Em Adespoton

I believe the encryption restrictions were relaxed in 1998.

However, certification for import/export of nuclear weapons and other dangerous goods was still needed for strong encryption (such as phone SIM cards) as recently as 2006. To get on that list of people who could legally transport SIM cards not for personal use over the US border, you needed the same background check and government clearance as someone transporting enriched uranium.

This is why I no longer go out in public.

As a neurodivergent person, let me just say that I have a great life. Why should you, or anyone else, get to make uninformed decisions about who gets to live based on inaccurate information?

Also, just look at bananas to see where eugenics ends up. Crops devastatingly vulnerable to disease, and companies like Chiquita creating slaves of entire nations that manage them. It’s not hard to extend this wrt humans.

But really, the main reason is how tightly linked eugenics programs through history have been linked to fascism.

All of them?

The public should also create a “hotels to avoid” list that includes all the ones not on the military list.

Yup. Entry level wages have stagnated while food and housing prices have skyrocketed.

Exact same thing here.

If you ignore any company related to “cloud” or “AI”, especially if you focus on tech jobs at companies outside the software industry, there’s still plenty of hiring fresh coders going on.

$165,000 tech jobs are still out there. Usually they require at least 10 years experience, or a masters in mathematics or data science.

Fresh out of school? Try a $48-64k job and get some experience.

Still true a decade later.

You’d have to build them first.

Anything more complex than an atom is going to be disintegrated before it even enters a black hole due to the intense energies at play at the interface.

These days, experience. I know it will pass, just like it always has before. And I don’t want to rob future me of all the potential opportunities just because current me feels like nothing is worth it.

I tended to use moos, muds and mushes more than IRC. The servers crashed, but you never had to worry about netsplits.

OK, I stopped posting on Reddit but left my account and comments in place because I considered them part of the public record. If Reddit is taking that record private, it’s time for me to start removing my content from the platform.

Does anyone know if historical Reddit content will remain in IA? If not, I’m going to have to back up years of content somewhere else.

The format (mixed mode, red book, multitrack, hybrid, etc.) is usually stamped on the CD.

Yes, because it records “all” the data.

Other image formats also store the extended data at the start of the disc and the gap data between the tracks, but unless it’s an odd format or has some really nasty copy protection, that information isn’t usually useful.

Depends on the CD. If it’s just a data CD, iso is the way to go. If it’s a mixed mode CD with data plus audio, bin/cue will preserve the audio tracks but iso may not. Also, mixed Joliet/HFS CDs can lose one of the formats if imaged with an iso imager.

The big thing is that you want to image the entire CD and not just the most recent track on the CD.

Whatever it is you can talk engagingly about, unscripted. Following that, whatever you can talk engagingly about, scripted.

Doesn’t matter if you’re actually doing the voiceover; just having the ability means less time setting up shots and editing.

Don’t schedule and organize your life, so you’re constantly having to drop what you’re doing to respond to an event you could have planned for.

Have children.

Nice that watches ranging from £16 to £200 already support USB-C. My two Garmin watches both have (incompatible) unique charging/data ports.

To me, it’s too late for NIST there. China is driving the agenda in AI now, because the US took too long to get organized.

No. Please no. Learn another instrument and some music theory before playing a shaker. People can totally murder a piece of music with a badly played shaker, throwing off all the other musicians.