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What approach did you end up going with instead?

I sadly do not atm beyond some notes but I can if there is interest.

Nonpersistent vm-based browser, I use qemu + cage + firefox and some glue logic to fire up a copy of a base image which gets deleted on exit. Fires up slower than a native firefox instance but runs all the same.

Can containerize for the less paranoid and less work but browsers touching host kernel gives me the ick as does the idea of trying to write ebpf policies for firefox to mitigate. Browsers are pain.

I always thought the opposite was true like whales breaking up orders for various reasons like not moving the market too much over things like portfolio adjustments, secrecy, etc?

I think it might be a "our product IS dangerous but look we are on top of it!" kind of deal. Still leaves a funny taste either way.

It's wild how the West collectively looked down on China for years over its censorship of search engines, only to suddenly dive headfirst into the same illiberal playbook

It is monkey see, monkey do with the political and monied sets. And to think they see themselves as more evolved than the "plebs", Gotta find the humor in it at least.

I think a lot of that in the US got spun up with Nixon, Reagan brought a lot of it to the mainstream though. Both of them hated unions with a passion that is for sure.

Ah didn't know that, thanks!

Preexisting solutions to future problems! Thanks to AI (mostly) botnets specifically for renting residential IPs have multiplied since most commercial VPN IP blocks get rate-limited, captcha'd, outright blocked which got even worse with AI.

People causing shenanigans using residential IPs if they ban VPNs is gonna lead to a lot of kicked doors, red herrings, lawsuits, and very probably ballooning budgets and will yet again fail to stop Bad Things™ not that it was really designed to anyway. I wonder if they think this is a good idea because they have machinations or is it just that they are clueless wealthy dinosaurs corrupting a future that isn't theirs?

faint sound of fading laughter from a US SSBN

If you want a successful lunch program (and rations if you have a to-go bag) look no further than the US Navy's sub program.

Given the environment and danger (and having a bunch of humans in close proximity, deep under the ocean, with nowhere to go, hangry, is not going to inspire unit cohesion) they get really, really good food. Which is probably not a bad thing to give people tooling around with enough firepower to take out a few dozen cities.

Ah well different tools for different folks, sorry to hear you couldn't get it going.

Check out SmartOS, it's illumos/solaris based but I think you'll find it is a nice middle ground. Not as abstracted, nice tooling that makes common tasks simple but not so opinionated you have to de-abstract things to get under the hood. Not painless but what is?

Granted my film scanner (epson v750) has gotten on in years the more prosumer-professional Epson scanners were good, software was still a bit janky but IIRC there is aftermarket scanner software for them.

It can do 36 exposures but you have to cut them into strips and place them in a carrier but it isn't terrible and if you store your negs in film protectors you are cutting them down anyway.

I am fairly sure the newest version (V850) is the same but be aware they aren't cheap, at least $1k+ USD but still cheaper than the next level up which are pro drum scanners and they are many orders of magnitude more expensive.

So your argument is my argument is old? Why were there oil corps there and why were they so pissed when they got kicked out?

Also did you think I was suggesting the U.S. govt wants it? Donnie's friends in the oil industry want it, single digit, double digit, doesn't matter to them greed knows no bounds with that crowd and this isn't Iraq in 2004 under Bush which I never believed had anything to do with oil.

So pick Venezuela? Which at best is a transshipment point, why no strikes in the Darién, why not take out some railroad tracks since a lot of drugs go up from coca country by rail? Also drug smugglers aren't stupid, why would they send product out knowing the U.S. military is sitting out there with a toddler's finger on the trigger?

Know what Venezuela has a shit-ton of though? Oil. Guess who loves the oil, gas, and coal industries? If your answer involves someone orange you'd be right. Guess who got kicked out of Venezuela when Chavaz took over? If you said large multinational oil corporations you'd be correct.

