I used to think the end of America was going to be the worst thing that could happen. Now I'm just hoping my country (Canada) can get out of the way of what has to be the biggest own-goals in history. I mean, how is Trump even allowed out of a dementia ward, let alone in charge of the most powerful nation on Earth? Why did so many Americans think he was somehow better than someone who can actually string coherent sentences together?

Ah yes, the Basil Fawltification of America, but now the Major is the President, and Manuel is being shivved in El Salvador.

It's a nice thing to have from a democratic point of view, but also a massive attack surface to be exploited.

We say how disastrous referendums can be in the UK back in 2016. One of the worst campaigns on memory, large sections of the population believing obvious and repeatedly debunked lies, and interference from Russia who scores a massive victory over us.

For it to work you need a well informed and properly engaged population, with strong safeguards to make sure that they stay that way.

I'd fix spelling and grammar errors if they would let me, but they block most VPN endpoints from editing and I can't be bothered to disconnect just for that. Even if I did, my ISP uses CGNAT so there is a decent chance the IP address would be blocked anyway.

There are chips that do PCIe to ISA and USB to ISA. You can get adapters from Chinese manufacturers who are still supporting industrial users.

They still make 8086 machines and everything in-between over there. With such a huge global market, nothing is too niche for them. Need a replacement laser assembly for your Laserdisc player? An IDE SSD? Token ring USB adapter?

How would Slashdot survive in this new world? Subscriptions were abandoned because they just weren't worth the hassle of managing for the tiny amount of income they provided. Ads are the only revenue stream at the moment.

All the billionaires are mentally ill. It's not a natural human condition, and clearly leads in most cases to monomania, megalomania and some degree of sociopathy. They come to believe the size of their bank accounts makes them into gods.

It's why I think we should ban the concept entirely. After the first $100 million, maybe adjusted every ten years for inflation, you don't get anything more. Sure, maybe you don't become the big innovator, but honestly, a good deal of the time after the initial invention (if they actually invented anything at all, which with Zuckerberg is debatable), it normally ends up in some sort of Edison's lab scenario, where the big rich "inventor" is paying actual researchers to create things that the big rich "inventor" can claim as their own.

In the ultra wealthy simply become enablers of tyrants. Think Crassus in the First Triumvirate, an equal on paper, but in reality a background figure whose wealth served Caesar and Pompey the Great more than it ever served Crassus himself.

Has anyone tried git-annex? It promises to help organize files, as well as synchronize them.

A while back I realized it is often cheaper to just buy more storage than to spend time sorting out files and deleting them. Organizing them is harder though.

For me it's the ever increasing volumes of data that is the issue. Individual files keep getting bigger. RAW images from my camera, 4k video at 200Mb/sec.

I've started archiving my Laserdiscs too, using a Domesday Duplicator for maximum quality. They come in at about 150 to 200GB/disc.

They aren't going to admit they used AI, or even give you enough info to easily sue them in many cases. Often they are not in the same legal jurisdiction anyway.

They are just bottom feeders who tell an AI to look for issues in open source code and write a bug report, and then spam them out. If they get extremely lucky they might get a serious bug credit for their CV, or they might even get a bounty.

What do you do with a nuclear reactor when it gets sent to the Google Graveyard?

It will probably be like their other AI investments. Big announcement, then they figure out how to make it more efficient and pull back. Or they just realize that it's cheaper to use some other technology to generate power. Or this startup fails to deliver.

Some people paid for access to Trump, and he obliged them by lifting the restrictions on their businesses. He doesn't even bother trying to make it look like a policy shift or a plan, he just gives them what they paid for.

Indeed, they jail people who don't follow environmental regulations, or who are responsible for environmental disasters.

The main effect of nuclear in Australia, aside from the corruption, is to extend the life of fossil fuel plants. They keep going, waiting to be replaced by nuclear, instead of transitioning the grid to renewables and storage.