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omg don’t get me started on this.

My grandparents are avid Red Sox fans, but they were paying 150$+ a month on cable, so I moved them to fubo, this worked for a few years but now it seems that they are trying to throw them on as many channels as possible to force a higher package. Last year he asked me what apple tv was, and I said a streaming service, why? and he said that they had a game on it that /only/ was on apple tv. it was a SINGLE GAME and they had exclusive broadcast rights on it. Needless to say he missed that game, but that’s ridiculous.

I mean fair, but when Encrypted DM went live, Twitter was just starting to get into the AI field, and it was amidst a very uncertain state at that time, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they haden’t even thought of it.

I vet lesser known projects, but yea I do end up just taking credibility for granted for larger projects. I assume that with those projects, the maintainers team with pull access is doing that vetting before they accept a pull.

that is my first thought as well.

“Shoot we didn’t take into consideration that GROK will need to be able to see these somehow, so now we need to redo it”

I’m not for the US gov or politics getting involved in legal issues, however the music industry must lose this lawsuit no matter what.

The precedent it will cause many people to be effected that wouldn’t be normally, AND also forces a punishment that isn’t equal to the crime.

We live in a world that very much requires internet to do anything, this judgement would force people to go offline for potential IP(Intellectual Property) issues. That punishment is exponentially higher than what the crime actually was. It’s life ruining.

This isn’t the same as “oh you sold modified game hardware to people so you can no longer touch that game system”, this is “you may have stole music, so therefore you are losing your ability to do anything digital”. Even if the accusation is true, considering how much of the world is digital now, and how few ISP options are available in areas due to legal constraints, this is not a fair punishment to give. A fair punishment is a fine and a ban from being allowed to hold that producers IP. It’s a severe overstep to remove someones access to the internet for an IP violation and I fully agree it is not the responsibility of the ISP

Honestly, this is the digital equivalent of doing a house arrest for someone stealing music from a store. It isn’t right.

I feel like the Interloper project addressed something similar to this. Man that’s a great rabbit hole.

Yeah, DVD players and Blu-ray players are going the way of the VHS player. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find one that isn’t super locked down by some form of DRM and just works.

And if you’re trying to find one for computers, forget about it. You spend an arm and a leg trying to find anything that isn’t just your typical DVD only, no Blu-ray or 4K. Blu-ray is a little more pricey, but any type of actual 4K player for computers, you’re spending $$$ unless you’re willing to try to patch it with a custom firmware.

this is normally how I do it, that or run them along the wall with ceiling outlets for middle machines

Most if not all 4k players are network enabled due to the DRM that is on the 4k medium. From my experiences, they usually need to connect to the internet to download the keys at least once before anything 4k works. DVD and BD usually work without issue though.

usually bluray and 4k players need to connect to the internet at least once in order to download the codecs, but like yea I disconnect mine from the internet right after

Yeah, and even then, if you’re worried about it triggering the alarm, just contact your local dispatch ahead of time and be like, hey, I’m trying to modify my alarm and my service company is not being cooperative with me. So if you get an alarm to my address within the next like two or three hours, disregard it means I messed something up. Local dispatch will be more than understanding

the inability to manage my own system would be a solid “yea never mind this isn’t what I wanted” and shipping the device back. it probally wouldn’t be a full refund but, that’s the cost for me making a mistake like that. I’ll be damned if in not going to be able to access my own alarm panel. I would be firmly against any setting not being in a user accessible location regardless if it’s a time thing.

Hopefully op had the tech enable all settings on the main panel cause that’s such a shitty money grabbing practice. Just lock the ability to change time behind a service code on the main panel. incorrect code = alarm is triggered.

pocket I never used. I found it ugly and just s violation of privacy as it moved a service that should be local only, to external webservers. I can see why it’s finally had the plug pulled

No idea, I know that my autocorrect kept insisting that was used instead of asterisk so it likely is

Personally I generally agree with this statement. But there’s a very big Asterix on it.

The protests didn’t work due to it being violent alone, they were heavily supported by peaceful protests. Violent protest will only work if you have the support of the majority. Violent protest does not work with making meaningful policy change. Policies made out of fear are very sloppy and generally not permanent. However is very good at reaching the news and spreading awareness. It is a short term solution to a long term problem and it very easily can end up harming the chances of meaningful change happening more than gaining so it’s a massive double-edged sword.

Peaceful protesting is more effective at making permanent change however is very difficult to raise awareness on, this is especially more so with news media and social media becomming more and more corporatized and starting to actually suppress any type of news that isn’t considered extreme or it doesn’t follow the parent company’s ideology.

If and this is a big if a protest is able to make it into the new cycle and have prolonged coverage, peaceful protesting that ends up impeding day-to-day operations such as a general strike or traffic shutdowns, will have much better odds at succeeding then said same operations via violent means. It’s just the world is increasingly starting to criminalize said actions of peaceful protest, which is a very dangerous action. When you take away the humans ability to have a voice, when they become lost at what they /can/ do, it becomes dangerous because at that point all you have is violence.

any site worth their salt would remove these reviews as they aren’t based off the product posted since they subbed items

they just need to outlaw subscription based services on services that don’t need it.

And no continuous support is not a valid subscription reason, if you want to charge support separate that’s fair to do but this pay 60$ a year “because it’s a continuous development” needs to go away.

Same with the “pay a rent for a building”, it’s just money drain. Being a landlord should not be allowed to be for profit, and should be heavily regulated. If you wanna rent? Sure, but at max it should be equivalent to costs the building has, and restricted to only apartment complexes. So annoying that you can’t find property anymore to actually /own/ because a handful of rental companies can just write a blank check and buy it all.

is that Dvorak I spy?

I’ll do you one better. The target redcard credit card doesn’t allow non-standard special chars, max I think it was 12 chars and gets pissy at using known SQL special chars. If it wasn’t for the fact it required a credit check prior to getting to that screen I would have ran so hard.

What’s even more annoying is their password field says that it does support that, but if you try via the mobile app it errors out

you absolutely should not be hashing client side. You need to securely transmit the password to the server where it is hashed. You do not want clients knowing /how/ the password is salted/hashed. this lowers your security overall.