The cavalier manner in which Trump Mobile has treated its customers is shocking.

It has “Trump” in the name. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together would not be shocked at all.

Thanks, looking into Kexi now

Thanks for that

Thanks for the tips

“How’s your meat?” “It’s… fine.”

“This is what communism looks like in the 21st century,” wrote Tarczyński

Calling anything you don’t like “communism” is what selfish shittiness has looked like for a century.

Rule 35: If it exists, there’s a distro for it. 😄

I’m considering Butterbian
https://www.butterbian.org/

IIRC Spiral Linux also has BTRFS pre-configured, but for Snapper?
https://spirallinux.github.io/

Software piracy

Never really used Tor, my main experience was with ZeroNet. One reason I went with ZeroNet over I2P was that ZeroNet didn’t interefere with the rest of my traffic & still let me use the regular internet whenever I wanted to.

If I understand I2P outproxies correctly, I guess that means I2P still monopolizes your connection and outproxies are a workaround for that, right? An I2P intermediary that passes on normal traffic between you & the rest of the internet?

https://mk16.de/assets/docs/outproxies_in_i2p-english.pdf

The last time I experimented with I2P (7 years ago?), you couldn’t use the clear web at the same time as I2P. Is that still the case?

At least the seal is trying

Don’t forget Big Buck Bunny!

Another 90s reference: the IAC board of directors includes one Chelsea Clinton.

Which meant people had to actively find & pay for a Usenet provider. Which they didn’t do when there were so many additional venues to discuss things online for free.

I believe the smoking gun were emails showing that Grooveshark management told employees to upload music, fatally undermining the “safe harbour” defence of “we shouldn’t be held responsible for the actions of users if they upload copyrighted material”.

While I posted the link here in !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com , that’s not the focus of the site; I think they’re considering Usenet “over” as a place where many people discussed things. (I know I haven’t used it for that in… over two decades?)

Hard Boiled is incredible! Definitely watch it! (It was even re-released in the cinema this year.)

I’ve tried searching for “Love Telephone” (in quotes) on Qwant, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, FreeTube and even Google, and I cannot find any relevant results to save my life. Do you have a link for them?

IIRC, traditionally the most difficult ingredient to acquire for mass-producing counterfeit paper money is convincing paper.

Except the US Treasury makes that part easy: just get US$1 notes (US: bills).

The exact same paper & the exact same dimensions as the US$100 note. Bleach them & reprint with the $100 design and voilà! You’ve turned a $1 note into a $100 one.

Whereas many (if not most) other currencies long ago made sure to print larger value notes on different (larger) dimensions and/or types of paper so that counterfeiters couldn’t do the simple “bleach & reprint” trick.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_United_States_dollar

Compare with UK banknotes where larger value notes have larger dimensions. A £50 note is 146 × 77 mm whereas a £5 is just 125 × 65 mm.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterling

Also, UK banknotes & many others around the world are polymer now, not paper. I don’t think you could do the bleach & reprint technique on polymer notes even if they were the right size.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote