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811.
by autoexec 6mo ago
I'd rather remind people that only a very small number of dicks have any desire or interest in inflicting pain on their fellow humans even when there were no consequences. Assholes do exist, and you should be aware of them, but asshole
812.
by autoexec 6mo ago
A takedown from the entity hosting the content is one thing, but forcing them to give up someone's ID is another.
813.
by autoexec 6mo ago
Even if they don't have a legal leg to stand on they can bankrupt you with legal fees and lawsuits dragged out until you're ruined anyway.
814.
by autoexec 6mo ago
> but the DMCA is about stopping the proliferation of copyrighted material. If the videos posted to twitter were just summaries and not actual video of the unreleased show it seems unlikely that there was any copyrighted material being
815.
by autoexec 6mo ago
Doesn't matter if the device you used phoned home with your IP address and any kind of identifier. Your OS that sends telemetry every 7 seconds, a windows update check, another tab with a social media account open. It's easy to cr
816.
by autoexec 6mo ago
If it's the IP of a VPN the next step is to send legal requests to Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Cloudflare, Steam, Google, popular MMOs, and video/music streaming services for all the information associated with that IP address aro
817.
by autoexec 6mo ago
I think it'd pretty much have to be a script, a screenshot, audio, or video to qualify as copyright infringement. I can tell you what a song is about without risk of violating copyright, but the moment I start quoting lyrics things get
818.
by autoexec 6mo ago
It's possible, in theory, that an AI could establish a crypto wallet, but what would they do with it? AI doesn't have desires. It doesn't do what it isn't told to do (although those instructions can be broad and vague).
819.
by autoexec 6mo ago
It isn't just congress failing to their job. We The People are also responsible for not ousting the freeloaders in congress who are taking our tax money and not doing the job they were elected to do. We are the final check on making su
820.
by autoexec 6mo ago
Somebody is collecting those funds. Someone wrote those prompts. There's always a human to blame somewhere.
821.
by autoexec 6mo ago
That "someone" isn't just Trump. He's 80. He'll be lucky if he lives out the rest of his term. The odds of him still being alive 5 years after his presidency when his records could start to fall into the hands of th
822.
by autoexec 6mo ago
There's always a CEO or a president. The buck always stops somewhere. Somebody is always making the big bucks because they are in charge.
823.
by autoexec 6mo ago
I wouldn't trust their firmware/hardware anymore than I would their software. I wouldn't encourage them as a company either.
824.
by autoexec 6mo ago
There's zero chance I'll let a robot into my home to do my dishes when I know it'll be filming and audio recording 24/7 and sending that data directly back to Elon who will mine the feed and sell that data or use it agai
825.
by autoexec 6mo ago
Buying a thinkpad means using a device made by Lenovo, a company which has repeatedly shipped devices infected with malware and backdoors (sometimes for profit) see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_pri
826.
by autoexec 6mo ago
It's good to note that moviesanywhere.com, Kanopy, and VUDU (now Fandango at Home) sell your data and use it for market research (in addition to other things, there's no telling what it will be used for after it's sold). That
827.
by autoexec 6mo ago
Netflix is ultimately responsible for what they put on the platform, for delivering a consistent product to their users, and for setting expectations. Netflix is exceptionally shitty at letting people what is leaving their platform and when
828.
by autoexec 6mo ago
I support the idea of physical media 100%. It's much more dependable, and once the discs are pressed the content can't be remotely/silently censored or edited the way it can on streaming services. If you rip the content yours
829.
by autoexec 6mo ago
> Individuals are incentivized to spend when there's inflation That's not what's happening currently. Inflation has driven up prices to the point where people can't afford to spend. They're forced to cut back on
830.
by autoexec 6mo ago
> Competition works, folks. Even if you have to fake it. Sometimes it works in ways you don't expect though https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/07/telco-wont-ins...
831.
by autoexec 6mo ago
> But four of those years involve studying generally unrelated topics like any other college degree despite medicine effectively being a trade. There's a lot of value in knowing about more than just one thing. Anyone leaving their u
832.
by autoexec 6mo ago
If all you need is file transfer even the message header is a lot of overhead (how much overhead depends on the client and how many devices handle the message). Mail servers don't always handle large files very well either. Even if the
833.
by autoexec 6mo ago
I thought I'd heard they'd already made changes to the heat shield after the last failure. Hopefully whatever they learn from this trip will be useful for their next one.
834.
by autoexec 6mo ago
"Back to the moon" sounds deceptive since we're not actually going to the moon, we're just sending a rocket around it. An actual moon landing will get a lot more attention. What's far more impressive about this laun
835.
by autoexec 6mo ago
Email is a pretty good way to send short text messages, but it's not great at sending files. The basic protocols are pretty simple and we've got a lot of experience using them. I can see the appeal of email. There's no way th
836.
by autoexec 6mo ago
No joke, CSS has gotten out of hand!
837.
by autoexec 6mo ago
In that case, the main bad guy was the police who didn't bother to do even the most basic investigating after "check Google's GPS records to see who was at the house" including "Check Google's GPS records to se
838.
by autoexec 6mo ago
> The list of extensions they scan for has been extracted from the code. It was all extensions related to spamming and scraping LinkedIn Not according to the website which says: The scan doesn’t just look for LinkedIn-related tools. It
839.
by autoexec 6mo ago
I've love it if LinkedIn got successfully sued for millions and it resulted in similar lawsuits against every other website that did this sort of thing.
840.
by autoexec 6mo ago
Police do hit up google for data though. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike...

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