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They were "unforgeable" because commissioning a jeweler to make an intricate carving on a ring by hand was very expensive in the first place. Finding one who could precisely replicate an existing carving, down to the mistakes of its original author and any wear and tear that would be visible on the wax seal, was almost impossible and even more expensive.

This discussion is completely and irrevocably poisoned by the lack of general understanding of the distinctions between citizens, non-citizen permanent residents, legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, asylum seekers, economic immigrants, and war refugees under temporary EU protection (Ukrainians). Especially the differences between the situations in the US and the EU. This whole comment section is, sadly, full of people writing pure nonsense. Please educate yourselves on this big and important topic before posting.

Come to Ukraine and witness real "active violence". This is ridiculous.

Asylum seekers in the EU indeed get a monthly allowance and are prohibited from working. Is this not a known fact?

> Convincing all of human history and psychology to reorganize itself in order to better service ai cannot possibly be a real solution.

I'm on the spectrum and I definitely prefer structured interaction with various computer systems to messy human interaction :) There are people not on the spectrum who are able to understand my way of thinking (and vice versa) and we get along perfectly well.

Every human has their own quirks and the capacity to learn how to interact with others. AI is just another entity that stresses this capacity.

BGP full view and traceroutes? It's pretty hard to fake the path that a packet takes to that IP address.

There already exist ways to proxy those requests in ways that avoid exposing anything about the visitors to Google. It's in the grey area wrt Google's own ToS, but then, it's that or GDPR.

I see this and I feel I must ask: why would you EVER engineer ANY application under the idiotic assumption that none of your users will ever want to remove the data that they had stored in it?! Absolutely baffling. Of course, if a business is that short-sighted and careless, it will struggle to implement GDPR.

Ironic considering the Russian oligarchs have the most blinged out yacht fleet

Russia and most other post-Soviet countries maintained mandatory military draft, with education being one of the only non-health-related exemptions available. Because of the sad state of those armies in the 90's, 00's, and even 10's, very few young men in particular were willing to basically waste a year or so of their life, so instead nearly every male school graduate went into a university, which contributed to the statistics.

Vim has a steep learning curve though, GUI apps don't.

Correct, pidgeons are much more complicated and unpredictable than supersonic aircraft, and the way they fly is much more complex.

Humans understand how to improve themselves, but our bandwidth to ourselves and the outside world is pathetic. AIs are untethered by sensory organs and language.

Mobile operators have added microphones to 4G cell towers throughout Ukraine to triangulate suspicious sounds.

Starlinks provide decentralized access to the Internet both on the frontline and back in the rear. Together with batteries, solar panels, and petrol/natgas/diesel generators, they can be relied on to provide 24/7 Internet access for a while even if something happens to the ISPs. Lots of people now have them even though they are a bit expensive, and the Ukrainian government had also set up a network of locations where civilians can gather to warm up, charge their devices, and send messages over Starlink, in the worst-case scenario of a major infrastructure breakdown.

More broadly, it's harder than it seems to knock out both the entire backbone of the Ukrainian Internet network and the backbone of the mobile carriers, at once. It's easier to target the power stations. Even then, it is possible to get at least some power as long as the fossil fuel logistics are maintained. A 180W solar panel that costs around $100 can, in decent weather, provide enough power to charge a phone and power a Starlink. So power is a major problem, but it also has solutions.

The chief reason is decentralization.

Journalists who are updating these channels have their own sources in the Ukrainian air defense network as well as OSINTers who, for example, monitor Russian radio traffic using SDR, or even sometimes have people on the ground observing the take-off of planes in Russia and Belarus (horrifically dangerous, but there are ways to send this information somewhat safely; planes tend to be loud). If one of the journalists goes down for any reason, there will be other people writing updates. Each oblast also has their own channels where they announce attacks, some of them owned by the local administration, some by the emergency services. The air defenders themselves are a bit too busy to monitor and write this stuff; often, the best they can do is to write some short messages into a group chat or a Telegram bot before things go down, and even then, all parties involved have to balance providing an appropriate warning window with not letting the timing of this information to reveal the capabilities and locations of different kinds of Ukrainian observation stations. And this whole system has to be simple, since not every trained air defender is tech-savvy in general. Many don't know what an API even is. Many Ukrainians, too, wouldn't understand how to work with an API, but they can read the warnings in Telegram.

Also don't forget that the journalists who curate monitoring channels often also accept reports about the flight paths of missiles and drones from the general public, and while there are a couple of apps for that as well that send data from the phone's GPS and compass while the user is pointing the phone at the object, again, it's a matter of having several information channels that non-technical people can easily use. Even just writing to one of them that you just heard a cruise missile fly by, specifying your rough location, can be helpful, since radar coverage is not 100%. These messages then get relayed back to the people in the Ukrainian AA who are trying to intercept these things in real time.

Then there are the obvious security concerns, personal communications and group chat access can be vetted and it's hard to break the anonymity of Telegram channels from the outside to even be able to target the authors' devices with cyberattacks. While an API must be open to the world, and thus it immediately becomes a target.

It's a messy system but it works.

Kropyva is not available to the general public and it's very far from the capabilities of similar NATO systems, its strength lies in the fact that it's an Android app that can be used on cheap tablets, so it doesn't rely on the military-industrial complex provided hardware, which is safer and more robust, but far more expensive.

