AAA managing director, Michael Bradley, said “Cars have never been safer and road funding never higher and yet road fatalities are climbing,”.

Except this is not true.

Cars may today be safer if you are inside them. But the rise of bigger and heavier vehicles means they are becoming more and more dangerous for all the people outside the vehicle, especially pedestrians and cyclists.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/23/australias-road-toll-continues-to-rise-with-most-states-falling-behind-safety-goals

Me 15 years ago: wow everything should be connected to the internet!

Me now: STOP connecting EVERYTHING to the INTERNET, keep as much of everything LOCAL to the system as possible. NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE ONLINE. AAAGGGHH.

Ch 1 of every IP law textbook: "Copyright is vital as it gives creators a reason to create new works"

Hollywood: "We're just going to nuke this entire TV show we made because we can make more money NOT distributing entertainment than we can when we do."

Academia: "Interesting problem. Here's an article an economics professor wrote about it as part of a publicly funded research initiative which you can pay $19.99 to view for 24 hours."

Government: "we're busy making it illegal to use WhatsApp"

Wife bought me a Hornby train set several years ago. It's now totally useless because the shitty Hornby control software "expires" as soon as you install it, and activation server appears to be off-line.

Fuck proprietary software, especially when it's "required" for operation of real world things that shouldn't need it.

Anyone know suitable OSS alternatives to "Hornby Railmaster"?