Lvxferre [he/him] @ lvxferre @mander.xyz

The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at nigh

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I just tested this now. This is brilliant, thank you for the idea! I wasn't even aware that the torrent site could generate RSS for search queries!

For now I'm simply following those RSS feeds through liferea, but later on I might even automate it further.

Like others I've seen been torrenting my episodes instead, but man... I miss the convenience.

Don't get me wrong - torrents are great, but for me they're the best when I want to binge watch a complete series and/or keep it indefinitely. I'm typically following ~10 series/season = episodes/week; I need to find the series in a certain torrent site, then download it, watch it, seed it... it's a bit of a bother, you know.

We wear magnets in our shoes. They keep us bound to Earth.

Imagine what the original varieties looked like.

Likely similar to this:

That's what they said

That's what she said~

It was likely written by a bored 4channer to annoy other bored 4channers.

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines

It's more like a myth than a real thing. Or rather, a pattern that is false so often that you can't use it to guess if it's true.

Additional opinion: piracy is always morally good if the reason for your piracy is inability to buy something. That includes when the item is delisted, as in the OP, but also when you can't afford it.

[I agree with the OP by the way. Specificities should be ironed out, but in spirit it would be a good law.]

If most of your patches makes it worse and get erased, while only a few good ones are kept in the software, then you know that you shouldn't be fixing bugs. Or mammals. Or bryophytes.

...on a more serious note. Can't they simply that USA's healthcare system is so fucked up that people are taking the matters into their own hands?

Your and @tal@lemmy.today's experiences are basically the same as mine. Except with translation instead of programming.

Larson argued that low-quality reports should be treated as if they're malicious.

It's refreshing and uplifting to see this sort of sanity.

The problem is that defending against a copyright troll in the court is an expensive headache, and the copyright troll has a whole army of lawyers to prove for sure that the Moon is made of green cheese. As such, even if the target knows that it's a bogus claim, they still comply with the troll to avoid the court.

Sending a takedown notice under DMCA that’s knowingly false is perjury, which would presumably come up at the court hearing.

In theory, yes. In practice, good luck proving that the copyright troll knew it and acted maliciously.

[Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor from any country following Saxon tribal law like USA. Take what I say with a grain of salt.]

As far as I know, in theory the victim of the bogus DMCA could sue the copyright troll for damages, including attorney fees and all that stuff. In practice, it would be the same as nothing, megacorp who hired the copyright troll would make sure that the victim knows its place.

As of now the site is already back.

The core of the problem is that there's absolutely nothing effectively preventing companies from abusing IP claims to harass whoever they want.

At least you'd expect claims to be automatically dropped when coming from an assumptive/disingenuous party. Something like "you issued 100 wrong claims so we won't listen to your 101st one, sod off". But nah.

As such, "your violating muh inrelactual properry, remove you're conrent now!!!!" has zero cost, and a thousand benefits. Of course they'd abuse it.

The role of AI in this situation is simply to provide those companies a tool to issue more and faster claims, at the expense of an already low accuracy.

Some write papers full of mental masturbation.

This guy simply skipped the "mental" part.

Temperatures here rarely go below 0°C, and when it does it's often just for the night, so huddling isn't a concern. What could be a concern would be summer overheating, but they actually put some thought on where to install those bee houses, they're mostly shadowed by trees.

Pic related. Mind you, this is urban perimeter, around a gov building.
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At least here in my city (Curitiba - somewhere in the southern cone), the city hall has been plopping beehouses across the city, all of them with native species. That has been going on for a few years, and I did notice them far more often (they go crazy for my sage).

I feel like other places in the Americas could / should do the same.

Okay, here's a silly explanation.

Imagine two people want to communicate. They shall be named Alice and Bob. It's night, and they're too far away to hear each other; but each has an electric torch, and they can see the light coming off the other person's torch.

Those torches are fancy. They have two settings: "strong" (big arse blinding light) and "weak" (wee light, but still visible). Let's call a strong flash "1" and a weak flash "0" for short.

They also have a code, that they use to interpret the flashes of light that they send each other. Here it is; check the "binary" column. For example, if Alice sent Bob a weak flash, then a strong flash, then weak, strong, weak, weak, strong, strong, then Bob is supposed to interpret this as an "S".

This is already enough to communicate. Like this:

• Alice: 0000 0010 0100 1000 0110 1001 0010 0000 0100 0010 0110 1111 0110 0010 0000 0011
• Bob: 0000 0010 0101 0011 0111 0101 0111 0000 0011 1111 0000 0011

Remember, each "0" is a weak flash and each "1" is a strong flash. When we decode it with the table from the link, here's what you get:

• Alice: Hi Bob
• Bob: Sup?

Now. Messing around with the settings of a torchlight is slow, painful, and annoying. So is to watch closely for light flashes, write them down, and decode them with a table. So... let's use machines to do so?

• Encoder: a fancy machine with a built-in torch. You type "S" down that machine, and it outputs weak, strong, weak, strong, weak, weak, strong, strong flashes in this order.
• Decoder: another fancy machine. It has an optical sensor; if it gets the exact sequence of flashes from above, it'll output "S".

Okay, now let's replace the torch. We want something that emits light that you can see from as far as reasonably possible; like, from Mars if you want. We could instead use light that has been amplified by radiation, it's really strong and directed. The common name for that is "laser".

I don't think that this is unpopular, even if I agree with you. Not even in real life; often those in power try to associate work with positive things, and yet the actual workers see it as a mockery.

Cue to the Latin word tripalium (a torture device) ending as the word for "work" in plenty Romance languages; or to the Nazi "Arbeit macht Frei" (work makes freedom) on concentration camps.