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  • Zyrxil@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disksEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Yeah if that’s all that needed replacing. The entire system is ancient, not just the disks, like:

    Much more critical than the dated use of floppy disks is the system’s loop cable, which transmits data between the central servers and the trains and, according to Roccaforte, “has less bandwidth than an old AOL dial-up modem.”

    The SFMTA’s website adds:

    The loop cable is fragile and easily disturbed. This makes subway maintenance more difficult. This also means the system cannot be extended outside the subway, along surface rail, where currently we don’t have automatic train control.

  • Zyrxil@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•More House Democrats Say 'No' to Netanyahu Speech to Congress
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    6 months ago

    You have not explained your reasoning at all on how saying they’re against Netanyahu speaking in front of the House is subversion of free speech and not just those representatives exercising their own freedom of speech. That is exactly what freedom of speech is, the right for everyone in the US to voice their opinions.

    In contrast, there is no right to speak in front of the House, especially not for a foreign politician. The Speaker can invite someone to speak, and if anyone physically interferes with the invitee’s speaking or shouts over them, that would be a violation of House procedures, not any infringement on their freedom of speech. They would not have been silenced or punished. They would not have been gagged (physically or otherwise). They would still be able voice their opinions.

    Actual examples of speech suppression would be searching and questioning pro-Palestinian journalists at the border, and arrests of peaceful non trespassing protestors.