Does not help that election day is on a workday, so only the retired olds have the free time to easily vote.

America invented income tax in that century to tax the rich, before that it didn’t exist. Low end was taxed little, anything over $500k was given to the country. Now it robs everyone but the rich. Also, for some reason they structured it so citizen->country->state rather than citizen->state->country (I believe the EU is structured in the latter) yet nobody has questioned this terrible error. An American citizen can’t skip paying Federal taxes, as they are imprisoned. Even though debtors prisons America purports to not have. Yet when their own Federal government destroys their state via many means, they can’t do anything about it as an individual.

America sat around while Nazis and their prequel happened, thought about doing it. Set up a honeypot for Japan to attack Hawaii, then “saved” the world, made movies about it for decades. The hero that did nothing until we found it convenient.

America pushed nuclear power so hard as it would revolutionize everything…in the 1950s era. We wouldn’t have to be so desperate for “efficiency” if inefficient processes like resistive heat, electrolysis, and other things to generate things we need were throwaway bonuses. Power bills would be a thing of the past, every energy bill would be, natural gas, fracking, etc. would be unnecessary. Nuclear power would be safer than it already now is. They inflated the bad incidents like 3 mile island, and enlisted the Simpsons to poison a generation. (Hopefully people pick up that the Simpsons bit was a joke, ish.) Even ozone-destroying chemicals (theoretically) could have been reduced because the refrigerants used in every heating or cooling pump could have just been Peltier devices instead of a chemical. At scale, massively inefficient. Unlimited power? Why not?

America liked oil like it was crack and decided that was the better choice. We needed to fund airlines and cars. Backed by taxpayer-funded airports and roads. Move over trains, we have a bigger way to delete your money.

So, tl;dr, omitting a lot of details that could span a week of typing, we in the FO part now dawg.

Everyone tried to use the same model, even MacOS reboot sold itself as Unix and the open-source portion of the platform used to be much larger. You could edit a config file and make it load text console only in the early years.

Annoying, really, as every one of them preach openness until they get so big, and then they seal the gates because they think they have their market locked down.

Not anymore.

Will be interesting to see how android dies. It will be slow, but it is a given.

And probably mostly a feel-good useless thing.

That’s what I said.

Nextel iDEN is a good example of a hyper low-latency digital mode that could be used, although likely a CDMA-based air-path would be a better choice as all radios can talk on the same channel at the same time without interfering.

Would be a very complex system to make durable, but remotely possible.

Unlike digital modes with control channels and parity bits, it would be pure analog. Not impossible, but the glitches causing risk of a failed transmission are likely not worth it. If you listen to AM with squelch off, it is a swirl of signal and noise. DSPs could do some filtering, but again adding a big risk factor.

Say plane A backs off and retransmits right when plane B transmits for the first time and plane C is on a path to collide with A. C might still suffer the same fate.

There really isn’t a protocol. One can build an AM radio with a Zener diode and some common electronic parts.

Not trying to internet neg on the idea, to be clear. Just statistically, adding variables equally adds potential problems.

https://map.meshcore.io/

You can check your location there and see if any nodes are listed in your area for a starting point, what the others said too.

Similar thing happened to a Canadian judge a while back. Ridiculous.

Meshtastic is so easy to kneecap. A couple of people deploy tracker nodes broadcasting GPS once a second, or someone thinks it is a bright idea to run a router node inside a house and a multi-city mesh becomes useless.

It does not scale well.

Hopefully MeshCore keeps good growth. Seems much more stable and reliable.

A big show so random people in the military can say they helped.

Seemed the most dangerous part of the whole mission, dangling people from cables under a flying paradox one at a time.

Most of the time they do spell things, yeah, then there are the weird legacy holdover ones. The *3001#12345#* iPhone code is an old Nokia engineering screen code that probably only had meaning to Nokia S40/S60 engineers.

Samsung phones include McAfee, oddly.

The radios aren’t even digital, or even FM. They are AM so multiple can talk at once. Such an entrenched technology that would take decades to replace across the planet. Buffering could reduce some cross talk, but at the expense of possibly dangerous delays.

Use Signal note to self and send it to yourself. Strips all metadata. Does resize larger images though.

Passable and stupid, just to work around their over-engineered walled garden full of overlapping security certificate messes. All controlled by Apple infrastructure.

Very far from genius.

Google is a sellout hypocrite of the highest order and has been for…15, 18 years?

If you read the alleged protection dialog, Google’s only blocks against 2G networks. The same of which many carriers allow, enable, or enforce blocking, and if not *#*#info#*#* let’s you do it yourself.

“2G network protection - Avoids 2G networks, which are less secure”

Muskrat blows up 50 rockets for sport and puts air travel at risk for the lulz. SpaceX was initially interesting in that small vacuum of NASA activity, but nowhere in the same wheelhouse. All flash and no substance, like the rest of the tech bro industry.

Use 1984 rules, reverse everything they say, that is the actual goal.

Instead, all that money is being used to accelerate our doom. AI datacenters unnecessarily consuming power and drinking water in small towns everywhere. Many just dumping humidity into the air and letting that water literally blow away via lazy evaporative cooling. Most “normal” water consuming processes consume, treat, and return water to the downstream-traveling aquifer.

Now, couple that with an overall warming climate. When air is warmer, the more moisture the air can hold. So we end up with more water vapor in the air than normal. With the weirding factor of climate change, this means more water energy for more powerful and destructive storms the likes of which humanity has never seen. Which feeds back into more ice melting, oceans rising, permafrost melting, cycle, accelerate, cycle, accelerate.

Also, real curious to see how millions of warehouses belching humidity and heat into the air across the surface of the globe can affect the general weather patterns, but that sadly won’t be known until after the damage is done.