The Rabbit R1 sounds an awful lot like they built a cheap mobile phone locked down to a single app and tried to sell it as a magic box.

If it sounds scammy, it's probably a scam.

We burn things to release heat. From this we generate power and release carbon.

To sequester carbon, you need to reverse this process. This means it takes energy to do it.

Neither process is 100% efficient.

Unless you have an excess of 'green' energy, sequestration will necessarily cause a net release of carbon. It isn't just pointless, it is actually counterproductive.

People often recommend using VPNs to protect traffic when using public WiFi networks, etc. The hypothetical attack would be a malicious public WiFi network using a DHCP server that sets static routes for the IP addresses of servers they want to intercept traffic to. The static routes described in DHCP take precedence over the default route for the VPN.

For example, suppose I want to intercept traffic to Slashdot:

• I set up the DHCP server on my public WiFi network to announce static routes for 104.18.5.215 and 104.18.5.215 leading to my malicious router.
• You connect to my WiFi network, and connect to your VPN in the hope that it will protect your traffic from malicious parties on the untrusted public WiFi network.
• Your VPN creates a default route leading to its virtual interface to send all IP traffic across the tunnel, but the static routes configured via DHCP take precedence for 104.18.5.215 and 104.18.5.215.
• Your Slashdot browsing traffic is routed via my malicious router while the rest of your traffic goes across your VPN.

I only knew about it from Slashdot. I don't think I read TFA as it didn't look very interesting. Most of the comments were asking what the point of it is. But it must have got coverage somewhere for Slashdot to link to the stories in the first place.

I'm writing as a hobby. Nothing big yet, but 2 published books to my name. I'm writing one right now that I publish chapter-by-chapter on my Patreon. I also make computer games as a second hobby and tried AI voice acting for the dialogs on the one I have on Steam currently.

I wish there were any reasonable AI voice stuff. I'd love to make it an audio book, but my voice acting talents are minimal and of course I'd want different voices for different characters. But all the AI voices I've tried so far are very much lacking. Most of the interfaces don't even give you an option to set markings, you know "a bit louder here", "sound angry", "stress this word". That kind of stuff.

I can't imagine how low-quality all those audiobooks must be.

We're not yet at the point where AI can replace voice acting.

If you can already set up a rogue DHCP server on my network that can hand out an address to a VPN client before my own, my network is already lost.

Perfectionism is far worse than 'good enough'. You define your project requirements and 'good enough' is meeting them. Perfectionism is endlessly going beyond scope and never delivering.

> all the R1 launcher does is act as a local client to the cloud services offered by Rabbit, which is what truly handles the core functionality

So it's another little telemetry / spy app and little more than an open connection to the vendor's servers. Great. I'd hardly even call that an 'app'.

The blind just got a lot more accessible as an audience. That's good for them and for authors.

Shine on, you crazy cultist!

An interesting but inefficient solution that is worse that the problem it claims to be trying to solve. Just as you can't beat thermodynamics, crypto will never compete with credit cards.

Now. If you want to launder money or gamble on digital beanie babies, or defraud the gamblers, those are your genuine use cases.

Given the complete lack of documentation by the Romans and the fact that the only historical accounts come long after his reported death... I tend to believe it's because Jesus was probably a completely unremarkable street preacher during his lifetime and it was the apostles creating works of fiction drawn from existing regional myths to build their religious cred who wrote what little exists.

Nobody bothered to write about him during his lifetime any more than you're documenting the life of the nearest guy on a street corner ranting about the government.

>And the only people using the terms "woke" and "politically correct" are right wingnuts.

Hey now. I'm slightly left of centre by Canadian standards, which makes me a filthy commie by American standards... and I will occasionally deploy those terms to describe the far-left crazies who have lost touch with reality.

The right wingers use them much more broadly as an epithet against anyone who isn't in lock-step with them, of course.

It's part of the cult / tribal membership. Whatever the tribe believes is true, any challenge of it is obviously an attempt to oppress the truth, and just in case there's a cultist self-aware enough to break out of that, you throw in 'and our enemies are doing it too, and they are worse'.

> I am not sure why using nuclear warheads to take them out is inherently worse than shooting them down with conventional weapons.

I tend to agree. Conventional weaponry still gives you Kessler's Syndrome, and in space you're not typically worried about fallout or pressure waves. The advantage of a nuke might be to clear out a large volume of an orbit quickly, but then again there's a LOT of distance between things out there.

But I think maybe you're underestimating the utility of space as a platform from which to target the ground. A nuke in a high enough orbit to be stable for long periods but low enough to quickly de-orbit? It means taking out a silo on the ground is no longer enough. Of course, it takes a lot of fuel to deorbit gracefully and on target and ICBMs avoid that by never reaching orbital velocity in the first place. Even if you re-fuelled them in orbit that might not be good enough to make such a system practical.