Telecom’s shouldn’t own the service and the hardware either. Should all be MVN’s

Autonomous vehicles, robotics, LLMs

Not OP but I’ll often rework what I’ve written and sometimes a word that was the start of a sentence is no longer the start, but fuck, doing it all on mobile can be a pain in the ass and I don’t always notice or bother to correct it.

No he’s gonna ban anyone who disagrees with him.

Closed PRs and Closed issues?

What if it’s a side project with 1 star, 0 issues (because no one made any) and no PRs because no ones done work on it?

Ya, that’s a really good point as well.

The stars are more important when you’re a developer. It indicates interest in the project, and when it’s a library you might want to use that translates into how well maintained it might be and what level of official and unofficial support you might get from it.

Other key things to look at are how often are they doing releases and committing changes, how long bugs are left open, if pull requests sit there forever without being merged in etc.

I had a friend who went down the right wing rabbit hole and he said that the earth is so big we can’t affect the environment that way.

Blew my mind. Trump supporter now as well.

Rick finds a magic lamp with a genie in it in 2007 and is asked what he wants for his 1 wish.

He says to be famous again.

What’s even wilder: it was Rick Astley’s first solo hit. He had done duets and sang on other people’s tracks, but that was his first single from his debut studio album. And it went straight to the fucking moon.

That is wild, had no idea. Was he well known as a non solo singer at the time with lot of anticipation of his first solo?

Ya, its quite possible it was related to that.

And you’re right, had the DoD contacted them and said were approving this, do it, they would have done it. They won’t fuck around with that. The DoD has control now and does whatever they want with dishes given to Ukraine.

I’m contemplating getting it for PC as I originally got it on switch

What’s your point? Yes, he denied a request to turn it on.

SpaceX made the decision prior it wouldn’t be available in Russian controlled territory. Also had he turned it on, that would be using Starlink as a weapon and break US laws (edit: and the terms of their contract with Ukraine), and jeopardize starlink being available world wide for civilian use.

He did not actively turn if off to thwart an attack though. It was already off.

I figured it out…

It’s trickle down war supplies.

SpaceX can’t support Russia directly, so they give all sorts of support to Ukraine. Then, they know Russia will get a small portion of it somehow and that’s how Russia will win the war.

All SpaceX has to do is keep giving more and more hardware to Ukraine and eventually Russia will be able to turn the tide and defeat them!

You just know that once the direct to cell service is live, Russians are going to kill Ukrainian civilians, take their cell phones, and use starlink to send a message, and it’ll be yet more proof that SpaceX does Russia’s bidding!

Because at the start of the war in ukraine a journalist eventually reported that Musk turned off access to starlink to thwart an attack on the Sevestapole port.

Except that didn’t happen, they were never on in Russian controlled territory, and the journalist retracted the statement.

People are still hung up on that though.

This was also when the US Department of Defense was not yet involved and SpaceX was doing this for free, out of pocket, with strict rules about not using starlink as a weapon, because it’s a civilian tool, and being used as a weapon would contravene US law and put starlink at risk of falling under ITAR or some other law which would be VERY bad for SpaceX.

Shortly after that, the DoD went into contract with SpaceX and now they deal with all that and it’s no longer a risk to SpaceX so they can use it as a weapon now.

Then, it was reported that Russia was getting dishes from 3rd parties (smuggling them in) and that again was proof that Musk was supporting Russia. Except it’s not an easy problem to solve, and even the DoD said it was complicated and would be an ongoing game of cat and mouse to prevent.

Edit: I like how hours after I made this reply, someone above is again claiming Musk shut down Starlink to stop the attack, and in the article they link it even talks about what I wrote in this post saying that the claim was retracted. I can’t tell if that person didn’t read the article and took the first link he found… or doesn’t understand the difference between turning something that was on to the off state (action), and simply not turning something that was off, on. (inaction)

Guess you forgot about the time he shut down Starlink to stop a Ukrainian assault? -> link to snopes article

I lost the game.

You deserve it.

I don’t even think the business software side is that problematic for a lot of good use cases, it’s the general non user friendliness of wallets and having to guard your seed phrase properly and just general technical knowledge.

As soon as your concert ticket is an NFT people can risk losing their ticket, and people will lose tickets.

Making the ticket and scanning the ticket for entry isnt too difficult a problem, and it’s entirely fraud proof.

Edit: and so many people get scammed out of their seed phrases while trying to get help because they just don’t understand.

USB-CDE

They could (but didnt) do it with zero knowledge proofs as well. Then the website could go back and verify against the state site and no private information would be leaked.

The state would know the site requesting it via IP, but they wouldn’t know which proof they were validating.

It’s often talked about in the blockchain crypto space, but it’s not the only way to use them. You could use it in a centralized system like this too.