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thats the thing though, at that point the USPS is already going to be a problem, in literally every form of online order you make.

Amazon even uses USPS in some places from what i can remember, they mostly use their in house shit when it's financially competitive.

And yes, the USPS is fundamental infrastructure, it is critically important to the functionality of the US as a whole. It's the sole reason mail based communication even works. Without the USPS the federal government and most state governments lose a lot of power.

it's definitely cool that we have the capability of things like thread/matter zigbee and zwave now.

I would be more ok with local IoT devices being IP based if they were intended on being used with an "offline" network. Though that's a little funky to setup, and causes interference issues, so i think i prefer the zigbee and zwave solution of using a different protocol entirely, especially since it mandates offline handling.

My two biggest concerns with IP connected devices are most home networks are not properly delegated, so people aren't creating a second subnet specifically for IoT devices for example, and they most definitely aren't properly providing access controls through that network as well. So if someone manages to get into one of the devices, you basically have the entire network at that point.

One of the big advantages of non IP based systems is that you have a "point of relay" or gateway between all of your IoT devices and your network, which becomes the attack vector, making it a lot easier to secure, and manage. Even if you managed to hack into a zwave/zigbee network, it would only be locally, and IoT devices only, so it's not going to be hugely problematic.

theoretically you can do all of this on a traditional IP based network, i just don't think it's the correct approach. Sort of like making a carboat, or a boatcar. You could, but why?

I think at minimum, a standalone IoT device should not be capable of connecting to the global internet, period. Through something like a gateway or "point of relay" sure, that's fine by me, but even then i would prefer open standards and documentation on that specific feature set.

I’m trying to limit myself to watching for actual threats to my family. Basically a couple of things. Watching for the same stuff that tipped us off on COVID and watching for camps actually being setup on US soil.

the best thing you can do is to keep the people around you safe, healthy, and happy. Aside from that staying politically informed on the macro level is going to be beneficial as it will guide you through the landscape more clearly. But unfortunately, that's the harder part these days.

Heads down and try to only pay attention to the important stuff.

This is pretty much the meta for now. You can't fight if you aren't physically or mentally capable.

wait, this is actually sick as fuck, someone needs to turn this into a reality show, because i would probably unironically watch this.

i mean, if it's not directly factually inaccurate, than, it is open source. It's just that the specific block of data they used and operate on isn't published or released, which is pretty common even among open source projects.

AI just happens to be in a fairly unique spot where that thing is actually like, pretty important. Though nothing stops other groups from creating an openly accessible one through something like distributed computing. Which seems to be a fancy new kid on the block moment for AI right now.

Matter/Thread

i still think IP based smart home kit is a mistake. The internet is already such a big vuln, we don't need a shit ton of garbage sitting on the network only making it more vulnerable.

communication standards like zwave, and zigbee, are preferable here. It looks like at least one of those supports it, but perhaps both will be protocol agnostic.

non standard conforming cables, and connectors, plus the entire mess of it supporting anything from power only, to usb 2, to usb 3, to thunderbolt 3, to thunderbolt 4? and usb 4.0 now.

It's an utter fucking disaster of a shithole.

networking standards were a mess before ethernet really fucking cooked with twisted pair wiring.

Ethernet had already existed for a little bit prior to this, and most other alternatives were actively being worked on at the time, and relatively similar to ethernet, save for the general technical implementation, token ring as opposed to the funny broadcast meta. But when ethernet was able to just barely get ahead and use twisted pair, the entire thing came crumbling down and everyone agreed that ethernet over twisted pair, with switched star topology was the best.

Tbf though transistors are more of a hardware thing. A better example of a standard would be RIP being superceded by BGP on the internet.

another big example is the telecom companies being superseded by IP based networking, rather than whatever patch routing bullshit was previously cooked up.

Sometimes certain solutions are just, better.

there are a lot of companies that sell things direct to consumer, using the exact same shipping infrastructure that amazon would otherwise be using, if it doesnt already.

