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Nice manufactured outrage, there. He literally had no access to his son:
> At the time, servicemen were only allowed into Northern Ireland if they were serving there, so Bushby was effectively separated from Adam.
I have built one NAS with 20 hotswap bays and have enough hardware to stand up a second. What I need now is 1.2Pb in drives, albeit using 40 or fewer drives (with at least 2 of them for hot spares), which means a minimum drive size of about 30Tb.
I have gigabit symmetrical, and have found Azureus to be the most aggressive torrent client I have ever used. I would be willing to contract for this to be an exclusive AA service with zero personal use.
As a Canadian, other than the absolutely insane rate of school shootings, this is probably the next-wildest difference I can think of.
Canadian mortgages are held and stay with the bank that approves the mortgage. The only way the mortgage goes to a different lender is if the owner goes to that other bank to renew the mortgage. It just boggles my mind that mortgages can just be assigned willy-nilly without the owner’s consent.
Like, even installing the recorder itself - wrapped in toilet paper, no less! - was amateurish. And that is putting it generously, and exceedingly kindly.
A page could have been taken from the actions of ATM card skimmers. Take a high-res image of that I/O panel, then duplicate it with all of the expected ports using a 3D printer to build an “extension” that seamlessly covers the existing TV ports. One USB port off of the TV leads to the recording device that remains hidden behind the extension, the others go to a USB hub that services the expected ports on the extension. Buy the same model of TV so that the extension can be tailored to be extremely difficult to recognize as something added/separate, and practice installing it so that it can be attached quickly and with great precision.
When done right, any average person looking at the back of the TV would be very hard pressed to see anything wrong with the I/O ports.
What I do find very useful, is handoff. Being able to copy and paste across Apple devices is immensely useful.
What I would love to see is clipboard timeouts. Where you can set in the operating system itself a timeout beyond which the clipboard gets automatically cleared.
Not because this taxation can be properly redistributed - it can, especially with no-overhead UBI - but because the only way to reach those levels of wealth is to steal from the labour of others.
We need to make that theft impossible to achieve, from both directions. And the easiest to implement is from the top down, with a combination income & net worth tax, including treating loans on the backs of shares as income.
Haven’t dug into this yet, but are you saying it isn’t a pure eMail client? That it’s a service to which you bodily hand off all your eMail passwords, and therefore the keys to your digital kingdom? That it’s someone else’s computer that’s retrieving your eMails for you?
Holy shite, how _stupid_ are people?
Like, holy MiTM exploiting, Batman. I would NEVER hand off eMail access to a third party. That’s begging to have your entire online existence destroyed.
On any desktop system I am able to have it connect flawlessly to any of my IMAP accounts.
On iOS, the exact same settings produces an auth failure, and I cannot move past account set-up.
Even as a GenX, I am seeing today’s wild corporate obsession with AI to be much like a 9.5-Richter thrust-fault earthquake, combined with a zombie apocalypse: despair and systemic, overpowering threats everywhere, while all the fortifications that people could rely on in prior eras crumbling into uselessness.
If I was young now, I would likely crack. I am already wildly incapable of conforming, having various neurodivergent issues that are wholly incompatible with economic servitude, and so am particularly vulnerable in this capitalistic hellhole that violently coerces us to be profitable to someone else least we suffer starvation, destitution, homelessness, or even death.
You want non-communistic software? That’s closed source, where a small group of oligarchs at the top control everything.
From a practical perspective, it fails utterly.
A bike can get you from point A to point B easily enough, but what about the details?
Where are you going to put the pizza you splurge-ordered five minutes before leaving work?
Where are you going to put the large watermelon you unexpectedly found on sale at the grocery store, while just picking up a few things for lunch?
And for unattached/unmarried men, how the deuce are they supposed to peacock their socioeconomic status to the majority of women whose primary partner “preferences” are the very Machiavellian 666 attributes?
Our entire western civilization - including bicycle design - is centred around the personal (ICE/electric) vehicle. From neighbourhood density & layout to walkable cities to wide and ubiquitous non-vehicle paths, it’s all grossly lacking.
At least Europe is fixing things, and only because the culture of bike-riding has existed since WWII, and became well reinforced over the last 30 by additional cultural considerations and political policy decisions including road designs and bicycle prioritization.
So yeah, even I am looking at the stats and going, “I wish”, without any irony. It’s a nice dream, but while our Protestant ethic for hyper-individualization continues to exist, any focus on anything other than vehicle prioritization will be seen as downright communistic.
Just look at how the province of Ontario - and its lardy-arse hyper-conservative premier Doug Ford - has begun ripping bike lanes out of the cities which installed them, because “those bike lanes cause traffic congestion”, despite all of the evidence showing that this is just not true. It’s all a political stunt designed to make Cletus-IQ conservatives forget that they vote against their own best interests, by giving them a “liberal windmill” to tilt against and be distracted by as Ford and his buddies bleed them dry.
