So asking ChatGPT for a 90 minute + one second film on “details” then the editing out the last second would make it copyrightable? I don’t honk so and the frontier between cops rightable and not is going to be a battleground for decades.

We’ll certainly see but to me what you’re saying is a distinction without a difference

Except that the courts have already ruled that AI created content (like monkey created content) is not deserving of the copyright protections that human-created content is.

It'd be interesting to know it this has a snowball's chance of passing in the Senate because until it does it's meaningless (which, coming from the Crypto industry is pretty much par for the course).

During the initial lawless period when 8 vendors were all trying to get a piece of the market, we got "pissy" about asshats leaving them strewn across sidewalks in front of entrances instead of parking them so that you wouldn't have to step over/around them just to get/leave home. The vendors would also tend to leave a dozen or two recharged scooters at corners every couple of days completely blocking people from using crosswalks because setting them up so they wouldn't be obstacles "took too long" for the freelancers that were picking up discharged scooters, recharging them and just dumping them wherever it was most convenient for _them_.

Then Paris eliminated all but three of the companies authorized in Paris, outlawing parking them on sidewalks and eliminated tens of thousands of public parking spots to create dedicated scooter parks "so that there would be spots throughout Paris where people could pick them up and drop them off".

Two major problems with that:
1) They chose the choicest parking spaces to privatize for these scooter parks, removing them defacto from everyone that used to use them generating lots of discontent from people who were already driving around for dozens of minutes to find a place to park their cars.
2) Asshats continued to drop scooters off right on sidewalks in front of building entrances instead of leaving them in a scooter park a few meters away. They claimed that it was a tiny minority doing so but my eyes said otherwise.

And all that is without getting into how people using them were doing so without respecting any any traffic laws with total impunity from the police who were told to leave them alone instead of giving them tickets when driving the wrong way up one way streets.

Good damned riddance.

Yeah because China building their way further and further towards Taiwan, encroaching their way to being better able to invade, well that's not AT ALL one of the project's main objectives...

Thanks for your advice, they bring back memories of the /. of yore.

It's been decades since I've built up a computer for myself but I'll look into your suggested sources.

Too bad Apple doesn't have an official iSCSI initiator & development on https://github.com/iscsi-osx/i... seems to have stalled.

I've taken to backing up all content to a 16Tb disk daily. If it dies, it dies, but I have taken some precautions.

I'd prefer moving to a FreeNas 10Gbps solution but IxSystems doesn't sell to France & I haven't found a >5 drive 10Gb ethernet enclosure available here to install FreeNas Core to so an OWC (which does sell here) will be my solution if the 8D dies before that pans out.

I'll just avoid upgrading that MacMini till the 8D dies or I find a Freenas solution I can buy here.

Thanks for your comment

Going from 20Gbps Thunderbolt 3 to 1 Gbps is too much of a step down, IxSystems doesn't sell the TrueNas Mini X+ outside the US & I haven't found a naked enclosure that I can install TrueNas Core on that is sold here in France.

I do agree that TrueNas is the direction I'd like to go if only I could.

TrueNas Core seems like the direction I'll want to be going in but Gigabit Ethernet would be a very big, unacceptable step downward from the Thunderbolt 3 connection I have with the Drobo 8D.

https://www.truenas.com/truena... shows the TrueNAS Mini X+ & TrueNAS Mini XL+ to be mostly what I want in a replacement for the 8D because they have dual 10Gb ethernet but they seem to be massively overspecced CPU/RAM wise for my needs. Yes, I want speedy disk access but there won't be dozens of simultaneous users. I already have enough spare disks to make a migration possible, 10Gb switch and my Macmini is 10Gb ethernet equipped so one of these could have been be where I ended up going...

Except that IxSystems doesnt sell them outside the USA or with 220v compatible power supplies & nobody sells a no-disk enclosure that I could install TrueNas Core on that I could buy here in Europe.

https://shuttermuse.com/drobo-...

As I depend on my Drobo 8D & unfortunately I have yet to see a >5 disk Thunderbolt 3 connected enclosure available to replace it so no Ventura for my home Macmini.

Thanks for the correction, which does invalidate some of my post.

Spaxe-X would still need to make major changes to not boil the cargo and landing propellants.

Also, a gravity assist would accelerate Starship, Great the detour to Venus may not prolong the trip even if the total trip distance is longer, but what does that do when it arrives at Mars and they want to LAND? That extra speed makes the aerobraking that much more violent & these researchers don’t think it’s important enough to mention.

"Researchers" who work on Venusian studies think it would be a good idea to do a flyby of Venus "because a gravity assist ''might'' make a trip to Mars faster".
- Venus is 30% closer to the sun making solar heating at Venus much worse, likely over twice the heating at Earth orbit.
- The Mars lander Starship would need massive changes to be able to keep its both it's propellants & payloads cold enough to go so much closer to the Sun. To have the massive amounts of propellant a Venusian gravity assist worthwhile would probably need separate header tanks distinct from the landing header tanks for both liquid Methane & O2.
- Gravity assists only work when the spacecraft performs a burn deep in the gravity well, preferably a burn which uses a major part of the spacecraft's mass entering the assist. The Mars Lander Starship is being engineered to perform it's burns from Earth/Mars orbit & to keep just enough propellant to perform landings after using atmospheric breaking upon arrival.
- Keeping propellant to burn during a Venusian gravity assist just means that less could be used in the initial burn from Earth - Venus so even if Venus - Mars is faster it's not free speed, the first leg is going to be much slower then add to that the total distance to cover is going to be much longer.
- Using a Venusian gravity assist would massively restrict the launch window.

But these "researchers" won't have to pay for any of this or work out solutions to problems that even a layman like me can see with it. No, from their ivory tower they just "call" on others to do & pay for it.

I never opened my FB up to people other than family/friends/people I've worked with for years so I'm mostly with you on being OK with most of what's coming from them(*), but NOT the random "Facebook thinks you'll be interested in" crap. I left FB when it became clear that Zuck valued "engagement" ($$$$) over social responsibility. I miss the contacts with the people but FB is just too evil for me to be a (willing) part of it anymore.

(*) Depends on the meme though: Inappropriate joke from an uncle, OK, right to life pics of an abortion, no. People who posted shock pics/videos that ended up in my feed got goatse.cx style links posed to theirs. I told them that if they were posting outrage where my family could see it then they needed to accept the return or to exclude me when posting them. I only needed "One Cup Two Girls" once...

You could have a FB feed mostly without random Internet memes, but it was a lot of work.

Back before Trump's election made it clear that FB was irredeemable & I left for good, much of the time I spent on facebook was systematically telling Facebook to never again show me anything ever again from every company that had an Ad that showed up on my feed and filtering out friends/family that insisted on reposting memes.