Agreed. I have a monthly donation automatically taken out of my account

What?

Who did I just give my email address to?

I used to work at a little shop that did a lot of custom prints. OctoPrint was awesome. We had almost 20 printers controlled by it

Could maybe mine Monero

Fascinating and frightening

It's sad how often that statement applies to the most interesting tech.

In this particular case, the tech is quite incredible, and I'd really like to believe there is a non combat/surveillance use for it that I'm just missing. Can anyone else think of one?

Well, "fascinating" is a synonym for "interesting", no?

As for "frightening" - the things that make tech "interesting" are a combination of rarity and power. The same combination has the potential to destabilize power structures. So it's not really surprising or avoidable.

I imagine it may have some applications in oceanography and archeology for mapping things that cannot be easily accessed, but still have some light in the area.

However... Combat and surveillance really do seem the main application.

I used to have a toilet finding app on my iPod touch when I wandered around Australia a decade or so ago. It was a life saver. The solution is to give phones with toilet apps to everyone

Hey George, the ocean called: it’s running out of shrimp!

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I was with you til the last sentence. Have an upvote

Haha, that was unnecessarily controversial on my part. I can totally accept that other people disagree on that.

but you didn't even add the requisite "go ahead and downvote me!"

They’ve just fallen in with a different meme that makes comments attractive to a different set of users.

Yes, indeed! I can certainly tell you that post The Selfish Gene I have been entirely enamoured of the concept of the meme. I find it very elegant. If that isn't a brainjack, I don't know what is.

Binance?