The bans on "all cyber security equipment" just show how little they understand. A regular laptop with cheap dongles is just as capable as a Flipper, if not more. And you don't even need dongles if you're just messing with WiFi/Bluetooth. The NFC part can partially be done via phone apps.

The lists are rather intriguing. I am assuming total router/switch bans are to prevent people from sharing a single paid connection since they charge per day per device

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Royal: Electrical items and electronic equipment not designed for personal grooming—including baby monitors, clothing irons, garment steamers, extension cords, power strips, multi‑plug outlets, HAM radios, cybersecurity devices, and electronic‑crime equipment—are prohibited.

Cunard: Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRB), amateur (ham) radios, communication scanners, wide-band receivers, satellite phones, satellite receivers and transmitters, transformers, lasers and laser pointers, network devices (wired and wireless) including routers, switches, and scanners.

Virgins: Satellite phones, networking gear such as Starlink or routers, EPIRBs, HAM radios and any device that can be used for deliberate electronic or cybersecurity interference or criminal activity.

Disney: (This sentence is listed under weapons) Satellite receivers, emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRB), communication scanners, wideband receivers and walkie-talkies (The following is listed under electronics) Extension cords, power strips, multi-plugs and surge protectors Ham radios Streaming devices (Amazon Fire Stick, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Roku, etc.)

Norwegian: Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRB), ham radios, satellite phones, transformers, lasers and laser pointers, Any form of radio/ telephone signal jamming equipment, Portable Modems, Walkie-talkies, Any multi-functional device developed for interaction with access control systems onboard the ship

Seabourn: Communication Devices including Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRB) ham radios, communication scanners, wide-band receivers, satellite phones, personal satellite dish/receivers, routers, and transformers.

I use a stylus to take lecture notes and solve problem sheets on my ThinkPad X13. Xournalpp works ok, Ubuntu 24.04, though there was a mutter bug that I had Sol patch out. Only better than paper because of data storage, honestly carrying a notebook is lighter than the usb c second display I use.

When I have it folded, it's intuitive to use the touchscreen like a tablet. But I wouldn't want to run the i3 setup I have on my desktop. The Wayland UI bandwagon and huge touch targets are for something after all.

Surprising that this sort of vuln can exist for DECADES. Perhaps software really is too complex for all its behaviours to be outwardly visible. Many student-run services are down right now, even the lunch menu website is going down for maintenance.

I mean we do have examples of how to try to make actually proven and secure software (of course still not absolute), but this is simply deemed to expensive. It's basically the same for every other big problem. We do have examples how to not consume as much resources, as we do now, or how to not shoot explosives at each other. We simply do not want to do it, collectively speaking.

What other options are on the table if we REALLY want to limit warming below the 2 deg C target? It's already 1.5+, and control systems theory says that the inertia of various mechanisms (ocean warming, ice/permafrost melt, ...) will cause a lag between the emissions being produced and the actual warming happening. So even if we immediately switch off all human sources NOW, everything that's already in the air will stay there, and the temperature will keep increasing for some time. Under the assumption that the "residual warming" will overshoot 2 C, aerosols are the only industrially feasible way I know of. Mass production of engineered particles certainly sounds more reasonable than mass producing carbon capture machines in the volumes required.

Of course, we are too busy arguing about how important it is to fully commit to any path.

Agree. My next upgrade from 24.04 will be to Debian.

Market segmentation?! What device is high quality enough to be potted but still has the same hardware modified by jumpers across models?

Not quite a jumper. CB transceiver.

Last time I checked, the Soviet Union was dissolved.

(CCCP = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...)

Oops, should have said CCP, not CCCP.

Though I should note that this would be the "SSSR" since I was clearly using the latin alphabet, even if I had chosen to use the Russian name of the USSR.

I'm sure they would choose real factory building instead if it was just as easy (at least, I would) - no bureaucracy/planning conflicts, you are the sole dictator - full vertical integration, no supply costs or land costs - building is near-instant and perfectly reversible - machines don't have 6 month lead times or go out of stock - maintenance is done by magic, machines never break down - infinite research and information to build every machine from scratch

When I play Factorio with my friends, I don't have to sit through 1 hour planning meetings where half the people don't know what game we're playing and the other half want to make all decisions by committee in a future, unscheduled meeting.

It still makes me feel odd when ChatGPT says something like "I feel the same way", "I love xyz", "I think ...", exactly because it can't really feel anything. It defends this behaviour as an abstraction to make the conversation more natural, but that makes it easy to forget that there is no feeling or opinion - only the inputs/outputs resembling one.

I think this is the entire point, you're supposed to subconsciously believe that you're talking to a human, not a matrix multiplication algorithm

I recently got into an argument on HN when I said that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002491

They already believe.

> Hilarious critique. If you weren't as mathematically illiterate as you likely are, you would know how general matrix operations are, and how essentially any algorithm (including human cognition) can be implemented using them as an intermediate.

This guy's got the secrets of human cognition figured out apparently.

Which is very misleading.

And the biggest risk with AI. There have been many posts about how dangerous it is.

It also annoys me that it uses the word "we" when talking about humanity