no reproduction would be held by a museum, and museums would hold even “low” quality artifacts that represented a significant aspect of creativity or innovation, so that’s weird wording.

But, it’s going to be oil paint on a canvas instead of a digital print. The work being reproduced is probably not covered by copyright.

sure you can do that but how will you shelter and feed yourself?

If this bothers you, you can short an amount equivalent to your index fund’s holding. But you’d have to track and maintain parity against the proportional allocation of the index fund as Tesla’s market cap changed and you invested more into the index.

I gave up on cute or clever names a while ago; now I go with “storage0”, “router0”, “wap00”, “vmhost0”. Always with a numeric suffix because there will be a -1, -2 some day.

Free Speech isn’t dependent on a “platform” - you are free to talk to people, publish a newsletter, stand on a street corner with a sign, put up a website, etc.

The idea that “platforms” need to amplify and broadcast whatever you “post” or else you don’t have free speech is asinine - you have no right to force others to disseminate or repeat your message.

XMPP or IRC?

Everyone “knows” its a scam; furthering the delusion is the way to work the scam.

Zigbee or Zwave temperature/humidity sensors are common. Add a 3-circuit relay box and you can simulate the behavior of pretty much any thermostat with a few rules.

HA or any other system that can toggle outputs based on sensor thresholds would work just fine.

there are some subtleties with real HVAC thermostats, like running your AC compressor at least five minutes and ensuring that it stays off for at least 5 minutes when it’s turned off.

Right, both sides are the same! Best to just give up!

Do you know what the “Nuclear Football” is? Go check it out

weird how it’s resulted in a higher standard of living for more people than literally any other economic system

very creative thinking, Please write more

AWS S3, Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class. $0.004/GB/month + read traffic costs.

Find out which family/friends are buying a car and get them to sell you their old one. No markups from middlemen!

Spam was a challenge for self-organized networks almost as soon as they left the university labs, 40 years ago

UHF is strictly line of sight, and finicky HF (which bounces off the ionosphere) might have a total global bandwidth of 15mbit/s during a good hour of a good day. For everyone. If you use the entire possible spectrum.

you don’t need custom anything, you just need to set it up. You can put access points on your roof and on your neighbors’ roofs and on the roofs of buildings on a distant hill, plug them into routers, configure an addressing scheme and routing rules and you’re set.

anybody with a connection to any of those nodes can set up a server and offer content.