It all hinges on three letters: DJT

They just need to make enough waves, enough eye catching headlines, to make him look like a hero that swooped in to save the day.

With wealthy and powerful investors being promised a $30 trillion total addressable market, they need to deliver god.

Amen. This is the only logical way forward.

Consoles sold at a loss before. They can do that again if it enables selling software, which often has pretty fantastic margins.

This is easily the most depressing thought I've encountered in a while. It's entirely accurate and combined with talk of AI regulation it paints a picture of a very bleak future indeed. Locked down hardware given away almost for free, permits and AI based monitoring required for anything with the computational power of a GPU from 10 years ago, and market prices that place 64 GB of RAM in the same ballpark as a brand new vehicle from the dealer.

Idk I had a lot of fun playing Halo 2 as a teenager

It seems the industry has collectively and nearly unanimously decided that the Verification Can future is way less cringe and way more preferable than the future where we are writing YAML by hand*

* YAML, etc.

The governments of today weren't formed out of "discussions of power"

The American Revolution was very much a discussion about power. Of course, it wasn't just a discussion (we had to fight a war to defend the new form of government), but it was driven by the same concerns about the distribution of power.

let's fast forward to the part where the general public can make their own "Facebook, without Ads"

Cool project, cool blog post, cool web page.

Cool kitty.

wtf

But make sure to let daddy sammy take away your cognition, that's less important.

if geolocation data can be captured in the same signature, that would be a good enough approximation for most relevant cases I think.

GNSS signals can be relatively easily faked because the original signals are very weak so overpowering them doesn't require much broadcast power.

Jamming them is easy, replaying them so as to trick unacquainted receivers is easy, but "faking" a network of signals so as to precisely control present a specific location is not easy or feasible.

"Overpowering" (as to jam) inherently means detectable, these signals are arriving below the noise floor anyway. And if you aren't overpowering, the original signals will leak through. Also, depending on the sophistication of the receiver, your ability to present an implausibly different location may not exist at all (AGPS.)

It seems feasible for state actors, at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_spoofing#Ocurrences

Yes, a motivated actor can move a naive receiver somewhere different than where it thinks it is by some small amount - ideally outside of the CEP of whatever weapons system is targeting, but that's much different than precisely controlling the location to be somewhere else arbitrarily.

ah, damn.