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Finally someone is standing up to the woke mob. Thank you, WB conglomerate! You are the true underdog.

I hadn’t heard of radicle. I like that forgejo has CI

The number being somewhere on your computer isn’t something I’d worry about. The real risk is from a liberal autocomplete that might throw it into website forms where you don’t want it to be, including hidden ones. Maybe there are protections in place since I last let Firefox save anything like this, but it used to try pasting address and CC info whenever it could.

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The main question I would have is why use it instead of protobuf? Having native support for binary values aside.

Apple makes it basically impossible to do proper testing for compatibility without buying a Mac or paying someone else that has a Mac to run your tests. Their entire app infrastructure is like this.

Either way, the Japanese deserve to have their culture appropriated so this is great.

I choose to believe, despite having read the article, that Australian sushi is just a bunch of still-living extremely poisonous animals served alongside a beer.

This is the kind of thing that a person who’s never had your average boss would say.

No. Wrong. Your typical boss has a need to justify their existence and “cut costs” and isn’t particularly good at what they do so they’re also insecure. If you give them a little dashboard that says you’re spending the most time being “idle” (quantified with keystrokes or creepy camera or mic or network monitoring), it won’t matter that you’re meeting your targets because all they’re gonna see is lost potential labor.

Also, management always wants ways to collect evidence that you deserved to be fired in case they ever want an excuse to do so. Maybe they’re really firing you because you got in the way of some nepo promotion. Maybe it’s because they think you might help form a union. Maybe it’s because they think you’re overpaid. Maybe it’s because you’re older or gay or have too much melanin. Little performance metrics like this can always be cherry-picked to give them sufficient legal justification to do (in reality) illegal things.

This is a weapon to be used against you and you should have solidarity with your fellow workers, not bootlick.

You can burn em with your burner of course. I haven’t burned discs in so long that I can’t remember what software I used to use, but there should still be open source, free software that can do exactly that.

If long-term, secure storage is your goal I’d go with redundant, error-correcting digital storage with off-site encrypted backups (don’t forget the password!). A proper system like that will survive a tornado (because it’s backed up off-site). A home-built RAIDZ2 NAS with one of many off-site backups will work very well. If you don’t want to figure out how to build that system, you can also just buy a NAS with a similar level of functionality (I do still recommend RAIDZ2 with at least 6 disks, though).

Blu-rays will eventually degrade, either from scratches or a slow phenomenon where they get little holes in the foil. Even if you keep making copies, you’ll run into this problem. Of course, data corruption can also occur for files on a computer, but that’s why you use a strategy that keeps ~3 copies of each file around (basically what RAIDZ2 accomplishes) so that errors can be auto-corrected.

There are other benefits to a NAS as well. You can store your own backups of your other devices there as well and have them backed up off-site. You also have the option to share your blu-ray rips over your home network, basically running your own local streaming service.

If you want to share the love, so to speak, the bandwidth of a USB hard drive is actually pretty great.

It is actually true and it’s kind of sad that you need to pretend it isn’t in order to avoid the point. You may want to revisit the physics taught to 12-year-olds if you don’t think gravity explains objects falling.

If I were to be generous, I could say that what you should say is that while gravity is one explanation, you’re looking for something more proximal and contextualized rather than fundamental. But then you might risk having to acknowledge the rest of what I said, which squarely criticizes that (and that you ignored).

I would say that yes you’re trying to be pedantic, but it’s really just a cover for being avoidant and failing to communicate. People that are informed don’t have that insecurity.

The reason the stone rolls down the hill is actually gravity, though. And we live in a world of gravity-deniers who obsess over the exact details of the stone’s shape and the color of its moss to explain why it rolls down the hill. Some call those things academic and call gravity unsatisfying.

And you might be surprised at how little horse trading is required to support these interests. It is often implicit and has more to do with the fallout from failing to do so and who is in the room in the first place. And who gets to purge in the party and set the narrative. You’ll notice that for years, now, the token Labor voices in opposition to Israel are on the back foot. They enter the discussion with milquetoast criticism of the inevitable supporting arguments rather than leading with their own.

Look at how AUKUS went down. It’s the exact same thing.

I’m confused about what you think an academic discussion looks like if you’re trying to eschew the fundamental issue of capital-aligned settler-colonialism. The details of recent posturing mean nothing because Labor is fundamentally subservient to capital at home and abroad, which is why it doesn’t matter that there are well-meaning Labor MPs with decent takes, as they are and have been consistently disempowered and kept in the realm of token dissent. The last time an Australian national leader materially stepped out of line they were undemocratically deposed, which would have been called a coup if one didn’t subscribe to the chauvinist double standards of Anglo speech patterns.

Labor could only ever have a serious material dissent on Israel if it did the same on substantive restorative justice for the aboriginal groups whose stolen resources they - and the people who actually run the country - live off of. They cannot reckon with either because they are aligned with the forces that maintain the sociopathic status quo.

Israel is a terrorist organization

Liberals are still settler-colonists at heart and will fall all over themselves to appease their masters when called on.

Cult behavior

Oh I see. Not sure what they mean by “pay once”, that was what made me think it was about buying software.

Brave has been hyped as a privacy browser despite having several major privacy failures baked into it repeatedly. It’s 100% hype. You get the same level of privacy on paper by installing Chromium with an ad blocker and tweaking a couple settings. Firefox has better privacy defaults and is better with an ad blocker installed. Chromium has a slight edge on security (FF needs to really push tab isolation harder) but if privacy is your main concern I would always recommend FF.

Money is involved because people want to make a living off of their project. Also, every major browser has been backed with huge amounts of funding because supporting a browser is very difficult.

That said, that doesn’t mean every browser project is good, either. Just that it’s reasonable to see why people would want to get income from their work.

PS the Brave CEO sucks so I’m not sympathizing with him here.

Crypto is the dumbest hill to die on.

It’s tens of thousands of unregistered securities hype bubbles built on half-baked tech. There is nothing of value there.

And Brave is just Chromium with a faux privacy mask.

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