Same here.

I self host photo storage, which leaves originals untouched. It’s got a parity drive. There’s a hot spare. Every night it gets backed to up two different cloud providers that both host their own hardware, on two different continents (OVH, Germany and Backblaze, US East). The entire thing gets written to two offline disks every six months, for worm protection. I run recovery exercises a couple of times a year.

It would take a dinosaur killer asteroid for me to lose access to this data.

Imagine giving all that to Apple?!

No of course I wouldn’t prefer living in a place where legal safety standards are ignored or non-existent. But that isn’t what I said either, so I refute your false dilemma argument :)

I don’t know the details of the lawsuit. I was merely commenting that the description of the case from the post I replied to didn’t make it make more sense. Your post did, though, so thank you for that. For what it’s worth in the UK and Denmark, the two countries I know well enough, the temperature of hot drinks don’t have a legal maximum and any liability would fall under “protecting customers from foreseeable harm” broad health and safety regulations.

So the question, at least from a legal perspective is what is foreseeable. Can coffee made with boiling water be foreseen to be scalding?

Certainly in the UK, case law suggest exactly that a hot drink should be foreseen to be scalding and therefore it is not negligent to serve it at scalding temperatures; see Bogle v McDonalds (2002) - https://cms-lawnow.com/en/ealerts/2002/05/recent-case-on-the-supply-of-hot-drinks

IMHO you didn’t make it sound less mad.

If coffee is made by pouring boiling water over coffee beans grinds, I would expect the temperature of the final product to be scalding hot. I would even go so far as to call it a feature.

Warning: Knives may cause injury. Well, yes, the whole point of them is to be sharp enough to cut something.

I’m glad I live in a less litigious society.

Totally. This is the data equivalent of a “new battery tech will revolutionise your phone” post.

Tbh my own personal use case is getting buried with all of my data and become some kind of data-“Tollund man” in the year 4000, when they dig up my data cube and study it endlessly.

I expect them to build a reading device to do this; it’s the least I would expect if they want to study the holiday I was on in Bergen, or completely misunderstand the two hotdog pictures I happen to have as some kind of fellatio training device.

“Myes, we do believe family structures were loosely organised around the remote picture beaming devices that used to be called “te levision”

I’ve used duckDNS for years. A couple of years ago it started flaking out every couple of months so I migrated off it.

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I sat next to a teacher the other day who did just that. Every single paper was graded by an AI. It actually shocked me.

Through the Ages, the app edition of the board game.

I play that at least twice on a long flight.

Well you can of course do that. Then if it discovered that you’ve lied on an entry form, you’ll be denied entry forever.

Nor do you get TV tuners. While most geeks probably couldn’t care less, any associated family do prefer to watch Great British Bake-off as it airs.

Snide comment that achieves very little. Word has done the dash —> em dash transformation since the late 90s.

Many writing tools automatically transform dash to em dash when used as an em dash.

I use em dashes all the time and I’m a real person, at least last time I checked.

You understood “remember the human” wrong.

I wouldn’t ban. I would make it liable for anything that gets written on it unless it can positively identitfy the user writing it. The supply it with the identify framework that allows it to anonymously identify the users and require it to only show identified users. I guarantee it that 99% of the bullshit, bots, AI slop disappears overnight and real people might actually be able to interact with each other again.

Love them both for who they are and never compare them.

What you’re describing would no doubt improve matters.

But fundamentally, we are shirking around a ground truth that the kind of things that stir in male biology aren’t terribly useful in today’s modern world; men biologically need to feel useful in their physicality, to have something to protect and something to provide for.

The terrifying slide towards all the bullshit hyper masculinity or Jordan Peterson style “self improvement” is all a reaction to the fact that, with where we are heading, many of those traits can’t find a natural home in how we’ve structured the world.

Yes exactly.

Who do you believe would form a government then?

(I lament at our de facto two party system and our laughable first past the post voting system)