Canada was an open participant in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, and a clandestine participant in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which kinda sounds like picking a fight to me.

OK, now explain why you can’t find a decent ISP in a major American city. (That’s right, it’s because of monopolies and enshittification.)

JAQing off

Were you talking to John Carmack or John Connor?

What? This is a press release from the California Attorney General literally taking about what they are doing in court right now.

How do you go from that to “thEy’Re DoiNg NothIng”?

I never knew bands could reproduce by mitosis.

They want US$7,000 for a chair and some monitor support arms? I want to try one, but not that much.

This is just for city of Los Angeles, which is a small portion of Los Angeles county, let alone the entire state of California.

NVR = Network Video Recorder. It’s the box that has the hard drive(s) to record all the video streams coming in from the cameras over WiFi or Ethernet.

I have a Reolink setup that’s entirely air-gapped. No app required, just configure everything through the NVR unit.

Ah, the classic “all eggs in one basket” strategy.

Relevant song: Just Glue Some Gears On It and Call It Steampunk

ISO8601 / RFC3339 gang represent. You’ll have to take four digit years from my cold, dead hands.

Meanwhile in space: “We’re rich!” x Infinity

A lot of open-source software uses copyleft licenses like GPL. If a company uses that code to build its own products, then some or all of their new code may also become open source. This is an important part of how open-source projects stay open. Organizations like FSF have taken big companies to court over this and won.

AI companies trained their slop-generators on that open-source code. In many cases, it will reproduce it line-for-line. But courts currently hold that the generated code is no longer subject to the original copyright restrictions. It’s nearly impossible to publish open-source software without being scraped for AI training.

Technology Connections just published a video about this. By the end, he’s got an overclocked 6 kW tea kettle boiling water in under a minute before destroying itself.

There’s still a few days left to file comments objecting to the change. Link in the article.

Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got… an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

The extra a’s make it so much better. 😹

Digital Camera Images, Man.