More than a phone, I want a good 7-10" Linux tablet. Something like a Samsung Tab S7 but pure Linux, not Android. Full-fat USB-C (video out, etc) with a slim keyboard cover. I seem to have a lot of low-level hacker-y needs while out and about but I don’t want to always carry my laptop.

These days a tablet is a luxury, a phone is a necessity. You can iterate a mobile UI on a tablet slowly. Shooting to replace a phone means you need to hit a much higher bar of quality. It seems like an easier path to adoption.

A Republican proposing a tax on EVs does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. There’s absolutely no reason to go looking for a silver lining or making apologetics.

Unless I’m misunderstanding something, this is just how networking works. All of your local traffic is going to go through that router at some level. The router is making all the decisions for… routing. It has to be a part of the network.

If it’s truly an untrusted device, you need physical separation. Subnets are just informational for routing purposes. The trivial setup is “tandem routers”: ISP – ISP_router – Your_router – (( your home network )). The downside is the double NATing is going to cause weird problems unless you go to a lot of trouble of port forwarding (and don’t forward all ports to your “favorite” machine).

Advanced “I have a Cisco certification” setups for separation involve VLANs and many distinct, specialist devices: a pure router/firewall (no switch/hub, no wifi), a managed switch, and a mesh of managed wifi access points. Some home routers automate this to give you a “guest network” or maybe even an “IOT network”.

And that’s why we were all legitimately worried that he’d try to nuke Iran.

Content warning: needless uninvited pedantry ahead

Trump acts like a toddler. And any parent can tell you that predicting the inevitably dumb behavior of your toddler isn’t rocket science.

He’s so predictably stupid and selfish that most of the time, everyone else but him knows what he’s doing. It’s a fun meme but I think the reality is the opposite.

I’ve sometimes thought that WW2 flak cannons (~artillery) with a programmable fuse (set immediately before “launch” by radar) could be effective. You would get longer range than C-RAM or laser and artillery shells are cheap. Shahed/Gerans are not particularly fast or durable. It wouldn’t take much to make it fall out of the sky: close enough is good enough.

Again, this particular DIY radar has no application in Ukraine. It does not have a 50+km range (10km). It can not direct or interface with an interceptor missile, of any kind, to shoot down TBMs, Shaheds, etc. The critical issue really is how many interceptor missiles Ukraine has and far less about janky early-warning radar coverage.

Acoustics are used for FPVs, which have a tiny radar cross section and can fly at tree top altitude or lower. A basic/crude DIY radar would not be effective there and at $12,000 vs $Free, acoustics win hands down for FPVs. The Gepards (AA gun) have their own onboard radar already for cruise missiles/shaheds. No one is proposing or expecting acoustics to track missiles or bombs. These are two very different problems.

The Russian Navy stays way, way the hell away from the Ukraine coast these days. The drone-boat bombs have them running scared. Even Sevastopol in Crimea is too risky.

This doesn’t have any practical application in Ukraine.

Ukraine detects FPV drones with numerous distributed and networked microphone/acoustic sensors. You’re not going to get any cheaper than a used phone paired with a $2 USB solar panel.

The larger Shahed/Geran and above stuff isn’t limited by radar detection. What they need are cheap interceptors to deal with swarm attacks.

Tangentially related, I’ve been dropping Google apps for FOSS and especially FDroid alternatives. It seems wasteful for each app to be duplicating OSM tiles all the time. For things like Meshtastic as an “off grid” app, you’d want maps to be available with no data connection as well.

I’m not sure how useful it would be but pointing all of these apps to something like OSMAnd~'s downloaded maps makes a lot of sense to me.

I think I’m gonna need more proof on this one. Not just one guy that works in an office who attached an image in an email.

It’s kinda got all the classic markers. Superbly outlandish yet just believable enough. Confirms everyone’s preexisting beliefs.

They are closing the labs where the work is happening. You can’t just throw your experiment in the back seat of your car and drive to Colorado.

And how can you centralize research when so much of it is location specific? It’s costs more money to fund “off site” long distance research on a temporary basis versus having something local and long term.

If you read the article though, it’s not as simple as being dissolved. They’re just massively reorganizing how it’s run so it’s dysfunctional and the original mission is lost. They’re letting states (industry) have dominating access and control over USFS policies and shutting down long running and irreplaceable research projects. Like RFK’s CDC, if you stop testing and gathering facts, you can then justify any policy you want.

Instead of a convertible, we get a lame attempt at a metaverse and VR goggles?

One less person saying “no” to a land invasion of Iran :(

Yeah, I hear ya. I can’t watch Jon, Colbert, or any comedian really because it’s all too depressing. Before, you had this naive assumption that it’ll get fixed eventually. The “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”, blah blah blah. I don’t know if Dr King knew just how long he was talking about.

Since this is Lemmy, I can’t tell if you’re talking Meta/X or EFF and Jon…

Trivia: Counties don’t do anything up here. I don’t think a Sheriff can even pull you over for speeding. It’s mostly a court and prison district thing.

Boston is going to be insane. The last one filled every bit of standing room across downtown. Most people weren’t in earshot of the speakers because you couldn’t get close enough.

It’s pretty fucking clear to me: Trump acts like a king and ignores the Constitution. That must be stopped at all costs.

I think what this article is failing to state clearly is that none of the government is working therefore No Kings can’t achieve its goal of reining in Trump. That doesn’t mean we stop protesting. That means we start thinking about the next step: “Stop. Or else”.

It’s not decentralized although it tried really hard to be.

I don’t want to google/remember the exact details but IIRC basically they run a centralized identity server that is impossible to avoid. At best, you can set up an island instance that doesn’t federate with BlueSky proper (like Truth Social vs Mastodon).