated note, i wish public key encryption had been normalized, & worked right…

    ( Snowden got stung by a misconfiguration, 1 time, & if geeks get stung, then it isn’t ready for normals )

    🙏




  • I’d actually want a “No Supremacists Allowed: including zionists, christofascists, islamists, gender-supremacists, class-supremacists, dharmic-religion-supremacists, no actively-butchering-out-country-separatist treason-enacters, etc” policy.

    Let the rabid-ideologues not have any place to be, among our civilization.

    Let them exist only in their own little country.

    I want civilization to live, & they’re working at replacing it with their feudalisms.

    To hell with 'em.

    ( anybody who thinks that zionists & Jews are somehow identical, please look up Ultra-Orthodox Jews, like Rabbi Elhanan Beck, & his wish that Netanyahu’s “Israel” not exist.

    He pointed-out that there are 2-million Jews, but there are 16-million who identify as Jews, but who don’t hold to Jewish religion, or who have Jewish ancestry … but who don’t hold to Jewish religion.

    He points out that Netanyahu doesn’t even bother eating kosher: Netanyahu isn’t Jewish, he’s zionist.

    He also identifies that outside of Netanyahu’s “Israel”, anyone who looks like they’re Orthodox Jew, probably is. However in that place, then you’ve got zionist-settlers who dress the same way, & there you can’t identify which side someone is on, by the way they dress, because the bad-guys are wearing the good-guys’ labels/clothing/etc.

    That problem, of enemies wearing the same labels/flags/words is a problem in all sorts of domains, not only Judaism… Christian vs “Christian”, e.g.

    Please look him up: I learned much about what’s really going on, there, from the interviews of him.

    In my religion, “the holy land” is internal though, so I"m not certain my concept of holy-land would map into Judaism, at all…

    One’s pure openness of heart, to LivingSpirit, that is one’s Holy Land.

    All geopolitical-lands are worldly-lands, not The Holy Land, in this view…

    Anyways, he seems a truly good guy, & you may recognize him by his ultra-Orthodox Jewish clothing, & his colorful Palestine button, which he wears gladly. )

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  • Thick borosilicate-glass ( no plastic-chemicals getting into my water, thermal-shock-proof, thick-enough to not be too fragile ),

    wide-mouth for easy-cleaning,

    fits on bike bottle-holder ( plastic one, not metal, to protect the bottle ),

    much taller than the short bike-bottles,

    cover to keep grime off the drinking-from lid,

    silicone or something seal(s),

    able to drink quickly from it at stop-lights.

    Probably acrylic for the lid-material, since it seems to be reasonably-robust & not too putting-weird-chemicals into my water.

    ( all this is because bike-bottles made of low-density poly-ethylene are absolutely vile with the chemicals they put into water, & poly-carbonate also has some chemical-seepage issues )

    Actually, I’d want a package-deal: larger-diameter bottle-holder & bottle-to-fit: I want water, not svelte-traditional-bottle-diameter…

    So, I was partly solving-the-wrong-problem at the beginning…

    That’s how learning happens, though: ad-hoc…

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  • AND THERE ARE ENTIRE PROGRAMMING-LANGUAGES WHICH HAVE HARDCODED GITHUB AS THEIR ROOT SOURCE!!

    rotflmao…

    Exactly the same as Canada presuming that the US was somehow “inherently” on our side, forever

    Non-autonomy bites one in the ass!

    It isn’t IF, it’s WHEN.

    Nobody’ll learn in-time, then, it looks like…

    ( both Haskell & Julia seem to have hardcoded it into many packages, or into the language+libraries themselves, to great extent…

    Try setting-up a project in either language, with no github-username…

    they deemed that to be universally a problem…

    codependency isn’t synergy: it is suckerpunching-in-the-making. )

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  • Read Douglas Hofstadter’s book “Godel Escher Bach” & be stunned at what high-intelligence can do…

    Him discussing anything with me would be like me trying to have intelligent-discussion with a waterlogged & frozen tree-stump.

    after understanding that finally I understood why they like MENSA, to find others to discuss-at-their-level-with.

