Go figure people get mad when the company they work for reports record profits but all they get is the same or less pay and the threat of getting let go.

How we turned shortwave from something needing no power to recieve into something complicated that requires computers and authentication 'artisinal fisherman' pretty much sets the tone for these idiots reinventing the wheel to require DRM.

only to the people paying attention -- approximately 3% of the population. go out and ask people if they put chatgpt on their phones to learn more about the 97% of the population who aren't paying attention.

Oh lol, I see the press release uses the old projection of 576TB for LTO-14 but that has been scaled back because of the past few capacity misses. If you look at the diagram it now says 365TB. Tape is great in principle, but the shiny shoes running the LTO consortium prefer to make it super expensive and market it only to big companies. They also are staying with the same cartridge format between generations despite giving up on cross-generation compatibility. They are using super high tech tape formulations to get capacity increases while it apparently hasn't occurred to them to just make the cartridges bigger so they can put more tape in them. Oh well. Why tape? Because HDD's are complicated machines full of delicate mechanical and electronic stuff and they tend to fail if you don't keep them spinning. The lubricants dry out if you leave the drive sitting on a shelf for too long. So you keep them powered and online, and them a computer virus attacks them and exfiltrates or erases the data. While you can keep tape cartridges in a vault completely offline.

@BrennpunktUA it's not a 1-1, but this almost akin to someone starting their Mastodon instance with the default Mastodon codebase, then customizing it from there. Everyone starts somewhere!@darnell @ricci