A friend of mine created a graphic novel about this, called "Madame Choi and the Monsters", if you're interested in that kind of thing.

https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/madame-choi-and-the-mons...

Is the last sentence satire? I can't really tell. Literally entire fields of study are dedicated to this, including one at Harvard. https://sts.hks.harvard.edu/about/whatissts.html

Not sure how much this adds to the conversation, but I have a 1990 VW Golf which is possibly the easiest piece of technology I've ever worked on. Has satisfying buttons that button. Has an actual windshield wiper handle. Diagnosing and replacing parts is incredibly easy due to the wealth of knowledge out there, and readily available parts that can be ordered. The most complicated thing is tracing electrical gremlins, which, given the 30+ years of collective knowledge out there on forums, is really not so bad anymore. I'm not always nostalgic for old stuff, just saying that if you have an engineering mindset, tinkering with an older car is very satisfying.

> All-in-all quite a disappointing session IMHO the worse I attended at 37c3, nothing compared to the excellent https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/event/numerical_air_... that was running at the same time.

Yeah, was there for this one, can highly recommend. Will also be building my own DIY air quality sensor to add to their network.

Which network are you considering for your DIY air quality sensor? They mention on a slide:

- https://sensor.community/

- https://luftdaten.at/

- https://openair.cologne/

Since I'm neither in Austria nor Cologne, I'd go with https://sensor.community

I learned a lot about this kind of predictive modeling function of our brains from _The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark. He was on Sean Carroll's podcast not too long ago and they had a great conversation on this topic.

Yeah this was absolutely amazing. Blake did a great job curating the contributors and the comments led to some great conversations sometimes.

Terra Creta was everywhere in Crete when I was visiting there. Maybe it doesn't ship to the mainland very much?

Hm yeah, probably. I also don't notice oil brands very much, but these aren't some of the big ones (Altis, Elais, etc).

"Ring of Fire, an Indonesian Odyssey" is at the top of my list. An incredible journey spanning 10 years. Allegedly bankrolled by Ringo Starr who was captivated by the premise, and had faith in the brothers who set out to trace the steps of naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire:_An_Indonesian_...

How does uncited trash like this make it the front page?

wanted to add my email but the console reports "mailchimp ajax submit error: error"

Thanks for letting me know, will take a look now. If you want to drop me an email “josh@ the website above” then I’ll add you to the list.