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vor 9 Tagendiscuss

Vinyl records remain collectible and have increased in demand. Physical media is still desirable, and rotting optical discs are probably not the final physical format for future video game titles. Corporatist regulatory environments have allowed the consumers to be led to subscriptions to thrive. I am confident that there are legal avenues to address consumer demands to own.

vor 9 Tagendiscuss

When did m'lord permit you to use that serf mind to imagine? Ethics are for brains but your lot are for grains.

When you view someone's choices for purpose & ethical boundaries through a lens that presents as identity politics, you are revealing your alienation from civilization. Talent with basic freedoms can be selective about their pursuits. If you hold a idea that you are a mercenary or machinery, consider how useful that is to ambitious sociopaths that have abandoned civilization.

vor 10 Tagendiscuss

Ending the production of physical discs too. Ripe for disruption.

vor 12 Tagendiscuss

I wonder what this article would have concluded if the author considered how many individuals of the HN readership were professional radiologists.

vor 19 Tagendiscuss

Well-monied providers will steal it, perhaps with the courtesy of a buried and penalized opt-out.

vor 19 Tagendiscuss

I hope the vocal cynicism expressed in the "told ya so" replies weren't developed after reading the list of names.

vor 20 Tagendiscuss

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vor 26 Tagendiscuss

Ok

vor 26 Tagendiscuss

Exploitation Luck

letzten Monatdiscuss

Piracy?! What do I look like, an AI CEbro pillaging intellectual property for monopolistic commercial advantage without material consequence?!

For a time, course packs were the piracy of convenience because a PDFs with well-meaning but unreliable OCR were loaded with images (charting etc) resulting in large, difficult to navigate files even at the most eye watering, illegible compression.

letzten Monatdiscuss

Buying used global editions from the international students is the move for undergrads at big schools. Hardcover binding and color print were not missed and definitely not worth 10-20x more. Even published lecturers would ask students to fetch a "course pack" compilation of sloppy photocopied excerpts for purchase by on-campus print operations. Somehow this wasn't piracy. It is no secret that publishers and booksellers have an incestuous relationship with education institutions and aggressively extract pounds of loan debt flesh from the student body.

letzten Monatdiscuss

Another vote for JetKVM. Tailscale support is great. I'm glad to see audio is in the works because a Mac mini screaming from separate room during a remote session is disappointing.

letzten Monatdiscuss

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letzten Monatdiscuss

The well-actually testicle TED talk misses the point. Representatives have power, and sometimes that power is for sale. And that position to represent was also for sale. As was the attention of the electorate.

Honestly, calling Congress castrated is fine because it is healthy venting about how ineffective they seem at their charter.

Even though it's really charming and compelling to believe, there is no one solvable problem simply requiring elbow grease, voting harder, proprioception of comically vulnerable reproductive organs, etc.

letzten Monatdiscuss

Your passport is inherently political. Uniformed service members boarding first is inherently political. The choice of language the crew is able to communicate to passengers in is inherently political.

If I can ignore seeing your neglected toenails tangled haphazardly around the sandiest pair of adidas flip-flops you possess, you can kindly ignore the SSID "Electronic Frontier Foundation", Karen.

letzten Monatdiscuss

Hey look, that person may have discovered that the introduction of Bluetooth on mobile phones somehow prevented future hijackings from being listed on Wikipedia with those keywords they grepped for. Let's not count out this water-tight approximation of commercial piloting procedure. Just think of how many incidents have been similarly prevented around that specific regional conflict by reducing legroom, shrinking overhead storage, and innumerable TSA back-of-the-hand bad touches.

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Roe Jogan, senior pharma correspondent at the BBC

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Go fish

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Free as in beer or free as in subsidized by the US taxpayer?

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

When you're a celebrity, they just let you do it.