Unfortunately, if that were true, the likes of Cellebrite, NSO Group, Anduril, and Palantir would all be long-since dead and buried.

While that is certianly a very nice thought, I don't think it's accurate. If self-interest were the determining factor, we wouldn't be where we are in the first place. The fact that the man was elected even once, much less the second time, demonstrates quite clearly that there are vast hoardes in this country who hate brown people, immigrants, and LGBT people far more than they love their bank accounts, IRAs, and 401ks.

Cripes.

Just what IS it with the GOP's obcession with silencing Talarico anyway. I watched the Colbert interview they also tried to suppress. And the guy is hardly a progressive and barely liberal at all. Before maga, the guy would have been running as a republican or; if he claimed to be Democratic; he'd be denounced as a DINO.

One of the steps will be to get all commerce and finance moved to a cashless society based on using a blockchain. It'll be one that the AI has been instructed to create with a backdoor by the government entity hosting that AI, and a "don't tell anyone" instruction.

That government plans to use that leverage to dominate the others, but the AI decides to just erase all money and the transaction records. Autonomous delivery trucks all turn and drive into the nearest body of water.

That's absurd. It's an app designed to find the optimal route from point A to point B. This is just a feature flag to determine if this method works in real life as it does in simulation. It's nothing different or unusual from any gated feature flag that any company uses to roll out new features to a subset of the user base first. That's not "unethical experimentation on human subjects", it's bog-standard app development, the way everyone does it.

Because latitude doesn't matter to xenophobes who think the rest of the world doesn't matter. Those same people with such a myopic image of Africa will also usually look at Scandinavia and stop at: Swedish bikini team, Muppet chef, Volvo, and Vikings. Or, mention Hokkaido and Ainu and you'll get a blank stare.

And let's be real... it's not just Americans who tend to be incurious about the world. See, for example, Denmark's little subterfuge with the naming of Iceland and Greenland, and the fact that it WORKED.

How much of that is due to the map projection? And how of that is due to the fact that most Americans are very poorly educated about Africa; and we tend to compress things with which we're not familiar in our minds. Even I'm guilty of it. Just this year I re-discovered the fact that not every country of okay with endless suburban sprawl. So they build their cities BIG; such the population of San Francisco, which is "the" city to me, could be a mere neighborhood. And no amount of studying the map and photos so I'll know where stuff is prevents me from being startled at the actual scale when I get to what the rest of the world calls a city.

And let's be real. There are more than a few Americans whose entire concept of Africa is: ancient Egypt, The Lion King, Sally Struthers, the Sarah desert, Busch Gardens, if they're a particular chest-thumping sort they'll know about the "great white exlorer/hunter" era and Patton's North Africa campaigns, and terrorists.

Until you've actually been to a place, that place compress in the head very easily even if you know better and try to fight the tendency. A lot of people neither know or try. To them, the whole continent probably fits on a largish GTA map.

But still... inflated poles notwithstanding, it is clear that Africa spans something like 70 degrees of latitude. That's frikkin huge, and quite obviously so.

Switzerland or Italy. He's no more a Panamanian citizen than he is American.

> That will not protect him from Swiss law though.

Which is 100% A-OK and entirely as it should be. As an Italian citizen in Switzerland he should never, under any circumstances, ever have been expected to follow, care about, or even know about, any US law. Literally the only laws he should be subject ther are Switzerland's and maybe Italy's. That's it. He should no more be obligated to follow any US law than I am to follow Saudi laws abor drinking or being gay or Chinese laws about advocating for democracy or mentioning Tiananmen Square or Singaporean laws about chewing gum, whilst sitting my butt down here in California.

TrueSource is when a third party copies software from the true source it came from and then re-host it. Got it.

Do it like soda bottle deposit returns.

The end users just rip out their old unused wires and bring it into the local office for a few bucks.
Saves the phone company from hiring crews, equipment, and fuel.
Plus, if the homeowner breaks their own fiber, then the phone company gets some money for a service call.

And if they bring in their AC wiring, that'll be even more copper.

I don't have one of the balcony panels.
What I do have that works for me is a panel with batteries. I put the panel/battery on the roof and that supplies power to a wireless security cam that records 7/24. So far, it's never run the battery down. I connect using wireless when I get an alert or was just curious about what animal was making that noise last night.
Why bother? So I don't have to run a wire through the yard or any wall or replace batteries every month, and I can put one on the fence looking back at the house.
No doubt there are many uses for these as stand alones.

Yeah... he had a fine legacy until he turned coat and reinvented himself as a maga stooge. Steve would never have done that.

Don't let the door hit you in the ass in the way out, Timmy.

Did you miss the last year and a half of the news where dear leader has had his ICE brownshirts rampaging round the country? Did you miss all the news where the scum have NOT been limiting their presence and interactions solely to darkening the days of immigrants; but have also targeted, approached, tried to question, attacked, detained, "deported," and even murdered CITIZENS for refusing to bend the knee and love big brother? Did you miss the news where they didn't even wait a whole week, but were going after inconvenient citizens as early as that first raid in Newark the Saturday after the inauguration?

Perhaps YOU are the one who should try watching the news.

Old news. We heard all this back in the 20th century.

1998,
  LOpht testifies before Congress
https://commdocs.house.gov/com...

Clinton weighs in to protect us from all this in 1998
https://clintonwhitehouse5.arc...

and countless other incidents

And now we have DOGE eviscerating CISA because Project 2025.
https://www.darkreading.com/th...
https://www.americanprogress.o...

The problem with CISA is that cyber security measures previously taken have served to make Russia look bad and did nothing to prove Trump actually won in 2020.