The Avro Arrow is a bad example because it has nothing to do with neoliberal economics.

It was ostensibly about being over budget, but that was just the public claim at the time.

It was a high speed interceptor designed to chase down Russian bombers coming over the arctic circle. The Americans knew that ICBMs were the new threat and no interceptor could ever chase one down. They told Diefenbaker as much.

He shelters and protects a man who raped kids.

Thats not better.

I agree wholeheartedly! These oligarchs own every media outlet and have way too much influence on public opinion for such a tiny fraction of a percent of lucky sociopaths.

Shame on them for scapegoating the Women and gender minorities for the problems created by people with actual power.

Canadians are generally happy to always aim for marginally better than America.

Yeah, literal camera pointed at computer screens, with a view of fingers on the keyboard, and who knows what apps installed with access. Anyone who does that should be fired as they are a danger to the organization.

These are on public land without adequate public consultation... therefore they are "litter" and anyone removing them is doing a public service.

If you have a reasonable group of people like a friends and family group, you can get machine learning to be very accurate (with odd exceptions like babies and twins). But what is 99% accurate for 50 people will almost universally give false positives when searching a group of 50 million faces. The math just doesnt work for them.

Why should law enfocement and prosecuters get to decide which laws to enforce and which not to, but jurrors cant?

Unless the laws on the books were short and perfect, there is always going to be enforcement choices, and it seems to me the jury nulification option is no worse than other selective enforcement. It lets guilty people go free, sure, but it sometimes stops unjust incarceration.

This definition of "privacy" just makes it an addon of property rights, rather than a human right.

How truly American.

We are lucky the americans so helpfully showed their lack of good faith before it was signed instead of the following Tuesday.

Thanks. I have spent the day reading about M-disc and optical formats. Lemmy is great for starting rabbit holes! I think I may swap a blu-ray burner into one of my machines and I am actually thinking dual layer blu ray is a decent trade-off: simmiliar chemistry to m-disc (unlike the clear superiority of m disc over DVDs -which I was literally burned on the other week with some yellowed DVDs), and yet still cheap, reasonable amount of disc shuffling, and in the future, nearly any blu ray drive will work with the 50gb discs (unlike 100gb disks). Still might grab a blu ray m disc burner if I see a good deal but they seem rarer than a hens tooth. Lol.

I have less than a TB of truly irreplacable stuff, so 20 discs isnt bad to suffle, and aiming for maybe 20 years of electrically safe cold storage* zero maintenance off-site seems pretty reasonable for a $50 drive and about that in discs.

*This is overkill anyway - already have zfs snapshots going to an external drive in another room and restic backups to b2. But the threat model is some combination of losing b2 (credit card fail or my own incompetence) plus housefire/robbery/electrical surge taking out everything. Also, if I get hit by a bus and my CC is cancelled, a box of transparrently readable discs are significantly safer bet for my survivors than my note about how to get the data off the NAS/backup drive. They could leave it 5+ years and come back to it no problem.

I hate that I had to retire my Raybans to home use only. They look exactly like meta glasses.

No, they will do what they do everywhere else and stack the decks so that nullification is only ever used for "their people".

Then they are either being discussed by your local government to be installes or they already subscribed to one of the equivelant compeditors. This shit is everywhere.

Tolerance is useful because it conveys the notion of restraining from persecuting someone for something you specifically and perhapse strongly dislike (as long as it doesnt cross certain lines). It makes it unacceptable to use state or social power without a reasoned argument for actual harm.

Almost certain former drug dealer who lied transparently on TV about his Mayor brother, who also happens to be a college drop-out and accomplished nothing in his life despite being handed a multi-milion dollar company from his dad?

Why would you have said he shouldnt be elected? Give a guy a chance! /s

I just restored from some 20 year old dvds and they had visible yellowing at the edges and lost data at the end. A few videos were unrecouverable, not many.

I have wondered about how to manage a 100 spool of DVDs as long term cold storage of the most important data. Would need some way of splitting the data up automatically and building a straightforward burning workflow, with redundancy incase a disk is destroyed, and a way to find a given file.

Seems like a lot of work for 400-ish Gb, but 1. Its very cheap, 2. Archival disks could last a lot longer in cold storage than anything else affordable, and 3. Anyone could recover it in the future because DVD drives have been manufactured by the billion and are still being put in some office PCs. 100gb blurays are also an option but that means sourcing a burner and at least a few drives capable of reading them to store alongside.

Edit: at first blush, plain files to make recouvery easier plus par2 files scattered across enough disks to be able to lose a whole disk or have many damaged disks seems like the right format. Some sort of index would need to be built and left on every/most disks or maybe printed on paper. Its mainly the workflow to do it that would be a PITA. Then maybe vacuum seal the spool with some moisture and oxygen absorbers and put in a lightproof container. Good for decades later? Maybe.

The big downsides are:

1. Yet another Internet tax on the poor
2. Everyone gets worse internet
3. Most people are woefully unprepared to shop for a VPN from a reputable provider, meaning most people are going to end up subjected to even more surveillance and potentially attacks on their devices.
4. Most people also are not prepared to manage when to and not-to use it, so will get slower internet all of the time.
5. This will create lists of VPN users at both the ISPs and the VPN companies that will be usable by later christo-fascist governments.
6. This will ultimately get laws passed against consumer-facing VPN services, making it harder for people to protect themselves from other attacks.
7. More honey-pot VPN services will start up to support that list-gathering for future christo-fascist governments looking to build dossiers on as many people as possible.

I could go on and on. And nothing about the above has anything to do with porn.

Clickwrap should have been made illegal when they started doing it a quarter century ago. If I put a tracker on your car, I'm a criminal, but if every automaker drops a clause into the "user terms" on their vehicle sales, then every car you buy gets tracked forever, perfectly legally.