“Wales” is… kinda.

Well you see… Despite what people say, the reasons behind these rules has very little to do with children. So they don’t actually care if it solves the “problem”.

This is where I think there will be a need for laser based weaponry. Tracking a moving target isn’t hard. Predicting it’s position when the bullet / missile arrives is the hard bit. So lasers don’t really miss. Cost per shot is low so intercepting cheap drones is not an issue.

Biggest problem is mobility, but I think I’ve read articles about a version dragged around behind a Land Rover.

Seems like it really should be down at number 8.

They have more power now.

An army of cybernetic penguins?

I really wish they’d reprint the comments to give context.

Remember that for them to sell over half a billion dollars worth of stock, somebody (many people) bought it. Probably it was the other major stockholders that were ok with Musk’s pay.

It’s not always a good thing when the one sensible voice goes “fuckit. I’m out”.

Being an MP is an exceptional role, or at least it should be.

Interesting

Only about $60M I’m afraid.

Sieze the cargo too. That oil has no business being shipped anywhere.

They probably do, but I’m not sure how interested in using it they are. I think they’d much rather tap such cables to learn secrets.

Your assuming that once it’s cut it can be spliced back together. I’m not sure how true that is after water ingress.

Amazing how nukes have turned from “Can’t attack me. I have Nukes” to “Can’t stop me attacking. I have nukes”.

Wait… China has patent office?

So the problem here is that you can inject code into a system python process because they run with the user’s python install location on their path.

They’ve fixed the wrong “root cause”.

What really annoys me is they purposely broke per-user and local installation. Fine, system wise installation isn’t a good idea when it’s already managed by another package manager, but user installation is my domain.

The reason they did this is because a package installed by the user can be active when a system tool is called and break the system tool. The distro developers went “Oh, we should force all user code into venvs so that our code is safe”.

Completely and utterly backwards. The protected code needs to be inside the defensive wall. The user should be allowed to do anything in the knowledge that they can’t inadvertently change the OS. When a system tool is called it should only have system libraries on it’s Python Path.

Op is right though. It’s still a cost/benefit situation, and the benefit is not enough to justify the cost.

Absolutely. Governmental institutions should hand out mastodon IDs like they hand out email addresses. Then, when they are no longer a member they lose their official voice.