Well thats good to hear

Securing the substation itself is easy you just build a cinder block wall around it put a roof on it and then alarm it. You put up cameras in hire ADT to look after it

The problem is once you do that they can then go after transmission lines.

These people need to be infiltrated and run in as terrorists.

Wayland is ready, ‘nobody’ else is ready to use Wayland. And by nobody, I mean any software packages that are doing anything at all out of the ordinary. Text expanders are a hot mess, remote control apps or dodgy, OBS screen capture is dodgy. We’re still playing catch up, support for Wayland in applications is honestly quite lacking.

I don’t think there’s any solid argument that precludes people from doing maintenance on their own car. There’s always some form of inspection or monitoring that can be done. Brakes in particular are perfectly reasonable. I particularly miss ease of maintaining drum brakes. They were literally designed to be maintained by the end user, you pull the wheel, The drum slides right off and the parts are readily available. If you want to get fancy you could buy a tool to help you remove the spring.

Things should be designed to be maintained by the end user and the end user could choose to go to a mechanic if they wanted to.

Honestly what we’re running up against at this point with car maintenance is design to cost. Every part that is maintainable on a car could be designed to be easily maintainable for a cost. Rather than the manufacturer paying that cost, there making us pay the cost at the mechanic. You can literally buy repair parts that are easy and convenient to work with that are improvements over OEM.

In the case we’re talking about for this article it’s literally a wire on a lithium ion battery pack in a wrist mounted device that failed that they’re refusing to replace.

And it’s not like he’s going to fall out of the sky and land in somebody’s backyard.

And if you were asked to leave in the US because of a facial disfigurement you could fully expect to have a business closing lawsuit won against you in no time at all. Wa are as litigious AF for better or worse, usually worse.

The argument that because some people can’t, or won’t do a good job, no one should isn’t a very good one. Under that same logic you could exclude wiper blades.

You end up like New Jersey where you can’t pump your own gas. There are already guidelines and fixes for this wrapped around repairing your home power. You’re not allowed to architect major changes without the sign off of somebody who is a registered professional but you’re absolutely allowed to fix things that are already there.

For more people die from not fixing their brakes, because it’s difficult and expensive than ones who fix their brakes incorrectly.

Could you imagine those ledgers trying to process when everyone in existence tries to insert hundreds to thousands of unique licenses. Then having to continuously access records on every media use after that.

How many unique copies of media are there out there. Hundreds of billions, trillions. I don’t think we have anything adequately designed at this point that could handle that kind of load.

We own a few TVs but nobody actually watches them. If we’re all out in the living room there’s four phones out with four people watching four different things.

And Amazon sidewalk.

Given there are only two major institutions that are capable of winning under the current rules, one of the two institutions figured out it’s advantageous not to have highly educated constituents.

Over the period of about two generations they’ve managed to rig it so that only the upper class can manage to get a fair education. So the poor malleable people will vote for whoever they’re told to vote for, and the ultra-rich will vote for the side that is most advantageous to them.

In a time where we should be trying to get as much education into every living being that we can, degenerates are using a lack of education as a wedge to stay in power.

I’d say don’t preach to me, but hell with that preach to everybody.

Comskip has a pretty wide array of detection. They also look at percent scene change,volume , closed captioning, aspect ratios and duration patterns. The sweet part about the duration patterns is we know the contents supposed length. You could analyze the piece of media figure out how long it would be without it and look around for other options that are less obvious but make the right time code.

I’ve been using comskip for years, I suspect if it ends up being the tool we need will have an arsenal of people working on it to tune it for whatever YouTube’s doing.

They’re just looking to knock out the easy methods, they’re not going to try to wage a full-on ground war. Their primary goals are probably to stop ublock and brave, and keep YT-DLP from downloading without ads. secondary goals being to stop or slow down revanced, though I think Google’s going to try to do that for them in security.

I think the next logical step if they can’t block us with reasonable means would be to do some custom encryption in the app. Again not insurmountable but hard to crack out right.

I think using a server to download the whole steam with ads then remove the ads, compress and store the files is really the hardest thing for them to stop.

I procure for my company I am not touching Logitech anymore.

Historically you don’t hear a lot about Baltimore’s mayor unless they’ve done something really awful. In the early 2000s we had some riots that broke out from police brutality (Freddy Grey), The mayor at the time said some very non-choice words and ended up becoming very unpopular very quickly. She was followed up by a mayor that was taking bribes, she was found complicit in businesses having to order a large quantities of her book to receive preferential treatment, ended up with a 3-year prison term. She was followed up by somebody who was okay but short-lived, The current guy that’s in there is relatively young, he just turned 40. He’s good for the city and he doesn’t tend to make controversial decisions, as long as you’re a Democrat I suppose.

Emphasis was from the article, not mine.

They also recommend not using knowledge based prompts, allowing at least 64: characters,

Well, that’s kind of fair I don’t hate SpaceX either. They seem to keep him at arms length.

To be fair we did win, But it was only because It wasn’t by a narrow margin. There’s enough wrong right now that if we had a true 50-50 race there’s no way we’d win it. And that needs to be fixed. We’ve got swing states with openly corrupt voting management. DeJoy is trying to f*** over the mail, he ripped out the sorting machines last time to try to slow things down and he’s trying to slow it down again. You’re still going to have voting sections in poor sections of town moved miles away, you’re still going to have people arrested for bringing people water who are standing in really long lines.

Yeah, we’re still looking at things for an election we won because things are still pretty f***** up

Market value. Dude must have been really hard up for money.

I was going to eat that mummy!

I used to work for an insurer. Our entire health system is just a steaming pile of crap. Providers will double or triple bill. Hospitals raise their rates through the absolute roof so they have room for negotiations. The uninsured people more often than not get billed at the unnegotiated rate which is many times what it should be. If the insurers are short on money or profit margins are down and their stockholders are angry they end up turning down shitloads of procedures looking at the statistics for what’s least likely to cause lawsuits and death. Medicare requires you to go and recertify every patient every year, Mr Johnson’s an amputee, well you better get him back in to make sure he still is or you’re not going to pay for DME. Half the big insurers are still running on Big iron of one form or another, FTP over SSL coming hot off of mainframe.

It’s not a good look.