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Does the BW-16D1HT offer good performance for 4kbluray playback as well as ripping? Looking at it it seems price competitive with the stand-alone players, and if it is good it would make financial sense to buy a dedicated pc and enclosure as an alternative to stand-alone player assuming it can drive HDR and Atmos

trichroic prisms, also called X Cubes, like what is inside a projector. You can get them in ebay pretty cheap, and they are just very cool to look at and play with, seeing how the light is split into three colors.

If you want to see a lot of real fossils directly, no replicas, go to Dinosaur National Monument and check out the Quarry Exhibit Hall. A huge wall of fossils still in their stone matrix.

Most Oil and Gas reserves remaining in the US are on public land, as is the massive lithium deposit just discovered in southeastern Oregon. Then there are the seabed polymetalic nodules that will be mined sooner or later. There are plenty of opportunities to nationalize natural resources, what is lacking is political will.

If I’m reading(skimming) the documentation right, it seems like anyone who can pass the challenge can download the full node and see the full record of interactions. IPFS is not a perfect privacy network, so user accounts can in theory be traced back.

So basically as with Fedi instances it is fully on the Node host to set who can get in based on the challenge, and what is hosted there is their liability. Only difference is Plebbit allows any user to spin up a new instance/community node ad-hoc and they aren’t responsible for maintaining infrastructure beyond what is required seed the nodes they host.

Is that right? I’m not sure but hopefully someone better in the know will correct me if not.

ISPs should be regional users cooperatives everywhere. Rural areas in the US have local ISPs structured this way, but corporate ISPs have been trying to use regulation to make them illegal in normal service areas, which is disgusting.

I predict that point to point private fiber (currently used by high speed traders) will become more and more prevalent as issues with AI impersonation and spoofing become more prevalent, we should use this infrastructure drive to push linking co-op and public mesh networks using the same long-run conduit.

I have suggested a couple of times now that ActivityPub should implement an encryption layer for user authentication of requests and pings. It already has a system for instances vauching for each other. The situation is that users of “walled garden” instances in ActivityPub lack means of interfacing with public facing instances that doesnt leave the network open for scraping. I believe a pivot towards default registered users only content service built on encrypted handshakes, with the ability for servers to opt-in to serving content to unregistered users would make the whole network much more robust and less dependent on third party contingencies like CloudFlare.

Then again, maybe I should just be looking for a different network, I’m sure there are services in the blockchain/cryptosphere that take that approach, I just would rather participate in a network built on commons rather than financialization at it’s core. Where is the protocol doing both hardened network and distributed volunteer instances?

How is Gemini fairing in the existing bot landscape? Usenet?

Damn, how was this not big headline news?

And of course in Cyberpunk the ttrpg setting much of the o0en internet was rendered useless by self replicating AI malware hijacking storage, processing, and bandwidth due to a zero day exploit discovered by one egomaniacal hacker.

usbc solved a lot of the connector issues, so long as you can get a hub to play nice with Linux drivers.

Hmmm… let’s find the best ways to both make money from this program and yet somehow the targeted individuals manage not to get detained.

It is actually an old and well established britishism

Offer him the option to transition Valve to a workers cooperative. Boom, he would no longer be a billionaire.

aren’t I glad I just bought an Onn instead.

@andros_rex my boi. But do you Bifo?