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- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 5 days ago:
Can’t even launch docker containers because auth.docker.io is down too.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 3 weeks ago:
I am not saying she did it. She was accused of doing it, and after that during an early stage in the lawsuit process, she agreed with h3 lawyers to request reddit to disclose information in order to subpoena the reddit mods that did it. Which is what OPs article states Reddit lawyers have pushed back against.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t watched h3 since before he started his podcast, so I am not a fan. That doesn’t mean his lawsuit is frivolous. The mods are 100% in the wrong.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 3 weeks ago:
The lawsuit is about the copyright infringement, not the CPS call. The mods organized for users to perform copyright infringement. The CPS calls are just a side thing as a “also, these people are horrible”.
Also, the ones trying to throw it out are the Reddit lawyers, not Demin’s lawyers. Reddit is defending Reddit. Also, there being no proof is a lie. Unless Reddit deleted the data entirely, which would be illegal, there definitely is a deleted thread on Reddit where mods urged people to commit copyright infringement, because I personally saw it.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 3 weeks ago:
Legal mindset goes through the court documents in this video explaining how Denims did in fact agree to h3’s request to obtain the mods’ personal identifying information so that they can go after them instead of her.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 3 weeks ago:
When you buy new dogs, you can expect there to be shit everywhere, especially if they get sick, CPS is not something you call knowing the full context. The CPS calls were definitely out of hate, not concern, and the calls themselves aren’t even the issue. The mods urging people to call, however, is targeted harassment.
The lawsuit has a legitimate basis, and if it truly was a frivolous lawsuit, denims et al. would have filed a motion to dismiss, which they didn’t.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 3 weeks ago:
Demins is the one who after being accused of organizing the campaing, deflected the blame onto the subreddit mods and agreed to let the lawsuit include them.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 3 weeks ago:
They did do it. Before the snark Reddit was removed, there was a pinned thread urging people to only watch his video from a list of channels that said they’d steal views.
Before that there was a pinned thread urging people to mass report him to CPS.
Puppies poop on the floor. Babies crawl on the floor. Preventing both is difficult. The disease in question is fairly common (and often found in babies who crawl on the floor when there are pets), and even if you clean the floor there is a chance spots are missed.
If the mods truly are innocent, I say let that be decided by a jury.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 3 weeks ago:
You already can view his content without contributing. Just use an adblocker. But when you encourage others to watch people who steal his content and don’t make fair use content you are instead intentionally causing harm to the creator, which the creator has a right to sue over.
So people can be critical and not contribute. This is about intentional harm and getting caught doing it.
- Comment on Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them 3 weeks ago:
The reddit mods that organized people to call CPS on h3 and wrote and pinned instructions on how to perform copyright infringement on his videos should legitimately be unmasked and included in the lawsuit.
The Reddit lawyers arguing fair use obviously did not see the part where the mods literally urged users to intentionally watch the other channels to not give any views to h3, and the other channels that were features had also declared that the purpose was to steal views and nothing else, which is why it was NOT fair use.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 5 weeks ago:
Well, with ads it will likely become cheaper than dumb fridges, which will lock in more and more customers until the sudden subscription service hits and everyone have to agree and pay up or buy a new fridge altogether. This isn’t the first, second nor third time this has happened.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 5 weeks ago:
For anyone who knows how, please add it to the consumer rights wiki.
consumerrights.wiki/Category:Samsung
Fuck Samsung.
- Comment on Climbers on Mount Fuji’s popular trail drops by 30% following new rules 5 weeks ago:
This is what happens when a country doesn’t have the freedom to roam rights that most European countries do. You can’t just enter wilderness or climb mountains here. You can’t swim in lakes all willy nilly either. It is probably what I like the least about Japan, but that’s just the way it is. It is their culture, not mine.
- Comment on Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire 2 months ago:
Just pointing out the obvious here, but the problem isn’t organizations like Collective Shout. And there has been a rather worrying development of this issue where people seem to focus on these organizations rather than the actual problem.
Payment processing is a utility. Credit card companies should not be allowed to pick and choose who they allow and who they block. That’s the job of the government. Anything illegal can be blocked, but blocking anything legal such as the delisted games, or the Japanese manga sites that visa and MasterCard killed, should count as discriminatory practice and antitrust violation.
Japan is on track to force credit card companies to allow all legal transactions indiscriminately, and we need the same thing to happen in the EU and US. Once we have this fixed, organizations will be forced to instead try to outlaw the games, which is a million times harder.
If we bully organizations like collective shout out of existence, new ones will pop up to take its place, and the cycle repeats, but if we regulate credit card companies, we essentially cure the disease.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 4 months ago:
The material can be used like regular plastic when coated,
Coated with what? If you say PFAS, this is worse than microplastics.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Or just use “very” so everyone understands.
