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11 votes
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King County, WA is first in the country to ban government use of facial recognition software
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Your grandma’s tube TV is the hottest gaming tech
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Giant solar project proposed in south Butte, landowners concerned
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How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?
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Poor in tech
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How do you tend to your digital selves?
How do you tend to your digital selves? Do you create archives for your blogs/journals/social-media-interactions? How meticulously do you organize your pictures? How protectful are you of your...
How do you tend to your digital selves? Do you create archives for your blogs/journals/social-media-interactions? How meticulously do you organize your pictures? How protectful are you of your backups? Have you thought about where it'd all end up after you've died?
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End of wind power waste? Vestas unveils blade recycling technology.
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Introducing the pervert’s dilemma: A contribution to the critique of deepfake pornography
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Environmental impact of Bitcoin much worse than gold
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To be more tech-savvy, borrow these strategies from the Amish
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Android Automotive OS review
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US rental companies buy up used cars as chip crisis gets worse
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The best apps for bicycle directions in 2020
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Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents imaged by X-ray microtomography
7 votes -
What is the bullshit economy?
7 votes -
How 1995's Macintosh NY Music Fest 'livestreamed' twenty-five years ahead of its time
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A Finger Lakes power plant plans to ramp up energy-intensive Bitcoin mining
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Duolingo ends its volunteer Contributor program
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What are some analog alternatives to digital services or products that you use?
There has been a bit of talk here recently about people who don't use the internet, why and how they don't. It's a common assumption that it's truly impossible to live without the internet, and to...
There has been a bit of talk here recently about people who don't use the internet, why and how they don't. It's a common assumption that it's truly impossible to live without the internet, and to some that may be the case. I don't think this should be a roadblock to those who wish to try to withdraw at their own discretion. So what are some analog services or products you use? Maybe it's something that's not broken so why fix it? Maybe in your opinion something is better the old way as compared to the new internet version? I'll start it off with these:
- I still read paper books. I know this is super common, but I've met several people who consume their literature in exclusively electronic formats. I just can't concentrate when reading eBooks or listening to audio books. I also like the feel and smell of books, reminds me of hanging out in the library as a kid.
- I really try to not use mapping applications while driving. I think the ubiquity of GPS and mapping applications makes it really easy to not focus on where you are. It takes your eyes off of the road and there are privacy implications as well. I tend to look up directions ahead of time and write some notes down or print it out (cheat). I started doing this after an incident where I called 911, but couldn't tell the operator where I was despite the fact that I drove that route every day.
- I still write letters. I think letter writing offers element of intimacy, and helps foster good relationships. There's no "lol" or "k." in letter writing (except for one letter a friend sent as a joke), it lends to careful and purposeful composition as clarification is not always a text or phone call away. You can also get creative with your letter delivery. I've picked up more than one letter from bulletin boards at national parks (yes, if you ask they'll probably do that), I once had a friend send me a wax sealed letter via registered mail to a hotel which got quite a face out of the receptionist, and I once had a several letter exchange where the letter contents were encrypted with a basic ciphertext.
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Supreme Court of the United States Justice Clarence Thomas argues for regulating large internet platforms as common carriers
21 votes -
Golf is facing an existential crisis
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Rise of the 'robo-plants', as scientists fuse nature with tech
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Can we get a GNU section of ~tech?
I would like to share my rice and stuff like that, but I'm not sure if this is the right place to share. It would be nice to have a place here to chat about GNU news and such/
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Scale was the god that failed
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Welcome to Pollinator Park
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Architects unveil a massive plan for Chinese city that’s dedicated to science and tech
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LAVO hydrogen battery system
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How mRNA technology could change the world
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If humankind left Earth and came back after 100 years, how much of our digital files would still be readable?
That's something that concerns me a lot. A lot of what we know about our history came from analog media that was preserved throughout history. Will future generations (100, 200, 1000 years from...
That's something that concerns me a lot. A lot of what we know about our history came from analog media that was preserved throughout history. Will future generations (100, 200, 1000 years from now...) be able to access our digital documents to understand how we lived?
Edit: the scenario I proposed in the title was just a way to express my concerns more concisely. I don't think it will actually happen but answering it is equivalent to addressing my concerns..
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Building electronics that can survive under Greenland's ice sheet – meet the Cryoegg, designed to follow the melting going on beneath the ice sheet
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Finding virtue in the virtual
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Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt gets $14 billion order as Volkswagen raises ownership
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The technical interview practice gap, and how it keeps underrepresented groups out of software engineering
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Remora - Carbon capture for semi trucks
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New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters
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Indoctrination by Fisher Price
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Want to borrow that e-book from the library? Sorry, Amazon won’t let you.
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How Japan's largest earthquakes really felt | Tohoku (2011), Kobe (1995)
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Grammarly's predatory model and cultural biases
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No, its not cyberpunk
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Girl and computer
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Big Tech critic Tim Wu joins Joe Biden administration to work on US competition policy
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NASA’s latest Mars rover has the same processor as an iMac from 1998
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Arctic island finds green power can be a curse – Greenland's rare-earth elements are attracting superpowers riding a green revolution
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Visualizing cyber harassment
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Candy love hearts, designed by AI
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Lessons from a year of Covid
9 votes -
The battery invented 120 years before its time
8 votes -
US and allies to build 'China-free' tech supply chain
9 votes