CriticalMiss
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- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 2 days ago:
I don’t really understand how this works. If I’m a company whose entire infrastructure is in the US (for example, I don’t know if 4chan is like that) how can I get in trouble with the UK? I don’t have a legal entity there, I’m not doing any business on their soil whatsoever, how can they enforce their laws against me?
- Comment on Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contractsIt’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft. 5 days ago:
Very brave. Tech industry is a very tightly knit circle. If they’re known around as employees who put morals above profits they’ll find themselves not welcomed in many companies. Sad reality.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 1 week ago:
Iirc the openXML standard was open sourced due to some anti trust stuff brewing. They then expanded on the standard with proprietary addons that give LibreOffice/Google Docs trouble.
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 1 week ago:
Technically, according to the GPLv3 you don’t need to make the source code publically available. If you sell software with binaries then their source code must be included with it. If you’re Red Hat you can also add an additional ToS to the website that states if you buy the software you can’t freely distribute the source code you download from the website or you will be sued to oblivion.
- Comment on President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t the new CEO just start?
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t understand how this isn’t criminal in America.
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 4 weeks ago:
A public S3 bucket? Whoever used the app should start a class action lawsuit, this is beyond misconduct.
- Comment on Does anyone else find HiFi Rush highly overrated? 5 weeks ago:
Microsoft did, that’s why they canned the studio. I think game has a niche cult following but overall it sold poorly.
- Comment on The Education Crisis: How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market 1 month ago:
They’re about to turn AI into a scapegoat for why kids are stupid and blame everything on it, as if before AI our education system was perfect.
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 1 month ago:
If you’re forced to live in Israel you won’t be publicly voicing your opinions if they’re against the norm. One of the worst insults is “deserter” for those that did not wish to serve and “leftist” if you go against the murder of innocent people. Sadly being one or the other means problems for you down the road when trying to find a job and generally living a life here. It’s a small country, word gets around quickly and you still have to live here if you don’t have any other citizenship.
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 1 month ago:
If I was a news agency with an agenda I wouldn’t be broadcasting the interviews that are negative either. Those you will find on foreign TV channels, 10-20 years from now after those who are currently serving finish their mandatory service and immigrate elsewhere. Every once in a while some event happens which becomes difficult to cover up. Like the Pilot Letters from 2003 and 2023, but it is the exception rather then the norm.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 1 month ago:
Sure, but you can’t be tracked via css so it’s okay in my book. Have fun with your whacky css sites.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 1 month ago:
I can get behind no JS club, I can’t get behind no CSS club.
CSS is 🆒
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 1 month ago:
This 240TB JBOD full of books? Oh heavens forbid, we didn’t pirate it. It uhh… fell of a truck, yes, fell off a truck.
- Comment on Some people want wealth because it means power over others. Some people want wealth because it means they can minimize interactions with others. 2 months ago:
I have no interest in power. I want wealth so that I can stop stressing out over money.
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 2 months ago:
Some TVs will sneakily connect to open APs to try and phone home. It is nasty but it does happen. You can only be worry free if you yank out the radio module. Some TVs make it easier than others (My LG TV made it as easy as opening the back of the TV and disconnecting, YMMV)
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 2 months ago:
Big knives are up to something
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 2 months ago:
You’re preaching to the choir. That’s why we spend time making remuxes and encodes. But for release groups to make those we need the format to survive, because Hollywood won’t make the physical media if there’s no copy protection.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 2 months ago:
It’s not really dead, but they’ve definitely scaled down their operations. With streaming services increasing their prices YoY I believe the return to physical media will be cheaper in some cases.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 2 months ago:
Highly doubt you can monetize it. Most groups do it as a hobby because they care about preservation. Internal groups don’t lack the time or storage space. What we do lack is dedicated BluRay rippers from distant regions.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 2 months ago:
Yeah, really makes you wonder if it’s by design as some sort of evil anti piracy measure.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 2 months ago:
You would be surprised but in the US DVDs are still king. They sell far better than regular BluRays and even better than 4K UHD BRs. So saying it’s dead is difficult.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 2 months ago:
As a ripper myself for one of the internal groups, both DVDs and Blu rays have this annoying thing where they include the subtitles in image format (PGS for BRs, forgot what the DVD one was). It’s a headache for the rippers and encoders because we then need to OCR the subtitles for the encodes we put out there. Sometimes if we get lucky the movie is on a streaming platform making this process obsolete as we grab the .vtt files from the streaming service and sync it with the BR we’re making (as well as transforming it to .srt) . My only assumption as to why MPAA decided on image format subs for both DVDs and BRs is because it makes it easy to deal with different languages and the likes, you just display a static image and fk everything else. But for the people putting out quality releases if we ship PGS that means we’re just doing a bad job.
Support your fav trackers (and their internals!)
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing international outages for a second time in a week. 2 months ago:
Haha, the excuse they like to use in situations like this is “DEI hires caused this”. Musk, have you been DEI hiring?
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 3 months ago:
S21, S22 and a Pixel 5 or 6. The latter was the one to break the camel’s break.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 3 months ago:
It was one S21, S22 and a Pixel 5 or 6. I didn’t overpay for the mux delux version, just the basic one.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 3 months ago:
Eh, not really. I buy Apple because I’ve had 3 Android phones crap out on me literally days after their warranty died. I got tired of that shit, I paid a bit more and got myself an iPhone 13. It still works as good as it did on the first day. While I do know that Apple devices have a set death day (when they stop getting security updates), I believe I generate far less e-waste by buying 1 iPhone every 7 or 8 years instead of buying a brand new Android every year.
As far as Fortnite goes, I don’t care for the game itself, but I am happy that they fought Apple in court and gave developers the freedom to implement third party IAP, albeit I have no use for it as I only use my phone for phone calls and messaging and the occasional web browsing.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 3 months ago:
They’re not gonna do anything about it for the same reason any other litigious company hasn’t done anything thus far. They’re looking to benefit from AI by cutting costs. If the tech wasn’t beneficiary to these big tech conglomerates they would’ve already sued their asses to oblivion, but since they do care they’ll let AI train on their copyrighted material.
- Comment on OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation 3 months ago:
Ah great, horrors beyond my imagination.
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 3 months ago:
Don’t think they’re doing this out of the goodness of the hearts, they’re just trying to avoid the “shit in, shit out” affect of their data sample.