exactly!

I've been wondering about this for quite a while now. Why does everybody automatically assume that I'm using the decimal system when saying "orders of magnitude"?!

I'd argue that 100% of all humans use the decimal system, most of the time. Maybe 1 to 5% of all humans use another system some of the time.

Anyway, there are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Because, as xkcd 169 says, communicating badly and then actung smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness. "Orders of magnitude" refers to a decimal system in the vast majority of uses (I must admit I have no concrete data on this, but I can find plenty of references to it being base-10 and only a suggestion that it could be sometihng else).

Unless you've explicitly stated that you mean something else, people have no reason to think that you mean something else.

I can recommend the other way round:

For un-bricking my phone, I had to use some proprietary windows-only software. So I took an old Laptop and installed Windows 10.

Installing it was such a pain already. So many dark patterns, so many privacy issues. I even had to create a microsoft account!

After the deed was done, I closed the Laprop, went back to my Linux system and enjoyed it even more :-)

you know what would save lives?

If the top 1% would spend 1% of their wealth on preventing "low-hanging fruits" like

  * children starving
  * children dying from diseases whose vaccinations cost 1$
  * educating people on things like STDs, etc

You call "knowingly causing miscarriage" manslaughter, but boy have you looked at what "we" ("first world") are causing elsewhere in a global scale?

> children dying from diseases whose vaccinations cost 1$

If there’s a government anywhere that isn’t providing this for its citizens, perhaps looking into why that government is such a failure would yield greater and more durable change than a point patch of just a few vaccines.

> If the top 1% would spend 1% of their wealth

Why should we expect/demand more generosity from only 1% of the population? Maybe everyone should spend 1% of their wealth on these efforts? It’s easy to be magnanimous with someone else’s wallet.

> Why should we expect/demand more generosity from only 1% of the population? Maybe everyone should spend 1% of their wealth on these efforts? It’s easy to be magnanimous with someone else’s wallet.

I was mainly referring to the "super rich" (Musk, Bezos, etc.) since this topic was about how SpaceX treats people and because "multi-planetary civilization" is primarily a thing I connect with their companies. I do donate ~10% of my income. Not sure how much the average FAANG-CEO does donate.

> If there’s a government anywhere that isn’t providing this for its citizens, perhaps looking into why that government is such a failure would yield greater and more durable change than a point patch of just a few vaccines.

Failed States and Corruption do exist. They have various complicated reasons which to address would certainly not be "a low-hanging fruit". Of course, solving these would be a good thing, but not within the scope of "donate food, donate medicine, pay teachers"

Suppose there’s a failed state or widespread corruption somewhere and a child there who needs $1 worth of vaccine or $1 worth of food.

What’s the chance that or fraction of your dollar, my dollar, or a billionaire’s dollar will end up actually reaching and helping that child? We’ve all seen food aid donations fail to reach those in need for precisely the same corruption that caused it to be needed in the first place.

well, it has a lot to do with people growing up during cold war and german reunification.

There were many stories where people lost faith in politics (e.g. after Chernobyl), so people gathered together to do stuff on their own. I think being "social" (to all people), decentralized and mistrusting authorities is just a left thing. so that's just a natural thing imho

That chernobyl and western politics is in any way connected is due to decades unscientific fearmongering. And Berlin has always been a hotbed for that.

But chernybyl isnt the only or primary reason.

that post made me worry more tbh :(

time to use chaospost to send him a get-well card! :-)

I like your tool, but the schedule in the "hub" can now also filter for "recorded":

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/schedule?mode=lis...

it's because the congress has literally not started yet.

opening is tomorrow 10h30 CET

I'm surprised, no one mentioned https://f4pga.org/ yet.

What happened to servo? That looked pretty promising - is it dead?

Mozilla dropped it. It's still getting developed, but it is now focused more on embedded webview use cases. That's not to say someone couldn't build a full browser from it, but that isn't a goal of the current servo devs. Servo also isn't quite mature enough for that.