Sure, but we live in a world where these will coexist with standard cars, just as bikes often do now.

I don’t see how these ‘carbikes’ by Kubi focus on safety at all. They go from 25-35km/hr top speed and are as heavy as a petrol scooter / light motorbike, yet require and encourage no helmet and have very little in the way of safety features inbuilt (headlights, indicators, horn. End of list). They proudly state you don’t even need a licence to drive one (as you generally do for a motorbike).

So while they reduce top speed and weight of a car, they also lose 90% of the safety features and discourage any PPE you’d see a scooter/motorbike rider wear.

Being a millennial I remember conversations about what a scam record label deals were to artists because they’d only give bands a few dollars for each CD sold. This is of course old news to gen X and older who had known earlier that record deals were a scam usually heavily slanted in favour of the label.

Then Spotify came out and it was reported that it gave ~$0.003-0.007 per stream to labels (then artists would get a smaller cut of that), and I dismissed it as a hilariously terrible deal.

But I was wrong and most people seemed very happy to give up their mp3 & physical collections so they could stream a wider library, I guess it’s unrealistic to expect most people to choose ethics over convenience. There does seem to be a swing back to rolling your own micro server hosting something like Navidrome or Plex and streaming your own music, which is great to see.

P.s. I’m a KGatLW fan and have a couple albums on Bandcamp, this is gonna make me buy a couple more in support. Great group of people

I gave up motorbike riding due to too many close calls with bad drivers - swerving into me without indicating or looking. Cutting me off due to ‘not seeing me’, etc.

Call me safety-obsessed but if I’m on a road surrounded by cars increasingly driven by a greying population - I’m not gonna be in a $13k go-kart with a plastic tarp roof and crossing my fingers that I don’t have an accident.

Could be The Number 23 starring Jim Carrey, he used a typewriter and had surreal hallucinations and flashbacks. No talking horse I recall, but good movie.

Yes. Literally hundreds of thousands of times they have succeeded in getting what the petitioners were asking for.

Sick of this apathy crap.

https://www.change.org/impact

First - someone comes up with this. Next, privacy researchers and black/white/grey hat techies come up with methods to defeat it.

Better for surveillance tech research like this to be published out in the open than developed in some secret lab. I figure these researchers are doing more positive than negative by publishing their findings. It’s not like if they didn’t publish, someone else wouldn’t come up with this and possibly use it clandestinely.

Its a poem by Dayna Craig, known as The Narcissists Prayer.

https://daynaemcraig.com/narcissistsprayer/

That’s really all South Park has ever been. They famously typically write the episodes in just a day each, voice them and put them out in under a week.

Not much time for planning and deep analysis of their plot and subtext - it’s just whatever shit’s been on Matt & Trey’s minds that week.

There was even a documentary about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_Days_to_Air

If they wanted any games banned all they had to do was talk to the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) in Australia, where they’re based. Any of the games listed would have likely been added to the ‘Refused Classification’ list and thereby banned from sale and import in Australia. If they wanted them pulled from Steam or Itch entirely they could have talked to those platforms.

But they didn’t want to raise objections through appropriate preexisting channels, they wanted to push their Christian-based ideology on the whole world by going Karen on the social media of all the payment processors.

Yeah keep moving the goalposts, I never claimed you said Starlink was better than all ISPs I simply clarified ‘better’. I’m white-knighting for the rural users now? No I’m pointing out how stupid it is to cheer for the regulators that are supposed to work for you instead shitting on you, because the corporations have lobbied them to and a very corporation-friendly government is in power.

Your response: cheer for the big corporate ISP (what do you think Starlink is exactly)? Gtfoh.

This is not entirely true, dams are feeding grounds for methane-producing microbes which cause climate harm. Aside from that, even small scale dams damage local ecosystems significantly - at the scale China is planning, their dam will be incredibly damaging.

https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-new-dams-could-mean-trouble-our-climate

https://earth.org/dams-economic-assets-or-ecological-liabilities/

https://www.dw.com/en/five-ways-mega-dams-harm-the-environment/a-53916579

PTB.

However, imo blocking him is a double-edged sword as he posts so prolifically you end up wiping out heaps of Lemmy content that normal people engage with, and Lemmy is fairly small.

He’s made 11,942 (!) posts in 733 days. That’s over 16 posts a day you drop by blocking him, I only looked on his main account. Didn’t count his secondary db0.

Because letting extremely biased ideological groups dictate worldwide policy is always a bad thing that comes with negative consequences.

I’m not personally familiar with any of the games in this ban wave, but Steam’s stance prior is that these games are free expression of art, made by adults and it’s not Steam’s job to police art. If a group does want to impose limitations on art on a worldwide storefront - that should be a national limitation performed by an appropriate body - Australia already has a stringent games rating system, and if these games do not meet any approved standards they would be hit with ‘Refused Classification’ and thereby restricted to be sold (banned from sale or import) to Australia and Steam would region block them for sale to Aus. As is the case for many games already.

