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Olgratin_Magmatoe

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  • Stealth Satellite TV Defeats Iran's Internet Blackout

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  • For sure there are still problems with it. But IMO the benefits of such an organization would outweigh any of the drawbacks.

    A ton of countries wouldn't go through the effort to block it, it would help those in impoverished areas to connect, etc.

    And for those in places that would actively try to stop such a connection, people wouldn't be trying to connect if they didn't find it worth the risk. I heard about the starlink/iran one as well.

  • Stealth Satellite TV Defeats Iran's Internet Blackout

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  • The best way to do this would be to have an international organization operating something like starlink, but not operated by a nazi, and instead provided for free for everyone.

    Unless places like North Korea and Iran start blasting hundreds of satellites out of the sky, there is far less that any country could do to prevent people from making transceivers at home.

    The problem is that no such international organization would ever be funded and independent.

  • xkcd: A Bunch Of Rocks

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  • Yeah I think you'd go insane far quicker than figuring out quantum mechanics with sand and stones.

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  • It's not about age verification. That's not their goal. They're trying to de-anonymize the internet to punish and restrict dissent.

  • What Is A Good Sub $300 Computer I Can Use For A Server?

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  • A refurbished Dell optiplex has been my move. Hasn't failed me yet.

  • AI Is Already Changing Porn. Is It for Better or Worse?

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  • I'd call this exploitation:

    According to Joi.AI, there are restrictions in place to respect real performers’ virtual boundaries; the bot will not, for example, entertain being humiliated. But, as seen with Grok and the like, fans are already creating twisted scenarios out of the performers’ control, proliferating a violation of privacy.

    “When sex becomes frictionless, it stops reflecting real intimacy and starts training people to expect control without responsibility,” Lust warns.

  • Who recognizes who around here?

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  • The big ones I recognize:

    • SatansMaggottyCumFart
    • Stamets
    • The Picard Manuever
    • poVoq
    • PugJesus
    • fossilesque
    • Cowbee
    • ComradeSharkFucker
    • ThefuzzFurryComrade
    • lumpenproletariat
    • GodlessCommie
    • Bad
    • UniversalMonk

    There's a few more that I can't think of off the top of my head. It's nice that the community is small enough to recognize people so often.

  • What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about?

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  • A good chuck of these sites are autism special interest sites.

    Hey, would you like every single schematic of Chernobyl with a through explanation? Sites like that are floating around in there.

  • What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about?

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  • What is your favourite moon(s) in the Solar System?

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  • Europa

    There's just gotta be some cool shit under that ice ocean.

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  • That man is gonna go through that pipe and become spaghetti

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  • You could always grab letters individually

  • It's self hosting Sunday! What's up selfhosters? Infrastructure edition

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  • I ended up adding a healthcheck cronjob using healthchecks.io

    Works flawlessly, and I'm sure it'll help out in the future.

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  • You definitely wouldn't want to do this all the way to geosynchronous orbit. Just getting it to the edge of space is already ridiculous to the point where it has me questioning how much pressure and heat the stone at the bottom would reach, and therefore how stable it would be.

    And for a super earth, getting out of the soupy atmosphere is a challenge in of itself, so getting rid of that challenge would already be an incredible head start. From there you'd just need engines powerful enough to get you up to speed before hitting the ground.

    Like one thing is how tall can you get before the base encircles the planet (where trying to add more layers just makes the planet bigger and requires bringing in outside material, which means your geosync orbit gets farther).

    Gut vibe tells me that probably wouldn't be a problem, as the atmosphere on any given planet, even a super earth, is only about as thin as the skin of an apple relatively speaking. And that's all you'd need to beat here.

    Could a large enough pyramid give the planet a wobble?

    Absolutely. Though again gut vibe tells me it would probably only be a wobble of a few millimeters, nowhere near enough for anybody to feel it.

    Assuming you had a perfectly strong material that could handle it, is it possible to build a tower to a geosynchronous orbit or will it keep moving away as you add mass to the tower?

    I think at a certain point you'd be far enough up that you could reasonably just build a space elevator on top of the pyramid out of normal-ish materials like steel. The farther up you start the less of a foot you have in the gravity well, and the less distance your steel needs to support. At that point it would maybe be worth it do build a counterweight and go to geosynchronous orbit.

    Another thing to keep in mind, if some civilization was crazy enough to do this, hopefully they'd be smart enough to do it around their equator to reduce the amount of pyramid of doom they'd need to build. But that would probably also mean bulldozing lots of countries and mass migrations.

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  • It definitely would, but I'm guessing you'd run into the issue of stability far before that.

    I'm also guessing that the ratio of atmospheric extension to terrain extension would be on the side of terrain extension. Gravity is a rather weak force in comparison to the other forces of the universe.

    This would be a fantastic xkcd "What if?" question if it isn't already.

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  • I wonder at what point it is worth building a space elevator space pyramid.

    Just keep stacking rocks until you're a few dozen miles away from the edge of space.

  • Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

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  • Ok? I'm still going to read books as .txt files anyways, because it does so.

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  • But it also means it's harder to reach orbit, and the effects of microgravity would be even more damaging to health.

  • Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

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  • Nope. Raw epub to reader and it doesn't handle it.