He played the long game.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck!

There’s a replacement for Decentraleyes called LocalCDN. Shame that the name isn’t as catchy, though.

I have no idea whether it makes you more fingerprintable, and if it does, whether the fewer CDN connections is worth it.

The orcas have only been going after small sailboats (the kind small enough for a middle-class family to afford, if they own it instead of a house and live aboard full-time). They aren’t the class conscious anti-oligarch crusaders everybody wants them to be.

The entire world relied on the US’s CDC?

I mean, kinda, with the exception of countries like the USSR and whatnot. It was one of those “US is the world superpower” things. Obviously that’s not a good thing lately (if it ever was, which I won’t opine on), but it’s true. That’s why, for example, the only places left in the world with samples of smallpox are one lab in Russia and a CDC-run lab here in the US (not too far from where I used to live, actually).

Literally this. Israel relies on maintaining funding and political/diplomatic support from the American evangelical Christian eschatology death cult, and guess which issue it cares about.

They all relied on the CDC’s lead, and Trump fucked the CDC.

There were plans like that, but Trump fired the people who made them in 2018.

I still have all my old video games, but I miss my first PC 😥

Are you trying to suggest that there’s no such thing as “spotting” anything from a satellite unless a human astronaut is riding inside it?

NISAR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NISAR_(satellite) :

The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission is a joint project between NASA and ISRO to co-develop and launch an Earth observation satellite (EOS) equipped with dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in 2025. It will be the first radar imaging [emphasis added] satellite to use dual frequencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaging_radar :

Imaging radar is an application of radar which is used to create two-dimensional images, typically of landscapes. Imaging radar provides its light to illuminate an area on the ground and take a picture at radio wavelengths.

It is, in a literal sense, “spotting” the subsidence using visual techniques, albeit at a lower EM frequency than what humans can see.

“Spotted” is still also accurate. How do you think a satellite could measure anything, except by looking at it?

Turns out the last few percent can’t just be ignored, 95% isn’t good enough, and 100% is really fucking hard.

The funny part is that every CS grad student studying AI understood that perfectly well a decade ago.

Okay, but bread is supposed to be baked!

I mean, with meat and dairy and fruits and vegetables there are always situations where it might be legitimate to have them be eaten raw or only partially cooked, but that’s not a thing for bread!

How bad do you have to fuck up to get people sick from bread?!

A comedy, sure, but nevertheless it’s one of the best ones too.

Yeah, but it’s still way better than plastic.

Meanwhile, Corelle enjoyers:

It’s a better Star Trek movie than most Star Trek movies.

Spoken like a person who lives somewhere flat.

Remember: Cubans in the US are the ones who fled communism. In other words, the privileged conservatives. Of course they’re going to support the fascist, and of course they’re not going to expect any negative consequences from that to affect them!