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@freemo I see where the inspiration for Ace of Spades comes from now.

@Diptchip It can only fire for a few seconds or the barrels will cook. If it is on target, it should only need a fraction of that. A very weird aircraft that can take out nearly any target and take direct hits without going down. Built around the GAU and tub.

@josemanuel
I'm of the opinion that AC isn't healthy for us in most circumstances. I don't use AC much in the summer so I wake up drenched but I'm more acclimated to the heat. I try to not let the temperature rise above 27C. Newtonian Heating/Cooling. Outside it can be around 35C and 70% humidity.
AC is necessary as heat waves can kill. A week ago it was 40.6C with the Heat Index at 45C. The human body can survive and thrive in extreme environments but it takes approximately 2 months to adjust fully.

The short answer to the question is that it isn't possible to have comfortable or safe temperatures without AC unless one would like to go 2 or 3 meters underground. Ice cubes help get a drink from the temperature of urine to room temperature faster.

@RikaDerufu Too much obsession with getting a release. Drop and do 100 pushups to get your head straight. Pain is weakness leaving the body.

@inference @divVerent @thor @straw Tell you how you would know? I wouldn't know how you would know. RISC-V is Open Source Licensed so a company can make a custom RISC-V processor without being sued. There is the difference in ISA. There are quite a few ways to figure out if it isn't what it is claimed to be.

The Titan M2 is not a pure RISC-V design but a custom design based on the RISC-V architecture. You should add RISC-V to your cult members because it is Open Source.

So why do you have such a negative view of FLOSS? I'm curious.

@inference @divVerent @thor The RISC-V based module was the M2.

@inference @divVerent @thor The Titan module that is RISC-V based?

@thendrix The battshit conspiracies and Crystal Methodists have been on the rise lately.

@divVerent @thor @inference That sounds pretty supportive of FLOSS. The statements about Windows and Apple are just mockery. Running from problems seems to be the path that both have taken but I will give Apple credit where it is due. When they swapped to the M1 it left me confused as to why. A mostly homogeneous ecosystem is going to be easier to maintain, optimize and provide a good experience. It's a pretty slick move by Apple.

The statement about Android being considered secure enough was only referring to Samsung devices with Knox being approved by the DoD for some applications. I don't think it lasted long.

@freemo Nice.

@lupyuen It sounds very promising.

@igelsQTs I've heard this many times.

@divVerent @thor @inference FLOSS has the potential to be more vulnerable due to the source code being available. People assume that Android is secure enough due to a mix of FLOSS and Proprietary Software or perhaps a flashy commercial. I remember analyzing malware that broke the sandbox, took out Knox without issue, got around the MAC in SELinux, made itself root, bypassed the checks and proceeded to lock the device down with the same tools that it had just defeated. All of that was automated and it wasn't using hardware exploits.

For a PC, Windows and Mac might be more secure than GNU/Linux. Apple Silicon is only good at running what they approve. Windows has the edge on Linux by requiring hardware that isn't old enough to have the secrets revealed. So there are two fair situations in which closed source software has greater security than the open source offerings.

People might say that this is unfair and that Arch Linux wasn't considered but that's okay. Windows just requires reasonably new hardware to make sure that those dirty pirates aren't supporting cyber threats or stealing from starving developers. Apple has once again made the decision to ensure security by making an incredibly powerful and efficient CPU and GPU. Apple also made benchmarks to get past the inherently biased benchmarks that were made for an outdated architectures. Somehow they both managed to do all this and still go through all the trouble and charity to allow open source.

@divVerent When closed source software is assessed for security by respectable bodies, the source code is provided to them for the assessment.

Security is nothing more than an illusion. Safes are rated by the amount of time it takes for a professional safecracker to get in. I would be tempted to say that the same idea should be used for software but that implies that the hardware doesn't come with God Mode for governments.

Security is only better with FLOSS in theory. I do have to admit that making all the source code available to the public and still having the reputation for being more secure would imply something. This is mostly irrelevant in an age where it is known that the USA had hardware backdoors in most of the world's computers and it wasn't detected.

@thor @inference @divVerent I'll be honest that I didn't read the blog. These statements were made on Mastodon which is AGPLv3 Licenced. The FSF created the AGPLv3 for interoperability with FSF approved licenses.

Dismissing an entire movement based on nothing but accusations and doing it on a platform that is the result the aforementioned movement is absurd.

@inference @divVerent @thor RMS saw how the GPLv2 didn't fully protect FLOSS so this was the reason for the 3rd version. The GPLv3 seems like complete madness when taken out of context.

FLOSS is about freedom and ability to make changes. It is also an effort to allow for everyone to view the source code and see how it works.

The odd thing is that code used to be open in the early days of computing. This is partially how BSD Unix was able to be saved from being killed off. Computer companies made money on hardware. The shift to closed source and Intellectual Property was made gradually. Not much software was protected from being reused as a part of a closed source system.

The result is that open source code allowed for predatory entrepreneurs to become rich by legally stealing everything possible.

The truly stunning part is how none of the FSF licenses prohibit the sale of software or support. Proprietary software makes money from keeping knowledge hidden. A FLOSS business model favors the programmers as it pushes innovation and not legal sorcery as the way to be competitive.

The initiation of nuclear fission and fusion are common knowledge. Writing a program in a language one didn't develop on a system one didn't develop and compiled using the results of research that one had no part in is somehow able to be considered Intellectual Property. The result of being against the "FOSS cult" as a society has crippled Computer Science to the point where manufacturing is quickly approaching the limits of physics just to run code that hasn't had incentive to improve.

Have fun being rational and thinking for yourself. I will stay in the cult and repeat what I was brainwashed to say.

@thendrix My response was the result of remembering that they send signals through the rails and the realization that it could have been prevented. I originally was going to make a dumb joke in response to your edited toot. Sorry it turned into an oddly worded conspiracy theory/rant.

How do you like Husky? I recently saw it but decided to stick with Tusky.

@inference @divVerent @thor FOSS cult?

@thendrix I can only assume it was due to thermal expansion of the rails that caused warping. That's very unsettling that it was blamed on Climate Change and not poor management. Bridges on our pothole riddled roads have gaps that were engineered with the expansion and contraction coefficients of the materials in use. Rail road tracks are standardized to the point where they are used to transmit signals reliably. The contraction and expansion of steel is widely known of and the warping from heat wasn't considered as large of a problem as the contraction breaks.

Here's the interesting part, the steel is already used for communication and this has been used in the past for detecting breaks in the tracks. If it is reliably used for communication, measurements of resistance are likely refreshed many times per second with the signal strength.
Temperature increases result in mapped increases in Resistance.
This would mean that continual measurements of resistance with many constants are being received many times a second. Just throw in known thermal expansion coefficients and one can see that claims that this couldn't have been easily prevented are dismissed. It is very likely that people knew the danger but it wasn't investigated or stopped.

@dowodenum Pro 2nd Amendment in a dark way.