tarotuser

Lets be fair too.

When the USA was early on, before and during the War of Independence, we routinely ignored the set of IP laws from European countries.

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/an-economic-history-of-copyright...

And China DOES enforce IP laws in China. They just don't enforce USA copyright laws, cause it's not the USA. And The USA doesn't enforce Chinese IP laws.

Eventually, the IP laws will be mutually respected. It'll take time. But in the meantime, this is more a trade dispute. That means that larger vendors need to be legally forced to stop shipment and sale of said violating items, and CBP needs to do more in stopping shipments coming in-country.

Onyx is a Chinese company.

Naturally, they don't recognize FLOSS or commercial licenses originating from European Union or USA.

The catch here would be is to file grievances against major distributors (Amazon, Ebay) and to prevent shipment here until they comply and pay up.

i disagree however that suing for maximum damage is helpful to GPL software. it only instills fear in companies wanting to use it because it increases the risk.

And for some reason, a company with questionable EULAs, illegal in many jurisdiction's terms, and hundreds of pages of dense legalese doesn't seem to scare any of these companies away.

And many FLOSS licenses are written in plain language to easily understand what you can and cant do. These companies aren't doing an accident - its intentional, ongoing, and continual malfeasance BECAUSE there is no real punishment. At best, they'll have to "comply". (And you know, FLOSS is always bemoaning no money.... well, here's a way to fund it)

i believe a good will approach to help companies with compliance is better, only suing when companies refuse to comply.

You can disagree with me all you want. All I ask is "how does it look when the tables are turned"?

And we have a rather nice answer - https://www.bsa.org/ and https://www.siia.net/

The business software alliance and Software & Information Industry Association are utterly dictatorial about intentional copyright violations, and also very harsh about accidental violations.

You can do further research on case studies of places that were called out for pirated software, and how many millions of dollars they had to pay in fines and "fixing proper licenses".

Until FLOSS starts doing tit-for-tat (the best game theory decision in these kinds of things), we're going to keep seeeing companies treating FLOSS as their own personal loot-crate with little to no punishment for intentionally doing wrong.

I'm also curious, since you work in psychiatry....

Have you seen any cases of scromiting, or "Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome"?

These articles showed up in a big online hit in mid-2022, and never seemingly referenced again. My pessimism indicated that it was likely a hit piece against cannabis, but I'd rather ask for sure than just assume some conspiracy.

Until FLOSS stewards start suing for the maximum damages permitted by law ($135k/violation) and make these company-ending events, FLOSS will be seen as a grab-n-go for anyone to pilfer, abuse, and sell as their own.

I completely understand why FLOSS people wouldn't want to go after individuals misunderstanding a license. And that's also not at all what I'm talking about. LEGO et al have been around for decades, piles of lawyers, heavy handed trademark letters from their lawyers.... but end up doing fuckall with FLOSS folks.

Think if the tables were turned - and you accurately modeled every LEGO brick and allowed sending to 3d printers to make custom bricks. Just how FAST would they shut that down?

Oh, and this is hypocritical as ever: https://www.lego.com/en-us/legal/notices-and-policies/fair-p...

It's the Silicon Valley corporate playbook:

Privatize the gains, Socialize the losses.

The corollary is: socialism for the rich, unabashed cutthroat capitalism for the rest of us.

First, use a good adblocker, like Ublock Origin. There's no ads in the actual video the Professor posted.

Secondly, his audience is tabletop card gamers. He does set the scene as to why he's making a video. Most of his audience is not of a technical nature.

I also made a synopsis as a comment so you didn't have to watch the video, since some (including myself!) despise video-only content. But I do follow him on YT. And his problem applies to a LOT of areas on YT, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and elsewhere.

Public schools have been instituting in "gig work" before that even became a term.

I remember in my elementary years (5-11 year olds) that the school would 'force' (peer pressure, competition, punishment of class for you not doing, etc) kids to get fliers of absolute utter garbage merchandise at exorbitant prices, and then go door-to-door selling these items. And the public school would get some unknown kickback for sales.

I remember when my parents said no to this, the teacher in class said "Since tarotuser won't sell anything, the class can never get a pizza party".

But... as a worse thought, that would indicate that Instacart et al should be able to target any age group, since gig-work is endorsed by the public school system and technically isn't "employment". But we all know better.

I think attributing any sort of emotion to them is out of place.

I'd argue that there's complete antipathy at the politician and elite level. And that turns "illegal child labor" into a cost of doing business. And from the looks of it, a quite lucrative form of doing business.

