Raids on “compounds”. And martial law because of assassination threats.

I realize it is mostly a right wing wet dream but can we please apply even a modicum of critical thought to the “me and my buddies are gonna be a militia. WILDCATS!!!” stupidity?

Life is not a disney channel show. You aren’t going to stop the cops just by trapping them in a logic puzzle or punching out one fat white supremacist. The legal system is set up to give them immunity for all of their actions and consequences and they are itching for an excuse to murder some black folk/socialists/whatever. And while you may think your assault rifle will match their assault rifle, they also have much better body armor, tanks, grenades, etc.

And on the off chance you do get your WILDCATS!!! on and actually fight back? now the military is involved and they will commit war crimes against you and your family and the people next door like it is Fallujah on a Friday night. And the news media will portray you as evil brown terrorists (no matter how much you scream “white power” in the hopes of confusing them) and that we should Support the Troops.

Humanity is well past the point of armed uprisings by militias accomplishing much of anything. The only way that works out is if you are already in a failed state (not “we have no social systems and guns have more rights than people” failed state but “warlords are driving down the street executing people” failed state) or you have the backing of a significant faction of the military.

But a bunch of dumbasses cosplaying as soldiers on the weekend? They are about as effective as a russian soldier.

That’s just it. It is about picking battles.

We are at (actually well past but…) the tipping point. Climate change is happening and we are going to see sea levels rise in our lifetimes (within the next decade or so, as per some studies).

Changing to clean energy is something that will take massive infrastructure changes and we needed to be doing that literally decades ago.

Eating a few less hamburgers and working on a more climate friendly diet can have impacts in as little as a quarter. If enough people even slightly shift their diets, that will lead to massive supply chain changes and shifts in demand. Which will actually make a difference. Nowhere near as big of one but one that can actually be done.

If your worldview is “nothing I do as an individual matters so I won’t do anything” then… okay. But this is literally something we can do and see change in the short term.

Problem is the cops will side with the white folk. And now you gave them carte blanche to go on a retaliatory killing spree.

They very much were

I fully understand the logic in play here. Been on enough flights out of ORD during the winter where pilots just don’t give a fuck. If you go back to the gate, you will be grounded and nobody is leaving. If you stay on the tarmac “waiting” for as long as possible, there are good odds you get to take off. Pilots want to get out of the airport just as much as passengers do.

There need to be stronger safety regulations to prevent this from happening. But it is very easy to imagine a situation where the pilots didn’t realize how bad it was getting in the cabin and figured “We’ll be given the green light to taxi to a runway any second now”

For work: It is literally my job to interact with peers at meetings and conferences. Hard to get there if I have a week of travel for every conference.

For pleasure: Because the destination is worth it. And the hassle isn’t even that bad. Even without a tsa pre-check equivalent, security is mostly fine if you know what you are doing and prepare accordingly. Liquids baggy near the top of your bag. Have a jacket you can shove your phone and watch into. And so forth. Bring a book or some headphones to keep yourself entertained on the flight. Realize that you can slide your feet under your bag to greatly increase your effective legroom. And don’t hesitate to walk to the restroom, even if just to stretch a bit.

And then I get to land somewhere interesting. Whether it is visiting friends a few states over or spending a week or three in a foreign country.

And people will take pride in how “hard” they fought against the staff who literally just use the equivalent of ms paint to erase any particularly nasty “protests”

Also, tinfoil hat, this seems like a really good approach. Much like Pao before him, Huffman is everything that is wrong with the company. So whoever buys reddit will install their own CEO, the entire world will cheer, and people will go back and be happy.

Placebo is one of my guilty pleasures when I feel mopey.

Never once thought about their politics but this 100 percent checks out.

They do an amazing cover of Running Up That Hill but, honestly, they are the kind of band you turn on and just vibe to.

Honestly? makes sense. I suffer chronic constipiaton and generally either go “regularly” every 2 days or get borderline diarrhea every 3-4 days, depending on my diet and the moon cycles or whatever the fricking hell.

