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There are a few videos of various Ukraine Telecoms talking about how they're keeping themselves connected.

Would be interesting to see the DDL of the table, to see if it had unique constraints.

The query not utilising an unique constraint/index should have raised a red flag.


Yep https://webwormhole.com/

Just needs a WebRTC capable browser.


The official one is at https://wormhole.app



OFCOM is powerless. ISP blocks are worthless.

This is going to fizzle out, like the Australian eSafety team trying to remove content off X globally.

Or get Apple to poke holes in it's crypto. Just not going to happen.


Unfortunately the government is winning, Apple’s ADP encryption is no longer available in the UK. The Online Safety Act was finally forced through after over 10 years.

They’ll eventually get what they want in any case the same way a chisel can eventually dig through a mountain.


There is no winning. It's an infinite game of whackamole.


> Unfortunately the government is winning

In the UK. Their abuse will be restricted to people living within their borders unless the US allows it. The UK is not in any position to harass US companies, even more so now that they lack EU's backing.

Only UK residents (including their children) will really be harmed by this nonsense.


Ah ok so we don’t matter. Cool, thanks.


Honestly, you don't.

Your government is completely out of control. I can't care about you if you, UK citizens, choose not to do anything about it. You are the only people on the planet in any position to do anything about this.

Good luck.


eSafety is a joke. However, the Human Rights Commission has the funding to launch multi-year investigations into YouTubers that make people cry and poop their pants. That's power, although they do admit the investigations cannot currently proceed beyond investigations due to there aren't any punishments or remedies in the statute. But that's a clerical error that should be remedied some day.


It's not what, it's how is the problem.

Side stepping local country government, and applying pressure to payment processors to enforce your own rules globally should not be able to happen. Even a government should not be able to dictate what other countries do.


The advocate group who do this believe they are exercising the will of God and do not need to mess with things like laws


Heltec MeshPocket is another. A powerbank and LoRa device.


Only need one camera drone capable of identifying targets. And just tells another drone to bomb it.


Cameras are incredibly cheap though. There's basically no reason not to put them on everything.


Or can “paint it” with an infrared laser point and then the drone can use simple sensors to guide itself to the target.


“Don’t attack this plane that already has a hole in it”

The startup attempting this would need Actual Indians for the first few special ops attempts before getting the true AI experience.


..in theory. In practice, building such a complex system in a fail safe way is not that easy.


"in a fail safe way" goes out the window in wartime.


I meant safe for the mission, not for any innocent souls around..


Still only need one camera drone if a human is spotting targets.


In theory. In practice you would not allow a single camera drone to be the single point of failure of a mission with such lengthy and risky planning, and dire consequences.


They had a limited amount of drones in those containers they needed to make them count. My money is on operators.


Still only need one flying drone to identify all targets. There maybe more camera drones available to pilot, but still only need one flying to spot.

A static target only needs to be seen once.


I understand that you’re probably just gonna reply with “still only need one camera”

…but if GPS is jammed, and there’s only one camera per fleet, how exactly are the other drones supposed to navigate towards the spotted targets unless they’re all equipped with cameras?


One camera drone can see if another drone is on target.


So the old “use a single unreliable 2D instrument to coordinate multiple fast-moving projectiles in three dimensional space” approach.


You are just continuing to spout nonsense.

Camera drone hovers above target and kamakazi drone intersects the line between camera and target, and drops.


You are just continuing to spout nonsense. All of the drones have cameras. Using a single designated camera drone is a stupid idea, overly complex and completely unnecessary.


I think the problem is an assumption that people are too stupid to grasp their brilliant idea.

That being said, having all drones equipped with cameras could enable a more robust version of what they’re talking about:

If uplink with human operators is lost, but short-range comms between drones exist, they could use their video feeds to autonomously coordinate amongst themselves.


So now the camera is pointed at the target? How is it checking that the other drones are headed in the right direction? And the personnel on the ground? They're just chillin' waiting for those other drones to come intersect with the stationary spotter drone's line of sight?


You are raging, and your thinking has ceased.

We've had two years of footage of drones being flown over tanks, and bombs dropped directly down into them.


No one is arguing the merits of drone warfare.

We have two years of footage from Ukraine, where camera-equipped drones are launched from a several miles away at most, and where there are networks of pilots and support specialists to assemble and launch more drones in case of (frequent) failure.

