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I run crdroid (now on pixel but before that it was xiaomi). I suggest your check it out.

I don't think you can unrack a 180kg barbell with your head and just stand there like that as a 90kg male, much less untrained. That is a humongous amount of weight.

Not your head. Your shoulders. As if you were going to do a barbell squat.

I definitely don't think this is the case. For somebody who hasn't trained - they're not holding 180kg on their shoulders. I think two big reasons would be that they're not going to have core strength/training to support it, and they wouldn't even have the traps to support the bar on their upper back, it'd dig into them and cause immense pain and probably just roll as well.

For me, it actually seems fairly plausible. I was a fairly untrained 70kg forty-something when I went to the gym and very quickly found that as I did a bit of hiking, I could max out the standing calf raise machine at 155kg. This involves having a very padded 155kg on your shoulders while in a standing position. It felt to me like that was the most my shoulders and back could cope with, and it's more than double body weight.

It’s a huge difference having a loaded barbell which can move in every dimension on your shoulders versus a calf raise machine which is fixed in place and cannot move around!

I’ve squatted barbells since roughly 2006 and the feeling of having more than 100kg on your shoulders is very intense, even if you’ve trained up to it. It feels like it’s crushing your whole body and even breathing is hard.

The idea that an untrained person could put a 180kg barbell on their shoulders and be comfortable AND move around is laughable, they would collapse very quickly.


The OP didn't say they could move around... they said "unrack and stand there".

They wouldn't be able to unrack and stand there either. Just standing with a very heavy barbell is extremely difficult (assuming an untrained person).

Seriously, go and try it, load up 100KG or roughly 225lbs on a barbell and just stand there with it. If you're already a big/heavy/trained guy, put 180KG or 400lbs.

It will probably be quite a surprising experience for you.

And I will say, that even when I was training for heavy squatting, standing there with a very heavy barbell on your back isn't fun at all, you have to have a very tight core, tensed muscles, breathing is much harder. i.e. just standing there is hard work and you want to get your 5 squats done asap. Also, it just plain hurts your back as the metal bar on your spine is painful!


I think people might be able to support more than they think, but I'd also be sceptical that they could unrack 2x bodyweight without _some_ training.

Could they use a machine to load up to that point? Cushioned and loaded in a way that doesn't use traps/a barbell? Maybe.

I say this as someone who deals regularly with weights around that level, at a similar weight.

Having said all that, I do 100% agree that loading your back and getting the weight there are two different things!


So did you ask any of them about this? These religious lunacy always seem like they are from some other planet to me haha.

They are a useful tool if you need to keep your civilization preoccupied and blissfully unaware of their current circumstances. Existential crises are expensive.

"Keep working! The next life - that's when it gets good!"


No, that's not the kind of subject I'd typically bring up in conversation. That would imply that I wanted to hear the answer.

What is the best hackable drone brand these days? Where you can remove all this bs remote ID and GPS disobedience?

$150 will build you a 7" with a reasonably long flying time, a bit more and you can do some pretty impressive things. You still need a controller but those can be had for cheap as well. The main issue would be hiding it for pickup until after the event.

You’re talking about bargain bin analog FPV drones? Most people can’t operate them and even for an experienced operator it’s far from the best tool for the job of filming armed thugs..I mean ICE..

You’d need a digital system with a gimbal, and the DJI O4 Pro alone will run you $200+. For dual lenses with different zoom levels and feed switching it’s getting pretty expensive very fast.


Most people can't operate drones, period.

FPV is a skill you can learn though and for filming armed thugs I actually can't think of a better tool because it allows you to fly the drone out of LOS so you can do it from a relatively safe position while still getting footage that matters.

For extra protection you could even abandon the drone and record the video directly on your headset.


> Most people can't operate drones, period.

Technically true I guess, but learning to fly a recent DJI drone takes about ten minutes. You're not so much flying it, as telling it what you want and letting it fly itself. And the controller has a built-in tutorial with a simulator.


True, but DJI drones are comparably well behaved (and boring) compared to a homebrew FPV. Even there you have various stabilization modes, including alt-hold, pos-hold and so on. In full acro mode they're a handful, that's for sure, but you don't have to fly like that, just fly in stabilized until you get the hang of that and want to live more dangerously.

You don't have to fly in acro mode lol. The common hobbyist drone firmwares have full support for even things like autonomous GPS missions. You also don't need expensive gimbal stabilized cameras; you're not making a cinematic film, so you can just hot glue a 360 camera to the bottom and deal with the slight oscillations.

It’s super easy to stabilize video after the fact, too!

It may be simpler to build from scratch using parts from a hobby store if you want a drone which cannot be tracked back to you or your credit card

Absolutely the same here. Same journey and same points. One added benefit is that you don't have to suffer through GH actions on GitLab as well.

They sometimes do braindead moves like prohibiting no-expiry-date access tokens but otherwise it's pretty smooth sailing.

And with recent migration to an SPA GitLab feels quicker and quicker.


The only missing piece is hiding the time something was posted :) Why would anyone use any of those crap websites is beyond me.


Agreed, this sounds like some complicated ass-backwards way to do what k8s already does. If it's too big for you, just use k3s or k0s and you will still benefit from the absolutely massive ecosystem.

But instead we go with multiple moving parts all configured independently? CoreOS, Terraform and a dependence on Vultr thing. Lol.

Never in a million years I would think it's a good idea to disable SSH access. Like why? Keys and non-standard port already bring China login attempts to like 0 a year.


It's absolutely hilarious that someone would think that this passes for API docs nowdays. Still it's good to know what to avoid on the very first glance.


It's also a bit of a "bootstrapping" issue. How does anyone expect the AIs to learn to do things correctly if the instructions are not published for them to pick up during training?

This is like those "contact your system admin" error messages. I am the system admin!


I think it's good. Quite frankly, it's the better experience to be given the right prompts to onboard into something than having to guess that the inputs are the right for the LLM.


If someone is writing authentication code and they think it's smart to outsource that to spicy autocomplete, the only "prompt" they need is:

"Hey chat bot friendo, where's the nearest hand-written 'help wanted' sign in the door of a coffee shop? I need a new career path"


yeah, I'll try htmx if he will maintain the resulting pile of goo lol


It could safely be used on public internet, all this fearmongering has no basis under it.

Better question is 'does it have any actual improvements in day-to-day operations'? Because it seems like it mostly changes up some ciphering which is already very fast.


> It could safely be used on public internet, all this fearmongering has no basis under it.

On what basis are making that claim? Because AFAICT, concern about it being less secure is entirely reasonable and is one of the big caveats to it.


Concern about it being less secure is fully justified. I'm the lead developer and have been for the past 20 years. I'm happy to answer any questions you might happen to have.


I'm not fear mongering. I'm just saying

- IF you don't trust it

- AND you want to use it

=> run it on a private network

You don't have to trust it for security to use it. Putting services on secure networks when the public doesn't need access is standard practice.


I remember the last time I really cared to look into this was in the 2000’s, I had these wdtv embedded boxes that had a super anemic cpu that doing local copies with scp was slow as hell from the cipher overhead. I believe at the time it was possible to disable ciphers in scp but it was still slower than smbfs. NFS was to be avoided as wifi was shit then and losing connection meant risking system locking up. This of course was local LAN so I did not really care about encryption.

But I don’t miss having those limitations.


It's still possible but we only suggest doing it on private known secure networks or when it's data you don't care about. Authentication is still fully encrypted - we just rekey post authentication with a null cipher.


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