heavily situation dependent. Autonomous region of what state, at what time, in what political context? It isn't something with a strict definition across time and space

I don't see why degradation of the individual physical floppies is a concern, since they can be imaged and written onto new(er) floppies, or the system retrofitted to read the same data from a different medium, but I can see where a more modern system would provide a lot of advantages. It doesn't really sound like anyone in this article knows the nitty gritty details that well, though the bit about the loop cable is good.

The SFMTA is looking to upgrade to "modern technologies, such as fiber optic or Wi-Fi," Roccaforte said.

PLEASE do not use wifi to run your trains lmao

Objection to the use of my personal checkout history may seem like a small thing, but it essentializes how oppressive political regimes oppress. I had a friend who lived in the former Soviet Union who explained to me that the most private thing about you is what you read

I mean sure, I don't want to be spied on for profit. But jfc she just haaaaad to sneak a jab at the USSR in there. It's like its contractual for these people, any criticism of US capitalism has to include an "imagine how much worse it would be in bad country" segment

Does it bug anyone else when they say "World's richest billionaires"? Like yeah no shit captain redundancy, there's a word for them though, it's "people". They're just people. This billionaire identity building/mythmaking language has got to stop. Plus its just a way to not normalize gender neutral language/a drop in replacement for "world's richest men" that is technically gender neutral but carries an implication...

my cousin is taking nothing but cherry juice for his hereditary case of gout and refusing to go to the doctor, but he's a rural slumlord not fuckin royalty

also works with joints/blunts

or like chicken nuggets? idk thats what some of my friends did in high school

This is all true, but there's more to worry about than just feds. Similar deanonymization attacks can be leveraged by fascists and liberals who want to harass our users. Not compelling google to reveal IPs, sure, but linking to a malicious domain (and obscuring the link destination with markdown), or to a targeted social media post and seeing who interacts, or a bunch of other vectors.

No reason to make attackers jobs easier, but also true that even the most careful of us should not feel a false sense of security

Yeah... I'm with you, people are not taking the risks of a lot of things seriously. Rule changes aren't a bad idea, especially since they don't require dev effort that we don't have, but as much as possible we should probably automate enforcement, it will make it more effective/consistent.

Its all wasted effort, until it's not, and then it'll be too late.

Automod tools do exist now but we would have to put in some dev effort to get the features we want, and it may not scale super well to our large instance size. And its hard to keep up with all the major sites let alone small obscure sites or straight up honeypots. You can't really beat careless user behavior, but you can certainly improve things.

its gonna be really tough to balance usability and sufficient safety/paranoia here IMO. I think the current approach is mostly "people can choose their own risk level" and giving people tools like invidious links, etc.

the ipad babies have been on that "pregnant elsa + spiderman" algorithmically generated content grind for years

The difference I guess is the older kids getting into what you describe

Shoulda had a box for Taiwan too lol

I don't think it was a maersk owned or operated ship, just contracted out basically? I thought the bulk of maersk's business was their own ships but maybe I'm wrong