Heronymus_Anon

> just can't get the hang

pun intended?

It's a great inspiration for linux wallpapers and memes. ; )

There was a story in a Donald Duck comic, i read as a kid, where Dagobert extracted Gold with the help of a "Gold Flower" in a piece of land, where the gold concentration was to low for manual mining.

Always thought, and got reassured through a study a few years ago about plants that genetically adapted to otherwise toxic amounts of nickel in rainforest areas (linked on HN), that this could be a way to extract minerals in a future more slowed down and sustainable utopian society.

Also really interesting are ways to detox soils through plants. Unfortunately, a local pioneer project for extracting industrial contamination, and than making biogas from the plants, was stopped, because it was just cost covering but not really creating monetary profit. A sad example of, how shortsighted the instant profit capitalism will act, if longterm effects are not integrated into the equation through regulations.

But what to expect from a species that puts great effort into spreading cultivation of seedless wine grapes, just to realize that grapeseeds have live prolonging effects. ; )

Mildly disagree. Problem with blockchain is that masses are focused on financial uses, whereas I think lots of the potential is in liquid tools for self-organizing, something ~ like zeroknowledge privacy protecting data mining. So essentially tools that are not really meant for big business or fast money schemes, but for social transformation useful for humans (and AIs). It may raise the quality not the quantity of your years. (..of course raising both would be appreciated ; ))

Reminds me of the cuban sneakernet "el paquete semanal". Should be possible to use sticks and sdcards that are passed around for quite async very slow encrypted communication or messaging boards. Devices like the LoRa QWERTY Messenger by Scott Powell or one of the LoRa extensions for smartphones people are building, could be useful for communication, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

https://hackaday.io/project/174019-lora-qwerty-messenger

I once read something about a system people were using in remote african villages to sync data via usb sticks but i can't find it.

Well, those religious prejudices and injustices aren't sacred anymore, but if you have a public reputation to loose, or don't want to get burned as a company, you should avoid being associated with stuff like gender- or racial-inequality.

(as long as you aren't targeting the Q-Anon or KKK crowd)

So it seems the definition of sacred is simply changing. (luckily)

At the time around '69 it maybe was like nothing was sacred anymore, and everything was being questioned, but i don't think you can apply this anymore. People later settled on some moral progressions, which are now being defended.

Yees we had a "modding community" in our small village exchanging mods via floppy disc, the "clonk script" language was my first programming experience.

Playing this game in local coop was probably the best way to use your family pc.

Am still impressed by how well the voxel based physics are performing (water flowing, earthquakes, sand) compared to modern 2d games, which often can't handle stuff like that even on multicore systems.

Always felt a little sad for this legendary shareware dev to have missed the era of the early indie-games boom on steam.

"One day, people could monitor their own health conditions by simply picking up a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin. In a new study, University of Missouri engineers demonstrated that the simple combination of pencils and paper could be used to create devices that might be used to monitor personal health."

paywalled paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/09/2008422117

Not enough knowledge, in any of the areas involved, but my intuition makes me doubt the longtime security of these complexities, although i really appreciate the results. Or is there no need for trusting the firmware, if all the I/O is encrypted? I am fantasizing all these data patterns could combined with other information lead to the data-storage/-encryption equivalent of branch-prediction-exploits.. ..but maybe it's just half-knowledge combined with the fear-what-you-don't-understand.. ..and of course this wouldn't be in the first layer of attack.

As far as old windows games are concerned, I've experienced that they often run more stable and performant with wine on linux than on a newer windows version.

I always enjoyed https://tomenet.eu/ ! As most roguelikes it takes a little time to get into it, but it's really worth the effort (especially playing together with a friend). It's got a quite small but friendly community and should run under Mac OS (opensource)!

Listening to songs, while reading the lyrics and looking up unknown vocabulary. Collecting and revising those words with a tool like anki. Watching movies with, - or if you already know the movies without subtitles (like Disney movies you watched regularly as a child). Listening to local radio stations. It doesn't matter if you don't understand anything in the beginning, it's for getting used to the overall melody and flow of the language, which compensates for the lack of in-person immersion. Side by side textbooks, or buying your favourite books in the language and reading them side by side, should be good to improve your reading skills.

Neal Stephenson addresses this problem and solutions to it, among other topics, really good in his newest novel "Fall, or Dodge in Hell".