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I didn't move any goal posts, I've been pretty clear about my views on the general ineffectiveness of using quadcopters to target infrastructure.

But like I said, maybe I'm wrong, and the Ukrainian MoD will have a "Eureka!" moment after reading your comments.

Again, I think you're vastly overestimating the capability of a quadcopter drone to inflict serious damage on hard infrastructure.

But hey, maybe I'm not only wrong, but so are all of the Ukrainian sabotage teams and they'll stumble across your advice here and realize what a great idea it is.

Ignore them. They're just haters who can't handle the fact that despite it's youth, the Osprey is already a legendary platform.

Think of it like the A-10, except instead of repeatedly slaughtering friendly forces, it just regularly kills anyone dumb enough to ride in one, or pilot it.

Acts of sabotage have been happening this entire time, whether or not they're getting covered.

Ukraine has also been running a covert targeted assassination program, which unfortunately got some press coverage some months back due to their legally and morally questionable approach to target selection.

But, it's an existential war for their survival, so I'm not going to moralize about it.

I think you're vastly overestimating the damage possible from the explosive payload a tiny quadcopter can carry, unless your goal is strictly terrorism i.e. intentionally targeting civilians.

Civilians dying as collateral damage during an attack/assignation of a legitimate military target is one thing, targeting civilians is another.

And before you say Russia does, don't forget that Ukraine is dependent upon continued Western support, which is already fragile. It's doubtful that support would survive them explicitly targeting civilians with suicide drones deep inside Russia.

I used text to speech and didn't proofread because that's all this little dialogue warranted. You got me.

It's not a slippery slope, it's called an escalation ladder.

Again, you need to stop thinking of this in the historical context of the Cold War and USSR vs USA. Well there are similarities, it is a very different situation for any number of reasons.

More prepared, yes, but a lot smaller. A saturation attack is going to do significantly more damage because of the higher density of critical targets and infrastructure. But unlike a CBG, they can't withdraw out of range while they wait for resupply.

Oh come off it. I know you really don't believe that a standard US administration would launch a nuclear first strike in defense of Taiwan.

China is not the USSR, and the possibility of war between the powers has not historically been thought of in the same context as the Cold War USA vs USSR WWIII Nuclear Bonanza.

Are you really using all of human history as a timeframe to say that currency is a relatively recent phenomenon?

Again, I'm not anti-cryptocurrency, but it's not really a currency anymore than any other commodity in a commodity exchange, or a barter market.

And I don't care if it's livestock, or Bitcoin, I'm not accepting either as payment if I sell my home, or car. Not because of principles, but because I don't know how to convert livestock into cash, and I can't risk the Bitcoin payment halving in value before I can convert it to cash.

And who was talking extremes? I'm just pointing out the absurdity of the claims that crypto is the replacement for, or salvation from, our current economic system, or the delusion that currency backed by a nation is somehow just as ephemeral as Bitcoin, or ERC20 rug pulls.

You said Bitcoin was designed to free us from the tyranny of big capital, but it's been entirely co-opted by the same boogeyman. So regardless of the intentionality behind the project, it's now just another speculative asset.

Except, unlike gold or futures contracts, there's no tangible real world asset, but there is a hell of a real cost.

Printing currency isn't destroying the planet....the current economic system is doing that, which is the same economic system that birthed crypto.

Governments issuing currency goes back to a time long before our current consumption at all cost economic system was a thing.

lol

Forever? No, of course not.

But paper currency is backed by a nation state, so I'm betting it'll be around a bit longer then a purely digital asset without the backing of a nation, and driven entirely by speculation.

I'm not even anti-crypto. It was novel idea when it was actually used entirely as a currency, but that hasn't been true for quite some time.

This is straight out of Monsanto playbook going back decades. There's a reason why a lot of countries have either passed laws legally shielding local farmers from accidental cross-pollination, or just banning GM seeds, not for any pseudoscience rational, but because of the way agro business uses natural cross pollination as a vector for lawfare and predatory business practices.

I know right? You should really only ever need 1/3rd of a fighter jet for home defense.

Either Bosnian Ape Society has really gone downhill, or the jabronies trying to copy their style were raised on a diet of lead paint chips.

The inability to relock the bootloader is gigantic security vulnerability. It negates, or entirely voids, a significant amount of a devices physical security, including FDE.

There are other security issues with LineageOS, but that's part of the trade-off. There's nothing inherently sinister or incompetent about that, it's just the nature of the beast.

Regardless, I'm not here to chastise anyone's choice of OS, or to even imply that there is a right, and wrong ROM, there isn't.

I was just pointing out that there are pros and cons, and users should be aware of them when making those decisions.

Security and Privacy are not the same thing.

Stock Google is absolutely a hit to ones privacy, but LineageOS is a often big hit to device security.

If you don't have a Pixel, and therefore can't use GrapheneOS, check and see if your device is compatible with DivestOS.

However, neither will offer root support for reasons that both devs have decent write-ups explaining within each project's documentation.

I do realize that not everyone places security above all other factors when deciding on their smartphone OS, but I think they should be aware of the trade-offs so they can make an informed decision.

I'm not saying to never use Firefox Android forks, but the reality is that Chromium forks are significantly more secure on Android, such as Mulch (same dev as Mull) and Chromite (Bromite fork).

Again, I am talking security, not privacy, and specifically for Android.

Here is a good write up on the topic from the developer of the Mull and Mulch browsers:

https://divestos.org/pages/browsers

For desktop there are a lot of good Firefox forks, such as Mullvad's Browser, Librewolf, & Waterfox. If a website needs Chrome to work, I just use Vivaldi or Ungoogled Chromium.

Edit: I've made this point a few times, and always with lots of downvotes, just kind of funny. Especially when I provided a technical write-up from the developer of a security focused distro (DivestOS) as well as two popular security focused Android browsers (Mull and Mulch), but hey, maybe you all know better than he does.

Me? I'm an atheist.

Methinks you doth protest too much.

This ladies and gentlemen, is a textbook example of projection.

Isn't that what all the priests used to say?