This is already a thing for VLEO satellites. Look up ABEP/ASEP. I don't think any have flown successfully yet, but they've been the holy grail of VLEO propulsive maintenance the past ~8 years...
It means you can run a satellite at 200km or possibly lower so you need ~1/3 the angular resolution of a LEO bird for whatever sensing task or ~10db less power/antenna for comms.
Yes and no, if you have the right equipment there's a whole class is LPI waveforms that are very difficult to detect with cyclostationary analysis. You can also ride under existing broadcasts to mask yourself or even just mimicking cellular traffic. Kind of the same idea you're proposing but there are radio equivalents.
That's the game, keep adopting new strategies and technology faster than the opposition. Meshtastic is just the beginning, there are far more capable emerging options out there and having a bunch of people who have at least a rudimentary understanding of digital radio means we get to move faster.
LLM tech is more than a gimmick. I think Doctorow and Zitron frequently get this wrong because they've committed to their position, but it's a dangerous underestimation of the situation.
It's very capable of doing tasks where you're fine with some failures and sub optimal results...like prosecuting, deporting, or killing people... /s
The question isn't whether it works or not, the question is if we understand what we're doing and are willing to act remotely rationally. As we're approaching the problem right now, AI being perfect would actually be much worse for us as a society.
All the doorbell camera recordings are triggered by motion, so if the cops want to try to track someone they're gonna have to ingest a meric fuck ton of video. Even if they can AI to victory just the logistics of obtaining it all will be prohibitive.
Why is everyone so afraid of just funding public transit with public money and making it free? We need to incentivize people to use it and all the fare collection and enforcement personnel cost money.
Always have been. Orin nano/nx SoMs are in all sorts of weapons systems. NixOS had a whole community civil war because Anduril heavily adopted NixOS and integrated it with Jetpack, the BSP that these run. They're kind of a PITA to use (fuck you WayneWWW...IYKYK) but they're easily the highest performance SoM of that size and the power consumption is workable for these kinds of...short lived systems. I think they started out targeting automotive applications and never really took off in the commercial world despite being comparable to Apple silicon in performance because they have no power saving modes. They ended up being perfect for doing real time object detection from a MIPI camera though so now they're the gold standard for bleeding edge slaughterbots.
Before the Orin, a lot of more experimental systems were using the TX2i and Xavier modules, but they had much less computing power and the image recognition models weren't as capable anyway.
Yeah so like, what's happening at this point? I feel like everyone just kinda moved onto other things. Last year we at least had some big protests and stuff, then we argued online about whether protests did anything. Then ice started gunning random people down and everyone's just doing...nothing?
I've seen how some of this shit works. They're not magically smarter than you. People in these kinds of positions sometimes just do shit because they think it sounds cool and they're bored.
Yeah, but it doesn't really offer anything useful to fix this situation
My feeling is if we're smart we'd probably layer it with some sort of DNS style distributed reputation system... If we're not (which is what will inevitably happen) we'll continue to consolidate the entire internet into a few huge walled gardens where information is heavily controlled, but you trade every shred of your privacy, anonymity, and dignity for convenience.
I don't host things on the open internet anymore. I have a small set of services I host for a group of friends and family and I set them up with tailscale.
On the flip side, I've been constantly frustrated because every time I have an idea for some little quality of life tool that involves pulling data from a site I would normally have to browse to directly, I can't do it because everything is captcha'd to all hell.
And this is all predicated on windows including this "feature". Like, yes, theoretically, malicious devices can manipulate parts of the broader system and fire off exploits. Such an exploit would be very big news though, it's not something vendors can get away with casually.
This is already a thing for VLEO satellites. Look up ABEP/ASEP. I don't think any have flown successfully yet, but they've been the holy grail of VLEO propulsive maintenance the past ~8 years...
It means you can run a satellite at 200km or possibly lower so you need ~1/3 the angular resolution of a LEO bird for whatever sensing task or ~10db less power/antenna for comms.
