Helium was interesting, but they locked it down so you can only use their proprietary hardware for access points, it seems kinda scammy.

IPFS is used by several archive projects like Anna’s archive and libgen.

Meshtastic is a distributed local mesh network for text messaging.

For (genuine) leather, saddle soap or Renapur leather cleaner is probably your best option.

For non-animal-based materials an enzyme cleaner.

Worst case scenario, dye them black.

No, but you can smuggle them by eating them.

If you upload it to a public website they will still archive it for you as part of that website I think.

Encrypt it and upload it to multiple public places. Archive.org, github, etc.

If it’s a genuine range finder I may be interested.

If they keep being rotated they wear out easily.

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Clause_3:_Compact_Clause

These kind of things aren’t anything new, arguable the old rondinax tanks did this better.

My experience has been that the build quality isn’t terrible, just mediocre, but their products are quite overpriced.

The irony is, despite there being a plaque celebrating it in the old bailey, people have been arrested for holding signs directly quoting that plaque.

Cockney i’nn’it guv’na.

Business must be booming

Parties rarely follow their manifestos.

One way we train AI models to “align” them is to create a lot of different ones, and then see how they perform on various tests.

Ones that answer those tests correctly are saved and used to create the next generation of models, those that answer incorrectly are deleted.

What if this is all an AI alignment test that’s some alien kid’s AI homework that got a C-?

People become less hospitable in economic downturns, remember the original Nazis exploited that in the Versailles hit Weimar.

Maybe a general tag system, with community owners able to add tags that automatically apply to all posts, would be good? Otherwise there’s potential for special purpose tags like this to start piling up.

There’s good odds that a lot of what is going on kayfabe.

Like anything you can find doctors with dubious ethics willing to preform any kind of surgery for the right price.