A third party I contract with is consuming large quantities of copyrighted material to provide training material for my personal Ain’t-artificial Intelligence Model. There’s just no way to build it otherwise, and we can’t possible afford for the Chinese to beat us to this goal. No rare books have been harmed in this effort.
I got into the digital stuff around 2002ish with eDonkey. There was a big MST3k trading community at the time, and I had access to an OC-48 line back then. All the 90 minute episodes were sized to CD, so I had a whole spindle of episodes.
2026?
Some folks have a bit more practice and never let their skills go cold
I’d think less of them if they didn’t.
The only theater pirate I ever knew worked as a projectionist and took full advantage of that.
In the past I think they’ve sealed off the leaky module and let it go low pressure. I wonder why that doesn’t seem to be enough anymore.
Thankfully ublock works just fine in Firefox for android and its derivatives. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t use the mobile web either without it, and then my phone would exist only to mfa things at work.
I’d imagine ublock origin could forever close that pop-up.
I’m too lazy to take pictures, but I have a synology sitting in an Ikea Kalix and an older laptop mounted to the other side of the wall (that the kalix is against), which is a bathroom in my garage.
We had contractors working last summer and let them use the garage bathroom. After the 3rd day I overheard a few of them developing conspiracy theories for why we have a closed laptop mounted to the wall and with fans that would occasionally cycle up.
Hopefully he likes heat.
Japan is experiencing its first sustained inflationary period in many years. So these drives are seeing prices go up when they haven’t done so for much of their careers, and now their pay is dropping too.
I’m going to corner the market when the post war private jet price crash happens. What do we think we’ll be using for money then? Salt?
Like others, I have a 2 tier system.
About 2TB of my (Synology) NAS is critical files. Those get sent via Hyperbackup to cloud storage on at least a weekly basis, some daily. I have them broken up into multiple tasks with staggered schedules so it never has much to do on any given day.
The other 16TB I have get sync’d (again with hyperbackup, but not a scheduled backup task) to a 20TB external drive roughly once per quarter. Then that drive lives on the closet of a family member.
Looks like Huntarr’s presence on Github is suddenly gone and their sub went private.
Nestle’s long history of sacrificing infants for profits continues strong.
They’ve said publicly they intend to turn it into a MAGA-first platform. And now people are surprised?
There’s the accelerated bleaching of coral reefs. The increasing rate of back beach erosion especially on the west coast of the US (now USGIS estiames say the Pacific Northwest won’t have any natural sand beaches left by 2100). The rapid weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the Jet Stream. Mass-crab migrations started a couple years ago due to warming ocean temps. The Brazilian Rain Forest is probably past the point of no return. The Great Salt Lake might not make it 2040 (instead of 2100 - 2150) without another shift in weather patterns. Insect armageddon has happened way faster than anyone thought. And the massive ramp up in seasonal forest fires in North America has gotten bad far faster than expected.
When I was getting my bio degree in the late 90’s, early 00’s we learned a lot of worst case scenario models for climate change, many of which seem to be coming to pass. Those scenarios were for ~2080 - 2100.
Leaving NATO is part of Peter Thiel’s technofeudalist checklist. They want our overseas bases closed to end our status as a superpower, to hasten the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. And they want the money held by other nations be be transferred to the 1%.
X11 started as 4000 GNU hacks in a trenchcoat. I’d imagine some things it does are extremely efficient but everything has to go through a Rube Goldberg machine to get to the efficient bit.