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

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

Regrettably, it does do that

You’re not at scale unless you’re deploying OpenStack to run a WordPress site.

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.

Run hdparm on it and note the percentage used. If it’s near 100% it may degrade soon (though drives can hit 120% and still function).

This is 100% true but there also aren’t really any reliable alternatives for long-term firmware support. It’s either private companies offering 2-4 years or a somewhat open alternative whose longevity as a company and support capabilities (dev support) are unproven.

I’d say it mostly comes down to whether you want a phone you can tinker with and that supports a slightly better approach or something with the benefits of mainstream adoption and support from ROMs like GrapheneOS.

They just pay a vendor for it and don’t care about the things you do.

%.2f% means it will format to two decimal places max. So 5.877 will format as 5.88 and 1 will format as 1.00.

It’s a good one. You can stuff cash in an envelope to pay for it if you want.

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I’ve never used Temu and for all I know they’re questionable, but this article is not itself very credible. It’s heavy on uncited economic assertions, makes a hackneyed national security argument, and is actually very light on the technical security details. Plus it suggests nonsense like TikTok not requiring the android.permission.INTERNET permission, lol.

On their “About” page they gladly announce that they’re a private company hired by big corps and finance bros so on, and they have an unexplained focus on China. I suspect they take money to do hit jobs.

I’d be interested to see a security comparison between, say, Temu, Amazon, and Facebook apps.

An excellent argument for building and protecting socialism in Latin America!

PS you should read up on how global financial coercion works. It’s a liberal myth that a country can simply build autonomy without reckoning with their place in the world order. Countries in LatAm are placed in the global south by that order and when they try to step out of it and have autonomy, the US and the global north generally step in to screw them over.

This is not ancient history, either. Everyone has either lived through it or has parents that did. When Venezuela nationalized oil, i.e. acted on its autonomy over its own resources, it was hit with blanket sanctions, the full press propaganda effort, and repeated coup attempts. When Bolivia began building autonomy around its resources, including Lithium, it suffered a nearly successful coup attempt wherein the global north rapidly fell in line behind the Christian fascist coup government.

Now watch Argentina get continuously screwed by the global financial system that extracts their wealth and then forces them to change their societies in order to receive loans - societal changes that further impoverish the people and wreck their governmental and “civil society” institutions.

Carbon offsets would only work if the sequestration strategy is permanent, which implies doing waaaaay more than any of these joke offerings can do. Like… plant entire new forests that will never be developed. Ever.

Like recycling, it’s also mostly a PR thing to take the perceived onus for addressing a problem that’s fundamentally caused by how industry is organized and shift it into individual consumers - who will never succeed at addressing the problem because the interventions are inherently inadequate.

Put some Folgers in it

Gotta purge the right people

War is not particularly complex, it’s just not something liberals are usually willing to understand as it challenges their little mythologies (many of which you repeated here).

Relatively simple questions are unanswerable by that framework, not even approximately. Let’s try some.

• Who pushes for war in the first place? Where does the impetus come from? Normal folks don’t wake up and say, “yeah I’d like to destroy a country and its people 4500 miles away”, and they definitely don’t have the power to make war happen.

• What gains the consent of the country to support and maintain war? Why do anti-war movements, even with millions of people, fail to stop war?

• Why do the wars end? When they achieve their purpose? What purpose was that?

• Who benefits from the wars? Are they involved in the process?

Of course, the driving factors here are simply capitalism and its political lackeys, attacking from multiple angles to ensure its seat of empire will achieve the desired ends by pushing and by removing obstacles. The impetus is a series of battling foreign policy think tanks, politicians ready to support military spending, a friendly (and racist!) media apparatus, and war profiting companies paying every single one of those groups to keep the heat up for the next boondoggle. Constant vilification of established “enemies” and attempts to create new ones, usually targeted at countries that undermine the power of the global seat of capital and therefore its ability to exploit labor and resources internationally.

This is why Saudi Arabia is an “ally” while Iran is an enemy. All things the same, Americans would be just as racist towards both, care just as little for their lives, know just as little about them. But one cozies up to the hegemony of international capital and the other does not, so you are to hate the one and not the other. Scads of anti-Iranian think tanks and propaganda while the Saudis get occasional mention and can even murder journalists on US soil and get away with it. It’s not actually that complex so long as you don’t believe lies about American democracy, “freedom”, interest in peace, liberal world order, etc.

So when we know that these are the actors and criteria, why some wars and not others? Why not big new wars every 6 months instead of several years? Well, the interests involved are part of global capital, they respond to the rate of profit and crises of capitalism, and politicians are on their side. Both the capitalists and their buddies in Congress know that war is a “stimulus” and they count it as jobs and profits and campaign donations (legalized bribery) and good press. The opportune time is whenever it can be sentimentally capitalized on, whenever they can get away with it. When it’s hurting the “right people” at the time, where they might have to wait for consent to get manufactured first. When times are tough and “jobs” mean particularly more than other people’s lives.

And more deeply and perniciously, capitalism forms society itself, such as the white supremacist settler culture of the United States where it is never that difficult to whip up support against another ethnicity, just requires jumping through a few different hoops depending in which capitalist party you favor. The intense gullibility and susceptibility to propaganda, in part due to schools’ materials being dictated by reactionary school systems that themselves work in concert with large publishers to create verifiably false and simplistic material into history textbooks, lesson plans, etc (see: Texas’ input on other states’ curricula). The precarity forced on so many that they can’t even consider joining an anti-war movement. The normalization of American military violence and widespread societal myths about its impact, its actual activities, its history.

I don’t think any of this is complicated. It is only uncomfortable for some.

5 million dead buddy. You can’t nationalism that away unless you think brown people are subhuman.