doesn’t just make it’s way back there?

Well, it kind of does, just like it did before. It’s just way too slow for us hairless monkeys to see it happening, we’re all gone well before that happens. Eventually some other lizard will crawl up to the land from the sea and maybe it’s a bit wiser than us.

“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

You really got to be a bootlicker to believe that our justice system isn’t available for purchase

It’s not in a sense that’s globally understood. Your Joe Average can’t just bribe their way out of anything. Political and other social cirles and generic cronyism is another matter, but even there currency is pretty often something else than money.

Oh I know, because he’s rich enough to pay off the judges

You really can’t pay off judges here. But if you can show that taking your license away would make things considerable difficult for you (like losing income) they’ll let you keep it on certain cases.

Your rights end where other people’s begins.

Damn right. There’s a ton of things on our everyday lives which limit our ability to use the things we own. And flying a drone is not that different than driving on a street, at least on a very fundamental level. There’s a set of agreed rules we (mostly) can trust in order to keep things running and keep everyone safe. You’re not allowed to drive anywhere you physically could, you need to keep your vehicle in a decent condition, drive on the correct lane within a speed limit and so on.

I’ve had my drone for 3 or 4 years now and I’ve taken a crapload of pictures with it all around and there’s been three cases where the zone limitations were an issue of any kind. One was when I tried to film my daughters sports game where the field was next door to an active airport, other was a bigger local event where police had denied all drones as a safety measure (one might argue if that was necessary on this case, but rules are rules) and third one was nearby Russian border.

And I can perfectly understand each and every one of those. Me getting a few neat photos from something is far less important than safety of other people. Plus I could still take all the photos I want from each of those locations with my cellphone or mount a telescope on my DSLR and use that.

I assumed that our (Finland) rules are EU wide, but apparently there’s some differences. In here, if you’re flying a drone with a camera, you’ll need a registration and license (~30€/year, online course) which grants you “free flight” below 120 meters. But there’s exclusions around airports, military and some government locations, nearby country borders and things like that which make sense. Also if you’re having a bigger event you can request a no-fly zone above it for various reasons (safety mostly but it’s possible to get that to stop non-event managed drone footage as well). And with camera you also need to pay attention for privacy, but that’s no different than carrying an DSLR, like it’s illegal to take photos trough your neighbors bedroom window no matter what kind of camera you use. Other rules dictate that you can’t fly over crowds and other reasonable safety measures.

At least my DJI won’t even attempt to fly on these zones unless I spesifically get a permit from local authorities and send a copy to them to revoke the zone on my profile.

pre-installed interface

Doesn’t pretty much every car already have CAN bus?

I’m pretty sure there’s already a gambling website around where you can bet how long these announcements last. Could’t find one on o quick google search, but I’m quite sure there is one.

“But don’t forget the situation we are in. Now is the time of military censorship, unprecedented for our country. After all, the war is going on in the information space too,” Peskov is quoted as saying by the magazine.

So it is a war after all? And that front goes both ways, you can see even here on Lemmy comments which could be paid actors on behalf of Russia. Most likely not all of them get paid, but I’m pretty sure at least some do (obviously not focusing just on Lemmy).

As long as there’s no military need for them against an invasion there will be zero mines in the ground. No one will hurt themselves with them, unless some storage worker happens to drop a box on their toes.

As of why now, you can’t pull out of agreement and start to build up manufacturing and logistics if there’s active invasion going on. I hope not a single one of them is ever dug on our Finnish soil, but I’m glad that our military is prepared to use any viable option if they need to.

Here in Finland we just might hit +20C this week. Maybe a bit over that in the south. Maybe not coldest since forever, but definetly colder than last couple of summers so far.

Based on news lately cracks on Russian economy start to show and their meat grinder in Ukraine crawls forward with massive casualties. At this rate they can’t attack a garden shed.

Putin himself can preparen and wish to conquer whatever he wants but as long as the little remains what’s left of Soviet Union might is scattered around Ukraine, Russia can’t really do anything. If Europe can’t get their shit together and Russia eventually wins (after several years at this pace) in Ukraine it would still take years to build up any kind of military force against anyone and even then they’d need to fight against whole EU and whatever remains are left of NATO.

Detroit Electric from 1907 then. They produced 13 000 units in ~30 years. Obviously small numbers compared to today, but mass produced models anyway.

The first would be the GM EV1 in 1997:

Flocken Elektrowagen, 1888

The Flocken Elektrowagen is a four-wheeled electric car designed by Andreas Flocken (1845–1913), manufactured in 1888 by Maschinenfabrik A. Flocken in Coburg. It is regarded as the first real electric car.

Companies also probably have servers in other places, meaning perhaps they’d connect through elsewhere

Depends on company, but that worst case scenario is that all US companies would shut down all their services in Europe overnight. Every big player has datacenters around the world and if it’s just the traffic between continents which is shut down then the effect is way less radical, absolute majority of Europe already connects to datacenters near them even if they use Microsoft/Google/Amazon/etc services.

