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@glitzersachen @Yuki Besides "#AI" currently #scalping all the #storage media except #tape, I struggle to find any #longterm poweroff-able storage with similar if not higher data density than tape (cartridge volume wise!)...

  • Cuz flash and HDD are designed to be powered up at least like once a year of not more frequent and constantly check for bad blocks and sectors to workaround...

And the few EEPROMs I know that are way more stable long-term are barely cheaper than microfilm.

-Hopefully that bubble bursts soon and we can finally get affordan;e tech again andbI can nuild a demo unit of the #NeoFloppy...

github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoF

GitHubGitHub - KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy: A new storage media format using modern interfaces.A new storage media format using modern interfaces. - KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy
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@me yikes...

That's really gonne require them to either cancel most people or need to book a different venue capable of holding the demand...

  • Tho we can't be shure how many of those folks would actually buy tickets and estimates to the amount of #bots or rather #clickworkers getting paid to do #scalping ranges from 10% to 95% depending on the item...

Just like with 9th Generation Consoles...

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Not to mention that with the #scalping issues that #RaspberryPi / @Raspberry_Pi had, looking at repurposing #ThinClients really makes for good #MiniServers that nibble power and are quite versatile...

In fact I got like 3 hp ThinClients for less than € 75 and they work great - they run @ubuntu LTS #UbuntuServer and @tails_live just fine...

And I'd rather turn one into a OS/1337 #TUI-based #Desktop longterm...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_cli
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-bas

en.wikipedia.orgThin client - Wikipedia

@SirTapTap considering the amount of #scalping of @Raspberry_Pi #RaspberryPi's and the fact that the #Pi5B will lilely not be available at #MSRP until the #Pi6B or #CM5 or #Pi500 get released, I can recommend to take a look at #ThinClients, because they have regular #amd64 #CPU's, plenty of ports, are almost always #fanless and also barely sip power.

I do use some #hp #t520 as #MiniServers to do #backups and #torrent #linux distros and just be things I can offload building OS/1337 to...

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#scalping has been quite a profitable scam. It's exacerbated by modern tech. The tools they use are the same as used by us builders of modern web apps, and by forensic cyber researchers. Law and regulation already are in place but don't prevent scalping.

What can we do?

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@Nolasox We need to keep our jam & animal band community as scalper free as possible. Only the Community can govern this (we know the ticket sellers Ticketmaster AXS etc are not going to do jack - in fact, they allow scalping directly through their own websites, where the maximum ticket price for reselling is allowed to be far higher than face+fees)

Buy and sell only through CoT and reject #scalpers #scalping !

Swiftian music mayhem - Australia’s Taylor Swift fans set new record as 800,000 join Ticketek queue for Sydney show tickets theguardian.com/music/2023/jun #music #ticketing #scalping #performance #consumerrights #copyright The New South Wales and Victorian governments moved to crack down on scalping on Tuesday after resale prices in excess of $3,000 were listed. It’s a far cry from the $79.90 to $379.90 price range for a regular ticket.
The Victorian government designated the concerts as “major events”, triggering anti-scalping provisions in state legislation.

The GuardianAustralia’s Taylor Swift fans set new record as 800,000 join Ticketek queue for Sydney show ticketsBy Caitlin Cassidy

#Music #LiveShows #Ticketmaster #Scalping: "The steps The Cure has taken to prevent ticket scalping to its highly anticipated tour is seemingly inspiring elaborate workarounds for ticket brokers and hackers. “Aged” Ticketmaster accounts, which are accounts that are years old rather than freshly created and which are more likely to win presale codes from Ticketmaster, are being sold on hacking forums. And a popular and secretive paid forum for ticket brokers is requiring brokers to sell entire Ticketmaster accounts (with The Cure tickets in them) to each other to circumvent the band's ban on reselling tickets above face value.

The news shows how even when artists try to actively address ticket scalping, scalpers find new and inventive methods to keep profiting on the secondary market, making concerts more expensive for regular fans."

vice.com/en/article/wxjqz4/the

www.vice.comThe Cure Tried to Stop Scalpers. Brokers Are Selling Entire Ticketmaster Accounts InsteadInside the secretive markets scalpers use to buy and sell entire Ticketmaster accounts to sidestep restrictions.