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That makes sense. I remember a case where a man swirled his face in child abuse images with an art editor and the police found out they could reverse the swirl to reveal his face.

On Bluesky, some posters have found, with some of the redacted files, they could copy the redacted areas of some files and then paste it into a new document to reveal the text. Trump's name was mentioned 600 times in those. It turns out someone on the editing team didn't understand to use a secure redaction method.

Penny was slow to drop on that one.

Is USNO-calibrated time just for GPS and military stuff? I presume NIST-calibrated time is what word commerce and everything else runs on? Are the two systems usually in unison i.e. within nanoseconds/microseconds of each other?

Yes, neglected stuff is always going to cost more later on to remedy. DOGE just proved that its planners are fiscally incompetent. I find it interesting that hyped individuals, like Musk, inevitably fall off a credibility-cliff. They just don't know how far to push their luck and yet still maintain their public 'aura'.

Privatization of what should be public utilities is a major bugbear of mine. It just makes no sense. How can making a profit from them make it better for the domestic consumer? Since water/sewage, for example, was privatized in the UK, the infrastructure has become dilapidated and now needs BILLIONS spending on it to repair it. They are claiming poverty. Why haven't they put some of the profit aside for maintenance and upgrades over the last decades since privatization? Is privatisation just a gravy train, where they sap from it and, when it runs dry, expect the consumer to 'top it up' through continuously higher pricing? The future is even more ominous for the domestic consumer, with the massive data companies cutting shifty backdoor deals with utilities to reduce their ongoing energy, water and land use costs for their data centres. This can only mean that the consumer will bear the brunt of that increase. The main issue with faceless, investor-owned utilities is that there can be no personal accountability when big issues arise from bad or unethical decisions. They just get a new board of directors and pretend they've "learnt their lesson". Privatisation is a sibling of 'trickle down' economics. Privatisation was supposed to improve economic efficiency, but guess who gets the benefits of that efficiency?

I was mindful that AI might be involved. Time will tell. I suppose this is the first time I've had to hesitate, hence my asking. Thanks.

On Bluesky someone posted a picture purporting to show that the Bondi shooter is actually a Jewish person from Israel. I found a Daily Mail image of the shooter on the bridge, named as Naveed Akram and they seem to be the same person. What are your thoughts? The social media page of David Cohen has apparently vanished. I putthe two images together for comparison.

Courage is acting in the face of some adversity, contrary to ones usual behaviour because it may overcome a personal problem or aid another that is in distress.

I occasionally cut/prune trees down. Most people grossly underestimate the forces in a tree, its mass and gravity. Once a tree starts falling down, you have no recourse at all if it goes down in the wrong direction.

It might be a consequence of morphological changes due to things like hormonal changes, and the rest of the face getting smaller around it. It could be a non-functional byproduct of other processes. That's one hypothesis I've read about.

Yes, colonic cells feed off them.

Speed cameras are 1/1000sec or better. Some new photo cameras can do 1/32000sec. The cameras calculate exposure parameters based on vehicle speed and lighting conditions. I think radar data is integrated into the exposure formula.

Two different dogs in that vid. Probably AI BS.

If you look at it turned upside down and screen placed horizontally, it looks like a raised pyramid, blocking the dog's way.

To add: Eating cooled potatoes, which forms some resistant starch, reduced digestible calories by 10%. I think that's a useful reduction.

@sethoflagos AFAIK resistant starch is food for the gut biota. We can't use it directly.

When you buy pc components, they often come in gaseously-impervious, metallized plastic bags. That's what you need for archival storage. Formic, acetic, sulphuric, sulphurous, nitric, and others. The only paper material I now that is finished acid-free are museum-quality art papers, boards, and probably boxes,

Cool stuff!

Cheers. What sort of duration range might that come into effect? Is it hypothesized? Would Planck time be a limit?

Cheers. Will have a look.

We measure time in discrete steps, but it's actually continuous i.e undivided, or smoothly progressive.

Yes, I've read this too, but I'm just leaving it at ambient 16-20c and experiencing the different tastes. I started the culture pretty warm - 28-30c - with a beer warming mat to get the population up quickly, so that the undesirable micros didn't get a chance to dominate. I had an issue that put me bordering on diarrhoea and I surmised it might be down to an incomplete gut biota, such that my gut lining was somewhat inflamed. The body thinks it's being attacked, so, as a result of the inflammation, which is protective, the fluid absorption was compromised, leading to watery stools. Everything seems to be normal now. The underlying reason, I guessed, was I don't eat enough fresh food to keep the biota maintained and this seems to have fixed it, I think. I still have to address my overall diet though. I've come to realize that veg variety is not just about vitamins, fibre and minerals, but also inoculating the gut lining regularly with diverse microbiota. Being in my mid-sixties now, my body complains much more about not eating properly. I'm trying to halve my consumption as well because I don't need it... the evidence is in my expanding belly!