I’d blame Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman and their disciples on both sides of the Atlantic. Not sure if a legal system based on Roman civil law/the Napoleonic code would have slowed neoliberalism or whether it’s merely correlated with the cultural divide between the former British Empire and continental Europe.

Also, isn’t Singapore a common law jurisdiction with a solid state-backed programme of building housing?

Require printers to check digital signatures on STL files and have only approved slicers add those

Though to be fair, I’m sure she is very concerned

It sucks that Netflix only allowed the first two seasons (when it was just a cute, edgy cartoon about the unreality of Hollywood/LA, rather than a statement on the human condition) to be released on DVD/BluRay. I’d love to have a copy of “The View From Halfway Down” in my library.

Police have UPS-like devices which splice into existing mains cables to keep machines alive on the way into the forensics lab. Presumably it’s standard practice to use those.

Of course, the server could be configured to wipe itself if it loses connectivity for more than a few seconds, or its routing changes. The police would need devices that route Ethernet traffic over 5G, though those would presumably be detectable as bandwidth goes down and latency goes up.

The Tangara is interesting technically, but the firmware is a bit half-baked, and large parts of it are written in Lua, and thus slow. I had one but sold it, and got a Rockboxed HifiWalker H2.

I hope they named it Wojtek.

Star Trek fandom. The series appears to be the moral compass of Mastodon.

Mastodon is for kind middle-aged trekkies to hold forth about how to live a good life (it involves Linux, and stopping to look at the flowers)

Lemmy is for goblin-moders to vent about their mental health issues using memes

So do Ukrainian drone operators, who have developed tactics for spooking the horses into throwing their riders off.

So, meaning is a pyramid scheme

Do they use electric pumps as Britain does?

“Ronnie” has a nice midcentury vintage feel, if that’s of any value to you one way or the other.

If it was a bear selling that lamp, none of this would have been necessary.

Given that the Republicans just voted to allow Trump to unilaterally wage war in Venezuela, I have my doubts.

Godwin’s Law was an artefact of a time when we knew that Nazis were as extinct as Vikings and Mongol hordesmen, and comparing someone to one was dramatic hyperbole. It, of course, no longer applies.

America! Fuck yeah!

That sounds really… economically anxious

“Hey baby, are you the British economy? Because I’d like to give you a weak pound”

I wonder how long until they quietly resume running them