blobjim

joined 5 years ago
[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

these are tiny drones like in the graphic. Not predator drones. you still have to be close to them.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can subscribe to YouTube channels via RSS feed. Just put the channel URL into an rss reader.

I guess if you want to post videos or write comments you'd need an account though.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I'm sure there will be positive change that comes from this new evidence about the US policing system.

I'm sure the people in charge will launch another investigation and take action based on the results.

I'm sure the White House will make a comment or statement or something on this.

I'm sure more than a couple thousand people will see this article.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

but not the ones who point that out online.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

but then you'd never get to see their next idea for a username.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Kind of the nature of a secure device. If you can reset it without owning it, that's probably more of a negative for most people. Although you can of course do that with most laptops.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One passing tourist reached through the picket line to pull on the locked door handle. “Are you closed?” he asked chanting strikers. When they confirmed that they were, he took a selfie with them and joined in chanting.

grillman lmao.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At least they're vegan unlike piglets.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I browse Subscribed, because there's some other ones I'm subscribed to like linux@lemmy.ml. Which I feel is kind of the best use of federation. It's like a cooperative RSS feed where you can comment and post.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

In the 1970s they didn't have encrypted live audio video communication in outer space which is what they're showing in Star Trek. It was literally future technology until the last couple decades. And now we can do it all the time since our computer CPUs have it built in.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because during the Cold War and after, encryption was for important and secret stuff. They used to require large probably expensive and heavy machines to perform encryption on what was just text messages. From a quick google search, here's a machine from the 1990s: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/usa/kiv7/index.htm (look at how low its bandwidth is). And in Star Trek (I assume) they're doing encrypted audio and video which I assume wouldn't be very achievable until some time in the last couple decades.

It's only pretty recent as far as I know that a "CPU" has built-in encryption support (like x86_64 having AES-accelerating instructions)

Police radios in the US still don't always use encryption.

And no matter how fast it is, encryption requires more computation and thus power consumption than not encrypting something.

Of course that still wouldn't justify some of the quotes above. But movies have to kind of play up some things to make them interesting.

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