Being unable to learn is a matter of either unwillingness or disability.

Nowadays it's easier to learn than ever, and the real rates of intellectual disabilities/neurodiversity hadn't gone up that much. Such conditions are just easier to diagnose nowadays.

Thus yes, if you won't learn, and you can't prove that it's an organic problem, enjoy a job that sucks.

Blaming capitalism for that is meaningless.

Verbatim from Kagi FAQ:

"Why does Kagi Search require an email address? We require an email address to be able to verify the account really belongs to you in the following cases:

To handle the account recovery (in case you lose your password) In case you contact us via email with an account related questions (in particular requests to delete your account or change your subscription) To occasionally send product updates, which you can disable in your Kagi settings or unsubscribe directly from the email Note that you can use an anonymous email provider such as SimpleLogin with Kagi Search and it is up to you what email address you want to use.

Kagi does not need your personal information and the above requirements are just bare minimums needed in order to be able to operate a subscription product business."

It's similar to services like Bitwarden in that regard.

Mullvad can get away with not doing that because they have a single plan with a low price.

> Human workers are not getting smarter.

Everyone is walking around with devices that connect them to nearly the total sum of human knowledge. Not acting on that to get out of an easily replaceable job is a skill issue. Also, the education systems currently aren't the best. Automation and IT hasn't penetrated them as much as is feasible.

I've almost never needed to read those news to keep the system working as I want it to. That's the thing.

If I have both enabled in my install, which I specifically chose to, then upgrading the package locks me out of my database, because those features are not compiled.

ABS is a level up because it curls like mad off the print bed because of internal stresses, and this will cause prints to fail if you do not have a heated chamber, which is a bit of a challenge to set up over Ender 3 like printers. PETG meanwhile likes to be dehumidified under heat first to avoid excessive stringing, which requires a separate doodad, and it likes all metal hotends that do not include the usual internal PTFE tube, which off-gasses nasty stuff if heated above roughly 250°C. PLA has none of these problems. "Level up" is about printability, not material characteristics of the end product.

It's because plastic injection molding has different constraints and trade-offs in parts design compared to metal machining. E.g. injection molding, after the mold is done, doesn't really care about machine time, complexity, or the availability of specific cutters and drills. So sometimes the geometry and tolerances of an injection molded part is a pain in the arse to replicate manually -- it's just not made to do it, unlike metal machining, which at scale is still a rough approximation of the manual process.

Transporting refrigerated goods over moderate distances and last-mile delivery from the train yards are where trucks using overhead cables can shine. I also read that there existed trolleybus lines that went several miles/kilometers between towns that weren't connected by rail. It's especially useful in mountainous terrain.

Here in Ukraine, the grid is no longer 100% reliable for obvious (and highly intentional) reasons. Solar is somewhat inconvenient to use in large cities, and cloudy days are common. A variety of generator types and sizes can be seen instead. Living in an apartment, I have an Ecoflow Delta 2 Max as my first line and a 3.5kW gasoline/natgas generator as my second line. Most of the time, there is some power at some hours of the day, so the Ecoflow can store it. If it runs out, I can run an extension power cord down from my balcony, lug the generator down into the yard, and use it to charge the Ecoflow. I do have plans to buy a solar panel and put it on the building roof with a Starlink, but it would require negotiating with the neighbors and stuff. Gasoline storage really is an issue, though. Currently I just hope I'll have enough money to buy it as needed.

The focus of the effort to make overhead charging viable is on large trucks that already drive mostly, but not completely, predefined routes on highways and in cities, which are often too lengthy to only rely on battery packs.

Reading these comments makes me thankful for the existence of Nova Poshta in Ukraine. Two years of open war, and they still consistently deliver packages overnight across roughly a third of the country, and are doing their best transporting international shipments to and from Europe. Very focused on keeping things moving and avoiding losing any parcels.

How do the developers of Kali Linux mitigate against black hats? They don't. It's impossible.

Buddy, I'm from Ukraine and drone jammer and drone early warning schematics are basically public knowledge at this point. Drones mostly use the same sub-1GHz bands, 2.4 GHz bands and 5 Ghz bands that other consumer electronics also use. You can't put this genie back into the bottle. Both radio- and cyberwarfare are here to stay. Y'all just don't know it yet.

After the war there are going to exist a whole bunch of people who know how to deny GPS, defend against drones, build attack drones that bypass primitive countermeasures, spoof mobile networks, monitor the RF space for unencrypted signals, and set up actually secure comms. And not all of them are going to remain completely silent about all of this. Toys like Flipper are going to be the least problematic. Banning it achieves nothing.

As mentioned elsewhere, the padlock was only applied and removed in orbit and there were tools available to cut it open in case it seized up

I saw trust being mentioned, but I don't really get it. Space is one of the most unnatural environments people can go to. Of course brains that had evolved for life on Earth can malfunction in such completely artificial spaces. Same for airplanes, or submarines, or modern warfare. There was a tense moment in Das Boot where the engineer suffered a mental breakdown while the sub was stuck on the ocean floor and the captain even felt the need to go get a pistol. It's not an issue of trust, it's basic psychology. Nobody wants to be "that guy" who puts everyone in danger, but I don't think there will ever be a reliable way to completely prevent such occurrences, nor do I think there is anyone to blame for them, and nor do I think having safeguards should be interpreted as a silent accusation towards those on board.