Atomic oxygen exists though...IYKYK
I did not expect to see Clinton in the average bracket ngl
Yes and no, if you have the right equipment there's a whole class is LPI waveforms that are very difficult to detect with cyclostationary analysis. You can also ride under existing broadcasts to mask yourself or even just mimicking cellular traffic. Kind of the same idea you're proposing but there are radio equivalents.
That's the game, keep adopting new strategies and technology faster than the opposition. Meshtastic is just the beginning, there are far more capable emerging options out there and having a bunch of people who have at least a rudimentary understanding of digital radio means we get to move faster.
Clancy could score one more prediction after all...
WTAF is this article, it just repeats itself over and over again
LLM tech is more than a gimmick. I think Doctorow and Zitron frequently get this wrong because they've committed to their position, but it's a dangerous underestimation of the situation.
It's very capable of doing tasks where you're fine with some failures and sub optimal results...like prosecuting, deporting, or killing people... /s
The question isn't whether it works or not, the question is if we understand what we're doing and are willing to act remotely rationally. As we're approaching the problem right now, AI being perfect would actually be much worse for us as a society.
Kinda brilliant, ngl
All the doorbell camera recordings are triggered by motion, so if the cops want to try to track someone they're gonna have to ingest a meric fuck ton of video. Even if they can AI to victory just the logistics of obtaining it all will be prohibitive.
Don't forget the Epstein files where it turns out they're simultaneously trafficking and raping people while they do their tax evasion.
Ah, right, we cannot be doing that.
Elmo needs a new company to ruin.
Why is everyone so afraid of just funding public transit with public money and making it free? We need to incentivize people to use it and all the fare collection and enforcement personnel cost money.
I didn't realize Andor was quite this literal of a prophecy
Nvidia doesn't really put a big logo on anything, but if you know the shape of the modules they're easy to spot.
Always have been. Orin nano/nx SoMs are in all sorts of weapons systems. NixOS had a whole community civil war because Anduril heavily adopted NixOS and integrated it with Jetpack, the BSP that these run. They're kind of a PITA to use (fuck you WayneWWW...IYKYK) but they're easily the highest performance SoM of that size and the power consumption is workable for these kinds of...short lived systems. I think they started out targeting automotive applications and never really took off in the commercial world despite being comparable to Apple silicon in performance because they have no power saving modes. They ended up being perfect for doing real time object detection from a MIPI camera though so now they're the gold standard for bleeding edge slaughterbots.
Before the Orin, a lot of more experimental systems were using the TX2i and Xavier modules, but they had much less computing power and the image recognition models weren't as capable anyway.
Fyi you often don't get price breaks for using Linux. Iirc the windows tax is contractual
Yeah so like, what's happening at this point? I feel like everyone just kinda moved onto other things. Last year we at least had some big protests and stuff, then we argued online about whether protests did anything. Then ice started gunning random people down and everyone's just doing...nothing?
I've seen how some of this shit works. They're not magically smarter than you. People in these kinds of positions sometimes just do shit because they think it sounds cool and they're bored.
Yeah, but it doesn't really offer anything useful to fix this situation
My feeling is if we're smart we'd probably layer it with some sort of DNS style distributed reputation system... If we're not (which is what will inevitably happen) we'll continue to consolidate the entire internet into a few huge walled gardens where information is heavily controlled, but you trade every shred of your privacy, anonymity, and dignity for convenience.
I don't host things on the open internet anymore. I have a small set of services I host for a group of friends and family and I set them up with tailscale.
On the flip side, I've been constantly frustrated because every time I have an idea for some little quality of life tool that involves pulling data from a site I would normally have to browse to directly, I can't do it because everything is captcha'd to all hell.
I think http/https is dead at this point.
And this is all predicated on windows including this "feature". Like, yes, theoretically, malicious devices can manipulate parts of the broader system and fire off exploits. Such an exploit would be very big news though, it's not something vendors can get away with casually.