Something hard needed: Digital Fairness Act (DFA)

According to the findings of the Digital Fairness Fitness Check, consumers do not always feel fully in control of their online experience due to practices such as:

1. Dark patterns in online interfaces
2. Addictive design
3. Personalised targeting
4. Difficulties with managing digital subscriptions
5. Problematic commercial practices of social media influencers

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Big thanks from a game developer @EUCommission

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Hopefully this will become reality within digital realities

Many of these points where the reason i started creating my own games

One of the first questions other gamedevs are asking is me is:

"How much did you make with your games?"

Well, pratically in the minius since i give most away for free but that was the point lol

I just wanted to give a big middle finger to gaming studios who are predatory, like the most nowadays

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@wolf480pl I was just reading about Lorentz contraction as a solution to the Michelson–Morley null result, and I'm back to not understanding it.

Here's my logic, lets imagine the arms are 10 units long and the half-silvered mirror is at x,y of 0,0.

At rest: Light on the X axis bounces from 0,0 to 10,0, to 0,0, doing a total of 20 units of motion. Light on the Y axis bounces from 0,0 to 0,10 to 0,0, also doing 20 units of motion.

At speed (X travel of 2 units per light-bounce-time), light on the X axis bounces from 0,0 to 11,0 to 2,0, doing a total of 20 units of motion. Light on the Y axis bounces from 0,0 to 1,10 to 2,0 doing 20.1 units (if I'm not mistaken, the hypotenuse is 10.05 so the sum is 20.1).

You had me convinced earlier that because the X beam starts at 0,0 and ends at 2,0, it has to have taken extra time to move those 2 units, but considering the mirrors instantaneously moving from points 0->1->2, the numbers seem to indicate that the opposite is true.

But now the problem is that there's no amount of X contraction that can fix this, when the X travel is 20 and the Y travel is 20.1.

in reply to Caleb James DeLisle

BTW random thought: We have the universe expanding away from itself at an accelerating rate, so one possible explanation is that it's spinning and this is just centrifugal force.

But if it's spinning, doesn't that mean there's a preferred frame of reference? I mean, if you claim there's no preferred frame, then what's the difference between a spinning universe and a still universe? "Spinning relative to what?"

in reply to Wolf480pl

The reason I brought it up is because intuitively it seems you could use it to find a definition of "stationary", but in fact that's not true because the known universe could still be drifting through deep space.

Intuitively, I suspect there is actually a definition of stationary, but because volume of an object, and all time keeping methods depend on particle orbits which follow C, it is impossible to find it.

in reply to Wolf480pl

Well, in order for that to work, you have to accept that space-time is a real thing. So we have x,y,z,t and t is a special dimension that we can't *ever* move backward in, and we normally always move forward at a specific rate, but there are all of these rules which exist to change that rate in order to workaround the bugs which emerge when we try to reconcile the business requirement of same rules in every frame, with the technological limitation of C (it really sounds like a simulation)...

OR, we go back to how everyone who is not a physicist thinks, we have x,y,z and processes occur at a certain rate, but all of those rates are relative to C. Then there is a preferred frame, one-way speed of light does depend on our speed in space, we can even have aether - why not... It's just that it's impossible to detect any of this because every other process's speed is based on C.

in reply to Wolf480pl

Well, it's a net reduction of rules, it eliminates the entire mystery of What Is Time, and we kind of experience some form of aether already - the vacuum field - it's just that it doesn't have physical properties that match anything anyone had expected. Lastly, if light travels at a limited speed but there is no definition of stationary, then every inertial frame needs to be it's own little universe, but if stationary exists but we can't see it, then everything can be a lot more similar to the physics we're used to - i.e. Occam's Razor.
in reply to Wolf480pl

> we already have the experience of every inertial frame being its own universe - from Galileo

Can you give me the part of the theory I can lookup for this?

> Every intertial frame being equivalent is more similar to the physics we're used to

Experimentally we of course see that it is, my little "it's not but you'll never know" model just resolves some of the rough edges when different inertial frames interact - and in a relatively Newtonian way.

in reply to Caleb James DeLisle

> Can you give me the part of the theory I can lookup for this?

I'm not sure you mean by "give you the part of the theory" but here's an explanation of what Galilean relativity is: physics.stackexchange.com/ques…

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Ahhh ok.

