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Submission + - EV owners have to drive twice as much to break even, study suggests (www.cbc.ca) 1

sinij writes: The study, published in the most recent edition of the journal Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability, set out to determine how long it would take a driver to recoup the higher up-front cost of buying a new electric vehicle (EV).

Its authors concluded that to break even over seven years — roughly the average time they said people own a new vehicle — EV drivers in B.C. would have to drive 64 kilometres daily, nearly double the average 34 kilometres a day a motorist drives, according to Statistics Canada.

Comment Enough Silliness. (Score 3, Interesting) 14

Can the Linux foundation bring back the community seats, and provide independent Linux developer positions? This endless steam of alliances and foundations where all the foundation member sit in a big circle jerk congratulating themselves on keeping up with the next computing trend is starting to get silly. Really there are spending more on blockchain then on their core product.

Comment Re:Or course not. (Score 1) 148

Anything above 128 kbps is going to be fairly high quality to peoples ears. While Vorbis still beat .mp3 at these bit rates it's not really noticeable. Above 200kbps plus... might as well use a lossless format, of which FLAC is quite popular.

Medium bit rates is where .ogg had a good use case, 48,64,96 kbps sort of rates. However Opus is better, and has lower latency at these bit rates, and can tolerate the occasional UDP packet loss.

Submission + - OpenBSD 7.4 has been released (openbsd.org)

Noryungi writes: As announced officially on the official site OpenBSD 7.4 has been officially released. The 55th release of this BSD operating system, known for being security oriented brings a lot of new things, including dynamic tracer, pfsync improvements, loads of security goodies and virtualization improvements. Grab your copy today!

Submission + - Amazon tells managers to terminate employees who won't come into the office

flashpoint31415 writes: Amazon is now giving managers leeway to effectively fire employees who fail to meet the company's three-times-a-week, return-to-office mandate.

The guidelines tell managers to first hold a private conversation with employees who don't comply with the three-times-a-week requirement. Then, managers have to document the discussion in a follow-up email. If the employee continues to refuse to come in, the manager should hold another meeting, and if needed, take disciplinary action that includes a termination of employment.

Giving managers the ability to fire employees for non-compliance is the strongest measure Amazon has taken over its return-to-office policy.

Comment Re:Bad DMCA take down requesters should pay... (Score 1) 28

Yes, they claimed they considered fair use but I don't think they did.

Typically use of an API is not protected by copyright.

Also purely functional or factual portions of works are not eligible for copyright protection

Still a lot to ask for a mall volunteer project to put up a huge legal fight.

F U Mazda...

Submission + - 'Verified' OSINT Accounts Are Destroying the Israel-Palestine Information Ecosys (404media.co)

samleecole writes: Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, many people across the world were first introduced to the term “OSINT,” which stands for open source intelligence. The practice of using photographs posted to social media, free-to-access satellite images, and other readily available sources of information to confirm where, how, and when important world events took place has existed for many years, but has been popularized during the biggest conflicts as more people signed up to social networks, which allowed anyone with an internet connection to participate in or consume it.

OSINT’s appeal is obvious. Rather than relying on government sources and narratives, and with new access to information on the internet, outside organizations or experts could attempt to confirm or deny those claims for themselves. And OSINT is a useful way to try and verify claims; it's accessible to anyone, though experienced groups often use more sophisticated techniques than others.

But what the current war in Israel and Gaza has made clear in recent days is that there are many verified, popular accounts on X (formerly Twitter) that use the OSINT term to give legitimacy to shoddy work that only creates more confusion. What exists now is a profit and engagement driven ecosystem of non-experts who in some cases may be spreading videos for the clout and cash, rather than to inform readers about what is actually true. One respected OSINT expert, known as Obretix, told 404 Media that Twitter now is “self promoting aggregators, posting thousands of tweets to get some revenue share from Elon.”

And everyone stands to lose when the quality of information on Twitter makes it harder for ordinary readers, or even some experts, to understand what is true and what is not. Pawe Wójcik, who has been an analyst on Twitter for years with a particular focus on terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, told 404 Media in an online chat that “there has always been misinformation and fakes, however for people who have been observing wars on this platform for over a decade, today's problem is unprecedented.”

Submission + - Prada teams up with Texas startup to design future spacesuits (reuters.com) 1

joshuark writes: Italian luxury fashion house Prada has partnered with Texas startup Axiom Space to design spacesuits for NASA’s Artemis III mission to the moon in 2025. The AxEMU spacesuit will provide astronauts with advanced capabilities for space exploration while offering NASA commercially developed human systems needed to access, live, and work on and around the moon.

The two companies said that the AxEMU spacesuit will provide increased flexibility, greater protection to withstand the harsh environment, and specialized tools for exploration and scientific opportunities. One small step for man, one big leap for fashion.

Comment Re:Abuse of DMCA (Score 1) 173

"Would you be willing to pay?" isn't the same as asking for payment. They very well could have been looking to shop the story around for a mini-series or Netflix special.

Under current law Paradox is in the right here, it's clearly an unlicensed derivative work. The real problem it the the term length of copyrights is way too damn long. The TV series is almost 30 years old at this point, well beyond the time period needed to encourage new creative works.

Comment Re:Paramount has nothing but contempt for Star Tre (Score 1) 173

There is the idea of promissory estoppel, but that just prevents you from collecting past damages for well known behavior that isn't objected to, but it doesn't prevent the copyright holder from changing their mind and seeking an injunction, or bringing a suit concerning new infringing activity.

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