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A new world order is coalescing: the biggest factor was our own doing. Technology. SARS-COV-2 is an important catalyst. 1. Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Deep fakes Generalized Intelligence 2. Cryptography and blockchain working for protocols (Oracle problem fulfilled by human agents held accountable by other agents on other blockchains) increased accountability for all your actions... less capability to commit morally ambiguous acts. Lawful on the chain != Right, though. erosion of privacy in some domains increased privacy in other domains. 3. 5G and China's long-game and ambitions communism, democracy, and capitalism. propaganda, disinformation, and fascism freedom vs. populace control - lulling the majority 'sheep' into a sense of complacency about violations to human rights and harm to the environment. Gradual shift in morals and ethics especially with respect to privacy. 4. Wealth inequality ends through revolution in NA, EU redistributi...

I pay for 150 Mbps internet service and I'm getting very inconsistent results at speedtest.net, only getting between 11 and 24 Mbps down. My upload is sometimes higher than the download which is uncommon for home services and not what I'm paying for. Here's some screenshots from speed test runs including a screenshot of the monitoring graph from my OpenWRT router. Notice the strange drop off in the middle of the test run. A major sign that points me toward a bad cable modem rather than problematic lines from the ISP is: earlier this morning, I lost internet -only power, link, and DS light (flashing) were lit- and I tried unplugging/re-plugging the barrel connector to power on the back of the modem to no avail... same indicator lights, no internet. This was with a 2-4 minute cooldown period. Then I tried unplugging the modem barrel connector and letting it cool down for 30 minutes to ambient temperature; it didn't turn back on at all (no lights) when...

There's a great number of ways to interact with a phone but being able to see what it's displaying is probably the most important.  Unfortunately, smashing a screen is an all too common occurrence and with the poor state of voice assistance, and strengthened security across Android, it's become harder to get into a phone that's been smashed.  Although the regular backup system with Google Cloud and other apps with backup capabilities has improved, sometimes you just really want to get back onto that phone to rescue data. Listed below are a number of strategies you can try to gain increased access to your broken phone. Immediately assess whether or not your phone has some life left in the screen and digitizer.  If the digitizer still works, even partially it will be helpful.  If the LCD/AMOLEDs are bleeding purple or black, you'll have a limited time before the screen completely fails... so best to enable some of the remote control options (6, 7, or 10) below. I...

I'm rather furious that my photos captioned with specific words (scientific names of plants) are not returned when I search my photos; rather Google is returning a bunch of my photos that look like the plants but are 90% of the time incorrect identifications.  This is absolutely bonkers.  How hard is it to index my captions and return the photos that have the search terms in those captions rather than doing a piss poor job of image recognition?  I know for a fact Google is already indexing my photos based upon my captions because when I add a correct species ID, the search results improve to about 15 to 20% correct "similar-looking" plants, but still missing many of the photos I manually captioned with the scientific name. Ludicrous and infuriating!

MessageSync is still the best, right through to Nougat. All messages backed up and restored along with conversations that have more than one participant and significantly: MMS too!! But it has problems with emoji's. Also, the function within the app, "Synchronize" messages with backup file or "merge" with backup file is funky *see reviews for the app on Google Play Store. JS Backup - Restore & Migrate seems good but has problems with MMS; emoji's and group conversations seem okay. Also, JS Backup tells you how many SMS and MMS items to backup before you actually run the backup. Titanium Backup Root is excellent but requires root. Also, due to a change in the location of the com.android.providers.telephony folder with Nougat, TiBu has problems restoring to the folder. Method to make it work is as follows: Recommend adding your Google accounts and Whatsapp accounts so that all your contacts are restored and conversations have proper names prior to...

Just did some minor testing after trying the Georeferencing toolbar in ArcGIS to create some world files (.jpgw, .pngw, .ecww, .tfw, etc.) and wanted to see how these two GIS suites treat the result. Normally I use MapWindow GIS to georeference aerial photos but its Image to Map Image Registration Plug-in is very slow and has some strange bugs that might deserve another blog post. The aerial photos were received from the provincial agency as MrSID files and were converted to ecw using IrfanView. Neither the original SID files or the ECW files had embedded projection information. In ArcGIS, I used the georeferencing toolbar and added five control points then chose Projective Transformation rather than the default Affine 1st Order Polynomial method to transform the raster. Upon clicking Update Georeferencing (Save the current warp to the dataset) from the toolbar, two files are created with the same name prefix as the .ecw file but with different extensions. They are photoname.ecw...