One could make it technically somewhat difficult to shut down, but better yet would be to get some timely government intervention, on the side of defending our rights to do such things on the same kind of principle as the well-established doctrine of first sale.

I’m not a lawyer, but I suspect that you may be overestimating the extent to which every piece of bullshit inserted into a TOS document that nobody reads is universally enforceable.

Business idea: Get subscriptions to Disney and ESPN streaming services, then let other people buy access to those accounts for one day at a time. You’d log in for them and give them the session cookie, or something like that. Shouldn’t be too hard to find a country in which that isn’t breaking any laws, although I’m guessing it’s probably not the USA.

TIL there’s a Swedish website called fishbase that has info about all kinds of fishes.

There’s still a catch, though — you have to keep running Windows 10.

More like cable TV packages. Full of stuff you don’t want, mostly made for and by fools, very expensive.

More like cable TV packages.

I think it would sell better if it had more surface areas for sensors, one near the mouth for a mic, and a big compartment over the nose to contain the battery.

I dunno whether that’s Facebook pushing it more often to men (because their analytics shows it works on their audience) or men clicking on it more often because it works on the Facebook audience.

Some fraction of the harm they do is by carelessness rather than malice. That some mindless algorithm designed to find and exploit for advertising purposes the posts that got the most engagement disproportionately selected ones featuring images of cute teenagers does not seem unlikely even if it wasn’t aimed specifically at middle-aged parents…

Weird that the man assumes those images were chosen to target him, but horrifying that he might be right.

I remember when I wanted Mozilla to do that, since they had the organizational might, the money, and it fit perfectly with their mission when they created mozilla.social. On the one hand, it seems slightly less ideal to have the same organization that develops mastodon also providing hosting for it. On the other hand, they probably have a better chance of doing it well.

Did you know that there was no oxygen in earth’s atmosphere until a couple billion years ago, when some mischievous bacteria started pumping it out all over the place? It was called the oxygen catastrophe, and all that poisonous oxygen gas in the air is thought to have led to the evolution of many new things such as nuclear envelopes and sex. I like to remember it once in a while.

As declarations of war go it’s not much, but it’s more then Ukraine got when they occupied Crimea.

Personally I enjoy seeing the numbers go up. Looking at the current top ten by ratio according to my torrent client most of them are obscure things that I’m probably the only one seeding — but the number one spot, at a ratio of 565, goes to “Shrek (2001) [1080p]”.

It’s been demonstrated that it’s mostly an illusion, and yet it’s hard to escape the observation that many people who haven’t studied it in detail understand the concept much less well than they think they do.

12€ per month

That paywall is pretty high.

foreign piracy in the United States

For a moment there I thought they were talking about actual pirate ships sailing across from Liberia to raid the east coast.

“After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player’s real-time movements.”

All the lines look blurry when you’re squinting at things from a position of complete ignorance.

Pikers