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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

On one hand, I absolutely abhor governmental blanket data collection and the storage of this data. Both from a personal privacy, independence and freedom point of view, and from a “you know they’ll just leak the data and then everyone will have it” standpoint.

On the flip side:

In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies

Any sane company or government would have already done this… not sharing data between agencies/silos is leads to inaccuracies, duplication of data and work (wasted time/money), additional complexity in data storage and gathering, plus it provides multiple attack surfaces for data breaches.

Also, I read that as “if one agency needs something they can ask the other one for it” which has likely been happening for centuries at this point and this is just another “Trump said we need to do what’s already happening so he can look smart and like he’s doing something besides golfing and accepting foreign bribes”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I feel like it depends on the beach. Haven’t been to French one’s, but I’d bet there were some touristy ones that get slammed with people. Those make sense for this. Now, some of the quieter more locals only kinda beaches that people are able to spread out more, that’s probably fine to keep… but that’s going to be a hard distinction to make clear rules on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

So they’re agreeing that the last set of 8 movies wasn’t a “faithful adaptation”?

I mean, they skipped lots of stuff from the books, so maybe this’ll fill that in? But at the same point, we’ve been through this already, who is going to care to rehash it all? Find a new story!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

My wife’s parents recently passed. It took months to slog through their stuff and my wife was over it only weeks in. She dumped so much but constantly fights with herself for both taking more than she wanted/needed to and yet less that what she feels she should have. We’ve told our daughter multiple times “our stuff May mean a lot to us, it doesn’t have to mean anything at all to you. If you don’t want it, never feel bad dumping/selling/letting it go.” Out of all the stuff we all collect in life just by living, barely anything has any sentimental value.

On one hand I’ve got a huge collection of photos and albums I’ve taken and collected. I’m trying to clear some out as I go… but I’m not looking forward to that process when my parents go. My dad’s an avid photographer and I know he has a few hundred thousand photos, most of which are near duplicates and he rarely cleans them up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Now if we can just stop expanding light pollution!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He doesn’t actually know what the team ”racist” means, he just knows energizes his base to hear things called that. Whatever shocks his voters into action and belief is good publicity for him and his cronies.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (6 children)

To be fair, the traditional web models were falling apart prior to AI as well. We’ve gone so far past “ad driven” that Everything has to be full of ads and clickbait to drive revenue just to run the infrastructure, let alone pay for the pages creation and upkeep. Journalists and developers, services and goods are all using adword soup to try to get anything close to a useful revenue stream and it’ll just keep getting worse until we figure out a better business model. We’re going to increasingly see paywalls to try to make up for that, but a large part of people on the internet won’t want to spend money on quality sources when they use to be able to get it for free. It’s been a race to the bottom for a while and it’s at a point that isn’t sustainable long term. AI just accelerates that to the next level.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We don’t even get the laugh track!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s okay, we’ll just get rid of the regulations on everything else so this one fits the norm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Have it sync the backup files from the -2- part. You can then copy them out of the syncthing folder to a local one with a cron to rotate them. That way you get the sync offsite and you can keep them out of the rotation as long as you want.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I still don’t get the game price hate. There’s plenty of other things to hate on Nintendo for, but do an inflation check on $60 between 2010 and now and it’s $88. It’s way past time for prices to go up and they’re still much cheaper than they used to be in the 80’s and 90’s.

Do I like that it finally followed the market and increased? No. But PS5 and XBox games have been expensive new for quite a while. Indie games are able to fill in the market space below and that’s where my money goes anyway. This will just continue that trend.

Not to mention the used market will continue thanks to physical copies that are slowly being dropped from other platforms.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Same here. This seems like something we’d have had in place 20 yrs ago and they just layered facial recognition in the last 5-10.

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