๐ Great choice! I have a friend who wanted to be a fence erector, but after seeing this infographic had a change of hearts.
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Got it ;) But I hadn't heard about the award! can you share some link about that? Cheers!
Edit: found it! Well done EFF! (I'm a proud member.)
Cool! Let's see what kind of material people bring out :)
I remember I did a search 5 or more years ago, and it was actually tricky because I only got something after searching for very specific terms, which in turn I had gotten from other searches. I'm trying to remember what they were...
Neat idea! +1
Luckily "effectively the standard" is just a temporary thing. What browser was considered "standard" has changed many times in the past, and will continue to change in the future. Of course for this to happen everyone who cares must keep on pushing.
Thank you for the link, I wasn't aware of that bug. I deleted all google cookies by hand, and now everything seems to be working as it should!
My transition was quite smooth, but everyone has different circumstances. It wasn't a problem with banking in my case, I just changed my email at the bank. But probably your bank works differently?
In my case the good thing is that my email is hosted and handled by me, so I need something like Protonmail just as an emergency email in case my hosting server is down. (Sure I could use Google that way, but I just don't want to.)
Thank you for the extra link! Interesting guides there even besides email.
Partly off-topic: is that true even when one uses PGP? Email security and encryption is something I know very little about, unfortunately.
Thank you for the heads-up about the client restrictions!
Absolutely amazing!! I suppose you've seen some renderings like this one.
However, these molecules don't really have a will or a scope, and in fact I don't like how they are deceivingly represented in some of these animations. These animations show, say, some aminoacid that goes almost straight towards some large molecule and does this and that. And one is left with the question: how does it get there and how does it "know" that it should get there? The answer is that it's just immersed in water and moved about by the unsystematic motion of the water molecules. Some aminoacids go here, some go there. In these animations they only show the ones that end up connecting with the large molecule. OK, this is done just to simplify the visualization, but it can also be misleading.
Similarly with molecules like kinesin, which seem to purposely walk around. Also in that case there's a lot of unsystematic motion, that after a while ends in a particular more stable configuration thanks to electromagnetic forces. Simulations such as this or this give a more realistic picture of these processes.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the whole thing isn't awe-inspiring or mind blowing. It is. Actually I think that the more realistic picture (without these "purposeful" motions) leads to even more awe, because of the structured complexity that comes out of these unsystematic motions.