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How is the accused project designed to circumvent your technological protection measures?

The identified Bypass Paywalls technology circumvents NM/A’s members’ paywalls in one of two ways. private]

For hard paywalls, it is our understanding that the identified Bypass Paywalls technology automatically scans web archives for a crawled version of the protected content and displays that content.

If the web archives have the content, then a user could just search them manually. The extension isn’t logging users in and bypassing your login process; it’s just running a web search for them.

The purpose of slang is to signal group identity.

That’s a purpose of slang, not its only purpose.

Slang can also be more efficient (“cringe” is one syllable; “cringe-worthy” is three) and it contributes to the evolution of language, leading some terms - like “cringe” to become more mainstream and to see use outside of the group that popularized them.

Besides, Gen Z might have come up with “cringe,” but millennials were practicing nounification, verbification, and adjectification when Gen Z was still learning to talk, and that’s all “cringe” as an adjective is.

to my ear, calling something "cringe" sounds like something kids say, because mostly in my everyday life, I only hear children saying it like it made up a fair chunk of their entire vocabulary.

The oldest Gen Z-ers are 27 and the youngest are 12, so almost none of them are “kids” anymore - they’re teens and adults. But there’s also a difference between using slang on the internet and in in-person contexts, particularly more formal ones. Slang that’s common in one group might not be in another group in the same age range, even if they’re geographically similar. But even so, I’ve heard millennials use (and over-use) “cringe” in public and in private.

When a GenXer or old Millennial use it, it can come across as either affected or immature.

A 6 year old in 1994 would have been born in 1988, which is right in the middle of the millennial range (1981-1996), meaning they wouldn’t be an “old Millennial.” But even if they were born in ‘81, my opinion wouldn’t change. Focusing too much on who “should” use a term like “cringe,” especially online, isn’t at all productive, and isn’t very different from telling someone they’re not a big enough fan to wear a t-shirt or to cosplay as a character they think is cool. They’re both just gatekeeping, plain and simple.

The original movie came out in 1994, meaning that if you were a kid when it came out, you’re a millennial. ”Cringe” is early Gen Z slang and it’s a derivative of “cringe-worthy,” so it’s not like anyone is going to be confused about how to use it. What are you, the age police?

Tldr: Okay, Boomer.

I haven’t switched to Windows 11, but I also haven’t been using Windows 10, either. I’ve seen plenty of people say that Windows 11 is fine, but you should probably check with other students at your school who use the same software you do. Make sure your machine can be upgraded to 11, at least, since support for 10 is ending soon and that could result in software or services that you need being unavailable as well.

That’s what the plugin they used did.

They have no recourse

They can do all of the following:

1. Report the seller to the platform for selling stolen goods.
2. Return the stolen goods to the rightful owner, if they’re able to get their information, or if not, to Valve or even just the police department.
3. File a suit in small claims court against the seller for damages (the amount they paid + any other expenses they’ve incurred, like the cost to mail it to the rightful owner, including legal fees) or, if the platform won’t provide the seller’s information, against the platform itself.

while (true) { print money; }

Someone’s never heard of Bitcoin

It sounds like your bank is doing MFA (multi-factor authentication) correctly, and that’s a good thing, because it sure would be obnoxious to have to verify all that information just to view your balances, and it’s a higher risk activity to allow someone to transfer funds than to view your balances.

If the dealership didn’t verify your identity and someone else made changes to your lease, would you have a problem with that?

You don’t have to use an authenticator on your phone. You can use a password manager like Bitwarden (their $10/year premium plan, or their $40/year family plan) that supports saving TOTP and auto-filling them from a browser extension (click to copy or you can have it automatically copied to the clipboard after you auto-fill the password). It also supports passkeys and you can avoid getting locked into a single ecosystem that way.

If someone could take your anti-AI argument, change almost nothing and make it an anti-digital art argument, it’s probably not a good argument.

• "All forms of media take inspiration from one another, so that means it's fine to digitally reproduce a traditional artist’s style using my digital tools."
• "Traditional Artists are necessarily really privileged to be able to afford their supplies - canvas, paint, brushes, are expensive! - so it's morally OK to draw digitally, since that’s lower cost and doesn’t hurt anyone."
• "Using digital art instead of scanning in traditionally painted tiles for game sprites will help me finish my game faster!"
• "I suck at oil painting, so I have to resort to using a stylus and can undo all of my mistakes and can even apply filters to the whole image and undo it if I don’t like it!"
• "People saying that my digital art isn’t are tyrannical! I deserve to have my digital art be seen as equal to hand-drawn ones!"

I’ve seen every one of those arguments made by digital artists.

Logical fallacies demonstrated in your post include:

• Straw Man: You’ve taken pro-AI arguments, intentionally applied them to a different and much less defensible concept, and are suggesting that refuting those misapplied arguments equates to defeating the original pro-AI arguments.
• False equivalence: you’re equating AI art to copyright infringement, with your argument that they’re the same being because the same arguments can be made defending them. If that were valid, by the same argument we’d have to conclude that AI art is the same as digital art, too.
• Hasty generalization / Ad hominem: You’re grouping all AI art supporters when describing the logical arguments they use to defend it / you’re referring to people who defend AI art as “Boosters”
• Special Pleading: Unless you would argue that digital art isn’t art, you’re making an exception for it without backing up why it’s any different.
• Appeal to Ridicule: Particularly in the last sentence, but your whole comment has this vibe.

