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According to page 116 of the report of this EU survey: https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/3752, Sweden and Denmark have climare change as their number 1 and number 2 most important topics to be addressed in the European Parliament respectively. It makes sense to extend that to the OP which is norwegian and say that a lot of the target audience probably cares

I do however agree that making the cheapest/best solutions also be good for the environment would be ideal.


You'd probably be better off using a rail gun if you want a carriable launcher


I thought human-carried railguns were relegated to sci-fi? The power requirements are so high, the only practical mobile railgun is on a ship.


You can buy some on the market now, technically they are coil guns I think.

Problem is the muzzle velocity is pretty paltry right now. I think we are stuck behind the energy density of the power source


Really? With the required infrastructure to charge it, also in the backpack, for a few weeks of work too?

Is gravity a subscription service in your world?


Depends entirely on the specifics of your usecase what concessions you want to make.

One launch location or multiple?

What frequency of launch?

How heavy are the payloads?

How good accuracy?

What transport methods are available?

How long should it operate without maintenance?

Is solar an option if we go electric?

Etc.


Multiple locations, thus the need for it to be easily portable.

I guess a couple hundred launches a day would be useful for seed-bombing/re-wilding, especially on rugged terrain.

Seed-bomb weight: I’d say anywhere from 1-10 grams, maybe?

Accuracy - it’s a seed bomb, you want dispersal to happen, so maybe the more interesting question is, how would you design a seed bomb to survive the trebuchet speeds and g-forces while also allowing for directed dispersal in the intended area. Seed-bomb design for impact conditions is also something of interest - some seeds need to be embedded in a layer of soil, some don’t. There are many parameters to optimize in the seed-bomb side of things, too.

Transport method: backpack-friendly, I think. I’d hike to an area, set up the trebuchet, and spend the day dispersing in a wide circle around the base. If the terrain is rugged, portability is especially important.

Operational time - one thing I think is important is that the trebuchet be resilient for long term use. If Toms’ engineering efforts prove fruitful, I’m sure the material construction will get some optimization such that, perhaps, the only thing that would need to be maintained would be the line - however, this is a known science, see for example the sailing industry, rappel lines, etc.

Solar/electric? I think a wind attachment for rewinding might be a bit more productive.

The scenario: a team of 5 is off for a month in rugged terrain, with the intent of dispersing targeted seed packages over a wide region. The seed bombs are designed to protect the seeds, the trebuchet is designed to deposit them sufficiently well that they remain viable in their final destination. We hike out there for a couple weeks, do a mass trebuchet dispersal, we come back a year later and observe the results.


The railgun guy might have been having a giggle with you, but you gave him some actual numbers so I'll give you some actual math to go with them.

Your biggest problem here isn't the launcher, it's the projectile. It's going to be damn near impossible to get a 1 gram projectile more than a couple hundred yards unless it's a dense metal. Doesn't matter how fast it's going, drag always wins here.

10 grams is more plausible, but then you're looking at ~1000ft-lbs cranking energy to get 10g supersonic (@ 40% efficiency) It's doable and you'll only be burning an extra ~100 calories per day for 200 shots. You might get bored though. An airgun will have far worse efficiency most of the time, though it can launch dart-shape things which can go much further for the material density.

You mentioned a bow, which is probably the tradeoff point of everything discussed so far. Flight bows are designed for distance shooting, are lightweight and can go 500 yards easily. The downside is you'll need to make the arrows yourself, cause there ain't no supply chain to sell hundreds at a time cheaply.

For the "jUsT uSe a hElIcOpTer lol" comment;

No, that's not practical, but you CAN get an RC plane that will carry a couple pounds for a tiny fraction of the cost. In terms of how much area it can cover vs supplies needed, that plane is going to be the least thirsty thing on the mountain, assuming you even need to climb it then.


Would it not be much faster and more efficient to just a use a helicopter to disperse it instead of hiking and setting up a trebuchet? If you are just launching the seed bombs anyways, i feel like a helicopter can cary way more then one person every code, and could just drop a seed bomb every X seconds? Why the need to have people hike out just to launch the seed bombs


You lost me at "just use a helicopter".

Seriously, rich people, get out of your own bubble heads now and then.

A low-tech, low-resource-intensive, no-dependency application of this technology has huge applications around the world.

Do you know how much it costs to operate a helicopter per hour? Now scale it to month-long efforts to turn desert into forests. Scale it to a thousand villagers. Scale it to ten thousand villages.

>Why the need to have people hike out just to launch the seed bombs.

