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Tough. If you think any action you take on a social media platform is private then you shouldn’t be here.

Whether it is private or not isn’t the problem. It’s people assuming any part of is. Behave or suffer. Just like the real world.

I’m not technical and I’m also not young.

I think anyone coming into an online social platform who thinks that any part of it is private, is too naive and/or uneducated to be using that type of platform.

I’m sure there’s parts of platforms which are private, I just don’t think it’s advisable to assume that at any point.

You’re online, interacting with people. If you wanted privacy, don’t be there doing that. Post and behave as if you are publishing everything to a major commercial physical publication. Every post, every comment, every vote, every blocked user. On every one of your accounts.

Otherwise, you’ll get what’s coming to you. And I’m fine with that.

Have you tried the XDA forums?

Oh, were you talking to me?

Dead by Christmas then?

Space.com got it wrong? Well that will teach me to triple check my sources!

Thanks for clarifying.

It’s a mess. I just used Google Assistant (not even Gemini) to ask the distance in km and got this -

According to the website Space, the distance is 37.8 trillion km.

I know which one I’m going with but finding out assistant is wrong is a big deal. Lots of people will assume like I did that the info is just pulled from relevant websites. Can’t do that now.

Sodium will probably be better when it becomes more available.

It’s all much more simple than people think it is. I hate ads, I know I hate them and I generally ignore them. But if I need something, the ads with that in are the ones I notice. Like when you buy a car and start seeing the same car everywhere.

That’s all the general stuff ads, some are crap, some are funny, etc.

Then there’s the top level brands, the big guys with the huge budgets. They advertise to say to the world “we are the biggest and best and don’t you forget it!”

If they stopped, it wouldn’t take long for their biggest competitor to take the lead in market share. And getting it back is almost impossible unless the ground is once again conceded.

So yes, advertising does work. But not really in the way we think it does. Which is why I despise it so much, because it wouldn’t work if we weren’t so busy and preoccupied with all the day to day stuff we are forced into.

We are lab rats, scurrying around trying to get to the end of the maze having finished all the tasks thrown in that become more and more so there’s less time to think and we’ve never been taught differently argh!

You think they don’t know this?

Because if we raised the level of education, the base standards of living, the sense of empathy and kindness we have for eachother, advertising would just look like this -

Man it’s so disappointing! The really important stuff still seems nowhere near. I don’t even want space travel, just those food machines like in Star Trek. Get them in the kitchen with the self loading dish washer already. Seriously, what is taking so long?

they estimate the operator made around $8,000.

the network could have started operating as early as August 2022 and may have made as much as $100,000

I know very little about this stuff but it seems to me that if it is a Russian as implied, it looks like a lot of work for that amount of pay off.

The real money could well be from the use of the tools being sold, rather than all this paid for distribution. But then why not just do that?

Or, as seems most likely to me, there is another, less fiscal reason for the activity. Russian state backed hackers exist.

Well, I purchased them around 2001 so they’re retro/vintage!

I still have two 19" in storage. I wonder if they are worth anything?

Wow, imagine living in a submarine that can’t go up to the surface. Diving suits required to exit into oblivion in order to board the little transit sub, then a long slow return ending with a hot, bumpy fall. Any point of which is very likely to kill you should even the slightest thing go wrong, of which the chances are pretty high to begin with.

Astronauts are mad, but living in a cave on the moon is next level crazy.

I’m a bit worried about where Mozilla is heading with this, but not really for my own sake.

I got into this whole thing because of my hatred of being advertised at. The privacy aspect is less of a concern for me, although I do appreciate it.

I threw my lot in with BigG around Gingerbread and it’s too late now. I’ve turned off a much as I can in the last year or so, but G has everything I need and use.

This would concern me more if I was younger. My teenage children are very savvy with it all. We talked last weekend about setting up Proton mail and using temporary emails for everything. I can see a Linux future for them and that’s very reassuring. They are beginning to understand the nature of online privacy and how it relates to humanity.

But as long as I’m able to block ads, that’s good enough for me. I’ll move to Librewolf etc if I have to, but if Firefox keeps working I’m not going worry too much.

Those of you young enough and/or that it makes a difference to, I wholeheartedly encourage to be as privacy orientated as possible. The world is going to need you.

Yeah that’s my point really, saying they can’t easily watch it is a cop out because it’s easy to find ways to make it possible. Which includes facilities and equipment such as in my example, but there’s plenty in the US and I’d be surprised if they don’t have their own facility they can hire the equipment into.

The thing that got my interest is the terms used themselves. Why say it’s an old format, rather than or as well as what the format actually is?

The media used, which I quoted, is not unusual itself but it is unusual to be used for a video format. Cinema film is usually 35 or 70mm gauge, and stereo audio is usually half or quarter inch. One inch is more commonly used for multi-track audio recording.

Maybe that’s all there is to it, there being no playback device, but its all rather intriguing, and it feels like there’s more they aren’t saying.

I demand details, goddamn it!

Well said! I’ve no idea at all and don’t actually do any of this stuff.

I do, however, advocate for the practice and it’s ethics and I learn things just by being here, whether that’s technical or otherwise.

Thanks to you all.

I had to check -

AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes

This is a terrible excuse, as can be found by a simple web search that shows sites like this, which is a fantastic site btw.

Isn’t that the launcher? Try a different one.

That’s great! I’ll just tick the box every time, thanks.