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Comment Exodus (Score 2) 23

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.

Comment Re:Lame duck (Score 2) 22

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.

Comment Re:So why do they want to rewrite legacy code? (Score 2) 87

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.

Comment Re: I've said it before (Score 0) 178

Its because cash doesn't generate interest. Also, you are also confusing 2 different things: tax differences between income and capital gains, and the tax dodging schemes the rich use for consumption. The first thing is about keeping capital in the US where it is taxed. The second thing completely doesn't matter as 99.9% of the wealthy's assets will never be used for consumption. You can close that loophole but it changes nothing. Even if the rich don't find a new loophole, the amount of tax generated would be a rounding error.

Your own self-loathing aside but do you seriously think that just throwing random insults and showing complete and total ignorance of accounting, taxes, economic systems and general life is a good look? You don't even bother to give an argument, you just throw insults. Here is the truth, you are a selfish loser who will never accomplish anything and so you want to take from those that do. Now fuck off...

Comment Re: I've said it before (Score 1, Insightful) 178

You seem to think that the rich have giant piles of cash somewhere. Generally this isn't true, instead it is stored in large quantities of stock or other assets. Also, regular people save money too in much the same way. So your idea about consumption being the only way money can "do work" just isn't true. Also, if the rich spent their money like you seem to want, all it would do is drive up prices of luxury assets which creates yet another bubble. Basically, your entire idea just isn't how the world actually works and I don't see how it translates to actual public policy in any way that doesn't cause a huge financial crisis. In truth, you just don't like something about your life and so you choose to blame nebulous "others" instead of looking at yourself and why you aren't happy. Also, grifting on grievance politics is quite profitable lately. Maybe you should go on X and make some cash with your trolling instead of bothering us here.

Comment Re:Why does such a level of notability really matt (Score 2) 59

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.

Comment Re:And this is why ... (Score 1) 91

> 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.

Comment Re:Just like the link to the story in this post! (Score 1) 93

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 [ ].

Comment Perception (Score 1) 164

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.

Comment Re:Not only SciFi.... (Score 2) 98

He used to do a one man show of a Christmas Carol on stage. I never got to see it, but I always imagined it being amazing (based on the fact that it happened more than once... if it were ass, it would not have recurred). While the source material is relatively friendly to the idea, one man shows are hard to do well.

Comment Amusingly (Score 5, Interesting) 94

If you ask Gemini why Google's search results have gotten so bad, it will give you an honest answer and suggest you use DuckDuckGo instead. Not exactly sure how you monetize "our service is telling our customers to go to our competitors instead" unless you're Macy's and you're in a Christmas movie.

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