vulture_god

Two of the scientists use the word "exotic" in the new possibilities:

At the same time, this type of old environment is making us rethink our standard FRB progenitor models and turning to more exotic formation channels

If yes, it would make this FRB only the second FRB known to reside in a globular cluster. If not, we would have to consider alternative exotic scenarios for the FRB’s origin.”

I'm curious what constitutes exotic in this context.

I was curious about the same thing. I watched about 5 minutes of the video and don't think it came up.

Edit: found the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=009qMHiqsVs

I use graphene OS and Magic Earth instead of Google maps. I only turn on location when navigating. GOS also surfaces app permissions in a more obvious and granular way so I tend to reject most permissions and wait to see if it breaks anything. I also try to use open source apps from F-Droid instead of the Google store. If I need an app on Google store, I use Aurora as my client so I can install apps anonymously.

There's a number of additional steps I take. Although it seems like a lot, I still feel like I'm not doing everything I could. What really matters though is that I'm always making progress over time.

The degoogle sub is a good resource, as is the [email protected] comm.

Is this the Amazon breach you're talking about?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/larsdaniel/2024/11/11/amazon-confirms-data-breach-exposed-2800000-lines-of-employee-data/

I hadn't heard of it, and I usually follow this stuff pretty closely. FWIW, in this case, it appears that the data was employee data from a third party vendor's systems:

The exposed Amazon dataset includes employee work contact information, email addresses, desk phone numbers, and building locations. While Amazon spokesperson Adam Montgomery confirmed the breach, he emphasized in a statement to TechCrunch that core Amazon and Amazon Web Services, or AWS, systems remained secure.

People misconfigure AWS resources all the time, so it is definitely true that data stored by Amazon leaks out from time to time, although they don't have much culpability in these cases.

This is actually the main plot in Orson Scott Card's "Worthing Saga", although I've seen the concept explored in Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth series and Richard Morgan's Takashi Kovacs novels.

It's a fascinating concept to think about, and frankly depressing because it feels uncomfortably close to the reality we're headed towards.

Here's Mitt Romney and Anthony Blinken's explanation for the ban's passage:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mitt-romney-reveals-twisted-reason-why-congress-moved-to-ban-tiktok/ar-BB1lUzZi

TLDR:

Then Romney explained that the TikTok ban overwhelmingly passed both chambers of Congress because of the widespread Palestinian advocacy on the app.

The other concern I've heard, and has not been brought up in this thread yet, is the lobbying influence from rideshare companies to pass the congestion laws.

It's arguable that ride share vehicles are a better traffic density alternative to single rider personal vehicles, but there are pretty clear downsides to consider as well.

Source:

https://nypost.com/2025/01/04/us-news/uber-lyft-spent-millions-pushing-for-nyc-congestion-pricing-and-stand-to-make-killing/

It appears to be related to fiber optics, here's the best resource I found:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aZum_COPUek

Great topic, thanks for posting!

Relevant username (Final Architecture)

Others in no particular order:

• Skyward Quadrilogy. A new YA Sci-Fi from Brandon Sanderson. Some similar world elements to final architecture actually, but in a pretty interesting divergence. Really great ship combat pulled off as eloquently as sword play in Stormlight.
• Reckoners Series. Another genre departure for Brandon Sanderson, and also in one I don't typically pursue (cape stuff). But I think it really worked, and Sanderson's talent for hard magic systems fit well with the superpowers concept in the books.
• Ten Thousand Doors of January.

I also feel compelled to mention giving up with Peter F. Hamilton. I've read lots of the Commonwealth ones years ago, but struggle with the self-insert, male wish fulfillment that all of his characters seem to suffer from. I tried one last time with The Night's Dawn trilogy, but dropped it halfway through the second book. I was mostly along for the ride with the novel spiritual elements, and I also liked the Biomechanical / Ship AI technology. But the characters were all just pretty meh and I had a hard time caring. Also, the Al Capone thing was pretty strange lol.

I'm pretty experienced in some technical ways, but still learning a lot on Linux / kernel level. I appreciate your comment as I learn more about lower level architectures like this.

Reading about the Hurd microkernal was really interesting, here's the wiki article for others:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd

Def open to other suggestions on good resources for these topics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waters

Legendary artist / filmmaker. His movies are not for everyone and can be tough watches at points but also hilarious and with some great characters.

Yeah for me the understanding really came when working in a federated GraphQL API. Each team had us own little slice of overall object graph, and overlap / duplication / confusing objects across the whole domain were a lot easier to see in that environment.