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@ pancake @lemmygrad.ml

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  • How do you organize your digital stuff?

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  • File trees 100 folders deep lol. I keep all stuff synced across my machines, no actual backup though...

  • [Thread] Mental Math

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  • The overwhelming majority of all neurons in our body are just for controlling movement. Ironically, things like language or creativity require very little of our computing power and might be replicated by machine learning and a sufficiently beefy computer. But complex motor tasks? We're way ahead of our current tech on that.

  • Guerrilla Women

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  • Only the first human was natural, every one after that was created by humans.

  • mastodon stuff via Lemmy?

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  • Office dwellers, what software/website or system do you use to keep track of tasks you need to do?

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  • What's your opinion on the phrase "If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal"?

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  • False in theory, true in practice. It is rare for the political landscape and a majority vote to align in such a way that it really has a disruptive effect. And in those instances wherein it happened, wasn't uncommon to see a coup afterwards.

  • Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct

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> be me
> lymphoma cell
> produce lots of protein called Cdk9 that activates genes that make me divide
> cells like me normally die from apoptosis tho (programmed cell death)
> okay then
> also produce lots of protein called Bcl6 that deactivates genes that make me die from apoptosis
> no apoptosis now
> researcher gives drug
> drug glues together my Cdk9 with my Bcl6
> when Bcl6 visits a gene to deactivate it, Cdk9 activates it instead
> apoptosis.jpg

  • Total censorship becoming the norm in the political West

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  • Countries anger and provoke each others' populations by pointing out the bad stuff, and defend against that by censoring or otherwise cracking down on dissent. Articles like this are just attacks against us in this process, true, but I think specific ones like this are still useful, when critically understood, to help us realize that not only the countries we don't like use those authoritarian tricks, but more or less every one (and those countries that don't are couped by one or another who does).

  • Harald Welte (co-creator netfilter/iptable and free software foundation awarded developer) published his open letter as public take about recently events in the Linux Kernel Developer Community around

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  • I don't really think the Russian economy is any real bottleneck here; they have abundant natural resources, a densely-knit industry and even now still many trading partners. Ultimately the only realistic way to stop the war is a peace agreement, which is why people voted for Zelenskyy in the first place.

  • Putin says ball in Washington's court on US-Russia ties

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  • I guess Putin believes there will be a WW3, and would rather fight Ukraine before they actually join NATO and build up military infrastructure. Pulling out now would be a blunder under that viewpoint.

  • Project update: PIR-based messaging

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  • There's this post of mine, also this article gives some background on the application of PIR to anonymous messaging. Basically, I'm trying to do a basic version of that, but using a state-of-the-art PIR protocol introduced in this article. It's still not great performance-wise, but it's enough to be practical (as stated, many thousands of users given enough resources).

  • Project update: PIR-based messaging

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  • No, sorry, I haven't uploaded anything yet, I've only coded the protocols and some benchmark code. The idea is for each client to send and receive data continuously. Since text messages are pretty small and YPIR+SP doesn't have a lot of overhead, that could be a reasonable way to conceal all metadata, as long as there are not enough people connected to overwhelm the server.

  • Since we have CRISPR and all the other cool stuff with gene splicing, might we be able to give ourselves gills one day?

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  • Human embryos do have immature gills, but they are reused to create ears, jaw, tonsils, thymus, parathyroids and the large arteries in the neck and upper chest. We could add extra pairs and try to turn them into actual gills, although that would require removing the aortic arch and forcing all blood through the gills. Connecting them to the pulmonary system is not possible, as lungs and gills need different pressures (that's the whole reason we have two circuits). Maybe we could connect them in parallel to the aorta? That would only work as a backup, but with an adequate vasomotor system could do a nice job!

  • Project update: PIR-based messaging

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  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    pancake @lemmygrad.ml

    Project update: PIR-based messaging

  • China is winning in every imaginable way

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  • Nah we are basically immersed in a housing crisis, so no right to that. And every time an actual leftist party succeeds, our media basically unite against it while pretending to accept them. You can call it a "lesser evil", but I would even doubt that, since China is probably talking about us the same way we talk about them.

  • An uphill battle destined to go downhill

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  • Depends a lot on where you live. In many countries, communism is simply considered "radical/violent" rather than "authoritarian", and one is not considered a leftist of any sort unless they defend a leftist stance on the economy (progressive views on social issues may not be described as leftist everywhere).

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    China cracks down on Communist party officials for reading banned books

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  • I wouldn't consider it an ideological thing, but more of a strategic decision by Xi et al.

  • Cheeky

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  • No, the vagina is topologically a hole, as the uterus with the Fallopian tubes has two direct openings into the abdominal cavity (another objectionable "design" choice).

  • Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram

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  • My bad, the downvotes got me confused.

  • China @lemmygrad.ml
    pancake @lemmygrad.ml

    Status of fully domestic Chinese chipmaking tools

  • Cryptography @lemmy.ml
    pancake @lemmygrad.ml
    Idea

    FHE-RAM-based message routing

  • Socialism @lemmy.ml
    pancake @lemmygrad.ml

    Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy

    www.nature.com /articles/s41467-024-49687-y
  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
    pancake @lemmygrad.ml

    I passed the Russian language exam!

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    pancake @lemmygrad.ml

    5 years tracking Linux market share

  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
    pancake @lemmygrad.ml

    After a two-year streak on Duolingo, I'm taking an official language test

  • China @lemmygrad.ml
    pancake @lemmygrad.ml

    Share of China’s top companies in the private sector continued to steadily decline in 2023

    www.piie.com /research/piie-charts/2024/share-chinas-top-companies-private-sector-continued-steadily-decline-2023
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
    pancake @lemmygrad.ml

    Urban Planning Opinion Progression

    xkcd.com /2832
  • FuckCars @lemmygrad.ml
    pancake @lemmygrad.ml

    Urban Planning Opinion Progression

    xkcd.com /2832
  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
    pancake @lemmygrad.ml

    The design of my new keyboard

  • Comradeship // Freechat @lemmygrad.ml
    pancake @lemmygrad.ml

    Hi Lemmygrad!