Justifier
@Justifier@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 5 days ago:
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 5 days ago:
As for damages
Say you have a old masonry structure like a masonry brick fence in the way of the easement
They can tear it down and will, and will not replace it with one of comparable quality if they bother to at all
Ive seen some beautiful 1950s work like that where it goes from amazing tradesmen quality masonry and iron fencing to jank 4x4’s and basically chickenwire on the easement, even 2 sections of the masonry/iron fence would take thousands to fix properly from what they did and there’s the likelihood they’ll do it again in the future.
Those are homes of people on fixed incomes or investments. They usually can’t keep fixing the damage. And those fences aren’t really decorations, its not even slightly uncommon for people to die from dog maulings in my area. Happens a few times every single year
Say you have a road, driveway, etc? At some point you will have a massive random pothole or speedbump because they’ll cut a trough right through it and fill it with asphalt not repour expensive concrete. I can in my neighborhood point out four locations where cable and fiber easement companies have done just that
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 5 days ago:
Theres really no eli5, this is a purposely convoluted topic
Best I could offer you is recomemend you go look up the channels Lehto’s Law and The Institute for Justice on YouTube
In the US, easements have a history of being abused to render large areas of privately owned land useless/unusable, to legally trespass, and to harass landowners
There’s a reason for example that American Tribes fight especially hard to prevent easements from oil or rail or really any companies
Cable companies in particular have a reputation of destroying peoples properties, have numerous times now been given insane payouts to build the very infrastructure with taxes that they just bought and in those instances pocketed the money without even a slap on the wrist. Further their involvement indicates that any further infrastructure projects expanding that fiber are basically dead, and for any that exist they’re going to be on life support
Those same bailout companies just got their hands on the easements that were allowed to go to a group who at the least didn’t have that history of abuse, and precedent of the that deal going through so it is more likely to start happening in more places
All of those easements should be considered as dead space and new ones will have to be allocated when expansion is taken up by yet another company on 10 or 20 years when they prove they won’t upgrade or properly maintain theirs to modern needs, that means further encroaching on people’s property
Think of it like sidewalks that moved another 3-4 feet into people’s yards every 10 or so years which you as a homeowner are not allowed to alter or use or complain when their representatives do so
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 5 days ago:
So all of the easement agreements got pushed through by google, and are being taken over by entities who wouldn’t have been able to get those easements due to commujity distrust of their company
I’d sue to have the easement revoked as a community, and for punitive damages hefty enough as a punch to Google’s nose to prevent that type of bad behavior from happening in the future
Not chump change, not cost of operations. Actual punitive damages enough to cut out any profits from the transaction and then some
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 5 days ago:
Look up easement abuse in the US on YouTube, Lehto’s Law or Institute for Justice
From rail, to cable providers, to city municipalities, easements in the US have been utilized maliciously to destroy and seize peoples properties
Why bother asking permission?
In the States, enough people have proven uncivilized enough and willing enough to face the consequences that come with utilizing tools easily and cheaply available at their disposal so that trespassers and even politicians think twice before sending people to mess with other people’s land without asking permission
- Comment on They Said Self-Hosting Was Hard! - arthurpizza 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I wouldnt trust immich with directly storing it myself
Get that stuff off on its own and have immich access that as shown in Louis Rossmann’s setup video
Think of it like having a dedicated steam drive with the os on its own, so if you have to format or decide to distrohop, you don’t have to download and reinstall a dozen +250GB games
- Comment on They Said Self-Hosting Was Hard! - arthurpizza 2 weeks ago:
I just rename the immich file, install a new immich instance and copy the data over manually to the new install, deleting the old install file after a week or so
I’ve had the least buggy experience that way
Immich updating is a dogwater experience
- Comment on The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection 3 weeks ago:
I know it may difficult to believe, but humanity existed before the internet era. If it doesnt actually serve the people and is instead being egregiously leveraged against them, it needs to be flushed down with the rest of the waste
Doctors can still accommodate clients without internet communications
Banks can still give out and accept your money, and you are perfectly capable of writing down those transactions in a ledger with red and black ink
Landlords or mortgage holders do too, even if you use paper cheques. You… Can… write a cheque… right?
