The Doctor

Trying to kill the Internet Archive would set just the precedent publishers want to kill community libraries.

I’d be surprised if the big publishers didn’t try setting up their own pay-for-access libraries in a few years.

You don’t say.

Is it bad that I keep wondering if one of the big book publishers bought a DDoS from somebody’s botnet?

That lawsuit was a long time in coming. Covid just goosed the schedule forward about a year, and probably made it easier.

Of course it will.

And I agree with you.

The number of people who actually change their default settings is quite small. Those of us who have these discussions are a distinct minority in the sum userbase.

They laid off 2/3 of their QA team. No wonder.

Some of the bigger publishers were okay with it for a month or so. It smelled like a setup then, still smells like a setup.

Naomi Wu was right.

If you look at it from the perspective of “we are not allowed to have nice things, power is the only thing that matters,” it not only makes sense it’s predictable.

Edit: “victus haze”

“defeated haze”

Somewhat misused Latin? On point.

Descriptive of what is likely to happen? Also on point. .gov never disappoints.

I can confirm this.

As someone who sucks at fighting games, no, not really. :D

New flash: Fast twitch games go to players with the fastest twitch.

When somebody tells you things will be different, they’re usually lying.

ISS operates under the assumption that it is in GMT.

https://greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/space/

If it was that easy, I don’t think the US government would have mandated a whole project to figure it out. NASA would have done it by now and been using it internally for a while before anybody noticed.

That’s not sarcasm - that’s kinda how NASA solves weird (to baselines) problems like this. They just sort of do it, it’s done, and then somebody might get around to publishing a paper about it. At least in the years I worked there (GSFC, 2010-2013) it used to be a thing that engineers would chat about while waiting for the coffee maker to finish brewing a fresh pot, or maybe doodle on a bad while waiting for a run to finish.

It was nice when it was limited to Usenet only. You knew what was coming and why, and generally speaking businesses stayed away from it.

Hard to say, they’re in a different chain of command.

Tiktok influencers are being honest about it. Companies know to keep a fig leaf over it.