Ahh shit people are posting the Diego Hitlerio de la Junta meme

Booted up Dwarf Fortress again today.

A jamming satellite must receive instructions through one mechanism or another in order to be activated. Theoretically you can jam these control signals to interfere with their activation, but in practice there are probably enough redundancies to make it highly impractical (unknown back-up frequencies, mesh networking with other satellites in the constellation, pre-programmed routines running on a timer, etc).

On the other hand, if you’re willing to blow it up, a jammer makes for an obvious target in the same way a spotlight attracts moths.

Critical support

From my understanding, desktop computers / laptops are a lot less common in the developing world, while phones and tablets are relatively more accessible. I’m sure the experience is dreadful compared to a proper workstation, but it makes all the difference in the world to someone who only has an android phone to be able to use software like this. Godot (the full editor, not just an export target) has also been ported to Android.

National security is synonymous with guaranteed monopoly profits.

This is impossible. They literally can’t even build the required infrastructure fast enough on the fucking ground.

A lot of people still use Facebook. They will never leave these monopoly platforms until they are destroyed by a worker’s state.

I won’t lie. It is doubtful, but it does make me paranoid like what if they have actually come up with an effective countermeasure.

It is pretty wild that we live in a world where the IRGC will deliver a more thoughtful address to the American people than either of the US political parties. It is literally impossible to imagine the leadership of either party writing 25 pages which doesn’t immediately descend into lying, scapegoating, red-baiting, paranoia. The closest thing we get are these dreadful State of the Union addresses with two hours of distilled condescendingly facile autoerotic ideology.

If a human repeatedly made shit up whole cloth when I asked them for advice, I would never trust them, and never bother asking them for advice again. When a computer does it though, I’m supposed to fall for the wallet inspector trick every day until I die.

There’s a machine at work which has an embedded system based on Windows 98, but they don’t include this screensaver

Anecdotally, I’ve noticed a couple Brazilian accounts active on Mastodon which have been mostly dormant since the Twitter ban. (anecdotally as in less than a dozen posts from people I’ve followed at some point, but more than I’ve noticed for a while)

Update:

et voilà! running a fediverse instance from the muse virtual machine.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117333899925033397

Enscribe it on the Arc de Trump.

People seriously believe “responsible disclosure” means you need to tell the Empire right away when you find a critical weakness in the Death Star. Fuckin hall monitors.

This is the technology which is supposed to enable the US to defeat China.