- Comment on The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day. 5 months ago:
Use Grayjay. No ads, no algorithm, all video platforms in one feed.
- Comment on 4 Universe ahead 7 months ago:
The freer the movement, the harder it is for AI to predict moves.
The smaller the field of vision is compared to the entire world, the more scouting is needed before the AI can build a large enough picture to start planning ahead, and the more it needs to rely on the ability to predict.
Chess has a 100% visibility and very limited movement, so it makes sense for it to be easy for AI.
But in shooters, both of these limitations are devastating. The only advantage left after this is the instant reaction time, but this feels cheap and isn’t fun for the player, so instead bots get put on A* algorithms, flowfields, heatmaps, pretedermined tracks, and shallow neural networks to determine where to go and where to look, and finally their aim skills are just intentionally set to miss at certain rates.
- Comment on Lemmy - The FOSS & Federated Reddit Alternative 8 months ago:
That sounds like a cool concept. I’ll have to look into this “Lemmy” thing.
- Comment on Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 8 months ago:
To people having panic attacks, it is not large enough to destroy the earth, and we would have plenty of time to evacuate the impact location. Though let’s hope it isn’t anywhere with permafrost.
- Comment on Will online only "Device Activation" become the norm for every device in the future? / Will everything require an app in the future? 8 months ago:
If the Pihole is catching and blocking it, it is possible to have it trigger a script that for example registers a push notification. Since they have a Pihole, they could also run a self-hosted push notification service on the same device if they don’t want to use the Google or Apple Push notification systems.
- Comment on Will online only "Device Activation" become the norm for every device in the future? / Will everything require an app in the future? 8 months ago:
It is the norm right now already.
The only way out is specifically buying only products that don’t do this shit, or ones that have been jailbroken and run open source software.
But the very best way to stop it all for good is to kill online advertisement. Online advertisement is the number one reason companies want your data to begin with. Go to your grandma’s house, install adblock origin and sponsorblock.
When you have kids. Disable the google play store and install fdroid, and install an adblocker on their chromium of gecko browser. Replace all default apps with the fdroid alternatives.
Get the oldest raspberry pi device and install Pihole, then make it your DNS service so all lan and WiFi data runs through your adblocker.
Donate to open source projects, brag to your friends how your apps have no ads and no tracking.
Fight for right to privacy and right to repair. Stop using google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta.
Use Linux instead of Windows. If you need windows, run it in a virtual machine without internet access.
Use grapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS instead of basic Android.
As for home systems like security cameras, I suggest following the ultimate open source guide by Louis Rossmann.
- Comment on Focus: DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up in global AI race 8 months ago:
The AI race ends with everyone running cheap local models and no business being able to profit from them.
- Comment on BioWare quietly lay off key Dragon Age team members while talking up the next Mass Effect 8 months ago:
walks into room and sits down at the table
“So I’m unemployed”
- Comment on Got electrocuted today 10 months ago:
Not to mention electrocution leads to various other organs being damaged, like the kidneys, so OP might want to make a full health check.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Wear a facemask. Airports and planes are high risk infection zones.
Kill two birds with one stone.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 10 months ago:
They should donate or sell chrome to the Linux Foundation.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 11 months ago:
I haven’t downplayed death threats. It was a conversation where someome falsely alleged that someone else had received death threats, which had no evidence, and the person in question never even claimed they had received any.
The rest is just me calling out misinformation about black myth wukong (the sexism allegations that turned out to be mistranslations) and about the harassment campaing against Sweet Baby Inc, bias in gaming journalism, etc.
I’ve never taken a specific political stance in any of their conversations. I just am against misinformation and censorship and call them out when they happen.
The reason I’m against what your post is about, is because ADL were extremely dishonest in their findings, and I think they’re biased or politically motivated to implement restrictions that require users to give up more private information about themselves, or not be allowed free speech.
And no, I didn’t break any rules either. Every ban I’ve faced have all been completely unjustified, which is why I’ve blocked most of the communities I’ve been banned on. It’s like being banned from hexbear and you saying that makes me deserve to get my account removed. The little information you get out of that modlog only shows the mods being biased.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 11 months ago:
Yes that is me, and no I am not a transphobe. The ghazi mods banned me because I said that someone losing a visa for something they said is fucked up. I didn’t even know who the person was who lost the visa or what they had done. I have never made any transphobic statements whatsoever, and you can dive deeper through the modlog to find evidence of that because it would show.
Also, I don’t appreciate you trying to cancel me just because I don’t agree with your post. We’re adults here.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 11 months ago:
ADL says steam was unsafe after stating that pepe the frog is an extremist symbol to more than double the number of cases found.
Remove the meme, and take into consideration the number of users, 0.1% of users have used some form of extreme symbol or statement.
This is a reach for control and surveillance. Nothing else.
Fuck ADL.