CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@eff music to read by: https://defconcommunications.bandcamp.com/track/the-signal-featuring-the-dark-tangent

@xkcd love that it’s number 32 32.

@Netraven @brian_greenberg shit…

Kid5: “we 3d printed a zipgun /arduino-based flyer that uses drone parts. And here’s the faraday cage for stealing them.”

@Netraven @brian_greenberg
Sheriff: “but it’s encrypted; kids can’t take control”
Kid1: “imma crack open the gas cartridge”
Kid2: “how well do they fly with paint on the lens and clipped props/wires?”
Kid3: “let’s open one outside of principal’s home A/C unit.”
Kid4: “any cool parts we can sell for beer money?”

… meanwhile, 99% of drones sit unused, eventually the batts decay. At best, it still becomes a hazmat disposal cost.

@tubetime thx for the vicarious swapmeet crawl. Have always wanted to go. With kids in SJ, someday I’ll finally get there.

@tubetime heh, might be specialized comms/industrial/aviation, might be a foreign 220v outlet. Let’s tuck probes in and see if we light up.

Actually, The Singularity is that moment a couple years ago before AI slop started corrupting content, search, etc. It’s all downhill again from here…

@shadowwwind

Cool, but adhd has another flavor of desires which resonate. One of which is: don’t make me do x a thousand times. I’d rather die.

@fesshole

@david_chisnall searching, a couple quick estimates are $70/ton, vs 7 times that for trucking. Crates need standardized, automate measuring mass / density, and zoom… then do it again for passengers.

@david_chisnall decades ago, was flabbergasted to learn my first coding job’s employer (a grain co) usually got $30/ton rates for rail shipping across 5 states. Trucking was 6-8 times that, and the inefficiencies of small-lot (not full rail car) really soar from there.

… tell me we couldn’t engineer a way to let folks hook into this: little bins in boxes in pallets in railcars. Matrushka, and a dollar plops something weighty like a pile of books or preserves or etc anywhere across the country.

@itsfoss good for them but it’s end goal = sysops are stuck with sysd. Fork harder; devise something sane.