I think you're misjudging the emotions (I'd argue they have none). I don't think you're insane.

This is the "Tolarian Community College" (a play on words from the MtG card game).

Without having to watch the video, this Youtuber does a lot of reviews and content on the game. During the course of reviews, he gets a lot of free merchandise. To that end, he then gives it freely to his subscribers.

The problem: there's a deluge of bots that nearly-instantly post on comments and threads in Youtube that redirect unsuspecting users to scammer Telegram channels, Discords, and etc. The common scam is "pay for shipping and you get free stuff". (this youtuber pays for the shipping if sending free product)

To compound this, this is definitely an automated bot driven attack on not only current videos, but also all his historical videos. And Youtube/Google/Alphabet doesn't provide anywhere near the tools to counter these types of botstorms.

He pleas for anyone working at Youtube etc to get in touch and/or make tools available to disable these scammers.

I don't see an exploit. I see a negotiation and a successful agreement of 6 of 9 parties. The analog to this in the real world is 2 pages stuck together, and the signer(s) didn't do their due diligence.

After all, wasn't the saying with shitcoin was that "The code is the contract, and the contract is the code"?

You make your bed, and lie in it.

First, a flipper zero doesn't even have built-in wifi. Only the dev board has that, and it's sketchy as well.

An android phone running Wigle or WIFIAnalyzer is plenty good for wifi.

As to "dangerous", it is unequivocally a hacker tool. Or are you arguing that this is a "testing tool"? https://github.com/UberGuidoZ/Flipper/tree/main/Sub-GHz/Gas_...

That's actually a significant worry.

Embrace, extend, extinguish: is a standard playbook for monopolists and oligopolists everywhere in tech.

     1. Make "cool corporate mastodon server" that all the cool kids play on. 
     2. Extend the masto code with proprietary extensions for better features, but DONT SHARE CODE
     3. Convert people on other masto instances cause they don't have "cool feature".
     4. Users flock to "cool masto server", and mastobook is created.
     5. Other servers either try to play catch-up or close. A few holdouts straggle on.
     6. Shitty company successfully proprietizes a federated system.

A collection of media, that was conveyed as a purchase, was really a DRM locked rental. After the Microsoft auth servers were taken down, all the music went up in smoke. I was hundreds of dollars poorer and nothing to show for it.

After that, sure, I'll buy tickets to attend shows and other 'people doing cool stuff on stage'. But buying DRM music, videos, and games are out of the question. I'm not going to throw more money to a badly described rental that's masquerading as a sale.

Now, I have bought music and videos in recent years. But those discs go to my reader and converted to their respective formats for Jellyfin/Navidrome handling. But in 20 years, those discs will still work. The DRM crap won't. (And if Microsoft can't manage to keep up DRM servers for a decade or longer, I'd argue nobody can.)

Glad I could help with a recommendation.

I find it handles around 2TB of music very handily. The playlist handling is "weird", but simple. Basically, just take winamp or audacious, make a playlist using it, and then save the playlist in the root of your music dir. Auto-imports.

And Navidrome also uses subsonic as its API, so there's at least 10 apps that'll natively use it. And there's a bunch of compatible hardware as well.

Now, Navidrome isn't good for handling Youtube videos. To that, I do find Jellyfin to be useful.... but in conjunction with this plugin: https://github.com/ankenyr/jellyfin-youtube-metadata-plugin . From that plugin, you can pull all the metadata from a YT video.

For some reason, my Jellyfin and Navidrome instances doesn't use Widevine (garbageware) in any way.

Radarr, Lidarr, Sonarr, and the other Arrs work beautifully to control what media I want, get it, and store it appropriately.

And the files I download from Usenet and Torrents work on any platform powerful enough to play them.

I was treated like a criminal when legitimately buying media years ago. Already learned https://xkcd.com/488/ this lesson.

You oughtta see what Roblox is doing. Nothing else quite like encouraging loot crates, minors working on semi-business ventures, stock markets, AND foreign exchanges.

Kids have lost tens of thousands of dollars on their platform. And I'm guessing if they were sued, none of it is binding, because minors.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/roblox-criticized-for-lack-of-...

Well, there is always Yuzu Switch emulator.

This subreddit can help onboard you to start playing Switch on your computer. https://www.reddit.com/r/NewYuzuPiracy/

It's hard to exploit you if you're unexploitable.

True, but if you're running a website like that where you pull people from, then you should also do some automation work via NodeRed to automate those social media flows.

