fullsquare

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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

well, i see a large category of infrastructure problems (that will be 99% civilian use anyway - and not only transport, also telecomms, you can even put healthcare training in there) that is solvable by pouring money at them, and now it's politically convenient to let it rip even among pro-austerity neoliberals. if you want an example of what can this do, look at eastern eu countries and how they changed after funding went in

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

which ones? germany has government spending at 48% of gdp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_spending_as_percentage_of_GDP so 5% of gdp for defense will be closer to 1/10 of all government spending

going by 2024 numbers, russians putting third of government spending to defence would be closer to 13% gdp

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It all depends on how it all will get managed, but there are already longer term infrastructure projects that now got some funding and now also it counts under 5% NATO target. I think that more resources will go towards rail infrastructure, bridges are just more illustrative, but still for a couple of these village 7 ton level bridge there will be one 30 ton bridge in town nearby that will get overhauled

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

in eastern nato countries there is logistical problem because army suddenly switched from 40 ton tanks to 70 ton tanks, for example, and old bridges or rail can't support them. this is just one of many small examples that add to that problem, and of course 99% of the time the stronger bridge will be used by civilians

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

i feel like if it's not something thst everyone got this would cause new kind of racism

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

that and deluge of fake bug reports

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

helical antennas work fine too and look goofy as hell

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

i've used the same (800ml can) and this one works well. cookie tin is 15cm dia 8cm tall and it works, but size can vary a bit. you can copy or scale slightly designs of 13cm band antennas

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

wait i thought for some reason that pringles can sized waveguide would have cutoff frequency above 2.4ghz. nevermind, there's something better because bigger aperture can get you more directivity like this https://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/cup.html i made two out of cookie tins and it works over 500m at least

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

~~pringles can is too small for 2.4ghz cantenna,~~ it's near cutoff frequency but just barely, you need 10cm-ish diameter can or shorter 16cm-ish can

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago

if it's opt-out, it also keeps use of the shitty ai dubbing high thus making it an artficial use case. it's like with gemini counting every google search as single use of it

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 8 months ago

about #1, not only this makes number of potential leakers higher (intentional or not - by opsec failures) but also this narrows down number of loyal, reliable people who also won't fuck up the job real fast

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