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And you can still only take off from a registered airport in most places, because silly laws. So you still have to drive to the airport. Oh also don't forget they're hilariously dangerous in a collision at basically any speed because they're basically made out of paper compared to the rampaging 2 ton behemoths regularly speeding down our roads. So good luck getting to the airport safely!

And getting back on topic, it'll also need a license plate for the roads, and a transponder in most airspace, so you can still be tracked whether you're on the ground or in the air. Flying cars are great at combining the worst of both worlds!

v2 doesn't realistically add anything important for functionality. sha256 is nice to have, but the chances of an actual attack on a sha1 chunk are still bafflingly remote. sha1 might be technically broken but in order to actually attack a sha1 torrent you need to generate a collision that is not only the same sha1 (which is still extremely rare and hard, only the fact that it's proven possible at all makes it "broken") but also within the same expected length of the torrent, otherwise any decent client should reject it for being too long, and they must reject it because otherwise they would be vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack from any bad actor who sends infinite length chunks and copyright trolls would be having a field day. I'm not a security expert but I write enough software to be fairly confident that I'm not wildly off base. In the event that somebody comes up with an actual realistic sha1 attack on bittorrent probably because of some weak/stupid client, and proves me wrong, attitudes might change quickly but I also suspect it will quickly be patched or vulnerable clients banned. If it's pretty widespread I'm sure it will light a fire to migrate to sha256 but the actual risk remains, as far as I can tell, infinitesimal.

Until then, the v2 protocol doesn't add anything except compatibility headaches for private trackers. I'm sure they'll get to it eventually, but there's no urgency and there's not going to be unless there's a viable attack to drive that urgency. Latest version for latest version's sake comes with its own set of risks.

First past the post is stupid. The post itself is stupid. Get rid of the post, fix our democracy, don't let a single vote change an election, and don't have thousands of votes in this riding not matter regardless of which way the final decision goes.

sh.itjust.works is in Canada, FYI.

It's not a critical flight control surface, it's a secondary control surface that adds extra lift at the cost of efficiency. Lightning is not inherently dangerous to airplanes. They are struck all the time, and it is fine besides alarming passengers and occasionally causing some minor concerns and repairs. Composite aircraft like the 787 need significant additional lightning protection though, this is a known risk for them, and Boeing intentionally decided to decline to lightning protect non-essential areas of the aircraft despite the potential for lightning damage, and that is a perfectly safe albeit probably financially and reputationally stupid decision.

For the aircraft, having slats stuck in either position is obviously not great and not having it available potentially limits the available landing options but it is not a safety issue. Efficiency concerns may result in the flight being unable to continue, but again, not a safety issue as they carry extra reserve fuel for unplanned contingencies like this and have alternate airports available to land at anywhere along their route. As a mechanical issue where a single incident cost the airline in question hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue and delays and shuffling around other aircraft and flights to cover for the loss, it will be investigated and addressed if possible. But nothing unsafe happened here, except to ANA's revenue. Inconvenient, frustrating, maybe even alarming, but not unsafe.

USA is going full Handmaid's Tale to outlaw pornography by defining "obscenity" in the broadest possible terms and OP is conflating that with a sudden apparent disappearance of significant amounts of NSFW content on Lemmy wondering if instances potentially hosted in the USA are trying to get ahead of it by removing/defederating such content, which is honestly probably plausible.

Edit: For what it's worth, I'm outside USA and using an outside-USA instance and I don't see any difference in lemmynsfw.com or elsewhere, so if this is legitimately happening and not just a brief technical hiccup, it's probably either related to lemmy.world (judging by everybody here being from lemmy.world) or geoblocked in the USA specifically.

The US was the world police. It was often joked about, but it had some legitimacy. Particularly after the fall of the Soviet Union, their unquestioned military hegemony kept the awful parts of the world cowed into Pax Americana. Every time the US shows weakness, dictators and warlords and terrorists become bolder. Putin's seizure of Crimea and the Donbas and Trump's Afghanistan withdrawal all made America look very weak, and they started preparing their own plans.

Now, with Trump dismantling the US from within, in ways that are probably irreparable in most of our lifetimes, the age of Pax Americana is certainly dead. The world will return to widespread conflict until somebody else steps up with enough military power to police the world to some approximation of their standards (maybe Europe, maybe China), or until it fractures into relatively stable rival groups at cold war with each other (Putin's much desired "multi-polar world") or until conflict becomes so violent and/or widespread it is simply the new normal which we'll probably call World War 3, or some combination of these possibilities.

