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Comment Re:Serious setback for Ukraine (Score 1) 76

As someone who builds FPV drones i can tell you that you are wrong. Go look up Betaflight, Ardupilot, iNAV and that just 3 of the most popular firmware available and guess what? they are all open source. Then go look up the most popular software used on radio controllers OpenTX and its fork EdgeTX, With advanced features such as being able to run LUA scripts on your radio and fully programmable logic switches, numerous channels etc, Far more advanced than anything DJI can put out. Yep both are open source, Next go look up the most popular low latency long range radio control link used for drones. it's ExpressLRS which is installed on receivers and transmitter and has been flown out 100km on 2.4GHz freq. With lower latency, more features and longer range than anything DJI has ever produced. It's open source. In the drone space the open source projects are far ahead of anything else with features you just can't get on any proprietary DJI or anything else.

Comment Re:Spiral of suspicion (Score 2) 76

hahahaha "western Russia" This clown would like you to believe that Ukraine is "Western Russia" and the whole premise of his argument is that why would Russia flood itself. Newsflash. Ukraine is not "Western Russia" Thats like me barging into your house with guns, killing some of your family and kidnapping some of your kids and claiming the eastern part of your house is the western part of my house, half of it as my house "Why would i flood my own house" hahahaha what a moron.

Comment Re:Hyrdogen! Not mining! (Score 1) 145

Hydrogen is great but it's very difficult to deal with. Unfortunately hydrogen it seems is not a panacea. See here for the lowdown.

Storage: Having to compress it to 700bar and store it is a massive challenge and expensive af. The smallest atom in the universe likes to seep through stuff.

Emissions: currently 90+% of hydrogen generated from flossil fuels so dirty hydrogen won't solve the geenhouse gas problem

Clean hydrogen: generated from wind and solar is great but wind and solar is unstable power

Fuel cells: Due to the water byproduct they like to freeze in winter time. They also require platinum and iridium one is rare and the other is even more rare. These are much more rare than lithium. Also they require mining

So in short hydrogen requires mining both for much rarer metals and for natural gas/coal etc, is difficult to store and therefore costs are not going to be optimal and is mostly..currently...dirty hydrogen. There are massive challenges ahead in order to get hydrogen up to scale while keeping the costs down.

Comment Re:I want Open Source to beat spying Google/MS/etc (Score 2) 46

Yes and lizard people, but the aliens are controlling the lizard people that are controlling the govt. that are controlling us like cattle and Bill Gates is in cahoots with the aliens. The aliens want us to believe that the world is round when it's clearly flat and that's why they rig our elections and control the corporations. Once they get us all a single digital identity they will use that to control us even more. This is why people should own cell phones because they sneak that digital identity in through the back door in the form of an IMEI number.

Comment Re:Nothing about this story makes sense (Score 1) 209

1) Why did they reveal to the public this thing exists? 2) Why do they trust it's going to not harm our nation or its interests by letting it continue to fly? 3) Why do they let it continue to fly & gather intelligence on our nation? 4) Why are they afraid of a balloon crash-landing? -- These aren't incredibly massive; -- Montana isn't exactly a very populated area; -- We have computers that can calculate trajectory pretty accurately to make sure it's not brought down over a populated area. 5) Why would China float such a conspicuous object over our nation, knowing our technology & capability to spot it?

Seriously, after all the years China has spent successfully infiltrating our government offices and business and stealing our military and intellectual property secrets, what would they stand to gain floating a balloon through our airspace?

1) because the people have cell phones and have been recording it and putting it on twitter and the press picked it up and asked the pentagon about it.
2) Because they have seen them over other us territories in the past. This is nothing new.
3) They could also be using the opportunity to gather intelligence about the make up of the equipment on board and therefore shooting it down would negate that opportunity. Also because shooting it down can harm people on the ground so it would have to be properly coordinated over a non populated area.
4) see 3
5) Because China has been agressively challenging the US for quite a while now and even threatening the US claiming that they own the entirety of the South China Sea which is ridiculous and absurd.

And finally though what would they stand to gain from floating it in our airspace? well simple answer, realtime sigint. (signals intelligence).

Comment Re:Decentralization is its USP and curse as well. (Score 1) 110

I don't think it's the politics why Gab got blocked it's the lack of moderation of Gab. Only a small fraction of users are fine with constant use of the N-word and attacks against minorities etc etc. It's similar to google blocking email from 4chan or Stormfront. Sometimes people just block toxicity not necessarily politics. Now if you want to argue that a certain type of politics is toxic then that's a different argument but i don't think Gab got blocked because of politics.

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