Not entirely sure how you’d make the economics of hosting endless video files work without great big piles of money

You’re absolutely right, which is why BitTorrent never managed to take off. Totally unviable, doesn’t work at all, and definitely isn’t the technology underpinning federated video services like PeerTube.

Why didn’t she resign and let somebody actually capable of representing constituents fill her seat?

TBF, we don’t know that. Might’ve been a paid hitman.

Ah, right.

I’m an emacs user, so that’s why I didn’t remember the vi bindings accurately.

They should spin off an independent organization hosted somewhere overseas with different laws (or on the dark web) to archive stuff like this.

I can tell you aren’t a vi user because you would’ve remapped it to ctrl.

In other words, being able to choose to disregard the concept of race is itself an expression of privilege.

In a perfect world where everybody had that attitude, it would be the right attitude to have. But as long as some people continue to not only regard it but also use it as a tool to discriminate and oppress, their victims do not have a choice but to regard it also. To tell minorities they shouldn’t care about race is to deny them the means to describe how they’ve been wronged.

Ah, you mean the Poor People’s Campaign.

(Fun fact: MLK was begrudgingly tolerated as a black rights activist for several years, but then he pivoted to working class solidarity, and – bam! – assassinated. Funny, that.)

You forgot the worst one, which is “fascist wanna-be dictator.”

I applaud your idealism, but the tricky thing is that if you stop measuring race, then you also stop being able to measure institutional racism. That’d be great for the closet racists who want to pretend that it doesn’t exist, but it does still exist and we really need to be able to quantify how well measures to stop it are actually working.

I worked with a French guy in Amsterdam. His parents were Portuguese, but he was born and raised in France. As far as he was concerned, he was French.

As I understand it, that’s a French thing specifically, not just a non-USian thing. Like, if you’re a citizen of France, you’re expected to be French and assimilate into that culture, no matter whether you’re a native Parisian, you moved there from Algeria in the '60s, or you’re from some random other place and got citizenship via the French Foreign Legion. It’s a specific sort of national ideology that’s different from the American “melting pot” one.

Other routers have run OpenWRT straight from the factory before (various GL.iNet devices come to mind, not to mention the OG Linksys WRT54G – it may not have been called “OpenWRT” as such, but OpenWRT descends from that firmware).

In what way is this device “designed specifically” for OpenWRT that those were not?

Implement a basic socket connection in C (20 lines of manipulating struct sockaddrs and such), then do the same in Python (2 lines).

And then go back and make the C version support IPV6, because your initial implementation didn’t.

Because “more effort and care” in Python is still way less of a pain in the ass than the minimum enforced boilerplate necessary in most other languages.

You can’t just say that and not link it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uE96qUlJ_4

You’ll still have to firewall it away from everything to stop the firmware from phoning home, though.

It’s been a few years since I last checked, but AFAIK the only way to get an IP surveillance camera that isn’t proprietary, tied to some “cloud” provider, or that has sketchy firmware that phones home to China, is to literally build it yourself using a Raspberry Pi or something.

Remember when they demanded a hand recount, got it, and then kept lying about the results even after they were verified?

That’s the difference.