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Is that really any surprise? Consumers are cost sensitive and have you seen the morass of obtuse and pointless regulations surrounding drones in the US? Meanwhi

Is that really any surprise? Consumers are cost sensitive and have you seen the morass of obtuse and pointless regulations surrounding drones in the US? Meanwhile the military can do whatever it likes and has much deeper pockets. The cherry on top is how utterly unenforceable (in a practical non-proliferation sense) the bulk of the regulations are. Strap a microcontroller dev board to anything sufficiently lightweight and it can become a drone. The most expensive part of a DIY heavy lift build that breaks ~all the rules is probably the props.

red-iron-pine 2mo ago
> Strap a microcontroller dev board to anything sufficiently lightweight and it can become a drone. The most expensive part of a DIY heavy lift build that breaks ~all the rules is probably the props. the only thing keeping most of the DJT crowd alive is, basically, because no one has tried to do a ukranian drone assault on the administration. there are no serious large scale countermeasures that can't be worked around with things like basic HAM radio skills and fiber optic cable. ban them now and make them hard to get, otherwise it's gonna start looking like that youtube video "Slaughterbots" really, really quick
- fc417fc802 2mo ago
  > there are no serious large scale countermeasures For slow moving objects and an entrenched position there actually are but I have no idea how expensive it is to operate them nor what the practical constraints of deploying them might be. > ban them now and make them hard to get, otherwise it's gonna start looking like that youtube video "Slaughterbots" really, really quick I think you're forgetting the part where committing the crime is easy(ish) but covering your trail is nearly impossible. Most people aren't willing to martyr themselves for some abstract team red vs team blue extremist political nonsense that isn't severely impacting their day to day lives or the well being of their families. It's vaguely similar to the reason that no one sabotages power stations. It's comparatively easy to do but carries severe downsides if caught and approximately no upside for the perpetrator regardless.

red-iron-pine 2mo ago

> Strap a microcontroller dev board to anything sufficiently lightweight and it can become a drone. The most expensive part of a DIY heavy lift build that breaks ~all the rules is probably the props. the only thing keeping most of the DJT crowd alive is, basically, because no one has tried to do a ukranian drone assault on the administration. there are no serious large scale countermeasures that can't be worked around with things like basic HAM radio skills and fiber optic cable. ban them now and make them hard to get, otherwise it's gonna start looking like that youtube video "Slaughterbots" really, really quick

fc417fc802 2mo ago
> there are no serious large scale countermeasures For slow moving objects and an entrenched position there actually are but I have no idea how expensive it is to operate them nor what the practical constraints of deploying them might be. > ban them now and make them hard to get, otherwise it's gonna start looking like that youtube video "Slaughterbots" really, really quick I think you're forgetting the part where committing the crime is easy(ish) but covering your trail is nearly impossible. Most people aren't willing to martyr themselves for some abstract team red vs team blue extremist political nonsense that isn't severely impacting their day to day lives or the well being of their families. It's vaguely similar to the reason that no one sabotages power stations. It's comparatively easy to do but carries severe downsides if caught and approximately no upside for the perpetrator regardless.