golden_zealot

golden_zealot , 10 days ago to Privacy in Drones trespassing in my property

True but it also depends on where you go. In Canada for example, this detail is explicitly taught to anyone who goes through the process of getting a firearms license.

golden_zealot , 10 days ago to Privacy in Drones trespassing in my property

That is interesting, I'm curious what the payload is.

golden_zealot , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago) to Privacy in Drones trespassing in my property

Unless it's a shotgun firing birdshot. This is why in many places you can hunt birds, it's really the only type of firearm you're allowed to use, because when shot at an upward trajectory, the pellets do not maintain enough velocity to be harmful when coming down and harmlessly fall to the ground. Anything rifled though is a different story, because its that spin on a bullet or a slug which allows the projectile to maintain its velocity and be dangerous when coming back down.

golden_zealot , 26 days ago to Fediverse in Reminiscing about the "Reddit migration"

Very much true, made this account last year on June 4.

golden_zealot , 26 days ago to Fediverse in [opinion] By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it

Awesome, this is just what i was looking for, thanks!

golden_zealot , 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to Fediverse in [opinion] By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it

I'm aware of 802.11 lol, But i'm wondering about papers or sources talking about the feasibility/usability of bouncing it off of the ionosphere using something like shortwave to achieve the objective originally stated.

What makes 802.11 effective is that it exists in the GHz band and as a result it can move a lot of data very quickly, but you need a low frequency to allow a radio signal to be reflected back to earth without escaping into space instead, so speeds would suffer greatly. Just wondering if there are proposals on how to make it usable in the low frequency bands so that you could reflect it back to earth and also not have to wait 7 years for an image to load.

Furthermore for this to work you would need a relatively high powered radio setup on your end to send messages back to the source youre receiving from if you don't intend to just receive data.

golden_zealot , 26 days ago to Fediverse in [opinion] By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it

Are there any papers or sources on this? Of course it would be very slow, but I'd be interested to see what proposals exist.

golden_zealot , 1 month ago to Fediverse in It’s my 15 year fediversary today!

Neat, thanks!

golden_zealot , 1 month ago to Fediverse in It’s my 15 year fediversary today!

Wow, I didn't realize ActivityPub or Federated platforms went back that far. What platform/s were you on back then?

golden_zealot , 1 month ago to Fuck Cars in Cycling isn't legitimate transportation...apparently

I think that's slightly critical of Damaris.

They are asking a question regarding something they do not understand.

It is a true statement that roads are used to transport goods and services.

They then simply ask who in the video is carrying goods and products into stores/homes, and how workers move goods from ports to the stores.

They don't know how a system like this works when it comes to, for example, stocking a grocery store, because they have not worked or lived in a place with infrastructure like this.

It's just ad hominem and poor practice to call someone blind when they aren't familiar with something, particularly when they seem interested in how it works, and works contrary to convincing people of the cause.

If someone has worked with punch cards to program a computer all their life, and someone showed them software written the python programming language and they said:

"But the punch card is so that the computer can read in bytes to know what to do, in this text I don't see any bytes, there's nothing telling the computer if this is little endian or big endian, it all looks like a book. How does the text tell the computer what to do?"

Then my response would NOT be "Well the list comprehension here is yielding a range of numbers which are sent to the print function, and this class is acting as a signal handler. Aside from punch card brained, you're also blind".

My response would be a very happy opportunity to explain to them the benefits of a modern programming language versus punch cards, and how it works in comparison.

Unless this is a person known to be explicitly anti-bike and pro-car, it is bad to be this critical of them and works in no one's favor.

golden_zealot , 1 month ago to Privacy in Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash

By this logic every locksmith should be put on trial for making locks, every manufacturer of vaults and safes, every lumber company for making wood used in fences, every costume designer for making halloween masks, every post office for renting PO boxes... etc.

golden_zealot , 2 months ago to Privacy in U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users * TorrentFreak

Swell, thank you.

golden_zealot , 2 months ago to Privacy in U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users * TorrentFreak

How did you do it, what are you using and how do you have it configured? Also interested in the costs.

golden_zealot , 2 months ago to 196 in Grammar rule [NSFW]

Well shit, that does make sense.

golden_zealot , 2 months ago to 196 in Grammar rule [NSFW]

The Oxford comma is the difference between helping my uncle Jack, off his horse and helping my uncle Jack off his horse.