The transition to electric freight will be rapid once it begins.

The range of a road vehicle only needs to be as long as the driver’s bladder, and legal requirements are less than that.

New vehicles are a minor element, a more significant part should be conversion of existing vehicles once engine rebuilds are due, as per Janus. Their battery swap setup easily rivals diesel refuelling times.

Another benefit with articulated vehicles is the ability to include batteries and drive axels in the trailers. Not only does this increase range and efficiency with acceleration, but also increases the opportunity for regenerative breaking. They can also be charged when stored or during (un)loading.

Freight rail is mostly moved using diesel electric locomotives, I can see some of these being similarly refitted with batteries which feed the electric drive axels in place of the onboard diesel generators. They could then be charged from a generator on another locomotive they’re teamed with, or via a pantograph along the route or at their destination.

The Trump-Epstein Scrotum of Terra-Interred Security, or TESTIS.

LLMs exist, AI doesn’t.

Anyone who calls LLMs ‘AI’ is betraying they don’t understand what the labels are. Their opinions on the subject should be summarily dismissed, and ridiculed if they persist.

LLMs have vanishingly narrow legitimate use cases, none of which have proven justifiable to be wielded unsupervised.

The worst part of WWIII will be the second wave boomers, who will trigger WWIV when they age out of relevancy.

Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.

White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.

This is just capitalism. It values, and thus incentivises, sociopathic behaviour.

The more one exhibits the traits of the financial triad, CPA[0], the greater the reward, recognition, and promotion they can expect to receive.

[0]: Cunt, Prick, Arsehole

The population of ethical landlords must be massively increased.

And by ethical, I mean former.

My comments stem from broader work I’ve been ruminating on, which doesn’t yet exist in a form I can readily share here. I’m not advocating for the abolition of IP alone, there needs to be an appropriate and battle hardened replacement to fill the void. This is part of my attempt to help extract it from my head.

The entire notion of ‘Intellectual Property’ is a cancer on society.

Intellectual property is a term that wraps a whole bunch of things (copyright, trademarks, patents). Are you fully aware of the impact how abolishing all IP would negative affect society?

I’m well aware of the scope my comments cover, and I stand by them.

Copyright prevents the KKK from producing and selling Pokemon cartoons with Pikachu supporting stupid shit like white supremecy propaganda. Are you sure you want that protection gone?

I’m fascinated as to the justification in relying on copyright to prevent hate speech, or enforce other morality constraints. This example is just another case of using the wrong tool for the job.

Information and ideas intrinsically accrue value the more they’re known and used, and the incentives provided around their collation and attribution should embody that, not punish them with imaginary locks that provide ownership.

Let’s just take the patents portion of IP for a moment. The first part of what you’re asking for here is exactly what patents do. To have something patented, the patent holder has to fully document the machine/process/method to create the patented item. This is that mechnism that enables the “more known and used”. Society gains this knowledge because the owner fully shares it.

I agree this is a stated claim of patent systems, and it’s a concept that should stand. My argument is that the incentives are problematic. By conjuring gaol cells and granting exclusive ownership over an idea, it rewards restrictive, exclusionary and extractive behaviours.

My counter proposal is to create a replacement system which intrinsically rewards open, sharing, and collaborative actions.

A design patent can last for only 14 or 15 years (depending on filing date). The longest type of patent (Utility) lasts only 20 years. After as few as 14 years everyone can use this knowledge without any fees/restrictions/payments.

A key distinction between the current and my proposed systems is reframing the designation of ‘ownership’ as ‘attribution’. A reason for this is ownership invokes a right to restriction, whereas attribution serves as the provision of recognition.

The restrictions facilitated by patents are entirely imaginary, and cause unnecessary harm the entire span of their enforcement.

This is a be-careful-what-you-wish for situation with what you’re asking for here. There are companies choosing NOT to file patents anymore and simply keep their methods secret. Since they methods aren’t patented they are under no obligation to ever share them publicly. There is a very real chance that many of these technologies/methods may be unknown to society at large for long after the term of normal patent protection would have expired and society would have been able to use the knowledge.

How is an example of the patent system being insufficient to incentivise someone to engage with it a defence of the patent system?

Further, an element of my proposal is pseudonymous and anonymous submission. If an idea exists, but has not been published, and doing so could be dangerous if traced back to the author, it provides a mechanism for it to be made available to and for society.

EDIT: I was trying to think of a good example of a company that agrees with your stance about not patenting and I remembered one. Elon Musk is choosing not to patent SpaceX rocket engines because it would force him to document how they work. Instead they are just keeping the designs secret. So your desire to not have patents used are advocating for what Elon Musk does.

Not all sociopaths are billionaires, but all billionaires are sociopaths, and should be euthanised through taxation. Anonymous submission could be a pathway for a privileged altruistic entity to make the concept more broadly available, which would create an incentive for a ‘Musk’ to engage with the system earlier and more frequently.

One of the greatest tricks Capitalists ever pulled was convincing creative individuals that copyright exists to serve their interests.

My comments stem from broader work I’ve been ruminating on.

The current IP regime (copyright, patents, trademark, etc.) incentivise locking ideas up and away as tightly as possible, they aren’t fit for purpose, and should be largely done away with, but the void that would leave needs a replacement that is proven and battle hardened.

My current proposition is a mechanism that rewards the spread of knowledge, and its comprehension, as broad and deep as practicable.

Creating, discovering, disseminating, and explaining ideas should be rewarded, but not by housing them in conjured gaol cells.

The notion that ideas need protection from competition is foundationally caustic. The current regime incentivises locking them behind exclusionary and extractive mechanics as if they’re finite, when they’re intrinsically the opposite.

I can see how ‘IP’ can appear appealing, if not justifiable, but I’d argue this is only because alternatives have been too effectively suppressed by the sociopaths benefiting from the status quo.

The entire notion of ‘Intellectual Property’ is a cancer on society.

Information and ideas intrinsically accrue value the more they’re known and used, and the incentives provided around their collation and attribution should embody that, not punish them with imaginary locks that provide ownership.

Any world where a wholly imaginary concept is treated as a serious replacement for a critical function requiring specialised training is a world that doesn’t want you to exist within it.

This lobotomisation of society is manifest nihilism.

• Star Wars is science fantasy.
• Star Trek is science fiction.
• Stargate is science mythology.

Odd, even, or none; UART doing it parity.

On 2001-09-12, Al-Qaeda and bin Laden became superfluous because the US and those aligned with them plagiarised their play book and implemented it as the Patriot Act and related societal debasements.

A healthy, well educated population which feels safe and secure is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

A healthy and broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

I use Subler mostly as a metadata acquisition and injector tool, and secondarily as a M4V remux sanitiser. The subtitles function is more a subset of its stream management, and is much less relevant than its name implies. That said, it does do a very competent job at converting, through OCR, DVD and BluRay bitmap subtitles to ASCII variants required for MP4 containers.

I think it only works in macOS, which makes it difficult to understand its purpose when you don’t have that platform readily available. Ideally it would have a CLI/TUI which would lend it better to script integration.

1. Love the project name.
2. This looks close to what I’ve imagined coalescing my hand conjured ffmpeg scripts into.
3. I’d like to feed this into a pipeline that includes Subler or equivalent.

A healthy and broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

A healthy and broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.