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Comment Re:"Potentially" is doing a lot of work here (Score 1) 57

These missiles are known for evading Patriot PAC-3's with non-ballistic maneuvering.

That's at least part of what needs CPU. However a $6 233MHz ESP-32 could handle those calculations.

Those nVidia boards are often used for home video boxes, including transcoding. It's possible this was just a video uplink component.

Reportedly the Tomahawks used in the Minab Massacre were video-guided and did fly-arounds to time the double-tap and experimental use of thermobaric detonation of unspent fuel to incinerate the surviving girls and responding parents.

We should worry more about bringing those people to Justice than whatever Russia is doing.

Comment Re:It's PBS, there's no money for anything (Score 1) 97

Their finances have been widely covered in the news.

Their IT Lead is making ~$180K.

Their interest income alone was $500K.

They didn't have a local copy strategically, not for a lack of $5K.

Cloud backup is just another backup, not primary storage, if you care about your data.

Some of us have online, nearline, offline, offsite, and multiple cloud backups with much smaller budgets.

That's for people who care about their data (including the bean counters).

Many IT folks (most?) have had to "I told you so" after a bean counter said no to a small spend. I wouldn't assume the IT department is incompetent without evidence.

Comment Re:Yeah, pretty much this. (Score 0) 139

This is a love tap, fists will be thrown later. One thing can and should be done, we need to start adding aerosols into the atmosphere, the higher the better. Adding Na compounds to jet fuels would introduce just enough aerosols in order to start reflecting a tiny amount more of solar radiation than what makes it to the surface of the planet. 1-2% reflection is all we need to start reducing the temperatures. Of-course we will have to keep doing it until we figure out a more permanent solution.

Comment Re:Sad, and but learn the right lessons (Score 1) 130

He made a choice. If he had had the sort of gall typically exhibited by these grievance grifters he could be on the his martyrdom tour right now, jetting around to hob nob and make poignant videos with all his celebrity supporters, while they litigation financed his next decade of income suing everyone involved. One call to Obama and Netflix would make a 5 episode biopic, and spend a couple hundred million doing it. That's probably still going to happen, btw.

Apparently he lacked the fortitude for it.

Comment Re:Sad, and but learn the right lessons (Score 2) 130

Or how Arday got the police to investigate people who brought up concerns

Arday wasn't a dummy. He knew who he could get away with plagiarizing. He plagiarized minor academics; people that didn't have the power to shift authorities. People that were vulnerable to jackboots investigation "threats." He knew better than to plagiarize someone that mattered.

Comment sideloading control and 3rd party stores (Score 2) 38

Google is now adding more rules to make sideloading more difficult while Apple never provided a way to sideload an app in the first place. People need to be able to build and load their own apps without permission from the OS manufacturer, a phone is a computer with specialized hardware, we do have ability to build and run apps on our own hardware.

Comment Re: If this data is as valuable as they claim (Score 1) 43

If the original ToS on Twitch grants Amazon a license to create derivative works then they don't have anything to worry about.

It's like your local superstation had the rights to run ads on Star Trek in addition to the license fee they paid but they didn't therefore get a right to create a new Star Trek series or publish a "Best Moments of STTNG 1989" show around the holidays.

Now if they had gone to Paramount about the Best-Of show in theory they could have negotiated a license for that, having already been media partners. Heck, some software company got Riker to pitch their product from the Bridge.

The big authors' settlement with OpenAI sets at least some precedent in this nascent field of IP law (which is enforced whether we like it or not).

But I've never heard of a Twitch streamer talking about a derivative work that Amazon created from their show using their words or likeness.

To be fair Youtube does indeed do a yearly "best of" show.

Who knows, maybe we'll see an AI Hassan Piker doing and saying some wildly ill-advised shit in the near future. Would not be entirety shocking.

Comment Re:Pointless circle jerk. (Score -1, Flamebait) 42

There are HUNDREDS of brands of camera smart glasses

The vast majority of those "brands" are fly-by-night Asian products from effectively un-suable companies. Meta is a juicy American big tech outfit with deep pockets.

They're looking for a big payout. Europe and its pressure groups and governments have been using US big tech companies like giant money pinatas for a long time now. This isn't about anyone's privacy, and you'll know that years from now, after Meta has lost their suit and the market is still full of knockoff Asian wearable cameras. It's about a generational wealth acquisition for a bunch of lawyers and their investors. Yes, such lawsuits have investors.

Comment Re:Zoom Should Not Be Trusted (Score 2) 12

This is smart but harder than it needs to be.

Do we have a wrapper available that can let native Zoom launch and only have access to ~/.config/zoom and some USB input devices but not the rest of the machine?

Somehow building a custom MAC profile is expert-level stuff two decades on and not an end user's job.

An on-demand screen sharing permission popup should be achievable.

It's silly that a browser sandbox is better than any native sandbox available.

Perhaps such a tool readily exists and just needs to be mainstreamed into existing distros.

I know there was a Debian project a while back that aimed for all services to pass systemd strict security by default but nobody wanted to do the work.

That's the right mindset but separate from user apps.

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