Pennomi

It’s a finger under heavy magnification, if you’re not joking.

If you are, it’s because they wanted to demonstrate how e-fish-ient their new technology is.

Haha that picture shows one on a finger. It’s literally half the size of a single ridge of your fingerprint. Like a speck of dust

The robot’s electrokinetic propulsion exploits microscale physics. Platinum electrodes drive fluid flow with no moving parts at around 60 nanoamperes. Four electrodes enable translation, rotation, and arcing. They currently operate at 1 volt, but could reach 10 times faster speeds near water’s electrolysis limit.

Electric field propulsion, apparently

I always assumed nanoscale robots would need to be lithography-based. Seems that was right. On the other hand, I assumed a MEMS actuator… their solid state propulsion is very interesting.

No, being deceived by carefully planned propaganda is not Darwin Award material. Very few people actually know the dangers of the vehicle they drive.

I’m just saying that the proposed solution will be ineffective at filtering bots, but create a false sense of security.

It’s trivial to automate browser clicks like that with AI these days.

But yeah, more expensive than an API call.

If you can connect to a site using a browser, so can a bot.

What stops someone from validating an account, then posting using a bot?

Why would the US want fair competition?

Like I said, the consumers do not benefit from the tariffs, the nation does.

This is actually one of the very few places that US tariffs make sense. (Not from a consumer perspective of course, but from a nationalist industry protection point of view.) The rest of the tariffs the US places are silly because there isn’t much other manufacturing in the US to protect.

And we would’ve gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling fossil fuels, and cows too!

Inventing lawyers was a mistake

That’s my next move. I’m done with the mobile OS duopoly bullshit.

I’m also starting to self-host a lot of services.

Generally no. The proposed orbit for these datacenter satellites (which is still a ridiculous idea for oodles of reasons) puts them all in sun synchronous orbit, leaving nigh infinite safe paths to send a space telescope up through.

That’s great, but that comes from funding those things, not shutting down a different industry. It’d be better to shut down non-productive industries like bombing brown kids in the Middle East.

Nah, everything at super low orbits like these constellations decay quite quickly. Even in cases of total loss of all satellites (eg Kessler Cascade), they would all reenter within a couple years.

You could relatively easily just put your space telescopes above that orbit and they’d be just fine.

I dunno, every engineer not working on space almost certainly ends up optimizing some sort of ad delivery system. The tech industry is almost completely enshittified.

According to the article they have higher crash rates and fatalities because the drivers are worse. The cars themselves actually rate fairly high in safety standards.

That being said, I think the safety evaluations are flawed and don’t consider things like electronic locks.

It’s going to be effective, but it’s a sad world where you have to create a total nanny state because there exist a subset of users who are INCREDIBLY stupid.