Works for Kodi on linux too, so maybe other things as well. Handy.

If it’s just a couple of books, Anna’s Archive has your back.

Weird I know, but IMO it’s best to hand curate books and music (I have comics not manga, but same deal there). Automated tools can quickly rack up more books than you’ll read in a lifetime, and enough new music to listen to for a decade fits in a TB (even mostly FLAC). The problem then becomes finding what to read / listen to next, which gets worse with size.

That said, having a large local nonfiction book / journal article library can be useful to grep through, especially given current internet search problems.

Assuming of course, to be pessimistic, it hasn’t been weaponized. Siberian Anti-Plague Research facility doesn’t fill me with confidence, and you’d expect the hospital to have tried antibiotics, granted they may have been too late or used the wrong ones.

forced labour

How about the US stops prison slavery first.

On the flip side, making mental maps, like professional drivers do, seems to protect against Alzheimer’s

Probably not worth the pain, but it’s sort of opposite to this.

Lovely, it’s called Ghost Ship Valley.

Brutal. I love it.

Nice, front light, 3.97", SD Card, Crosspoint compatible, cheap(ish). Lots to like.

Most welcome, have fun.

only Naoero, a tiny Pacific island ​nation formerly known as Nauru, has followed suit.

As it happens this is where Australia dumps unwanted refugees, which may well be an international crime, which would explain it.

Few =/= one. Bad headline.

Since Rubio announced the campaign, Venezuela and Chad have announced plans to withdraw from the court.

Venezuela is heading towards being a US vassal state. Not sure about Chad, but I’ll guess at heinous crimes being a factor.

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger ​announced their exits the previous year, denouncing the court as an instrument of “neocolonial repression.”

Well, they can’t be said to be following US lead then, but heinous crimes likely applies as well (still guessing).

Image is 270MB, under 1MB in its volume.

Sane response to an insane world…

Damn I miss quotes being respected.

Happy local user for a couple of years now, you can pipe it through a VPN with gluetun for extra fun. Super lightweight, run it on my T580 laptop. Doesn’t fix the enshittified web, but at least you can blacklist the worst of it, along with many other tricks.

The scary thing to me is that it was claimed to be the ‘AI crawler’ that did the breach. Those fuckers have been driving up the cost of running every website, have zero respect for a robots.txt file and just keep hammering the internet in general.

Now it appears they also have some sort of breaching capability, or the Medicare statistics site and others have a bad hole that allowed the crawler to walk its way in. I hope it’s the latter, bad as that is, because the former indicates they’re hooking up red team (hacking) agents to their fucking web crawler. Greedy, data hoovering, assholes.

ETA: The Guardian article reports Albanese as saying

the agent had accessed “public and non-public files within the portal” and, in order to do this, “engaged in writing files as well to the internal server”.

which is not crawler behaviour, it’s definitely breaching.

That should be straight up criminal behaviour, at the very least criminal negligence, probably significantly worse, whatever hacking for hire is in the targeted country. As is scarily becoming usual ‘an agent did it’ is being treated as a get out of jail free card, freeing them of responsibility. Those who control it need to be criminally accountable. Even if it is an OpenAI client (person) deliberately breaching their guardrails (Barbossa: “The code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.”), the company is an accomplice.

Older ThinkPads have that, my T440p has three drives, one easily swappable where the DVD was and one NVMe in the WWAN slot (actually the fastest), great for hopping. For the T480 you can do the WWAN NVMe trick, or use an external TB3 drive (enclosure maybe), which is fast enough to play around.

Perhaps it’s interesting to flip the problem. What if you made a product that lasted say 10x as long as the competition with a small margin and accepted the market would saturate? Then pivot to the next product, and the next?

I would expect, given the current state of ‘capitalism’, you would be sued, IP’d and regulated out of existence very quickly. Criminal contempt of business model.

Got a right wing party that’s actually doing something? All the Green parties I know of are left wing, so it’s at least strongly correlated.

And the anonymous internet gets another nail in the coffin. Endgame is every comment identifiable and legally (unlike state intelligence agencies) actionable against you, and the chilling effect that will have on free speech, communication, and organization.

Hail the rise of techno fascism, the entire internet will be facebook.

Can they not palm it off on the corpos to do for them? The states already have the identification apparatus, they should step up and provide age verification services. Meta and Steam do not need my photo ID, just that I’m over 18. If we can’t have freedom, at least minimize the harm.