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  • Yeah I'm becoming increasingly nervous with the blue states systematically trying to disarm everyone and the red states are trying to whip everyone into a traitorous frenzy over the dumbest shit while arming everyone with a pulse.

    Otoh, and this probably sounds absolutely fucking nuts, I've found republicans tend to understand "strength" and they are strangely respectful of liberal and leftist gun owners because that's a dynamic they can comprehend. It's not a good state of affairs but it's better than them believing they can just run things because they're the only ones with "strength"

  • Ok I hate all of this.

    They're not the same, but they're kind of the same personality type. They frequently care about the same things, they just want very aggressive change to fix them. The issue is the path to get there and those are wildly different in terms of what the problem is and the underlying world view.

  • This is already publicly available data. You can get the address of every private pilot and the tail number of every plane from the FAAs database right now. Additionally you can see where every flying aircraft is in the world right now. Kind of a nothingburger :/

  • Honestly it's probably the best search dataset in existence right now. You can make Google suck far less by appending "reddit" to most searches because you'll get results from a group consisting of a higher ratio of actual humans instead of bots.

    Yeah reddit is shit, but the rest of the internet is 10x worse at this point. Pretty much any writing that isn't a labor of love on someone's personal page or users interacting with each other in a semi organic way is rapidly becoming 100% GPT vomit as every company in existence lays off their writing staff

    Whoever bought this got a fucking bargain.

  • Yeah the security angle gets parroted a lot, I'd call it more of a bad practice thing than a "omg you'll definitely get haxxord".

    Otoh USB C as a spec is sort of necessarily a nightmare. It's not hard to end up with shitty devices that'll gleefully provide 20V when the system expects 5V and even if it's just USB A, it's not that hard to end up with 120/240v going straight into your phone.

    At least with devices you own and control you know if they're melting things and haven't spent their lives being kicked/spilled on/cleaned with corrosive solvents or just generally old as hell and unmaintained.

    Personally I bring my own because it's faster and more reliable, and I have trust issues.

  • Just my opinion but I don't really like the common belief of separating nation and non nation state actors. We're getting to the point where nation states are making up a large portion of the really damaging attacks, and it's frequently ones own government or a government they're in conflict with which means there are very kinetic consequences for failure even if you're a nobody. It's not just someone stealing some money anymore.

  • I can hate on the boomers because they had every opportunity to not be shitty. I think in the case of gen z, society ultimately failed them. They have no bright future to look forward to, just rampant inequality and a dying planet. When some loon comes around and tells them all they can go off and be little apes venting their frustration on society with violence and bigotry there's less reason to ignore them than there should be. That's not to say everyone's blameless, but it's not like 20% of the cohort was born evil and will forever be that way; something external influenced this situation and we need to fix it.

  • The technical term is "dummy load", most antennas are around 50ohm "impedance" which in an incredibly roundabout way means the antenna is indistinguishable from a 50ohm resistor at whatever frequency it's tuned to....which means you can replace the antenna with a 50ohm resistor.

    This all assumes you care about leaving the radio functional (radio amplifiers will burn up if they can't dissipate the energy they're creating) and in most cases it's probably fine to just cut the trace as close to the source chip as possible. That said, if the system is especially evil and well engineered it'll throw errors in some cases so better to leave everything functional but unable to hear or transmit.

  • I suppose there's nothing wrong with it when the file is at rest, it looks like zip uses AES 128 or 256 which are adequate if you have a very strong password for the encryption. Ideally the encryption would feature a computationally intensive algorithm to slow guessing attempts when attempting to decrypt so you probably don't want to use a weak password.

    Usability won't be great, you'll be copy pasting constantly and that presents an opportunity for malware to spy on the paste buffer and steal your passwords but it's a low to medium severity issue.

    If you want to keep everything local I'd recommend KeePass, it's free, open source, and very strong. It's kinda the same thing but with the ability to insert passwords directly in some cases and can do more to keep everything organized.

    If you want to use this in environments where you can't install anything on the systems but don't want anything online, this is probably acceptable though.

  • This is celebrating home values skyrocketing and making people "feel rich" but that's going to be one of the biggest antagonists to personal wealth growth for the lower 90% for the next decade. Literally nobody but the top 10% can transact in the housing market anymore and everyone will slowly be turned into renters if it continues to be a lucrative way to extract wealth from the masses.

  • Frigates are supposed to be the second smallest blue water (trans continental/open ocean fleet) ships. IDK why, but countries are making them bigger each generation to the point where they're the size of older generation cruisers, the largest non carrier type combat ships typically deployed

  • Yeah, a surprising number of people don't want these hyper complex cars with thousands of microchips and millions of lines of code operating them. Give me an electric 2012 Honda fit/Toyota matrix equivalent that just fucking works and costs $20k or less new.

  • Judging from how many voters are in the US, it's basically a totalitarian dictatorship or die.

    That like of reasoning is kinda broken. We need people to take responsibility before things go too far. Google engineers can get jobs anywhere, they don't need to be doing this shit if they don't want to.