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> convince rich people to give the non-profit large amounts of money

And yet Google's funding remains 85% of Mozilla's income, so that 'convincing' doesn't seem to be worth paying for.

> The UK already has so much CCTV.

But most of it, the overwhelming majority, comprises standalone installations at best networked into a corporate HQ but most commonly just recorded on site.

It's not like in police drama programmes where they can switch from the camera in the Tube station to the one in the newsagent outside for seamless real-time tracking.

If you do an ADSB playback the C-32 was flying as SAM112 In trail of AF1

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay=2026-07-08-21:06&icao...

Yes, though a Snickers is the same in both countries.

Yes, when I introduce my interests to new people these days I say "night-sky watching", instead of astronomy, just to avoid this problem.

"Astronomy? You don't really believe in all that nonsense do you? Jane, this guy believes those horoscopes in the paper!"

Sigh

Lying is a subversion of morality and strawmanning doesn't change that.

If you can't state the truth, then don't answer.

"But there is something a little...alienating about advertising that's not meant for you."

The vast majority of advertising isn't for any specific individual. I've no interest in perfumes, fashion, electric cars or jewellery that feature on boards nearby and I've no idea who the celebrity endorsers are, but why should I care?

But many modern people have a compulsion that they need to be involved in everything, all the time, and anything they don't understand is either mocked or protested. It's a form of entitled self-importance, but what's the cause?

Syncing directly from a 4G signal would be a lot more practical than VLF or HF time signals, but I haven't found a wall clock that does so.

Because reproduction is reactive. If an organisation only clones others' style then they'll always be behind the curve and will be widely recognised to be derivative and lacking their own 'taste'.

Look how long it takes Chinese brands to transition from being clones to establishing their own corporate image.

"Device attestation is how you can use private keys you don't actually have access to."

Read that phrase back and then ask "is this the future of computing that we wanted?"

The likes of passkeys, essentially user-hostile ssh keys that live on your device but aren't accessible by you, would have been an unbelievable dystopia to us in the 90s.

"Linux folks need to implement the full stack"

Nah it's fine thanks, I'd rather opt out of corporate serfdom than compromise my principles.

I use my bank's card reader to authenticate in the hopes that it will signal a need to keep supporting it. But the vast, vast majority of people just use a banking app so I fear it's a lot cause.

Russia seldom publishes NOTAMs for offensive GPS interference

> No big deal.

Sure, if it's obvious it's happening, like GPS being completely knocked-out.

If it's a GPS spoofing nudge by a few dozen metres per minute, then it's not so obvious. Enough to make a OWA drone miss its target, while also not being easily noticed by pilots.

> Yes. Be locked in.

That'd be fine if the decision just affected the decision-maker's system. But the secondary effects are that it binds the external users of that system to the vendor's ToS.

Which is now bigger than the Accord used to be, thereby proving the point.

Sadly, also hyper-unrealistic. Very few people can afford to save 20% of their income whilst maxing pension contributions, let alone maximising other accounts.

Points 1, 3 and 5 are probably the key ones and would still stretch most people.

I'll check it out.

I'd love to learn more about John Bell, being from Belfast and having sat through many lectures in the Bell Theatre. But not being from a mathematical background I've never found an approachable layman's description of what the theorem means.

The problem these days is that many drivers conflate 'beastly performance' with 'good to drive'.

When a basic sedan weighs 1700kg, you can't fool physics - it's never going to corner or respond like it's predecessor of half that weight.

> Saying they're not fit for purpose doesn't seem correct.

I'll quite happily say they were never fit for purpose. C had a role in bootstrapping early software development in the absence of anything better but once Lisp, Delphi, Smalltalk and Java arrived on the scene then it, and its equally footgunnable variants, should have been pushed to the margins where hardware constraint was the primary consideration.

Writing a browser in C++ in the 21st century was ridiculous and irresponsible.

Unfortunately, being a weak VLF signal, it's very susceptible to interference and screening.

My MSF clocks at the front of the house keep perfectly synced, the ones deeper in the house wander hopelessly

Clocks on microwaves seems to be a curiously American custom, driven by the fact that US outlet sockets generally don't have switches.

In Europe, and the UK particularly, every socket has a switch so the microwave is turned off after each use.

Libraries in my area dispose of 'weeded' books by covert means, so that public ire isn't aroused by finding dumpsters full of discarded books.

They are most assuredly destroyed.

You don't need AI to patch binaries, people have been doing it by hand for decades.

It's this accelerating reliance on AI to do 'hard boring things' that really concerns me; it's now passed the tipping point and people are saying that anything slightly esoteric is impossible without AI.

I can guarantee that if you spend an afternoon shifting through binary grot with a hex editor you'll have a real sense of accomplishment when you find the place to put a JMP.

Premium Economy is so much more expensive than steerage class that it's not a realistic 'option' for the majority of potential passengers.

> " OK well you made your choice...."

The only choice for most people is "fly cheap" or "don't go".

"Be a shame if you couldn't access them any more...

Verify identity to continue"

I understand what you're saying about side projects but it just sounds... like buying a landscape wall print from IKEA instead of taking a photo and having it printed on canvas.

My non-work projects are exercises for the brain and for learning, and if instead I could just automagic them into existence they'd feel hollow and almost cheating.

"An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid," Lord Rutherford of Nelson.

There should be some name for the phenonenom of assigning anything pithy to Einstein.

> Was there a general sense that something singularity-like was approaching?

To a degree. There was breathless expectation that this was a turning point for commerce, government and society and that everyone had to stake their claim now. Everything was going to change.

What was it going to change into? Beyond "$OLDTHING but on the Internet!!!", nobody really knew. Those first steps were just webbifying existing processes, stumbling along, refining what was reasonably successful and dumping that which wasn't.

It was like a black hole; from afar we could vaguely see an event horizon, but the people falling into it had no idea what was happening or where they were in the process.

Why are the errors occurring, though? That's what boring analyse-and-fix addresses, through familiarity, recognition of patterns and "hang onnn..." moments.

It's like your AI agent is just plugging the leaks in the dyke each time, instead of fixing the architecture of the dam.