veniasilente

@[email protected]

Hi you’re reading content by a non-AI person, 100% humane or at least furry.

Sometimes my posts are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Feel free to contact me for an alternative licensing deal.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

veniasilente ,

If Meta can pirate stuff, then the Internet Archive can pirate stuff and I can also pirate stuff. Fair is fair.

veniasilente ,

I feel so silly that I wouldn't even know how to describe it.

I know! I'll pirate hundreds of books from well-known authors so that I can easily find a useful metaphor.

Am I the only one preferring low quality media over high quality one?

I have a very slow Internet connection (5 Mbps down, and even less for upload). Given that, I always download movies at 720p, since they have low file size, which means I can download them more quickly. Also, I don't notice much of a difference between 1080p and 720p. As for 4K, because I don't have a screen that can display 4K,...

veniasilente ,

Dealing out the harsh truths I see!

veniasilente ,

Huh, didn't know the 3DSXL could do 480p well, I always thought its limits were at about 360p (or 400p if such a profile existed). Can I ask how do you perform such encoding? Like, what encoder and options are you using. Oh and the battery usage. It's for a book.

veniasilente ,

Where do you find such downloads? Most torrent sites I've seen barely give you anythng under 720p that is not 480p (or 144p 3gp for the lulz value, I guess?) these days.

veniasilente ,

So that means, since I'm paying it whether I pirate or not, I might as well pirate, right?

Public funding, public access!

veniasilente ,

A sad day, but nothing that can't be fixed by reuploading the files.

veniasilente ,

omg! Precious! May I ask what is the correct way to pronounce her name?

Šaškė

I recall she is not a Darth Emo cat, but she is still lovable. o3o

Also, p good fit with her and that checkered pattern rug.

veniasilente ,

I mean I too would also be very sociable if I could live rent-free on a patterned rug. :p

It's good to see her well. And thanks for the pronunciation guide!

veniasilente ,

Never question the bravery of the French. They discovered snails are edible.

As for their intelligence on the other hand...

veniasilente ,

ATM I'm using Quad9 and OpenNIC but I'm not sure how much of everything do they cover. I'm also not well aware of any other good "flat DNS" alternative (aka: one you can put right into your /etc/resolv.conf / Windows LAN config, without need of extra internal service).

veniasilente ,

People are getting upset about this, but it only applies within the country where Roskomnadzor has authority, and it’s temporary pending further review.

Which means that now, for example, Republicans can file to have any extension that "provides or facilitates woke content". To put forth one (1) such case.

Idiot laws are idiot and must be fought at every point, in particular if you have more power than one (1) mere citizen. What Mozilla is doing is just announcing to the world they're open to spreading their legs before the MAGAs.

Mozilla, as a law-abiding organization, must at least acknowledge the requests of a regulatory agency within its own country.

Insert Nick Fury "I recognize the council has made an ass-stupid decision".

Whether you agree with their requests or not, Roskomnadzor has governmental authority in this context within Russia.

veniasilente ,

We need to use other methods than voting.

Funnily enough the French are from Europe and they put forth some handy tools!

veniasilente ,

As an extra layer of security, always run wine / proton as a separate user, for example via sudo, or even better via schroot, which won't let the "Z:/" drive see your entire filesystem.

veniasilente ,

when your child understands that there is no school on weekends

"I did not lie to you, we just all as parents agreeded to make the same offering to our children".

(it's not even half lying; setting agreements as adults is what bulding a society is about)

veniasilente ,

Dragon. I think at that point any message I give him is going to be heard so I'm gonna take my sweet time and once I get a bit more bored I'm gonna fly over the WH roaring "hey Joe, it's genocide!".

veniasilente ,

IANAL and all the other anals, but my understanding is Signal wouldn't be liable and wouldn't have to do anything. They designed their service so they can't know the content of the messages, so if a third party Maloyse (see what I'm doing there?) is reporting a message between Alice and Bob that Maloyse thinks to be illegal, Signal would be within legal grounds to bring into question how did M got that message, and it can't be used as proof against Signal because there is no legal mechanism by which Signal could have acquired that message and act upon it - in fact, Signal has grounds to suspect Maloyse is crafting those messages, since neither Alice nor Bob have reported such message.

