[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 76 points 4 months ago

Where now are the copyright trolls that sued regular students for millions of dollars for downloading 30 songs?

Under federal law, the recording companies were entitled to $750 to $30,000 per infringement. But the law allows as much as $150,000 per track if the jury finds the infringements were willful.

Let me see:

  • At least 100 million of books pirated
  • infringements were willful

So, a 15k billion dollars fine seem appropriate to give to Meta AND criminal sentences to all the c suite.

Or: apply the same rules to regular people and allow unlimited copyright violations without consequences

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 71 points 10 months ago

if confirmed, would constitute a violation of international humanitarian law, according to which all armed combatants in a conflict are required to wear distinctive insignia

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Can you notice that it's a bit leaning to the right?

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

One day many years ago I had too many drinks and being stupid and naive and I bought adobe cs5. I still use it on the same computer I installed it a decade ago. Activated and installed only once. Today they revoked the access to it. Clicking the link they say "revoked because purchased from an untrustworthy reseller"

Yeah... untrustworthy reseller, look at the invoice and see who sold&shipped that physical copy...

sold by adobe themselves

Contacted support, they said that they won't do anything about it because it's EOL.

Moral of the story: don't do like me. If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing. Never give your money to Adobe.

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submitted 1 year ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

In the browser, i didn't login in the google account, and I didn't accept the cookies on that site. Using privacybadger that supposedly should block the 3rd party spyware like that

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submitted 1 year ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

Wow, that's awesome! I was very sad without the clickbait articles. I was staring at Firefox thinking "i wish it had a cluttered start page with clickbait articles and sponsored content like MS Edge" - and then with this new update the devs nailed it! Thanks!

That's really perfect!

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(it's a tablet in a smartphone form factor, it doesn't have cellular connectivity)

For reference, android 14 was announced 6 months before the launch of this device.

It's a bit surprising that Google still allows device certification with such ancient, unsupported and vulnerable OS.

All the marketing materials don't say which CPU it's using except "Qualcomm octa core CPU" - that means nothing as the description could apply to the Snapdragon 415, which was a low end slow system on a chip released ten years ago. Maybe it could explain why they're using an ancient version of Android - the soc that they're using it's a leftover found in some warehouse and it's already unsupported by the manufacturer; they're forced to use android 11.

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"please don't buy our phones"

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TL;DR: for a whole decade YouTube allowed a copyright troll to claim all the rights on a recording of a washing machine end cycle chime

The account of the copyright troll is still standing and it's not permanently banned

IMHO in this case YouTube should permanently ban at the first offense any copyright troll that maliciously claim as their property something that's in the public domain

Also: if it wasn't that it affected a big streamer with lots of followers, YouTube would have ignored the problem

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/reddit@lemmy.world

Google artificial "intelligence" suggested to add glue to let cheese stick to the pizza, because a decade ago user fucksmith on reddit said so

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submitted 1 year ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I have friends that send me tiktok links via whatsapp and then they ask questions about it like "what do you think, scam or not". I used to open them with cookies rejected in ddg browser but now it pretends to freeze after 4 seconds of play, then it says that i must open it in the app and replaces the "play" button with a fake button that leads to google play.

I assume that there's no way to watch it anymore without an account and without the app, right?

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Note for Americans: here WhatsApp is the de facto communication standard. Literally nobody uses SMS/iMessage/Facebook messenger/signal. And carriers still charge 2 euro for a MMS which completely kills iMessage/RCS (if accidentally send MMS, it's expensive)

I switched phones and instead of copying manually /Android/data/media/com.whatsapp I used the new feature of pairing via qr code.

Besides that's a not very well designed feature (you need to start transfer on the old phone before logging in the new phone) because they really want to store unencrypted backups on Google drive, the transfer completed in a short time.

Maybe too fast, I was expecting at least one hour to transfer the 5000 photos 10gb, instead it completed in 20 seconds.

So I told myself, ok photos not transferred, I'll just do that manually and directly put them in the photo archive on my PC rather than keep them mixed with all the "happy holidays" trash.

I browse the old phone to /Android/data/media/com.whatsapp and... It's empty. Wiped clean after the "successful" transfer process!

Luckily I had set syncthing (the fork on fdroid, the one on play store doesn't have access to whole storage) to have a full overnight backup! On my PC I still had all the photos, almost deleted too as I noticed that I didn't set the "trash can" option

Conclusion: go to download syncthing fork from fdroid and have a safety net from mistakes like this

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And of course they want a credit card on file for "age verification" 😉 or they won't let you chat with the bots

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 70 points 1 year ago

RIP VMware.

Broadcom prefers to milk the top 500 customers with unreasonable fees rather than bother with the rest of the world. They know that nobody with a brain would intentionally start a new datacenter with VMware solutions

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 70 points 2 years ago

the main problems of those blocking orders, worldwide, not only in india, is that while blocks are immediate and done with no supervision directly in the hands of the copyright trolls, unblocks are slow and need 100+ approvals

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 77 points 2 years ago

Surely this move will help them gaining ground from the last spot in the console wars

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 74 points 2 years ago

ugh, don't touch my network stack

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 77 points 2 years ago

The crime imho is not cosplaying as a doctor on Instagram but applying for medical jobs with a fake resume with fake degrees

I see nothing wrong on the screenshots of the now deleted Instagram profile, she's doing paid modeling "this nail polish is so pretty", "this scrub is so comfy" or saying the usual bullshit "remember to eat 2 fruit a day" but nowhere where she's claiming to be a doctor or giving dangerous medical advice. Less dangerous than "doctor" Oz in the States.

if you get a job as a project manager in an hospital just because you knew that they didn't check and lied to have 3 medical degrees, that's a worse problem

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 75 points 2 years ago

It asked me to give a vote on how useful was the interaction. On the screen there was numbers from 1 to 5. I pressed 1 and it searched "1" on Google.

Ten years ago it wasn't dumb like this...

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 68 points 2 years ago

To make apps for Android you can take a 15 years old PC from the dumpster and a 5 years old smartphone that your cousin threw away and you're done. No other payment required.

To make apps for iOS you need to have a supported Mac and you need to have a supported iPhone. The OS upgrade treadmill means you need to buy a new one of both every 5-6 year (or used every 2-3 years). Finally, you need to pay a yearly $100 development subscription forever. (When you stop paying, your apps are unpublished)

Also: on Android you share the source and anyone can compile it even a decade after release. On iOS compiling old source is much more difficult as you probably need to change or fix to the updated apis

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 77 points 2 years ago

Wait they sent a 3090 too? Why Linus tried it with a different GPU then?

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 71 points 2 years ago

Their reason is: people is using g2a for "discounted" keys.

Where the "discount" comes? Easy, some asshole buys from their website many keys with a stolen credit card, then they will need to refund it + pay an expensive fee for the chargeback.

I'm not a dev but at that point I would just give up selling keys by myself and I would just rely on steam for fraud detection. The only case where the 30% fee is justified

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 76 points 2 years ago

Some popular subreddits now allow porn content, which will disable ads

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