And I know that I have a harder time focusing and thinking if I feel bloated. Part of it is the worry that I am going to need to step out three times in two hours to empty my colon out. Part of it is just that it is uncomfortable.

That said

About 16% of the worldwide adult population experiences constipation, but it’s even more common among older adults due to age-related factors such as lack of exercise and dietary fiber, and the use of medicines that can cause constipation as a side effect.

Makes me think a lot of this is just another side effect. If you don’t exercise you tend to suffer from emotional issues* . Poor diet leads to “weird” feelings, and medicine goes without comment.

*: Seriously, even just running up and down some stairs or lifting a rinky dink 5 pound weight goes a long way to keeping your body active and help balance out the various hormones

Okay, can someone explain to me why this is bad?

Shorts on the front page is fucking stupid, no arguments there.

But shorts in the subscription feed is kind of what I want? If I am subscribe to a channel, it is because I like their content. By having it in the subscription feed, I can see if a clickbaity thumbnail or title is an I Did a Thing video or a right wing lunatic who genuinely wants to throw saw blades at children.

And if your feed is full of too many shorts? Maybe prune some channels from your subscription feed?

One of the biggest reasons for the SAG strike is because of AI/DL generated footage of actors and actresses. We have seen bits of it in various Star Wars and the like, but tech is only getting better.

The current (arguably intentionally egregious) drama is the revelation/accusation that “Hollywood” are more or less telling performers that they want the rights to use them in all perpetuity. So Vin Diesel does one movie and then that studio can have an AI come on screen and say “family” for thousands of years. And this obviously resonates well with the Futurama gag

That said, the reality is a lot closer to what we have already seen. There is not a lot of value in owning the rights to an actor or actress because they will always “look off” no matter how photorealistic it gets. What “hollywood” instead wants is a training data database. Make your female actresses an amalgamation of all the most attractive features in human history but blended to be “imperfect” so that people believe it. Male actors who can combine Hugh Laurie’s eyes with Hugh Jackman’s body and so forth.

This was sort of tried in the early 2000s with Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within where the big deal was that the lead actress’s 3d model would become a real actress in her own right (even if she was voiced by Ming-Na Wen). It bombed for a lot of reasons, obviously. But, sticking with Final Fantasy, just look at how THIRSTY the internet got over trying to figure out who Jenny (or whatever lady ecoterrorist was called) was modeled after and the realization that she was likely a body morph of a bunch of actresses and models.

I mean, that is all really good?

If a machine does not need internet access, it should not have it. Airgaps/incredibly restrictive firewalls are pretty much the only true defense for attacks and social engineering.

As for developers: If you are making enough money to justify needing this level of security, then you can afford to buy everyone a second computer/laptop.

At my old gig this was exactly the development model. Sensitive material happens on the computer on on side of the office, non-sensitive development and communication happens on the other. Wheel between desks depending on my task.

Same with root. No developer needs root if you have a competent-ish IT department. At my current gig, we actually use a VDI setup where asking for software to be installed on my “workstation” is literally a pull request that an authorized staff member approves.

Same. Although I wouldn’t hold your breath

LTT/LMG push VERY hard for this (I think Linus is an investor?). And stuff like the screwdriver reviews are a really good example. Almost no outlet said anything bad about it because… it is a good screwdriver (it is literally a licensed chinese knockoff of a wera?). But it is well worth watching the Project Farm review where he very clearly emphasizes specific features and capabilities that put it in a weird hybrid “home”/“automotive” screwdriver category that felt pretty artificial. PF is awesome so his review is still incredibly useful if you just weight as to what you actually need, but a few other outlets did similar “we need to make sure this comes out #1 so that we don’t get lynched” shenanigans.

Bit of both.

They are pretty open about the risks of large batches and large inventory.

