>Your Power Tools Got Worse On Purpose

Enshitifcation seems to be the universal path.

I was thinking about the VW Beetle.  I've never been a giant fan of it, but one thing about it is that it was absolutely designed to be home serviceable.  One could theoretically be kept alive forever with simple tools and a few 4x4 blocks of wood.  It is pretty much the opposite design objective of what is happening today.

>I wonder how much is the pure economics and how much is fear that a new admin will revoke them.

It is the same thing in a way.  You can't remove the risk from the economic equation.  Also, crystal balling is getting harder.  Like what is the conflict around the strait of Hormuz going to do to oil consumption in the next couple of years?  Getting oil that isn't from a war zone is good for people who produce elsewhere.  Yet, I am sure EV sales are going to increase due to supply issues and once a consumer switches to EV, they are permanently consuming less oil.

Those points hit hard Ergo.  The elderly without family support do not fair well in most places.

>Why?

I honestly think because it forces capitalism to make adjustments.  Labor and consumption are always assumed to be ever increasing.  A shrinking population turns that on it's head.  This doesn't hurt people, but it breaks the idea that the economy has to always be expanding.  It is bad for corporate earnings.

That's approaching the very top speeds of the propeller planes during WW2.

That's interesting data and it isn't really a surprise that California and Hawaii would be at the bottom of the list.  I wonder though how those places with the highest income pocketing translate for a young couple getting started today.  Do places like South Dakota and Iowa have opportunity for transplants, or strong data all from established people running on family momentum?

The good news is that they are getting found and people could patch up their systems.

Some years ago I was looking at an "internet in a box" setup for this  small village school in Nepal that my family has supported over the years.  Back then there wasn't much available.  This actually seems perfect for that type of need.

It's an open source local knowledge base, maps, learning platform, media server and AI.

QuoteWhat is Project N.O.M.A.D.?

Node for Offline Media, Archives, and Data — a free, open source offline server you install on any computer. Download the content you want, and it works without internet — forever. Similar products cost hundreds of dollars. Project NOMAD is free.

https://www.projectnomad.us/

"Protecting the children"

VPNs are used to do harm, but they are also used to safeguard freedoms.  I'm not sure what the answer is on this one.  I also wonder if they can actually close the loophole for those who are using VPNs for harm, or of these laws will just hurt people who have reasons to protect their privacy.

Which AI apocalypse are we more worried about; the one that destroys the jobs or the one that destroys humanity?  I suppose they could the same event in different stages.  I am baffled how so very few are even thinking about the changes about to occur when so much (at best) disruptive change is coming.  I don't think our current economic and political systems will survive what's coming.  We need to think hard about what world we are going to have when AI makes human labor close to irrelevant.  One thing that doesn't seem to get much thought is that the resources going to AI are already causing supply pressures on human consumption (energy, water, material resources).

I like the aesthetic of that site quite a bit too.

Would you come here right now?  I hope they didn't spend too much on that FIFA prize.

I don't think it's crawling in earnest.

Yahoo does claim it's still alive though.

Thanks for the joke highlights.  That was good.  He's quite witty.  I've been meaning to listen to his full speech.