How many consumer devices do you think have this exact bluetooth chip?

Hundreds of millions. They’re used in an almost uncountable number of IoT devices. It’s entirely possible that there’s a handful of 'em, or more, in your house. Absolutely anything “smart” that uses WiFi or Bluetooth could have one including sprinkler controllers, door locks, lightbulbs, appliances both large and small, garage door openers, and remote controlled power plugs.

Espressif has sold a huge number of ESP32 chips. This isn’t some uncommon no-name manufacturer or chip. It’s used at scale and has been for years.

That you aren’t personally aware of it only means that you have a blind spot.

Yeah these numbers are going to nose dive real quick once the negative consequences start happening and some of those are just days away.

WTF did you just do?

What the rank and file gun owners want seems kind of irrelevant,

That an interesting viewpoint given the decades those rank and file gun owners have spent fighting an uphill battle to forestall new gun control measures while getting old ones rolled back. They’ve done a phenomenal job of forcing lawmakers to bend to their will.

It’s sort of the point of my NRA history lesson. When gun owners decided they wouldn’t tolerate any more shenanigans in their name they literally overthrew the most powerful pro gun lobby in existence and then used it to bludgeon law makers into doing what they wanted. That’s about as much political power as any group of regular people can ever hope to have.

I doubt the majority of that group is going to allow themselves to be silenced over a few CEOs getting popped.

I wonder if this Professor is aware that they’re regurgitating the exact same arguments that damn near every Teacher / Professor / Instructor on the planet used against calculators?

It boils down thusly ‘If you can’t do the maths long form them you can’t possibly understand them. You won’t always have a calculator in your pocket so you must be able to do it yourself.’ The argument was junk in the 80s and 4 decades later its still junk.

" I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. " Then you need to get off your intellectual high horse and pursue the goal of integrating technology, the highest product of modern society, into how you teach.

Stop yelling at clouds Troy, lest ye’ be mistaken for an Old Man with an onion on their belt.

Jeff Geerling would like to have a word with you.

Smells like B.S. Got any proof?

So, is your stance that a leftwing armed resistance movement shooting CEOs wouldn’t cause the right-wing gun lobby to support gun control like they used to?

No group is a monolith, especially groups numbering in the tens of millions, so of course some number of right-wing gun owners would suddenly swing to supporting gun control however those folks would be in the minority. I simply can’t foresee the majority of right-wing gun owners suddenly regaining their appetite for gun control in anything less than literal decades.

With that answered what about the left-wing anti-gun lobby? Since essentially every politician to the the left of US Representative Brian Fitzpatrick has been on a decades long crusade for ever increasing gun control how would they react to more CEO shootings?

Good, because it’s the only way these fucking Boomers will understand what the fuck they did and insist that it stop!

I would think that they could be liable in the same way pharmacists were for the opioid epidemic.

In the opioid epidemic the Pharmacists got into trouble because they had relationships with the manufacturers, the Doctors, and the Patients. So in this instance the best fit for your analogy is the Firearms Dealers as they are the ones who have relationships with the Manufacturers, BATFE, and the buyers.

If they can prove the manufacturers were supplying a ‘suspicious’ number of firearms to a couple of dealers…

It doesn’t work like that. The sale of firearms from the Manufacturer to the Wholesaler is regulated by the Federal Government because they set the rules. In many cases the Manufacturer doesn’t even know what dealer is going to end up with how many firearms or of what type. Some of them certainly do but Interstate Arms nor Smith & Wesson are not special in that regard.

Modern gun control laws started in response to black people arming themselves.

Using the word “modern” lessens the message. Gun Control has always always always been about keeping minorities from arming themselves and the racist trash are still at it today.

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The NRA was suddenly in favor of gun control after the Black Panthers started patrolling with guns.

I despise the NRA but this kind of revisionist history needs to be called out.

First off prior to 1977 the NRA had an established history of supporting Gun Control. It didn’t suddenly pop into being because of the Black Panthers.

Second when the Mulford Act was passed in 1967 it started a sea change at the NRA that culminated with the “Revolt at Cincinnati” in 1977. The NRA as an organization supported Mulford, like it had other Gun Control legislation for at least 50 years, but it’s very clear that their membership did NOT and they took over the organization to keep it from continuing.

Today’s NRA is a completely different beast than the one that existed in 1967. It’s primary faults are that it got corrupt as fuck and that it’s entirely silent whenever there’s a conflict between lawful gun owners and law enforcement.

Regardless, the point stands. The NRA wasn’t “suddenly in favor of gun control after the Black Panthers”, it already had multi-decade history of supporting Gun Control.

In the United States the sale of Firearms is regulated by the Federal Government and / or and individual State itself. All NEW firearm sales must go through an FFL. In many places that is also true for used firearms but even where it isn’t its STILL one person selling a firearm to someone else.

To make it absolutely clear at no point in any firearms transaction is any normal person purchasing firearms directly from a firearms manufacturer.

In the case of entities, such as a Gun Store / FFL, who can purchase new firearms directly from a manufacturer there’s still no direct sales happening and the sale of those firearms is controlled by Federal Law.

So HOW is it the fault of US Firearm Manufacturers when people purchase firearms and traffic them across the southern border?

They better get busy. Even if Republicans don’t tilt our economy in the next 6 months we have maybe 2-3 years before we’re undertaking very serious austerity measures of our own and at that point it won’t matter who is in power. The U.S. will be pulling out of security guarantees all over the globe, including Europe.

Affording the mortgage is one barrier but if someone can’t get or stay insured then they can’t carry a mortgage no matter how well their personal math works out. That’s the problem that Mr. Powell was talking about.

But I guess why settle for good money…

They’ve been almost completely reliant on money from Google for over a decade. It’s a tenuous situation and it’s entirely possible that this money will be gone when the Google antitrust lawsuit is done. If Mozilla loses that revenue then it’s basically game over for them.

We don’t have to like it but Mozilla needs a new way to be funded and the options are limited.

It’s not that bad yet. FF works on pretty much any site that’s not demonstrating some sort of bleeding edge fuckery.

Yet. I lived through the first browser war (Netscape Navigator vs Internet Explorer) and I’d estimate we’re right about the year 2000 ish. At that time both browsers were still active and reasonably well supported but it was clear that IE was going to win and somewhere in the IE6 / IE7 (2004 / 2006) time frame is when the real fuckery started. Since Edge started using Chromium in 2018(ish) we’re basically following the same schedule from two decades ago.

Hopefully this sort of enshittification will drive more people to use other browsers.

Sadly this is the same thing we said back then too and we (IT & the tech community) pushed hard to get people to leave IE and adopt Chrome.

90% of people and corporations are either using Edge or Chrome and since there’s essentially no difference between the two they are equally bad. We’re back to a browser mono-culture, just like in the bad old days of Internet Explorer.

The waves of repression and crazy coming off this guy are so thick you can almost see them. I’d bet $100 that this guy will be outed sometime in the next few years.

Couldn’t possibly be all the federal workers getting laid off.

They are certainly part of it but there’s a very long chain of organizations, many of which aren’t obvious to most people, supported by the US Federal Government. Those organizations are swiftly going into preservation mode and seeking to spend as little money as possible by laying off staff and downsizing or cancelling projects. Every one of those layoffs and project changes has negative effects downstream on other businesses, contractors, and services.

The idiots who voted for the current administration have no idea what’s coming and how badly its going to hurt them.