Yep. Biden signed a bill into law to rebuild that infrastructure. Trump killed it.

Much of it is over 100 years old, so it must be replaced. Flint Michigan learned that the hard way some years back. In Connecticut this year there have been several water main breaks in multiple towns that knocked out water for large numbers of people.

We were literally decades ahead of the rest of the world when we built all this stuff. Which means we have to be decades ahead of the rest of the world to rebuild all of this stuff.

It would be a lot easier if we didn’t have some 400 people taking about 80% of the wealth of this country.

For sociopaths like Musk, yes. The rest of us, not so much.

I actually commented on that somewhere. Cyberpunk is a good example of authors warning us of dystopian possibilities, not glorifying them.

Oh, yes they are…

You’re implying there is an option other than not owning a TV. Please send us specifics so we can join you.

Yep. My LG is not configured for internet. I updated it once with a USB stick. There is no reason to connect tv or speaker to internet. A good antenna gets me critical stuff.

We are already there, but with cars.

They do not exist. I looked.

This is the way. Bonus with HDR, Dolby vision, Atmos.

Steam Deck looks and sounds awesome with this setup.

I still remember adjusting the wrabbit ears on our black and white tv to get one of 4 tv stations.

I am perfectly happy with walking away from video entertainment once my work-arounds fail.

The world will continue spinning when the media manipulators go broke because nobody watches their tripe any more.

I hear these things called books are pretty entertaining.

I’m guessing this situation is the existential threat they feared most. They are ruthless. Revenge is in the culture (so I hear), so I think they are acting on “if I’m going down, you’re coming with me” mode.

I’m not even going to read that tripe.

This is the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth. The only way either the Navy or the economy collapses is because the billionaires see profit in it for themselves.

We have the means to easily pay for everything, but the greedy bastards calling the shots want it all for themselves. If the shits who have stolen all the income of this nation paid like they did between 1945 and 1970, the debt would be obliterated in a few years and we could have universal healthcare, childcare and elder care.

That will never happen until we party like it’s 1795. Even then, some other megalomaniac will hijack it and leave us in a reign of terror.

If you don’t know my references, you are sadly lacking basic history education.

What mean “we” round-eye?

I built my life around tech, but I never believed it was anything this article claims “we” believed.

Tech is a tool, not a panacea. Apparently “we” never grew up watching Star Trek, or reading the many authors’ works that fully explored the folly “we” are building (Fahrenheit 451, I, Robot, Ender’s Game, any number of cyberpunk books, et. al.)

Holy Fuck. A child could see this coming. I know because I saw it coming. Decades ago.

Rationalizing the mass surveillance by claiming people rationalize their bad behavior (no way to really know that) is a very bad approach.

Rule of law is concrete. If one thinks they’re a good person while both taking someone else’s agency and breaking a felony-level law, that is on them. Taking away everybody else’s freedom and privacy because some people are narcissistic sociopaths is the kind of thing authoritarian narcissistic sociopaths do to get and maintain control.

We don’t have to instill in the minds of anyone anything other than basic human empathy and an understanding of the Golden Rule as a starting point of social interaction.

People forget that the surveilling party can be narcissistic sociopaths like anybody else. The difference is the scale of damage they can do.

Yes there are. Perhaps the “between the lines” of all this is that to protect women, they should be confined to the home and when out (with permission and escort of course) they should be covered head to toe in garments that hide everything but the eyes!

Oh, wait…

Hah! They don’t have to. Many have “assistants” listening constantly, door cameras linked to central surveillance hubs, security cameras also linked to those hubs. It’s too late for most people - they took the bait. Hell, even the televisions record audio and send it back to the hub, and I’ve heard now that cameras are the new rage for them so we can “control the TV with motion”. Yeah, most are already cooked. I had to replace my old LG, bought a new one. I didn’t give it access to the internet. Even so, who knows if it’s still secretly doing it? And then there are our phones in which they swear they’re not tracking us. Yet, plenty of proof they are in fact recording our conversations and tracking our locations.

I see you totally ignored the entire point of my wall of text ™, and decided to simply insult me and claim I thought I was dunking on someone (more proof you didn’t really read it). You do you!

Right here, folks, is what happens when people feel threatened by information that does not support a closely held world view. We get argument-less attacks on the person perceived as threat. Even better, I had actually confirmed that the original topic was in fact legit in my own opinion after fact-checking with that “billionaire-owned propaganda factory” - yet here we are.

How does it feel, “BlameTheAntifa”, to agree with such a propaganda factory? Or, am I misunderstanding you and you feel the story is entirely propaganda?

XMPP works through gateways, so any SMP or PBX Voice call is routed through the standard network, so is not secure. VOIP and the XMPP chat features, however, can be secure and private. The encryption exists and you can host your own servers, which covers both of the privacy concerns.

Well there’s a difference between the rendering engine and what’s included with it. Take a look at Cromite. They do quite a bit of work hardening Chrome. I think avoiding chrome-based browsers on principle is self-limiting. Evaluate the product before discarding it. I’m a Firefox guy, but I know it has its problems.

Okay, I haven’t read the article I was just responding to the question about the licensing problem. From what I see in the brief summary here is that this particular item is a rewrite of an existing property, but was given a license incompatible with said property. That is different from whether its license is compatible with Python. I looked up the Python license.

GPL-compatible doesn’t mean that we’re distributing Python under the GPL. All Python licenses, unlike the GPL, let you distribute a modified version without making your changes open source. The GPL-compatible licenses make it possible to combine Python with other software that is released under the GPL; the others don’t.

So I see that point as relevant if inclusion renders Python no-longer GPL-compatible. The real issue appears to me to be that AI makes it very easy to write (theoretically clean-room) implementation of a product - in this case chardet.

The problem here is that what was once something that took real effort and dedicated developer interest to “clone” legally is now easier (perhaps trivial) to do and license differently. This would threaten the GPL model, which is to democratize software and keep it from being entirely owned by entities that could then restrict the software or otherwise destroy the value of competing products.

I’d say there’s a real problem here, as people’s significant efforts for the greater community could be co-opted and eventually be rendered “pointless” when many people move away from it due to “improved” versions or the “new” versions add features that promote lock-in to their commercialized version. Eventually that open software is no longer viable, and people have to use the proprietary one. I don’t know if that is necessarily how things would actually play out, but it would at least dilute the GPL-based licensing power.