ICE demanded Google give everything they had on a pro Palestine, Black, student, journalist, non-American who used to live in the USA, and Google did so without notifying said individual, which seems to be the kicker here.
His name is Amandla Thomas-Johnson, and here is a story from last year explaining that he’s in the crosshairs of ICE because he attended a protest on campus in the USA.
Word of mouth does some heavy lifting here I reckon
Ooh that’s an interesting stat! My most seeded movie is +1 (over 340 copies’ worth), and for shows It’s Always Sunny seasons take the top 3.
Can’t they just say no and risk jail for treason or something? Better than killing innocent people for the state’s superficial show of power and attempt at dominance.
You right. Meeting the terms of contract with a mutual agreement has always been a requirement. Who knows what the terms were in their contract but ‘a van’ as the secure storage and ‘I don’t know how’ they got in isn’t good enough. You need to know what locks were on the van. When I insured my motorcycle I had to include the model of D lock, as I learned later, relying solely on the bike’s lock isn’t enough because with enough force thieves can yank the handlebars and snap the key lock off the forks. Or carry the whole thing onto a bed
There are always skits and jokes about the UK police force not doing anything until it’s too late or there’s a confirmed state-defined criminal actually making themselves known. Because it’s accurate and true.
These asshole insurance dudes act exactly the same. I honestly don’t think England has a petty crime investigative team
I kept spending my money on food instead of upgrades. Here’s hoping DDR5 drops below 2x its Sept 2025 value in 2027, to coincide with Zen 6.
I tried to get RAM on eBay. 8GB & 16GB kits are not even being auctioned, and when they are sold their price tag is well over 3x their value, often 4x (~GB£170). 32GB sells for 3-4x its value (~£260-£320), almost as much as 64GB, which is often going for >2.5x (~£380-£440). If you’re desperate or are okay with massive financial waste, eBay is often the cheapest place for 64GB kits, but anything lower is relatively more expensive than just buying from distributors
This touches on one of the reasons I am inclined to pirate – the majority of the time it’s not the author or developer that you pay, it’s the distributor or streaming provider (who often takes a 30% cut), then the payment processor takes about 5%, then the publisher takes a significant and usually undisclosed portion, until finally (and this differs between media) the actual creator sees perhaps £10 of a £60 purchase. Until the vultures clear the field and stop taking hefty cuts, or if I trust the publisher, I am inclined to find a way to actually pay the developer, or not at all, because even though it takes effort to research the sources and distributors, I would much rather vote with my wallet and not accept astronomical distributor fees and anti-consumer practices.
When I was younger I found an album I really liked on Bandcamp. The monetisation model the artist used meant you could actually pay 0 for the music. As I was tight financially I took it but was extremely grateful. This can be seen as consensual piracy, because in my eyes that produce is worth a certain value that can be exchanged with money, even if the seller doesn’t say it. Anyway, Bandcamp takes a 15% cut which is low for the industry, and this particular artist was also independent, meaning they were their own publisher/record label, so when I could I honoured that ‘pay what you feel it’s worth’ approach and bought it a couple years or so later for more than a commercial album. Trust is also extremely infrequent in capitalism, and I appreciated the design.
You know how English is a default language, a base for many multinational conversations? Everyone refers to it? Well, Euro is the easiest to refer to because it is so widely used and stable. It’s not English. It’s like the ‘English language’ of currency.
If DLSS can reach its fifth generation AI can destroy component supply for a second year
Oh yeah, situational awareness comes first, something that doesn’t seem to come naturally to everyone. There’s a mild need for c/LostLemmings
Which is one reason why I’ve taken to referring to currency with nation included, e.g. US$, AU$, JP¥, GB£… The Euro is the only easy standard, arguably the ‘English language’ of currency
Ah the good old days, before the majority of America bought Apple tech and incentivised other manufacturers to follow the practice of walled gardens, intentional malware and monetised tech lifespans. Thanks to the EU regulators’ constant defense against corporations, it’s possible that charging for repairs within the first 10 years, either at a specialist centre or via manufacturer-specific tools, might just be put under ‘hidden fees’ or ‘false advertisement’. With the help of the EU we retain some semblance of owning the product we purchased
Yes! Jane Lynch. She’s playing Sue Sylvester in Glee in this meme
Forget Liberation, original AC Mobile is the real shit (link)
Fuck these pieces of shit dude. Fucking stop with the protecting children talk. It’s all lies.
I also recommend Heroic Launcher - it can be used for Amazon and Epic if you have games with them, say free giveaways, but is great for GoG and manually adding installed Steam games. With some finicky steps I managed to get Sims 4 to launch from it. The FOSSibilities are endless
In my attempt to drive a wedge into the ideal of unconditional government faith:
I have deduced that there are five laws of society:
The state legal system is sometimes the absolute enemy of the people and morals, especially when combined with corporate law, and shouldn’t be treated like it’s unconditionally justice.