Yeah, take everything German news agencies have to say about topics involving Israel with grains of salt. A shitton of independent left-wing German news agencies are pro-Israel. Those that aren’t are usually full on tankie, pro-Russia and everything for some fucking reason.

There’s no problem with piracy if you never ever ever intend to subscribe to a streaming service though. Give me the option to pay for DRM-free .mkv files with differing qualities and bit rates and I’d consider not pirating, provided the prices are reasonable.

And an archive would be doing exactly that: Distributing copyrighted materials.

Moving to Europe is not necessarily a great idea depending on the country they choose. US copyright law is comparatively lenient to some European countries, who can be said to be (much more) controlled by publishers when it comes to copyright.

Depebding on the country, Europe has significantly worse copyright law than the US, to the extent that archiving a web page is illegal.

Fun fact:

In Germany you have to pay a special tax for anything that could be used to violate copyright. It ranges from 0.10€ for USB sticks to 90€ for faster printers to 14,000,000€ for opening up a public library - all going to a bunch of publisher organizations.

That’s what I thought too, but wouldn’t it be mentioned somewhere in the article? Like a line saying:

“The city government plans to demolish the bridge due to risk of collapse.”

But why though?

Blind serbian nationalism would be my guess but there seems to be more. Why now and why dismantle a working bridge without replacement?

But that would be worse?

The solution to women being treated unfairly is not to start treating men unfairly too. It’s to treat women fairly.

I don’t know, I feel like anon’s advice is misguided at the very least.

It assumes that OOP is more or less choosing to be this way, instead of struggling with issues outside their control, be it self-image issues, anxiety, depression, money or a myriad of other things. Depending on the particukar combination and severity, anon’s situation may not change for a very long time, including forever.

I believe proper advice would focus on making them accept their situation. It’s OK to have no friends or partner(s). They are not a necessity in order to live a meaningful life. Perhaps it won’t be the most meaningful life possible but it is certainly possible to find meaning while feeling lonely. Though finding a job is somewhat important, especially if they live in countries without social welfare, they should focus on that for a bit.

I don’t have any positive stories to share on how I overcame the issues anon is facing - considering I’m in my early 20s and have nearly all the same one’s. But acceptance has helped me cope with my situation in a not unhealthy way and reduced some of the pain of loneliness and self-doubt.

How did I even miss you saying

it wasn’t something we did in PE

in your original comment

It’s more visible, sure, but there’s nothing easier to put on than a band:

And you had actual games? For mandatory PE at school?

It’s pretty much locked in once you hit your teens. You can nudge it a little, you can change how you present yourself but your personality is what you are. And you cannot change that significantly. Just try changing your core values, your ethics. Can you start believing and feeling like murder and rape is ethical?

I’m not sure how accurate this is but I’ve read it in a scientific article some time ago. In particular, it highlighted the connection to how likely people are to commit crimes based on personality and brain structure alone and whether you can actually be held responsible for crimes since there is at least some determinism.

In 2012, the Landgericht Hamburg (Regional Court) partially upheld Sony’s claims.

That’s Germany’s most blatantly biased court for copyright infringement by the way. Any regional court can be chosen when suing for copyright infringement but it’s always Hamburg that handles these cases. Be careful when publishing pictures of your home on the internet - your wallpaper may be copyrighted and you may have to pay a few thousand euros.

Fruity•Bussi

Couldn’t there be an implementation thay leaves everyone satisfied?

Sort of like implementating a new optional tab for discovery and allowing users to choose whether their posts appear on it. The implementation should of course be fully honest without dark patterns, though due to the lack of profit incentive it shouldn’t be difficult to achieve a satisfying implementation.

I don’t believe it, at least not anymore.

Google has had more than enough data to train AI models from reCAPTCHA for many years. In 2010 it displayed 100 million captchas per day. You simply do not need hundreds of billions of solved captchas in your data set.

I feel like its only purpose nowadays is stopping basic bots and annoying people who don’t let themselves be tracked as much as advertisers would like.

Left is in power

Which party is left may I ask? We’ve got right wing libertarians wanting to defund all social services, centrists who believe raising the minimum wage by 1€ justifies the “social” in their party’s name and left-leaning centrist Greens who appease their coalition partners on every single topic.

*boops your brain*

Two reasons:

• Sleep data can give some information on your health but isn’t regulated as strictly as health data. Health data == Money
• Companies want your time and attention. TV manufacturers want you to use your TV as much as possible, social media companies want you to use their platform as much as possible, video game developers want you to play their games as much as possible. Nintendo successfully gained people’s time when outside through Pokèmon Go already. Now they’re trying to expand to your time sleeping. There’s not much time left which isn’t utilized by companies somewhat. Maybe there will be a Pokèmon School/Work soon?

Well, TOTP prevents at least these attack vectors, even for tech-illiterate people:

• Unnoticed data base leaks being used to gain full access to people’s accounts
• Credential stuffing (using another service’s leaked credentials to gain access)

With TOTP there must be at least some contact between the “hacker” and the victim.

I think most people are just unaware of the risk that is involved. Healthcare information is some of the most sensitive data on a person and should be protected at all cost.

Some older people in particular have as much of a self-preservation instinct on the internet as toddlers in real life. If protecting them takes away a tiny bit of agency from them then so be it because they cannot be trusted with such decisions. I believe any reasonable person would use MFA because trading off a tiny bit of convenience for a significant amount of security is always worth it.