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>CNN home page: half an hour

This should be much faster, it was created for people with limited network access.

https://lite.cnn.com/


Why would anyone want the non-lite version?

So, if I scraped thousands of WEB sites, it is legal ? I remember a person being charged with doing that to just a very few WEB Sites was charged. The poor person ended up committing suicide.

If I record every song played on the radio for years to a digital file, will I be charged ? You know I would be.

How are these different than what AI is doing. In the US, companies are considered a person, so to me, off to jail these companies go. Why is this turning into a big deal. We know AI is stealing copyrighted data. So I hope they get what they deserve.


I beg your pardon, but do you think "web" is an acronym...?

WEB - Who Even Believesthis :)


Well, that sucks; I thought the Journal's "share" feature would work here. Thanks for finding the syndicated version! Unfortunately I can't update the URL, but perhaps a mod will make the change.

I ran a bridge until recently, but the server died a heat death after I moved to another apartment :(

I have not yet had time to find a suitable replacement machine. But running a bridge is a cheap, safe low network volume method people can help out from home. I had it going to help people in 'bad' countries to get out to the rest of the world.

https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/


> I ran a bridge until recently

A lifetime ago, I ran bridges from RAM only distros. But early versions of the Dan list (1st in wide use) killed that.

DL didn't try hard to differentiate between bridge IPs and exit IPs. Server hosts just grabbed the first list they saw and blocked with it.

It was years before the notion of Exit != Bridge became understood but everyone had moved on. We're at the entropic 'No One Cares Anymore' phase now.


Were you running specifically a bridge or just a non exit relay? Bridges are generally unlisted and are somewhat expensive to mass scrape (the bridge distributors will require captcha or email or Telegram etc) so they are less likely to show up in those lists. Whereas all relays are listed in the consensus and can be trivially enumerated.

> Were you running specifically a bridge or just a non exit relay?

Good question. I was probably running Tor-ramdisk. I just looked around can't find any reference that it could serve as a bridge.

From that I infer I was running as a relay.


Or maybe 2 kg bars ?

But this is a rather big surprise to me. With the price of gold, I doubt only the very rich can afford these. Aren't those the people who Trump is trying to enrich. Or maybe the rich do not buy gold, or has another source.


I thinking mainly countries, criminals, and specialized artisans and industrial manufacturers take physical delivery of large quantities of gold.

I'm sure there are always some usual requests to insist on physical delivery of gold in the case of options. Example: https://www.ibkrguides.com/kb/en-us/phys-delivery-comex-meta...

Perhaps instead we should create aqua regia and dissolve copious amounts of gold, Fields Medals, and Nobel Prizes to be smuggled as, say, industrial waste. /s ;)


The instruction manual called "1984" arrived forty years late.

But the insurance companies are in the know. House insurance rates are raising a lot in many at risk states and areas. Just heard Texas joined that fun.

So seems capitalists involved with insurance and finance know the real facts.


I'll pass. Due to FDA cuts, I will wait years before I consider this product.

What cuts? I looked online and I don't see a single year that it's ever gone down

Let me do a web search for you. Many smart people where fired by DOGE and many left on their own due to Trump. So,I no longer trust the FDA.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-reportedly-fired-fda-employe...

There are many articles about that.


i thought you meant budget cuts, of which there never has been as far as i can tell

there was a 20% headcount reduction, down to a very meager 15,000 people. you dont believe the FDA can properly function with 15,000 employees?


I can see where you were thinking of $, sorry.

Mainly it is the people who left and were fired. The brightest would jump ship instantly when DOGE started firing, and these scientists had lots of places to go. And the people fired probably had a lot of expertise. I have seen similar happen many times in computer science over the last 40+ years in the business. Once a company starts firing, the smartest people jumps ship.

But yes, I cannot trust the FDA anymore because the people still there will be too scared to push real science. They may taint their results even without doing it on purpose due to that fear.

The same is starting to happen in medial research, but seems that is getting more press. Trump/Kennedy just handed all the US future medical advancement directly to China, and I am sure more will come. Where do you think these bio researchers will go ? China will hire them and maybe even set up a shell corp. for them in the US so they do not have to relocate. Just the knowledge and patents will be sent to China.

https://www.comicsands.com/rfk-jr-mrna-contracts

So Trump and friends is destroying the US right in front of everyone here.


In the long run I fear it does not matter.

The fossil fuel "won" by prioritizing profits over the environment. IMO, the world is heading straight to +3C and no way to stop it.

We could probably prevent 3.5C, but by then the world will probably be in a massive "war" footing due the 1 billion+ people migration north. Assuming civilization did not collapse.


We are about to not be the main drivers of change. I won’t be so optimistic about it stopping at 3, 3.5 °C or whatever near enough. What may change is how fast we will get there, but we already are reaching the limit set for the end of the century 10 years ago.

Well why should the US lead in medical advancements. Glad we have an administration that has no problem handing medical advancements to China.

I am sure China will thank us some day. How stupid can Trump and his people be, every day they do something even more stupid than the day before.


Never regretted. But my "things" are far from earth shattering and most have now have better alternatives.

Only one item became a bit popular, but was written for MS-DOS ages ago and I hear it is still used by 1 person :)


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There really is an XKCD for everything - thank you for the morning laugh kind stranger :)

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