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AnarchismIsCool
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Comment #42859933
They have some interest in a "special mission" version, a common aerospace euphemism for militarized. They also claim to be a potential candidate for a next gen Air Force One. That…
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Comment #42847402
Per ISA yes
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Comment #42842524
Still no... It's dependent on the speed of sound, which is only dependent on temperature, not specifically altitude contrary to popular belief.
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Comment #42837430
Modern airplanes can exceed their cruising speed in a relative sense but older planes have a higher absolute maximum speed, as well as cruising speed. Why is everyone trying to ack…
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Comment #42837135
IME the curvature isn't really discernible until far higher altitudes. Most of the "curve of the earth" shots you see are because someone stuck a go-pro on a hiball and a combinati…
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Comment #42837103
No, try again. Not correct in any way.
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Comment #42837084
They're not faster in any absolute sense, look at the wing sweep angle of new vs old jets or the fact that early low bypass ratio jets have a much higher exhaust velocity, the old …
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Comment #42837066
Correction: while they helpfully wake you up in the middle of your redeye to tell you about a new exciting credit card offer only available to you in flight
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Comment #42837011
Protester LARPers or police forensics LARPers?
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Comment #42836970
Weapons evolve, defenses evolve. There are ways of trivially defeating cell phone tracking, and there are ways of trivially defeating AI cameras (850 ways specifically). Some auth …
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Comment #42836918
It...depends. If you're not technical, signal is hands down the best solution. If you have a group that's going to something and you are willing to take some extra steps, something…
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Comment #42836835
Four rules: If you just want to talk to a few friends, don't bother with the default public mesh config, setup your own with encryption enabled. Don't use longfast, use a higher sp…
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Comment #42836678
I spend a lot of time in the RF space and Meshtastic is by far the most mature system out there for instant ad-hoc secure digital communications. However... The first rule of emerg…
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Comment #42836658
Reputable sources or stop spreading fud
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Comment #42836642
.....please don't rely on cell towers being too overloaded to track you. The rest of the advice is solid.....but the premise is just gonna get you v&.
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Comment #42836604
There are Meshtastic devices with keyboards that don't require a phone
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Comment #42836594
For the next few years it's fine. Functionally the feds just don't have the infrastructure to care about Meshtastic. In a decade maybe that'll change but two decades in the best th…
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Comment #42836490
That's the marketing bullshit. It's simpler that that. He's selling weapons to both sides, the ai bullshit spam machine gun, and the anti spam identity verification system. He know…
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Comment #42701164
50ohm resistor go brrrrrrr It is intensely frustrating that you need to be an aero embedded remote sensing SWE to defeat all this bullshit though. It used to be that having a basic…
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Comment #42614263
Constitutionalism is whatever, but it is interesting how much more dogmatically divided Canada seems to be getting under the decidedly more authoritarian administration of Trudeau.…
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Comment #42614211
Well, that is the ultimate philosophical rabbit hole. If everyone is doing better objectively but have been hammered with propaganda so much that they subjectively believe they're …
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Comment #42613778
I was trying to keep the point simple, but realistically I'm not advocating for complete chaos, there will probably still have to be allocations, ie "Please don't key up your baofe…
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Comment #42608660
The caveat should be (as it's always been) only radiate as much as you actually need to, and not having/buying sufficient shielding is not an acceptable "need to" argument. Microwa…
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Comment #42606862
2.2 Million people are injured in bathrooms every year, we should ban those too... https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6022a1.htm