8TB external hard drive ($160) + old laptop + “H265 sources” = way cheaper than a bunch of streaming services

I’ve begun my switch over to Mint from Windows. Its kinda wild to suggest normal users to switch to Arch of all things. Netflix (and streaming apps in general) straight to Jellyfin is also a stretch because there are… extra steps

Or they’ll just build a backdoor into it (it probably already exists) and never talk about it again.

I put Google cameras on my house years ago out of convenience and this is it, I’m spending the money on a PoE system where my footage stays on my own hardware.

They’re all made of concrete which means I don’t have to hear my upstairs neighbor stomping around at every hour of the day

I live in a rich suburb of a big city and as far as I can tell the city actually has control of the police, the police union isn’t run by a bunch of comic book villains, and the non-MAGA “good cops” actually want to work here, and do. Hop over to the big city and their police union acts as a 4th arm of government run by truly evil people.

Local PD can’t do anything because the second they do, Insurrection Act.

Minnesota has “permit to carry”, so you need a permit to legally have a firearm in public. Other states have banned open carry at protests. There are legal barriers.

With everything that is happening I’m questioning my state’s assault weapon ban. The feds are unhinged.

No, and if there were, it would likely give actual legal grounds for the federal government to invoke the Insurrection Act which would allow domestic deployment of the US military - not National Guard, full military. Local PD isn’t doing much for the same reason.

The actual website is https://icelist.is/

The leak is supposedly at https://wiki.icelist.is/

The site has been hammered and either times out or gives a 403 response, which lately is accompanied by a disclaimer message which essentially says “Hosted content does not represent our company”.

It is possible the site owners shut it all down because of the massive increase in traffic. The disclaimer message that popped up is weird. I haven’t seen any dumps show up anywhere I’m aware of.

I hope you’re right. NYC isn’t like the US city I live in. The toilets I linked are pretty utilitarian, which isn’t a bad thing. They work, they can be cleaned easily, but you’re right, they are not self-cleaning.

I hope NYC figures out a new solution that others can follow. The Portland Loo was literally designed by the City of Portland (OR, USA) and it works.

In the US they will more than likely be these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Loo

My city has a few, they’re generally better than those plastic portable toilets with the blue liquid plus require much less maintenance once installed.

“Legal” doesn’t mean much anymore

Because at the same time they’re trying to implement age verification for app stores while also very vaguely defining what an app store is.

The Act defines an “App Store” as “a publicly available Internet website, software application, or other electronic service that distributes software applications from the owner or developer of a software application to the user of a mobile device.”

So… what constitutes a mobile device? Who is an owner/developer? Does github have to implement age verification for mobile devices?

The sommelier thing is at least somewhat real but it actually takes work. I don’t think anyone is getting much better sound than 320kbps with a good quality sound system. $300 studio monitors can give you pretty much peak sound quality at this point, no unobtanium wires required.

My parents let me have a dirt pit when I was a kid, it was a fucking blast. It sorta went away when it evolved into bike jumps

I use DuckDuckGo and it is better in general, but still has a big pitfall with AI generated websites. I’ve used some others like SearXNG but those feel experimental at best. I’m willing to hear about viable alternatives.

Totally agree. In my day to day work, I’m not dealing with anything groundbreaking. Everything I want/need to code has already been done.

if you have a Copilot license and are using the newest Visual Studio, it enables the agentic capabilities by default. It will actually write the code into your files directly. I have not done that and will not do that. I want to see and understand what it is trying to do.

No, I’m saying that I bought some stuff then changed my ways. I didn’t look elsewhere previously. I am looking elsewhere now, and I will not give Amazon money. I was highlighting the problem that tons of people run into - shit is still cheaper at Amazon even if it is much more expensive than it was 2 years ago.

In 2008 you could do a web search and have relevant real results right on the first page. Maybe an ad or two.

Now it is effectively:

• AI summary
• ad
• ad
• ad
• link that is effectively an ad
• link to AI generated website
• link to AI generated website
• link to an actual decent result
• link to a questionable result
• link to AI generated website

I forget the exact proposed bill, it might have been SOPA (or something else threatening net neutrality), and it might have been around 2010. That made me think “they want to make the internet into cable TV”. And we’re pretty close to that being reality in a way.