This post is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Feel free to contact me to negotiate for an alternative license.

veniasilente ,

Maloyse absolutely can:

  • eavesdrop above Alice's shoulder
  • be an evil, militarily dressed maid on Bob Alice's home
  • have remote administrative permissions on Bob's phone
  • ("accidentally") get a full-workspace snapshot of Charlie's desktop while he has the group open in Signal Desktop
  • Sneak around and check the phone while Alice and Donny are having sex
  • Hit Charlie with a $5 wrench
veniasilente ,

Which one is harder has zero relevance upon how much work Signal has to do to vet the contents transmitted on the channels, which is zero, nil, because they can't. Even if it was Charlie who reported the channel, Signal intentionally has no practical means to verify neither the accused contents nor the authenticity of the report. And this is actually good.

Infrastructure-wise, Signal (mostly) limits itself to only being a carrier. In a just world, a carrier who has been set up to take the limited responsibility of a carrier is not liable for the contents of carried things that are protected so that the carrier can not peek into. Sure, they can be legally pressed to change that and "upgrade" their lawyer plan to "content vetter", but as far as I know that hasn't happened yet.

veniasilente ,

But once they are made aware, the legal system considers them to now bear responsibility if they don’t take action.

And the action Signal can take is pretty clear: "Okay thanks for reporting, feel free to file a lawsuit against Alice and or Bob instead, have a nice day." Remember: even if Signal had Charlie's credentials to view the chat, unless Charlie is an admin of the chat Signal can't do anything other than log Charlie off the group. Plus each participant still has their own message store. So by this point Signal has complied with the law. It's literally Section 230.

veniasilente ,

, you should take a helicopter view and see that a punch, will lead to counter punches, which will lead to potentially full blown civil war.

You got that wrong. Nazis are already being violent; punching a nazi is not starting violence, it's a defensive measure, it's a response to violence. But sure if your response to violence is "let's sit with the nazis and make a nazi bar" then sure, you do you.

veniasilente ,

Ah yes, I also use cat to input text and passwords!

veniasilente ,

Bets are strong such tos are not legally enforceable.

veniasilente ,

That's why I don't have monitor dashboards 😎

veniasilente ,

Do note the Violent protesters" and "destructors of property" are the zionist infiltrators, not the antigenocide protesters. But Biden is so old, apparently everyone look the same to him.

veniasilente ,

The problem is, I use far more sites than Youtube, and the other filter lists are needed here. AFAIK I haven't been able to find a switch on uBO that makes a site use only a specific set of filters, so if I want good internet experience it has to be the default filters and some more, or nothing.

veniasilente ,

You have been blessed with the marking of the Provider of Friends. That the cat understands that he can trust to wait around you and then you'll bring a friend for him!

PSA: If you're going to write software for piracy, put it on I2P! ( geti2p.net )

movie-web was just taken down with all its repos, Yuzu was taken down, then suyu forked it on gitlab and was taken down, countless clones of nintendo games, platform emulators, and a bunch of other things are taken down because they are hosted on the clear web....

veniasilente ,

Ah yes. Forgejo is the current community fork.

Would you teach your kids how to pirate?

My gf and I have had discussions about teaching morals to kids. In that vein, I asked myself, would I teach piracy to my kids? Yes, it’s technically illegal and carries inherent risks. But so does teenage sex carry the risks of teenage pregnancy, and so we have an obligation to children to teach them how to practice safe sex....

veniasilente ,

mods where is the "upvote twice" button?

veniasilente ,

You have never been a couch sports coach, right?

veniasilente ,

I mean, you were never inquired about it in the first place. But that's in the end about as valid as saying you never consented to A being a vowel.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • kbinchat
  • All magazines
    •