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McLaren had this with the Speedtail and all the owners hated it. Main problem being you need to park the car in a very specific spot.

There’s always some claiming this after any iOS/MacOS update only for it to quietly disappear until the next upgrade.

My experience with devices with very small batteries is that they lose capacity (below 80%) quickly after a couple of years of daily use. By the time you need the ring resized, the battery might be worn out anyway.

It’s in reality a disposable product unfortunately, unlike a wedding band.


Well there’s UBlock for Safari, yeah it’s not UBlock Origin but it’s not that nothing is available. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

Also Brave supports per site JavaScript blocking on iOS.

So there’s more privacy tools available than you think/assume.


“The breaks indicate a very large area of impact and devastation,” she says. “It’s likely the individual was killed by a siege engine.”

So it’s likely, which means it’s not confirmed as the headline implies.


I don't get the nitpicking here. Scientifically correct, since circumstantial. Meteor is also possible, but very unlikely.

The probability regimes in which science is dealing often only leave marginal room for alternative explanations.


People who haven't spent much time around scientists or watched them work often have a mistaken idea of just how precise the work is. Even high precision work can be found later to be wrong! That's just the system working as designed. But impugning scientists for just doing their jobs is really a bad smell, and unfortunately on this webforum it happens way too much.


At least it gives a legal framework for prosecution.


Very cool, but video looks accelerated and something about the robot shading/lighting gives it a rendered feel.


Russia has been moving to more use of jet drones, as Ukraine is having a lot of success with these interceptors. Hope they’ll innovate their way to a new inceptor for those, to protect their civilian infrastructure.


Looking at the OrganicMaps app on iOS and it seems to be free, with an option for donations in the menu . What does OrganicMap specifically do in order to make profit?


Charge for downloading map data.


I have downloaded many maps and not paid anything.


I’m not convinced anymore that we can handle freedom. Many children grow up glued to a phone or tablet watching AI videos and are targets of dis-information from foreign and/or hostile actors.


If "dis-information" is the core of the issue, then perhaps we ought to start banning religions? Despite doing that, China is a champion of spreading "dis-information" within their own walls. Hostile actors are not foreign, most often they are domestic. The biggest offenders are governments. Only freedom opposes their power, which is why they want to restrict it.


We can't handle unchecked pursuit of profit, freedom isn't the issue.


The people who want unchecked pursuit of profit simply beat you to the punch by manipulating the social zeitgeist to accept that the unchecked pursuit of profit is the very definition of freedom.


It is a cynical view of humanity, but one that seems most correct.

If for example there is a deadly virus going around people will quickly restrict freedoms to prevent its spread. And even in the case they don't people that believe in freedom over precautions are evolutionary culled.

So what happens when the issue is actually infohazards? One of the common assumptions the freedom group makes is with all the information they have, anyone else would come to the same set of decisions they have. Of course I see two problems with this.

1. The freedom group is quite often hypocritical. That is, freedom is defined however they think, and anything outside of how they thing is "Not true freedom™". Elon Musk is a common source of this kind of freedom.

2. The individuals personal definition of freedom is anecdotal (We'll call this set A). Set A individual thinks by telling another individual with set B ideas on freedom that set A will win somehow? (A + B = A). That when you put ideas out there, by some magic process the best ideas win and take over and everything is happily ever after.

Of course where number 2 commonly fails is if an infohazard is more addictive than actual knowledge, and where the inoculation to said addiction takes a long time to reach herd immunity. And example would be that it's faster to destroy a nation due to ragebait faster than open democracy can adjust, hence democracy always fails in these conditions. Nice catch-22 situation.


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