paleBlue @paleBlue@social.cleverlibre.org

Every discussion on politics that I have ever been a part of ultimately boils down to this one question...

#Calligraphy #politics #latin #writing #handwriting #philosophy #government #liberty #freedom

@pixelfed Hi there! As a #blind screen reader user, I would really appreciate it if you'd take the time to #captionyourimages as it would really help with #accessibility
And it's not just people like me who appreciate them either, it's users on low bandwidth or metered connections who don't want to load the full res picture, those with #autism who sometimes find the context helpful, the huge percentage of those with preexisting visual impairments [#VI] which includes many people over 55 ETC.
It doesn't have to be anything incredibly detailed or artfully written, but something is nearly always better than nothing. I believe that their is even an option to automatically #OCR images now which should give you a head start.

Something to contemplate

The audience award of this year's #BigBrotherAwards goes to … #Doctolib for their appointment scheduling portal for medical doctors which leaks personal information to third parties, breaking patient–doctor confidentiality.
Full laudation: https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/health-doctolib

It is closely followed by #Google who received the award in the new #WhatMakesMeReallyAngry category for recently exposed large-scale manipulations of the Internet #adtech market, for starving creators and the media, and for dispossessing our digital personalities.
Full laudation: https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/what-really-makes-me-angry-google
#BBA21

Antiguo, pero hipnotizante.

The CSS on this article post is absolutely beautiful in its simplicity. I love simple CSS that still is feature rich and doesnt look like a plain text dump. This is lovely!

https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/GTD/index.html

Great biodiversity project!

Restor https://restor.eco, a science-based open data platform, bringing transparency and ecological insights to restoration efforts around the world.

@TWCrowther@twitter.com's TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_crowther_the_global_movement_to_restore_nature_s_biodiversity
Interview by @TEDchris@twitter.com: https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/can-planting-trees-really-stop-climate-change-thomas/id1437306870?i=1000524907297

"Fact."

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Bookmarked: Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub, the pirated-papers website | Science | AAAS https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/twitter-shuts-down-account-sci-hub-pirated-papers-website Move comes as publishers sue in India to block public access

I started compiling my list of where to buy DRM-free ebooks in 2013.

Today, it includes 279 bookshops and was last updated on 17th of January, 2021.

Break free from the monopolies, and find your next favourite bookshop, ebook or author today!

http://Libreture.com/bookshops

This is accurate.

#Science

More fresh *NEW WORK* klaxon. This time, probably one of the best hikes I did on the Isle of Skye. This is Camasunary Bay. ❤️

Loads more photos here https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2020/11/8/camasunary-isle-of-skye-autumn 👍

#landscape #nature #travel #photography #photo #photographie #autumn #fall #skye #isleofskye #scotland #uk #britain

"These companies as they exist today have #monopoly power. Some need to be broken up. All need to be properly regulated and held accountable," said Cicilline, adding that #antitrust laws written a century ago need to be updated for the digital age.
"When these laws were written, the monopolists were men named Rockefeller and Carnegie," he said. "Today the men are named Zuckerberg, Cook, Pichai and Bezos".
[Washington - 07 2020]

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/30/896952403/4-key-takeaways-from-washingtons-big-tech-hearing-on-monopoly-power

#DeGoogle #ABC #avoidbigcorporations

Evolution always seeks to create a population such that its goal is the proliferation of that species in the short term (in evolutionary terms) with no regard for the future.

Moral conscience is only beneficial to a species when the species exists globally such that there are little or no free resources. Only then is the greater good more beneficial to the survival of the species than the individual or the good of the pack/tribe over another pack/tribe.

However on the flip side intellectual evolution is an advantage even in very sparse populations with plentiful resources. Greater intelligence means you can harvest and utilize those resources more quickly and put them to use growing your family or tribe as well as defending it.

As such due to the nature of evolution moral evolution is doomed to always lag considerably behind intelligent evolution. Furthermore since evolution is, in human life span terms, a very slow process, it isnt something that should be expected to catch up until many generations, and a lot of death has passed first. Due to the nature of intelligence to enable us to find more effective ways of killing ourselves this can inevitably lead to a species destroying itself long before its moral evolution has a chance to balance the equation.

It is this reason that many scientists speculate why we dont see very many radio signals in space indicating alien intelligent life, the theory goes that the very nature of evolution is such that life will almost inevitably destroy itself once it reaches the intellectual singularity before it has a chance to become interstellar and as such simply doesn't have a very long time span where it exists in a state where it gives off radio waves.

Sadly we dont appear as though we are going to be much different in that regard.

#science #evolution #seti #morality #ethics

Help! From anyone interested in English, Physics, Math, or Science.

I have written a rather massive article in the hopes of teaching people with mid-level knowledge in electronics about the idea of Duals in mathematics, how that applies to circuits and the various types of circuit duals that exist

I also include a great deal of detail in the end about one very obscure and rarely studied circuit dual called the magnetic circuit dual, it is a circuit, like a magnetic circuit, but instead of current being the flow of electrons, it is the flow of a magnetic field through wires made of iron instead of copper.

I even touch on briefly how one can extract energy from permanent magnets and other details most people arent very familiar with.

The problem is the article is massive and I really could use some eyes on it. Whether its just to try to help me catch english mistakes, or if your not that experienced perhaps tell me the parts that are confusing, as I would like this to be accessible to people who may not be scientists and only know entry level electronics or science. any feedback from anyone at any level would be highly appreciated.

Keep in mind I couldn't find many good sources laying out the equations for magnetic circuits very clearly so I had to derive a lot of the equations myself, though the concept is well established as fact and many peer-reviewed papers have been written on it. But bear in mind there may be minor errors in my math as well, so that too needs some criticism, though the math should be fairly close to correct.

Anyway any input from anyone would be much appreciated.

The draft of the article can be found on the beta site for my blog, here is a direct link:

http://beta.jeffreyfreeman.me/an-indepth-look-at-duals-and-their-circuits/

Similarly if you find any mistakes you can message me here, or you can leave a merge request on the repo for the article, here is the direct link to the markdown file in the source for my blog:

https://git.qoto.org/freemo/freemo-site-beta/-/blob/master/source/articles/2020-09-22-an-indepth-look-at-duals-and-their-circuits.html.md

It is much prefered that if you have specific edits like english or math you do it as a pull request as it can be a huge pain for me to hunt down the specific part of the text you are referring to if you point out mistakes as replies here. However if your unwilling to do a merge request please still ping me here as I'd rather know than to just let it go unnoticed.

Anyone who helps I will add a thank you with your name and a link to your own site at the bottom of the article if you wish, this might help draw some traffic to your own site.

#Electronics #EE ##RF #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #Science #Physics #Math #Maths #Mathematics #English

@freemo i like that it is a bytecode to opencl compiler. i think many interesting things can be done by repurposing/transforming existing bytecodes. like the many languages which use the jvm.

my project back then included parsing a (simple) input language, generating cuda kernels for it. i've never really got it to work properly though.
i sometimes think about building something like it as side project, but now i haven't got that much spare time anymore. but it's always nagging me that it never got really finished :D