Brexit happened on lies upon bloody lies by populist douchebags like Nigel Farage. The British people were once again screwed over epic style by the political class. Which made things even worse after Brexit, ironically.

We all knew Brexit would hurt, but holy cow, as much as we like to make fun of the Brits for doing Brexit, this is painful to watch. We feel you guys.

The main earlier claim was the 2020 Libya / Kargu-2 story.

In 2021, a UN Libya panel report said Turkish-made STM Kargu-2 loitering munitions / lethal autonomous weapons systems had “hunted down” retreating Haftar-affiliated forces and were programmed to attack without needing data connectivity to the operator — the famous “fire, forget and find” phrase. The ICRC casebook summarizes it as an autonomous weapon that might have been deployed and targeted fleeing fighters.

But that Libya claim had the same problem: it was not explicit proof that an autonomous drone killed a human without human supervision. The Lieber Institute at West Point noted that the UN report “does not say for certain” that humans were killed by such systems operating without human supervision, even though media treated it as possibly the first autonomous-robot fatality.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the same distinction: if anyone was killed that way, it would likely be a historic first, but the UN report implied rather than clearly stated it

So, if they are fully autonomous, they must have been using something like gemma or llama? Server side can't even process my shopping receipts. I can't imagine how bad the downloadable weights are.

The story is bullshit

All that you need to do this:

While there is no recording of the automated drones attacking these targets

"Fog of war" and all that, but I have never seen the level of phantasmagorical absurd and blatant lies before in any war before Ukranian side propaganda.

... a post-cyberpunk post-scarcity economy. If he only achieves half of what he's pushing for that wealth won't mean that much. It's precisely that he's acting that way that puts him in a position to be this wealthy. The final goal of capitalism is to make itself obsolete. We might actually be getting there just now. Musk being a trillionaire is just an intermediate step on that scale.

You didn't seem to understand that you are making my point. The claim from the FCC is a variation of "won't somebody think of the children" to wit "won't somebody think of the scam victims", but of course, as we both agree, this isn't about that at all. That is the whole point. Do they to keep up.

... Moscow was clogged with Pokemon Go players, just like any other big city on the planet back in the summer of 2016. It was insane. Gorky Park, Victory Park, Arbat clogged with young people running around with their phones, collecting their Pokemons. I was surprised seeing the same crazy stuff going on just like in my homestates capital of Duesseldorf.

That such data is enough to program homing drones with ultra high precision is of no surprise. The sheer amount of data is enough to get all the accuracy you need.

If you use a phone from another country you don't need a burner phone, because you don't need to conform with FCC laws, so this law doesn't stop scammers from other countries from scamming people in the USA. Herp Derp

Are claiming that you can't place calls from outside the USA to the USA? Are you claiming that there is no such thing as international roaming? I hope that muddies things back up for you.

The US constitution wasn't ratified until 1788 so Adams and Washington would have been approximately 52 and 56, at a time when the average life expectancy was much lower. Most people would consider them to be old even by today's standards. I am less than a 5 years older than they were at the time, and I can 100% confirm that I am an old man.

Bullshit. Your post exposes your complete lack of understanding of this issue. Even if you argue that there is a conspiracy and disabling location services and setting your google account Web & App activity and Timeline to off doesn't really work, these things track a *phone*, not a person. It is possible to simply not tie your phone to any google account, or to get a regular non-smartphone device. You can also create an anonymous google account which gets tied to the phone number, not your ID *until* this requirement is enacted. Once that happens it will be impossible to create an anonymous google account that the government cannot tie back to a citizen. Same with FB and similar, as well as any other website or app that requires/uses a verified phone number. If you have any self-respect at all you will apologize to every person you ever misinformed about this issue. You ignorance is dangerous.

Hahaha, anyone surprised?

Algorithm?
That's where they fail right away.

... Lobby crew!

FOSS finally getting general public mindshare. Finally!

... big thing. I don't think anybody has anything against any vehicle, tractor or other, or anything at all stuffed to the brim with useful electronics. (emphasis on useful) The problem is when that technology is proprietary, disfunctional on purpose and designed to be extortive. That farmers are sick and tired of that I can see clearly.

One big part of the problem also is that farmers are locked into their business harder than other people, more prone to corporate extractive and extortive business pratictices and they are likely not the type to have the free time to deal with these practices in other ways.

Setting up a non-profit and/or publicly shared business to offer hardware designs that counter these problems are a likely candidate for some use- and helpful businesses. I expect this to be the next big area where the FOSS concept catches on.