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Comment #48870769
True, but they can't use directional antennas nor lots of power, and once they're far enough from the transmitter inverse square law does the rest. Ground stations always have an a…
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Comment #48864022
Brute force wide band jamming would be easy too and would make hopping ineffective. Unless drones use self tuning antennas to overcome losses, they can't hop too far away from the …
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Comment #48765421
> You can publish to both and even better your own domain that simply points to your video hosting provider. That one is likely the best use case while one monetizes on YT waiting …
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Comment #48543206
Totally agree on the atrocious landing page. The technical one is much better, although the power supply circuit by using a resistive balancer and a linear regulator wastes some go…
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Comment #48349037
I read somewhere years ago of panic ensuing when a pilot greeted a colleague on the radio with "Hi, Jack". Whether it happened for real or not, the idea of a simple word causing fi…
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Comment #48254792
This swill split entire families, more likely forcing those in the US to follow those who need to leave. Of course this has nothing to do with immigration. They're indeed feeding t…
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Comment #48242587
A $499 phone? Hah! Then what about a $11,500 Donald Trump autographed guitar that is actually made in China? https://gettrumpguitars.com/products/american-eagle-electric... https:/…
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Comment #48242504
AM radio, like other frequencies in the low HF spectrum, travel using ground waves then ionospheric refraction during night which can let the receiver pick stations several thousan…
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Comment #48235518
There have been multiple reports of Flipper Zero devices being seized because they're known as burglars and black hat hackers tools. If I had to design a successor, first requireme…
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Comment #48235317
If you're worried about that, Dangerzone might help. https://dangerzone.rocks/
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Comment #48173366
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Comment #48173206
Nothing aside a normal PC. I was the slow human in the middle swapping cards and typing/copying/pasting commands and results; I admit being far away from being able to do that myse…
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Comment #48169858
I used Claude, back then when the free tier was usable, to port Linux on a obsolete, unsupported and undocumented board whose manufacturer didn't publish any info aside binary only…
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Comment #48075322
Does it apply to the meshcore.io app as well? From what I know (not a meshcore user currently) there has been a kerfuffle recently when a developer decided to fork and vibe code th…
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Comment #48047749
Not my field so I'm likely using the wrong name for the concept, anyway, don't stepping (bistable) brakes exist? I mean, one pulse to one pin engages and one pulse to another pin d…
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Comment #47928357
Ebay is also down. https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ebay.com.html
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Comment #47837884
It redraws it every minute, and some models give quite different results although the prompt is exactly the same.
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Comment #47836671
Same for teleport, time travel and warp drive.
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Comment #47488543
Don't forget civil forfeiture, which can (an does) happen whether they think you're an enemy or not. https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/freq...
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Comment #47471477
Access control and pervasive surveillance has been the plan since day one; child protection is the leverage. Also, I don't expect people who repeatedly hide the contents of certain…
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Comment #47378068
When the internal non replaceable battery dies the product dies; that's also one reason to prefer wired over wireless. I wrote product instead of headphones because the principle i…
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Comment #47369151
Probably next generations of kids being fed PragerU studying material will. Something tells me we didn't see a fraction of what's going to happen in the decades to come.
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Comment #47191068
"All lawful uses" has no meaning when a malignant narcissistic sociopath in power controlled by ruthless rich psychopaths can now rewrite every law at will.
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Comment #47064528
I'm not from the US as well but that's true: those tactics are used on both sides, although they may be more visible where protesting happens more often, which is the case today wi…
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Comment #47053000
> It's like how the minority of Left-leaning people who burn cars and shoot public speakers are what most on the Right see the entire democrat party as. That's the result of well k…