As soon as she won the prize she called up Netanyahu and praised him for what he's done in Gaza. They're not really even trying to make these hollowed out institutions look credible anymore.
Reports that Maria Corina Machado (peace prize winner) will be the next leader - so that is a good sign. I've also seen many reports and videos of locals celebrating.
Not a chance in hell. The regime is 100% intact. Maria Corina Machado would be executed the moment she lands. A complete military takeover will follow the ousting of Maduro.
We essentially took out the Venezuelan version of Trump. There are still the cabinet, remaining military leaders, courts, representatives, even down to governors and mayors who all profited from the current setup who are not going to be willing to just roll over cause the US supports someone
I know nothing about her but worth pointing out that 'peace prize winner' is irrelevant. Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She has since presided over ethnic cleansing.
I doubt Brexit would've been much different. The constituency nature of UK general elections means that a substantial majority of MPs knew they had to support it even though it was only a 48-52 split in a supposedly advisory referendum.
But to the extent that it might have been different, the many incompatible visions for it that gridlocked UK politics might have coalesced into a single vision, and while that would still have been worse than not having done Brexit as all, it might have been less bad than five mutually incompatible visions that got brushed under the carpet long enough to make it happen only by Boris Johnson promising all things to all people.
OTOH, things can be much much worse than Brexit. Musk's tweets about civil war in the UK, his willingness to support people too far right to even be in the most far-right of the top 8 polling parties, what Grok calls itself…
People keep bringing up the "advisory" nature of the referendum, but that's because referendums are not legally binding in the UK.
There was a vote. The public made their decision. Having carried out the vote it would have been political suicide to have ignored the result.
I think the result was wrong, and I think there should have been a defined threshold of 60% or similar, but those things aside the results were always going to be followed and honoured so long as the 50% threshold was exceeded.
The only way that the result could have been ignored would have been if the reply had been "we'll spend five years coming up with a plan, and let you vote on that" then hoping people forgot.
The whole vote was pointless, the possibilities of leaving so large and a single binary question captured none of the available options. Then the Tories locked in the most brutal exit they could and we were screwed.
But "advisory" was not even the top 50 things in the list of everything that went wrong.
Whilst that is an option, it wont cover the share price hit from the fallout, which would wipe out more than the debt as when the big domino falls, others will follow as the market panic shifts.
So kinda looking at a bank level run on tech companies if they go broke.
it is a large spinning plate that can only keep spinning with more money, so the plate gets bigger and bigger, with everyone betting that it would carry on spinnning by itself to the stage that it has become too big to fail, due to the fallout, the impact on the stock market upon others companies would wipe out more than the sum of their debts. It's kinda at that stage now as when one domino falls, the impact on others will follow.
Just a case of too many companies have skin in OpenAI's game for it to be allowed to fail now.
If your walking stick looks like it will be used as a weapon then you can safely assume you’ll have it removed upon entry.
Events like these will have disclaimers like “admittance is subject to the discretion of our security staff”.
The point of the list of prohibited items is to make it easier for attendees to know the kinds of items theyre allowed to bring. What it isn’t, is an exhaustive list of anything that could be used for bad intentions.
Nobody going to take a walking stick of an old man or some disabled person using it to walk, not unless it looks like it can pull apart into a sword. But security today and discretion does leave much in the wind.
They should have just said any computers other than mobile phones, by drilling down they enable security to fail at their job as people could bring another SBC and go its not a raspberry Pi and that highlights the crux.
Concern is this sets a standard moving forward that does not single out one SBC from others unfairly, which is what they are doing here.
> Nobody going to take a walking stick of an old man or some disabled person using it to walk, not unless it looks like it can pull apart into a sword.
Which is just a more verbose way of saying exactly what I said ;)
> They should have just said any computers other than mobile phones, by drilling down they enable security to fail at their job as people could bring another SBC and go its not a raspberry Pi and that highlights the crux.
That would cause problems for reporters bringing laptops.
What you’re missing is that this is a tech forum filled with a tech-literate people and a higher than average number of autistic and other neurological tendencies to be “technically correct”. Which isn’t who the target audience of the inauguration party will be.
