You might be interested in Richard Stallman's method of browsing the web:
> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it. [0]
I know you wanted something other than lynx, but you could do this with EWW (Emacs web browser or any graphical browser, provided that your proxy wget dropped the images.
It's an old military dream; Ithacus [0] was a 1966 concept for a vertical take-off, vertical landing troop transport rocket that could put 1200 soldiers plus materiel anywhere in the world in an hour. Issues that others have brought up here (like the vehicle being mistaken for a nuclear missile) were brought up then, and the obvious flaws killed the project.
As [0] points out, and as I vividly recall from the antiquated books of my childhood, a similar concept was prominent in the 1979 Usborne Book of the Future. The idea of being able to put boots on the ground anywhere within an hour is probably still a military dream somewhere, although I don't think US doctrine has a place for that right now, since achieving air supremacy over the theater, a prerequisite to boots on the ground, would probably take longer than an hour.
Don’t need air supremacy if the boots are attached to ground drones. We’re not far off from a starship equivalent deploying a cloud of ground and air drones, some of which could help effect the air supremacy required. Like rapid dragon but more variations of deployed materiel and…a lot more rapid.
You do want control of the airspace if you want the operation to be affordable, otherwise, you're pouring resources into a drone grinder (to mix metaphors).
As I (not a doctor) understand it, the lack of low frequency noise, which the ANC headphones cut out, tricks your ear into thinking that it’s blocked and the pressure is wrong. There is no actual pressure issue, but that signal gets sent to the brain because of the sudden lack of low frequency noise.
> Art that can’t even try to offend is barely art.
I do not believe that offense is a necessary or sufficient component of art. If I raise my middle finger at someone, that is not art, but rather offense. If I view Botticelli's Primavera, I'm looking at art, and I detect no intent to offend, nor do I take offense.
There is certainly room for offense within art: the iambic poetry of Archilochus and Hipponax manages to blend aesthetic beauty with ardent invective. But I do not think that art needs or is defined by offense. Offense is accidental to art as a concept.
>Primavera (Italian pronunciation: [primaˈvɛːra], meaning "Spring") is a large panel painting in tempera paint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli made in the late 1470s or early 1480s (datings vary). It has been described as "one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the world",[1] and also "one of the most popular paintings in Western art".[2]
Not in the least. Controversy doesn't mean offense. The controversies around the painting relate to its interpretation, to who the model for the main figure might be, to the reasons for the number of variety of plants in the painting... none of which offer offense.
Controversy and debate do not have to be offensive or even acrimonious, and controversies can arise around a subject like a painting without arising because of any offense given in the painting.
Many cultures would regard the content of the painting to be inappropriate though.
Offense doesn't need to mean that it's meant to shock.
I suspect most mainstream AI art generators would refuse to replicate it. Doing so would "offend" the original art.
But a human artist could, perhaps a talented woman flips the gender.
Humans will always be able to challenge us in ways AIs can't.
At home and around close friends I often speak in AAVE. It's apart of my culture and at a core level, me.
When an AI rap generator decides it can't do AAVE, it's saying the very identity that created rap in the first place is offense. I don't expect a masterpiece like Illmatic, but I've yet to hear anything decent from an AI rap generator.
> The integration essentially was a bridge between the Unity game engine and the VLC multimedia engine, allowing to build your own media-player based on VLC technology in Unity-based games.
This is pretty nice: thanks for including polytonic Greek and macrons over Latin vowels including over y. I especially love how the breathing marks and accents look together over initial vowels in Greek, and I love zeta (ζ) and xi (ξ) in this font.
Might I make a few specific suggestions:
- allow combining breve over Latin y as well: sometimes that's handy for indicating contrast
- check the height of stacking diacritical marks: a perispomenos tonos or circumflex accent over a breathing mark over a vowel (like in εἶναι eĩnai) ends up stacking up tall enough to intersect with descenders (like on ζ zeta) from the line above
- the circumflex over alpha (ᾶ) looks really good, because it follows the curve of the alpha itself, but circumflex over eta (ῆ) looks off-center, because it left-aligns to the ear on the left of eta. The same could be said for the iota subscript (ᾳῃῳ): it looks great under alpha and omega, but it's a bit awkward under eta because of how far to the left it is.
- have you considered adding a variation for the Porsonic or single-curve circumflex?
> Sadly, Clippy failed to successfully load the model. This could be an issue with Clippy itself, the selected model, or your system. You can report this error at github.com/felixrieseberg/clippy/issues. The error was:
I read through the previous discussions of this, and this article and the previous discussions seem to overlook two things that could have some power to explain the weirdness.
First, the development of the process: the system described came into effect in 1268, because previous systems had failed to satisfy fears of factionalism. IA bit earlier in 1229, a simple, one-round electoral council of 40 had stalemated, so lots were drawn, leading to a feud between the Dandolo family and the winner, Giacomo Tiepolo. Giacomo's son Lorenzo Tiepolo was the first elected under the 1268 system, which Nicolao Michele seems to have devised. Not mentioned in the article or discussions is the rule that the men selected were 30 years or older. [0] The violent factionalism and feuding preceding the new system, however, seems to indicate that oligarchs were fiercely competitive. The aristocrats were always going to choose some one aristocrat from their own ranks, but they were strongly divided against each other as well. I'm not sure there would be a solid faction of fifty or so to monopolize the process, especially given the random selections.
Secondly, those random selections by lottery, combined with the opening of the article ("an official went to pray in St. Mark’s Basilica, grabbed the first boy he could find in the piazza") points to another participant in this process, God. While today we tend to think of election protocols in terms of human actors, sortition can imply belief in divine providence taking a hand. The nomination and approval of candidates (election) at least nominally uses human estimation of merit as its input, while sortition gives divine knowledge of merit a role. The intertwined repetition of the two may have been thought to negotiate a best possible outcome from each set of inputs; in practice, against the backdrop of feuding and factionalism, it likely also made the ultimate 41 electors unpredictable and thus less prone to bribery or prior arrangements.
Rereading the post in question, I'm not so sure that I'd be afraid of "theft of my personal data" so much as "a plan for theft of my personal possessions." A map of my house with an inventory of my possessions would mean a lot to thieves who wanted to hit targets quickly and optimize their spree for a value-to-weight ratio. That kind of data could make organized burglary very profitable.
The overlap of "the entities that carry out data breaches on digital entities" and "the people who break into your house to steal stuff" is not really well correlated. This is for a variety of reasons, but the most boring is that hacking websites is way smoother when you're a faceless entity far from any kind of jurisdiction, and breaking into somebody's house is something you need boots-on-ground for.
Scammers and thieves are using data brokers more and more all the time. They already buy up lists of rich elderly people, lists of people with dementia, and lists of people with low IQs or poor educations who are often easier to trick out of their cash.
Most criminals breaking into houses aren't buying up targeted lists of likely victims from data brokers yet, but it's effective so you should expect that the number of criminals turning to those resources will only increase.
> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it. [0]
I know you wanted something other than lynx, but you could do this with EWW (Emacs web browser or any graphical browser, provided that your proxy wget dropped the images.
[0] https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
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