atomicbocks
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- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 1 day ago:
They have always been this way:
Although Sony ultimately did not win any of its lawsuits against them, Bleem! had to shut down when the huge court costs became too much for the small company to handle. Bleem! shut down in November 2001…
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 week ago:
I would rather see another two years before I call this totally an over argument. Most people are keeping phones for a few years now.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 1 week ago:
iPhones do this as well, I assume both will also do it without the alarm as mine has simply learned what time I take it off the charger normally.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 1 week ago:
I think you are forgetting the other reason Valve cornered the market;
“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue… The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.”
Gabe Newell, CEO Valve - Speaking at the Washington Technology Industry Association’s (WTIA) Tech NW Conference.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 2 weeks ago:
We aren’t post pandemic. They just want you to think we are.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 2 weeks ago:
It wasn’t people from America who made Native Americans move and brought slaves over…
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 2 weeks ago:
I meant that the article was talking about non audio cameras. What you are saying specifically depends on if you are in a single party state or not.
What I said was it isn’t enforced but if somebody wanted to pursue you legally they could.
People in this thread would clearly be surprised about the things that are in the legal books. In the town I grew up in it was illegal to drive a car on a paved road. But that law was written at a time when horses were still more common than cars. Likewise the license plate law in my state was written long before cameras had the resolution to do that from a porch without a large zoom lens and was specifically written to prevent people putting security cameras on mailboxes and other places close to the street. This has created a legal gray area for ring cameras which is pretty much what the article and I in my original post was saying; It’s illegal but not enforced though if somebody wanted to pursue it they could.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
Fair point. Though I would then argue it’s the World Wide Web that was being pushed by AOL in the same way that it’s LLMs that are being pushed today.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 2 weeks ago:
That only applies if you aren’t recording audio as well.
The article is just a general overview of specifically Ring cameras and not specific to any one state or other recording devices. In my state for instance it is also illegal to be able to see license plates from personally owned security cameras, though we have Flock cameras here so yeah…
Why do so many people on Lemmy just really need a “gotcha”?
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 2 weeks ago:
I am a compliance expert. I too am confident in my assessment of the legal situation.
I am officially tagging you as a troll and moving on with my life. You seriously need to learn to chill.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 2 weeks ago:
Right because a quick google search makes you a legal expert…
For real chill.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 2 weeks ago:
Yes you can. You still need to chill.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 2 weeks ago:
It applies to both.
Yes.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 2 weeks ago:
A lot of it depends on if your state is single party or not.
Also you need to chill.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 2 weeks ago:
Where I live for instance. Like I said it isn’t enforced.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 2 weeks ago:
Just to be clear in most places it’s not legal to have a video camera pointed at the street (or your neighbors’ houses). Not that this has been enforced at all. But if somebody wanted to pursue you legally for that they could.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
The Internet was 30 years old by the time AOL was sending CDs (even floppies) to people.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 2 weeks ago:
You can name names, it’s Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Phil Schiller, and Greg Joswiak.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 3 weeks ago:
2 of them were Galaxy Notes and others were flagships as well. Quit being a douche.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 3 weeks ago:
I had four android phones from three different manufacturers die in less than a year, one of them wouldn’t put out any updates after a year either. I went back to iPhone and it lasted for four years.
I’m not voting with my wallet, I’m picking the device that causes the least amount of headache and just fucking works when I need it to. I have to have one of these to keep my job.
- Comment on Banana 3 weeks ago:
That’s only the Cavendish, there are other varieties of banana. I was recently in Hawai’i and got to try an Apple Banana that had been grown there.
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t saying it wasn’t, I was just disagreeing with the OP. Personally I find it pretty uncomfortable to be in a house I don’t know the layout of.
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah… no. It’s so you don’t have to ask me where the bathroom is later.
- Comment on Who haunts your home? 3 weeks ago:
This is cool but it shows where tribes are now, not where they were before removal.
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 3 weeks ago:
Just for clarification the Wii, Wii U, 360, and PS3 all used the Cell Broadband Engine which is a PowerPC derivative. The original PowerPC was made by the AIM Alliance which stands for Apple, IBM, Motorola. Apple and Motorola had a long history of collaboration as all Apple machines had used Motorola processors up to that point.
- Comment on Want to avoid AI gen on Steam? This browser userscript might save your day 3 weeks ago:
I’d rather play an ugly game with crappy art made by a human. I genuinely don’t understand this “but it isn’t pretty” mentality.
- Comment on Fucking math... 3 weeks ago:
That’s because elevators use counter weights usually equal to the weight of the car and half the occupancy load so that it takes less energy to lift it and if it falls for any reason it won’t hit the bottom as long as the counter weights are still attached. The occupancy load is determined by the counter weighting system not the cable load capacity.
- Comment on Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays. 4 weeks ago:
Modern phones will still ping the Bluetooth low energy networks like Find My for Apple devices even when off or on airplane mode. That’s how things like AirTags work.
- Comment on NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers 4 weeks ago:
That’s literally how think tanks work. Their paychecks come from Caltech not NASA. They answer to the board of governors not NASA.
- Comment on NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers 4 weeks ago:
How? My point was that management decisions regarding JPL don’t come from NASA. Misremembering the institution doesn’t negate the point I was making.