It is my hypothesis that if the cost were to drop to about $2000 and be available to anyone with a bit of technical knowledge, they would be quickly outlawed. That is our goal in this series; develop a low-cost Stingray.
Yes, they will be outlawed for the general public, but not for law enforcement...
OP specifically says they're not looking for the wayback machine or any other archival site, they want something "still alive"
Everybody knows that plain old SMS text messages are way more secure than Signal ...
/facepalm
censorship is bipartisan, they just want to censor different things
Yes, I understand that the 2nd amendment alone can't stop a dictator if they have the army on their side... even though that was at least partly the intention when it was written
This is the actual reason why there is a 2nd amendment
I mean, they could stop messing with things that aren't broken for once...
Is that hypothetical or are you saying that right now, people are being denied us citizenship if they have a speeding ticket? Cause I was pretty sure anything minor like that pretty much wouldn't count, not sure if things have changed
You're right, but those old ones kinda suck. Recently, they figured how to make them sound good. Example: Bose Ultra Open Earbuds, but every major brand has some
I think they meant open ear style headphones / earbuds, not closed ear ones with pass-through function.
Personally, despite having a pair of those, and they are great, I still prefer using the car's speakers while driving, but that's me.
Germany Is Now the World’s Leading Democracy
What's the lie, for the uninitiated?
Because except for some small inaccuracies, I find myself agreeing with this article a lot.
“We feel very isolated out there. We cannot ask for help, we cannot use our phones. But the captain is in charge, and the captain can use it. The only one that has access is the captain.”
So, boats already have wifi (and internet), in most cases, but fishermen are not allowed to use it. It's not a technical or cost issue, it's just.. they don't want the fishermen to communicate with the outside world
Elon Musk is going back to Tesla. But is it too late to reverse the damage he’s done? | CNN Business
It's gonna be a looooong time before he can redeem himself in any possible way, and by that time, if ever, he'll be likely dead. The best he can to for Tesla is to disappear, step down and fully divest his Tesla stock, then maybe Tesla (not Musk) will be redeemed.
As an engineer, I'm not really an activist or anything, but I'll be living under a bridge before I accept a job at a "defense" company that makes weapons, of which there seem to be many these days. And yes, I have this statement (with slightly different wording) as a note to recruiters in my linkedin profile.
Good to know I'm not the only one taking a stance on this.
According to the research published by Hackmosphere, [...]
I cannot find a link to the original research, anybody has the link to the original research?
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Some of Apple’s struggles in AI have stemmed from deeply ingrained company values—for example, its militant stance on user privacy, which has made it difficult for the company to gain access to large quantities of data for training models and to verify whether AI features are working on devices.
So, Apple is behind in the AI race at least partly because they're trying to do it more responsibly and more respecting of their users. I don't really like Apple, but I guess I'm starting to like them more... a bit more. tiny bit. but still.
You raise good points, but even if Apple was able to take some hit on the profit margin, and was able to find cheap-ish labor in the US (minimum wage likely higher than $7.25/hr though), the biggest issue in my opinion is that all the component the iPhone is made of are still imported and affected by tariffs, and making them in the US might be outright impossible for some, based on current manufacturing capabilities, or very expensive for the ones that can be made in US.
Nice to know I'm not the only one that dislikes autocorrect on phones, and autocomplete / autoindent (and also auto close parentheses and quotes for me) when coding
Few years ago at work, people were using them to clean electronics after soldering, etc. but once, they did it on a board with a MEMS device, a gyroscope and accelerometer chip. Took them a while to figure out while none of them worked until they narrowed it down to the ultrasonic cleaner...