So... you have never had to walk along a country road with vehicle headlights blinding you every few seconds?

Perhaps something an adult can tolerate but a 5 to 7 year old?

Enjoy your 320x200 streams.

It might be too soon but the Exodus Technologies third-order Coulomb devices (IIRC) are built for this kind of very low impulse long duration lifiting.

Getting a rig up there to clamp on to the Hubble is probably the hard part of the project.

High-impulse propulsion is more likely to damage it than low and slow.

This was during the "NJ Drone Flap".

Trump was on TV saying he'd been briefed on them and the drones were "tracked back to their garage".

Last thing he said about it before his FAA said "they were authorized, we're not explaining, stop asking".

Matthew Livelsberger said they were of Chinese origin.

Robert Hastings wrote an entire book on unidentified craft over nuclear facilities covering four decades of documented incursions.

The FoIA request sounds like good data but nothing new.

Illegal doesnâ(TM)t mean I donâ(TM)t have the right to record, tho. Government doesnâ(TM)t give rights.

So the data center will end up as a Dyson sphere with Earth as a small dot orbiting inside it?

From what I can tell most middle managers hate their employees - especially those who are smarter and more skilled - and can't wait to replace them.

They all probably think they'll be one of the last humans at the company.

It'll be funny when AI supplants middle management.

The right way is for a manager to be the advocate and ally of his subordinates. It can work really well but there's little place for ego and envy.

It's just used an excuse for censorship is the main problem.

Like every single South Park episode has its own page but several public intellectuals who spoke out against lockdowns suddenly became "not notable".

"Trust the Experts" / "You're no longer an expert"

Abuse is inherent in the system as currently defined.

They could use some proxy like view counts, but that would be objective, not subjective.

Yet every once in a while I look up some obscure biological molecule or plant that hardly anybody cares about, mostly for the external references because the articles are so short, and I'd hate to see those get purged. I've found some odd and rare flora growing in my forest and appreciate the information.

Say what you want about LLM's but they could probably be tasked with policing for defacement.

> that old computer or phone that has had a factory wipe

Don't trust old phones with too much value.

There are hardware bugs on Bluetooth, WiFi, and SS7 that are fairly easy to hack with the right setup and SS7 especially is built into the same baseband controller so main memory can be exfiltrated over cellular even without an active SIM.

Keeping it turned off most of the time reduces the attack surface, of course.

A few phones do better - switchable modems, etc. but very few and even some phones that meet GrapheneOS specs are imperfect.

An old ThinkPad with LibreBoot is probably OK if you want to get really nerdy. Yet 0.00001% of the population can handle that.

Hot/warm/cold is of course another layer of protection. But again, very few people can manage this.

Still, if you are transferring $200 to your dedicated phone to go out shopping, it's not very tragic if it gets lost.

We really don't have a good solution for the 99% yet. So companies like Binance step in and make a profit (as long as they can assume liability and responsibility for losses).

It sounds like that devops laptop had /way/ too much access. Where's their multisig for billions of dollars? I would never have guessed Binance would be one so lax. Doing it right is way cheaper than a shareholder lawsuit.

It seems more likely that what they're looking at is 'nobody' who reads Reddit posts without logging in will ever need to visit Reddit.com because they can just get all the answers they want from a Gemini query.

I can see their conundrum while noticing that it will suck for humans more than AI and that AI - as currently [not] enforced by law - is the primary culprit in this round of enshittification.

The current economic situation is that all profit from the current web will accrue to the Mag7 while their datasources will foot the bill for making it possible.

If somebody doesn't invent a better economic model soon there won't be much content left for AI to scrape and injest.

Verify that you're human [ ].

Proton used to let you buy an account with Bitcoin. Then they started requiring a credit card number or an outside email/phone.

It was clear to me that the perception of security replaced privacy.

I'm not sure what I need Proton for that needs my banking information tied to it.

The article is actually reassuring that I didn't misperceive what was going on.

This immediately came to mind:

https://youtu.be/GjDbUhRy3GM?t...

I loved that book but it was a thick one and a long time ago, so I don't remember that specifically. But I believe you.

I am reminded of Ted K's writings - specifically on the enablement-virtuous-cycle between tech level, state control, authortarianism, etc.

The replacement of uniform broadcast media with "decentralized" culture and media has thrown a wrench in things. The tech we had in the 50s-80s enabed one form of mass control. The changing tech broke those specific mechanisms, but the System responded.

The fight over control of twitter was actually like trying to re-litigate WW1 The dying princes of the dying imperial system were all trying to install their preferred ruler; not realizing that decentralization had already won.

People will occupy twitter if they can, but holding that territory was already non-essential by the time it changed hands.

The system response has certainly not let go of trying to reclaim overt control over all top-100 information warfare tiles on the board, but has invested in subterfuge and compartmentalization as well.

If the system cannot control a single monoculture, it is also happy to have significant influence over 100 microcultures that are functionally disjoint with non-porous boundaries.

Ted K would say that America has become functionally ungovernable. I agree. We have much evidence of being a failed state. Now, if you shut off the internet and the news, and just went about your life, you might not see any evidence of it. But we are sort of like an observer on the ground, watching a plane fly overhead at FL350. The plane's engines are out because it is out of gas. From the ground, to us, it looks fine. It looks like every other plane. It will stay up there, really high, for a good long while. It will have passed out of our view by the time it has lost enough altitude to notice.

But the plane is doomed. The people onboard know. The people with the right sensors know.

America is like that plane. It is going to fall out of the sky. But most observers don't know that yet.

Internet censorship won't restart the engines. That doesn't mean they won't keep trying anyway.

The good old says were when there were about 60 million people on the internet and it was new and unknown.

I think it wasn't social media that changed it for the worse, at least not perse, it was the internet-connected phone.

Tivo broke Civilization.

The olds will remember.

In the early 80s, every American watched the same TV programs at the same time. LIve, broadcast TV. It was the national American culture. Everyone at work and at school the next morning talked about their shared experience and varying reactions to the BroadCast that The Party had shown them the prior night.

Cable TV - by offering a few more channels - had _some_ impact on the "breakup" of America.

But it was Tivo - mass-scale consumer time shifting. Americans no longer watched all the same propaganda at the same time.

The monoculture started to crack.

The rest of it is downstream from there. The bigs tried to retain their control of culture and opinion, but it became too fragmented and too decentralized. They couldn't.

Nobody is mad about the internet. They are mad they don't control the internet.