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[aurora-alice]

Need these phones back. 🩷🩵🖤

[alphaengineering]

Cyborg Origin🤖💪

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https://x.com/nickadobos/status/1910807851821633687?s=46&t=phIcPWPJmXLJ7wJtmxw22Q

https://x.com/nickadobos/status/1910807851821633687?s=46&t=phIcPWPJmXLJ7wJtmxw22Q

[wikinley]

Does a USB drive get heavier as you store more files on it?

Nope. Paradoxically (and theoretically), the more you save on a flash drive, the lighter it gets.

USB drives use Flash memory, which means the the ones and zeros of the data are stored on transistors.

When you save data, a binary zero is set by charging the float gate of the transistor, and a binary one is set by removing the charge.

To charge it, we add electrons, and the mass of each electron is 0.00000000000000000000000000091 grams.

This means that an empty USB drive (which mostly holds zeros) weighs more than a full USB drive (which has ones and zeros). Add data, reduce the weight.

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[kbibibby]

OG infinity stones activated*

[the-blueprint]

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Kenyan inventor Roy Allela, 25, created Sign-IO gloves to translate sign language into audible speech, bridging communication for the deaf.

Sign-IO gloves, with finger sensors, connect via Bluetooth to an app, translating sign language into vocal speech.

Young inventor, also at Intel and teaching at Oxford, introduced gloves at rural special needs school, aiming for wider accessibility.

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[nothingelsetobe]

IMPORTANT! Please reblog, share, and repost this!

KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!

https://www.stopkosa.com/

The KOSA bill is apart of project 2025 and is going to the senate THIS THURSDAY.

This site will provide you an email to send to congress. It will also direct you to call all of your reps and provide a script aswell! If you have phone anxiety, leaving a voicemail is OKAY!

[no-passaran]

ATTENTION IF YOU HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT

Meta (the company that owns Instagram and Facebook) is rolling out in more countries its update that steals the photos and texts that you upload to feed its AI.

(*26th June 2024. I have my phone in Catalan and Instagram, which is not fully available in Catalan, must have picked up the date from my phone and mixed it in the English message)

I have a private account and an open account, and I've only gotten this notification on my open account, so I'm assuming private accounts are safe for now (but considering Meta's history of human rights violations, privacy violations, lies, and doing everything they can for money, I'm not sure I trust them on this or that it will stay like this).

As the text says, you have the right to object to the content you uploaded being used for their AI. To request your content not be included, you have to send them this form (this is the hyperlink you get when you click "right to object" on the notification):

However, even if you send them this, Meta has to manually approve each application to decide whether or not they grant you the opportunity to opt out of their AI.

I've already received the email saying my objection has been approved and it will be applied "from now on". I don't know what legal basis they use, so if you want to copy what I said, basically I said I have photos of heritage sites that are copyright protected with a license where we are allowed to take photos and post them without a profit, but they're not allowed to use them in a commercial way such as AI training. It worked, so you can say the same if you want.

Something else to keep in mind:

If you have a friend whose account is open, let them know about this. Not only so that they can protect themselves, but also so that they don't upload photos of you and your face is used to generate AI images.

I have to say tho, even with my objection request being approved, I don't really feel safe in Meta services anymore, because I don't trust it. I think it's a good moment to delete our Facebook and Instagram accounts regardless.

[creativethought]

Get this Robot - Click Here

[troythecatfish]

spiteful sanctions and embargoes only do harm to innocent civilians

[adafruit]

Desk of Ladyada - Tariff Talk! ASK AWAY! 📦🌎💸

We're doing the show tonight or Tues, so much is going on. Lots more questions came in too! Post yours before we go live…

This week was not a big week for engineering because we're neck-deep in tariff management! We had a video on Wednesday about the first round of tariffs announced—they have since been ratcheted up to 20% + 125% = 145% minimum on products from China and Hong Kong. "Retaliatory" tariffs on products from other countries have been paused, but there's still a 10% global tariff.

Then on Friday, it looks like some HTS codes

were "exempted" temporarily

Let's take a look at the CBP (link) and the exempt tariff codes

and see how they might apply to the kinds of stuff we use to do our electronics engineering.

The Great Search - How to Source Tariffed & Non-Tariffed Items on DigiKey

https://www.digikey.com/short/2nb7nzb3

Since this is the topic of the day, we'll be looking at how to purchase an item from DigiKey with tariffs in mind. DigiKey is a free trade zone, which means that if you're not in the USA, you will not have to pay additional tariffs on goods that are re-exported. However, for USA destinations, the new tariffs can add a significant cost if the component has its last manufacturing step in China.

Let's use the example of a simple I2C-controlled temperature sensor to see how our sourcing decisions may be impacted by tariffs.

[allthatispeculiar]

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