Its hard to be suckered into a social media site if you never go there. Then again, HN is also a social media site too.

As much as I dislike Stallman's non-tech opinions and actions, I think his proprietary social media handling policy is probably the best:

https://stallman.org/facebook-presence.html

Assuming you must use proprietary solutions to reach your people, RMS's solution is to use the other platforms to convert to your open platform. Maybe that won't work for everyone, but at least it allows usage of cockroach motel systems to your open one.

So it's "Wellakshually" and now the rest of us are 'not normal'?

How many other hot takes do you have to share?

I'm imagining the "Well akshually" guy as the person you're responding to.

Sure the name was "SimCity". But this is about the 2013 game, not the 1990s game. Clarity is preferred over 'Wellakshually Correctness'.

As much hand-wringing is being done here, this ship has sailed. Remote work is a magnitude better than butt-in-seat-teams-calls-remotely any day.

And by having people spread out is also like load balancing your workforce in case of geographic badness.

But in my experiences, the ones who suffer the worst are the extroverts who crave human attention at a workplace. And these also tend to be upper management.

But being able to close those stupidly expensive skyscraper rentals is also amazing. Might actually free that space up for living, and better rates!

I think you misread a word.

I said that every decision is irreversible, not reversible. Every last one. No exceptions.

Some things can be reviewed and done again, but again, those retries are also irreversible.

Just that most choices we do, even though being irreversible, are of little consequence. Like, there's not much impact between eating fried chicken vs pizza, or deciding between 2 movies. But... How does one unwatch a movie, or uneat pizza? Simply put, we can't. Hence irreversible.

Note that decide's root is -cide ,or kill. To decide is to kill a certain future or class of futures. That's a very interesting, yet often used term without realizing its root is of death.

Every decision is irreversible. Some decisions you can revisit and choose the other, later.

Today in "I won the lottery, and you can too by choosing my numbers".

Guidance like this is rarely ever helpful, and serves as a bias of n=1 cause it 'worked for me'.

There's some obvious things like "drinking and smoking are bad". And there's good things like "time is your most important asset". But suggestions past those, are well just completely subjective.

Like the recommendation to move. How do you tell what a community is like before you're moved there? And most of us can't afford to move around the country chasing some illusory 'maybe'.

There is no "back then". We still do slavery in the USA. Not only that, but the 13th amendment expressly provides an allowance for slavery to continue:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Removing the "get 12 angry white men to say guilty to enslave a human" would be a good start to reversing the historical wrongs this country continues to propagate.

And before the "Wellakshuallys": chattel slavery is illegal. Now it's just gatekept by a jury. And with extreme police harassment towards black people, along with black communities significantly in worse poverty, means that they are the primary target towards prison-slavery. And it's effectively the same result as chattel, but with a legal nod.

Edit: And here comes the -1's for citing facts.

I think people are missing the bigger picture, that's related directly to the SAT.

In the USA, public education funds are directly derived from the local tax base as a percentage of that revenue. If you live in a rich area, it means your family is also rich. The tax base, although it may be the rough same percentage, is much higher actual dollars than a small non-rich community.

I even see that locally in my nearby college town. There's definitely a "rich district". Homes go from $750k up to $5m. Their elementary has teachers and aides to cover students at 7:1, and flush with a wealthy technology budget. The other schools, or in particular, the "subsidized housing and trailer parks area's schools" have student coverage around 25:1, no teacher aides, and very limited tech budget.

This should be of little surprise given how our education system by default teaches the wealthy to be wealthy. And that starts as early as preschool and easily onwards through public school. And naturally, I didn't even touch upon private schools. And in my state, vouchers can be used from public schools on private and even religious schools. That too is an even higher rung on elitism.

Unless you're a genius from a poor family, you're likely going to stay in the "dumb and low paying" jobs for most of your lives.

All I care about is if they're open yet. I really don't like the required tie-ins to facebook etm.

I'd be less price sensitive if I knew they could be used 5 or so years from now, after they get bored with this thing.

Previously, Scot Adams "identified as a black person because he wanted to be on the winning team".

And then he decided that 'its OK to be white' was perfectly fine and re-identified as white, and that black people hate white people, and called them a hate group that should be stayed as far away as possible.

The only good out of that whole situation is that Scott Adams is a trashy racist, and anybody who likes him is also a trashy racist.

The real insidious racists are the ones who know how to use diplomacy, and affect organizations with "culture fit" (aka: not white enough), and other types of hard-to-identify racism.