… maybe. :)

Is this supposed to be a parable about humanity living on credit?

Most of the time these abstracts are fine. But I’m wary of it because of the cases where it doesn’t. :)

Yes. It’s normal human behaviour. There is a hype, then a bubble, then… normalization.

Multimedia, keychain, blue LEDs, curved LCD screens, LLMs,… One of them is way less useful than the others.; P

LLMs seem to be great for translations and… transcriptions?

No. That is orange Jesus.

Dr. E?

In your case: no need for a fw if you can trust your local network.

Generally: services can have bugs - reverse proxy them. Not everybody needs to access the service - limit access with a firewall. Limit brute-force/ word-list attempts - MFA / fail2ban.

You’re cute when you are angry.

The dealership has insurance and destroyed cars are like sold cars for Te… that company. Or am I missing something?

I want that. Where can I get it?

It has a superset of features compared to the Explorer - Meaning it can do all the things that the explorer can do plus more.

I’m simply used to the two window layout since the old ages of Norton Commander ( Yes, Norton used to create useful products back then.). For me it is about hotkeys for functions ( Select, Filter, Copy, paste, move, delete). A multi rename tool. A search for file contents. A copy queue.

I do not use it for everything, but sometimes it’s simply better than the standard windows tools.

Thanks. From your answer I get that there is some philosophical basic knowledge which I’m missing.

If nothing else, now I have heard the name Heidegger in this context.:)

OK. That makes sense. It is more expensive (time, money) to reinvent a present technology, so it takes less effort to base further development on the currently available design.

The demise of just one Gen1 Starlink satellite produces about 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of aluminum oxide, a compound that eats away at the ozone layer. A new study finds these oxides have increased 8-fold between 2016 and 2022, and the recent surge is increasing the pollution even more.

More details would be nice. Does it really have a measurable effect on the ozone layer?

On the bright side, each reentry produces a beautiful fireball–and the odds are increasing that you’ll see one.

Huh.

Instead of speaking to you directly, and see your face and features, I relate to you through pure text… A whole lot of important factors disappear as I do.

Yes. That’s an aspect to keep in mind.

I think distorted is a bit negative. Communication with filters, yes. I see advantages and disadvantages. It really depends on the case. It’s technology-bound but not exclusive to the digital age - Letters existed before.

Advantages: asynchronity, time to think and reply. Use of different media. Less stressful because less information to process - there is a reason why video telephony isn’t mainstream. Less bias, for all you know I could be Gregor Samsa - you don’t see my gender, age, skin, clothing style. just my text. Disadvantages: misunderstandings can become more likely, since you dont know me. It’s more time consuming to talk through an issue… and so on.

See for example Heidegger, Ellul, Arendt.

Would you recommend one specific article or book?

The field of language, the meaning of words in different contexts… Communication in general, they wrote books over books about it…

Yes. Murky. :)

factory example

Thanks. I think I get it now. Besides physical constraints (availability of resources, natural laws and the knowledge of them), society’s inherent values and rules (like work safety, minimum wage, worth attributed to a group of people/ the environment / animals) affect the way things are done.

If work force is cheap and abundantly available and the workers’ health or wellbeing isn’t considered as too relevant the resulting solution to achieve something is very different from one with different preconditions.

computers … because they’re so general purpose, more cultural values get embedded. Like in the example above, there are decisions that aren’t determined by the goals of what you’re trying to accomplish, but because computers are so much more open ended than physical robots, there are more decisions like that, and you have even more leeway in how they’re decided.

The moral/ social/ economic decisions which are made are affected by the opportunities which a technology has to offer? OK, yes.
The versatility of computer technology makes it a tech which can be used in many harmful ways. The potential for harm is bigger than let’s say with the invention of the wheel or the plow but not as big as with nuclear fission.

Responsibility for the usage of a technology and finding common rules for its usage and enforcing them… hmm.

Technology and what we do with it can’t be viewed as independent aspects?

When the discussion is about whether technology + an unregulated human society is likely to end badly, then there is not much to discuss.

There are real life test series. In the 80s many countries put rules into place which forced the industry to filter/ treat their emissions. Technology gooood.

Some countries restrict their people’s access to personal fire arms more than others. Statistics show that shootings are more likely, when everybody has a gun. Technology baaad.

In my opinion it is mostly about the common rules a society agrees on. Technology amplifies both ways and needs to be moderated when it is misused.

Never heard of this spoon invention story. I have doubts.:) I’m almost certain that eyes have been carved out by means of spoon. War, civil unrest and suppression of weaker minorities show that we have it in us.