I learned the term sovcit. Interesting concept, it isn’t mine though.

You sound angry because there are multiple point of views for a thing and I don’t agree with your pov. I think i get the gist of your reply. But without arguments this discussion is bound to go nowhere.

You say I’m wrong by using adblocking. You didn’t tell why.

• depriving content creators of their revenue. Yes. One should think about supporting them through donation platforms like Patreon. They get money from direct marketing (holy…) - I’m fine with that (no JavaScript, no tracking, I can skip ahead since I got the message the first time).
• depriving YouTube of the money they need to run their CDN. Partially. Bandwidth usage, maintenance costs. Should I mention that youtube sells/ licenses servers to ISPs… So they get paid by me, indirectly.
• TOS I didn’t sign anything, there is no contract between me and YouTube. Or is there one?

Edit: this is not about me wanting you to take my view or wanting to be convinced by you. You may disagree or even despise me. That’s fine.
Everyone has to decide for himself what’s right and wrong and life with it. And maybe I have to rethink my decisions if there are aspects I didn’t take into account or if I lied to me to justify my decisions.

Umm… Maybe. Let’s take a look.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/267606/quarterly-revenue-of-google/:

In the first quarter of 2025, Google’s revenue amounted to over 89.52 billion U.S. dollars, up from the 79.97 billion U.S. dollars registered in the same quarter a year prior.

… They’ll survive.

I guess the content creators take the hit when users block ads or refuse to use premium.

Edit: your addendum is false. Technically YouTube freely delivers (answers http gets and posts), the user just refuses to watch all of their content or take part in the tracking. No broken windows or climbed fences.

Interesting idea. I would buy one.

Armed with fresh funding, IXI is now planning to ramp up R&D, expand its team of 50 people, and move into a new headquarters with a purpose-built lab and clean room facilities. The company plans to hold the first live demos of its glasses later this year.

But maybe I shouldn’t hold my breath, yet.

That’s good and all. But we should go deeper.

For instance, what’s the conversion factor to planck lengths per unperturbed ground-state hyperfine transition of the caesium 133 atom (second) or maybe even per Planck time unit?

At least you can choose not to use their services.

I guess a smart phone would be a luxury item in NK. So one could chose not to use one instead of being tracked?

In Germany the government and police use the word Quellentelekommunikationsüberwachung (telecommunication source surveillance) when they express their desire to have a Trojan on someone’s phone - to protect the children of course.

So the phenomenon is not unknown outside of NK.

Edit: fixed translation, thanks Muehe

Not so fast! The judgment isn’t final yet. Plus some trials are still pending. Also the CEO seems to be too sick for trial.

To be fair. There are trials. It is not great but it could be worse. Imagine people could be deported and sent to prison for alleged crimes. Or so…

Yes. Light receptors maybe, but eyes…

source

… and light-sensing organs called ocelli, which can sense the presence and absence of light. Additionally, some jellyfish have sensory structures called rhopalia, which contain receptors to detect light, chemicals and movement.

Oh wait! This is unexpected:

… One group of jellyfish, the cubozoan jellyfish, have complex eyes… with lenses, corneas and retinas in their rhopalia.

Huh. Wiki agrees:

box jellyfish are unique in the possession of true eyes, complete with retinas, corneas and lenses.[13] Their eyes are set in clusters at the ends of sensory structures called rhopalia

Whoa.

Good.

jellyfish eyedrops?

Why would they need eye drops? They are submerged in salty water.

Nun.

Most of the time these abstracts are fine. But I’m wary of it because of the cases where it doesn’t. :)

Yes. It’s normal human behaviour. There is a hype, then a bubble, then… normalization.

Multimedia, keychain, blue LEDs, curved LCD screens, LLMs,… One of them is way less useful than the others.; P

LLMs seem to be great for translations and… transcriptions?

No. That is orange Jesus.

Dr. E?

I want that. Where can I get it?

Thanks. From your answer I get that there is some philosophical basic knowledge which I’m missing.

If nothing else, now I have heard the name Heidegger in this context.:)

OK. That makes sense. It is more expensive (time, money) to reinvent a present technology, so it takes less effort to base further development on the currently available design.

The demise of just one Gen1 Starlink satellite produces about 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of aluminum oxide, a compound that eats away at the ozone layer. A new study finds these oxides have increased 8-fold between 2016 and 2022, and the recent surge is increasing the pollution even more.

More details would be nice. Does it really have a measurable effect on the ozone layer?

On the bright side, each reentry produces a beautiful fireball–and the odds are increasing that you’ll see one.

Huh.

Instead of speaking to you directly, and see your face and features, I relate to you through pure text… A whole lot of important factors disappear as I do.

Yes. That’s an aspect to keep in mind.

I think distorted is a bit negative. Communication with filters, yes. I see advantages and disadvantages. It really depends on the case. It’s technology-bound but not exclusive to the digital age - Letters existed before.

Advantages: asynchronity, time to think and reply. Use of different media. Less stressful because less information to process - there is a reason why video telephony isn’t mainstream. Less bias, for all you know I could be Gregor Samsa - you don’t see my gender, age, skin, clothing style. just my text. Disadvantages: misunderstandings can become more likely, since you dont know me. It’s more time consuming to talk through an issue… and so on.

See for example Heidegger, Ellul, Arendt.

Would you recommend one specific article or book?