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Zarobi

@ Zarobi @aussie.zone

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  • Sony lawyers argue that nobody is stupid enough to believe they actually own digital games, because then only one person could buy GTA 6

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  • A lot of "reasonable consumers" got a nasty shock when Sony revoked their licences to content that they "purchased". That's really the true problem here. Nobody hates Steam for using a similar system, because they never revoke licences. I can even still re-download and play games that have been de-listed or taken down. Disappearing purchases is a big problem, it's completely lost value for the consumer and free money for the business. One step removed from a scam.

  • Android Central: Fairphone (Gen. 6+) with /e/OS

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  • There is some overlap. Can't have privacy problems if everything's encrypted and they have no access to your data in the first place

  • do not feed the trolls

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  • You can't really "change someone's mind" unless they're receptive to it. Quite often you'll just end up in a situation where both parties are already hard set into their position; then they both enthusiastically repeat their best arguments and logic, while completely ignoring what the other person is saying. The hope is that there's a magic combination of words that will trigger the incantation that changes the opposition's mind. There usually isn't.

    As a thought experiment, if you wouldn't be willing to "change teams" no matter what the other person says, they probably feel the same way towards you.

    I have a family member who is an avid Pauline Hanson / Trump supporter; despite my reminders that those people hate me for who I am at a fundamental level and would see me suppressed, deported, begging on the streets, or worse. I'm "one of the good ones" you see, an exemption to patch over the cognitive dissonance. I would never support them, because it would be literal suicide to do so. I'm sure they have similarly strong opinions about my favourite progressive political parties.

    That said, I don't have a good actual solution, and at least arguing about things raises visibility and could sway undecided third parties. But at a certain point it becomes too exhausting to continue arguing all the time.

  • What do you think is a fair length of time for copyright?

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  • Also every job I've ever worked had a clause in the contract like "anything you make on company time is our intellectual property", which makes sense

  • What do you think is a fair length of time for copyright?

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  • Unethical (un)life hacks

  • Just a thought i had

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  • My eyebrows and eyelashes are long enough to touch the lenses of glasses; they were constantly smoodgey and greasy. It bothered me so much I got laser eye surgery lol

  • Why do people keep upvoting twitter/x content?

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  • I have autism, so I often miss subtext like that, especially online. I'll add it to my list of compensations, thanks 😅

    "Don't immediately correct wrong statements, they might actually be indirectly expressing a feeling or trying to connect socially"

    If only there was a reliable way to detect when something like this happens

  • reason enough to fail the interview

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  • I couldn't tell how serious you were being, sorry. Some people get weird about this specific topic and gatekeep the labels lol

  • Why do people keep upvoting twitter/x content?

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  • Can't tell if you're being serious or not lol

  • A Hegseth Employee Created a Database to Track Americans Based on Their Political Affiliation

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  • What about stranded on a deserted island a'la Cast Away?

  • reason enough to fail the interview

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  • All these job titles don't really have a formal definition. Software engineer = programmer = software developer. Computer scientist sure does sound fancy though. There's no committee that will say "actually you're doing too much math to be a developer sorry." We all do the code-y thing. Businesses seem to pick one at random based on seniority. I just call myself whatever my most recent job title was.

    Your industry will affect your specialisation and skills much more than anything else.

    Software Engineer (Maths)

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    Werewolf transformed my old gadgets into USB-C powered ones

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  • I'm pretty sure most people would actually scream if they ever encountered a command line interface, but yeah there's definitely better technologies to choose from than WebMIDI of all things…

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  • ÞAF*

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  • Oof, that's pretty bad… reminds me of when Tesseract dev put faulty DDoS code on their manifesto

    As we previously reported, malicious code in Archive.today’s CAPTCHA page was used to direct a DDoS against the Gyrovague blog written by a man named Jani Patokallio. The Archive.today maintainer demanded that Patokallio take down a 2023 blog post that discussed the archive site founder’s possible identity. Patokallio wasn’t able to determine who runs Archive.today but mentioned apparent aliases such as “Denis Petrov” and “Masha Rabinovich,” and described evidence that the site is operated by someone from Russia.

    In emails sent to Patokallio after the DDoS began, “Nora” from Archive.today threatened to create a public association between Patokallio’s name and AI porn and to create a gay dating app with Patokallio’s name. These threats were discussed by Wikipedia editors in their deliberations over whether to blacklist Archive.today, and then editors noticed that Patokallio’s name had been inserted into some Archive.today captures of webpages

    “Honestly, I’m kind of in shock,” one editor wrote. “Just to make sure I’m understanding the implications of this: we have good reason to believe that the archive.today operator has tampered with the content of their archives, in a manner that suggests they were trying to further their position against the person they are in dispute with??? If this is true it essentially forces our hand, archive.today would have to go. The argument for allowing it has been verifiability, but that of course rests upon the fact the archives are accurate."

    More than 695,000 links to Archive.today are distributed across 400,000 or so Wikipedia pages. The archive site is commonly used to bypass news paywalls, and the FBI has sought information on the site operator’s identity with a subpoena to domain registrar Tucows.

  • Echo

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  • Rest In Peace your yellow and key black cartridges

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  • Looks like the app has a bit more functionality. I can see it being useful if you have many different devices with a variety of chargers and voltages. Would be a pain to manage all those cables and wall plugs.

    You can save profiles for each gadget and charger to the Werewolf app — and use the VFLEX dongle itself to test your power sources. Press the scan button, plug the dongle into your charger, plug it back into your phone, and the app will store your charger’s capabilities.

    When it’s time to plug in my 19-volt monitor, I don’t need to pick “19 volts” or remember which of my chargers can deliver — I just tap the picture of my monitor, and the app tells me which of my saved chargers are compatible. Tap that charger, hit “Update” to program the dongle, then plug everything in correctly.

  • The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now

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  • We're talking about late 90s to early 2000's in this thread. At the end of your comment you say peak internet was 2005, so I'm getting mixed signals here. What year are we talking about again?

    I'm happy for you that you were gaming on Linux back then, but it absolutely wasn't a mainstream thing. Windows dominated the market share. I knew one person with a Mac. Average users weren't using Linux.

    I really think you're misremembering or blinded by rose tinted glasses, because almost every website had dodgey ads. Banner ads were basically Russian Roulette whether or not you got infected, and almost every site had them. Flash games sites, news sites, random user-hosted websites, yes porn sites, sometimes even MySpace pages, really almost every site was a risk and eventually the dice gave you malware. Unless by "being careful" you mean you stayed on Wikipedia and never actually used a web browser properly, you were getting exposed to these ads eventually.

    Even the original article we're commenting on mentions this, so I'm not sure why we're all pretending that the internet was perfect back then.

    I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early internet. It was slow, ugly, unreliable, and full of cranks, a strange world of wheezing dial-up modems, Usenet flamewars, <marquee> tags, and dancing babies. [...] None of this was entirely innocent. There were scams, viruses, Nazis, pornography, and chain emails from deposed Nigerian princes.

  • Echo

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  • EEEE (clicking, chirping, and squeaking noises) EEEE

    Is this doing anything for you?

  • Why do people keep upvoting twitter/x content?

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  • Is this why people sometimes get triggered when I point out facts as they're reminiscing nostalgically?