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First: I'm not in any way intending to cast any negative light on the horrible shit the people suing went through.

But it also kinda feels like a lawyer convinced a victim they could get paid if they sued Apple, because Apple has lots of money.

If you really were serious about suing to force change, you've literally got:

1. X, who has reinstated the accounts of people posting CSAM
2. Google/Youtube, who take zero action on people posting both horrible videos AND comments on said videos routinely
3. Instagram/Facebook, which have much the same problem as X with slow or limited action on reported content

Apple, at least, will take immediate action if you report a user to them, so uh, maybe they should reconsider their best target, if their intent really is to remove content and spend some time on all the other giant corpos that are either literally actively doing the wrong thing, doing nothing, or are sitting there going 'well, akshully' at reports.

I'm on year 5 with 6 of them and they're all fine.

RTSP stream to frigate, and then frigate does the magic AI and recording shit.

They're also not allowed outside the LAN and don't seem to care about not being all internet connect-y, though YMMV on newer models.

I can't think of a single case of being annoyed with them other than the mounting pressure is a little wonky and a sufficiently fat corvid can land on them and change the angle on one of the ones in the backyard but I'm not sure I'd blame the camera manufacturer because of a fat crow.

Well, fortnite is already full of shitty movie tie-in skins, so that's not much of a jump.

I'm more of a fan of :(){ :|:& };: personally.

(don't run that unless you want to crash your shit)

But think about all the valuable AI models and shareholder value that was created!

(very very very /s)

I mean not the first time they've sued over cheats, and they very much took a sweeping victory last time.

I'd expect the same DMCA circumvention provision along with the always fun "Well, literally everything you did is also a CFAA violation so maybe you want to settle now before we try to get you extradited to the US on federal felony charges" threat would result in pretty much the same outcome here.

In the current context? Yeah, it kind of does mean that.

I'm not sure what a judge or jury would infer from that in the US, as it could be fucking anything. Probably has a lot to do with why you're in court and what, exactly, it is you did that landed you in front of a judge but I wouldn't really expect you'd be arrested or whatever for JUST saying that.

AFAIK, it's still not had the code released, so at the moment there's just the one site and you can't host your own.

GoldenMate is the brand

I am in need of replacement batteries and a couple of new UPSes, mostly just due to age and failure too.

A quick google and I mean, they look entirely reasonable and priced on-par with more traditional ones.

Probably going to pick one up, thanks for surfacing a thing I did not know existed.

Until a flood of TikTok users bankrupt them, anyways.

Not entirely sure how you'd make the economics of hosting endless video files work without great big piles of money and some way to get even more big piles of money on a routine basis :/

I'd like to ask a different question: why do people keep buying inkjet printers with horribly expensive ink?

Is it the case that people print that many photos that getting a hilariously cheaper-per-page laser just not an option, or is there something else that's causing people to keep buying crappy inkjets with DRM and subscriptions and that somehow require magenta ink to print black when it has separate black ink already?

Always been confused by the popularity of inkjet printers since they've always been kind of awful.

I'm a big fan of using model paint, like you'd go buy for, well, models or your Warhammer stuff.

Small bottles, literally any color you could ever possibly want, and it's easy to work with because it's designed to be used on tiny little plastic things anyway.

The most hilarious part of this game is that Tencent's rootkit anticheat is so awful it's actively causing problems with other people's rootkit anticheat.

I mean, it's all awful, but I can't recall a time when, for example, EAC was actively causing issues with other games and then being essentially impossible to uninstall because why would you ever want to actually remove a rootkit?

This feels like both a bad argument from the people filing the suit, and a bad call from the judges.

Sure, you don't have to use iCloud, but Apple has absolutely tied so much functionality - including automated backups - to it that, honestly, it's de-facto required if you're going to stay in the ecosystem and expect all the features that are listed on the side of the box to work.

And, of course 5GB is really not sufficient space to even reliably back up a modern iOS device, let alone file syncing, email, photos, messages, etc. at this point.

It feels like the people who brought the suit didn't really have formulated a good argument (or even had reasonable standing - if you're using the 5gb tier it's hard to argue Apple force you to do anything), but I don't think the general gist of 'Apple is providing 5GB knowing you're going to almost certainly going to be forced to upgrade' is all that wrong.

I'd like to argue the other way: jump into whatever you find interesting and do stupid shit.

Unless this is a computer that your job relies on or whatever, then it doesn't matter how much shit you break, as long as you're learning what to not do next time.

It's pretty much how everyone who is all 'oh no! be very careful and take small steps!' started, but they've just forgotten about having done that.

(I've broken so much shit both personally and professionally, but it just served to make me less stupid in the future. Or uh, at least unlikely to do the same stupid thing twice.)

I was curious how bad 10% was, so I went digging to see what it should be.

A "good" yield target on a modern process is something like 60-70%, so this is a shocking shockingly bad oof, though it's also not a complete process, so it's possible they can salvage this and turn it into something viable but, still, oof.

Yeah, but I'm just super happy that the general random person response has been between the Oh Well, Anyway meme at worst, and glee at best.

I guess there is one thing the left and right in the US can agree on: shooting healthcare CEOs.

It's a TOS violation to discuss one of the very real and legitimate responsibilities you have as a juror?

Like, nullification is a thing because it's very much the absolute very very last defense against bullshit laws being used against people by a corrupt judicial system.

It's a moral imperative and something anyone sitting on a jury should understand and be willing to use.

What an absurd take, especially since it sounds like it's all the .world admins having it.

generally replaced by systemd’s journald service

Basically this, and quite a long time ago. Anything even remotely modern (and by that I mean like, the last decade or so) is either using systemd, or in the case of debuntu, rsyslog.

Wonder what kind of funky environment is using syslog-ng, and to what scale so that there's literally a 'syslog-ng engineer' job posting.

Looks like others have provided MOST of the answers.

Radarr/sonarr do the heavy lifting making symlinks where symlinks are required, but there's still the occasional bit of manual downloading.

I also have a script that'll check for broken symlinks like once a week and notify me of them and I'll go through and clean them up occasionally, but that's not super common and only happens if I'm manually removing content I made manual symlinks for, since I'll just let radarr/sonarr deal with it otherwise.

(The full stack is jellyseerr -> radarr/sonarr -> qbittorrent/sabnzb -> links for jellyfin)