I don’t think it’s wise to wager the success of a 6-month mission deep in enemy territory on a plan with a single point of failure, especially when the alternative is equipping each drone with < $100 cameras.

But sure, you’re clearly the better thinker.


`I understand that you’re probably just gonna reply with “still only need one camera”`

Your first response was disrespectful. Probably because you are young and immature. Grow up.


Fair. Sorry about that.


lmao what? You want to loiter with a camera drone to guide other drones to target? How would that work if neither drone knows where it is (drones had no GPS lock, it's a fact, not a speculation)?


They knew where they started from. Know where the target is relative to the start point.


> Know where the target is relative to the start point.

How? Without GPS, it's navigation capabilities lower than V-2 rocket.


You need to read a bit more on autonomous systems and navigation, it will surely tame your hubris. Everything is simple if you don't understand it.


You have never written autonomous navigation systems.


I have in fact. For space applications. An now I will stop replying to what is seemingly a stubborn, clueless 16 year old.


Feel this is a disingenuous question, as British TV will do just fine on streaming giants. Just the BBC cannot and will not make them, and struggling to survive.

Mobland on Paramount+

Grand Tour on Amazon

Clarkson's Farm on Amazon


Peaky Blinders on Netflix was made (and also broadcast) by the BBC.


Back in 2013, when BBC still was airing Top Gear with Hammond, May & Clarkson, and things like Bake Off.

Recent seasons of Dr Who were made with Disney+. They have killed a 60 year old franchise.


Hardly killed. I've been watching Doctor Who since the 1970s and there's been a lot of variation in quality over that time. I stopped watching it sometime around the Colin Baker era as I lost interest in it, but started watching it again with the Christopher Eccleston reboot. Then, I started getting disillusioned with the Peter Capaldi episodes - possibly the best actor for playing the Doctor, but given awful scripts (except "Heaven Sent" which is possibly the best ever episode). I struggled through Jodie Whittaker's seasons as I didn't like her portrayal nor the stories, but now I have to say that I really enjoy Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor even though there's been good and bad episodes of his.

I actively dislike Disney (except maybe TRON and the Black Hole), but I don't think they've killed Doctor Who.


I watched in the 70s too. But never got onboard with the Eccleston reboot.

There are no plans to make more Doctor Who, if it was good they would continue making more. So it's being shelved is probably a more an appropriate phrase.

Someone might take a chance again in several years.


"Paused" may be more accurate.

https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/doctorwho-futurereport-may25

> The Mirror reports that the series will return to BBC One for future series, with Russell T Davies already working on scripts for an additional two series, irrespective of whether Disney decide to continue in their partnership with the BBC beyond this series.


Davies is doing a show for Channel 4, Tip Toe.

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/russell-t-davies-returns...


Cool - I really "enjoyed" Queer As Folk.


You're just moving the goalposts now; it didn't end until 2022, and what I was responding to was the suggestion that there's no inherent problem with British content, it just needs to be on modern streaming platforms: yes, and the BBC has also participated in that.

Top Gear with that trio ending wasn't a content problem, Clarkson punched a producer and was fired. You can say well that was a bad decision they should have valued keeping him at all costs etc., but there was no good solution there really, he was divisive well before that issue, if they kept him they'd have pleased fans and upset others. The show wasn't (immediately) axed; that probably quite reasonably seemed like the best compromise.


Not with that crap it won’t.


There is a certain amount of irony when the cookie policy agreement is buggy on a story about complicated & complex systems.

Clicking on "Only Necessary" causes the cookie policy agreement to reappear.


Had the same issue


Same here, it's because you have third party cookies blocked.


My assumption with bugs like this is that they are “geographically based edge cases” that have been poorly tested due to engineers not being in the right location to test it, but affects a large number of users without throwing a error that can be logged.

GDPR banner only to be used in EU, with conditional of only accepting non-essential cookies, and the engineer or QA is based in the U.S.

As a side note, as someone that lives in the EU my pattern of usage here is:

- choose only non-essential, but if not a presented option then

- reject all cookies, but if no reject all available then

- switch the reader mode (or hide distracting items), or if not possible then

- close tab

I’m getting much more aggressive when dealing with cookie banners dark patterns. I will not a third third party advertising cookies as much as possible and support websites that allow me an easy way to opt out of them.


Not for me, on Chrome now


It didn't appear on DuckDuckGo either, Thanks.


I dont see a cookie banner. Thankfully.


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