I don’t think I trust the studies saying human power is worse tbh. Cultivating food uses CO2, cows eat plants before we eat them, the plants drink CO2 from the air. Lawnmower takes power out of the ground and injects pollution in the air. Scythe has to be better

I thought a push mower might help but some studies say it might be worse. I guess the recommendation is to plant something other than grass that naturally stays good to walk on, maybe? I’m still learning about this myself

It’s wasteful

Pretty sure the mowing is the exact problem. Can’t remember if it’s solved by using an old school push-powered mower or something

Edit - after looking into it, seems like push mowers don’t help because Americans eating meat will cause as much pollution pushing a mower as using gas? Not sure

Meanwhile, the “artificial intelligence” is chat bots that increasingly act like crackheads begging for money and trying to sell you random bikes and stuff

You’d need to know how they encode the data in their meows, which is really hard to analyze because the data being encrypted makes it seem like random noise

And then cats have really good ears, so you’d need to be a highly professional parrot or voice actor or something to convince the cat it’s hearing the cat you want it to think it’s hearing with your key in the exchange. Phone speakers wouldn’t be enough

You can’t decrypt anything with the public keys though, wouldn’t work

Piracy definitely helps artists by helping their art spread without corporate involvement and without being used to fund Israeli weapons or shit like that

Hence artists shouldn’t really expect much money in the covid era unless they’re individually big enough to sell a lot of merch or collectively strong enough in business negotiations to stop taking such tiny percentages of corporate revenue

0% because cats encrypt their communications with AES256

We also haven’t tried every possible configuration of atoms to see if anything creates a portal to an infinite energy dimension or a perpetual motion machine or something we can use to make our own stars

The sources are just people who know saying it, like me. The designers wouldn’t publicly admit it or anything.

Cell phone range is impacted by ground obstruction, the curvature of the earth itself getting in the way, atmospheric effects

The closest satellites are about 160km up, where a 3G transmitter can reach when it’s looking straight up with no Earth and less air in the way

The companies that designed the 3G standard and manufactured some of the phones also do military contracts for stuff like the radios in spy satellites, they knew what they were doing

It also stands out as intentional because making the range go beyond the curvature of the earth is just crippling infrastructure, wasting battery and putting millions of people in danger (can’t call 911 with a dead phone)

Lower-power devices with mesh networking would have made more sense with the powerful processors and high usage phones were getting by the middle of the 3G era, but the “cellular” design is much more convenient to monitor

The authorities are trying to crack down on user freedom to decide what software we can run on our own systems, especially on mobile devices. Later in the road map, this project should be trying to replace app stores. A large portion of GitHub users today are just downloading Android APK files, but that demographic will probably be an even higher percentage here. So the CLI will probably end up being for the power users, not most users.

If mainstream users are given an easy way to download before they’re given an easy way to seed, they’d make it hard for the network to distribute the load. So it seems important to start out beating Radicle’s desktop app with easier seeding, not let that be a weak point. This is also why I didn’t mention future mobile app plans sooner (desktop is inherently better for seeding)

There should be no built-in wallet functionality, just a built-in profile data field to enter wallet address links. A lot of Monero dev bounties call for the wallets to be built-in for ease of use, but I wanted to have that internal complexity avoided here by linking to external wallets.

I’ll have more bounties in the future and I was actually concerned about only having one place to post. Thanks for the tip 🤙

It’s definitely designed to be able to send signals to satellites, and there are satellites designed to pick up signals from devices that aren’t designed to reach them.

But, they can also just see where your car is going visually, and get any audio/video from inside with your phone that connects directly to cell towers, so you might be right that no satellite is actually ever spying on your car’s 3G modem.

I am glad the instance is back online after the outage this morning. Thank you for allowing instant sign ups 👍

That’s awesome, reminds me of a common historic setup where cable cars were used kinda like that (heavier on the way down)

It could be an OK idea that just wasn’t explained right. Maybe he just wants regen braking but with one wheel for charging and the other wheel + separate battery for power at any given time. Energy would come from pedalling and hills. None of that was explained though

You can power lights or a phone charger with a dynamo connected to the wheel and minimally noticeable drag/resistance. You can recharge a drivetrain with regenerative braking which requires high end motors to use the motor like a dynamo

It’s not free energy, but there’s at least one bike called the Pi-Pop that works this way in order to spread the energy demand from hills across more distance for the rider. It’s an electric bike you can’t plug in, it only charges from moving