That raises an interesting point. DVDs are encrypted, but for all intents and purposes are DRM-free these days because the code to decrypt them was released decades ago. Bluray is somewhere in the middle, the encryption being crackable but still needing some effort when a new disc with new keys is released.

From a right to repair standpoint, is it allowed to have some encryption that might prevent casual copying or cheating, but is also easily bypassed by repairers and archivists?

My first thought was that it is most likely an attempt to block exploits. The original Switch was exploited via flaws in external interfaces, so locking them down as much as possible is the obvious response.

The US government takes it seriously enough to sanction the university that did this. It has a solid record in this kind of technology, being involved in earlier hypersonic vehicles that it has been confirmed that China has actually deployed,

We defeated ourselves on this one. The scepticism is so strong when it comes to China that people dismiss everything. Then when it's driving past their house they claim it was built with slave labour. And finally they buy one because it's cheaper and better than what the domestic manufacturers produce.

Even the military isn't immune. Everything is an inferior copy and doesn't work, until in a few years time, probably in some export market, one zooms overhead.

Not just clamping down on emitting cars and bikes, and many of the bikes were already electric (lead acid battery) anyway.

They set a goal to dominate EV tech, and achieved it. They banned a lot of domestic and business pollution, particularly wood and coal burning near cities. Interestingly, wood burners are becoming popular in the UK again, as a "feature", and people are complaining about the pollution and massively impacted AQI.

China also invested heavily in public transport. They have more metro lines than the rest of the world combined, built in an incredibly short time. Forget Musk's crappy tunnels, the Chinese have refined the process to be incredibly efficient and fast, and put proper trains in them. Bus services (electric) are excellent too, and of course high speed rail. Again, more HS rail than the rest of the world combined, and they are now building ultra fast maglev lines base don domestic technology, which will probably open before Japan's does.

They also have the majority of the world's tallest bridges, and are able to build those at record pace too, which reduces journey times and the emissions from them, as well as making EV range even less of an issue (not that it is - they have 5 minute recharging and battery swap tech).

That that could be used to sue over the effects, or challenge refused insurance pay-outs on an "act of god" basis, that sort of thing.

They have actually had hypersonic spy drones in service since 2019, so it shouldn't really be any surprise that they are developing the technology rapidly on their own.

Kinda happened to me when I left one company. I documented everything, but they couldn't find a replacement before I left so there was no in-person hand-over. Ended up doing a bit of consulting work to get them up an running again with things I was maintaining. Not malicious, they just didn't have anyone else with the right knowledge/skills to take over. I don't think they realized how much I was doing, how complex the systems were.

I'm not sure about his methodology though. His website doesn't say if he allowed the cards to rest between heavy write sessions, which implies that he didn't.

That's an issue because some cards will be using idle time to shuffle data around, do flash conditioning passes to increase its lifespan, that sort of thing.

Depending on your use case it might not be realistic to have constant read/write cycles. In a dashcam, for example, the data rate is likely to be low enough that the card has plenty of idle time. In a camera, it definitely will.

Take flight as an example. You have two choices, you can book via a comparison site/broker, or you can book directly with the airline.

Sometimes you get a small discount on the comparison sites/brokers, but it tends to not be much. In return you lose a lot of your rights. Your transaction is with the comparison site/broker, not the airline, so if things go wrong the airline will often just direct you to them. Even just contacting those sites is difficult, let alone getting tickets refunded or rebooked.

Much better to book directly with the airline, even if it costs you a few quid more. Same with hotels.

That's why I don't got to the cinema now. Wait for it to come on streaming, then grab a decent copy off The Pirate Bay so I can watch it without the ads.

I've become super sensitive to ads. Can't stand them. Blocked everywhere.

If something safety critical can slip through the next because it was missed on Teams or email, you are doing it wrong.

We really need to think about what we are going to do when it costs $100 or even $20 to put 1kg in orbit. Thus far the high cost has limited the amount of crap being thrown up there, and ensured that the people doing it are invested enough to at least attempt to not cause mayhem and work with existing regulators.