So, I *think* there might be a way that my model can be falsified.

If you try to invoke the twin paradox, but instead of putting one twin into orbit, you send him straight out and back, you should (per my model) end up building a very large Michelson interferometer and you will see no clock skew.

In the classical model you would see velocity based clock skew in accordance with how far out he went.

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@jeff
my model of the universe is like a plane filled with Wang tiles en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_til…

Each row has to fit the row before it and the row after it. But looking at the solved puzzle, you don't know from which side someone started laying the tiles.

in reply to Wolf480pl

Any thought about going back in time starts off with "is the data there?" if the past still exists, then either the universe takes a snapshot at every "processor tick" or something. But if you believe it's there, then anything like giving yourself the stock market numbers for tomorrow is just paradoxical horseshit and really not worthy of serious discussion. So what's left is some kind of "infinite universes" hypothesis and then if you "time travel" well how do you know you're going to the same universe as 1957 America and not like idk Supernova Wiped Out Everything universe?

I think it's easier to believe in aether.

in reply to Wolf480pl

If I have to humor the idea of "affect your past" time travel, I'll just say that even if someone did invent such a thing, it's certain that people would keep screwing with it until they had broken the past such that it is no longer invented. Then you get to decide if it just vanishes, or if the universe implodes into a paradox blackhole.

But generally speaking, I think the prospect of time travel makes Stanley Meyer sound like Richard Feynman.

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@jeff I don't think "change the past" time travel is possible.

I do think it might be possible to have useless time travel, that follows
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Either one where you inadvertantly cause the events you wanted to prevent, like
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_His…

Or even more useless, where it is formally indistinguishable from time travel but doesn't allow you to send any information back

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@jeff
Here's an example of how I imagine a useless time travel could work:

1. Create an electron-positron pair from two photons of known spin. Now you know the sum of the spins of the electron and the positron. Person A gets the electron, person B gets the positron.

2. Person A measures the spin of the electron. It's up, so buys the stock.

3. Months later, person B checks stock's price, turns out it went down, needs to tell person A not to buy.

1/

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@jeff
4. Person B tries to anihilate the positron in such a way, that it has a spin up, so that person A's electron has a spin fown. That requires the resulting two photons to have a particular spin. Unfortunately, after anihilation it turns out the resulting photons have a different spin, as if the positron's spin has always been down, and person A's electron's spin has always been up.

(note that I probably got the quantum details all wrong)
2/2

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@jeff you know what?

I think free energy is more of an alchemy than time travel.

Because just like transmuting one metal into another, it will probably eventually turn out that it's possible, and super not worth it.

And like transmuting one metal into another, people are searching for it to solve the scarcity they experience every day, and those people have multiple times misinterpreted their results or intentionally deceived the public.

in reply to Wolf480pl

Well you're right that it has a lot in common with alchemy, particularly that it makes people crazy - either in the sense of doing endless random experiments with no theoretical basis, or in the sense of trying to "force" something to be a scam even if the guy isn't asking for any money.

I've thought to myself that if I got something like this working, I'd probably just mine bitcoin and keep my mouth shut, not because I'm afraid of the CIA or something (fuckem), but because I don't want to deal with the weirdos.

That said, I think it's theoretically possible based on reactionless thrusters.

in reply to Wolf480pl

Stephen Hawking threw a party for time travelers, so it's definitely a pop sci topic. Every Neil Tyson type of documentary on relativity eventually gets to this "jee I wonder if it's possible" kind of discussion. But if you dare say there's energy everywhere and it can be harvested, that's considered to be the most despicable heresy that can possibly be said in physics. Which I mean, in poker we refer to this as a Tell...
in reply to Wolf480pl

What if you can send a message to the past; to the geometric point of "time" at which we experienced the past, but it won't change anything in the present or the future, because there's no one there in the past to actually receive the message, because we all moved on from that point in the past already.

People imagine time travel as if you could go upstream against the flow of a river and expect to see exactly the same water and the same fish you saw when you were there last time, but no, that point now has different water and different fish, the water and fish you're used to are all gone now, far and still going downriver. Heck, if you go back in time and then go forward again to your "current" time, you'd also find nothing, because by now everyone have moved on from that geometric point forward too.

