You’re lucky to have that. My radar has ads.

They are doing it. There is a ton of decoy and anti-decoy research

I would think the perimeter would have a lot of leverage on the center. I have a Snapmaker on the way but haven’t printed with different materials yet. There’s like 50 trees around the perimeter. Is it possible to make, say, 2 or 4 of the trees in PETG? Maybe that would be enough to keep it anchored.

I think the grey edge looks better than 100% white. Things like this are the reason I have AMS, all my prints are functional and could be done in one color, they just look better when they’re not. And if it’s for screws and hardware, they’re going to be down in the white where they’ll contrast, not hiding up on the edge.

Slackware founder Patrick Volkerding https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=6626190

"I’ll weigh in a little bit here, I guess. At this point, I’d rather not implement something like this and don’t see the point of the legislation as written (other than, more than likely, get a foot in the door.) But my code is my speech. I doubt these laws would survive a challenge, as it’s pretty clearly government compelled speech.

Any lawyers looking for a test case? :-)"

I can’t find anything concrete from Fedora but the Fedora leader was thinking of ways to comply in some manner a month ago and had more ideas recently

A month ago: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/california-age-verification/181968

More recent: https://itsfoss.com/news/fedora-leader-suggests-age-verification-api/

Yeah, well, at least I don’t spell Almanac with a K

They discovered a thing that everyone’s known forever. Here’s Bruce Schneier in 2008

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/tracking_vehicl.html

The article says more clearly “2.7 billion records with Social Security numbers.” The author goes on to say he found 4 records with a friend’s data but in those 4 records were 3 different SSNs. He called the friend and confirmed that one of them was his actual SSN. I guess someone was auto-linking names and SSNs for ID theft purposes and getting it wrong sometimes.

Christians should show they’re not the antichrist by getting “Nero,” which is Greek for “not the beast” tattooed on their forehead

What if it’s a torx instead? People have to buy torx bits to work on their car.

I don’t see how it could be effective. The brand specific things I mentioned are almost identical and none of them stop people from repairing their car. The BMW design is simpler than the ones I mentioned. A flat screwdriver with a gap cut down the middle would work.

I don’t really know. I purposely picked the things I mentioned because they’re similar to the BMW bolt, but the tools required are cheap and simple for all of them.

Part of my point was that there are other, more complicated and more expensive tools that are brand specific too. I think a lot of it is really just the nature of the beast. Brands do thiings differently, so a special shaped tool to get into the nook and cranny of a certain car won’t work on a different brand that has different nooks and crannys. And you can substitute “brand” with “engine,” “model,” or even “year.”

“specifically intended to prevent BMW drivers from fixing their own cars.”

Give me a break.

I hate to break it to people but every manufacturer has a lot of brand specific tools. You need a special socket for Toyota head bolts, 10 point sockets for Honda suspensions, a special multipoint socket for Audis, a special socket for Mercedes lug nuts and it’s good to have a 21.5mm for Fords. 5 point security torx are starting to pop up on GMs.

That’s just an example of a few sockets, the deeper you go into a car, the higher the possibility that you need a $400 special tool or kit for a specific manufacturer, or even specific year or engine.

I don’t see how you could get enough reliability to do either from any distance.

I’ve been fooling around with Meshtastic for a couple years and haven’t come up with a real world use for it yet, other than scenarios like you mentioned.

What would be really cool is if cell phone makers could incorporate a mesh into their phones as a local public channel when the tower goes out. It would probably just be used by drug dealers or something, but it’s the only cool and functional idea I can come up with.

Just make sure Keegan Michael Key is around to help reboot your smart toilet https://youtu.be/ddgVVeSX_tE

I don’t see how it is a logical fallacy. A fallacy is when the conclusion is not supported by the premises. “Nothing to hide” is only one of those two required elements, the premise. The conclusion is undefined and might or might not be supported by the premise.

“Nothing to hide” is often a fallacy when arguing, say, government surveillance. “If you have nothing to hide you’ll accept metal detectors at the airport” is a fallacy. I accept metal detectors, but it’s because I value everyone’s safety over my minor invasion of privacy, I don’t think the premise of “nothing to hide” leads to the conclusion.

But I can’t say for sure every “nothing to hide” argument would be a fallacy without the rest of the argument.

Grade school?

Oh good, I can handle that. Powerpoles have those little grooves where you can slide two of them together but they’re so small I’d never get them right. I’m glad to hear I don’t need to design for them.

The vehicle. If the case goes dead you simply buy a vehicle, drive around until charged, then you can sell the vehicle or push it off a cliff or whatever