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Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code (cyberinsider.com)

Rockstar Games’ servers have been under heavy fire from massive DDoS attacks in recent days, causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online. These attacks come in the wake of Rockstar’s recent implementation of BattlEye, a new anti-cheat system designed to crack down on in-game cheating, sparking...

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What’s happened is GTA Online suddenly switched to using BattlEye for it’s anti-cheating. And this broke Steam Deck compatibility suddenly. Now, this is bad enough but reports state that BattlEye will work with the Steam Deck, and all Rockstar needs to do is just send a message to BattlEye and it’ll just work. But Rockstar doesn’t seem to be interested in sending that email.

Amazon, Tesla and Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – report (www.theguardian.com)

Some of the world’s largest companies have been accused of undermining democracy across the world by financially backing far-right political movements, funding and exacerbating the climate crisis, and violating trade union rights and human rights in a report published on Monday by the International Trade Union Confederation...

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That would be a part of Telsa, as it calls out Musk’s actions there.

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“Disco Descent” from Crypt of the Necrodancer

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Hate speech doesn’t get protected under free speech. These aren’t the same.

NYPD shot four people - including two bystanders one who is in critical condition - and another cop over a $2.90 fare. (www.nbcnewyork.com)

Police opened fire on a subway platform in Brooklyn during a confrontation with an alleged fare-beater, striking the man cops said was armed with a knife, two straphangers caught in the fray, and one of the firing officers, NYPD officials said Sunday....

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Problem is, the knife can’t be found. So all we have are the polices word that there was a knife.

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school-issued machines

Stopped reading right there. Whenever you are issued a device, you should immediately assume it’s being monitored by the owner of the device. This goes for school/job/etc. The owner of the device will always be monitoring it for reasons of making sure you are using the device for intended purpose to making sure you aren’t using it for illegal purposes.

The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates (lemmy.world)

Those claiming AI training on copyrighted works is “theft” misunderstand key aspects of copyright law and AI technology. Copyright protects specific expressions of ideas, not the ideas themselves. When AI systems ingest copyrighted works, they’re extracting general patterns and concepts - the “Bob Dylan-ness” or...

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I don’t feel it is. They aren’t saying that their physical requirements should be free (computers, engineers, programmers, electricity, etc…) which is what is being used for the analogy (cheese, ingredients, etc…).

It would be better to claim “I run a sandwich shop and couldn’t afford to run it if I had to pay for every recipe, idea, and technique I use in the business.”

Now, it’s not as simple as this, and I’m not claiming it is. But this example isn’t anywhere near correct. It’s like the old claim that pirating something is the same as stealing it. The usage on one thing doesn’t equal the loss of something physical.

It’s one of those reasons why laws about this are difficult. Too strict and no one would be able to do “fan”-anything and many other issues (“if it uses AI” takes out many digital tools, etc…), too loose and you don’t really have laws at all.

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So what you’re saying is the biggest companies like Amazon, Google, ChatGPT, etc… can’t perfect voice dictation when I’m talking directly and clearly to my device, but this company has been able to figure it out. And doing it while hiding from the smartphone OS that it’s doing it. While the device is at a distance/hidden in my pocket. And is using it just to sell ads.

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Your comment? I’m pretty sure yeah it was, and a really old one

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Really?.. Wow, not only did you copy pasta one of the oldest trolls online but you can’t understand how illogical the troll is. And you want to accuse me of being a child?

Your comment was disproved here… In 2018. And it wasn’t a new idea then either.

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I’m sorry I proved you wrong to the point you had to resolve yourself to personal attacks. Do you feel better now?

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Reminds me of my Telus internet.

“A technician will come to fix your internet problem Tuesday and they will be there sometime between 8am to 5pm. They will give you a 15 minute call before they arrive. If there is no one home when they come by, you will be given a $150 no show fee.”

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I meant a call 15 minutes before there were there.

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Trump Considers Dropping Out Of ‘FAKE NEWS’ ABC Debate After ‘Biased’ Sen. Tom Cotton Interview (www.mediaite.com)

I watched ABC FAKE NEWS this morning, both lightweight reporter Jonathan Carl’s(K?) ridiculous and biased interview of Tom Cotton (who was fantastic!), and their so-called Panel of Trump Haters, and I ask, why would I do the Debate against Kamala Harris on that network?...

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Wait, Don Old is dropping out of a debate (again) with Harris? Weird

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“I’ll know it when I see it.”

I can’t think of anything scarier than that when dealing with the legality of anything.

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First batch don’t have anything to do with what can get you arrested.

Beyond that, a crime of passion is legally defined as:

In criminal law, a crime of passion is a crime committed in the “heat of passion” or in response to provocation, as opposed to a crime that was premeditated or deliberated.

Premeditated murder though is:

Premeditation is when an individual contemplates, for any length of time, the undertaking of an activity and then subsequently takes the action.

As for too drunk to consent, you can read “Victim Intoxication and Capacity to Consent in Sexual Assault Statutes across the United States”

The result is the same, when you are dealing with a legal matter, you need real definitions, or you have laws that are too vague and overly ripe for abuse. It becomes the legal roulette of “is the cup half full or half empty” with someones life and/or future in the balance

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The original Rec and Rec 2 are great, the third movie was terrible and the Hollywood remake of the first Rec is a disaster.

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Doubt the top down GTA game would ever be made again. Last one was GTA Chinatown Wars and it sold terribly. Started on DS, and was ported to PSP, and now on iOS and Android.

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So did Trump.

Trump, who routinely touts his support of Israel more broadly, has reportedly said he supports Israel in its continued “war on terror” after the October 7 attack by Hamas.

This part always seems to be forgotten every time this comes up. Voting for Trump won’t suddenly stop it. He’ll either send just as much or more.

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Look at the last two sentences I wrote.

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I did. Has nothing to do what I wrote. Pointing out Trump isn’t some hero of Gaza isn’t a “But Trump” anything.

So, go back and read what I wrote. Or would you like a “But Trump” comment?

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Look at the meme, and see the connection between our and your original post

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That would be the implied answer in the meme and the first post.

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With how you have been commenting here, I’m not surprised that what you read…

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This resistance comes in response to a coordinated push by India’s top telecom operators — Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea — to bring OTT services under a new authorization framework.

Jio, India’s largest telecom operator with more than 475 million subscribers, and other telco operators have recommended that OTT providers contribute to network development costs based on their traffic consumption, turnover and user base.

This is one of those times that ISPs want not just their customers to pay them, but big companies online should also pay them since it’s their services that are being used on their networks.

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While on this subject, here is the iFixIt list of repairable smartwatches.

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If it matters, the judge is a Republican.

They seem to be in the news more often…

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They can’t sell Brazilian ads to Brazilians, as that needs an office/presence in Brazil. This hurts the value of ads that Xitter can charge when dealing with users in Brazil (Brazil is the largest economy in South America, and with Xitter already having ad money problems, it isn’t a good thing for them.)

So while they could still show ads to Brazilians, the fact is it would be for companies with offices outside Brazil, something not many would care about.

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Each one of those (except X) has the recycling image, indicating that it’s a recycle bin, not a trash bin, which is Windows.

If you want trash, you want macOS. https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/28f286b4-d5fc-4b6e-913c-1ffffdd54c00.png

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Apple had a different judge and they said that it’s ok what Apple does with iOS and it’s app store.

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