Their messaging is fine for the people it’s targeted for. It wouldn’t be fine for a Defcon event, but this isn’t that.
> Concern is this sets a standard moving forward that does not single out one SBC from others unfairly, which is what they are doing here.
Different parties have different admittance codes. Some will list drugs, some will list attire (eg no trainers), some will say “no food or drink” while others might say “no disposable bbqs”. This isn’t any different to any other party or location which have their own rules for entry.
You might be right that this sets a precedence, but Occam’s Razor suggests you’re over reacting given the nature of the event and its target audience
We really should ban phones at events like concerts and parties, where people don't want to be recorded, people on their phones dull the vibe...
A mayoral inauguration? Personally I wouldn't ban it, but like rPIs, I don't see why it's a big deal either way. Your event, your rules (within reason).
Much like saying you can replace an accountant with a calculator in 1970. Ai coding has its place, but it has a long way to go and if anything junior devs and AI coding agents do raise a whole topic of debate.
Is learning to code with AI coding agents going to make you a better programmer than one who learns to code without such tools?
Well this will change the industry, clearly some caps need to put in place in how many times, as well as how long sperm can be used in these situations.
Well, OFCOM lost all credibility with me and many on how they failed to fix the Vectone UK mess. Vectone UK was a virtual operator, however they owned the number range they allocated(Most MVNO's get a block from the provider they use for their network, Vectone behind the scene would shop around and by owning the number range, could made switching core network easier I presume). So even when you ported to another network, as they owned the number, they would set up routing to the new provider(This is how number porting works, of which I was unaware as I'm sure many are not). Issue is that if the provider goes bust, all those numbers go with them. So anyone who had a number that originated from them, even if they ported it to another network, suddenly lost not only their number, but any way shape or form of getting it back. The impact was devastating for many, including myself. All 2FA, or any account ties to that number you found yourself unable to control. Even if you had access to the account, to change the number would see them use best practice security to send a verification code to the old number. THis created a right nightmare as you can imagine with all the automated support we now have. So months of fun and games, with the odd gotcha popping up overlooked from time to time.
OFCOM failed to do anything, they could have forced them to sell the number range, taken over control of the umber range, or proactively thought out such situations due to the way they port numbers being that the new provider gets control of that number and not at the mercy of the previous provider, which in this case went bust.
But like many, I myself contacted OFCOM and found a chocolate teapot far more comforting and with better results.
What with the UK pushing digital ID, funny anecdote there - I did jury service recently and they do not accept a digital ID as proof of ID, nor do they accept a selfie either as proof of age or ID ( we all had a good laugh as was done in the best possible taste ).
Phone number, which means I have a SIM I ported, able to make calls, send text messages from what is a ghost number, that can't receive calls or texts and presents in all effect to the outside as a non-existent number. So ended up getting a new number with GiffGaff, which at least has credibility I trust.
The only real problem I foresee with this use(fantastic use case btw) is if you travel across regions, does the kit currently get automatically switched to correct frequencies and power limits?
No, you need to switch the region manually. Not a big deal to do for a couple of nodes.
The trickier part is to figure out the correct preset for more exotic locations. I've had to ask a couple of times from the local Meshtastic community group.
Many (if not most) Meshtastic devices don't have a GPS receiver of their own, and also may not be paired with a phone app to supply location. So at least some devices would need to sniff GPS coordinates from traffic on the wrong band in order to know it's time to switch to the new band appropriate for the new location. Some amount of automatic reconfiguration could probably be made to work, but there would be serious limitations on how many use cases it could handle.
I think the way to do it would be that you have GPS run a update script to sync the devices. Surely the boat has a GPS, right? Or there's a GPS somewhere in the system.
So to refine the gp's question: surely there's a way to push an update or sync with a script that can do this based on GPS coordinates, right?
I would think a syncing mechanism would be a big help anyways since regardless of the reliability of the GPS script you're still going to be doing this, right?
I agree, need central control and the boat the obvious choice as would need to send out to all nodes to switch and make sure all have received, so would want any switching done with a delay (say in 5 minutes switch to region XYZ), so the mesh does its magic to get the message out.
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