dgriffith

Well, they used to be trained on Stack Overflow.

In the future they'll be trained on all your code, as per the end user licence agreement you clicked through.

Perhaps the pressure difference between a column of fresh water and the equivalent height of salty water is enough to tip the scales.

There is a FreeRTOS option for Arduino which is pretty much the next step when you want to do multitasking.

Basically, you create tasks in your setup routine by pointing to various self contained functions - each function becomes a task - and your "loop" becomes the task that runs when everything else is idle.

Your functions have their own loops so they never exit, and then when you kick-start the tasks the task scheduler in FreeRTOS does all the heavy lifting of timeslicing the various functions so that they all appear to be running at once.

If you share resources, like an I2C bus, you can add locking around it so that tasks that need the resource wait until other tasks are finished with it so you don't get tasks treading on each other's toes.

FreeRTOS is in the Arduino libraries so you can just add it to a blank project and then have a play running two tasks at once.

Maybe it's time to implement an AI tarpit. Each response for a request from a particular IP address or range takes double the time of the previous, with something like a 30 second cool down window before response time halves.

Would stop AI scrapers in their tracks, but it wouldn't hurt normal users too much.

Maybe I should start looking into it a bit more 🤔

Only systems that have framebuffer console enabled at boot I guess.

Recovery mode booting would probably be normal 80x25 text console in case there was something up with framebuffer initialisation.

There was a point, about 10-12 years ago now, where The Algorithm™ took over social media entirely.

If you were around before that, you would have noticed the shift. Your friend's comments and posts started to get intermixed with "other stuff" , and eventually you could scroll endlessly and not see anything from your direct friends, or friends of friends. Forever.

What decided what you could see? Why, The Algorithm™ , of course. So, at that point right there, that's when a direct and consistently biased feed of someone else's opinion about what you wanted to see got pumped into people's brains. And you can bet it's going to be designed to be handing out the most engaging things that it can find for you, to keep you scrolling away on their platform. But it doesn't matter a fuck if what its handing out i's mentally harmful to you personally, as long as you're engaged.

And just like schoolkids in the USA reciting the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, reinforcement of whatever The Algorithm™ wants (simply: more engagement) becomes pretty trivial when it's crammed into your head consistently from a young age. Lacking any other reference points, children are the ones with the least amount of defenses against all of that shite.

These kinds of laws worldwide are trying to stop that kind of thing from happening, because they can't stop the source directly. Social media companies hold too much sway over the population and the economy now, it would be political suicide to try and go toe to toe with them.

In my opinion, The Algorithm™ as it stands now is a cancer that needs to be cut out of social media by any means possible. Whether there's anything left remaining after that is debatable.

but are normal plebs going to be arrested for having Signal on their phone or with a Meshtastic/Meshiliscious device?

Are you deliberately trying to be obtuse?

The "criminal encrypted communications device" - whatever the hell that actually is ^1^ - is the very small cherry on top of the firearms and whatever other investigative legwork needed to identify, locate, and then arrest these people.

So no, unless you're also often nipping off in a taxi with a few guns to do a job for another crime group, I think you'll be relatively safe fooling around with meshtastic.

^1^Maybe it's one of those CrimPhones™ that had their security protections quietly broken in the last few years.

It can be a Cron job that runs every minute. Run a script that:

• Checks for the existence of a file, if it exists, exit.
• (Optional) ping your end, if it's up, continue, otherwise exit
• Touches said file.
• Runs SSH to try and connect to your end. If the connection is made everything halts here until the connection drops.
• Cleans up said file.
• Exits.

If you can arrange a fixed IP address externally (or dynamic DNS that follows your IP around) you can set up a reverse SSH connection instead.

Basically your server connects to your external computer via SSH and then sets up port forwarding so that when you connect to localhost:2222 or similar on your PC, you're actually connecting back to the server.

the pursuit of fancy graphics just doesn't make sense anymore

Their assertion is that fancy graphics doesn't necessarily equal good gameplay, and the major industry players are focused on ever-increasing frame rates instead of game quality.

Nobody cares if your game is fully immersive and rendered down to the atomic scale if it is boring or the game mechanics are shite. Sure you can wander around and look at stuff and gasp at the physics, but unless the game is titled "Look around and enjoy it" , that's not the point.

Ditto on the QuietComfort headphones. I've had a pair of QC35's for 10 years now with heavy use on weekly flights.

Runs off a AAA battery which is good for like 18 hours or so. Works as regular headphones when the battery goes flat. 3.5mm cable with media controls and a mic in it.

Still in its original hard case, have replaced the ear pads a couple of times, decent pads are cheap enough on eBay and etc.

I also bought a Bluetooth insert for it for ~AUD75, it plugs in where the cable goes and has it's own rechargeable battery with only about 6 hours life which is a bit of a nuisance.

Edit: regarding audio quality, I can say that if you're using headphones in any sort of urban environment, noise cancelling absolutely trumps audio quality. But the QC35's aren't too bad in the quality stakes, especially if you're using them on the move.

Small edit: The major thing that stops portable electronics from lasting 5+ years is the little rechargeable battery inside that dies. Removable batteries like the AAA battery in the QC 35 solves that, and as a bonus it's "instant charge" when it goes flat, as long as you keep a tiny packet of AAAs in your bag. 4 x AAAs lasts me about 3 months.

I know, instead of folders, we could use "shelves" and the Dewey Decimal System.