can you please explain in a little more depth? are you saying pluton is basically dead in the water and is likely to disappear from implementations in silicon in the near future?

Here’s why knowing the above i still donate to wikipedia.

Because we don’t want them to be in a position where they take money with strings attached. Imo its good for them to be reminded they serve the public first and foremost.

that’s great buddy. but while recapping basic IT facts might make you feel smart on facebook. this is lemmy where the average user ¹ is perfectly familiar the principles. here it just telegraphs to us that you didn’t read the fucking article (which would’ve taken less time than spamming the thread & insulting users btw).

¹ before the influx of reddit api refugees - on that topic do you ever reflect on how corporate bootlicking might relate to the over-corporatisation of reddit which led to users fleeing? only to come here and do unpaid simping for the corporations, slowly ruining this place too?

perhaps dial back the attitude a bit there? if you think you know better than someone (even if you’re wrong), then you should have no trouble kindly educating instead of insulting them.

you may also wish to revisit your highly questionable claim that graphene properly configured on pixel is less secure than stock rom on some random android device.

yes but the main point is anyone can pick it up again.

with proprietary it’s most often significantly more difficult and legally fraught if not near-impossible.

congrats on the excellent project.

how many pieces of the piezo and which frequency of operation did you use?

how did you design/source the acoustic lens design?

seriously well done!!

+1 for the lockbox idea. with appropriate selection it could also provide (varying degrees of) electromagnetic shielding. useful in general, and increasingly as the line for actual device shutdown becomes more and more blurry.

fascinating, thanks.

no doubt ushered in under some notion of “protecting” us from well funded groups, yet mysteriously didn’t include a minimum threshold so poor folks with $4.25 in their account are still included in these broad sweeping laws.

you are basically correct, and i believe these concerns were raised when that apple patent hit the news.

essentially it boils down to the unpleasant fact that it’s simply currently not required.

1. recording & sharing recordings of such activities has already been outlawed in certain jurisdictions.

2. media & public narrative is already tightly controlled.

3. they already routinely get away with worse crimes against the public for the above reasons.

4. even if a handful of individuals face some vague justice, the public foots the bill with tax payer funded settlements.

one day something similar to that apple patent probably will happen though, especially as corporations merge further with our legal systems, and it’ll be labelled a breach of copyright because their uniforms have sony logos or some such

pretty much, but its really crossing some thresholds lately which i find impressive

+1 for huygen optics, this dude is legit

out of interest, whats the deal with banks needing to know where you sleep at night?

is it a serfdom thing?

or is it only in the case of eg. that being the place you hold a mortgage with them on?

freecad is actually getting fucking good for the price

my guess is its just another flavour of cope.

imo likely because recent history has began to undermine the delusions which were propping up the former flavour.

so what they’re really saying is they won’t give it away for free

@op looking back, what was the specific cringe aspect of what you described in your story?

that you’d hope for this seemingly impossible outcome, of being a positive force in an established group with a clear bigoted direction?

or that you feel foolish for relapsing into believing religious topics again?

or something else?

may i ask why you believed that and why you stopped believing?

what piece of knowledge changed things for you?

surely you already knew all the reasons why that sounds pretty fantastical, even back then?

tangent away mate

seems like i’m mostly telling people in this thread not to feel bad about their prior cringe…

i really didn’t follow this closely AT ALL. but i feel like back in the day libertarian ideas were much more left of center than they are now. to my inexpert perception, it feels like libertarianism (and alot of other things) have been co-opted by conservatism over the years.

which version of the hollow earth are we talking? if you mean a giant hollow shell, then yeh i’m not sure how well supported that is.

if you mean the honeycomb earth idea, where there could be myriad of huge deep caverns. then i’m kinda open to that possibility.

(not that my geoscience knowledge extends beyond highschool geography and the odd wikipedia article - so would welcome an opportunity to discuss with someone adept.)