    ( after my 2nd brain-injury, I was measured to qualify for them, but after my 3rd brain-injury, I can’t imagine being quick-enough to qualify for them, & don’t like exclusive-clubs anyways, as they nearly-always turn into class-based-validity clubs.

    Brain-injury’s taught me things that high-IQ wouldn’t have, though, so that’s cool. )

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  • Hoomin, do the experiment & use a good probiotic when you next get diarhea, take it with something mild, for them to eat.

    It works in about 2h.

    Evidence is worth more than industry-concerted-opinion, in evidence based medicine.

    & keep deeming me to be machiavellian disinformation, all you want.

    “Why would there be hundreds of FMT clinical trials around the world for curing chronic diseases if it were so easy with probiotics? Why would 60%+ of Americans have a chronic disease if you could simply cure them with probiotics?”

    Because it’s profitable to not-treat-the-problem, & keep selling symptomatic-“treatment”.

    Read “Money Driven Medicine” or “Doctored” which both seem to be on this fundamental-concept, if you want…

    Doctored is written by a physician, who left the city, to escape the sociopathy of medicine as practiced there.

    I don’t expect you to have the intellectual-integrity to do the experiment given what you wrote.

    & that is fine.

    Let the world be ruled by concerted-assertion, NOT by independently-verifiable-evidence-through-experiment.

    Downvote me, though, because I’m contradicting your truth, & you want to make your world better, OK?

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  • A language’s script MUST be engineered to communicate ALL the required-dimensions of that language.

    There is no exception to that, that I can imagine.

    IF tonal, THEN tonality MUST be indicated…

    simple principle, right?

    in the cases of the Semitic languages, which leave-out vowels, their intent was to lock-out outsiders.

    NOT-communicating with others, was part of the intent.

    & … well, that’s their right, but it’s created problems…

    Not just the obious-ones:

    When you force a population more-completely into memorization-paradigm, you make thinking-paradigm less-default

    ( the 2 modes compete for brain-resources: culturally, pick 1, & let the other be secondary )

    So, the Semitic languages with the left-out defaults pushed memorization more heavily,

    & … that affects/alters/shapes history!

    ALL language-choices have consequences…

    ( I’d actually want the ideal-culture to have at-least 5 different languages, simultaneously, by default:

    • Engineering / English or German
    • social-relativism / Japanese
    • Indigenous-perspective/understanding, / probably Maya?
    • scripture, origins / Sanskrit ( language-of-origins, not language-of-effects/symptoms, multiple people fluent in it have agreed )
    • programming / Haskell ( get people to think correctly! )
    • emotion / Arabic
    • math

    something like that…

    Just switch languages/modes, to communicate within that-language’s domain.

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  • Give it a miss: good.

    I didn’t recommend the book, I recommended the ingredients-lists in it, for the specific metabolisms/doshas.

    ( I’m presuming this is about Frawley’s “Ayurvedic Healing”: here in Notifications, & I’m trying to get through 800+ of the things tonight, that context isn’t visible. )

    It isn’t even relevant to me what else it says in the book!

    Why should I care?

    those ingredients-lists are MAGIC level of help/good!

    That’s it: that’s all I care about.

    Life-saving help, making healing significantly more-possible, more-easy, & more-comprehensible.

    But nobody, anywhere, needs to accept truth from a subset-of-a-book, if they contempt the book-as-a-whole.

    That’s how humans decide validity.

    & that’s fine.

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    1. showing a map of country-level gender-equality that was done by people who don’t count province-differences in value, by people who don’t consider all the understandings that psychologist Susan Pinker pointed-out in her “The Sexual Paradox”, & so ignore that in Scadinavia where gender-equal-validity is real employment is more gendered, not less,

    but that map was made by people who were doing the traditional measuring, not “are women in the work they want to be in”, but "are women & men equally-represented in the various employments.

    Pinker’s book make it absolutely-clear that that is mis-measuring/mis-representing the question.

    & having spoken with people from the Soviet Union in my life, Susan Pinker’s describing true fact.


    1. “Human cognition is not programming” you prohibit that there is any validity in NLP, then, good for you.

    Evidence backs that it’s real.

    Much excellent work shows that self-talk programs culture.

