In a country where we need a complete overhaul on copyright, they want to make laws and codes protected by it?! Lobbyists are a blight.

Mogami cables and Square Plug jacks. Both straight and right angles.

The initial investment of a high quality iron goes a long way. And is worth it.

Audio cables. I’m a musician and audio engineer. Soldering two or three conductor wire to 1/4” phono jacks.

I started making my own cables. Now I only have to worry about my own shitty craftsmanship. And boy is it shitty.

But hey I get cables at less than half the cost. And it’s fun.

I don’t disagree with that at all. In fact as a population I think we need to police ourselves. We should take stronger action towards those in power, as we are the much larger power. I’m just tired of the defeatist attitude. Someone has to enforce the actual rules.

Because we still live in a country with rules. You’re on this site, you must see the headlines daily that read “judge blocks trump…”

If we don’t believe in the rule of law at all then we are truly lost. Attitudes like the one you described above are getting us nowhere.

They really want us to change browsers, don’t they?

From the article:

“The jury found Meta liable for $4.2 million in damages and Google for $1.8 million, small amounts for two of the world’s most valuable companies with annual capital spending over $100 billion each.”

They are also going to appeal. And even if that doesn’t go their way, even if it sets precedent, even if other people bring suits against them…this is peanuts for them. Are they going to stop being predatory of their own volition? No. We need actual legislation and regulations. Not internet id bullshit either.

Mostly just decades of brainwashing of the culture war. I’m an urban leftist who moved from a big city to a very small one in the rural countryside and the sheer amount of leftist ideals that get spouted by conservative voters I hear regularly is staggering. They have no clue that what they want from life is all left of center.

You’re not going to believe this…

Yup. All day, every day.

Y10k?

Been meaning to find an excuse to engineer a trebuchet.

Follow that link above. There’s a few great online communities around this. One involves keeping these camera out of places that don’t have them yet, for example.

Check out Benn Jordan and Louis Rossman on YT as they are two people spearheading this from a social standpoint. Louis specifically regularly provides links to contacting your legislators about it, including things to say to them. It’s faster and easier than you’d think to do.

Literal dead internet. The future is weirder than I would have imagined.

Benn is a national treasure and we must protect him and his work at all costs.

I live in Williamsport, I’ve never eaten there, and certainly won’t be eating there soon. Apparently he jumped in TWICE.

Everyone wants to be where everyone else is at.

On a whole we are very uneducated and extremely propagandized.