There are DJs that believe, in my opinion superstitiously/pseudoeciencely, vinyl is somehow superior in sound quality.

They may be right under the right circumstances.

Vinyl has limitations digital music does not have, one of which is that you cannot violently compress the dynamic range as done with much of today's music --- the needle will skip.

So oftentimes, the master that is used for vinyl is not the same master that is used for digital. And that vinyl master has sound that breathes, unlike the digital version.

Note that if that same vinyl master was used for digital, the digital version would sound better.

Go listen to an old seventies vinyl and compare it to last years' digital remaster --- odds are your old vinyl will sound better because the new remaster was punished with over-compression.

Weird, not positive what happened to the end of my sentence, but I believe palm detection didn't detect my palm and it was wiped out.

It should have read:

"If they make their series in such a way that each season is self contained and completely resolved, then I am more than happy to watch. American Horror Story is a good example of this, and Black Mirror is another example, with each episode being self contained. They could also come up with sort of guarantee that a series will be completed -- however, I really don't see that happening as that would just be too much risk for them."

You left out the most important piece that they need to have drilled into their heads: "Make series that have self contained seasons!!!"

The risk of a series being cancelled is just way too high. So high that I (and I am sure plenty of others) don't bother watching until the entire series is complete. Now, I realize that by doing this it lowers the chances of the series being renewed and especially completed. Oh well, been burned TOO many times. There are better things I can do with my time than to watch a series that gets canceled and has no resolution.

If they make their series in such a way that each season is self contained and completely resolved, They could also come up with sort of guarantee that a series will be completed -- however, I really don't see that happening as that would just be too much risk for them.

Fuck Joe Biden. That steaming pile of dementia doesn't give two shits what he does to the American people -- he has his money, so fuck everyone else. Wait, that is literally ALL politicians.

A solution to our corrupt pieces of shit would be to pay them minimum wage while in office, and have NO access to ANY other money. No investments, no donations, NOTHING. Then anyone looking to get into office to make money is shit out of luck. If you do make money while in office -- that is a hanging.

The government should fear the people, not the people should fear the government.

Anyone that thinks this is a good thing is either trolling, actually fucking retarded, or doesn't live in the USA.

Graveyards are filled with proprietary communication platforms that eventually screw up and die. From ICQ to Digg to Google+ to Reddit to Vine to name it. Eventually Slack, Instagram, Facebook will all follow. I'm surprised Slashdot still exists.

Meanwhile, e-mail (1971), Usenet (1980), IRC (1988), Jabber/XMPP (2004) are still alive.

Maybe it's time we realize that unless no one owns the communication platform, it's going to die sooner than later.

For over a decade I've been wanting a web standard so news agencies and whoever could digitally sign their published articles so the users could trace the source back to its origin for content that needs to very trusted and verified...
Now it's probably too late with the current media landscape crumbling under the aggregators of this world, but still worth a try maybe?

And capitalism's use of AI without thinking of the impact on society even more so...

And the fact that you are currently moderated as flamebait just goes to show that even slashdot readers want daddy government to spoon feed them. What the FUCK?!?

We see what happens with those fast-moving ecosystems like JavaScript; create a project, go for a coffee, come back, suddenly half the libraries your code is attached have "upgrades" that break your code and are incompatible with each other, forcing you to pin specific version numbers and making your whole project vulnerable as fixes are not backported.

A similar effect is bound to happen with Rust.

Rust does not currently have an official spec. And the language changes with every dot-release, every few weeks.

Maintaining a sudo/su in Rust will mean constantly adapting the code to the new Rust "standard" of the day, creating a future situation where a security fix will be written in a future version of Rust your distro will not yet support.

Can the Rustaceans get their bloody act together and create a spec _before_ meddling in core projects and imposing their half-finished language?

Yes it does, and that is why I will become ungovernable. If this passes, everyone needs to protest this by ignoring it. If the majority of the populace ignores a law, what are they going to do?

This is a blatant violation of the first amendment. I can post speech on TikTok, this takes that freedom away -- there is literally no other way to interpret it.

I currently have no social media of any kind, however, if this passes I will install the scourge that is TikTok and make sure it is KNOWN that I am using a VPN to access it.

This is a hill I will die on. They will NOT get away with telling me what I can and can not access. FUCK THAT!

Wow, someone needs to get you deprogrammed ASAP.

Due to engine bleed, not today.

If you want everything free, oh well

I don't have to subsidize a broken business model with my private data, nor should you.

Nobody's forcing businesses to be on the internet. If they feel they're not getting a enough bang for the buck from their online presence, they just have to shutdown their site and move on to other avenues.

Maybe you're too young to remember, but the web was almost ad-free at first, and the few ads were static images that didn't rape privacy. E-mail service is ad-free and has been for almost 50 years.

TL;DR: The current privacy nightmare is not the only possible way to have a vibrant and valuable internet.

Since the first time I heard they were phasing out nuclear BEFORE phasing out gaz, coal, etc. and transitioning to solar, wind, etc.
I was utterly confused by the lack of thinking behind this decision!