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Mon Apr 18 06:00:01 EDT 2022
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Slept from eleven to six without waking.
Chance of rain, possibly mixed with snow in the morning.
Snow in the afternoon.
Accumulations 2 to 3 inches.
Highs in the upper 30s.
East winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the north early in the evening.
Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
Ten minutes on the exercise bike in the morning.
# Work
Infrastructure team meeting, worked on Box/OneDrive analysis, more AWS training.
A pretty thick blanket of snow fell in the afternoon.
April in Michigan!
# Home
* [x] wish Yvonne a happy birthday
https://lobste.rs/s/xaihmk/contra_chrome#c_iydctj
> Bruce Schneier had a nice example attack. If people see ‘I have voted’ badges on their friends social media things, then they are around 5-10% more likely to vote. If you track browsing habits, especially which news sites people visit, then you can get a very good estimate of someone’s voting intention. You can easily correlate that with other signals to get address. In a constituency with a fairly narrow margin (a lot of them in states with effectively two-party systems) then you can identify the people most likely to vote for candidates A and B. If you hide ‘I’ve voted’ badges from the social media UIs for people who lean towards B and show them for people who lean towards A then you have a very good chance of swinging the election.
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> That said, the fact that a person using Chrome / Facebook / WhatsApp / whatever is giving that company a hundred-millionth of the power that they need to control the government in their country is probably not a compelling reason for most people to switch. Individually, it doesn’t make much of a difference whether you use these services or not.
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> Unless you’re a member of a minority, of course. Then you have to worry about things like the pizza-voucher attack (demonstrated a few years ago, you can place an ad with Google targeting gay 20-somethings in a particular demographic with a voucher that they can claim for discounted pizza delivery. Now you have the names and addresses of a bunch of victims for your next hate crime spree).
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220407-the-living-lights-that-could-reduce-energy-use
> The turquoise blue glow bathing the waiting room in Rambouillet, meanwhile, comes from a marine bacterium gathered off the coast of France called Aliivibrio fischeri. The bacteria are stored inside saltwater-filled tubes, allowing them to circulate in a kind of luminous aquarium. Since the light is generated through internal biochemical processes that are part of the organism's normal metabolism, running it requires almost no energy other than that needed to produce the food the bacteria consume. A mix of basic nutrients is added and air is pumped through the water to provide oxygen. To "turn off the lights", the air is simply cut off, halting the process by sending the bacteria into an anaerobic state where it does not produce bioluminescence.
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> "Our goal is to change the way in which cities use light," says Sandra Rey, founder of the French start-up Glowee, which is behind the project in Rambouillet. "We want to create an ambiance that better respects citizens, the environment and biodiversity – and to impose this new philosophy of light as a real alternative."
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> Founded in 2014, Glowee is developing a liquid raw material – in theory endlessly renewable – made of bioluminescent microorganisms. It is cultivated in saltwater aquariums before being packaged in the aquarium tubes. The manufacturing process, claims Rey, consumes less water than manufacturing LED lights and releases less CO2, while the liquid is also biodegradable. The lights also use less electricity to run than LEDs, according to the company, although the Glowee bulbs produce fewer lumens of light than most modern LED bulbs.
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> But exactly how these transgenic bioluminescent plants might be used in the future is still to be decided. One group of designers in Athens, led by Olympia Ardavani at the Hellenic Open University, laid out a vision of large numbers of bioluminescent plants being used to provide ambient lighting along the side of roads. They estimated that if a plant could be produced that would emit around 57 lumens of light each, they would need 40 plants in every 30m (98ft) on each side of the road in order to meet the lowest class of street lighting required on roads used by pedestrians in Europe.
Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 1/2, meat 3/3, nuts 0/0.5
Breakfast: banana, pineapple, coffee, naan with egg and artichoke
Lunch: breakfast sandwich, Cappuccino
Dinner: pineapple, Thai
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