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What about a special reduced uplink power mode, with only 128Kb of bandwidth for example? Additionally, you can conceal the dish from terrestrial detectors, by putting it in a fore…

I wonder if SpaceX has enough clout to influence the ITU decisions somehow, through political lobbying, for example?

From the article: "With current techniques, it will be hard for victims to identify who has assaulted them and build a case against that person." The author is trying to claim it i…

The GNOME code of conduct is just so toxic, I encourage people to disobey it deliberately in protest, e.g. by making some offensive jokes. " Influencing or encouraging inappropriat…

This is just the tip of the iceberg: Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux macOS and iOS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38661182 These laws which criminalize viewi…

Yes, absolutely. It is today's equivalent of moral puritanism. It is absolutey inconceivable to me that a 21st Century society could be prosecuting people for viewing images . Dist…

What about reducing our usage of the Internet and using local resources instead? Personally I have local mirrors of various code repositories, and thousands of ebooks. If you want …

Nobody should ever be prosecuted for viewing or reading anything, anywhere. Doing so is a hallmark of a de-facto police state. It's a fundamental liberty we have forgotten about as…

They've joined the Linux Foundation, does that mean the models are going to be eventually censored to satisfy the foundation's AI safety policies? That includes ensuring the models…

https://antipolygraph.org/

It's not sustainable because the more people they are, the worse their living conditions will be. Look at how densely populated Asia is. Does everyone want to live like this? Overc…

It depends on who's doing the theft. If it's a high status organization or individual they get away with it, including those behind the 2008 financial crisis. If it's a low status …

Your stance here is ridiculous. Common sense says it's wrong to arrest and/or prosecute people over such a trivial matter. So much for all your supposed "justifications" for doing …

I can't be bothered to search for it.

Then they can start cracking down on the problem if it becomes widespread. But not when it isn't. When the punishment far exceeds the loss caused by the "crime" then it is absolute…

> Less charitably, this is the kind of advice that mostly seems like an excuse to preach at people. No, I just picked it as a random example of something that you can do to reduce …

Roundup being used as "drying agent", even I didn't know about that one. So much for me complaining about Sucralose and Aspartame, now we have glyphosate added to our foods, in lar…

The police keep track of this, and it can be used to validate audio recording evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network_frequency_a...

Yes, and my kids are likely to be like me, outliers, that will end up suffering the same way. And I heard the reason why teens act out so much can be due to the incredibly stifling…

Also power trips (especially by radio hams) and territoriality (impinging on "their" spectrum). It really is animal behavior there, people are supposed to react better than that wh…