Somehow that posted as an entirely empty comment… Here’s what was supposed to be in it:

As of Dec. 6, 10,138,526,722 URLs have been requested for delisting from 5,402,321 domains, indicating a rather small number of sites committing these alleged infringements.

Since when is 5.4 million a ‘rather small number’?

Seeing a post with 0 upvotes (and seprate downvotes) always makes me chuckle.

‘huh, even OP thinks this is bullshit…’

The microphone disable switch on every google home/amazon alexa device does not physically disable the microphone; it just informs the software that you’d like it to not listen to you. It can still do so whenever it pleases.

This is how/why it is able to respond ‘your microphone is currently disabled’ when you try to command it with that switch on.

I specify my LAN DNS servers (2 pihole instances, main + a backup for redundancy) in my routers DHCP settings, so they are the DNS servers handed out to all LAN clients; then I have an iptables rule on the router blocking all port 53 traffic from leaving the network unless it came from those LAN DNS servers. This means only the piholes can reach external dns; everything else is required to use the LAN DNS servers or receive no response. Then the piholes have full control over what can and cannot resolve to an IP.

I haven’t found a device that doesn’t work with this setup. I used to have a couple google homes before I wised up, they worked fine behind this setup.

I’m getting real sick of companies acting like rapists and society just accepting it, if not justifying it for them.

No means no. Plain and simple.

As if the borked update wasn’t bad enough, it was also forced on users that explicitly said not to install it.

CrowdStrike’s channel file updates were pushed to computers regardless of any settings meant to prevent such automatic updates

Such as?

There’s not exactly a whole lot of options…

They shelter in designated spaces built to withstand fire longer, typically stairwells, and fire departments rescue them.

TBF you’d probably get even more benefit from de-bloating that PC then. Free up some processing power for the tasks you actually want, instead of doing Microsofts bidding in the background all the time.

But we’ve all got different plans/priorities/timelines. Best of luck to you m8!

No time like the present!

I shifted all my important data to an external disk, wiped the main ssd, slapped Debian on there, then moved the data back. Great way to spend an afternoon.

I’m so glad I purged windows from my systems this year.

Go fuck yourself Microsoft.

If SpaceX moves, and it’s worker’s are unwilling/unable to move; does that grant them severance?

I’d take that out.

Maybe 5 years ago. They’ve had plenty of time to see reason and jump ship to anyone else. Elon hasn’t exactly been quiet with his escapades…

Reminds me of this doc I watched a couple weeks ago.

TLDW; psyco travelled across the country to kill his mom, then drove back. He bought a burner phone at the start of his trip, but kept his normal phone with him the whole time. The cops were able to track both devices as they each connected to the same cell towers while traveling together from the west coast, to the east coast, and back again.

Did… Did you just ask; why creating photo-realistic sexually explicit material of real children, should be illegal?

As far as I understand; it’s not the tools used that makes this illegal, but the realism/accuracy of the final product regardless of how it was produced.

If you were to have a high proficiency with manual Photoshop and produced similar quality fakes, you’d be committing the same crime(s)

creating child sex abuse images

and

offenses against their victims’ moral integrity

The thing is, AI tools are becoming more and more accessible to teens. Time, effort, and skill are no longer roadblocks to creating these images; which leaves very very little in an irresponsible teenagers way…

You only amass that kind of wealth and power by stepping on the backs of those you deem beneath you.

Billionaires are a cancer on society.