Its like we've adopted the economic policies we forced on third world nations, and found ourselves with a third world economy

Foucault's boomerang at work, just like US counter insurgency tactics now being employed by US police.

The lower layers all already at least moderately well encrypted, what they're doing here is trying to pull the unencrypted device ID necessary to establish a connection. It's not really what you're sending (though traffic frequency analysis may be included) and more about just figuring out where a particular phone is so they can physically track the user.

I look forward to running their shit in an Android emulator that feeds it bullshit until my rates go down

I'd argue the year of the Linux desktop passed years ago and now it's just a saturation game. Most serious SW development is now on Linux laptops/desktops, Android owns the mobile space and versions are starting to make huge inroads in the laptop space. You can buy gaming systems running it trivially now.

Conversely, casual users of windows are dying off, fewer non technical people are using desktops for anything at all. Only institutional users are buying Windows keys and they're some of the easiest to get on Linux because of the cost savings, particularly if you run Linux server infrastructure, a fight we already won over a decade ago.

Making ai more efficient will just mean more ai

The one pictured is a more modern model, but the original L96 is, with 90s era machine tools, the one that's probably easier to make in a garage. All the stampings on the sten are substantially more difficult to create as a one-off, but the action on the L96 just needs a lathe and a broach or EDM, all the rest of it a series of very simple milled components and a composite stock that you could build a mold for out of fiberglass and Bondo.

Yeah but the people running this seem to only be interested in pivoting between whatever the current grift is. We should come up with a word for people who do that, maybe something like "grifters".

IME those groups aren't very libertarian, they're closer to American Taliban religious fundamentalism.

And she's right. Can we listen to her instead of the braindead celebs?

Don't use TikTok, don't really care too much either way, but watching this whole thing unfold is starting to open my eyes to the ways these companies can shape public opinion.

They're apparently sending notifications to people to contact their reps and it seems very likely that they're promoting content that advocates against the ban.

I'm not a fan of censorship or blocking internet services but TikTok really seems to trying to make a good case for it.

Yeah I'm becoming increasingly nervous with the blue states systematically trying to disarm everyone and the red states are trying to whip everyone into a traitorous frenzy over the dumbest shit while arming everyone with a pulse.

Otoh, and this probably sounds absolutely fucking nuts, I've found republicans tend to understand "strength" and they are strangely respectful of liberal and leftist gun owners because that's a dynamic they can comprehend. It's not a good state of affairs but it's better than them believing they can just run things because they're the only ones with "strength"

..... Why does the sunflower oil factory have a plasma cutter?