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- Comment on Stratospheric drone could make weather balloons obsolete 1 week ago:
Exactly, plus we could almost certainly make a biodegradable balloon envelope if we really wanted to. The original airships used gas bags essentially made of sausage casing (it’s actually called goldbeater’s skin). If we can make lab grown meat we could probably produce lab grown intestinal membrane.
Fun fact, if the numbers given on wikipedia are to be believed, an average WW1 Zeppelin needed about 80,000 oxen worth of intestine. The USS Shenandoah would have used around 300,000 oxen worth and it got destroyed by some wind.
- Comment on All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. It’s Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes 3 months ago:
It’s not that hard to make a car to run with an aftermarket ECU, there are already companies that make modular kits. However it’s basically impossible to get a car with an aftermarket ECU through inspection. I live in a US state with no vehicle inspection, seatbelt or helmet laws so I can die a free man as god intended.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-respecting encrypted AI assistant Lumo 1 year ago:
Until we have robust and open source homomorphic encryption I don’t trust any AI service to be privacy respecting.