📶The Next WIFI Gen,15 Minute City, and Gold Media Storage
Store files in gold
Greetings friends! I hope this Monday is going well for you.
It’s been rather cold here in Tennessee, so I haven’t gotten out of the house that much.
I put on jeans and a flannel the other day and said to myself - I think this is the first time I’ve actually “got dressed” in two weeks.
Yeah. Jogger life here haha. I have my eye on getting a pair of these as my next Joggers. They look amazing. Hmm. Birthday present maybe.
Have you been watching Peacemaker? That show is awesome! I hope we get more shows from the Suicide Squad “universe.”
It’s the perfect DC answer to other shows like “The Boys” - and they could easily make multiple seasons.
Heck - a show about Bloodsport would be cool too.
While we’re on the retro vibes here - check out this retro version of the Dead by Daylight theme.
Oh - have you heard the original? That’s pretty fly too
Bet you’ve never heard Dies Irae like that have you?
Well, let’s dive in.
📶The Next Wifi Gen
Everyone has Wifi these days - and it’s usually free. Heck, the only place where Wifi feels old school is the dang plane when they want money for wifi.
Well, the next generation of WIFI is gonna be nuts.
Sometime in 2024, the IEEE will unveil a new 802.11 standard that will bring new capabilities . . . The newest version of Wi-Fi layers on the ability to sense people or objects by using math to calculate how they disturb the signals bouncing around a physical space, so our established Wi-Fi devices will become part of a network that will be used to figure out the location of humans and things contained within particular spaces. (source)
Yeah - the next generation of Wifi is going to be able to sense your presence. How about that for some home security?
Hey - something is moving in the basement. The wifi has been triggered.
Don’t get me wrong - there’s some very distinct advantages to Wifi motion over cameras. Cameras are much more privacy invasive. I’d much rather have this than smart cameras.
This is definitely a technology that I’d want my own router for - Can you imagine what kind of data Comcast or Verizon could harvest?
According to our analysis, 500,000 people don’t use their dining room table more than twice a week. This is the perfect demographic to sell our book to about the importance of quality family time around the dinner table.
A little extreme - yes - but sensing data will most likely be monetized in some way.
I imagine the tradeoff will be “free premium home security” or something.
However, we’re still a few years away from the technology being standardized, and then probably another few years from the tech becoming popular.
I look forward to finding out what kind of privacy settings will be put in place!
Cognitive Systems Corp is currently testing the tech - check out their website for a great sneak peek at what’s to come in a few years.
🏙The 15 Minute City
As a 29 year old, I have hopes that maybe when I’m in my 40’s I’ll be able to live in a “mixed use” community.
The typical suburban almost treeless neighborhood is the bane of my existence.
There’s a new community called “The Point” being built in Utah. The goal is to build it in such a way that it will take you only 15 minutes to get from one side - to the other - by walking.
The plan calls for a network of open spaces so residents can walk through car-free linear parks to different parts of the neighborhood to reach offices, schools, or stores, all built in mixed-use zones. “You can move through the whole project in the open space system and have access to almost every single parcel in the project,” (source)
Doesn’t that sound awesome?
Here’s a pic of all the green space that’s planned.
It looks a lot more “organic” than Central Park in NYC doesn’t it? The green space also extends to the outside too.
A pathway will also lead through the site on a new pedestrian bridge over a freeway to a recreational trail next to the river. On the other side of the neighborhood, it will link to hiking or biking in the mountains. “I think that’s where a lot of urban design and the future of cities is headed—this idea of ‘biomorphic urbanism,’ where people want connection to nature, and they want connection to each other,” (source)
I wish more urban planners were working on this sort of design for communities rather than more suburban nightmares.
I guess it’s all about the money for all these new suburban developments. It’s sad.
Here’s a very accurate meme to sum up this angst - rather than me ranting about it for several paragraphs hahaha.
Go read more about the Point at the link!
🥇Gold Media Storage
Here’s some tea that no one wants to talk about.
CD’s fail. Cassette tapes fail. Hard drives eventually degrade.
Without maintenance - data dies.
However - there's a new company plannng to stop digital data death.
It’s called the Totenpass.
The Totenpass is a permanent physical storage drive which preserves your digital information. Constructed from the indestructible elements of solid gold and nickel, made in the same labs which revolutionized film photography, the Totenpass will preserve your digital data by way of a patented light-diffraction process which imprints images, documents and other files onto the metal card. A Totenpass can be human readable, without the aid of computers, or machine readable, with the employ of a smartphone. One Totenpass can permanently store up to 111 Megabytes (or 3,894 individual pages) of data, thereby ending any future dependence on energy, the Cloud, or the Internet. (source)
I almost spit out my coffee when I saw the words “111 Megabytes.” That’s so little data!
Still - there’s a great deal of data you could put on those 111 MB.
For example - you could store your BTC wallet on there, or your family history that Aunt Joe put 20 years of her life into, or a digital copy of that family deed to that ranch in Texas.
Heck - you could even store a photo or two on there - maybe that ultra rare Bored Ape.
It’s a really unique concept that definitely bears thinking about in a world where all of our data is one good EMP or fire away from ceasing to exist.
Oof. That’s a scary thought to think about.
They don’t cost very much either! The largest size (111 megabyes) is only $75. That’s a small price to pay for ensuring that precious data does not perish.
Heck - maybe I should start sorting through my data . . .
Go check it out!
🐙 The Land of Random
Random! You asked for it - Here it is
Doge to the Moon
Doge to the Moon. This made me laugh really hard.
Floppy Disk Website
This old school website runs off a floppy disk! How many sites like that still exist eh?
Dark Facebook Page
A fascinating article about a weird Facebook Page that posts the most inane and bizarre content to go viral. It works too!
Pokemon FPS
Someone decided to make Pokeon, but instead of capturing them - you blow them away. 😳 One could make the argument that this could have happened in the “war” that occurred in the time before the pokemon games . . .
Cheezam!
Identify your cheese with AI. A most useful tool when encountering a charcuterie board with delicious cheese. I need a way to test this . . .
I now crave cheese
Canned Cake Vending Machine
I very much want to try this . . . .
Slide to Root
Rooting a LG WebOS Tv has never been easier for security testing or making apps. You literally just slide to Root. LOL. I’ve never seen a “root” website like this . . .
🎶TikToks You Can’t Miss
WHO does eat at Long John Silvers? I’ve gotten sick the two times I’ve eaten there.
Fallout 4 - but with a Silent Hill Mod. This looks awesome.
This house would be really fun to live in.
Ok - Armored Combat IRL sounds awesome. I need to check this out.
Why can’t all Walmarts look like this?
That’s all for this week friends! See you next time. :)