On top of that donnie gets to look tough against a country that largely has no serious regional allies in fact I believe a lot of them are pissed, China has ties but they aren't going to ratchet up the trade fiasco over Maduro, russia is a bit busy punching itself in the balls and last I check Venezuelans aren't big fans of Maduro so donnie is basically riskless save domestically.

Also given the size of those boats I'd wager a solid amount on the total lost amount would be equivalent to taking out 8 McDonald's store shipments and claiming you've dealt a serious blow to McDonald's bottom line.

cough Guantanamo Bay cough

Archive should just rebrand as an AI start up then offer an 'llm' that is suspiciously 'over-trained' and happens to spit out the site you query exactly... Copyright infringement? Nay! Over-training! "A fix is coming soon™!"

Tim Cook's most important customer is Wall St, granted that is every CEO these days.

The enshittification ceiling is pretty damn high but I get the intuitive sense the profit at all cost model's long term downsides are going to start showing up for dinner soon.

Ah haven't looked at their current offerings in a while, I am still on the first gen USG 1000fdx but hand-rolling a 2.5 router (Radxa E52C, it's nifty) to replace it when I stop being lazy.

You are right about Unifi's software being pain and I love that they keep changing the UI, the controller on the server side is dependency hell, and mongodb to boot just in case you need to manage n^webscale deployments.

Other trap is some of the unifi features, IIRC their IDS is one of them, will cut throughput if you are running it.

I think a more elegant solution would simply be to assign everyone a minder to monitor in real time, it is simpler than securely back-dooring (hell of an oxymoron) encryption systems and you get the added bonus of massive employment numbers.

In fact the minder's minder could be the minder's charge and you get 100% employment.

(/s)

The corp platform model seems to excel at abstracted wheel re-inventing and then pretending it is innovation.

Wait you were kidding? I've already spun up a kubes cluster so we can feed FHS in a globally load-balanced CI/CD pipeline, I have an agentic LLM doing constant improvements so we can sprint to you never knowing where your files are!

It's like ASLR for files but no maps because maps aren't for trailblazers, they make the maps! It's very cutting edge and a value-add!

(Obligatory /s)

I'll throw Mamiya 645 in there for a good medium format camera as well. Yashica is great, I own a Yashica Electro 35 and it is awesome no thought rangefinder.

NewPipe

I had convos with cops about swatting, the good ones aren't happy to go kick down someone's door who isn't about to harm someone but feel they can't chance making a fatally wrong call when it isn't swatting, also they have procedures to follow and if they don't the outcome is on them personally and potentially legally.

As for bad cops they look for any reason to go act like aggro billy badasses.

The irony being it would actually help lower the barrier for entry a little to get a home loan on the consumer end of the spectrum but as you said they dropped that barrier subterranean and then predatory crap like payment-option ARMs and a massive lack of informed consent.

Ya know back a couple of decades ago I used to get into IRC debates about how at some point in the near future governments would turn the internet into a battlefield dimension and you'd be able to "reach out and touch someone" fatally amongst many other nefarious things.

Granted I was younger and assumed circumstances of le carré proportions...

Wonky dns records leading to everyone getting free failover testing when us-east-1 goes down which also apparently includes free firmware failure mode exposure that may or may not cook your customers if your electrical engineers plan for thermal failure modes as well as your firmware engineers do with connectivity failure modes and sane timeouts... That I didn't envision, and to think a heavy percentage of IRC thought I was nuts... This is one hell of a timeline.

looks over at pile of steppers and drivers that can measure torque and glances at 3D printer

looks over at SBC with built in NPU

looks up high res encoder costs

closes tab

Direct link to the paper:

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/scirobotics.adn4008?...

I kinda figured it would come down to RFID still probably being pricey, used it a while back when it was newish and pricey but haven't looked in years.

That is a good point with the pricing making it cost effective but they probably look at it from some maximum profit POV.

Honestly something like an Automat diner style system would help with the latency and queuing and way easier to implement technically.