comparing Bluey and Cocomelon

ugh, that’s not even a comparison.

Fun fact btw: Bluey started off as an Australian public broadcasting production. Bought by Disney now, but I suspect they made a deal that gives them artistic freedom. Still sad that money wins.

Stock traders use shortwave radio to transmit digital data. Over long distances it’s apparently faster than the internet.

So yeah, there are always options.

You misunderestood; I guessed that cell towers could be helpful in circumventing such shutdowns. I edited my previous comment to make that a little clearer.

Thanks.

Your NC says:

Update needed

Please use the command line updater because updating via browser is disabled in your config.php.

Everything is so fucked up, going into detail hardly matters.

Obvious opining happening in the comments.

I still run X.org, because so far I had no reason to change. I don’t like GNOME’s power over GTK and therefore most Linux GUI software. I don’t like GNOME’s disregard for backward compatibility.

But the fact remains: unless I go out of my way to avoid such software, the switch to wayland is now on my horizon.

Thanks for reporting this.

TBF she said “something like root access” and I concur with the phrasing. It doesn’t matter that it cannot load or unload kernel modules, everything it needs is right there in the user’s home. (there’s an xkcd comic commenting on that, I can’t find it anymore)

In my hobby nerd opinion she also describes it very well. And I fully agree with the sentiment: everything AI stands for, in terms of end user benefit, is the end of digital privacy.

This is the Signal CEO? Or a spokesperson? Going to watch more of this now.

The AI hype.

It’s like you see a big, heavy, sleek and modern looking train accelarating on brandnew tracks straight towards a large crowd. Everybody is cheering as it gains speed and momentum, and it seems you’re the only one who sees where it’s heading.

Wrong community? Or shill?

And that’s not the only difference that - in my humble opinion - makes bitwarden stand out sky high against this proprietary SAAS shit.

However, critics, including rights watchdogs, Western diplomats and cyber security experts, say the choice is reckless, and the lack of transparency alarming.

The move comes against a backdrop of shrinking democratic freedoms in Republika Srpska, where authorities have revived criminal defamation laws and promoted legislation inspired by Russia and Hungary that would label foreign-funded NGOs ‘agents’.

Alarming. It shares a border with Hungary, which in turn shares a border with Slovakia. If I was paranoid I’d see a pro-Russian axis developing here.

Serbia is not part of the EU; it seems they want to, but they certainly are going about it the wrong way.

This article comes amid other alarming news about Serbia becoming more and more pro-Russian:
no more munition for Ukraine
Russian gas, yay

Thanks for sharing. Downloaded (for personal use).

Any thoughts about licensing?

If you were wondering what an eSafety boss is:

Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner

Politics across the globe have been playing catch-up with digital realities for so long, it’s embarrassing. Only now they’re waking up to Facebook & Co, while new shit* pops up all the time, but again and again they believe that restricting a few platforms is the solution.

We need a whole new approach. One that involves politicians listening to actual experts instead of pollsters, I guess. What a mess.

* ways to seriously abuse internet users into giving up more data and create more ad revenue for content creators, platform owners, software developers companies. Even babies nowadays (if their parents let them watch that). [edit: yes, that’s about youtube, but also about AI if you watch closer. Point is, it’s not just one platform, it’s content producers putting revenue over content & ethical concerns, since nobody tells them where to stop]

It’s a good article for people who got so used to the internet permeating everything that they never considered the underlying infrastructure. But it’s there, and it can be controled - not just in Iran; though certainly countries like Iran and Russia put more effort into isolating it than others. But it will never be 100% - circumvention will always be possible - and I don’t mean VPNs, just other physical/technical means of accessing & distributing the internet and/or other forms of ditributed messaging. As a layman’s guess I’d say cell towers might factor into this.

Similar projects popped up across the globe at that time, and were scrapped for the same reasons: the need for a completely new infrastructure.

I also suspect hover trains weren’t consuming less energy than conventional. So the only advantage you get are higher speeds. The numbers simply didn’t add up.

I was really skeptical about the air hovering, as opposed to magnetic. The video did not go deep enough there imho. They were planning to switch the project to maglev? Or did he just put that in as a historical comparison?

As a layman, it seems to me magnetic levitation would consume significantly less energy, and probably be less error prone.

Yes: speed. But if you weigh advantages against disadvantages (by far the largest being the need for completely new infrastructure), hover trains simply lost.

And not only in the UK, btw. Similar projects had been scrapped all over the world, for the same reasons.

I’m not sure about energy consumption; the video makes it sound like they used a lot of electricity but then I suspect normal high speed trains do as well.

I’m also unsure about the hovering being achieved by fans and not magnetic levitation. The video does not go deep enough there: was the former supposed to be supplanted by the latter, in time? I’m not an expert, but using strong fans to lift a 22t car off the tracks feels inferior to me, if magnets could achieve the same, probably consuming less energy and being less error prone.

OP, if you want to watch the video once then scrap it, why not just mpv "$(wl-paste)"

Despite everything, this remains a state created by Enlightenment liberals, extremely decentralized, with a powerful independent judiciary and literally the strongest speech protections in the world.

My goodness, you really drank the koolaid. You sound like a car salesperson. Or is this some form of satire?

edit:

disappointing to see such a display of irrational groupthink in this community, I had hoped for better.

Oh yes, taking refuge in the narrative of “morally superior underdog”. FWIW, everything you said could also be defined as “irrational groupthink”. Honestly, even more so.

Perhaps the instance was a clue.

And no idea how federation works.

Children’s entertainment has been doing that for a century. But the tactics are getting more elaborate, planned, strategic.

It’s been a constant development, and it’s getting worse.

Pretty horrifying, that video you linked. 4.5 billion views? 7 Billion?

You always, always limit how much they watch. Never ever let YT autoplay take over.

Nice. I reply with this one:

(criminal minds, s02E02)