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What I find quite disturbing in all these privacy invading technologies is that they’re often marketed as fantastic problem solvers whereas the reality is that they have many confounding factors that put the innocent at risk. Even DNA testing is unreliable unless a lot of care is taken in the entire process. The problem I see is that lawmakers and law enforcement want these to be taken as the gospel truth when obtain…
"The East German Ministry for State Security (Stasi) ... buil[t] up a massive archive of people’s smells. Started in 1979, the collection was kept across East Germany, collected and evaluated by the Main Department XX, responsible for monitoring the East German cultural and media scene and the repression of the political opposition."[ https://www.deutsches-spionagemuseum.de/en/sammlung/odour-ca... ]
The odour conserve features at the end.
https://outline.com/qJvRN6
Thanks for that. Seems like The Economist has strengthened their paywall in 2020!
1) I ALWAYS try to post an unblocked version of stories from the Wall Street Journal and the Economist that I submit: if I can't do so, I don't post the article.
2) I used to rely on Outline as my #1 go-to for unblocking, but something changed there about 6 months to a year ago such that it stopped working completely so I stopped even considering it along my "trail of unblocked tears."
3) When I see a comment about blocked New York Times or Washington Post articles posted by me or others, I immediately post an unblocked version.
4) Having said all that, here are my go-tos for unblocking paywalled articles, best first:
b. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1687222?hl=en (Google cache)
Every time I unblock something a little "good deed of the day" bell rings in head; paying it forward, as it were.
https://outline.com/qJvRN6
Thanks for that. Seems like The Economist has strengthened their paywall in 2020!
Gas chromatography is being miniaturized with MEMS sensors, https://www.bronkhorst.com/int/blog/mems-technology-to-suppo... $50 spectrometers are already quite small, https://hackaday.io/project/143014-compact-25-spectrometer & https://www.tindie.com/products/onehorse/compact-as7265x-spe... If portable analyzers inspired by Star Trek's tricorder become affordable, the transparency goes in multiple directions, e.g. an…
In fact, several of these they can already do with a combination of the existing hardware, but sadly, the market has laser-focused on visual social media.
Gas chromatography is being miniaturized with MEMS sensors, https://www.bronkhorst.com/int/blog/mems-technology-to-suppo... $50 spectrometers are already quite small, https://hackaday.io/project/143014-compact-25-spectrometer & https://www.tindie.com/products/onehorse/compact-as7265x-spe... If portable analyzers inspired by Star Trek's tricorder become affordable, the transparency goes in multiple directions, e.g. an…
There was a time when mobile phones gained many sensors, and it all kind of stopped 10 years ago. I expected high-end phones by 2020 would measure distances and temperatures, air quality, UV exposure, radioactivity, infrared photography, etc. In essence, baby tricorders. In fact, several of these they can already do with a combination of the existing hardware, but sadly, the market has laser-focused on visual social…
I recently had a strange thought about the human body as a bunch of different pots of soup. They all sit on a large surface, and represent different types of fluids. One might represent the insides of your cells, another represents your blood. Another might represent the stomach, or another part of the digestive system, etc. You have an input pot that represents what you eat, and that's the only one you can actually…
Gas chromatography is being miniaturized with MEMS sensors, https://www.bronkhorst.com/int/blog/mems-technology-to-suppo... $50 spectrometers are already quite small, https://hackaday.io/project/143014-compact-25-spectrometer & https://www.tindie.com/products/onehorse/compact-as7265x-spe... If portable analyzers inspired by Star Trek's tricorder become affordable, the transparency goes in multiple directions, e.g. an…
There was a time when mobile phones gained many sensors, and it all kind of stopped 10 years ago. I expected high-end phones by 2020 would measure distances and temperatures, air quality, UV exposure, radioactivity, infrared photography, etc. In essence, baby tricorders. In fact, several of these they can already do with a combination of the existing hardware, but sadly, the market has laser-focused on visual social…
Sad, because I'd buy one if it was just a normal phone plus IR. Presently I make do with a plug-in accessory module.
I share your frustration. Consider a sled-backpack-case sort of thing with "all the missing sensors", instead of piecemeal accessories you carry a gaggle of and have to swap out. If it was like one of those extended-battery sled cases, you could just leave it on and write apps that expect it to be there...
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There was a time when mobile phones gained many sensors, and it all kind of stopped 10 years ago. I expected high-end phones by 2020 would measure distances and temperatures, air quality, UV exposure, radioactivity, infrared photography, etc. In essence, baby tricorders. In fact, several of these they can already do with a combination of the existing hardware, but sadly, the market has laser-focused on visual social…
CAT was branding a phone some time ago with a low-res thermal camera, but it was locked to some already-ancient version of Android and otherwise total lamesauce. Sad, because I'd buy one if it was just a normal phone plus IR. Presently I make do with a plug-in accessory module. I share your frustration. Consider a sled-backpack-case sort of thing with "all the missing sensors", instead of piecemeal accessories you ca…
I do think it's simultaneously cool and ridiculous that instead of just adding a simple distance sensor, companies making measurement software for phones double down on the software-only approach with computer vision.