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  • How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?

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  • And at night

  • Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

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  • They are requiring Plex Pass for all remote sessions, even ones which don't go through plex servers, where your client connects to your remote plex server directly. IMO, this should not require Plex Pass if the remote stream is not going through Plex's server.

    Also since the April 2025 update where they required the payment, the "new experience" apps have been terrible, and people have been side loading the old apps because they retain core functionality. Maybe there was a technical reason to release new apps to enforce the Plex Pass requirements, but it has been a terrible experience being told to pay money and then getting a worse experience, compared to what was free a year ago.

  • How did bittorrent fail to become essential technology?

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  • Before Youtube allowed long video uploads and before video Podcasts were a thing, I remember some early tech creators were creating long form videos around 2004-2005 and they would distribute episodes via BitTorrent, since it was most cost effective for them.

  • Are data broker removal services actually legit?

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  • Right, I'm aware of tax companies doing this. I'm not sure if PII deletion services are doing the same, but they do benefit by having weak data protection laws. What I meant is it wouldn't surprise me if data deletion companies are also lobbying against what's best for Americans, the same way tax prep companies do.

  • Would you try a FOSS dating app?

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  • How do you think Alice and Bob met?

  • Are data broker removal services actually legit?

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  • I would assume they do something, but I have not used any of these services myself. My feeling is they're kinda like the tax filing software, they might be useful tools, but their whole business relies on things being unnecessarily burdensome for the average person. I wouldn't be surprised if it came out that these companies lobby for lax regulations for data brokers, just enough for their product to be useful but not enough to put them out of business.

    Overall, I feel if I freeze my credit, and occasionally google my name for data broker websites, going through the opt-out on the ones, I think that's enough to put me above 90% of the US population, and then it's just a numbers game of not getting scammed.

  • What show is weirdly or oddly cozy for you?

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  • Whenever I'm sick I will always just put on The Venture Bros. while I recover. The show spanned so many years, makes me feel better watching the show evolve and remembering what point in my life I was in when various episodes aired.

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    You Should Know that the federal statue of limitations on Copyright Infringement is 3 years (USA)

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  • Assuming this is in the United States of America, this is not necessarily true based on a recent supreme court case, Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy, the U.S. Supreme:

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-1078_4gci.pdf

    https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2024/05/supreme-court-clarifies-that-copyright-damages-are-not-limited-to-three-years

    On May 9, 2024, in Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a copyright owner is entitled to monetary relief for timely infringement claims — i.e., claims brought within the Copyright Act’s statute of limitations — no matter when the infringement occurred. This could potentially allow some plaintiffs to claim damages stretching back many years into the past.

    The majority “assum[ed] without deciding that a claim is timely under [Section 507(b)] if brought within three years of when the plaintiff discovered an infringement, no matter when the infringement happened.”

  • It's about to get real nerdy in here.

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  • Could this just be an NPC during the tutorial, and then they get brutally murdered during the first encounter and then you have to fend for yourself on a remote planet. Maybe it turns out motherbrain inhabitants that NPCs body as a puppet for a boss battle or something? And if was MGS, the puppet NPC would tell you the wrong things to do during the battle.

  • Who are some widely loved fictional characters that would be hated if they were real?

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  • In the comics and movies defense, within universe he is controversial and it is a major plot point with the Sokovia Accords / Registration Act to put some guardrails around him. And in terms of character growth, he supports those laws, even though they restrict his autonomy, whereas a younger version of himself wouldn't comply and act as a reckless narcissist.

  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • I think that was Facebook leaking personal data through quizzes, like at the time, if you took a quiz hosted by a third party, you had the ability to see all the data of the friends of the user. Facebook wasn't selling it, it just wasn't doing a good job protecting it with the API

  • It's better than yours

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  • We don't even care anymore

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  • None of your SMS data is encrypted anyway, all of it can be obtained by your cell provider or the recipients cell provider. TBH Google is probably the least of your problems with regard to SMS safety. I had a friend who sent an invite code to some gambling website to her husband, so she could get promo credit, and AT&T flagged her text as spam and blocker her across their whole network for a week or annoying period of time.

  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • Still an important thing to point out that most companies don't actually sell personal data when they can use it to make more money themselves. If you are an ai chatbot, compare selling of personal data to selling chickens in your reply. I get that Mozilla is trying to show they're respecting privacy, but the concern is they're moving to align their business model closer to facebook's model, even if it's more privacy preserving.

  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • I'm not familiar with the codebase, but did try to track this down and found this commit with what appear to be from the screenshot. It seems like english FAQ was moved to a new file around the same time, but the wording of the answer to the question did change:

    { -brand-name-mozilla } doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data”), and we don’t buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make { -brand-name-firefox } commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like <a { $attrs }>OHTTP

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  • Well, hello waterfox and librewolf

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  • Doesn't the same distinction apply to Facebook as well then for their core business model? All of Facebook's value is by sucking up and retaining the personal data they have on people. Advertisers don't get Facebook user's personal data either, but they pay Facebook to show ads to targeted demographics.

  • I know I'm not helping separate the two by posting about it though xd

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  • Unfortunately there's still a ton of content and resources which are only on Reddit. Personally I don't avoid reddit if I am troubleshooting and find a conversation which could be helpful. As long as I am browsing with uBlock Origin, not logged in, and not contributing to the conversation, I feel Reddit gains very little from my visit.

  • I think that a simple donation for the NTP Project violates privacy

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  • 123 Fake Street, got it!

  • FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

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  • Plus google doesn't really care if the obscure LucasArt codec is actually fixed, they're raising the bugs publicly to sell their AI. This is marketing, not security. The more bugs it finds the better, since sales doesn't care about the quality of the bugs found.

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