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Pentagon Puts DJI on Blacklist

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Post by firecall »

collegeburner wrote: post #101
firecall wrote: post #39

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Assault Rifles seem to be ok for the US government to place into the hands of US civilians.

^^^ this comment was posted by someone who does not know what an assault rifle is. it is very difficult and expensive to get ahold of a assault rifle these days and has been for almost 40 years. though yeah i think we should repeal that law, there is nothing wrong with civilians owning assault rifles. the federal government is literally not allowed to pass or enforce laws against this because it clearly infringes the…

Yep - TBF, I have no idea really.

I just see what I see on the news out of the US with headlines such as:

"Student arrested in Texas after walking to school with assault rifle just one day after tragic Uvalde shooting"

So it's understandable the world believes that Assault Rifles are purchasable by civilians in the US.

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Post by namlem »

inphovore wrote: post #93
magic_hamster wrote: post #3

They are absolutely right to do this, and private users should be wary as well. DJI's application (Mimo) has been banned from the Android Play Store for some time, with no explanation given by DJI. They offer an APK to side load, which is completely unsupervised, and requires access to your phone's accurate location and other invasive permissions no matter which of their products you are using. This is an important d…

> Aljazeera is comically ridiculous Aljazeera is a model of journalism excellence and integrity! Is this about their cookie warning? They’re obligated to say something. If you don’t take their journalism seriously, you deceive yourself!

Al Jazeera runs a ton of Qatari propaganda and their Arabic version is especially full of it.

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Post by namlem »

dchichkov wrote: post #151
ok_dad wrote: post #133

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We did that shit to ourselves with our offshoring and MBA bullshit. China just took advantage of it like any superpower would. America's commercial greed is what will cause it's downfall to China, if anything. Not that I even ascribe to the idea that China and the US should even be enemies, that's just more "red scare" BS.

China have a "Made-in-China" plan, one of its goal is good old control of means of production. Is there something like that in the US?

The petrodollar/dollarization of the global economic. Also global naval hegemony. Who do you think polices all the world's trade routes?

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Post by sixstringtheory »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #100
JKCalhoun wrote: post #82

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Agree. But I think the idea of flying a bomb into someone's car (the first thing that came to mind when I thought about it for a few seconds) is, to the powerful, a whole 'nother level of terror. Not to be so cynical/dark, but I'm surprised to have not yet heard of a targeted assassination done by an amateur with an off-the-shelf drone. I have to admit the idea is frightening.

Remember the D.C. Sniper attacks? Not sure if grenades are as available to the public as bullets and if I remember correctly bombs are illegal to make.

> bombs are illegal to make

Tell that to Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, the Tsarnaev brothers and that guy that brought pipe bombs to the January 6th insurrection.

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Post by Dig1t »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #164
Dig1t wrote: post #123

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China kneecaps all US companies inside of China. Most US companies are banned outright, and the ones that are allowed to operate inside the country are forced to be majority owned by a Chinese entity.

So are we better than them, or not?

What does that even mean? Do we have the moral high ground letting a foreign corporation make money from our citizens and send the profits back to that country with no reciprocity? Which moral framework says that that is good?

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Post by MaxikCZ »

brokenmachine wrote: post #162
AdrianB1 wrote: post #102

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The "come back home" functionality relies on the GPS on the drone, but the "follow me while filming" needs the phone's. I saw quite a lot of motorcycling vlogs using that feature.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the follow me is visual. I doubt the phone GPS would be accurate enough to keep you in frame - remember, if you were only using GPS for tracking like that, then you're getting both the error of the phone GPS as well as the error in the drone GPS. I've only really seen it in action on a DJI mini 3 pro. I believe you can do follow me from the controller without a phone involved at…

definetly vision based

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Post by senttoschool »

che_shirecat wrote: post #166
karambyt wrote: post #149

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Maybe China should stop kneecapping their own tech by injecting backdoors, layering hidden circuitry into motherboards, and harvesting US and EU user data for whateverthefuck their end goal is. I mean, I get it, "poor put-upon China!", but let's be honest here: China needs to stop fucking around, lest they find out.

Are you referring to the debunked Bloomberg story about magical backdoors in chips?

No. He's referring to the anti-China propaganda he's been consuming.

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

javajosh wrote: post #163
simonebrunozzi wrote: post #130

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They can only fly in the US. I am in Europe and I can't fly my Skydio - and they didn't mentioned it in clear terms.

How did they stop you? There is no mention of this on their website: https://support.skydio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000935174-Wh...

This is the only thing I found to try to be able to fix the issue. You can guess it's a lot of work, and not for your average user: [0].

[0]: https://skydiopilots.com/threads/no-wifi-ssid-connection-for...

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Post by mschuster91 »

phpisthebest wrote: post #110
mschuster91 wrote: post #32

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> While this is interesting (broadcast to whom exactly?) It's hard to find any information about how Remote-ID is supposed to work, but in theory the ID packets are sent by WiFi NAN and Bluetooth so that they can be received by anyone in the radio range (which is quite important for authorities to track down violators, e.g. people flying around hospital helipads). Unfortunately, current phones seem to lack support ha…

>which is quite important for authorities to track down violators no, it is not. it is yet another power grab by the FAA and federal authorities to increase the surveillance state. I should not be required to broadcast my signal to the federal government to prove I am not going to commit a crime, that is the exact backwards of how the legal system is suppose to work

> I should not be required to broadcast my signal to the federal government to prove I am not going to commit a crime, that is the exact backwards of how the legal system is suppose to work

You're participating in airspace, and if you want to participate in airspace you have to comply with the rules for participation to not endanger others.

In ye olde times, you had to do a pilot exam, and planes and choppers were/are expensive and had to transmit ADS-B information both for air traffic security and for keeping track of abuse. If you were caught abusing your privileges, you lost your license.

Why should drones be exempt of these rules, particularly as they are mass-market things (unlike airplanes) and thus the chance of them getting abused is far higher?

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Post by mschuster91 »

nebula8804 wrote: post #134
mschuster91 wrote: post #58

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The thing is, consumer drones are widespread and generate a lot of data. Not just about the general performance of the drone or AI (like Tesla does), but also about weather conditions such as wind, or population densities that are classified by the drone's AI. All of this can be fed into massive data warehouses for later analysis - and the more drones one has, the better the quality of the derived data. In turn, that…

Looks like Intel sold their Drone business...to Elon Musk's brother. Interesting development although it seems like they were focused on providing light shows. Explains why we are seeing these light shows at Tesla unveiling events ha!

What the fuck, turns out to be true [1].

[1] https://dronedj.com/2022/07/06/intel-drone-light-show-musk/

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