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Lol, I’m sure it’s a good book and Cory Doctorow is well renowned, but I can’t help but think: “Defeat Chokepoint Capitalism by buying our book right now!”

Did you read the article - or even the title? This story is about people turning to piracy, not turning to another official source.

Fuck me, I’m all for human readable URLs but that article’s is ridiculous.

Yes, but you have those as physical objects. This is an app you must run on your phone.

It’s worse than that.

You have to run a government app on your phone. The tracking device in your pocket that goes with you everywhere, that must run government code.

My sweet summer child.

I’m just glad they didn’t go into a protracted and expensive legal battle with this one, which isn’t exactly a good use of donated funds.

I had been thinking that this show just didn’t have the spark of the original (probably because it’s further from the original work), and was annoyed that they’ve kind of Flanderised the idea of being a serial killer into a trope, but they are bringing together the plot lines in a very satisfying way here.

Hopefully Russia won’t invade and prevent the lawsuit from happening, like with Ukraine and the civil trial against the owners of PrivatBank.

Not quite. A commutator kind of pulses the supply to the rotor, eg a brushed motor would have two brushes up against the commutator, the brushes deliver DC voltage which energises a coil, creating a magnetic field that pushes against a stator that’s made of a permanent magnet. This rotates the rotor and commutator, which then moves the brush around to the next contact on the commutator, engergising a different coil so that the next coil pushes the motor around. The brush maintains a constant DC voltage, but the commutator connects this to different coils as it rotates.

This is a DC brushed motor, with windings on the rotor and the stator is just magnets:

And this is a commutator on top of a universal motor (which can run on either AC or DC):

The stator you have has its own windings, so it would be the stator that pushes against the rotor in that motor, rather than the rotor pushing against the stator like the brushed motor. So you just need to supply an AC voltage to the stator windings and you’ll get a rotating magnetic field, which can then move things inside with their own magnetic fields, eg a magnet, or the rotor it came with.

I wouldn’t really suggest doing this though hah. For starters, messing with supply voltages and bare windings can be very dangerous, and second if the magnet isn’t balanced it could fly out. And I’m sure there are a bunch of other risks as well lol. There’s also no telling why the motor didn’t work anymore, and it definitely won’t work as well as with the rotor that was designed for it.

Here’s some fun with a mitre saw motor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTcjMKs5mek

It looks daft now with a little hindsight, but we’re kind of still in the foresight stage for the overall life of IPv6.

Copenhagen pretty much has this. So easy to get around everywhere.

Eh, the author definitely has more responsibility than he makes out. He’s fully aware that it wasn’t suitable as a backup for all of his stuff (like the book he was writing and all the tutorials), but acts like that shouldn’t matter because he wanted to use it that way to make his desktop workflow better.

That’s the stator winding of the motor. If you put a magnet in there and hook it up to AC you could make it spin.

Exquisite.

All of this is precluded by you using a browser that is authorised and approved by the government.

It doesn’t have to be, but the businesses making it claim it needs to be.

Fuck off with your device based verification system. That’s just the same service, but as a more invasive app installed on your phone.

Instead of scanning my face or ID and uploading it to a service, we’re expected to run unverified closed source code on the device we carry everywhere in our pockets?!

The researchers are hoping that the tiny cyborg could allow the military to infiltrate hard-to-access space or be used in search and rescue missions to find survivors in natural disasters, according to a research paper.

In other words the researchers are clawing at reasons to justify their research. The Chinese military aren’t looking into this, following commands 9 out of 10 times isn’t reliable enough to even start development.

This is about as strategically useful as a bluetooh controlled robo-roach.