sobchak, sobchak@programming.dev

I always viewed the Internet as a kind of alternate reality growing up. But, then that started to change once “social networks” started taking off and all the normies (as some people refer to it now) started using it. Then it kind of started becoming almost “realer” than IRL, with algos optimized to manipulate people, and sophisticated propaganda campaigns. About 5 years ago, I noticed politicians started using language taken from the “gamergate” discourse. Now, the US admin is transparently trying to control discourse on the largest platforms, and official government institutions are poorly shit-posting.

So, yeah, it’s kinda disheartening how one of the greatest communication tools has turned into a tool for control. Though, in hindsight, I guess I should’ve seen this coming, even from fiction created a century ago. I think I remember some person saying that the Nazi regime wouldn’t have been possible without the invention of the radio.

I joined a Matrix group, and the UX frustrated one person so much, they just quit. Kinda surprised me some people care about UX that much. I guess I’m used to using software developed by hobbyists, lol.

Signal is ok. SimpleX theoretically has better privacy guarantees (metadata privacy, more decentralized). Matrix is ok for communities; I think it exposes a lot of metadata though (who you are talking to, not what you’re talking about).

Perhaps. I read it as the “setup” being the emphasized part (i.e. the context set by the first part of the sentence), with the states being a representative of the “people” under the political theory at the time.. This was written by the elite more or less fine with slavery and indentured servitude, and only thought that white male landowners really counted. Either way, I think regular citizens should be able own firearms.

Maybe I’m just old, but suppressors seem pointless to me. If I understand correctly, you need to use subsonic ammo to get the full effect, which pretty much negates the extra “stopping power” of rifles (or higher velocity handguns). Simple foam ear plugs, like many people wear to work, can be as good or better in terms of db reduction if going to a range or popping some off in “the back 40” if you’re fortunate. If you need to run to your gun in an emergency to save you’re own life, I don’t think you’d take the time to grab your hearing protection. Hearing impaired is better than dead. And you’re definitely not going to EDC active hearing protection. Perhaps I’m not understanding the benefits though. I see the benefits if it’s like your job or something (work at a range, are a rancher that shoots vermin/predators at night). I suppose if you’re training in some kind of militia to work in a squad, active hearing protection with integrated radio would be nice, but virtually nobody is doing that.

The interpretation of the 2nd amendment that the courts take never made sense to me. It clearly says states can have well-regulated militias, not that citizens must have rifles with 50rd drum magazines.

I assumed LaTex is a descendant of TeX. I’m not really well informed about the history of this kind of stuff, which is why I found it interesting.

Your POV is also interesting, as I always kind of held “hacker culture,” in pretty high regard. But, now that I think about it, I see the appeal of rigorous, well studied things, built very deliberately, on strong foundations. I guess that’s why I instinctively like things like Haskell, the kind of ML with provable bounds, information theory, etc. I’ve never messed around with Lisp-like languages, but I remember my ML-focused advisor speaking of them from when symbolic-AI and self-modifying code was all the rage.

This video gave me a background on LaTeX I didn’t know about before (didn’t know Knuth was behind it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc

It’s been a while since I messed with home automation, but ESPHome was amazing to program ESP microcontrollers (i.e. you most likely wouldn’t have to write any code). You can use ESPHome devices with both Home Assistant and Openhab (using MQTT, IIRC). The last I checked, it was easier to program your own functionality in OpenHAB than Home Assistant.

Ah, ok. Line-of-sight flying and FPV flying are two different skills (line of sight being arguably harder) that don’t really transfer much to one another.

It creates a problems for copy-left licensed projects. Someone may be unintentionally breaking the license by using LLM bots, or even LLM autocomplete.

Do we know these are ICE? Looks like the only indication is their gear saying “POLICE.” Could be any police or anybody really?

I recently got into FPV too, and went with the analog Meteor75. One thing to keep in mind is that when you choose a VTX system, there’s quite a bit of lock-in because goggles/VRXs are so expensive. I’m kind of questioning my choice of going with analog. The video quality is like a an old VHS tape, which I guess I should’ve expected. The resolution and static/interference makes it so I often can’t see small bare limbs or power lines, causing crashes. If you plan on using your analog link to take pics and videos, you may be disappointing by the quality. Though if you get a bigger drone in the future, you can mount a gopro or whatever on it in the for that.

From my research, 1) DJI is considered the best, but if you live in the US, there’s a lot of uncertainty if DJI systems will be available in the future. 2) Walksnail Avatar is the closest in quality to DJI, but the latency/lag is variable, depending on signal strength, which can make it hard to control the drone, 3) HDZero is very close to analog, showing static/"sparkles” when signal gets weak instead of blurring/variable latency. 4) there are new systems like the Walksnail Ascent/BetaFPV P1 which seem to be using similar hardware (but are incompatible), that are much cheaper than HDZero and Walksnail, but they don’t appear to be as good as any of those, and because they’re new, who knows how long they’ll be around. 5) there’s development in OpenIPC systems going on, but all the plug-and-play hardware isn’t really usable yet.

Anyways, FPV is funner than I even thought it’d be. I enjoy “racing” around my yard, hitting tight gaps, doing flips, split-s, power-loops, etc.

As the other commenter said, the main difference between the types is the motor kv (speed) and props. I’d probably get the most aggressive one (Champion), since you could just not fly as aggressively if you wanted, but have the option to fly a little more aggressively.

For servers, I usually choose the distro with a version with the EOL scheduled furthest into the future. Usually that means Ubuntu (Server) LTS.

Guessing it’s Jailbait from the Ace of Spades album.

In the case of Linux, especially the ones without a business built around them (e.g. Debian), they’re more like mutual aid. They’re not looking to sell it or exfiltrate your data in the future, after the “beta.”

If this isn’t fake, he switched to voting Republican when they started the Southern Strategy

This guy?

I’ve been using an this image for a while: https://hub.docker.com/r/dyonr/qbittorrentvpn/

Low self discharge. Good for ultra low power devices like remote controls or lights only used on occasion where a rechargeable battery would self discharge faster than the rate of actual use.