“Congratulations everyone! We’ve proved without a doubt that the earth is flat. What should we do next?”

Well, that is nightmare-inducing.

The most reliable system (against natural causes, political, and financial strife, as well as future-proofing) would be local microgeneration.

This sounds like a huge boondoggle.

So… Hyundai Automotive signed a deal with Hyundai Electric to supply them with electricity.

🤔

$10 billion in damages.

Makes no sense.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republican-election-denier-tina-peters-sentenced-to-9-years-in-prison-for-voting-data-scheme

If only there was an example of an official who tried this.

This is pretty sad.

I have a number of elderly relatives. The one thing I keep telling them is if they ever get approached, to contact their kids, or check with another family member before responding. So far, there haven’t been any problems.

But I heard an in-law’s parents in a different state lost a big chunk of money to one of these scams and may now lose their home.

Totally agree.

Builders care about the nuts and bolts of a building. Most people just care about whether they can get a decent hot shower, how cold it gets inside at night, or whether the smoke alarm goes off every time they fry onions.

The killer feature of decentralization, I suspect, does not lie in a singular interaction with a user, but (as Mike notes) in harnessing the power of the distributed group to do something amazing.

Not a WP dev. Just a (techie) user.

This whole thing seems so unnecessary. FOSS devs would love to get a fraction of the goodwill being squandered here.

He has a chance to reach the all-important under-25 demographic.

All the deserved ribbing aside, if you had to design a removable, R/W, high-capacity, environmentally tolerant, secure, fault-tolerant, mission critical storage system that could last 25 years, starting NOW…

What would you pick?

That’s a tough one, even if you design future hardware upgrades into the system.

Apple and Google can fix the problem. Apps are required to ask for permission to access location information. Most of the time, it’s for tracking and analytics, not anything related to the app’s functionality. That’s the data that is leaking to these data brokers.

In those cases, if asked, user can say no, but apps keep haranguing you until you capitulate.

Instead, the OS could add a button that says: “Yes, but randomize.” After that, location data is returned as normal, but from totally random locations nearby. They could even spoof the data clustering algorithms and just pick some rando location and keep showing returns to them, or just trade the data from one random phone for another every N days.

You do this enough and the data will become polluted enough to become useless.

I remember when self-reported online polls were considered dirty and useless.

Oh, how the times have changed.

It was the window seal.

I’m feeling attacked.

Read the book. Great story. Was curious why they decided to roll up the program at the end and blow their own cover. Book mentioned it was getting too popular, but that didn’t sound right.

Hopefully, the talk will explain it a little better. Bookmarked to watch.

Was reading an article about creation of a large public beach. It only sat 2ft above sea level and often washed over in high tide. The developers bulldozed sand from the sea side to bring it up to 12ft. But they had big troubles with wind blowing the sand inland. It almost scuttled the whole project.

So they planted hardy native grass that grew roots toward the water. It mitigated the dust problem.

Wonder if a similar thing can be done with native desert vegetation to solve this problem.

Have relatives out there. Paddling is a way of life. The guys in the picture probably all go out on the weekends, if not daily.