You’re also misusing the Motte and Bailey fallacy. Even ignoring that they’re supposed to be two different things that are being conflated (the Motte, which is easily defensible, and the Bailey, which is less defensible and is what you’re really advancing), you’re suggesting that the two arguments are contradictory by presenting them devoid of any nuance whatsoever. You’re also ignoring that the people hyping up AI to businesses and shareholders and the people defending themselves as AI “artists” are different people.

Not trying to tear you down, but there are much better arguments to make the points you’re trying to prove. It’s ironic to see a post about confronting people with flaws in their argument itself that is itself riddled with logical fallacies. I felt compelled to point this out.

Damage taken from being the Fall season would be called "Fall damage" in English though.

If I’m in a fight, I’m fighting. If I’m on a walk, I’m walking. On a hike? Hiking. If I’m at a party, I’m partying. If there’s rain in the air, it’s raining. If I’m applying butter to my toast, I’m buttering my toast. If I’m on a boat, I’m boating. If I’m in the middle of a fall, I’m falling.

Is it hard to understand that someone is referring to the act of entering Fall (or being in the middle of Fall) when they call it “falling?”

Regardless of whether you find that difficult to understand or to accept, it’s a well-established linguistic phenomenon known as “verbification.”

You are not falling. It is fall. Falling is only from a present tense verb of fall.

You’re wrong on several counts.

First, you don’t suffer “falling damage” from falling. You suffer it from landing after falling (refer to page 183 of the PHB if you don’t believe me). However, casting Feather Fall is a reaction that you can take when you or another creature “falls,” so it was appropriate to cast it at the start of the season.

Second, “falling” is not the present tense of “fall.” The simple present tense of “fall” is “fall” or “falls,” but other “present tenses” include: the present perfect simple (“He has fallen”), present progressive/continuous, and present perfect progressive.

“Falling” is the present participle, and it can be used both as an adjective (“The falling bard”) and as part of the past continuous/progress (“The bard was falling”), present continuous/progressive (“The bard is falling”), and future continuous/progressive (“The bard will be falling”) verb tenses, as well as with their perfect variants (had been falling, has been falling, will have been falling).

You say that like it’s not compatible with the ones people already have.

Each credit reporting agency offers this option, at no charge …

It is highly recommended to lock your credit. Frankly, it should be locked by default. In September of 2017, Equifax announced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 147 million people.

Note that, before this incident, it wasn’t consistently free. I remember it being free to lock, but costing $20 or so to unlock. A law passed in 2018 required credit bureaus to offer freezes and unfreezes (and to fulfill them within certain time frames) for free.

Also note that you might need to look for a “freeze” instead of a lock. Experian charges $25/month for their “CreditLock” service, for example, but they offer a free security freeze.

Heads up that this article is from March 2021.

Are you seriously asking why a commonly supported 27 year old format doesn’t need a fallback, but a 2 year old format does?

From the article:

The “$100 for 1,000 likes” that influencer Gyan Abishek mentioned in one of his videos seems to be greatly exaggerated, based on the various payment portals that I have seen.

Someone else they quoted said $3-$10 per 1000 likes, which is still quite a bit.

I haven’t dug into the test data or methodology myself but I read a discussion thread recently (on Reddit - /r/jpegxl/comments/l9ta2u/how_does_lossless_jpegxl_compared_to_png) - across a 200+ image test suite, the lossless compression of PNG generates files that are 162% the size of those losslessly compressed with JPEG XL.

However I also know that some tools have bad performance compressing PNG, and no certainty that those weren’t used

I mean, I’m just pronouncing the letters aloud: A-P-N-“Gee.”

Compared to something like JPEG XL? PNG] is hands down worse in virtually all metrics.

Until we circle back to “Jpeg XL isn’t backwards compatible with existing JPEG renderers. If it was, it’d be a winner.”

APNG, as an example, is backwards compatible with PNG.

If JPEG-XL rendered a tiny fallback JPEG (think quality 0 or even more compression) in browsers that don’t support JPEG-XL, then sites could use it without having to include a fallback option themselves.

Probably the least relevant benefit of APNG over GIF: Unlike GIF, I can even pronounce APNG with a soft G and not feel gross about it. (Like I’m betraying the peanut butter brand and my entire moral framework at the same time, y’know?)

I should’ve tried that. I ordered an Apple Watch silicone band dupe (direct from the vendor’s site) for like $5. Same band would have been $50 from Apple, except the color I wanted wasn’t even available anymore.

Band came in the wrong size, so I wrote the vendor. They apologized, might have refunded me, and sent me a pack of like 10 different colored bands. Unfortunately those were all in the same size as the first one