IIRC that chart only shows US Government investment / spending. A lot of other countries, such as South Korea, are spending on this and even here in the United States large sums are being spent on it by Venture Capitalists.

The “actual funding” line is wildly out of date since there’s several Fusion Companies that have spent more than that each in the past few years.

The nation of Israel is a net-negative for world peace and as an American Citizen I strongly disagree with the United State’s continued blind support of it.

I’m fairly confident that I’ve been on the watch list for the FBI, BATFE, NSA, and a few others for over two decades now so this changes nothing.

and now the courts are saying “fuck you”

It’s one Court and unsurprisingly it’s the Court located right there in town. I strongly suspect that the Third Court of Appeals is going to have a different take on this mess.

At least where I live you can’t wash away a deed restriction like this by transferring the property a couple times.

What specs? I’m in the market for 32Gb of DDR4…

Roku’s slide into corporatism kinda hurts. I really liked their product and their lead developer came from the Amiga Universe.

Is the recommended ONN streamer (see above) as good as the Roku at all the same shit?

I honestly don’t now. I haven’t owned a Google Streamer since the Asus days.

The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

Baby toys with tiny parts, jewelry loaded with lead, and clothes covered in dangerous chemicals. Which do you think it is?

Nah, it’s a pittance. No one should be simping for a $50 billion dollar company, especially when that company is built around abusive labor practices and dangerous products.

I spent an hour this afternoon reviewing the article and then Reticulum and while I really like the idea it’s just not going to replace Meshtastic or Meshcore without some serious tweaking. It needs to support both of those environments as interfaces or its not going to go anywhere.

LLCs are pass-through entities and not corporations. Thankfully no pass-throughs have been granted personhood yet.

Limited Liability Companies are expressly discussed in the article and the court filing.

shouldn’t a few rounds from a mig 29 be able to bring a balloon down without any effort?

Nope. The U.S. did this to the U.S.S.R. constantly during the Cold War and the Soviets had less than a 5% success rate shooting down the balloons.

The US struggled with the one from China three years back. In the end it took an F-22 and a very expensive missile to get the job done.

I think I read that licensing for the transcoding or something was the hang up.

There’s several problems. Transcoding is one but there’s also issues with content providers requiring the use of their own apps along with Linux not (until very recently) being able to use any HDMI spec beyond 2.0.

I’ve been a ROKU user for over a decade but the last year has had me thinking more and more about boxing up my devices and sending them to their HQ with a note “Since you treat these like you own them I figured I’d just send them to you.”

I am really REALLY tired of them dicking with my boxes and updating / reconfiguring things however and whenever they see fit.

There isn’t enough AI code out there (yet) to cause this. IMO what’s really happening is that AI Code Review is finding vulnerabilities and creating ways to exploit them way faster than they can be patched by Human Dev teams. An easy example of this is the Linux exploits like Dirty Frag that came out last week and the week before.

It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

If that happens, that hypothetical progressive government would put guns on a back burning.

LOLNO. There isn’t a single leftist / progressive politician currently in office in the United States that would willingly “back burner” the 2A issue. That is not going to change in my lifetime either. They want them gone.

It wasn’t widely known to the general public. If you were / are new to the community it’s highly likely that you don’t / didn’t know.

As someone with a BL P2S I really appreciate other people helping with this fight. I won’t buy another BL product but I’d like to keep using the one I already have.

The current cost for what they’re calling “windows 365” is $99/yr per user.

Windows 365 Enterprise basic starts $31 per user per month and goes up from there.

I suspect you are confusing Windows 365 with Microsoft 365. The former includes a virtual (Cloud) PC and licensing for Windows and Office, the latter only provides Office licensing. Additionally the price point you quoted makes me think you are looking at Personal / Home pricing because Commercial & Government Office 365 pricing is calculated per user / per month and will vary wildly in price from $10 pu/pm to $50+ pu/pm.

Rather than declare this balanced budget a smoke & mirrors failure, let’s see where it stands in 2-3 years.

We should start by waiting to see if this budget even comes to pass. It relies on a number of disparate groups to approve various line items.

I suspect the city will be much improved by then.

I suspect it won’t. Receipts from personal income tax are expected to decrease and budget gaps dramatically widen between now and 2030.

No, let’s pretend doing something great, and extremely rare, like balancing the budget, is a bad thing.

This budget may be balanced, assuming everyone involved votes for it to happen, but the structural problems remain.

For getting a big pile of money from the state and deferring contributions to city pensions?

“Balanced” by getting one time money from the state and shorting the city pension fund.