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Get somebody else to take a truck to you?

Massive singular radio telescopes are used to pick up individual signals from one direction, and can’t do imaging alone.

Sure you can pick up long wave radio with smaller antennas, but not without trade-offs. They often need long coils, and to make up the remaining difference you need to very precisely control electric resonance, and you lose efficiency (you pick up less energy from the radio waves). You definitely can’t do imaging with just one.

Just look at how big NFC and Qi coils are, they can’t practically be made smaller at those wavelengths, or else you lose too much energy!

Massive radio telescope arrays spanning the globe uses the massive distance to create a tiny amount of angular resolution, just enough that with months of processing you can image a black hole a few light years away with some thousands of pixels. Compare to how your phone can run deblur algorithms on a fraction of the power over far more pixels, because the angular resolution makes such a huge difference (blur radius is infinitely smaller)

Also, amplitude is signal strength. That’s only tall on a chart.

It seems to think you have headphones in, not a speaker

If you’re in EU I think you need root to bypass it

Is this loss?

Lots of tech more than 20 years old and thus free from patents available to use. Lots of office printers are older than that, still!

But yeah, making them reliable is haaaard

I play Pokémon Unite a lot. Very wide variation in abilities and skillsets

Almost anything where memorization is the primary skill is going to be dominated by people with specific interest, rather than general high intelligence (certainly doesn’t exclude it, but it’s just statistics). Gotta look for something frequently requiring novel problem solving and adaption to filter for high probability of high general intelligence.

Then there’s also a lot of games requiring very narrow intellectual ability. Being able to parse a specific ruleset, or doing a specific kind of math fast, without needing to be able to handle anything novel. You’ll certainly find some “interesting individuals” around those kinds of games.

Heat it to make the air expand

Trump’s non-stop racism like not allowing black people to rent anything in his properties isn’t comparable to drug convictions. His mafia ties throughout his whole life aren’t comparable to petty theft convictions. Him suing contractors to avoid paying isn’t comparable either. A whole damn insurrection is very far from it too.

How do you convince people somebody like Trump is dangerous without pointing to their actions?

It’s specifically about what kind of crimes he committed (fraud, putting others in danger) and that he’s continuing to commit crimes without remorse that is the problem, not some long past history.

People can change, but they have to want to change, and Trump does not.

Right wingers are being taught to believe all pushback against the beliefs fed to them are illegitimate and personal attacks, it’s cult like behavior to make it harder for them to learn and change.

Reddit admins are insanely biased towards right wingers. They talk about the same free speech bullshit while only allowing one side to speak freely.

They tolerated brigades organized by them for years despite brigades being prohibited, they allowed T_D to absolutely dominate the front page by vote manipulation until a huge majority of the site got too outraged (that’s when the 2 post cap/day per sub was set, along with ignoring votes on pinned posts). T_D screamed and screamed and screamed about being censored when that happened (nothing was even removed), and everybody else was happy reddit FINALLY AFTER YEARS did something, anything, to make the site a bit more usable again. Tons of left leaning subs were banned long before they ever touched any far right extremism.

The left wing bias you might have seen comes from moderators who actually have expertise on their subjects (like science subreddits), not from the admins

Insanity. You’re telling yourself that the groups which prides itself on hate are more receptive to you than groups which promotes cooperation and understanding? Maybe ask a psychiatrist what that says about you. You’re supposed to be tolerant to people who act in good faith, but nobody must be tolerant to hate.

The right is full of infighting too, but it’s about who is the most devoted to the dear leader. Challenge their arguments openly and you’ll see them act far worse than any leftist you’ve ever seen.

I hate them.

I run a cryptography forum on reddit (now here too). On reddit it’s /r/crypto. Before the random suggested usernames every spam operation had to make up their own random username scheme. They ended up being mostly distinguishable because they used patterns normal people didn’t. Now? A ton of users with limited activity are now indistinguishable from bots. So the subreddit has to be in restricted mode so only approved users can post, and for anybody with ambiguous post history I have to send them a request for more detail to be able to keep spammers out while still allowing genuine newbies to join to ask questions. Otherwise the spam volume just ends up being way too intense.

Bridgy started without that requirement and it pissed off too many Mastodonians so they reworked it

If you’ve already noticed incoming traffic is weird, you try to look for what distinguishes the sources you don’t want. You write rules looking at the behaviors like user agent, order of requests, IP ranges, etc, and put it in your web server and tells it to check if the incoming request matches the rules as a session starts.

Unless you’re a high value target for them, they won’t put endless resources into making their systems mimic regular clients. They might keep changing IP ranges, but that usually happens ~weekly and you can just check the logs and ban new ranges within minutes. Changing client behavior to blend in is harder at scale - bots simply won’t look for the same things as humans in the same ways, they’re too consistent, even when they try to be random they’re too consistently random.

When enough rules match, you throw in either a redirect or an internal URL rewrite rule for that session to point them to something different.

The trick is distinguishing them by behavior and switching what you serve them

Have you heard of bridgy?