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Los Angeles Times columnist: The #COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that it is time to treat high-speed Internet access as a utility. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-10-23/coronavirus-internet-is-a-utility [www latimes com]
He’s right, but we’ve failed to regulate existing utilities strenuously enough. Just changing the words on a form somewhere is not enough. We need tough and thorough oversight of “last mile” communication and information service providers (telephone, Internet), including geographical restrictions, restrictions on the kinds of businesses the same parent company can operate, restrictions on what services the carriers can directly offer (to prevent them misusing their privileged gateway positions cut off or interfere with services offered by competing entities.
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Uh oh. #SoCal fires: Silverado Fire near Irvine went from ~10 acres to 4,000 acres, critically burned two firefighters; Blue Ridge Fire near Yorba Linda is 700 acres and moving toward homes. These are both in #Orange County, but Blue Ridge is about to cross into #Los_Angeles and #San_Bernardino Counties near Chino.
Evacuations: 20,000 homes ( about 60,000 people ) near the Silverado Fire ordered to leave.
Around 12 schools evacuated. Ontario International Airport (ONT) closed temporarily due to winds. (Supposedly Santa Ana winds, but in my area, they're coming from the wrong direction to be Santa Anas. Likewise for Yorba Linda, if the winds are taking the fire toward Chino.)
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Birds are smarter than we thought. https://nu.federati.net/url/277106 [www sciencemag org] and https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/why-bird-brains-are-more-brilliant-anyone-suspected [www sciencemag org]
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Crush-resistant beetle can withstand force up to 39,000 times its weight. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/even-car-can-t-kill-beetle-here-s-why [www sciencemag org]
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#Matrix sharing their view on decentralized reputation as a spam and abuse prevention tool https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix-without-backdoors
There was a similar document shared on Secure Scuttlebutt ( #SSB ) / #Manyverse a while ago. I believe I linked the document, so search my history if you wish to compare.
Frankly, I found the SSB document unworkable and error-prone, but this one sounds like it could work in some situations.
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Mark’s future wife is working 12 hour shifts right now. Not sure if she’s on remote work or driving into the office. If she’s dealing with #SoCal traffic, she could be spending a couple of hours commuting in each direction.
Telling him that they’re going to have to live closer to her job.
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Mark agreed with me on that. Said that her current commute isn’t bad—about 45 minutes in each direction—but that’s all set to change in a few months when they wed.
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I've heard a rumor that there's some work to get the take-down set aside and the GitHub repo re-enabled.
But regardless of how this goes, it is long past time to start fighting to overturn DMCA and long copyright terms in general.
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For those who are unaware, the #RIAA filed a #DMCA takedown request against #YouTube-DL's #GitHub repo. The claim is that ytdl is primarily used for circumventing copyright enforcement mechanisms.
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or, as you noted separately, just stop listening to RIAA music.
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Oh, I guess I missed it. I was going to wish you a happy birthday. Iceloops' b-day recently passed also.
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You know, I really don’t care what movie character your Debian version is. Give me the numeric version, so I can at least figure out whether it is up to date.
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This probably only means something to people who’ve lived in #SoCal for the past 35 years. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=8a4d4352-0d90-4170-891b-23ddc1d88642 [www lexology com]
#Del_Taco #Naugles #merger #trademark
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I don’t remember why I had a tab open on this, but here it is. https://launchschool.com/books/sql/read/table_relationships [launchschool com]
#SQL #database #db
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it's always interesting to see people get heated at work, and what they get heated about.
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largely, I think we are dealing with merger issues...two years after the merger, lol.
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Fire Weather Warning for portions of #Riverside, #San_Bernardino, #Imperial counties in #SoCal, and corresponding counties across the Colorado River in #AZ.
High winds, low humidity until sundown today.
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Winter weather advisory across much of #KS and #MO. Snow and "mixed precipitation" in the northern and middle areas, freezing rain in the southern areas.
Expected to start this evening and continue for about 24 hours.
#NOAA / #NWS is sending alerts, but I have not read all of them yet.
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One of the most annoying things for me is that after the #iPad upgraded to #iOS 14.1, there’s a constantly-on, unblockable notification to set up #Apple_Pay. Sorry, #Apple. You got your X hundred dollars. You are not getting any more.
Looking forward to retiring this tablet and closing my AppleID account.
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https://sully.site/@sullybiker/105102106734866483
I'm tired of seeing in the instructions for setting up webapps "change permissions to 777".
No, no, a thousand times no!
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Probably the biggest beneficiary of longer copyright terms is Disney Corp. But are their inflated profits worth the loss to society as a whole?
Think about this: “Stairway to Heaven” was released in 1971. In 2020, the last appeal in a copyright lawsuit (alleging plagiarism) was decided. Do we really want people fighting over who has the right to profit from 50 year old works?
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Thanks Kanye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vuaqDDr--Q
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There's a reason people pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for Photoshop training, and "easy to use" is not it.
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SocialCG is meeting to discuss proposed changes to #ActivityStreams 2. https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/socialcg-meeting-on-november-7th-16-00-utc/1106
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