I hope you’ve made it out of russia, things are getting nuts there. I wouldn’t even be in georgia now if I was you.

Now this is a Noncredible Defense.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/noncredibledefense

Best turrets in space, gotta give them that.

He sounds credible, don’t be so defensive.

If Security through Obscurity isn’t working, consider Security through Stupidity, I guess.

I worked with some oilfield SCADS folks in the early 2000’s who used open IP for their valves, who were very convinced no one would use their equipment because “no one knew they were there.” At some point, it’s no longer trust in good actors.

Compliments to the authors, someone owes these guys challenge coins.

At this point I feel even Japan will admit their whale skin fighter technology is just a poor attempt to support their whaling industry.

Next week we find out russia has their missile cpu problem “mysteriously solved”

Batteries and salt water mix poorly, so I’m concerned about that aspect for crew safety. I would actually be glad if they limited battery size, hoping to augment with solar, to reduce that hazzard.

I bet that cargo ship can only kill two, maybe 3 pedestrians on a good day. 250 american pickups could do that in an afternoon.

“You said representative and started cursing, would you like to describe your problem again?”

I attended a talk on this at Defcon in… 2009 maybe?

Are we still talking about this?

My dad was a VP at an oil major and has a literal story of an LNG tech being bought and shelved. Yet he’s still just like the people he complains about in that story. They’re a strange generation, these boomers.

Some companies in my area are installing them for free, and taking the utility difference. It’s a novel approach.

To ballpark some numbers on the contractor side, I charge about $100/hr to install it now - 4 years ago that might have been $60/hr.

Is that a new name for Google?

I feel like you assume they’re reselling for a business. They could be buying baby shoes, or a gift for that nephew for his birthday, to make him forget how bad life is.

Yeah, of you feel guilty, buy them something.

A lot of it is because of need. The lower rungs of our society have been pushed to the point where the risk of being caught and jailed is less of a driver than hunger. The social fabric is unravelling. I just hired someone and I’m giving them a living wage and I’m getting suspicion in return.

Yeah, that’s about where our society is pushing people. I hope you find better work - I know that sound like a platitude, but try reaching out to people you know and hope for luck. You deserve a living wage and respect.

Interesting voices that are active did break off of Reddit and make their way to Lemmy. Spez did the communities here a favor by reminding people that their engaging content, moderated by volunteers, was the product he was holding hostage.