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I switched to RSS, which still mostly works for some reason.

The Olympics.

Anti-piracy operations always pick up when big sporting events happen because the networks that pay for broadcast rights don’t want to have to compete with unlicensed streams.

Firefox stores cookies in a DB file called cookies.sqlite, i just cleared cookies on a fresh new Firefox profile and the file is 524.3kB. A text dump of the file has four lines of text that describe the structure of the cookie database and that’s it. No actual content.

Nah, this is still Season 1.

That lull that everyone thought was a season break was just a ploy

Garlic aioli.

Yep! Line of sight alone would limit laser countermeasures to the horizon, to say nothing of the air scattering the beam’s energy for the whole distance.

But interceptors (anti-missile missiles) have no such limitation and would remain the only effective countermeasure for hypersonics.

How long do they even have between detection and impact?

Depends!

Carrier groups usually have an AWACS plane on standby, and wikipedia suggests modern systems have a 400km detection range. Assuming the missile has a steady speed of Mach 13, that’s about 90 seconds of warning.

It’s more complicated than this, though, because (afaik) these missiles cruise at a much lower speed and only reach maximum velocity when accelerating in their terminal guidance phase.

My auto-downloader has the new season listed as #9

Against hypersonics, this isn’t really a solution.

The missiles are designed to force their way through thousands of pounds of air per second. Adding a few ounces of lead and/or hardened steel in the last few milliseconds before impact won’t do much.

Trans scientist inventing a gender that can observe the exact position and velocity of a particle simultaneously.

I’m amazed at how long it takes to boot up, too. Especially after the login screen, it’s like 5 minutes from entering my password to the company VPN app finally starting up in the background.

Meanwhile my 8 year old desktop (I use Arch, btw) takes all of 20 seconds, including both the login and the grub menu.

Turns out it doesn’t really appeal to investors anymore either.

The only people still buying into the hype are executives and managers.

Doesn’t seem likely to me either, but they would be amusing futures.

Personally, I think we’ve got another year or three before GenAI finishes running its course.

I keep forgetting that there are still people who use crypto and twitter. XD

I am almost exclusively one of those Linux weirdos. The only non-Linux computer touching I do is for work. XD

Eh, I’m not putting any money on that. Part 1 of Stross’ “Accelerando” already ran the concept of smartclothes into the ground before smartphones were even a thing, and nobody wants a vest that’s also a storage and compute cluster that sends passive-aggressive emails to your smartglasses when its simulated personality gets lonely.

The next bullshit “killer app” in tech probably follows from historical trends.

Crypto and NFTs were essentially a rerun of the 2001 e-commerce bubble, then Generative “AI” was a combination of 80’s chatbots and the predictive text algos of the last 15 years. So the next big thing in tech is probably something from the early 90’s with some modern twist all buried under a fresh coat of marketing hype.

• Cybiko with LoRA?
• Gene therapy for cilantro tasting like soap?
• A serverless, blockchainless model for Web 4.0 that manages to be craven and awful in entirely new ways?
• VR/AR becomes as cheap as smartphones?
• A new physical A/V format for when the streaming market implodes?
• Even more “Smart” devices that only exist to steal personal info and die when the corpo servers go down?
• Trend-following bots that automatically generate and sell merchandise on demand in response to viral posts (probably already exists)?
• “Smart Agents”, software that promises to use AI to simplify the already dumbed-down apps everything uses these days?

I’m so ready for that bubble to pop. XD

Some of us are weird enough that it feels appropriate. 🤷🏼