TehPers

Here’s hoping John Apple does what it takes to make me actually consider an Apple device! Like, I don’t know, making user-friendly decisions without the EU getting on their ass about it first.

Does this mean you got access to your accounts again? No more worrying about the other device? If so, that’s really awesome!

Of course, it’s fucked up this happened at all. Fuck that dude.

the camp was about religious indoctrination

This seems like the most likely reason to build the camp there. It must be intentionally designed so that you have to just have faith that your kid will make it home alive. Either that, or it’s designed to help people’s kids meet God or something.

I have no way of contacting the police, but even if I did, they wouldn’t care.

You can visit the police in person or ask to borrow someone’s phone, but also one of us can contact the police for you and ask them to drive out to you if you want. I’d at least make a police report even if they do nothing about it. Also, share it around your community, and someone might show up with two of their friends and “ask” for your phone back.

Seems pretty fucked up to steal from someone who lives out of their car, though.

Valve’s cost of hosting is pennies.

Surely you can’t mean this literally. They host downloads of hundreds of GB that get served to tens of millions of users. The bandwidth costs alone are going to be insanely high, putting aside the storage costs as well.

But anyway, I’d love to see them lower it to 5%. I think if they can afford to do that, they should take the lead.

I see this point come up all the time when it comes to Steam, but I have yet to see anyone really propose an alternative. How much should it cost to host your game on Steam? It obviously can’t be free because of hosting costs, and you’re also paying for marketing and discoverability, so what’s a good price for it?

Until recently, 30% was the industry standard for large software stores. Google is apparently lowering its cut after losing their recent battle with Epic, so it’s possible that the industry standard changes. I’d hope that Valve adjusts with it.

My phone’s keyboard lets me compose multiple dashes into an emdash. I believe I can also bind a compose key on my desktop, though I haven’t needed it there yet.

Then, uh, what were you doing?

I’m not even mad people take issue with my work. Good, fine. Who cares? What I take issue with is the idea that because they don’t like it, I’m not allowed to say it.

According to who? Nobody’s stopping you from saying anything. You have the right to say whatever the hell you want. Nobody has the responsibility to give you a microphone, though.

This (the audio, which is from Portal 2) is what I’m referencing by the way. I like that one too though!

The Hill is reporting that Iran is saying the Strait “will close again”.

Edit: other sources are saying essentially “… if the US blockade continues”.

Edit 2: And now it’s closed again.

Before the crisis, more than 130 ships a day travelled through the strait, but this has reduced to a trickle under threats from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Feels like one other party might also be responsible for blockading the Strait. I can’t quite put my finger on which, though.

The benchmark European gas contract fell by about fell by about…

Lol.

I think it would make a lot of people happy if they did. I’d feel bad for the workers there, but that store is an enormous tourist trap with summer lines that are hours long. Meanwhile, there are local coffee shops not that far away that are way better.

Heck, there even used to be a Starbucks Reserve or whatever not far from there that sold actual coffee. I think that closed down, though.

We’re only seeing the start of this transition, and so far it seems to be going in a good direction. Here’s hoping his government does what he’s saying and actually builds a media to serve the country rather than just himself. It seems like that is most likely the case, which is awesome!

Life gave him lemons. Seems like he’s ready to make life take the lemons back.

This wouldn’t be “illigal”, but if that’s the case Annas Archive should be “fine”… (I know that they are distributing, and this is the fight)

I don’t know much about European law, but redistribution changes things a lot here in the US. At least here, it then gets into copyright law, and you’d be reproducing copyrighted works without authorization (the Internet Archive attempted to get around this with books by getting legitimate copies of the books, digitizing them, then “lending” the digital copies of those books).

So if I prefer to download the Anna’s dataset instead of scrape myself, would this be illigal?

No idea in Europe. In the US, it might be, depending on what the contents of the work are. I believe Anna’s Archive would count as piracy in this case, though scraping directly from Spotify might not be because they are redistributing the music with authorization from the copyright holder. It gets pretty confusing, honestly.

Regardless, if you aren’t doing things at large scale, even if you are breaking a law by downloading pirated content, it’s unlikely anyone will care. People usually only really start caring if you start redistributing stuff, so as long as you aren’t hosting what you’re scraping, you’re unlikely to run into any trouble.

There’s no obvious answer to your question without more information (for example, where are you?) but I’m not aware of scraping being illegal anywhere, with some exceptions. For example, in the US (where I am), as long as you’re not doing “illegal hacking” to scrape your data, you’re probably fine.

There are TOSs that websites like to impose as well. If you have to agree to one to access any data, you should follow it. Breaking the TOS isn’t really “illegal” in a criminal sense (in the US), but you may expose yourself to anything from being blocked from the site to a lawsuit. Bypassing blocks might also be illegal, though you’d have to speak to a lawyer to know more about that.

It’s illegal

Sauce? Also, where?

They’re able to hit the ground running.

Could also buy a device and not connected it to a cellular network. I have old phones that would fill this role perfectly, actually.

Seems like that might just be curl. I’d guess it’s because they ended the bug bounty program for curl.

It’s good to see that the reports they get now are high quality bug reports now!