Employers have been whining for at least since I started working about people being on the internet on their phones (2010’s), they’d consider you ditching it a win
Friends and family? Oh man you may or may not believe it, but you may actually have to meet up irl to maintain those relationships. Maybe even every weekend.
How to avoid it when implemented? TOR, self hosted Docker programs like TeamSpeak6, Fluxer or anything similar. There’s a lot of options there though you have to have the slightest interest to fix then
It can go as far as meshtastic nodes and HomeAssistant using LORA communications these days. There is a guy in Ukraine doing just that to use HA at work to trigger smart home systems when cellular is down
reddit.com/…/i_control_my_home_assistant_over_lor…
People use this garbage because its convenient and easily accessible is all, it takes maybe a weekend of research to bypass all formal methods of communication on 10 year old hardware sitting in peoples closets if someone is even slightly aspiring to, and it only takes one person capable of doing so per family or even maybe town if this goes far enough past people’s willingness to tolerate it
- Comment on Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne 4 weeks ago:
Shiiit,
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Leave my country behind thanks!
I can do without this flavour of development: wealth concentration, surveillance, censorship, and inevitable enshitification
Call me in 20-30 years when its testing grounds have been burned down and its a client side only, fully open sourced consumer favored code
Don’t need or want your Ai slop enshitified distopian dream thanks, Mr/Mrs dozen golden parachute packing multi-billionaire wannabe CEO
- Comment on Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead 4 weeks ago:
Thr most refined usage, and money dumped sector of Ai by far is image recognition. Its where all thr money from Amazon and others has been dumped (Flock Surveillance, Amazon Ring, FedEx Trucks, Wal~Mart and your choice of store)
Surveillance, ALPR, Facial recognition, gait recognition, etc. It takes a massive amount of data
Go see how much space you need if you want to secure data from 10,000 cameras at 480p/720p/1080p for a few weeks, let alone a year or two
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 5 weeks ago:
I think its yet to be seen if they shot themselves in the foot or not
Remember Reddit?
Yeah they were dirt bags and still exist just fine aren’t they
I’d wager its more likely that the same scenario repeats than this being a catastrophic event for discord personally
Unfortunately
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 5 weeks ago:
Discoverability and moderated official servers
You need to be able to find say a public battlefield, minecraft, dayz, CivilizationVi, whatever community and subcommunities easily, so for minecraft you need to be able to find speedrunner, hardcore, smp, and so on groups
Active People to talk to
Chicken and egg problems. Gotta have signifcant quantities of people to attract more active people
Intuitive and easy joining, clean links.
Have to be able to say “oh we can hop on here and chat/discuss” to onboard new people from YouTube, Twitch, Owncast, whatever
The shared link cant be a string of letters and numbers because uninitiated correlate that with bad actors
This was something Guilded was starting to get right before they were bought out and shut down and it was massive for getting people to join
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 5 weeks ago:
Ive been trying to migrate off since 2020
Communities I follow refuse to, and no other service is close to parity. Guilded was the closest until they allowed themselves to golden parachute with their Roblox purchase, so they’re now not longer worth considering
Teamspeak and teamspeak6 is a joke, anyone who prefers it is off their rocker
I’ve been following Revolt/Stout, River on FreeNet since I found it on FUTO, and others but frankly all alternatives I’ve found suck for varius reasons
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 5 weeks ago:
Hey I have a better idea
How about they fuck off and talk to internet router hardware companies to make decent software UIs, with defaults that make sheep masses actually use them to ‘protect the children’ client side where it actually works
Oh because its not actually about that and the powers that be don’t actually give a rats about protecting children and this whole protect the children conversation is a red herring to allow them to push their real goals which include but are not limited to mass censorship of people who disagree with and resist their opinions, actions, and agendas
- Comment on UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs 1 month ago:
Maybe that’s how the letter is written, but anyone can make a timeline of enshitification from the point a certain monarch died and the events of today and come to their own conclusions on who is pushing this global agenda against autonomy and privacy
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 1 month ago:
Like books
Buy them from pawn shops or libraries during booksales
They’re immutable and work without electricity or internet
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 4 months ago:
This paired with the bedrock gdk release is some hella good vibes