And they have the full marketing campaign going. LTT/LMG managed to convince their fanbase to actively advocate against their own consumer rights and the other computer youtubers (like Steve and Jay and Rossman) are pretty positive on at least the business premise.

It was a genuinely bad show. But Ted Danson is magical and can make the most unlikable and obnoxious sitcom characters into reflections of the soul that stick with you in ways they really shouldn’t.

Would almost definitely be rejected.

“You” cancelled your subscription. “You” renewed it. Netflix gladly charged you

It doesn’t matter that “you” in this case is the owner of the CC and their mother. “You” purchased a month of netflix and got it.

And on the off chance your credit card company DID just give you the money back and penalize netflix without asking any questions? Then this becomes fraud and netflix have good lawyers AND would love to put the fear of god into account sharers.

A lot of it is the same we saw with the rise of Steam and the like in gaming

“People are just looking for a more convenient way to buy games and all this DRM is making it easier to pirate. Steam is awesome, but I might need to play in an airgapped environment in Iraq and steam’s offline mode is bad. So I might as well just pirate everything. Fucking Valve”

That said: Tinfoil hat and all, but I really do think the increasing rise of “Ugh, this streaming is so expensive and confusing. I should just get cable” is an astroturfing campaign. Because the two big elements of the SAG side of the strikes are streaming residuals and AI. And the advantage of cable tv is that the networks control who get the residuals. Take a look at where the cast and crew of Friends ended up, and you start to get an idea of why TBS will never stop airing reruns of that show. Same for Seinfeld and, to much lesser extents, Frasier and King of Queens and the like.

Which is why I expect the outcome will be to do hybrid models. And a lot of the current discourse is about making people think they want to have to “record” an episode of Becker rather than just choose to watch wherever they left off as a VOD.

Double check the numbers (I checked these maybe a year and a half ago?) but for 4 bays/drives or less, just get a Synology. Amazing price to performance ratio and synology make a good OS

If you want more than four drives? Do you “love linux”? If so, go with a Truenas or a Ceph build. Do you want it to “just work”? Unraid.

So based on your use case and comments: Just get them a synology. Then either use the Synology Drive Client software, set it up as a smb share/network drive and have them manually copy files in, or go semi-crazy and run Nextcloud.

That said: if the focus is on photos and videos, you may just want to look into google drive or one of the other user oriented cloud services. Fairly inexpensive and, unless you are filming a lot of Those Kind of Movies, the loss of privacy knowing that your birthday pictures will probably be used for an internal training set are offset by having firm backups and one less thing to worry about in an emergency.

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Yup. The police have always existed to beat on the downtrodden. Whether it is slaves trying to escape to freedom or workers who are peacefully protesting just a bit too loud.

My brother in Christ we haven’t BEEN HERE for multiple centuries.

Is this a “god made Earth last week” kind of thing?

In Europe and Asia, we have literally been building up infrastructure for over 1000 years. If we consider the early Roman/British/Whoever roads to be the “origin” of modern infrastructure, that goes to “around 753 BC”. If we actually go by history and the origin of “the road”, then we are looking at 10,000 BC. And if we are just saying paved roads, Egypt in 2600 BC.

Cities emerge out of population centers (unless you are building stuff for the Saudis) and railroads/highways/whatever all emerge from the heavily used roads. Whether replacing them or following similar paths.

As for the babies in the room: The United States was “gifted by the Native Americans” in the 1600s and declared in 1776. And the Louisiana Purchase, which was France selling the Americans large parts of the land that was “gifted” to them by the Native Americans, was in 1804. And, for poops and giggles, California became a state in 1850, but white folk were doing their thang back to the 1700s.

So… yes, we have been here for multiple centuries, regardless of whatever Father Tom says to you.

Also, that very mockingly euro-centric view ignores all the trails and outright roads that the indigenous people of the Americas and Australia and the like had. That colonizers mostly just claimed for their own, the same way they claimed the choice places for population centers (access to fresh water, game, etc).