I mean, you can sue pretty much anyone for anything, but fair… It is technically a ruling

It’s still just a policy though, which means it’s easy to change or to do unofficially if the courts reject it (which seems unlikely right now, but I’d love to see it happen)

Fair. And it only goes our way if Linux devs take a stand in the first place…I think they will. I hope they will

And if everyone used E2E encryption for their private messaging like everyone who understands the topic has been pushing for decades, signal users wouldn’t stand out

The state cannot enforce this, it still relies on compliance in advance

Not the government provided identity verification service…I can see the use case for that , even if the government is an untrusted party

I mean the age gating laws going around. They’re suddenly popping up all at once because there’s a not so secret cabal of surveillance state freaks trying to make 1984 happen

And I do mean freaks. They’re death cultists trying to bring about the end of the world either because they think they’ll stand even higher on top of the rubble for some reason or from quasi religious psychosis. Look up Peter Tiel and palantir if you want to learn more, it’s pretty disturbing stuff when you realize how many governments are buying into it

But these laws are being pushed so private companies can collect data on the population and sell monitoring back to the government. If the government is part of the demasking process, they’ll get everything they want neatly packaged

It’s not a ruling, the FCC was ordered decided that they’re not going to certify any new foreign made home routing equipment. No certification means the radios won’t be legal for consumers to operate

This isn’t a law or judicial ruling, it’s policy

Technologically, yes, they could easily identify non-compliance with how much data is being collected these days

Logistically though? How are they going to enforce this? Sue every open source project that circumvents this? Block downloads of it with a great firewall? Fine end users? It’s just not feasible

Realistically, they’re going to go after the OSes with the biggest market share. Google, Microsoft, and Apple will be forced to comply on new devices, and maybe they’ll try to make an example or two to get compliance in advance

The government is the primary untrusted party in the places where this is being implemented unfortunately… It’s not a bad system you’re suggesting, but it doesn’t address the problem either

repeated support from money that should have been smarter then that

Why would you think that? Look around, everything humanity does is absurd

Well you should probably let the engineers at Boston dynamics know your views. Maybe they just aren’t familiar with wheels. They’d probably feel very silly having spent all that time on an inferior tech tree

Seriously though, these are being used for a reason. Have you ever once seen a video of one of these stuck out in the wild? Because I’ve seen plenty of compilations of wheeled bots stuck on curbs or sign posts

Have you seen these dogs move? It seems like you’re not very familiar with them. They can jump fences and outrun a human, they’re also remarkably stable for the body and can have a higher center of gravity which sensors appreciate… The tech works prettywell

And tracks take a lot of maintenance and tend to tear up floors if they’re tough enough to handle the outdoors. They’re also very heavy and expensive, and far less efficient or fast as wheels. They’re uncommon for a reason, they’re an even more specialized version of the wheel

It also serves the purpose of a generator, and with solar you might be able to cut your grid draw to basically zero

The fire risk is generally overstated, plus different battery tech, like sodium, are much less flammable. Weight and size are much less of an issue, so as adoption increases they’re going to get much cheaper and longer lasting as production ramps up

Not to mention it does meaningfully reduce load on the grid with increased adoption. Not everything needs to be financially min-maxed… If you’ve got the money, it’s a good thing to invest in

I mean, sure, wheels would require an essentially impossible evolutionary path, but they’re still very dependent on terrain

Some goats can climb grades no wheel could touch. Wheels have issues with long grasses and roots, don’t work great if they don’t have good contact with the terrain, aren’t good for climbing or ledges, and fast to wear in dirty environments

You can specialize to overcome these challenges, but they’re less general purpose. Wheels that would let you travel over uneven terrain need to be big and/or very complex

Wheels work really, really well on suitable surfaces, but they’re specialist technology. Quadrepeds are very stable and control their weight distribution much better

From an engineering standpoint, you’d be better off putting the robot dogs on skateboards or in a wheeled carrier then making the kind of high-torque wheels that can lock to work like feet when needed - that’s what we use when designing wheels for the kinds of travel these dogs were designed for

Wheels are obviously incredibly useful tech, but they’re not the ideal solution for every problem

It’s the ocean. The majority of Earths surface where there’s usually not much going on

Because wheels aren’t all that great in less than carefully managed paths. Quadrupedal motion is just fine in most all situations… Wheels are most efficient, followed by swimming with boyancy, then flying with the wind, then bipedal motion… But quadrupedal motion isn’t everywhere for no reason. It’s very stable and robust. It’s very practical and forgiving in most all situations

This is a pretend problem. When have EVs ever caused rolling brown outs?

Grid can’t handle the current of all the cars charging at once? Charge them slower. Get a battery bank for your home to smooth out the demand curve. Throw banks of supercaps at fast charging stations. Fix the fucking grid as you go. Use battery banks on the grid to even out demand at any level. Hell, you can use the cars themselves as battery banks and bring back rooftop solar tax breaks

It’s a fake problem, our grid and production do genuinely need work, but in practice EV adoption hasn’t been a limiting factor at all

Why do carpenters need all those saws and chisels? I have a perfectly good staircase right here already

Devs are the creators… What the public gets is down stream from their work

I like this concept. Make federation easy and practical for devs

The worst part is isolation. I think most of us are suffering from lack of community

What do dogs get out of barking through a fence?