“Yesturday”

Sure, but if you’re specifically trying to go South, Spain is about the same latitude as most Canadian cities.

Time for Mexico?

US once again beaten by rest of world.

I used to have the same issue. Electric toothbrush helped. But I still wait anyway.

They’re an ad company that just happens to offer search as a way to show ads.

Their ideal scenario is one where you search forever and never find what you were looking for.

So you’re saying they didn’t even have enough resources before the slaughter began. Cool cool cool. Very nice and good.

Reminds me of how virologists were warning that we were underprepared for a pandemic even before Trump cut that funding in his first term.

Seems like the debate is always whether we can afford 10% or 30% of what a normal first-world country would have, and we act relieved when the 10% guys leave office and the 30% guys make a compromise to bring us up to 20%.

Yep: https://open.substack.com/pub/cyberintel/p/once-private-government-networks

Do you know the muffin man in my ass

IP law does 3 things that are incredibly important… but have been basically irrelevant between roughly 1995-2023.

1. Accurate attribution. Knowing who actually made a thing is super important for the continued development of ideas, as well as just granting some dignity to the inventor/author/creator.
2. Faithful reproduction. Historically, bootleg copies of things would often be abridged to save costs or modified to suit the politics of the bootlegger, but would still be sold under the original title. It’s important to know what the canonical original content is, if you’re going to judge it fairly and respond to it.
3. Preventing bootleggers from outcompeting original creators through scale.

Digital technology made these irrelevant for a while, because search engines could easily answer #1, digital copies are usually exact copies so #2 was not an issue, and digital distribution made #3 (scale) much more balanced.

But then came AI. And suddenly all 3 of these concerns are valid again. And we’ve got a population who just spent the past 30 years living in a world where IP law had zero upsides and massive downsides.

There’s no question that IP law is due for an overhaul. The question is: will we remember that it ever did anything useful, or will we exchange one regime of fatcats fucking over culture for another one?

upower -d can provide some useful info on-demand. I think there’s a daemon component to it too, which may have variable log levels.

Fourth week of getting NixOS running on an aarch64 laptop here… If I could get the adsp running by the time I get to userspace, you better believe I’d play a tada.

(In all seriousness, it’s not that bad. But it does make you very aware of just how delicate the whole stack of software is.)

No, not really. I didn’t downvote you btw.

Edited my original comment to avoid suggesting that.

toxic men

Kinda sad and ironic, that the term “toxic masculinity” began as a way to describe how culture manufactures a harmful concept of what it means to be a man, and it seeps into men and damages them like a toxin… but now we use it to mean that the man himself is toxic, undermining the whole notion of thinking of the problem as systemic rather than one of individuals.

Anyway, patriarchy is absolutely demolishing men right now, and the political right is saying “women’s fault” while the left is saying “lmao skill issue”. If we don’t get our shit together and start treating this seriously, we’re gonna have big problems.

Judge Rules

She sure does.

Exhibit A:

We “borrow” from China in the same way your bank “borrows” from your savings account.

“Japan is sending all these cars, and what do we get?”

“…the cars?”

https://youtu.be/Mrje-m01kI8?t=3486

Oh damn, I thought this was the same story as earlier when the details weren’t known yet.

Holy shit, that’s unbelievable. So they found the carceral equivalent of “it can’t be undone cuz it’s on the blockchain”.

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