Eisenfunk rocks…

I wonder how our illustrious government is going to deal with drivers on the e-toll road, that hasn’t got e-tags, and are thus tolled by the Automatic Number Plate Recognition System system.

What if, as is very often the case, someone fakes my plates ? Do I now have to contest every single AARTO notice that they may serve ? Must I be imprisoned for six months due to non-payment of a toll? Must I now not use the highway until the dispute is settled ?

“A machine classifies a person as an offender, and you can’t confront your accuser because there is no accuser… can it be wise to establish a principle that when a machine says you did something illegal, you are presumed guilty?”

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This reminds me SO much of “The Cure”, it’s scary.

For Nigthwish.

And so here, is TBM:

I’ve always been partial to Prozilla, as a useful Linux download manager, since it’s multithreaded, and does file resume pretty well.

Then, it sort of became “out of debian tree” due to licensing or some such, and I switched to “axel” which is a pretty decent multithreaded downloader too.

I’ve now switched to LFTP, since it allows me to mirror http/ftp directories with a single command, which is my typical use case. Here you are mister downloadmanager: “an url” — now fetch!

LFTP however doesn’t multithread by default: It requires some magic;

set pget:default-n 5
set mirror:use-pget-n 5

Add these lines to ~/.lftprc or enter them at the lftp: ~> prompt.

Why aren’t these defaults?