Exactly. The right and responsible thing to do is give users access to their data: give notice, offer a competitor’s similar service or offer to sell the drives to them.

But reaponsibility is a high ask. Just start the bancrupcy procedure, sell everything off and be done with it is what most folks do.

The possibilities are there, but most won’t follow through.

Afaik liquidation requires certain garantees of “highest price” like inventory auctions.

Regardless, a deal or notification could and should have been made.

Just goes to show the cloud is someone else’s computer. A computer the someone else can do anything with, like declare bankrupcy and sell off.

my understanding of the lore may contain a bit of non-canon fanfiction

The catholic canon is but the biggest canon, and all of it is fanfiction. In fact, religious people are the most hardcore fans of them all!

If anything, your interpretation is likely less off-the-rails than theirs.

He loves his thieves. And few are willing not to submit when Trump comes with an offer.

Yeah. What this lawsuit in effect did is say “Games can fall under art and education. Publishers shouldn’t think just including a swastika in a game is illegal, because it isn’t. Just as a movie can include it, a game can as well.”

Of course, it still needs to not glorify nacism deliberately or inadvertantly. But it’s sad that it took this long for this non-question “legal question” to have been finally asked in court, and answered with the most expected answer - and dare I say it - one more expected of past decades than this one.

Their interpretation did. Games now classify as art and fall under the art-related exception from censorship.

It’s also an opportunity to reconcile. Not that OP seems to want that, nor would the aunts most likely want that, but sometimes such events just make things… Click.

Having okay relations with relatives is important, and afuneral is an opportunity for things to improve. That’s just pure sociology. You aunts will spin it into “God works in mysterious ways”, but it’s the same core thing with a culty religious spin.

So my take is: bite your teeth and attend the funeral. It’s a one-time investment of a few hours. Odds are the aunts won’t want to make issues. Maybe it fixes things. Your fathed did ask nicely, after all. And it’d be nice to honour his request. Any semi-okay relatives would respect that, religious or otherwise.

YMMW if they’re as fake as you say they are (religion is a hell of a drug), but if it doesn’t go the ideal way, you did your part and they failed theirs. If you don’t go, it’ll be the other way around because Christians unfortunately eork like that. And they like holding grudges. A funeral is (unfortunately) one of the few “chances” to reconcile. Shame someone needs to quite literally die for them to be this open to reconcoliation.

Speaking like an ex-christian raised in the tradition: this could be your opportunity to get things to smooth over. They’re bound be as open to reconciliation as possible. Just don’t force it. Keep your distance and honour your dad’s wishes. Forcing things will have the opposite effect of seeming disingenuous. No action other than showing up necessary.

The amount of families reconciled at christian funerals I’ve witnessed is in the low 20’s.

the default web UI

Isn’t that the Tesseract from the recent trama?

So a post-apocalyptic fantasy rural frontier/urban civilization center split is fully within the realm of.possibility.

With US cities and states beibg pretty autonomous most things considered (for now at leas), it could easily happen without the US splitting as far as the world map goes.

A “10-month lead” less than a month ago at that

I think most of them will include videos, what with that having been the gold standard of untamperability way back when.

As quality audio was. AI slop is eerily good at nailing the hit-like formula. On the other hand, AI is probably much worse at making realistic real life audio.

Torx screws are almost as common as philips and flatheads as they’re long out of patent protection and vastly superior.

It’s almost impossible to strip them without actively trying, unlike the others mentioned.

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No. Violence always was, still is, and most likely almost forever will be - an integral part of society.

However, “The State” has the monopoly on it and on its legitimate use - one it lends out to its organs, giving them rules of conduct, standards and a uniform to make it feel legitimate.

Honestly - just uploading to archive.org or their spinoff of Google Books would be acceptable. At least the stuff out of copyright.

Not only that…

They use this fucking incredible argument:

“We destroy the book because when we scan it - that’s a new copy. If we destroy the oroginal - only one copy (the scan) remains”

As if the model doesn’t get copied over and rented out in bajillions of instances. Its product - by all AI service ToS’s made free to use and copy royalty free (unlike say, every single library in this world, which universally forbid the photocopying of lent out books). Meaning - copyright infringement of the worst kind in any sane interpretation. Shame this world is insane.

Such an incredible spin on the rules. Using them as the excuse to go against the core cultural, civilizational and moral imperative of archiving, while going against the spirit of the concept of what copyright was initially made to do - give authors the path to a livelihood from their work and denying it to parasites such as publishers.

Copyright truly is dead. Indeed - the global copyright rules were on their last legs before AI and used only as anti-consumer protection for publishers (not authors!), but now they’re a sinked ship - the mask is off. It’s all plainly visible what they’re here to do now.

Yeah, sure. Everyone throwing out old books is knowledgeable enough to know and willing enough to check that the book they’re throwing isn’t rare or important.

You’d think people would check on the off chance it’s worth a bunch but you’d be surprised.

To be honest, I’d be MUCH less against this practice if this shredding at the very least included saving the original scans at at least 300 dpi for everyone to access, freely.

Ideally, they wouldn’t cut them by the spine, but even giving the despined ones to an archive/library would be just above the unpermissible line.

Despining, scanning and public access archiving is borderline permissible.

They can: hire locally (not a bad thing), move out of overpriced areas (also not a bad thing), pay/find closer housing for employees and negotiate better prices (also not a bad thing) or just make remoteable jobs remote.

All positive consequences of… Having to pay your employeea for their time spent for the company.

Also, it’s FOSS so you can always make your own skin/theme.