Predestination [2014]

Legal and tender.

This is a nation of convicts who aspires to become wardens.

I don’t have an issue with people owning multiple properties, but doing so should be subservient to the provision of a core component of subsistence.

A broad proposal I’ve been mulling is the realisation of profit anywhere in the real estate industry (construction, (re)development, ownership, management, etc.) should only be tolerated contingent to the size of the social housing wait list.

As a broad example, if the wait list is over a year, tax any profit above 5% at 50%. The figures are arbitrary, the point is to make it the responsibility of the group to fix the problem they’ve caused.

Johnny Mnemonic’s NAS.

One could enhance it into an art installation with thermite.

It’s not an internet thing, or even a technology thing. This is an example of the general debasement of society wrought through half a century of rampant sociopathic neoliberal shitfuckery.

One place I’d like to see this start to be corrected, is treating what is currently understood to be intellectual property as the intrinsically abundant resource it is, instead of the artificially scarce, zero-sum concept it’s currently encrusted as.

…he enjoys it.

He was hit in the right wing, which makes him Dumbo.

Using the formula as written, anyone aged 40-49 would have a vote weighted at 85%. You’d have to make it to 210 years old to reach 0%.

From an Australian perspective, my proposal is:

• Eligible to vote at 16.
• Compulsory voting at 18.
• A citizen’s vote has a weight of 100% until 20, then drops 5% at each birthday that ends with a 0.

The reason for the diminishing weight of a vote is to correlate with the diminished exposure political decisions will have on the citizen.

I’d go one further and remove a corporation’s status of personhood.

An immortal, amoral, artificial entity should never have been granted parity status with people in our society.

Still showing my end, maybe it’s their new placeholder page for maintenance?

Also, what’s johntucker.jpg a reference to?

The greatest trick capitalists ever pulled is convincing creative individuals that copyright and patents exist to serve and protect their interests.

Client separation on WiFi is supposed to force clients to only talk to the AP and prevent them from talking directly to each other. The motivation is to allow the AP to enforce appropriate policies.

The feature may well be as antiquated as WEP now, it’s been years since I looked into how it actually functions.

A broadly educated population is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative ideologies.

It could be a real address, but not within a /24, nor publicly routable.

Schizophrenic, Bronze Age, fan fiction has a lot to answer for.

King Arthur came a lot.

I thought I explained how to handle the dynamically inserted ads, but I’ll elaborate a little here.

If your Listenarr instance is part of a broader network of other instances, they’ll all potentially receive a unique file with different ads inserted, but they’ll typically be inserted at the same cut location in the program timeline. Listenarr would calculate the hash of the entire file, but also sub spans of various lengths.

If the hash of the full file is the same among instances, you know everyone is getting the same file, and any time references suggested for metadata will apply to everyone.

If the full file hash is different, Listenarr starts slicing it up and generating hashes of subsections to help identify where common and variant sections are. Common sections will usually be the actual content, variants are likely tailored ads. The broader the Listenarr network, the greater the sample size for hashes, which will help automate identification. In fact, the more granular and specific the targeting of inserted ads, the easier it will be to identify them.

Once you have the file sections sufficiently hashed, tagged, and identified, you can easily stitch together a sanitised media stream into a file any podcast app can ingest.

You could shove this function into a podcast player, but then you’d need to replicate all the existing permutations of player applications.

The beauty of the current podcast environment is it’s just RSS feeds that point to audio files in a standard way. This permits handling by a shim proxy in the middle of the transaction between the publisher and the player.

This could also be a way to better incorporate media into the fediverse. One example is the chapters and transcripts generated could be directly referenced in Lemmy and Mastodon posts.

I think this would make a good -arr application.

Ingest podcast feeds, crowdsource hashes of whole and partial sections of the downloaded audio, which should be a good start to auto-tag dynamically inserted ads.

For non-dynamic ads, provide an interface to manually identify their start/end, and publish for others. The same interface could be used to add chapters and other metadata.

Then you’d just point your podcast app to an RSS feed you self host.

I propose Listenarr, unless this has already been taken.