Chewy @ Chewy7324 @discuss.tchncs.de

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Well I do like new Reddit. It has a dark mode and works well with different screen/window sizes. Sadly it's slow and equires JS to load the content (makes it slow).

Imo Lemmy web is most of the good parts of old Reddit and some of good parts of new Reddit. Though it's not the best UI. My favorite UI for Reddit is Redlib [1]. It's fast, works well on desktop and mobile, and looks great imo.

[1] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

Given streaming is so ubiquitous, private music trackers have a hard time having a big enough library to meet all of a users needs.

OPS is great but even they don't have all the tracks I search for. RED is better since there's more incentive to upload and more users.

Lucida and other DDL sites listed on fmhy are likely your best bet, aside from maybe rutracker.

https://fmhy.pages.dev/audiopiracyguide#audio-ripping-sites

After a quick read over some parts of the article, and looking into the Bottles flatpak manifest, I don't think the sandbox escapes listed apply to Bottles - as long as you are exclusively using Wayland-compatible apps besides your games.

• Bottles does not have access to $HOME, only through interactive xdg-portals
• As long as you are using Wayland, an attacker can only access apps running through XWayland.

Sadly electron is still a pita, so closing Discord and VSCode while gaming would be necessary (or restrict their host access, which would break sharing files in Discord and many more things in VSCode).

So yes, I sadly have to agree, don't rely on a sandbox, unless your not running X11.

Luckily wine will soon support Wayland, so removing X11 access from Bottles would break this specific sandbox escape. Otherwise I do think flatpak/bubblewrap sandboxing is pretty solid.

Businesses using VPNs is an entirely different matter. It's possible to outlaw VPN services or rather make them usable for piracy. E.g. requiring VPN providers to know who their users are and providing info to law enforcement wouldn't impact businesses at all.

A similar example are emulators: Depending on how laws are interpreted it's entirely possible that there's no way to legally emulate Nintendo Switch. This wouldn't prevent Nintendo or any other company to emulate their own hardware.

Outlawing encryption unless your a politician is also something which gets brought up from time to time. Laws are full exceptions.

TL;Dr
There're many ways to outlaw only a specific use case without

can't imagine a client that would ship an ip2geo db

qBittorrent shows country flags next to the peer IPs, so they likely do have some ip2geo db.

Before you do that I'd first try out a few cheap capture cards. Especially the cheap no name ones sometimes don't implement HDCP (copy protection), so recording Prime should work well.

I haven't seen anything except the safe pdfs, epub etc formats. Similarly to movies there shouldn't be a risk to downloading malware unless you execute the files (e.g. double click).

CAD and other professional engineering software typically only runs well on Windows.

There's exceptions like the Linux-native Blender but especially Autodesk was a bad experience (a few years ago).

That's just a guess from my side: If you want to try Autodesk use the Windows version. Bottles makes installing wine/proton and it's components easier. You'll likely need DXVK for good graphics performance.

It's sad to hear about his passing. His videos about the Pi3 were great for me at the time. It's been about 8 years and looking at the thumbnails of his videos brings back memories.

Interesting. I thought Lightning was a fork like BTC Cash, not a feature compatible with BTC itself.

On another note I just noticed it's gotten harder to buy Monero in the EU, at least Kraken no longer offers them (damned money laundering, sadly the laws are necessary). Luckily thanks to legalization I no longer use it.

I think Anna's Archives point is mainly that given other jurisdictions don't care about copyright when it comes to training their LLMs, it's a major and critical disadvantage for countries that do care about copyright for training purposes.

Given they are trying to get political change, it's likely they think it's harder to change the status quo for regular people than it is to change it for AI companies. They are still trying get the copyright duration down to 20 years.

A more cynical take would be that Anna's Archive wants to be able to make money from companies by giving them access to their archive. Maybe they already have a monetary agreement with companies overseas, and want to do the same in the USA.

Another problem with BTC is the extremely high transfer costs. Donating XMR directly makes smaller donations viable, while BTC is only attractive for large donors.

Notable mention of Mozilla being a Platinum sponsor.

Taxes aren't collected for a specific purpose. Any tax can be used for any purpose a state sees fit (e.g. income tax may be used for infrastructure, schools or defense).

The "Rundfunkbeitrag" is a purpose-bound fee which can only be used for the public service broadcasting.

Edit: It's a mandatory fee like you're forced to pay for waste disposal. Not a tax.

There's a few german torrent sites with open applications.

https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2

Great comment!

There's similar legal issues with the "right to a private copy" many European countries have. Those laws were made to allow people to make a copy of their media, in case the original breaks. Important to note is that those private copies weren't allowed to be distributed to anyone, not even lent to a friend.

This worked well at the time for cassettes and VHS, which did break occasionally.

But at some point most CDs came with copy protection, which got broken pretty quickly. But at least in Germany, they are still considered "working copy protection" and thus are illegal to circumvent, even for a otherwise legal private copy.

The same is the case with Switch games: Copyright owners use copy protection to make otherwise legal use cases illegal.

E.g. Nintendo made it so that Switch games can only be played by decrypting the ROMs, which is illegal for anyone except Nintendo.

At least that's their standpoint which was never tested in court but it's not unlikely that it'd be accepted.

You'd need a second Signal instance. There's only global privacy options.

Good point. I'll have to stop using immutable and stay with atomic (and declarative).

Interestingly /bin and /usr/bin are not in PATH by default, so /bin/chewy can only be executed by its path directly and won't affect the systems reliability.

Fully agreed. On almost any atomic distro, /home/user is writeable like usual, so any attacker is able to persist itself by editing ~/.bashrc and putting a binary somewhere.

NixOS is immutable and atomic, but it isn't image-based.

Immutable simply refers to how the running system configuration can't be changed by simply putting a file somewhere (e.g. copy a binary to /bin, which is a bad idea).

For example, Fedora Atomic and derivatives are image based, although they are more flexible than the A/B types like SteamOS.

OpenSUSE MicroOS uses btrfs snapshots to apply updates atomically, and is more flexible than most image based immutable distros.

Edit: But I don't think those terms have a single definition, so how would you differentiate these terms?