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5 hours ago
About Android and smart tv's: it's the Linux kernel that is used for those devices and probably a very modified one also. The rest of the software that comes with those devices is mostly proprietary. But you're right about people not knowing about it and eventhough people would know, most people do not care about it. Not because they do not care about safety or functionality, it's because they want their equipment to just work without any technical knowledge from their part. Which is a bit sad, but understandable.
The big corporations that bring their devices to market want to sell and make profit, regardless of users' privacy or safety. In a neoliberal and cancerous economic context that's also sad and understandable. But is it something consumers should agree to? I think not, but again, do most people even care? Concious apathy is an illness lots of people will regret in the long run.show more -
10 hours ago
Good thing we have the choice to turn our backs to those "big market players", isn't it?
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10 hours ago
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Destroying nuclear waste to create clean energy? It can be done
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10 hours ago
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Neuromarketing: How Brands are Manipulating Your Brain
More and more companies are turning to neuromarketing. This controversial practice involves studying consumers’ brains, analyzing how and why we respond to certain stimuli, in order to influence our decisions. It’s based on the idea that 90% of the decisions we make are taken at a subconscious level. If a brand can speak directly to our ‘gut instinct’, bypassing reason, they will sell more products.
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10 hours ago
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Of course it was found in Russia. Last time it was found in China, a country that was in the crosshairs of politicians at that time.
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12 hours ago
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UK’s nuclear waste cleanup operation could cost £260bn
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12 hours ago
Analysis Maternitus
Destroying nuclear waste to create clean energy? It can be done
Scientists at CERN think they may have discovered a new source of clean energy.
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2 days ago
Looking at all the ridiculous low fines these huge ass companies get, you'd think that their money and power seems above the law. Just look at what they got their tiny fine for: not securing their customers' money, which is in total even way more than their gross profit. More or less up for grabs for a bit of a decent hacker. And let's face it: yearly billions get stolen from banks and financial institutions. And never return, also.
Let me explain. I have a cousin who was for years the network manager for Fortis (and ABN Amro), two "small" players in the banking world. He was responsible for everything computer network in the BeNeLux of those institutions. No matter how hard they tried to harden the safety of their networks and computers (including all kinds of encryption), an average of 250 to 450 million Euro got stolen every year. Every. Year. I kid you not. Let that sink in. Extrapolate that to all the institutions all over the world. That's billions every year. Now, it's understandable that doesn't hit the news all too much, because that's really shitty publicity, but it's money that does not belong to those institutions. It belongs to their clients. From hedgefund managers to mom-and-pop-shop owners, from hard working people to pensioners.
And from that perspective you shouldn't trust banks or financial institutions and the government should seriously step up their game to hold banks and financial institutions responsible for their (conscious) negligence.
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2 days ago
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3 days ago
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This article should be on the frontpage.
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3 days ago
Comment Maternitus
This is, more or less, how I paint with both oils and acrylics. It's also what some (obnoxious and arrogant) art dealers told me they didn't like about my works: too technical and smooth, they missed the painterly character. What they meant by that is less accurate techniques, drips and blobs and "happy little accidents". I guess their heads are stuck in their asses. Also: art dealers are by no means painters, so I guess a little envy could be the source of those comments.
I stick to fine techniques like glazing and carefully building up an image to a smooth surface where small subtle textures help define the image, together with complex layers that make light travel in ways that tingle my imagination and creates effects which represent Mother Nature in the best possible way I can achieve that.
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3 days ago
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US Military Annoyed When Facebook and Twitter Removed Its PSYOP Bots
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3 days ago
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US Military Annoyed When Facebook and Twitter Removed Its PSYOP Bots
The Pentagon is reportedly to conduct an audit of the US military's social media PSYOP practices, following the removal of several fake bot accounts.
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4 days ago
Video/Audio Maternitus
Rare Earth - Get Ready (Complete Length)
From the album "Get Ready", 1969
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4 days ago
Comment Maternitus
I once saw a documentary about the decline of humanity's intellect, but what they never stated was the start of that decline, as in the amount of intellect before the decline started. My guess is that humans are in the negatives with IQ-points, because when I look at wars (throughout history), people tend to repeat their stupidity, but everytime they do it with more firepower and casualties. I think that the fascination/justification of violence, genocides, torture and the rest of the list of atrocities is just a showcase of severe mental disability.
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5 days ago
Expression Maternitus
The Art of Deliberate Imperfection
Some people are perfectionists, going great lengths and through punishing routines to achieve the perfect figure, the perfect score, the inimitable performance. But there are cultures around the world that have learned to abandon this rigid and obsessive behavior, and embrace the concept of imperfection. Artists and craftsmen of such cultures would deliberately introduce flaws into their works to remind themselves that flaws are an integral part of being human.
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9 days ago
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Letting people work for a shameful low wage and hardly anything close to a decent (steady, long term) contract with the foresight of homelessness and absolute poverty is also a form of forced labour.
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9 days ago
Comment Maternitus
Buying up competition and then killing them off, sort of like they did with Macromedia. And probably a bunch of others. Monopolistic assholes.
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9 days ago
Current Event Maternitus
Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company
Yvon Chouinard has forfeited ownership of the company he founded 49 years ago. The profits will now be used to fight climate change.
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10 days ago
Expression Maternitus
Europe's Energy System Is a Scam Against Its Own People
"The UK doesn't need Russian gas, doesn't need Texan LNG, it doesn't need to import anything."
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10 days ago
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11 days ago
That's a good question, but then another one comes up: our idea of time is based on our seasons, the sun, the moon and how we divide our planet in timezones. The civilisations two million lightyears away may have a completely different concept of time or even none at all (since time is an illusion and top most a description of change). In that light, the answer would be no or probably not. So, is time more contextual than a fact?
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11 days ago
Analysis Maternitus
Silencing the lambs. How propaganda works.
In an address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway, John Pilger charts the history of power propaganda and describes how it appropriates journalism in a 'profound imperialism' and is likely to entrap us all, if we allow it.
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11 days ago
Video/Audio Maternitus
Does Quantum Entanglement Allow for Faster-Than-Light Communication?
Quantum entanglement allows particles to affect one another faster than the speed of light. So does this mean we could one day build a device to exploit this and enable superluminal communication? A popular trope in sci-fi for sure, but today let's look at the science.
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12 days ago
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Nature's response to urban sprawl
It’s a new and surprising chapter in the theory of evolution. According to recent studies, it’s in our cities, of all places, that animals and plants adapt particularly quickly to changing living conditions.
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