Ah, got it. That’s at least better than what I thought, but still not great.

The money is gone, because the FCC gave it to private companies. Unless the FCC stops giving grants to private companies, people will have to deal with spotty, unreliable internet that is overpriced. It was very much given to private companies (such as Comcast, Time Warner, and now SpaceX) in much more massive quantities than public fiber. There is definitely at least some “instead of”.

I didn’t say there weren’t legitimate uses, but fiber is more often a better solution and it doesn’t fall out of the sky in an unsustainable way. Once the fiber is there, it’s there, and unlike LEO satellites, it can be repaired. It also doesn’t create an ungodly amount of pollution every time they need to lay some more, no where near as much.

I’d be curious to know what the astronomical use you’re thinking of is.

They can’t always filter it out. A lot of times the satellite tracks are RIGHT in front of what they’re observing. If it weren’t a problem, why are astronomers speaking out about it? Space telescope time is priceless, and it takes years to even get the chance to have a window of time where you’re able to use it. Have you ever seen how booked up they are? Saying they have satellite options only serves to minimize the actual problem to those that have no idea what that looks like.

The point isn’t that there are more internet users than astronomers. The point is that we had a better solution, most of the grants for that solution were given to private companies, and now one of the private companies (owned by a nazi billionaire fuck) is exploiting that for financial gain, while astronomers are catching strays. The point, in the end, is that SpaceX, like other private companies, should have never been given a grant from the FCC, especially when the nazi owner is one of the richest people on the planet.

I agree for the most part, but if instead of giving FCC money to a nazi billionaire scumbag we funded public utility fiber, we would have no need to ruin ground based astronomy and we’d have faster, more stable, lower latency connections. Switching to my county’s PUD fiber was huge. I pay $65/mo for gig up and down and get sub 15ms pings in most things.

The FCC should have never given money to any private company, and certainly not one owned by one of the richest scumbags around.

A lot of places have relatively cheap housing with two car garages which are owned by the working class.

Let’s not lose sight here. The enemy is the upper class (typically billionaires, but a lot of time this includes politicians), and they want the lower class divided and shitting on each other so that they can do whatever they want in the meantime.

It has a shitty LLM company attached, so that magically makes it one of the most valuable companies in the world!

While I believe this to be relatively true, since it’s CBS I wouldn’t be surprised if the intent of the article is to shift blame about the fucked economy from Trump to the lower class.

Wait, is WoW owned by paramount now?

CA allows mail in ballots to be postmarked on election day, and in the past those have leaned to the left. There’s still 42% of the ballots out. Plus, it’s a jungle primary, meaning the top two candidates win. So, even if the GOP candidate has the most votes in the primary, that doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll win in the general.

I don’t disagree, though. Anyone that is continuing to vote for any republican is dumb as bricks and it’s very demoralizing.

Not surprising, fucking scumbags.

Oh for sure, I don’t feel any sympathy for her. I just hate to see articles calling children “escorts” in general.

There’s nothing ironic here, just you putting your fingers in your ears to ignore reality, like most irresponsible pet owners do.

Just saw your edit, which is hilarious to add when your cat thought it was literally in danger outside, by your own description. That is why people are bringing it up here specifically, and what you continue to fail to see.

“Stick to keeping your cats healthy and safe, we’ll let our cats get terrified, be in danger, and then post online when I finally notice that they might have been in danger like it’s some big mystery.”

They’re willfully ignorant and will continue to be an irresponsible pet owner, unfortunately for their cats and the local environment.

I thought this was already known? Except wasn’t she a minor when she first met Epstein? If so, calling her an escort is pretty gross.

Does mTLS work with ABS? That’s how I control access to many of my “exposed” services.

I also wait until my partner is asleep. It still doesn’t make me 100% safe from the ‘what did you do’ texts, because sometimes I break things that I don’t think to check. Worse, sometimes I break something so bad that I stay up until 6am trying to fix it, only to cook my brain and pass out without fully repairing what went wrong.

But it’s still better than doing it during the day.

You just had the discussion and made it clear that for some reason, you think cats are humans and can fully think for themselves. You think that they can’t catch FIV, get hit by cars, etc. You also don’t care about your local bird population. Your ignorance is going to hurt something outside, whether it’s your cat, another cat, or just the birds in your backyard. It’s very American of you to think this way and be so selfish.

I’m not sure a single Reddit comment is the best source, but I do appreciate that it contains an external link. For example, though, this article (from the same author that the commenter links) goes into it a little bit more visually for a BDXL M-disc from verbatim: https://goughlui.com/2024/10/21/experimenting-with-bdxl-part-1-the-media/

The disc did have the same ID, but it looked different visually compared to Verbatim’s standard BD-R. The author stated that they can’t be sure either way because of this discrepancy. Keep in mind that it’s the same author that the commenter linked to, and the author says that their original article is often misinterpreted.

Even if they are Verbatim’s standard discs, which no one has been able to prove conclusively, they are still MABL HTL discs, as that’s what Verbatim uses in all of their BD-R regardless.

Further, the comment you linked is also at least somewhat BS. They claim that the BD-R M Discs have always been the standard BD-Rs. Meanwhile, there have been several durability tests of BD-R vs M-discs before the substrate change (remember, by their claim these should have been the same from the start) that have the standard BD-Rs die much more quickly than the M-discs. Such as this: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artsep16/mol-mdisc-review.html

That comment is at least half wrong, because that would not be possible if they were the same from the start.

Your original claim was that they are now organic. That is what I’m pushing back on, because they are still (and always have been) MABL. Do you have anything showing that they use organic dyes?

I think the conclusion that a lot of people in the DH spheres came to is that it seemed to be a change of inorganic material, not necessarily starting to use organic dyes. This change reduced their lifetimes from 1,000 years (with the OG millennia disc) to a few hundred. This would be in the ballpark for high quality MABL discs, which are still inorganic. It’s true that the substrate changed, but that didn’t make the substrate organic. Your link does not say that they changed to organic dyes, it only mentions organic dyes being the most commonly used and why M-Discs were originally made.

Realistically, I only need my backups to last 50 or so years, and I’m not updating them frequently enough for it to become a hassle. I think as long as you’re following the 3-2-1 rule (or 4-3-2) for important data, these can’t hurt to have as a part of that solution, and that it’s likely that they’ll last at least 50 years.

Verbatim still makes archive quality (non-organic) M-Disc, even in BDXL.