The Linux Foundation has what now?

I know it's a corporate front group but this is a whole new level of fucked up shit. Fuck the Linux Foundation.

It's been 10-15 years, and people still don't really understand streaming. "There are too many services" - too many compared to what? I'd rather pay $30 a month to three of five providers for an ad-free service, each of which providing way more content than HBO or Cinemax ever did, than $100 a month to one monopoly. "It now costs more than cable did", no, you can subscribe to just what you want, and supplement it with free services like Tubi or Pluto. Also basic cable may have cost $40 in the 1990s, but it's been a while since it cost anything close to that. Try way north of double that, if you're lucky, once the fees are tacked on.

Now, if we can somehow stave off or cancel completely the enshittification...

Why is "cooperating with law enforcement" a problem? Isn't the whole point of putting up a security camera so you can give evidence to the cops if someone is messing with your property?

Realistically, if you're doing anything illegal (now I'm imagining security cameras for your cocaine factory) it's probably not a good idea to be documenting it with your own cameras, regardless of whether they're connected to the cloud.

I've seen a few people on my Facebook feed post GoFundMe campaigns and they seem to roughly have about the same amount of luck as the woman who approached me the other night at the Target parking lot, asking if I could "help her out".

"Sorry, I don't carry cash." (I really don't.)

I guess success with crowdfunding depends on the social circles you run in.

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That just implies there's more people asking for money, not that they're having any luck actually getting some. I'd imagine it's gotta be pretty slim pickin's.

Technically they can't ban them but they can't throw you in prison for using one. And they can throw people in prison for running them of course.

This is the ultra wealthy and the ruling elite moving the take over the last form of media where regular people can access information without their consent.

But hey, the girl who hands you your coffee says Merry Christmas now so that's a fair trade right?

And if you don't understand what that means that's the problem.

Yeah, they are but not in the way you think. They don't really back up your claims, I mean this is the strongest claim in all of them and depending on the meaning of "drastic" it's not an automatic given that reducing the size of cattle herds and operations is a bad thing at all.

Considering the externalizes beef should probably cost more than it does in my opinion. Why would a decrease in beef consumption be a bad thing at all? A higher floor price on beef means we could regulate out some of those worst types of operations, they only exist to hit the cheapest costs.

I'm not sure about that. It seems the government in this case are the only ones in the world who have the interests of the kids in their heart. God know parents are fucking useless raising TikTok zombies.

Children don't have absolute rights anywhere, not even in the US of fucking Eyh!

It's borderline worthless trying to get any people to agree anything over a Teams meeting let alone hold an international debate. That's not to say COP30 achieved anything, it didn't.

What does barley have to do with evolving monkeys?

I can't imagine anyone doing anything like that. Oh. Nvm. The Pokemon card thing is quite literally the same thing as the baseball card thing, no matter how much you try and "yes, but" it.

There is basically zero intrinsic value in either of them. None. Zero. Zilch. The value is in the intentional rarity. And if Topps (or Pokemon) were to re-print a vintage card because it got popular, that's entirely there prerogative. There are entire industries built around answering the "is this a 19xx Micky Mantle Original or a 20xx Micky Mantle re-print".

You probably should familiarize yourself with or, if you have an allergy to Microsoft, OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc. It's a good general purpose data manipulation tool. There are things it does badly, but other things that are better than anything else in its class.

I definitely wouldn't brag about not knowing it, that's like boasting you've never used a personal computer.

In a similar vein I can't help but feel the argument over climate change for 30 years has been just a variation of this:

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Gyre is a more official name for the Pacific Garbage patch, as there are presumably few kids in it