I wouldn't stress about it. People are overly delicate with their hard drives in my experience. They're surprisingly sturdy and failure tends to be pretty random. There might be a slight statistical correlation in failure rates with minor vibration, but anecdotally I've got drives that vibrate the hell out of themselves (probably due to some other manufacturing defect) and have lasted decades with no errors, and plenty that fail completely for no perceptible reason at all. Spinning disks are just inherently unreliable, not that any storage technology is perfectly reliable. This is why backups are never optional.

Ironically I do believe AI would make a great CEO/business person. As hilarious as it would be to get to see CEOs replaced by their own product, what's horrifying about that is no matter how dystopian our situation now is and now matter how much our current CEOs seem like incompetent sociopaths, a planet run by corporations run by incompetent but brutally efficient sociopathic AI CEOs seems certain to become even more dystopian.

You're trying to move something with the inertia of an entire planet's economy, which represents an incredible, almost incomprehensible amount of effort. Inertia becomes an incredibly powerful force that inherently maintains the status quo when you're talking about huge systems with vast complexity. Yes, there are real challenges (which can be overcome) and yes there is real opposition from entrenched interests who stand to profit (or lose) significantly, and yes there are governments who are myopic and moving far too slowly. But most people underestimate the size of the role that sheer inertia plays. Not even just in this situation, but in all sorts of different situations, especially when you're talking about global issues or societal progress. Human minds and values cannot be changed with the snap of a finger. Individuals perhaps can, but as a civilization it often takes decades, or even centuries when the change is massive enough, even when technology itself moves much faster than that.

Even when the danger is clear, and the solution is obvious, and almost every government in the world agrees in a matter of weeks or months what approach they need to take (COVID-19), you can't push directly through the inertia of society itself without consequences. Look how shocking the backlash was, and arguably that backlash is still occurring and potentially contributed significantly to serious things like the spread of measles and even the re-election of Trump.

Politics is life. The days of being able to hide from politics were ended by Donald Trump. You may be able to ignore politics again someday far in the future, but right now, politics is very interested in you and any attempts to ignore it will be at your own peril, because politics does not like being ignored.

There is right and wrong in the world and sometimes it is complex and hard to tell the difference. Let me help.

If you find yourself in a position where you are deliberately withholding food from people until they starve to death, you are on the wrong side. Food is not a weapon, food is a basic human right. You might wish to weaponize it, because sometimes it would be awfully convenient and even powerful as a weapon, but if you do that, you are on the wrong side.

A newspaper owned by the richest family in Canada is of course going to promote the ideology of the billionaire class. That guy's idea of "normal people" are his gardeners and his lawyers. And he's so privileged and utterly soaked in generational wealth that his gardeners probably actually are lawyers.

This looks great but the link to the most interesting bit for me, Flohmarkt itself, seems broken. This is the working link to flohmarkt

He is evil, he is part of the evil controlling the US. The National Post is owned by a US hedge fund with close ties to the Republican Party. Either disregard everything they say, or take it as evidence of the opposite being true.

Podman runs rootless containers, this means their permissions do not work like docker, and it is not in fact a drop-in replacement for docker as you've discovered. The rootless containers are the key difference. You could try to run a rootful container instead, or if you read this thread by someone encountering the same issue as it sounds like you are running into including using mode 777 maybe their comment later on with the solution for them might help you too. But yes, podman is not exactly a drop-in replacement for docker in my experience. It is quite different, though mostly compatible.

This is wild. I just had to dig out one of my older corded shavers because I lost the right size of guard for the one I use normally. I was thinking of trying to 3d print a new guard but was dreading how many steps it would take to shape it and fit it just right. Now you're telling me I can just print a proper one officially? This is lovely. This is how technology is supposed to work for us, not against us.

What makes you believe that? Sensationalized unverified nonsense is just as bad as fake news, in fact it's worse because people like you think "well it's a big official news outlet what they say must be happening for real as I'm sure they've researched it" but their only motivation is money and being "first to report". Explain your analysis of the quality of the fact-checking, access to legitimate sources and on-the-ground reporting of any not-directly-involved media organization that's reporting on this and I'll give you a pass. There's nothing from Al-Jazeera, and not even any opposing propaganda available because as they admit, "This claim could not be independently verified by Al Jazeera. The Indian government has yet to comment."

So far, I don't see a single corroborating source with any sort first-hand information at all. It's very easy to copy and paste what government propaganda says and present it as news, and when it's sensational it can get lots of clicks and ad money. That doesn't mean it is real and I can't see any reason you would have to believe any of this, and if you do, maybe you'd like to buy this bridge I've got for sale.

"cargo" rockets you say... presumably to deliver "packages?"... from the Pentagon...

Unless it's more Hegseth leaks, I'm going to pass. I think refusing delivery in this case might be difficult though.

I've never had so much joy filling in a mad-libs blank with so many different and fun answers. That was supposed to be a mad-libs right?