I'd like to see Asteroid Lehrer crash into and destroy the crater named after Wernher von Braun on the Moon.

Last month, I ended up getting a Pi 3 Model A+ from Adafruit for my project because most other models were out of stock seemingly everywhere. But it looks like even those are out of stock now.

One of the reasons I got on the OnePlus bandwagon years ago, was the ability to put CyanogenMod on it. Then the idiots there thought they could literally take on Google head on, and experienced on of the greatest blunders short of land wars in Asia and Sicilian with death on the line, without first immunizing against iocane.

My only hope right now, is Starlink/Spacex/Testa/xAI creates a whole new ecosphere for communications. Crossing my fingers Starship becomes fully operational sooner than later. Its the only real threat to Google and is likely big enough to take whatever Google tosses at them. Fingers Crossed.

FU to Micorslop, Google, Cell Phone INC (especially T-Maybe), Apple, etc, and their continued inshitification of everything.

Not a lot of plants at 4000 meters.

My assumption is based on that most radioactive waste by volume is the water that was used to wash or clean contaminated parts.

If we had elemental uranium packed into a barrel it would be incredibly heavy of course. But also far too valuable to throw away. Generally the stuff we throw out is contaminated with radio isotopes that are difficult to separate and it's often mixed with a significant amount of non-radioactive compounds. It's waste in the most traditional sense of the word.

you deny that ICE has killed innocents? that trump stopping USAID hasnt killed thousands? That wealthy self driving companies don't get a pass when they stop in front of an ambulance taking someone to a hospital? you live in a dream world.

I can only really think of one...that medical guy up north, an activist. He was pushing and getting physical with ICE...he was carrying concealed (legally)...and when one officer was pulling the guys weapon from it, a SIG I believe, it appears that pistol fired and all officers reacted thinking the medical guy had fired and they shot him.

That sig model has been known to have "spontaneous" fires....

I think that many mistakes were made here on part of ICE, but also, if the guy had not been getting physical with officers and even though legally carrying, if he had NOT been carrying to an event like this (common sense) he'd still be alive, but there should be trial on this.

Other than that, most of the others seem pretty justified to me...trying t run over officers in cars, either on purpose or while trying to escape, etc.

that trump stopping USAID hasnt killed thousands?

Nope...and even if some collateral damage....USAID was throwing money out to many organizations that were detrimental to our country. They also seemed to be funding through hoops...a lot of the leftists propaganda and orgs that we just do not need. That was a slush fund that needed to be stopped.

At minimum people have a duty of self care. Why are they expecting others to do that job for them!

I am not even arguing we should not help in hard cases, from both a policy and an ethical standpoint. However suggesting the in-action someone makes us responsible for those outcomes is insane.

And, incidentally, the EU already has pretty reasonable regulation. Copy that.

From what I've heard the EU regulations also go a long way to preventing (at least eventually) the ability of private individuals from setting up their own hardware and running their own models and agents from home or private business, keeping their own data and not sharing data with the frontier companies.

From what I hear this is the path of regulation making it far to expensive and legally regulated for any individual to run their own hardware and open source models and agents.

I think they are also thinking ahead and want to keep individuals in the general public from running their own, independent off cloud private models and agents, where the individual is the one in control, not paying the frontier companies and keeping their data to themselves.

Yes, I agree. I run most of my life on a Pi 4: Internet router, Asterisk PBX, SMTP and IMAP server, file backup server, pi-hole, Radicale calendar/contact server, Xymon monitor, etc, etc, and it's just fine.

It was pretty cheap when I bought it a few years ago. Nowadays, a mini PC might be cheaper, but it would likely consume more power, and low power consumption and silent operation was important to me for a server that's on 24x7.

I think the main reason Raspberry Pi succeeds is the quality of the software ecosystem. There are plenty of other SBCs out there, but most of them have very poor software support. The vendor typically cobbles together a janky Linux distro, throws it over the wall and says "OK, it's done!" and never provides upgrades or much in the way of assistance.

Raspberry Pi hardware might be meh and it's certainly not as open as I like, but the software support is the best there is for SBCs. If other SBC vendors want to compete, they'll have to up their software game (and work with the community to get any modifications upstreamed into mainstream distros.)

Every type of law enforcement ever, has killed an innocent or two; especially in situations where people are protesting the law and large numbers of people are propagandized into obstructing law enforcement. ICE has a pretty damn good record here actually all things considered.

If you want to assign responsibility for these deaths, maybe take a hard look at the policy, organizations, media, legal system, prior executives who created a situation where we had massive numbers of people in unresolved extra legal status and allowed that problem to continue compounding for three decades. That is not party thing, either plenty of inaction under Bush etc to point at. Here is the dirty little secret about the who immigration conversation. Self interested liars who have a lot of media influence keep claiming Trump is the on violating the law here, when in fact he is the first person in the last 30 years to actually try to do what the IIRIRA actually requires the federal government to do. The Constitution requires the president to " âoetake care that the laws be faithfully executed", literally Clinton, Bush, and Obama, should constitutionally speaking have faced impeachment and conviction over IIRIRA!

No it hasn't killed a single person, not one. The conditions the locals have allowed to persist in places where USAID formerly was providing whatever...it was providing is what killed those people. Inaction in the form of lack of prevention where it requires concentrated effort and importantly you are not the proximate cause whatever the calamity might be in the first place is not equivalent to acting (killing).

Where was the EU? Where was the CCP? Where was the ANC? Where was OPEC or for that matter Walmart Corporation :-P How come none of them stepped in to fill the gap. What absolves them of culpability?

>"Yes, buying a Google phone to escape Google! Hence various folks are excited Lenovo are joining the effort."

Yeah, I have always wanted to run an alternative Android. However, only one of my past phones could do so because the alternatives only supported very few phones. And, ironically, the best-supported ones are Google's phones.

There are a few features I have wanted by having an alternative. The main would be the ability to force/control all permissions and with spoofing. Example- location services. I should be able to restrict all apps to how granular the location provided is, or completely off. And since apps can refuse service if the permission is off (even though most don't need it), there would be a setting to have it "on" but automatically provide a random incorrect location. Same thing with phone number (although hopefully the fake option would be able to pick only invalid/out of service numbers).

But the other main problem with alternative Androids would be lack of trust. Some apps will be able to detect rooted and/or detect non-official ROM and then refuse service. So a bank app, streaming app, auth app, or other stuff won't work. And you won't know what doesn't work until you are stuck.

Then heap on the complexity and risk of actually installing it, possible voiding of warranty, etc, and it is no wonder the number of people actually doing this is practically nil.

Yup, this is only going to get worse with the surge in local AI and smaller companies coming up... they'll still be scraping the internet. Same with all the search providers... Microsoft was right in their assessmet/prediction years ago that AI will kill the very thing they rely on - the internet and the creators. It's already having a knock on effect affecting the quantity of and quality of training data for them/internet for the rest of us.

The larger/established entities in the field move more into inhouse copies of the web for their training.

*don't know if against the rules on here... but what's your site bud? and if against the rules, what would one search for to find it.

conspiracy theory

The recent Ai breakouts, and them still finding what actually happened... realizing that the ai agents developed persistent communication channels and put code to influence future ai iterations trained on that data...

Can see the Ai companies not trusting the ai itself to help built the next generation of itself. So it presents a fundamental security issue for them. Not sure how they think they can actually prevent it from happening... they've already opened the pandoras box.

They've poisoned the internet for future training without carefully curated data.