It's a different time, probably normal civilian chips to hitch onto the massive industry that now exists. Kind of like how I'd guess the F-14 airframe was made of normal metal instead of something new they invented.
The radar and EWAR-related hardware, on the other hand, might not just be off the shelf.
OP did say:
Even then, it’s a moving target when the end user is determined enough.
Yeah, but they were talking about building out WhatsApp third party compatibility on top of it.
There already was Element One, which bridged to a bunch of things for a small subscription fee, although it had to break E2EE to do so. I'm just finding a lot of broken links now, though.
If it's the part I'm guessing it is, it was an accidentally successful interview, too, haha.
Eh, depends what you mean by isolated. I've had weird incidents with otherwise fine people. And I've definitely ended up doing things that were hard to explain for whatever reason. I'm guessing the brother is generally problematic, though, because that was multiple consecutive decisions driven by thinly-masked cruelty.
I'm not sure what you mean. Try again in a week or two?
I did detect that this was about the whole "LLMs ruin everything" jerk. The thing is, they're new, and misinfo has been around in other forms for a long time. It doesn't negate the things you do now - like talking to me, despite the fact we're probably in different countries - that would have been very hard in the 20th century, and impossible much before then. Relevant XKCD.
Okay, to be a bit glib, why don't you ask someone in real life? After all, it's all disinformation on here.
Sure, the information age comes with problems, but do consider what the world was like before. There were a lot of things people just didn't know and couldn't ever look up or ask about - unless they were motivated enough to dig through a library.
Too easy. It'd be like a bad GDPR window, where they make the interface as confusing, slow and painful as possible to deter you.
They say, on RoughRomanMemes.
One of us, one of us...
Wow, I'm surprised they got it up that high in a practical application.
They let OpenWhisper do the underlying protocol, so it's solid. Beats the shit out of a plain text message anyway, and people IRL might actually have it.
Hmm. Before the end of the 19th century you're going to run into non-standardised/completely bespoke parts problems. How are you on a lathe, or doing blacksmith work? Hot riveting was a separate trade which you wouldn't have to do, at least.
I'm kinda obsessed with what I call technological bootstrapping, and so I have useful book knowledge about every step along the way. Doing it in practice is another thing, though; the locals are going to run circles around me unless I can invent stuff. (And even that rule aside, not starving or being "disturbed" while I work on whatever project is a thing)
So, I think I have to echo the "it's not going great in 2025" answer.