Visited Scotland

Walked into a little mom-n-pop fast restaurant

Wondered wtf is a “deep fried pizza”, ordered one.

Dude took a “frozen” pizza out of the fridge

Dude folded it in half and stuck it in an oil deep fry.

OMFG never tasted such sweet sin… crispy flakey crust on the outside, melty cheesy inside

Totally worth the 10 million calories and arterial hardening

Atrocities and their antecedents

Far fewer “ifs” than any fusion project I’m aware of. I am a chemical engineer not a plasma physicist so… grain of salt.

That said, this is basically using the same physics and design of ITER – spherical Tokamak – but using high-temperature superconductors (YBCO) that weren’t available decades ago when ITER was started.

Having to use much weaker magnets is why ITER is so physically huge and directly ipacts why it costs so many billions. Industrial-scale ductile superconductors at (relatively) tractable supercritical helium temperatures only became available in ~2007

They are nearly done constructing the pilot plant SPARC in 2027 ( next year! ) that, as noted, will actually produce more power than it uses end-to-end. Its run duration is expected to be limited by engineering problems like effective cooling systems, whose designs are to be finalized by ~2033. (obvs you need to have the actual working reactor to know for sure your cooling system and everything else actually work with it)

Then they plan to build new plants as fast as orders can come in. Probably take under 2 years per generator.

We did. Years ago. Pre-cloud!

I swear I knew what it was going to be before I clicked on it

OR I’LL BLOW YOUR HOUSE IN!!

We are working at cross purposes, the American government and I

If King Solomon can halve a baby, then surely RFKJr can halve our babies!

just acquire poison for themselves

… which they may well do on the darknet, to some vendor who at least will keep the transaction private.

Seriously bad OpSec just bothers me. “We sell hot sauce (and booze, ask for ‘Mr Fields’)” sort of barely worked at physical speakeasies in the 1920s. Not on the 2020’s Internet FFS.

Reminds me of the gang bangas who hold up a liquor store… then post themselves on Facebook with the booze and money.

I don’t want people to commit shade-tree suicide. I want social systems with mental and physical health care that people can really trust even about end-of-life decisions and that will respect rational consistent level-headed choices.

But absent such a system or in the cases where it breaks down, there is a utility in these markets. People should at least be aware the privacy technology exists.

To evade detection, Law offered other products – including hot sauce – to give the illusion that he operated as an industrial food-prep wholesaler.

Dumbass. Should have used standard best practices: sell on the darknet , take payment in Monero .

Came here to say: divorced

My Catholic mother always talked about divorce like it was one notch short of theft or larceny. Yet it was key to regaining joy in my life

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Tramadol is lame

Fun fact: running inside a flatpak or snap in no way mitigates this 😪

Oh, for most usecases I can think of, there are easier ways. For example, by attacking the cellphone the person is carrying. Or watching for their gait on network cams instead of via wifi.

No phone? Hiding inside? It’s a terrrist, prol;ly

The attacker has to be broadcasting to make the attack work. Running OpenWRT and keeping it up to date probably protects you from someone using your own router against you better than stock firmware.

But another expected scenario is an attacker with a nondescript car and a wifi router inside who can sweep the neighborhood searching thru walls for Person X.

Similarly for a whole bunch of attack vectors. Reconstructing keystrokes from keyboard sounds has been demonstrated. But you need a quiet background and a close microphone. At which point you probably could have just plugged in an inconspicuous keylogger and be done with it.

IIUC they’d need gait data of the people to be identified. So if it’s someone you have a lot of video of, it’s potentially tractable.

Meta has this kind of data on a fuckton of humans; TikTok probably has it on the rest.

Jesus, we’re fucked

I’m concerned and pissed off about both

The more channels they have as data source, the more resilient and finer-grained their intel.

Rage, rage against the dying of the privacy

Well he did say it was a million dollar product…

In a study, the researchers describe using beamforming feedback information (BFI) and machine learning models to identify people walking within a network’s range. The team found that this BFI-based technique was able to infer a person’s identity with 99.5% accuracy.

Yipes!

Fortunately, the solution is simple. Your tinfoil hat needs to extend into a cylinder around your entire body, , like an RF condom.