If you live rurally, go campaign for funding the USPS more, trump fucked that one, you can thank him for that.

this is true, he could've done literally anything, he could've authorized the use of nukes against palestine.

Hell, why not the entire middle east.

Everyone in this whole world pretends to be a revolutionary and almost nobody is anything more than just another tool for a machine built for war and greed.

the single most important thing you will ever learn in life, is when to recognize your level of expertise. It will benefit you to no end, and prevent you from making a fool of yourself.

There are things that you are familiar with, and there are things that you are not familiar with. Be quiet, please. Just don't say things. Unless you know explicitly, it will be productive, in which case, do say things.

the answer heavily depends.

Do you want to be politically informed and able to make accurate statements about things that are actively happening? Great, better cut some hours at your job and take up a research position for politics in your spare time.

Do you want to be politically uninformed and yet still say shit about things you aren't familiar with, haven't researched and do not understand? Great, take more hours at your job, make shit up, listen to what weird internet people who are totally trust worthy and not running a grift at all (trust me bro) are saying online because it makes you feel better about yourself.

Do you want neither of these? Being uninformed is perfectly ok and reasonable, if you approach it with the correct attitude, you cannot hold an opinion on something you are not familiar with, it's as simple as that. Refer to science and the establishment for most things, because, after all, they haven't fucking exploded and killed everyone yet, so they must be doing something right.

TL;DR this is my personal opinion, informed by years of consuming political content, and my general interest in sociology and psychology so take this with the correct amount of concern. I would ignore pretty much anything and everything coming from the political right, it's either bullshit, a lie, or AI generated these days. Very, very rarely do they actually manage to tell the whole truth.

I would also advise distantly observing the far left, as they tend to do nothing more than yelling, screaming, and bemoaning inconveniences. The general left is a bit better about this. But they also have the "we dont really do anything" problem also

Otherwise, be very careful, be extremely critical of the content/media you consume, and be sure to establish your own independent worldview and political beliefs, you don't have to have identical beliefs to me, or anybody else here, and that's the beauty of modern western politics. Or maybe find some organizations around you that you can get directly involved in, to make a difference in the lives of people around you.

Yelling at people about things on the internet is one of the least effective ways of doing anything. It's a great platform for satire, since that's what satire thrives on, but otherwise, do something else, it's more productive that way. You need a truly incredible reach to be able to make a difference online.

yeah, too bad circle jerking is only universally understood to create echo chambers.

Perhaps if garnering support and bringing people awareness to things they are already aware about, will make them do something. I believe all existing research, doesn't support that though. Last time i checked it really only seems to lead to misinformation being spread, which is interesting.

and solely responsible for every single event the government is to partake in, of course.

Because our country is run under a dictatorship, and not a representative democracy.

yeah, unfortunately i have realistic expectations though.

Turns out fighting a war against the largest military in the world, probably a little difficult.

wow incomprehensibly large number, exactly what my shitpost predicted!

cats are supposed to burn off the remaining unburnt fuel in the exhaust, as ICEs don't have perfect combustion most of the time. Which helps to reduce the negative aspects. Not the CO2 though, obviously.

of course, this only works if you get significantly complete combustion within the engine itself, otherwise the cat simply can't overcome it, it's only supposed to do the last 5-10% or whatever, of emissions.

unfortunately, biden is the only person in the federal government, and is solely responsible for the health of this nation, so.

yes, but the unfortunate truth is that it's very effective. Just look at the russian propaganda mills and how they operate it's very effective

the worst we could do is make it marginally worse, and the best we could do is completely shatter the entire media environment.

The only countermeasure that would work would be to eliminate the bots, the troll farms and the social media outlets that make no effort to stop the contagion.

this IS the most effective solution, however, this only actively fuels this kind of paranoid speculation bullshit. It's the "censorship problem"

If you censor things actually worth censoring, people get mad about it, and assume it's actually just a government psyop, because they're stupid. It's literally the inverse to the government run propaganda mill problem.