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Everyone loves to hate on Cloudflare, but uh, duh, of course a US company will comply with a request under US law that they have to comply with?

If you don't want your shit DMCAed, don't use anything based in the US to provide it.

Go host somewhere that doesn't have smiliar laws and won't comply with foreign requests.

There was a recent video from everyone's favorite youtube Canadians that tested how many USB devices you can jam onto a single controller.

The takeaway they had was that modern AMD doesn't seem to give a shit and will actually let you exceed the spec until it all crashes and dies, and Intel restricts it to where it's guaranteed to work.

Different design philosophies, but as long as 'might explode and die for no clear reason at some point once you have enough stuff connected' is an acceptable outcome, AMD is the way to go.

This new uh, tactic? of going after a registrar instead of a hosting provider with reports is a little concerning.

There's an awful lot of little registrars that don't have any real abuse department and nobody is going to do shit other than exactly this: take it down and worry about it next week when they have time.

It really feels like your choice of registrar is becoming as much or more important than your choice of hosting provider, and the little indie guys are probably the wrong choice if you're running a legitimate business as you're gonna need one that has enough funding and a proper team to vet reports before clobbering your site.

On the OTHER hand, Network Solutions is just took down DigitalOcean for no reason, so maybe they all suck?

First: I'm not in any way intending to cast any negative light on the horrible shit the people suing went through.

But it also kinda feels like a lawyer convinced a victim they could get paid if they sued Apple, because Apple has lots of money.

If you really were serious about suing to force change, you've literally got:

1. X, who has reinstated the accounts of people posting CSAM
2. Google/Youtube, who take zero action on people posting both horrible videos AND comments on said videos routinely
3. Instagram/Facebook, which have much the same problem as X with slow or limited action on reported content

Apple, at least, will take immediate action if you report a user to them, so uh, maybe they should reconsider their best target, if their intent really is to remove content and spend some time on all the other giant corpos that are either literally actively doing the wrong thing, doing nothing, or are sitting there going 'well, akshully' at reports.

I'm on year 5 with 6 of them and they're all fine.

RTSP stream to frigate, and then frigate does the magic AI and recording shit.

They're also not allowed outside the LAN and don't seem to care about not being all internet connect-y, though YMMV on newer models.

I can't think of a single case of being annoyed with them other than the mounting pressure is a little wonky and a sufficiently fat corvid can land on them and change the angle on one of the ones in the backyard but I'm not sure I'd blame the camera manufacturer because of a fat crow.

Well, fortnite is already full of shitty movie tie-in skins, so that's not much of a jump.

I mean not the first time they've sued over cheats, and they very much took a sweeping victory last time.

I'd expect the same DMCA circumvention provision along with the always fun "Well, literally everything you did is also a CFAA violation so maybe you want to settle now before we try to get you extradited to the US on federal felony charges" threat would result in pretty much the same outcome here.

AFAIK, it's still not had the code released, so at the moment there's just the one site and you can't host your own.

Until a flood of TikTok users bankrupt them, anyways.

Not entirely sure how you'd make the economics of hosting endless video files work without great big piles of money and some way to get even more big piles of money on a routine basis :/

I'd like to ask a different question: why do people keep buying inkjet printers with horribly expensive ink?

Is it the case that people print that many photos that getting a hilariously cheaper-per-page laser just not an option, or is there something else that's causing people to keep buying crappy inkjets with DRM and subscriptions and that somehow require magenta ink to print black when it has separate black ink already?

Always been confused by the popularity of inkjet printers since they've always been kind of awful.

I'm a big fan of using model paint, like you'd go buy for, well, models or your Warhammer stuff.

Small bottles, literally any color you could ever possibly want, and it's easy to work with because it's designed to be used on tiny little plastic things anyway.

This feels like both a bad argument from the people filing the suit, and a bad call from the judges.

Sure, you don't have to use iCloud, but Apple has absolutely tied so much functionality - including automated backups - to it that, honestly, it's de-facto required if you're going to stay in the ecosystem and expect all the features that are listed on the side of the box to work.

And, of course 5GB is really not sufficient space to even reliably back up a modern iOS device, let alone file syncing, email, photos, messages, etc. at this point.

It feels like the people who brought the suit didn't really have formulated a good argument (or even had reasonable standing - if you're using the 5gb tier it's hard to argue Apple force you to do anything), but I don't think the general gist of 'Apple is providing 5GB knowing you're going to almost certainly going to be forced to upgrade' is all that wrong.

I was curious how bad 10% was, so I went digging to see what it should be.

A "good" yield target on a modern process is something like 60-70%, so this is a shocking shockingly bad oof, though it's also not a complete process, so it's possible they can salvage this and turn it into something viable but, still, oof.

generally replaced by systemd’s journald service

Basically this, and quite a long time ago. Anything even remotely modern (and by that I mean like, the last decade or so) is either using systemd, or in the case of debuntu, rsyslog.

Wonder what kind of funky environment is using syslog-ng, and to what scale so that there's literally a 'syslog-ng engineer' job posting.

Looks like others have provided MOST of the answers.

Radarr/sonarr do the heavy lifting making symlinks where symlinks are required, but there's still the occasional bit of manual downloading.

I also have a script that'll check for broken symlinks like once a week and notify me of them and I'll go through and clean them up occasionally, but that's not super common and only happens if I'm manually removing content I made manual symlinks for, since I'll just let radarr/sonarr deal with it otherwise.

(The full stack is jellyseerr -> radarr/sonarr -> qbittorrent/sabnzb -> links for jellyfin)

Yep, and there's a shocking number of them to pick from: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/qemu-cpu-models.html

So, this is a ~15 year old laptop?

The first two things that immediately come to mind when you're kernel panicing is bad ram, and bad cpu temperatures.

Thermal paste doesn't last forever, and it's worth checking if your CPU or GPU are overheating, and repasting if so.

And, as always, a memtest is a quick and easy step to rule that out - I'd say half the "weird crashes" I've ever seen ends up being bad ram and well, at least it's cheap and easy to replace?

As with all things in America, it's only illegal if a normal person does it.

If you're rich or politically connected (or are the actual government), anything goes.

I just select the files I want from the bigger torrents, and then proceed to not touch it ever again, unless I want to add more stuff to the downloaded files.

I also don't move things around - I'm on Linux so all the torrents live in one place with symlinks pointing to where I need/want the data to be as I figured out yeeeears ago that trying to manage a couple thousand active torrents while having the data spread everywhere is a quick trip to migrane town.

Indeed.

It's to the point that even legitimate sites look like those dark-pattern fake scam ecommerce sites with all the popups, fake "deals", and timers and shit.

Windows of course feels much the same way - recently replaced a failed mac with a new Mini and holy crap is MacOS so fucking zen.

I logged into my apple account and then was assaulted by... fucking nothing. No ads, no popups, no upsells, no candy crush, no enabling AI shit. I just landed on the desktop to do whatever the hell it was I was going to be doing.