You did not provide enough context in your original statement to distinguish between sarcasm and sincerity. Any sufficiently good old stupid statement is unrecognizable from parody.

Dirt cheap.

Cost = maintenance + servers

Engineers always underestimate the cost of their time.

States can get their hands on things for criminal investigations. Or they can get that data in the infectious disease database but usually that’s carefully anonymized into general steps of ten… But this… This is some messed up shit

Gotta get those high quality gains to lift more than the McVeigh’s

Reddit blocks VPNs on desktop…

Oh gosh… It’s basically stock market spam

DDG is still the best.

Stop asking this same question repeatedly.

I’m pissed that large corps are working hard on propaganda to say that LLMs and theft of copyright is good if they do it

You can do it. I use a powered USB hub and a raspberry pi, and 5 hard drives.

It is a mess of cables but was simple enough.

I also sprang for a UPS because most filesystem’s I tried like zfs and btrfs didn’t appreciate random brownouts from running 4 drives off the pi itself.

Right now they’re xfs and used for a minio install and torrent storage

We salute you! raises Starbucks to toast

A CSPRNG is more than random enough for a playlist xD

Take it from someone who works in the field - computers do random well enough rotflol

CSPRNGs are a thing…

As are radioactive sources

And there’s mathematical tests for whether something is random enough

So no, computers really can do random xD

The current strategy of venture capital is not success, but sabotage

It’s not good enough for you to be doing well, you have to strangle the competition and introduce yourself as an unremovable bottleneck

For example, becoming the intermediary between concerts and concert goers. The fees charged and the trouble caused is worse than if they hadn’t been there.

Amazon makes examples out of any business that dare challenge it’s dead zone around it.

VC money is meant to crush the competition and lock in the consumer to charge rent.

Why would they ever want worker control, or unions?

Why would the private healthcare industry ever stop lobbying against socialized healthcare? Why would a capitalist success ever lead to the political change necessary for it when the doctrine of capitalism is privatization

Why would any commercial real estate firm allow affordable housing to exist when they can scalp it on investment properties and leave them empty? Why build affordable housing when the margins are small?

Capitalism isn’t a savior, it’s just locally optimal to the people with capital.

Not so much defending as offense…

I’m inclined to believe the local PD knows the addresses of officials… So they let this happen on purpose.

It’s the Hulu model

Most things I’ve done were from changing the environment around me. Most things became trivially easier when I made more… So no fault there

I’d consider HARD goals, not just SMART ones

• Heartfelt - core/passion
• Animated - inspires/energizes you
• Required - needed for a larger objective
• Difficult - effort but also confidence creating

Is it something you can sustainably do, with your support system and environment and schedule, that breaths life into you even though it’s a challenge?

Are you working in that 80% max effort space (or whatever it is for gym nerds, you get the point)

You and I might be talking about different things.

I mean that humans don’t like theoretically true random, as a cool side note

You seem upset about one implementation

Also, shuffling and having something appear near even though you throught it was shuffled is part of that finding patterns

Humans think real random isn’t random 🙃

It’s wild but they see patterns

I wonder what this arrest tells about the average stupidity and hubris of the population, given sampling bias of “people who got caught” and “people who were newsworthy” as factors before “people who should have kept their mouths shut”