This asshat needs to be gone yesterday.

Except he’s more popular than ever:

Well, if people in the government really don’t understand the data collection is warrantless, then there’s a chance they’d change that, given appropriate pushback of course.

Wait isn’t this the fourth?

It makes sense for capital, until it destabilizes the system due to depressing wages, till aggregate demand falls to the point there’s not enough people buying the production.

Probably not.

Yeah, capital is fundamentally opposed to democracy because democracy means people without capital can get more power in society than those that hold more capital. What could possibly be the result of a system that removes the brakes from capital exercising its power other than the erosion of the power people without significant capital have. Which then results in further capital accumulation, which results in further disempowerment of regular people, in a feedback loop. Hell we even shoveled important public property into private capital’s hands… And here we are at near historic level of income and wealth inequality.

And it isn’t just me saying this. If you examine some of neoliberalism icons’ musings, you’d discover they see democracy as a hindrance to the full realization of an absolute free market economy, for this exact reason. People tend to vote against the privatization of public services they depend on, and against stripping labour rights to name a couple of things that tend to rain on neoliberalism’s parade.

It sounds like anyone who matters around Ford says this is a fringe no one is listening to and that what they’re pushing loses elections in Canada.

She’s a gem.

And the prices are falling right?

The worst case scenario is when you know you have something, you cannot find it after multiple raids, and you end up buying it again. Then of course you eventually find it during the course of doing something random.

That’s nice. I suppose you could do the same by printing a bunch of UUIDs on QR codes and add the UUIDs to the respective location in the system.

What I’m doing is even easier. I use an X-Y coordinate system. I assign a letter to a storage unit, e.g. a Kallax is assigned “A”. Then each bin horizontally is X and each bin vertically is Y in A:X:Y. Then fairly easily I can determine that the third bin on the second shelf is A:3:2. That’s short enough to type in a search field. It’s also easy enough to locate a shelf coming from A:X:Y. If the shelf has only one dimension, like a bunch of drawers, I use just one number. This system is fairly easy to learn and eliminates the need for physically tagging every bin or drawer. Doesn’t work for unstructured storage, like boxes on the floor or other shameful things that we all have. 😄

Yes

Any suggestions for alternatives while we’re at it?

I’m currently using Google Keep (don’t judge) with special title format and gotta move out of there.

It’s probably a bit of both, plus still functional memory.

Snaps

What you want to look at is the size of the hate and the material reasons for it. And that’s fairly difficult to measure if you’re not paying close attention. Plex hate has been growing dramatically over the last few years because they materially changed their service. They began collecting data some time ago and now they are selling it unless you go and opt out. So the hate is much larger and louder for that reason. For me those last changes were the straw that made it clear we’re just one small push for profit away from my sailing habits getting sold to the American copyright lobby. So I’m currently trialling Jellyfin.

In addition as some have highlighted Jellyfin is markedly different from Plex or Emby in that it’s open source and if something happens to it, forking is the way out, which already happened since Jellyfin is a fork of Emby. Migrating from one open source project to its fork is usually trivial compared to migrating from a proprietary service to another one. And there’s no reasonable chance of my data ending up in the RIAA/MPAA’s hands. So the Plex -> Jellyfin switch everyone is doing is not merely switching to another horse. It’s more like switching to completely different vehicle that you can maintain indefinitely.

E: This process we currently call “enshittification” (not a new process) has now been experienced by wide swaths of people where previously only a small minority understood it. I think that drives faster and wider reaction to these patterns as they’re now very familiar. I think that’s a good thing. I used to give corporations more benefit of the doubt and think in balance but then I did not understand why they do what they do. Now I do and the benefit of the doubt is gone unless there’s something material to support it. Like having open source clients.

Sorry, C-2. 😄 It’s got some Patriot Act-y stuff in it. Look up coverage on it.

Adalah, an Israel-based non-governmental legal organization that is representing some of the activists, said that those who remain are being held in Givon Prison in Ramleh, central Israel.

So grab the passengers of a boat in international wares and jail them in Israel. 😒

In a statement to CNN, Israel said that it “is preventing the entry of all vessels into the Gaza Strip, in accordance with international law.”

Is there a charitable interpretation that could make this statement true?

I’m currently trying that but the proposed information sharing changes with the US in Bill C-5C-2 change the calculus. I’m sure part of the push comes from the American copyright lobby.

Can you segregate connections between different nodes on the tailnet, like say node G and H can only talk to each other and no other nodes?