Nanko @nanko@qoto.org

Do we generate ideas?

Or do ideas find us?

Nearly everything has a dichotomy. Once you realize this, you’ll see it everywhere. I find this fascinating.

Be detached, and present

Think fast, and slow

Take fast action, but think things through

Gentle, but firm

Open minded, but grounded

What dichotomies have you come across?Curious to hear about what you’ve seen

Women and children get to be careless, men do not.

Questions > Answers

For my EU friends:

Who also have an understanding of flight regulations

In the USA, there are speed and power regulations on model aircraft and or drones. Can’t fly anything over 320 kph without getting thrown in jail.

Needing to test a drone capable of Mach .65 (804 kph).

Could you get away with this somewhere in the EU? I’ve heard Germany is a bit more lax.

Asking for a friend ;)

@onotch It never ceases to fascinate me at how different sunsets and sunrises look around the world

FEDEX:

We need you to be home to sign for your package

We will be there between 8am and 8pm

@freemo I’ve been a Microtech fan for a long time. Not cheap, but built to last. Current carry is the Dirac Delta Tactical 3.79”. Is an “out the front” knife. So it kind of is like what you have... part fixed blade, part folding (or retracting).

Highly highly recommend Microtech.

Been super into drone swarms for a while now. It is truly terrifying at how inadequate current defense is against a swarm... even the greatest military superpowers don’t have very effective options. A weaponized drone swarm is lethal beyond imagining... a well weaponized and well programmed swarm could destroy a US warship.

Some are testing direct energy weapons. Others testing swarm vs swarm. Some EMPs. Some are using physical nets, and other no explosive projectiles. And some are taking the cyber approach.

A decentralized command and control swarm, with fast speed and agility, some bit of AI and consensus ability, image recognition/Machine vision, and machine learning... with fragmentation grenades or lightweight high power explosives... eek.

The more you attack a swarm in a centralized way, the more decentralized it gets and the harder it becomes to defend against or attack it. There is no “head” to chop off.

If you were in a stadium at an event with 100,000 people and a terrorist org chose to attack it with a drone swarm armed with frag grenades... you’d be SCREWED. Even if, and that’s a big IF, the authorities had enough of a heads up, and did their best... they maybe... maybe... could take out half the drones, it would still be utterly catastrophic.

A lot of this information is coming from some friends at DARPA, Naval research institute, SRI, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford.

Something to think about.

Anybody in QOTO doing anything in drones/robotics? Would love to talk shop

Apple is pushing everyone to update to Big Sur now now now!! Suspicious... don’t you think? Never have they pushed everyone this hard to update.

If/when we can travel abroad again... anyone have and travel suggestions? Looking for “hole in the wall” type spots. The path less traveled.

Who are some good people to follow here? I’m new.

Interested in:

- Tech
- Engineering
- Science
- Philosophy

Help is highly appreciated

@khird Great idea! Not too difficult, and high fun factor. Thanks!

@namark fun challenge indeed! Thanks for the rec

Anybody have any cool Arduino project ideas? I have the itch to build something

People are predictable, until they aren’t

@sneak I’m game to find out. Would be a good story, nonetheless