I don’t want anybody else to live near a data center either.
Not even because of the noise or heat or whatever; just because they only have a few employees and that’s just bad urbanism. A data center is a hole in the urban fabric with no foot traffic.
If you must have 'em, put 'em out in the middle of nowhere (but along the internet backbone fiber between cities).
It’s stalking, not merely “public”. “Public” does not imply a panopticon!
Ah, thanks for the warning. My install has been badgering me to upgrade because my (non-LTS) version just stopped getting security updates. I ought to get off my ass and switch distros.
Yep.
In 2002, I used Gentoo.
In 2026, I use Kubuntu.
(I should probably switch since Canonical’s policies are increasingly bothering me, but meh, I can’t be bothered to reinstall more than once a decade.)
On the one hand, yes, fully enforcing these things would be gross overpolicing.
On the other hand, the selective enforcement is, by design, a way to manufacture an excuse to harass and persecute minorities/undesirables.
The correct solution is to relax or abolish the laws themselves until they diminish to the point that fully enforcing them is reasonable.
I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but there were black people in ancient Greece IRL. It’s not even “woke,” just historically accurate!
I don’t remember having the choice of 15-bit. I only remember having the choice of “256” (8-bit indexed palette), “thousands” (16-bit “high color,” with 5:6:5 bits per channel for RGB respectively), or “millions” (24-bit, 8 bits per channel).
I actually remember the Solitaire card back images being dithered because I had the resolution turned up (and thus the color depth turned down).
This is “you are an absolute fool for planting that second cucumber plant” month.
They’ll get there. They hate the idea of individual people being able to make things for themselves or having any other escape from consumer serfdom.
It’s not even just surveillance! It is destruction of property rights generally, including the right to repair and the ability for individuals to own their means of production.
The law. It would become a criminal offense to use open source firmware.
And that’s exactly what the tech oligarchs’ true goal is.
This goes way, way beyond ‘guns.’ It is an assault on property rights and freedom of expression as concepts generally. It would fully outlaw Free Software firmware (which is what the entire 3D printer hobby, having started with the RepRap project, is based on!). It would cut the Maker movement as a whole off at the knees.
It’s absolute tyranny in ways entirely unrelated to guns themselves.
Are we going to start fitting [CNC lathes and mills] with “you might be making a gun” detectors, too? Of course not.
I’ve got some bad news for you about just how fucked-up these proposed laws actually are.
You forgot the leading and your username mention turned into a mailto link.
I’m not convinced it wasn’t mostly dead before Steam, TBH. I mean I guess there was “lending” (read: copying), but there was never a “GameStop for PC games” the way there was for console games. And even the “lending” was somewhat curtailed by CD-keys and account registration before Steam existed.
The hard part is that turning the raw data into actual forecasts requires a lot of processing power.
Hmm, I hadn’t really thought about that; I was just thinking about stations reporting current conditions. But yeah, you’re right that that’s the important part. Is weather modeling software another one of those areas like CAD where the state-of-the-art is locked up in proprietary shit, or is it government/scientific enough that the software is public? If one were to start building a distributed weather prediction system, are we talking about refactoring existing software to be distributed or reading research papers and implementing algorithms from scratch?
The fucked-up part is that there are various networks of croudsourced weather data, but I think most or all of them are proprietary, or at least centralized (which means enshittification could put consumer API access at risk).
We need a service that’s peer-to-peer (or at least federated) and open-data-licensed. And also not affiliated with the National Weather Service because Trumpism puts even that one at risk.
Is that French for “listen here you little shit?”