Because re-wilding requires a hands-on approach to be very effective. Just look at what China has done with the Great Green Wall - this was a labor intensive mega-project. Low-tech, highly effective solutions for seed distribution could be of great benefit in that context - without a bit of fancy speculation on our part, we'd still just have deserts and nothing to eat.

YES, you could 'just use a helicopter'. You could just sit back on your deck chair and be served mocktails, too.

Sometimes, kids, you need to do a bit of hard work.


> Do you know how much it costs to operate a helicopter

Do you know how easy and cheap it is to make gunpowder?

I was making black powder rockets from grocery store ingredients when I was 12.


He's said multiple times that the point is to celebrate democracy itself. I highly doubt his goal has ever been a political position of power.

This is the first time he's passed 5% of the vote and he was the only other candidate on the ballot. It seems quite clear cut that these are protest votes.

All that being said, purely off of vibes, I agree with the parent comment saying he would probably not misuse his power if he were to get it, which I think is already good enough in terms of "having no idea what he would actually do".


Your last paragraph answers your second imo. The other parties want to highlight that the election was held with the outcome already practically decided. By not participating they are harming the "people vs. the establishment" narrative Farage is trying to spin


The original issue is proposing letting the user assign the debug service to a specific interface, one of which would presumably be loopback. This article is about the proposal from a developer that it should only ever be assigned to wlan0, which would break a lot of apps.

Letting applications bypass permissions with this feature is the exact usecase they don't want to lose. If anything, I don't see them being against the original proposal possibly restricting non-loopback access, which would enhance security.


It would break exactly 0 apps because none of the apps should be using this API to access your private data and phone call audio.


So why do Google Play Services, etc. have full privileged access to a phone, including private data and phone call audio, but the user doesn't?

It is tech feudalism - you don't own anything anymore, you just get to live on the digital land of a bunch of ~trillion dollar companies.

At least, that is the goal.

IMO either everyone gets access at the user's discretion or Google has to sandbox their own GMS services as well.


  Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi
And yes, bovi is as in bovine


Why? What other APIs should my apps (or the apps I explicitly want to authorize for this purpose) use to access my private data and my phone call audio?


So what official API call recorder app can use?


This skepticism is weird to me. I might be overly naive, but it looks like these are people that have funding for doing something they think is cool and think could help people out. Whether or not it turns out that way is something we'll have to see, but the premise of just going ahead and building the thing should be applauded in my opinion


I wouldn't want to get into a medical scanner built by an AI image generation company! Marketed as a spa treatment. There are so many things that can go wrong and the unseriousness around the whole thing bothers me.


> There are so many things that can go wrong

Are there? My impression is that basically the only thing that can go wrong with ultrasound is they pump too much energy into you, and as risks go that seems both difficult to screw up and easy to make sure you don't screw up.

The imaging might be useless, but then that's why it's a spa treatment. I assume the primary use cases for this are (at least until it's developed a lot more seriously) "cute" non-medical baby images and body composition - the former of which can't really go wrong and the competition for the latter is a scale with some electrodes making shit up anyways.


I think the negativity is due to the vibes and framing of the "spa" for rich people to hang out and do some low-key "health optimization", it ties to Silicon Valley longevity stuff, pattern matches with the vibe of cryogenics and other quantified self stuff etc, instead of a vibe of making something that broadly improves the health of the masses and lower classes.


As a business case that looks great. Somewhere between genius and standard practice for most industries.

Start with low-volume runs targeted at upperclass customers who can afford the pricetag. Bonus points for a group that has a proven track record of spending unreasonable sums for unproven technology. Over time the user story, manufacturing, parts sourcing, regulatory approvals all get sorted out and you can move down into bigger and bigger markets and lower and lower price points

Of course that risks being associated with all the crap the same high-spenders spend their cash on


I agree. It's very clearly a research prototype and they are talking about getting it working to do body composition.


As I understood it, they're using the rest of the array to receive when one is transmitting, thus getting signal from the opposite side of the body as well. I don't see how you can do this with just one device.


You are correct. I was wrong. Thanks


Your point stands, but this is not exactly an exemplary comment either


How does their point stand? It's just a typical troll shitting out something offensive and running away. They don't really have "a point".


Might make sense to message the MEP's that oppose chat control moreso the ones that support it. Maybe they can use some of their internal influence to sway some people. I'm pessimistic about the amount of weight these representatives are giving to emails from citizens


There's a Frieren [1] reference in there! https://www.ioccc.org/2025/yang2/index.html

One of the main characters is called Fern, and she almost exclusively uses the common offensive magic of Zoltraak.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieren


There are two Frieren references, the other one is https://www.ioccc.org/2025/yang1/index.html


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Going through your comment history makes me wish for a way to ignore hn users


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