Perhaps if you go to the past you'd find a completely different world there, or different people and events inhabiting our "same" world, or you'd find the void of nothingness. But the only way you'd find the actual past people and events exactly as they happened is for all those people and events and things to be part of the geometry of space-time itself, and not flowing in it or on top of it. But if we are the geometry of space-time itself, then what "flow" makes us experience the movement forward in time? I imagine, to "scan" the geometry in the direction of time-forward /something/ has to be detached from that geometry and moving "over it". I can't tell the shape of a surface blindfolded unless I move my finger over it, if my finger was molded into part of that surface, then no discovery is possible at all. But we seem to "discover" the future as it becomes our present.

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random sleepy bordering-on-high passer-by without-context fantasy comment: what if we do see a weird centrifugal force, say, gravity, and due to some spinning of the universe in some higher dimension in which we get farther from the "center" by getting closer to higher concentrations of mass. The edges of the universe being walls of highest concentrations of mass, i.e. blackholes, and the center of the universe being somehow somewhere as far as you can get from any mass at all.
in reply to Red Rozenglass

The problem with trying to reason gravity as a form of centrifugal force is that it attracts you to so many different things. With centrifugal force in general, you're pushed to "the edge", but with gravity, you're pushed (or pulled) to the earth, and the moon, and the sun, and other planets, and other stars, etc...

Quantized Inertia attempts to unify them by imagining a universal pushing force that pushes from all directions, and it can be blocked by matter, or it can be blocked by the Rindler horizon that emerges behind you when you accelerate.

in reply to Caleb James DeLisle

Thank you for entertaining the random thought. Thinking out loud still, perhaps incoherently: if the rotation of our world is around an axis that is "outside" the world, say, we live in a two-dimensional world, hanging from a thread rotating around a pole somewhere above in the third dimension, then we'd see the centrifugal force applying in one direction in our 2D world, but, if the axis of rotation goes /through/ our world, then we'd see centrifugal force going in all directions away from one "center" point in our world.

Now I can't claim to know intuitively what "spinning" means in a 4th dimension, let alone spinning in a 13th one, looking at a projection of a hypercube spinning confuses me, but gives me more ideas.

What if it's not gravity, what if the "center" point we're all going away from is the point of the big bang, and the edges we're going towards in all directions are... I don't know? But perhaps this explains dark energy and somehow the accelerated expansion of the universe.

Another idea, perhaps, when considering time as one of the dimensions, the one direction we're all going away from is the "past", and towards the edges of the "future" (hence perhaps why the past is "one" and the future feels somehow like multitudes?) The beginning of the universe being the center, again is perhaps the big bang, and the "end" of the universe being the edges. Now if we assume the end of the universe being all the black holes that swallowed all matter, then the closer you are to becoming a black hole, the closer you are to the edge, hence, you are pulled towards all directions that are closer to being black holes. Whenever any matter is pulled towards any other matter, it is going in the direction of becoming black holes, hence "gravity".

Of course the big issue with this "assumption" that black holes are the "end" is that it is wrong as far as we know. Firstly, because space is expanding, matter is less likely to become black holes over time, and secondly, because Hawking radiation indicates that black holes are not the end state for matter as they seem to evaporate over time (unless Hawking radiation comes from "somewhere else" and does not result in mass reduction of black holes, but that's not what we collectively think for now (as far as I know)).

in reply to Red Rozenglass

> if the rotation of our world is around an axis that is "outside" the world

Well, you could possibly imagine creating a warped version of space where all matter exists around the edges of a cylinder or something and therefore gravity is centrifugal in nature.

But you would have a lot of explaining to do to convince anybody that this warped model of space is something they need to consider.

And I'm probably the last person on earth you would want to try to convince, because I'm so suspicious that I'm not even convinced TIME is a fundamental dimension we travel through - let alone the concept of "curved space-time" from Einstein's General Relativity.

> what if the "center" point we're all going away from is the point of the big bang

This is Lorentz Ether Theory, namely that speed-of-light is relative to a fixed frame, i.e. location of the big bang.

> Another idea, perhaps, when considering time as one of the dimensions, the one direction we're all going away from is the "past", and towards the edges of the "future"

This is generally accepted as the Space-Time of Einstein's GR, but I don't personally like it.

