Oh, it’s not just that. Trump wants to setup a bitcoin reserve. Ulbrich had 50,676 bitcoins (~$5.3B at the current exchange rate) that were all confiscated as part of his arrest. He doesn’t get those back just because he was pardoned. Good chance it’s now the seed money for the bitcoin reserve.

You have to be pretty damn naive to think Trump pardoned the guy in a vacuum. That’s not tribalism, but a simple observation that Trump doesn’t do anything unless it benefits himself.

They had months to draft the definition in the executive order. Perhaps more than a year if it was started internally by Project 2025. They still fucked it up.

If you’ve watched Babylon 5, this is like when ISN came back as a propaganda network.

If you haven’t watched Babylon 5, go watch Babylon 5.

I can only speculate on why. Perhaps they come as a package deal with servers, and they would prefer to avoid them otherwise.

There are plenty of drives of equivalent or more runtime than the Seagate drives. They cycle their drives every 10 years regardless of failure. The standout failure rate, the Seagate ST12000NM0007 at 11.77% failure, has less than half that average age.

I wouldn’t call those numbers okay. They have noticeably higher failure rates than anybody else. On that particular report, they’re the only ones with failure rates >3% (save for one Toshiba and one HGST), and they go as high as 12.98%. Most drives on this list are <1%, but most of the Seagate drives are over that. Perhaps you can say that you’re not likely to encounter issues no matter what brand you buy, but the fact is that you’re substantially more likely to have issues with Seagate.

Backblaze.com gives stats on drive failures across their datacenters:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2024/

Seagate’s results stick out. Most of the drives with >2% failure rates are theirs. They even have one model over 11%.

Democrats do the minimum. Republicans make sure we don’t even do that.

How to destroy community goodwill 101.

Yeah, that’s my point.

Consistent problem with fascists who want you to hate outsiders. When those barriers fall, it turns out that most of the “enemy” are just people who want to live their lives.

This goes both directions.

Just to make a more meta comment, this is a case where cynicism is definitely not helping. We need better journalists to do this kind of deep dive without concern for losing a revenue stream. And not just in gaming hardware, either.

If we cynically label every journalist that does it as “drama mongers”, we’re only hurting ourselves.

Not really. Reviews and weekly news are still their bread and butter. They do a few of these deep dive investigations per year.

And they do very detailed reviews.

I don’t even like WordPress, but now I’m going to fork it just on principle.

Unionize tech and then it can happen.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels … upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/b200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf

Mozilla CEO pay is $6M, and the rest of the board members are about $0.7M or less. Total executive compensation is a little under $10M.

Their total revenue is $64M. By and large, the money is going toward developers and activism, which is where it should go.

This now gets into human limitations. If you’re doing straight 500 miles without a break, you are running into safety issues. You need a break. Both for your own health–sitting that long is not good–and for others–your attention is not holding up.

In other words, a 350 mile EV that needs 20-30 minutes to charge is forcing you to do what you’re supposed to be doing anyway.

We have three cars. Two EVs that are primaries. The third is a Miata that’s used for Miata things. It works out fine as long as we plan things out.

Batteries rolling off assembly lines right now basically give as much range as needed. It takes a few years for car manufactures to get new components into actual cars, but that’s just engineering work at this point. We’re not waiting on lab breakthroughs to convert into practical manufactured batteries. Both range and weight will thus likely be fixed in the next couple years. The only place for hybrids left will be a few odd people who travel exceptionally far every day as a job.

12 months is easily enough to turn gas into significantly water. You’ll have degraded performance either way.

Hybrds were always going to be a temporary transitional technology. They have a purpose, but it’s already coming to an end of its usefulness.

And now the seals are drying out and you’ll have problems later.