They burn so brightly for that which we have lost. Maybe we ought to stop and listen to what they are listening to. We might find more of our true selves that way.
Google is far more invasive because they need to be, they’re otherwise not getting much out of every customer. They have no choice but to monetize everything that the user is doing with the OS.
Apple owns the entire stack, hardware and software. And so, the vast majority of its revenue and profit margins comes from the sale of the hardware; the few services it provides for free are basically a rounding error in terms of costs. So it can be highly privacy-based, with essentially no deep knowledge of what the user is doing unless the user permits that telemetry.
Individual apps, however - YMMV. Apple has shown itself to be more restrictive on what apps can do on their platform, and will much more eagerly b*tchslap a shady operator. But problem apps exist on both platforms.
So yeah, traffic is the one thing we nearly always do a spectacular faceplant on.
Those who look at you blankly when you mention open-source router firmware aren’t likely going to become customers.
I have seen preprint research that makes the IPCC “projections” look like feel-good fairy tales. The reality is 100-1,000× worse than anything the IPCC reports.
Problem is, I live in a capitalistic hellhole that demands I be wildly profitable to someone else, least I suffer from starvation, destitution, homelessness, or even death.
I’m betting this will happen within 5-8 years, especially if the number of people going into the field is cratering in ways that degree attendance is suggesting. Reports out of some universities are seeing a 30+% YoY decline in their CS programs, which has never been seen before in modern (post-1900) higher education.
And of course, this will still destroy companies, because the most effective users of AI are the seniors with deep domain experience, who know a lot about frameworks and data structures and how the products they build are put together. Because what AI lacks is judgement and taste, which is what seniors need a lot of experience with. Any company refusing to hire juniors now will eventually lose this deep domain experience, either mostly or fully, due to a lack of juniors coming up through the ranks.
I’m cautiously optimistic, but I’m holding back until it’s been extensively stress-tested.
Plus, who’s to say it isn’t crammed with telemetry? Someone is gonna have to break out the wireshark and isolated VM to figure that out. Assuming it hasn’t been built to recognize testing environments and to shut the hell up when it’s in one.
But I am absolutely unwilling to suffer New Outlook in any capacity. I would sooner give up Office as a whole.
Any F-35 aircraft, in particular, will be remotely shut down by America, which is why a good Gripen fleet is so vital -- not only are they far better adapted to extreme/arctic environments and need less than ⅛ of the ground and support crews that the F-35 needs, but they also cost a tiny fraction: for the original price of 88 F-35 aircraft - which continues to balloon well beyond that price - we could buy 720 Gripens at full market price. And if made domestically, we could push that price down even further.
Yes, there is also the difficulty of finding 720 effective fighter pilots to fill those seats, but as every single war in history has shown, it’s not technology that wins wars. It’s numbers. Especially in World War II: even though that German Panser and Tiger tanks were by every single metric immensely superior to the American Sherman, that didn’t matter anymore when 10, 20, or even more Shermans crested the hill for every Panser or Tiger that the Germans fielded. The German tanks were simply overwhelmed and taken out by sheer numbers.
But what will make a true difference, in terms of long-term conflict, is asymmetrical warfare. We can blend in with Americans. We know the terrain. We can bog down and bleed the American forces via sabotage and drone warfare. Just like The Ukraine, we can make them pay massively for every kilometre of territory taken.
Which is why people should get a firearms license, and practice frequently. Militias and such are being expanded - join one to learn about proper military doctrine and ways of coordinating effectively with other groups. Make sure you can cross 15 to 25 kilometres of rough ground with a decent load, without being totally wiped at the end. Learn how to operate shortwave and more modern encrypted radios effectively. There is so much the average citizen can do to prepare without needing to be some Alan Ritchson beefcake super soldier.
I feel that it must be, purely owing to how fundamentally ridiculous it is, and how blatantly bigoted it would be if it wasn’t satire.
If it was up to me, I would get Mozilla to hire the author of Tab Mix Plus and to fold that project directly into Firefox.
The only reason why I am running with vertical tabs is because I am running natively-vertical EIZO monitors that are 2k, so I have enough horizontal space to throw up most websites.
Hell, I have just three systems left which are Windows. One is a bare-bones system purely for travel convenience, another is an accounting system for a workflow that cannot (yet!) be translated to another platform, and the third being my Visual Studio / MSSQL dev platform for traditional windows apps (yes, I still support some absolutely ancient VB stuff). None of which I want to virtualize, for various reasons that include physical location.
And the SSDs are backed up daily.
Samsung should not have gotten into appliances. They seem to be singularly terrible in that field. No-one else comes even close to their level of incompetence.