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Funnily enough I use this just to have a camera which saves to a different directory for keeping RealityScan images apart from my general photos.

That really should be a standard setting for camera apps.

If only the average person wasn't afraid of a directory tree...

It wouldn't quite solve it: the issue is it's very helpful to hit a button on my phones home screen to get "different directory" immediately via a different shortcut.

Like there's a fair bit of ergonomics here which I'm brute forcing by just having two camera apps.


I mean you say that, but as someone with family in California the issue isn't the general citizenry it's that ICE and border people aren't general citizenry.

If the system decides to screw you over, that your average Cali resident disapproves doesn't stop you being in a holding cell for weeks.


And that is entirely the fault of American voters. The government is doing exactly what they said they would.

Taiwan buys military equipment and operates it's own military very much like it is independent of China and views Chinese troops in it's territory as a threat.

Correct. However "in it's territory" includes inside mainland China.

The inability to accurately cite any story about this, and the "friend of a friend" structure is what implies it's garbage.

Not to mention it itself requires a conspiracy theory: "no one would do this work voluntarily" (or "all the smart people have to be tricked because they're so smart they obviously agree with me").

As though people don't just go and work at Boeing or Lockheed Martin.


It was posted on HN by the husband of the person involved. Find it yourself.

> "no one would do this work voluntarily"

The much more common reason is compartmentalisation. Employees are told as much as they need to know, no more.

If someone can design a glide bomb without knowing that it has an explosive payload, then they're not told.

The fear is not so much the employees themselves (they might be quite patriotic!) but that the information will leak out to the enemy, giving them a chance to counter the weapon or copy it.


That's a very different proposition to what the various parent posters are implying though. Like if you work for a defense contractor, you know what your work is for even if you wouldn't know exactly what the product or application was.

They knew the US was at war and they knew it was a government program for military purposes and they knew they were dealing nuclear materials.

A journalist not involved at all figured it out just fine, but at the very least it's not like it wasn't going to be a weapon.

Frankly though I wonder what the various judgemental people in these comments think about say, the tens of thousands of people who at the time were just straight up making artillery ammo.


I currently have dropbear-ssh presenting the LUKS password prompt on my home server, but that has the very annoying quality that there's no way to do it from the console if you set that up too.

It's not a huge problem but it certainly means some recovery scenarios would be painful.


Seems like you should be able to launch the LUKS password prompt multiple times on different interfaces.

I'm assuming there's a missing /s tag there.

Vertically upright humanoids have a lot going for them: they don't occupy a lot of floor space, they can pull an object right into their center of gravity to manipulate it, and because they're familiar they're relatively easy to prototype actions for because they're our actions.

People always asser without evidence that humanoid isn't the best design, but there's a paucity of alternatives that don't make some type of tradeoff: humanoid might not be the best at anything, but it's clearly very good at a lot of things.



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