    The research that showed that if people don’t have a word for a concept, that concept tends to be not-discussable.

    There is a book “They have a word for it” which was on words the English didn’t have, but needed, because the concepts needed to be discussed.

    The not-differentiating-blue in languages which don’t have a word for blue, is also evidence.

    Yes, human-languages do program our thought to fit the languages we’re living-in/through.

    Deem that to be incompeten bullshit all you want: it’s fact.


    I’ve been told that to start a fight among Quebecois, ask them to answer, definitively, whether grapefruit are female or male, in their language.

    You contempt my accepting a bilingual-person’s experience as valid, AND you try pretending that I didn’t understand that the point was about language, not about citrus-fruit having mamallian-gonads.

    You’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel, eh?

    Your presuming that nobody takes language-gender seriously-enough to get honestly mad about, is … ludicrous.

    You obviously never met people who live that way, but that non-experience isn’t universal.


    Ad Hominem against Shlain … isn’t falsification of what he put in 1 book of his.

    I don’t care if someone said something, before a truth they spoke, or after it, that wasn’t true: that isn’t relevant to whether what they said, that was pertinent & true, was pertinent & true.

    I’ve known people who’ve lived in both Europe, Canada, & Latin America.

    Their life-experience backs what I said.


    Carve it in Eternity, Hoomin…

    I can’t respect anybody who plays your “intellectual” game.

    & you might as well downvote EVERYthing I’ve ever said, to make the world better for your-kind.

    While I don’t ever want to see the pseudo-thinking you shove, I’ll not downvote you, because I want people seeing your “proofs”.

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  • Thanks, but the medical-gaslighting my life was subjected to, is done.

    Absolute-healing or death, not their gaslighting “help”.

    I find it nearly-impossible to translate complex thoughtshapes into linear-English, & there is no language for expressing thoughshapes themselves.

    Also, having survived literal brain-decimation ( 1970’s-1980’s, epigenetic-disorder ) force-fighting my remaining-brain to work is also exhausting.

    I’d rather evolve & die-alone than compromise my life the way your desired “help” of me, would molest my life again.

    You probably don’t have the decades of experience with being as-forced-as-possible to just drug myself into being an acceptable psychiatric-zombie,

    instead of forcing my brain to improve.

    I spent literally years much-of-the-time-catatonic with brain-injury, & they wanted me warehoused & on-drugs for the rest of my life.

    Fuck that shit.

    Feel free to terminate my life, if my life, itself, its-own-way, offends you, though…

    Not that I expect you, whom I’m replying-to, would,

    but all the people who find “me”/my-life unacceptable/intolerable …

    honest breaking my life, instead of trying to enforce drugged “living”, being animate-but-not-ALIVE…

    …would be more authentic, more honest.

    & if anybody ever does smash my life to smithereens, no matter what reason they had for doing it, I don’t want them prosecuted for ANYthing.

    Because it’d be honest.

    & honesty is something that this-world has nearly-none of.

    Doctors doing all they can to enforce drugged-zombie condition on a life because brain-healing “isn’t real: belief in brain-healing is itself mental-illness!”

    Go read Dr. Norman Doidge’s books, & see that brain-healing’s real.

    Better to die clean, than to “live”, drugged, for the “mental illness” of having a literally-decimated brain.

    Brain-injury is brain-injury, not “illness-of-mind”.


    So, while you mean well,

    I’d rather you axe-murder my-life, than drug me the way they drugged me, because honest condition is better, for me.

    Cheers.

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  • There’s a difference between meltdown, inefficient/low explosion, & efficient high-explosion.

    The neutron-emission’s cascading only when the critical-mass is in small-enough a volume,

    & the heat it’s producing is making it blow-apart.

    ( I’ve seen video of 1 million watts of heat being produced by a 1-cubic-metre reactor-core, in a water-cooled reactor… the heat the reaction produces makes the fuel-rods incandescent, or at-least that’s the way it looked, in that video: it may have been Cherenkhov-radiation that I was seeing, or from gamma-rays being converted down to light or something… dunno… )

    the more efficient you want the fission-reaction to be, the longer you have to force it together, while it’s blowing-up.

    The explosives are required, for bombs, ttbomk.

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