I think a good church is great for hobby projects ready to be taken out of the basement

You do have to belong to such a church already though

That is absolutely massive for a browser. Like multiple orders of magnitude too big. Like what are we even doing

And I don’t care if everyone is doing it, it’s still too big!

If they wrapped that in the right spin it might just give Putin enough wiggle room to back down without losing his head

I mean, you can sue pretty much anyone for anything, but fair… It is technically a ruling

It’s still just a policy though, which means it’s easy to change or to do unofficially if the courts reject it (which seems unlikely right now, but I’d love to see it happen)

Fair. And it only goes our way if Linux devs take a stand in the first place…I think they will. I hope they will

And if everyone used E2E encryption for their private messaging like everyone who understands the topic has been pushing for decades, signal users wouldn’t stand out

The state cannot enforce this, it still relies on compliance in advance

It’s not a ruling, the FCC was ordered decided that they’re not going to certify any new foreign made home routing equipment. No certification means the radios won’t be legal for consumers to operate

This isn’t a law or judicial ruling, it’s policy

Technologically, yes, they could easily identify non-compliance with how much data is being collected these days

Logistically though? How are they going to enforce this? Sue every open source project that circumvents this? Block downloads of it with a great firewall? Fine end users? It’s just not feasible

Realistically, they’re going to go after the OSes with the biggest market share. Google, Microsoft, and Apple will be forced to comply on new devices, and maybe they’ll try to make an example or two to get compliance in advance

They’ve already pitched the idea of a 10% toll

Nah, like a couple weeks. They ship in a team along with the equipment and then they go to town

Something like deep water rigs can take years to build, but actually tapping a well is pretty quick. But then you can’t just seal it back up - or at least humanity has never bothered to learn how to do so. So companies will sit on them for years to keep production steady, if the cost of oil falls they might move it to a sacrificial shell company and leave it leaking for tax payers to eventually clean up

I’ve heard more than enough of it. They just repeat the same lies over and over

We have tons of untapped oil fields easier to drill in the US that oil companies are sitting on, and we already get something like 1/3 of Venezuelan oil as is

But we still need the oil from the middle east, we mix our heavier oil with theirs in the refining process. We’re draining our reserves to keep the price low domestically, that and the statements that the strait will be reopened imminently is keeping the price relatively low… For now. Our economy is all speculation after all.

repeated support from money that should have been smarter then that

Why would you think that? Look around, everything humanity does is absurd

Well you should probably let the engineers at Boston dynamics know your views. Maybe they just aren’t familiar with wheels. They’d probably feel very silly having spent all that time on an inferior tech tree

Seriously though, these are being used for a reason. Have you ever once seen a video of one of these stuck out in the wild? Because I’ve seen plenty of compilations of wheeled bots stuck on curbs or sign posts

It probably has a lot more to do with the job market, the military is always hiring. The poverty to grunt pipeline has basically always been a cornerstone of military recruitment

And reenlistment rates have been consistently falling, especially with MAGA at the helm. Especially among more skilled roles…I mean it’s one thing to want to fly planes or be a tech when the US was untouchable, now planes are falling out of the sky

Have you seen these dogs move? It seems like you’re not very familiar with them. They can jump fences and outrun a human, they’re also remarkably stable for the body and can have a higher center of gravity which sensors appreciate… The tech works prettywell

And tracks take a lot of maintenance and tend to tear up floors if they’re tough enough to handle the outdoors. They’re also very heavy and expensive, and far less efficient or fast as wheels. They’re uncommon for a reason, they’re an even more specialized version of the wheel

For sure… Also creating an environment of distrust isn’t great for morale or performance

Not to mention reenlistment rates are way down. Hard to overstate the importance of institutional knowledge

It also serves the purpose of a generator, and with solar you might be able to cut your grid draw to basically zero

The fire risk is generally overstated, plus different battery tech, like sodium, are much less flammable. Weight and size are much less of an issue, so as adoption increases they’re going to get much cheaper and longer lasting as production ramps up

Not to mention it does meaningfully reduce load on the grid with increased adoption. Not everything needs to be financially min-maxed… If you’ve got the money, it’s a good thing to invest in

I mean, sure, wheels would require an essentially impossible evolutionary path, but they’re still very dependent on terrain

Some goats can climb grades no wheel could touch. Wheels have issues with long grasses and roots, don’t work great if they don’t have good contact with the terrain, aren’t good for climbing or ledges, and fast to wear in dirty environments

You can specialize to overcome these challenges, but they’re less general purpose. Wheels that would let you travel over uneven terrain need to be big and/or very complex

Wheels work really, really well on suitable surfaces, but they’re specialist technology. Quadrepeds are very stable and control their weight distribution much better

From an engineering standpoint, you’d be better off putting the robot dogs on skateboards or in a wheeled carrier then making the kind of high-torque wheels that can lock to work like feet when needed - that’s what we use when designing wheels for the kinds of travel these dogs were designed for

Wheels are obviously incredibly useful tech, but they’re not the ideal solution for every problem

It’s the ocean. The majority of Earths surface where there’s usually not much going on