What doesn’t make sense is how haven’t these primordial black holes accumulated to form massive objects that dominate the universe? The distribution of dark matter implies that it’s widely dispersed throughout the universe, amongst all other matter, but wouldn’t these primordial black holes have started to attract matter and grown in mass from 1 second after the Big Bang? Wouldn’t the vast majority of these proton sized black holes no longer be proton sized? Wouldn’t they have grown until they absorbed most visible matter in their vicinity? If this were true wouldn’t it mean most of the dark voids between galaxies and stars are actually gravitationally dominated by black holes of varying sizes? How could our observations to date have missed that? Wouldn’t pointing the JWST at any void show signs of infrared gravitational lensing? Oh god I’ve gone cross-eyed…

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“Even if you take into account clustering, the time scales for the merger are so long that they would only merge into really massive black holes over the entire age of the universe,” he continued.

If this were true, how have all the sub-atomic particles accumulated to form visible matter and galaxies? Do these black holes somehow have less mass than other particles? If so, how could they possibly make up most of the gravity in the universe — more gravity than all the visible matter — yet their gravity is so weak that they don’t accumulate into larger clusters?

“I will have you know I’m a self made man, just like my millionaire father and his millionaire father before him”

FTFY

It’s for people who need more than 5GB but not 200GB. People in the developing world, or lower income brackets, who can’t afford 5-10 USD a month, or people who transfer photos offline instead of keeping their entire camera roll in the cloud.

The most annoying part for me is the fact that none of them have the capability for annual recurring donations. It’s literally monthly or ad-hoc, which is fucking stupid and basically hands more fees to the banks.

Librepay/Forgejo had the best I’ve seen, which encouraged me to double my donation (to minimize fees) and said it’d remind me in 2 years.

Okay… Though I agree the system is run by criminals, I’m gonna continue protecting my data as best I can, and recommending everyone do the same, while you live in a magical fantasy land where we don’t live in capitalist plutocracies and the rule of law applies to everyone, equally!

This is the correct answer. I actually disabled LG’s version of it when I first heard about it. A few months later it had been reactivated in an update, so I just factory reset it and connected an old laptop.

You can’t trust anyone — corporation or government — to protect or respect your privacy. Ever. If it’s not open source and E2EE, assume that a criminal is going to view and process it for profit.

I would always just create 1 password and append a number and it’s special char, cycling from 1 to 0; like 1!, 2@, 3#. Never stayed at a place long enough to go higher than 7 or 8.

I never gave a fuck about doing this because it’s the companies fault for applying stupid policies. Whenever I’ve been allowed a password manager, they got real security instead of malicious compliance.

has also been working on an implant that would be able to euthanize Alzheimer patients unable to make their own care decisions, and told us the first one has been built. It will only be loaded with saline to test the timing technology used in the implant, we’re told.

Fuck yeah. Family members, nor the state, can be trusted to execute a demented persons wishes — wishes they were made while still of sound mind. I was already planning on building a suicide machine if I’m ever diagnosed (customised gas mask + nitrous oxide or nitrogen tank probably). Having autonomous, simple, well tested, painless options would prevent me having to waste my time on that.

The design files and software will probably be pirate-able within a couple of years.

Here’s NASA own source that is not sensationalist SEO-gaming dogshit.

Everyone wants a Her style personal assistant — as in one that is personal-context aware, can simplify, and generally enrich their lives (not for emotional support) — but if most people knew how unintelligent AI is, how spectacularly it fails, and how dangerous it is to integrate it into information systems and (especially) give it any ability to act … Literally nobody would want to give it access to all their data, or use it beyond an advisory role.

Edge is chromium, just enshittified by Microsoft instead of Google.

The beauty of late stage capitalism is you get the illusion of choice — a handful of options, and all of them involve selling your soul to the devil.

It was positioned well for the failure but I’m not a fan of the dramatic circling drone shot. It gives you no concept of size, scale or altitude of … anything. The static camera positions we get from spacex are way better.

A wooden spoon across the top of the pot prevents boilover, so why waste the oil?

Except she probably wasn’t referring to identity theft; just how to handle dumb shits in management.

You ever heard the saying “like oil and water”? Oil doesn’t mix with water. It floats on the surface. Adding it just wastes 100% of the oil.

PHOTONS SLAM INTO JWST AFTER 13.3 BILLION YEARS!!!

Instead of the concept of a worker run monopoly, we’ll get a literal corporate fascist dictatorship… Yay?

And they’ve almost certainly only released this due to the upcoming EU laws related to user replaceable batteries and wider right to repair.

Apple isn’t doing this because they grew a conscience. They’re doing it because it’s a legal requirement they can’t lobby (bribe) their way out of.

Never forget. Corporations are not your friend, and never will be.

The state IS the corpos. We don’t have democracies. We have corporate plutocracies — where the Venn diagram between the most powerful individuals and corporations is basically a circle.

Money is more than just speech. Money is votes, and the more money you have, the more votes you have… and all of those “votes” go to pre-vetting, pre-selecting, pre-approving, financing, and promoting the names that appear on your ballot, as well as all the bills they vote on.