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compass_copium··on I will never need to buy a new computer again
Is slack that bad? I've only used it for Bernie organizing in 2020, but it worked fine on my 9-year old (at the time) PC.
compass_copium··on I will never need to buy a new computer again
Yep, I have a Lenovo E420 (I think?) that I bought when I graduated in 2011. If I replace it, it will be due to things like the USB ports not working, not due to processing power being insufficient. I don't game anymore, I can watch video on it, I can use the Internet and word processing. What does one DO with a high powered processor?
compass_copium··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
Governmemt agencies are supposed to have publicly available records
compass_copium··on FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia
MKY/com groups. A very evil part of the internet:

https://www.maargentino.com/nihilism-and-misanthropy-unleash...

compass_copium··on FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia
Interestingly, this guy was not apparently working or communicating with an undercover agent, which is very often the case on a bust like this. You hear a lot about plots where the would-be attacker is holding fake bombs supplied by an agent. Not many where the guy assembled a lot of explosives on his own. Glad he was caught.
compass_copium··on FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia
It's loosely affiliated (or was anyway) with the 764/com groups that were in the news a little while back, and linked to MKY, a Russian terror group.

M. A. Argentino has good articles about this set:

https://www.maargentino.com/nihilism-and-misanthropy-unleash...

764 members have been getting arrested periodically. One was arrested earlier in December:

https://cyberscoop.com/baron-martin-arrested-for-child-abuse...

compass_copium··on Declassified Pentagon F-35 Study Details Reliability, Security Woes
Yes, because AI is not good enough to fly a plane, detect an enemy craft, and react before a human pilot could. Like I said, they are developing UCAVs. They are not replacing all human-piloted strike planes, let alone all human-piloted air-superiority fighters, yet. Being able to pull a few more gs in a turn doesn't give you that much of an edge, yet.
compass_copium··on M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF phosphor film
Sorry, the film's yellow and LED's blue lights combine to make white (or, more accurately, a color that makes white when the RGB filters are open 100%).
compass_copium··on Declassified Pentagon F-35 Study Details Reliability, Security Woes
It's not like UCAVs aren't being developed, though. Piloted aircraft have lower latency and are better for some tasks. If UAVs were ready to replace piloted aircraft in all combat roles, they would have. They have almost completely replaced piloted aircraft in ISR, for example, where they are a great fit (no Gary Powers, no latency issues). The Pentagon doesn't want to lose trained pilots.
compass_copium··on Declassified Pentagon F-35 Study Details Reliability, Security Woes
>maybe low radar cross-section isn’t that big of a deal anymore

That's simply not true. There is not a peer or near-peer country that is not developing a variety of low-RCS aircraft.

compass_copium··on Declassified Pentagon F-35 Study Details Reliability, Security Woes
>Besides, it's not invisible despite calling it that. It's visible in the visible spectrum and hearable in the human hearing range, which means that you can build detection and tracking systems in those wavelengths instead of pretending that its invisible because its hard to detect at radar wavelengths.

There have absolutely been programs to reduce the visual signatures of aircrafts. Yehudi lights, COMPASS GHOST, BoP, etc. Don't get your information on anything from Musk.

compass_copium··on M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF phosphor film
LCD BLUs have a uniformly glowing background which is filtered by the LCD to make pixels. If there is delay in pixels updating, it would be the LCD causing it.
compass_copium··on M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF phosphor film
It shouldn't make a difference. The film is illuminated by a blue LED and constantly glows uniformly yellow, which is the same mechanism as the white LEDs in a traditional display (blue emitter illuminates yellow phosphor coating). The LCD filters this to make specific pixels and would be more responsible. I worked for a now defunct QD company.
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