However, this group deemed following the appropriate channels too much work, so instead went for a Karen smear campaign of the payment processors on social media - stating that they supported the sale of rape and incest games (simply by working with Steam), thereby pressuring the payment processors to put lobby Steam to remove the games entirely as the easiest path for Steam to avoid financial processing impacts.

They use GiveSendGo, which is the same thing. It’s founded as a Christian alternative payment platform and the CEO and CFO have gone on record numerous times to defend indefensible scum.

GiveSendGo used to use Square which actually does run CashApp (so your joke is not far from truth), but after pressure on Square they seem to have dropped GiveSendGo, whom now use Stripe. Stripe has not responded to queries regarding the Shiloh Hendrix case (awful lady who called the kid at a playground the n word and went on to raise nearly $800k), and continue to work with GiveSendGo.

As a totally unrelated aside, major early investors in Stripe are Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel.

The payment processor is Stripe, and while there is a boycott going on regarding this, so far Stripe’s reaction has been complete silence.

Stripe has major early investments from (and likely key stockholders) Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, by the way.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/stop-people-from-using-our-pain-for-profit-black-web-developer-who-push-to-shut-down-shiloh-hendrix-s-fundraiser-man-behind-viral-video-get-a-barrage-of-death-threats-as-parents-of-black-child-speaks-out/ar-AA1Epesm

Sure, but it’s a bit of an open-ended question because it depends on your requirements (and your clients’ potentially), and your risk comfort level. Sorry in advance, huge reply.

When you’re backing up an production environment it’s different to just backing up personal data so you have to consider stateful-backups of the data across the whole environment - to ensure for instance that an app’s config is aware of changes made recently on the database, else you may be restoring inconsistent data that will have issues/errors. For a small project that runs on a single server you can do a nightly backup that runs a pre-backup script to gracefully stop all of your key services, then performs backup, then starts them again with a post-backup script. Large environments with multiple servers (or containers/etc) or sites get much more complex.

Keeping with the single server example - those backups can be stored on a local NAS, synced to another location on schedule (not set to overwrite but to keep multiple copies), and ideally you would take a periodical (eg weekly, whatever you’re comfortable with) copy off to a non-networked device like a USB drive or tape, which would also be offsite (eg carried home or stored in a drawer in case of a home office). This is loosely the 3-2-1 strategy is to have at least 3 copies of important data in 2 different mediums (‘devices’ is often used today) with 1 offsite. It keeps you protected from a local physical disaster (eg fire/burglary), a network disaster (eg virus/crypto/accidental deletion), and has a lot of points of failure so that more than one thing has to go wrong to cause you serious data loss.

Really the best advice I can give is to make a disaster recovery plan (DRP), there are guides online, but essentially you plot out the sequence it would take you to restore your environment to up-and-running with current data, in case of a disaster that takes out your production environment or its data.

How long would it take you to spin up new servers (or docker containers or whatever) and configure them to the right IPs, DNS, auth keys and so on? How long to get the most recent copy of your production data back on that newly-built system and running? Those are the types of questions you try to answer with a DRP.

Once you have an idea of what a recovery would look like and how long it would take, it will inform how you may want to approach your backup. You might decide that file-based backups of your core config data and database files or other unique data is not enough for you (because the restore process may have you out of business for a week), and you’d rather do a machine-wide stateful backup of the system that could get you back up and running much quicker (perhaps a day).

Whatever you choose, the most important step (that is often overlooked) is to actually do a test recovery once you have a backup plan implemented and DR plan considered. Take your live environment offline and attempt your recovery plan. It’s really not so hard for small environments, and can make you find all sorts of things you missed in the planning stage that need reconsideration. 'Much less stressful when you find those problems and you know you actually have your real environment just sitting waiting to be turned back on. But like I said it’s all down to how comfortable you are with risk, and really how much of your time you want to spend considering backups and DR.

Starlink is only ‘better’ (in some cases, certainly isn’t better in all nor at all times as its speed is highly variable), because your US cable and ISP giants have lobbied for decades to remove any oversight the FCC may exert on them - up to and including banning local communities from building their own networks, and ensuring that they have more or less monopoly control in many rural markets.

The only way to fix this is with the hammer of the FCC regulation. The ‘free market’ cannot fix a monopoly.

So when you laugh at your rural citizenry getting shafted by FCC policy changes that will benefit nobody but the large ISPs & cable companies, because you’re in a city and have lots of optiond with the competition that high-density living affords, you’re shooting your own regulatory powers in the foot for the sake of spite.

This is all setting aside of course than a huge proportion of rural Americans are not MAGA.

So yeah that’s why it’s a crappy take.

Dumb take. When the Trump supporters can’t get good internet speeds from their local broadband infrastructure thanks to crap like this, they turn to Starlink, prop up fascist Elmo, and to boot they have it reinforced to them once again that the ‘government is useless, only the Free Market ©® can provide good quality services’.

Literal sternly worded letter.

That’s where we’re still at.

I watch a fair bit of YouTube and definitely some scientific video content is consumed and always in my feed… Who is this person? Never heard of her.