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> Right up until you hear he left his 5 year old son behind

Nice manufactured outrage, there. He literally had no access to his son:

> At the time, servicemen were only allowed into Northern Ireland if they were serving there, so Bushby was effectively separated from Adam.

If another info-needs-to-be-free fanatic who is wealthier than I am is looking for volunteers to help mirror, all I need is the drives. I can supply everything else

I have built one NAS with 20 hotswap bays and have enough hardware to stand up a second. What I need now is 1.2Pb in drives, albeit using 40 or fewer drives (with at least 2 of them for hot spares), which means a minimum drive size of about 30Tb.

I have gigabit symmetrical, and have found Azureus to be the most aggressive torrent client I have ever used. I would be willing to contract for this to be an exclusive AA service with zero personal use.

> My mortgage has been sold almost a half dozen times already.

As a Canadian, other than the absolutely insane rate of school shootings, this is probably the next-wildest difference I can think of.

Canadian mortgages are held and stay with the bank that approves the mortgage. The only way the mortgage goes to a different lender is if the owner goes to that other bank to renew the mortgage. It just boggles my mind that mortgages can just be assigned willy-nilly without the owner’s consent.

Wow, this was all sorts of clumsy.

Like, even installing the recorder itself - wrapped in toilet paper, no less! - was amateurish. And that is putting it generously, and exceedingly kindly.

A page could have been taken from the actions of ATM card skimmers. Take a high-res image of that I/O panel, then duplicate it with all of the expected ports using a 3D printer to build an “extension” that seamlessly covers the existing TV ports. One USB port off of the TV leads to the recording device that remains hidden behind the extension, the others go to a USB hub that services the expected ports on the extension. Buy the same model of TV so that the extension can be tailored to be extremely difficult to recognize as something added/separate, and practice installing it so that it can be attached quickly and with great precision.

When done right, any average person looking at the back of the TV would be very hard pressed to see anything wrong with the I/O ports.

I have been a computer user since 1982, and a heavy computer user since 1992. I’ve yet to think of a frequent use case where more than one clipboard is needed at a time.

What I do find very useful, is handoff. Being able to copy and paste across Apple devices is immensely useful.

What I would love to see is clipboard timeouts. Where you can set in the operating system itself a timeout beyond which the clipboard gets automatically cleared.

The wealthy should be punitively taxed beyond a net worth in the low tens of millions, using a hysteresis-style curve that starts this wealth tax at $10M at 0%, and rises to 100% at $100M.

Not because this taxation can be properly redistributed - it can, especially with no-overhead UBI - but because the only way to reach those levels of wealth is to steal from the labour of others.

We need to make that theft impossible to achieve, from both directions. And the easiest to implement is from the top down, with a combination income & net worth tax, including treating loans on the backs of shares as income.

One thing I am not seeing anywhere: can it sync accounts with the bank? Like, is there an online sync that will connect to my bank and update local accounts with what exists in the bank’s accounts?

> a service that does what email/IMAP does in the first place?

Haven’t dug into this yet, but are you saying it isn’t a pure eMail client? That it’s a service to which you bodily hand off all your eMail passwords, and therefore the keys to your digital kingdom? That it’s someone else’s computer that’s retrieving your eMails for you?

Holy shite, how _stupid_ are people?

Like, holy MiTM exploiting, Batman. I would NEVER hand off eMail access to a third party. That’s begging to have your entire online existence destroyed.

This still has some pretty glaring bugs.

On any desktop system I am able to have it connect flawlessly to any of my IMAP accounts.

On iOS, the exact same settings produces an auth failure, and I cannot move past account set-up.

You… didn’t read past that point, did you? Because I talked about Europe in the second half.

It’s not just China.

Even as a GenX, I am seeing today’s wild corporate obsession with AI to be much like a 9.5-Richter thrust-fault earthquake, combined with a zombie apocalypse: despair and systemic, overpowering threats everywhere, while all the fortifications that people could rely on in prior eras crumbling into uselessness.

If I was young now, I would likely crack. I am already wildly incapable of conforming, having various neurodivergent issues that are wholly incompatible with economic servitude, and so am particularly vulnerable in this capitalistic hellhole that violently coerces us to be profitable to someone else least we suffer starvation, destitution, homelessness, or even death.

FOOS is fundamentally socialist/communist in the first place. Everyone can contribute, improve, fork, and otherwise modify the software. This kind of community participation and control is fundamentally communist at its foundation.

You want non-communistic software? That’s closed source, where a small group of oligarchs at the top control everything.

From a purely numbers perspective, this hits the nail on the head.

From a practical perspective, it fails utterly.

A bike can get you from point A to point B easily enough, but what about the details?

Where are you going to put the pizza you splurge-ordered five minutes before leaving work?

Where are you going to put the large watermelon you unexpectedly found on sale at the grocery store, while just picking up a few things for lunch?

And for unattached/unmarried men, how the deuce are they supposed to peacock their socioeconomic status to the majority of women whose primary partner “preferences” are the very Machiavellian 666 attributes?

Our entire western civilization - including bicycle design - is centred around the personal (ICE/electric) vehicle. From neighbourhood density & layout to walkable cities to wide and ubiquitous non-vehicle paths, it’s all grossly lacking.

At least Europe is fixing things, and only because the culture of bike-riding has existed since WWII, and became well reinforced over the last 30 by additional cultural considerations and political policy decisions including road designs and bicycle prioritization.

So yeah, even I am looking at the stats and going, “I wish”, without any irony. It’s a nice dream, but while our Protestant ethic for hyper-individualization continues to exist, any focus on anything other than vehicle prioritization will be seen as downright communistic.

Just look at how the province of Ontario - and its lardy-arse hyper-conservative premier Doug Ford - has begun ripping bike lanes out of the cities which installed them, because “those bike lanes cause traffic congestion”, despite all of the evidence showing that this is just not true. It’s all a political stunt designed to make Cletus-IQ conservatives forget that they vote against their own best interests, by giving them a “liberal windmill” to tilt against and be distracted by as Ford and his buddies bleed them dry.