BurnedDonutHole
@BurnedDonutHole@ani.social
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I mean they say it’s not the size but how you use it… But who am I to judge? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
If you think that’s where the guns are coming from you’re very naive and ignorant of how the black market works… For example: Austria where Glocks are made, has one of the most strict gun laws yet there are so much black market Glocks in Europe it’s like a toy. Overall there are very strict laws in Europe yet it’s very easy to find guns. Do you think people are buying them from US and countries like that and bring them to Europe to sell in the black market?
Here is the EU report about it you can read from page 61. If you don’t believe me.
https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/EU-SOCTA-2025.pdf
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
There is nothing interesting about that. In my country it’s hard to get legal carrying license or licence to have a gun. I have one because I’m a lawyer. However criminals don’t care about such legitimacy issues do they? Anyone who is talking about easy access to guns somehow doesn’t understand or ignorant about the fact that criminals can get those guns easier than anyone going through the legitimate ways. It’s not hard to smuggle small firearms. Anywhere in the world you can find an illegal/black market gun easily.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
Me and my family would be robbed and who knows what else the person who was trying to enter into my house and as for the event at my office I’ll be shot at my office. Are you really lacking empathy and foresight this much for me to explain all this to you?
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
As a lawyer and a as a normal citizen (mind you I’m not American) I’ve been to couple of situations where it made it better. Once was against a home invasion attempt as a citizen. Other was when someone threatened to kill me in my office as lawyer. There are some more but I’ll keep them to myself.
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 2 weeks ago:
I have it on my laptop. Thank you for your efforts.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 3 weeks ago:
I detest that you call these brain-dead people doing it on purpose.
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 4 weeks ago:
You can fuck right off too… To be honest I’m a very pleasant person in real life. However we both know you’ll think I’m lying and I defend myself by saying you can fuck right off. I wish you a good day/afternoon/evening/night depending on your location.
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 4 weeks ago:
Nahh it lets me release all my bottled up anger.
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 4 weeks ago:
First of all you should stop being offended for others. Second I’m not relying on anyone. It’s a thing of convince and it’s the proper thing to do, reference your subject. According to you we should all do our 3 minute research on internet when reading an article, paper, website or book to find the appropriate sources instead of the op should provide… I wonder what kind of a world we would be living in… So, kindly you can and anyone is thinking like you can fuck off as well!
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 4 weeks ago:
Thank you. And a fuck you to the main op from the deepest parts of my heart for not adding the link.
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 4 weeks ago:
I mean you can always go fuck yourself!
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been a lawyer for over 20 years… So, I’ve met more than a couple.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Floaties?! Who do you think we are? I’m not paying for the floaties nor the transportation.
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 1 month ago:
Mantises
- Comment on AI companies rn be like... 1 month ago:
This is basically how stock market work. All those billion dollar companies are ballooned assets in reality.
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 1 month ago:
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 1 month ago:
My kind of intoxication… (☝︎ ՞ਊ ՞)☝︎
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 1 month ago:
I don’t think asking help about domestic issues on the Internet is healthy… However, who knows maybe they can ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 1 month ago:
Good luck and if you need help drop by their discord. They have an active community.
- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 1 month ago:
You can also use crowdsec on your server to stop similar BS. They use a community based blacklist. You choose what you want to block. Check it out.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 months ago:
The Singularity Trap by Dennis E. Taylor (2018) The book defines a sci-fi universe where humanity must escape from an overwhelming AI entity. The solution, as demonstrated by the main character, is to be turned into a machine using nanomachines, yet somehow retain one’s humanity. When I raised the issue of this kind of story’s inherent paradox and flawed logic—where the solution to saving humanity from an AI entity seeking to destroy all natural biological life is to turn into machines—people responded that they still enjoyed the narrative. Therefore, I wouldn’t be surprised if this idiot’s stament gathered widespread support.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 10 months ago:
Or the customers who were children grow up?
- Comment on Server Maintenance - Feb 14 at 22:00 UTC 10 months ago:
Good luck.
- Comment on Server Maintenance - Feb 14 at 22:00 UTC 10 months ago:
May I suggest https://www.crowdsec.net/ for those pesky scrappers? I’ve been using their free service for about 3 years on my personal server and it’s very good for dealing with these kind of problems.
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 11 months ago:
I’m sorry for the late reply. Life happens.
Having access to network or a material doesn’t give you unlimited rights. As for the JSTOR he didn’t have the right nor a permission to access for establishing a separate machine on the network to download everything. In simplest terms he abused his right in the wider term they charged him like a drug dealer because he didn’t have any reasonable excuse to do so because his access was limited by fair use. So trying to say he was free to use JSTOR is not a blanket excuse for anyone. By your definition any government employee has full rights to anything and everything they are given access to… Does that sound alright? No because it’s bullshit to claim you have unlimited rights to do anything and everything once you have access. JSTOR established to be an academic tool and source and it’s clearly stated that you can do so in a reasonable frame. To add to this subject US Copyright Law also doesn’t grant unlimited rights. That’s why academical establishments such as JSTOR can use copyrighted material under fair use clause. Now all this in mind downloading gigabytes of data which you can never be able read in your lifetime or study or research humanly possible is an abuse of that access right and fair use under the copyright law. Not to mention his laptop in the closet was sending thousand of request per second while being connected to an access point he was not allowed or approved to use.
I’m sorry to say this but they had him death to rights as they say. He was doing something he shouldn’t be doing and he was abusing his right to access. All those things you’re talking about his beliefs are just the butter on the bread or excuse my language but a nail on the coffin.
You want to believe he done nothing wrong and they did him dirty for his beliefs be my guest… But please don’t try to lecture me about legal framework about his prosecution.
Have a nice weekend.
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 11 months ago:
I would like to clarify something so that there won’t be any misunderstandings. Law doesn’t require distribution or intent to distribute. Copying a copyrighted material without proper approval or license is enough. Which is what he did.
Below is the related section from the US Copyright Law, under section 506 Titled “Criminal Offences”:
(B) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000; or
As you can see they didn’t need his intentions to distribute it was a factor used not required. I hope I made it clear about why I don’t think it was because if his beliefs.
I wish you well.
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 11 months ago:
I respect your opinion and let me say that I agree that his beliefs played a role but he wasn’t punished harshly because of his beliefs. He was made an example not because of his beliefs but because the people in charge at the time wanted to show that they are in control. You feeling strongly about how the prosecution put together their remarks and how they used his own remarks against him I understand. (I’ll tell you that I’m a lawyer with over 20 years of experience you want to believe me or not is up to you.) But I can tell you if they were doing it just because of his beliefs they could’ve charged him for each and every copyrighted material he downloaded from the servers. Considering he downloaded gigabytes of material in mostly text format they could’ve went an charge him for each and everyone of those. Just by doing that they could have easily finish his life with thousands of years of prison sentence and charge him hundreds of millions in monetary damages. Instead they turned it into one big case. You can check the law and see if it’s possible or not. In the end let’s agree to disagree. I wish you well and I hope that he is in peace.
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 11 months ago:
Nope! They made an example of because they didn’t know how to deal with internet crimes so they decided he will be the scapegoat for their failures even though they knew his so called crimes didn’t require such harsh punishment. They went after him so hard to make an example out of him to warn others. If you think they did it because of his beliefs you’re doing injustice to what he went through.
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 11 months ago:
It doesn’t matter what he believed. They wanted to make an example of him and build their carriers thanks to that example. The only people they went after this hard were Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.