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Comment · 18 hours ago
I put out 5(4) candles for him!
Comment · 18 hours ago
That's a dumb game.

I know the first one I got was the anachronistic Irish and the clones. No clue of the episode name.

I know it's 2nd season cause it's Pulaski as doctor. I liked her over Crusher. And she called the clones' bluff immediately!

Comment · 22 hours ago
I disagree.

I've been watching Iceland news, along with machine translation of Icelandic.

Right now, they're increasing taxes on parking, toll roads, 30% increase on hotels and B&B's, and per-kilometer driving tax.

It's insane the amount of taxes on taxes on taxes. And foreigners not in the know are about to get whalloped for $1000 extra around the ring road.

Sure, Iceland isn't EU proper. But they are Schengen along with other alliances. EU complaint stands, given they tax tax tax tax.

Comment · 1 day ago
Shrimp are water bugs. People dont seem to have any problems with those bugs, aside anaphylaxis.
Comment · 1 day ago
"I'd rather be a pig than a fascist"
Comment · 2 days ago
JSTOR also chose not to "pursue legal action". And the DOJ also told them 'fuck off we'll do what we like' and still pursued charges against Aaron Schwartz.

So, why isnt the DOJ pursuing this? As far as the reportings go, their LLMs went bananas hacking everywhere and everything.

Comment · 2 days ago
That was kinda the way IPv5 proposed to handle it.

But the big big problem isn't windows/Linux/mac. Writing drivers for those are "easy".

The problem lies in all the networking gear speaks only IPv4 and/or 6. LLM assisted hacks can get into maintenance areas, but these devices are also built to support the least amount of things. Like, there may not be enough ram or storage to even run it.

And 20 years in, you see how well IPv6 has taken off :eyeroll:

And even on my network, I disabled IPv6. My upstream ISP is doing something that makes '6 unstable, but '4 is fine. And I find most network engineers don't have to maintain '6, so they never really learn it.

Comment · 2 days ago
My anecdote:

I created an account, specifically cause I found a few questions that I knew the answers to, and could cite properly.

So, I answered 2. All is good...

Next day, 1 is marked as dupe (?!) and there's literally no other answers. So, duping what? Nope, not permitted to know that.

The other answer, some braindead idiot mod decided to change my answer to wrong garbage. No request to change. No verification. No nothing.

Shortly thereafter, those 2 responses were downmodded, leaving my karma negative. So basically, can't do anything. So I left. I'll spend my time on communities that actually give a fuck, cause SO didn't.

Comment · 2 days ago
Yeah, Goodwill is pretty much a scam these days, for everyone either working for or buying from. It used to be better. Not great, but at least they used to serve the community.

And since they opened up their auction site (like an early eBay) it's just gone upside down stupid.

I'm also unsure how they even keep their 501c3 status.

Comment · 2 days ago
Comment · 2 days ago
I was looking more at quantity of posts, and not as much upvotes.

But nope, my original comment is flagged. Le sigh.

Comment · 2 days ago
Its honestly one of the biggest problems with this site. Some large post, 400 comments in, gets flagged cause of a few snowflakes got their feelings hurt.

And instead of the article just not being shown to them, their whim is forced on everybody.

And even if it is an incendiary news article, the discussions are usually still better than average. But no, a few whinys kill it for everyone.

Comment · 4 days ago
Show me your nudes then.

Publish your bank accounts.

Publish your private messages to friends, family, partner.

These idiots who say "nothing to hide" usually have the most to hide, and lose. And they can't see how something yesterday was legal and today isn't, can still be used against you.

Comment · 4 days ago
First, copyright violation as non-profit is a tort.

Secondly, it's only for-profit copyright violations that are a crime. But as OFCOM learned the hard way, stuff illegal in the US can be legal elsewhere.

Thirdly, for some fucking reason, the US AI companies are immune to criminal statutes of for-profit copyright violations. Job creators, or some bullshit.

And I'm not sure exactly why you're so dead-set on "crime crime crime". It's all politics and manufactured criminality. And well, I don't particularly care if backing up my movies to a Jellyfin and sharing access is "ill eagle".

The AI companies are bulk pirating AND then selling that access.... But I'm the criminal? Fuck that noise.

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