For example with my employer dropping every US based company would be a hell of a work, specially if it’s needed in a hurry. We, as well as a ton of others, rely on Microsoft services for all kinds of communication and should that go away we’d need to make quite a few phone calls around couple of continents just to set up a common ground on where and how to start building new infrastructure and how to keep communication lines open.

Though if it were for a few hours, maybe let people see the consequences of their dependence, and what life would be like without these services

Few hours is a short time. There’s some problems around the globe all the time which affect various services on various levels for few hours all the time. Few days of complete blackout and C-suits start to really sweat (plus it costs significant amounts of money via lost productivity).

if anyone knows how to block connections based on location, feel free to enlighten me

You’ll need a firewall/router which can do geoblocking. Based on quick search at least pfsense seems to have some options available. If I were to try that I’d set up a pfsense on a virtual machine, set up geoblock on that and use that as a gateway for my testing devices while leaving the rest of the network as it is so that I could limit/choose what devices may behave strangely and still have normal functionality for the rest.

I assume there’s a ton of other options too besides pfsense, but the key words are ‘geoblock’, ‘firewall’ and ‘router’ or something around that. Also I assume that most of the stuff you find explains how to block incoming traffic based on geoIP, but it should be relatively simple to adapt those for outgoing traffic as well.

It’s the latter. But as a crapload of our everyday services depend on US companies and their servers it would be a service outage we’ve never seen before. Big US companies (Microsoft, AWS, Google, Meta…) could technically mitigate at least some effects if it’s just the actual connectivity which is missing but if they’re forced to shut down all European services it’s a whole another matter.

For your everyday consumer it would mean missing a lot of streaming services, email, personal backups of your photos on cloud services and stuff like that. On some cases even access to their bank accounts would be lost. Depending on your usage patterns a majority of your digital life could vanish overnight. For companies it would be even worse, a ton of them rely on AWS and other services to keep their business running and all that would come crashing down and a massive amount of them would not have workforce, knowledge nor resources (money mostly) to switch over to something else. Also a lot of tax paid service rely on M365 and other cloud based stuff so they would be affected too, but maybe/hopefully not quite as badly as commercial side. Also, our credit card processors are mostly US (Visa and Mastercard) so a ton of money transfers would be halted as well.

So, it would be pretty much a digital catastrophe on government, commercial and consumer fronts for majority of the people. Technically there’s nothing we couldn’t rebuild on our own, but it would take at least months and more likely several years to get everything back online and the bill for that would be astronomical. And if it’s a total kill-switch for US services then Europe would need new mobile operating systems to replace Android/IOS, new OS for their computers as Windows wouldn’t work anymore and so on. And on top of that, GPS would go too, but with Galileo that might not be the biggest problem around. And also a ton of other stuff I can’t remember right off the bat.

Sure, US would be stranded on the internet (and in the real world too at least to some point) after that and EU/UN/some other entity would take the role which is now on ICANN (and the same for other administrative entities). US would of course get a massive economical hit as well by losing all European customers, but on the worst case that would pretty much mean that the Europe’s internet access, at least as we know it now, would end and something else would be built on the ashes.

But hey, at least I personally wouldn’t have a problem to find a new job should I want to.

The “keeping it weak” approach, after all, has already led to Putin.

No one kept Russia weak when Soviet Union collapsed. Yeltsin brought a lot of democractic traits into Russia and it was heavily leaning towards west on multiple areas. Should they kept going on that direction they’d be a global superpower on pretty much all fronts by now, surpassing US and even China.

But they had also pretty big internal problems and a ton of people who desired old soviet times and whatever, so we ended up with what we have today. Wikipedia has way more info and links to study it further.

You don’t even need to push. Just wait a while until the toddler finds something else to focus on and forget what happened today.

It was some time ago but a response from Canadian supplier to US customer went few rounds on social media. They informed that the item customer was buying was under a tariff and gave options to either pay up the tariffs, cancel the sale with no extra cost or just wait for few days and see what happens. And the really stupid part is that it was (and largely is) a viable strategy, at least on customer sales. For businesses that’s obviously a total nightmare, but that’s just one example on how ridiculous any kind of trade with the US is right now.

You are absolutely correct on that, but I find it a bit ironic anyways. Trump seems to be quite fond of royalty, at least UK kind, and this underlines even more that relationship with Europe is going down the drain and fast. Royal families across the Europe are more or less either family or at least friends together and this will play it’s small part on US failures to maintain any kind of political or other power across the pond.

which was a ‘neutral’ border back then

There’s quite a few unmarked graves along that border and immense effort from my countrymen to keep the border where it is. It hasn’t been “neutral” for too long. And being prepared to keep that border where it is plays a part on why our president from a small country is on discussions with Ukraine, EU leaders and that orange clown across the pond today.