He can do whatever he wants, as long as he's not helping enemies of America.

Ok let me rephrase my comment:

Maybeeeeeeee Musk shouldn't be helping America's enemies?

Can't remember SpaceX sending Russia dishes.

SpaceX interfered with the conflict by sending equipment and allowing them to be used for the conflict.

You're essentially saying SpaceX should have waited until the DOD contracted for services

There's a guy in the UK who sent his APC to Ukraine. He didn't just have it delivered via a truck. He handed it over to the UK MoD. That's how these things are meant to be done.

> but you're not paying Google to host your data.

Funny, because they never seen to have problems hosting the advertising/surveillance data they collect on me. They never went "sorry we can't track you any more for free, will you type in you card number so we can keep surveilling you?"

They don’t track you for free. Advertisers pay. They don’t have to store data if no one pays. This of course in no way justifies the journalist losing his data.

The advertisers don't pay for google storing my data. The advertisers pay for ads displayed and ads clicked. How google does that is an implementation detail.

Google does that by storing my data, many kinds of my data. You making the distinction between data that "the user knows and understands" versus data that "is obscure to the user but advertisers care about" is a matter of marketing, in that as the former is easier to charge the user for.

My point is that the argument of "you're not paying for storing data X therefore fuck you" is a silly one, because you're also not paying for storing data Y, and neither are the advertisers.

> The advertisers don't pay for google storing my data. The advertisers pay for ads displayed and ads clicked.

That's like saying you don't pay the restaurant for the chef, you pay the restaurant for the food. It's a level of semantics that rises to being simply disingenuous. It's a restaurant, not a grocery.

No, it's not semantics, and it shows that you have no clue what you're talking about.

You can sell ads without targeting. In fact you can even sell ads without users.

Source: I worked years buying and selling online ads.

> You can sell ads without targeting.

You can, but that's not really what Google is selling anymore. It's certainly not the only thing Google is selling.

Unless you're making the claim that the data storage that Google uses for their data tracking isn't paid for by the targeted ad service? That if Google suddenly couldn't use that data for targeted advertising anymore that they'd still keep it around, or that none of their other services would raise in price?

>> You can sell ads without targeting.

> You can, but that's not really what Google is selling anymore.

Wrong again. Google's thing is search ads. Those target keywords, not user data. User data is a side-gig for Google, mostly thru youtube, maps, and gmail.

My take-away is that you should use reliable tools, and as few as possible. If you read it like that then the reason to not do what you said is that `find` and `xargs` are more reliable than what I realistically be able to achieve with ifs and cats.

"We can do this now" is not an optimistic timeline, it's a lie.

Fraud. The word that defines this behavior is fraud. Because the lie is not just a lie, it has been used to mislead investors.

> extremely confident

There's also "this is quite deep" - it's usually not.

> I will try this out as a tool to manage my private tasks.

I'd like to hear more. Do you think that full-fledged issue tracker is a benefit, even if you're not working with other people?

My intuition is that if you have multiple tasks in a project, and you're the only one working on them, a simple list should be enough?

Django ;-)

- Download mp3

- Play on VLC.

Not complicated.

Download the MP3 from where? If you want a copy of a well known song, you might find one, but for something else you might struggle to find one. Your best bet is to buy used CDs and rip them yourself.

rutracker.org has many things archived

> Download the MP3 from where?

My guy, this has been solved for about 25 years.

Not everything is ripped and waiting to be downloaded…

If it's not available for download, it's not something I would be interested in :-) I understand that people are different.

The article clearly explained that this was not possible in their case.

It’s not that simple for the poster’s use case, which is “play whatever my kids want to hear while we’re in the car”

Buy MP3, download, burn CD, play in car. Kids can choose any CD that's in the car or regular radio.

Download MP3

Put on Plex/Jellyfin/Subsonic

Play in car

My kid is only 2 years old, but when he can understand the concept I will be sure to teach him that he doesn't have an arbitrarily large choice, he can only choose from within the options we have available.

They're both bad in different ways. The right only understands one thing: spend less. The left only understands one thing: spend more.

A country is a system too complex to make decisions top-bottom like this.

What an incredibly vapid and reductionist take. You don't like politics, ergo it is simple enough to discount.

Indeed. The real sadness is that people get hurt in the political crossfire.

Getting an appointment with the NHS to pull a wisdom tooth, right now, takes between 6 and 9 months.

I had never used the term "socialized healthcare" unironically before, but now it's starting to sound like there's some truth to it.