Which is why an adblocker isn’t just a convenience feature. It’s a necessary security tool.

Nice of them to publicly admit that they willfully and deliberately violated federal law.

Not likely to see any enforcement under the current regime, but it will be helpful for later prosecutions.

Really, though – is that not true?

There is already no expectation of privacy and anonymity anymore. Cameras are already everywhere, more and more of them interconnected and tracking your every step. If you want privacy and anonymity outside of your own home, you need to be wearing a mask, and maybe taking measures to disguise your gait and physical proportions as well. Having slightly more or slightly fewer cameras out there isn’t going to change that whatsoever.

Okay, then. I wish you the very best of luck in destroying every camera you see. Hopefully you’re wearing a mask and unidentifying clothes every time you go out.

If you see a ring door bell, they aren’t hard to kick or rip off the wall.

It is a bit more difficult, however, to do that without being caught, since they’ll probably have camera footage of you doing it.

Eh, you’re already on a dozen cameras every time you go outside. Security cameras, state surveillance cameras, doorbell cameras, cameras all over every modern car… What’s a few more?

This particular image is from a university research reactor. I’d assume most of those doohickeys are various measurement probes, measuring things like temperature and the levels of different types of radiation.

But I already have spicy water, as pictured above.

Well, I suppose they’re sometimes also used in watch dials, to make the watch readable at night?

This very much could be real.

Experiments have shown before that simple insects have very simple responses to detecting light in different directions. Shine a light in one eye, they go left. Shine a light in the other eye, they go right. Shine a light in both eyes, they go straight forward.

It would be fairly simple to glue a couple tiny LEDs to the insect’s eyes and wire them up to a tiny microcontroller and radio receiver. And voila – remote control roach.

Probably not super reliable in the controls and doesn’t always go exactly where you want it … but it should do a decent job of going in the general direction you tell it to.

you could have got out ahead of this… or better yet faded into obscurity, changed your name and move to SE asia… but nope.

Why would he? The worst thing that has happened to him is that he’s getting a paid vacation.

They’re typically used in gun sights to make them luminous and visible at night.

Not a whole lot of other uses where a small, relatively expensive glowing dot is particularly useful. In most other applications, you’d rather just include an LED and a battery or wiring to power it.

Did Trump make a bet with someone about how many different countries he could invade in 30 days?

A set of FOSS smart glasses powered entirely by local hardware and software that you own and control? That would be kind of neat.

Anything connected to and under the control of a big corporation, though … miss me with that shit.

I have the solution for you.

“We investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing” in 3… 2… 1…

a fantasy conspiracy that Israel is somehow central to some scheme by the Illuminati, the Jesuits, the Freemasons, and the Zionists.

I mean, I’m not convinced yet, but… Just saying, recent events have made me more open to the idea.

The actual believers are long gone.

All three of them!

I don’t mind if your accuracy goes down when you go full auto, or your aim point drifts in some random direction, but having to scroll down as you shot just sucked.

It’s not even that realistic. In real life, you need to apply constant pressure downward to keep a machine gun firing level, but not constant movement.

IMO, a realistic way to do it would be that when you fire the game machine gun in full auto, your point of aim gets shifted upward. To return it to where you attempted to aim, you’d then have to move the mouse downward slightly and then hold it there for the duration of the burst. (And the viewpoint/point of aim should suddenly dip back downward when you stop firing.)

Server options tend to be significantly more expensive, with fewer places to buy parts.