> unless Hawking radiation comes from "somewhere else" and does not result in mass reduction of black holes

I think that's a good line of questioning, because:
1. If black holes are getting lighter, why are they still here?
2. Large black holes radiate less, and therefore are not believed to get lighter, so why haven't they swallowed up the universe already?
3. The same radiation is seen at a Rindler horizon, so what's that swallowing up? This one is really annoying because Rindler horizons are contextual, you only see them when YOU are accelerating, someone next to you won't see them.

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The Pentagon will not save Americans from the wicked intentions of billionaire fascists. It will arm the National Guard to kill them.

Remember their love on April 15th. You pay for everything. Billionaires pay nothing. Who writes the rules for that which they do not pay for? Them. They get to murder for the 34-time felon.

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An Investigation of Bloatware Effects on Smart Devices

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I'll always remind anyone that all a computer does is to display text and images.
Windows XP needed 64~128MB of ram to do that.
Even a recent GNU/linux distro can go as down as 34MB of ram with a DE if needed.


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re: An Investigation of Bloatware Effects on Smart Devices
@kaia The graph in the quote post is at least correct and somewhat close to reality. But the reason why Android RAM size grows faster than on Apple devices isn't bloatware, but the way how Android manages applications in the background. They are still loaded in the background even if unused and they aren't swapped out due to flash durability reasons and aren't unloaded for responsibility reasons. You can partially blame Java for that.
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Famine à Gaza: le crime était annoncé

La déclaration de l’état de famine dans la bande de Gaza fait les gros titres. Il ne faut pas oublier que cette insécurité alimentaire a été décidée et mise en oeuvre systématiquement par les autorités politiques et militaires israéliennes au service de leur politique de nettoyage ethnique.

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@SolyLaLuna αυτή την συζήτηση είχα 2 φορές πριν χρόνια, 1 στον Πολύγυρο και 1 στην Πάλαιρο

Χρόνια τώρα πέφτει ο τζίρος στην εστίαση μα αρνιόντουσαν να καταλάβουν τις αιτίες, που είναι οι συνεχείς αυξήσεις κόστους καταλυμάτων, ομπρελών και εστίασης.

Γκρίνιαζε ο ταβερνιάρης πως είναι τσιγκούνηδες οι τουρίστες

Ρε άνθρωπε, του λέω, με 100€ την βραδιά το κατάλυμα και τις τιμές σε ομπρέλες καφέδες, τόσα που θα ξοδέψει μια οικογένεια σε 15 μέρες, δεν περισσεύουν για σένα.

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#politique #désinformation #merdias

Avec une petite mise au point sur les merdias. L'imMonde a fait une minable provocation en envoyant précisément l'auteur du pamphlet "La Meute". L'autre journaliste de l'imMonde a été accrédité sans problème, il fallait juste envoyer quelqu'un d'autre. Ils ont très sciemment voulu créer un clash, d'une part pour vendre du papier et d'autre part pour salir la FI. Qu'on ferme tous ces torchons.

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Holy shit. This legit gave me chills. Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote. WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.

bbs enthusiasts might remember the name Telegard - a bbs server written based on wwiv's source code and hugely popular with the ibm pc/ms-dos crowd

telegard had a long and tumultuous history by its authors, and its own source was eventually leaked and was modded into many more popular (pirate-friendly) ms-dos boards like Renegade, Oblivion and Iniquity.

while i was doing research a few months ago on the history of those systems, i found out that telegard.net - the original home of tg - was taken over by a domain squatter in 2010, populated with ads for the past 15 years.

two months ago, i noticed that the squatter had not renewed the domain, and it went into the long grace/redemption/auction/expiry cycle. i checked on it every single morning, and to my absolute delight, it was released this morning for purchase. 💸

the domain will be used purely for historical preservation of telegard and its many descendants

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@Zettour
>To use Linux you have to know tech well enough to even put it on your PC
most distros have a gui installer so the only technical knowledge you need to install linux is how to hit F12 and select a boot option (not that hard)

you can use a distro in stock state because literally only autists dive into technical nuances of a system. If you just want netflix and hotchip you really dont even need to know what the command line is

ive found that most linucks users have no real technical knowledge because its just for getting their system to work or how to install x thing they saw on le reddit

on the other thand if you know anything about high level windows admin you can literally make bank because no company is going to convince a team of drone workers that linux is better for their usecase (its not)

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