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IA is not a sustainable project, and is built as a single point of failure. It has no transparency and no recovery plan if things go bad. Compare that to Anna’s Archive, a project that open sources all of their code and data so that things will continue running even if everyone involved disappears.

Ask yourself: if IA’s data was silently modified, would anyone be able to tell?

Hang on, I’ve read this book before

Oh, I get it now! In my sleep deprived state I missed that two of them had the same size. That seems like a reasonable guess, I’m just paranoid about cookies :P

My point still stands. The size of data says nothing about its contents. If OP is concerned about this from a security or privacy perspective, you shouldn’t be writing them off because it’s only 100 bytes.

8 bytes is enough to store 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (18 quintillion) different values, more than enough space for a fingerprint ID. The size of the data shouldn’t factor into the potential threat.

People usually don’t decide to do things like that for shits and giggles, so let’s try and empathize with them and see if we can find some rational reasons for what they do.

Maybe they can’t afford the rent at an RV park. Maybe the rules there are so restrictive that the RV park is unusable to them. A lot of jurisdictions have restrictions on how long someone can rent space before they get legal protections or require additional insurance, so a lot of short-stay places like hotels and RV parks put a cap of a week or two for a stay.

Have you tried talking to these people? You can learn a lot about why people act the way they do by just asking them. Most people are rational enough that they have reasons for doing the things they do, and they’ll probably be happy to tell you if you’re friendly and treat them like people.

You know what would fix that?

Giving those people a safe and secure place to park their RV that isn’t the highway.

Housing is a great place to start fixing it though. It doesn’t matter what other issues there might be if there isn’t any housing available to someone.

Where is this “$100k/person” statistic coming from? SF hates homeless people, so I kind of just don’t believe that.

Your held hostage to rent where you live? Move.

That’s great, I’m glad for you. Not everyone can do that. If 2/3 of your income is going to rent alone, where are you gonna get the money for moving costs? You’re going to need storage and/or shipping if you’re moving far enough that your rent is going to drop significantly, you’ll also need first month’s rent, last month’s rent, deposit, setup fees for utilities, termination fees for old utilities, and maybe even termination fees for your existing contract which usually just means paying the rest of the rent for the term of your contract all at once. Then you need a new job, new community, new resources, new doctors, etc. And don’t forget people who are unable to move to certain areas due to marginalization. Some areas are literally deadly to live in if you’re queer or a person of color, and some areas are completely unlivable if you’re disabled. What about people who are already homeless? They can’t move because social services are tied to the city where they last had residence.

Earlier in the thread you asked “If it was somehow just as easy to build public housing, why wouldn’t they?”. The answer to that is almost always “lobbying”, or “anti-homeless sentiment”. Why aren’t they building public housing? Because people with beliefs like yours are pushing back against it. You’re arguing that it doesn’t work because it doesn’t happen, and it doesn’t happen because it doesn’t work.

That’s my gender. I didn’t pay for this clipart.