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I honestly prefer Firefox forks that switch off all the telemetry.

Mozilla recently becomes more and more greedy in terms of breaking down privacy.


Anonymous telemetry is more than justified if it improves system stability. I don't think they do remotely the tracking other browser vendors like Microsoft or Google do.


Except when the browser won't start, and then loses all your previous session, because your internet is out when you start it and so it can't do whatever 'necessary' telemetry and verification it needs.

Yes, just happened to me. Not happy about losing my session. Even less happy about the dependency and what might be being telemetered or 'verified'.


"Anonymous telemetry is more than justified if it improves system stability." - every autocratic leader


Also not "Anonymous" (IP for example or a really good fingerprint about hardware and OS and settings) ;)

It's the old "but it's just the Metadata that we keep"


Telemetry is spyware. As such, it is never justified. The anonymous card is for fools.


(Hierarchical) Kanban boards.

They are most efficient tool I've met in 20 years.


any good resources for training on this?


Galileo offers cryptographic protection (OSNMA) of their positioning data. So not spoofable. For free.



Not quite unspoofable, at least once the signal has been received for time-delayed rebroadcasting/meaconing.

But spoofing does become detectable by any receiver with a sufficiently accurate clock (I think for complete protection it would have to be an atomic clock though).


Any insight as to why newer GPS satellites do not offer similar capabilities?


The GPS project began in 1973. Digital signatures were invented in 1976. I'm guessing adding it on after the fact would have been very expensive.


There have been progressive improvements as new satellites are brought into service, and those end of life retired. Perhaps backwards compatibility?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals#Legacy_GPS_signals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals#Modernization_and_...


There are enough space radars so that you can passively listen to the reflections of almost every satellite.

Just pointing to the Graves Radar in France whose frequency and beam pattern is precisely known to the public.


I'm a surf photographer and rely on my camera automatics a lot. They are allowed to move freely within defined limits.

99% of my pictures are technically fine.

I only use full manual if the picture job needs it.

Most of the time setting the aperture is enough (and the camera allows to set the exposure time and ISO automatically, but set limits which to automatics is not allowed to cross). On the other side action/sport photography is mostly shutter time bound - then the other side around.


Showing graphs without relations is an old trick.

So my question: how's the industrial production of Europe or even then all western countries over that timespan using the same metrics?


> But, I guess, it takes unbelievable amount of loyalty/patriotism to stay when you're offered so much..

Just offer them remote work and they are gone, lol.


> I don't know how they're still in business.

They have 400 GBit/s of DTAG transit.

Showing that they are rich as fuck without saying it.


It's 2024.

Cheap access to powerful FPGAs is available now.

Either go with this Sipheed GoWin FPGA boards or get one of these recycled Bitcoin miner controller boards (Zynq 7010) or reverse engineered LED controllers from ColorLight/Linsn which use a Spartan/Lattice.


I started writing a reply in disagreement, lamenting on the long-gone the pre-COVID times when we were buying sub-$10 Max10 devices, and bitching how Intel killed Altera, letting Xilinx to jack-up the prices.

Boy, am I happy I decided to do some googling before pressing send…

Although Xilinx indeed has jacked up the prices, the sub-$10 Altera category is still alive and well.

Furthermore, both Lattice and Renesas have devices in sub-$5 category.

For super cheap programmable logic, Renesas has a sub-$1 simple programmable logic devices.

So much options out there…


Reddit is drowning in bots.

But for a lot of problems still the best source for potential solutions.


> Reddit is drowning in bots.

Indeed, but so is Twitter.


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