There is absolutely a connection between how shitty corporations are treating their customers with how likely those customers are likely to stop paying and start sailing.

Netflix in its prime was the GOAT, showing a very significant decrease in piracy. We’re only seeing a rise now because of the proliferation of streaming companies. No one wants to pay for 4+ streaming services.

I can’t remember the court case per se but it involved a self driving car hitting a pedestrian I think.

My cursory search on Google seems to now show companies being held liable for AI hallucinations, with one court case currently pending where an AI chat bot encouraged a teen to commit suicide.

Given our current administration and make up of SCOTUS I’m not holding my breath.

There is an awful lot of white in this picture.

Courts have ruled that using AI allows companies to avoid liability.

Schrödinger’s corporations: corporations are people and and not people, depending on how much money they stand to gain or lose.

I’ve actually done this as what looks like a horizontal line.

It doesn’t seem to help though.

I don’t understand how the credit card industry is okay with this. Credit cards are unsecured debt that can be discharged through bankruptcy. Not only that, usually tangible purchases can be repossessed. If someone is addicted to an online game and uses their card to purchase digital assets, how are they going to make their money back?

Tbf …this is a common problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

Honestly this is the best suggestion especially if you can mount your windows partition read only. You get the benefits of Linux while still having access to your files.

For most folks, the biggest hurdle is getting compatible apps. Once you find the apps you need, moving over is just a backup and restore away.

I agree. This thread is for actual advice. rm -rf / belongs in a joke thread.

Yippie kayak other buckets!

Even remembering IP addresses isn’t a great because services can change IP addresses at any point.

As others have mentioned DNS, by its design, is decentralized…to a point. If you run your own DNS, you can’t be an authority to .com addresses for example. Even that sentence has caveats.

Generally speaking you can run your own DNS that uses root DNS servers. MPAA and others have attempted to get those servers to stop pirate domains from being resolvable but they’ve essentially said “fuck off”.

IMO, that’s going to be the last battleground, at which point pirating will have no choice but to move to tor and/or to I2P.

I’m a chezmoi user and I’ll be honest: as powerful as it is, it’s way too clunky to get right. I spend too much time configuring and then am too worried I’ll mess it up if I need to add or remove anything.

I’m going to give stow a try to see if it fits my workflow better.

# TODO: Function isn't working right.  We'll fix it later. 4/19/2018
# if consentToDataGathering:
    gatherData()
# else:
#   dontGatherData()

I could see a “NetZero” approach to electric charging where you choose to watch ads for free or discounted electricity. Which will then turn into you having to watch ads to enable the charger.

Which is nice when the item in question is like “onions” or “apples”. Things that don’t have a ton of variety or choice.

There are so many soaps and he seems like a little bitch, the kind that will want to smell each one to make sure it’s manly.

I implicitly trust FOSS more than closed source but because that trust has been earned through millions of FOSS projects.

On occasion, I will dive deep into a codebase especially if I have a bug and I think I can fix it.

You can’t do this with closed source or even source available code because there is no guarantee that the code you have is the code that’s been compiled.

“We have changed the terms. Pray that we don’t change them further.”

Exactly. The tax on hashing the password can’t be ignored and if you’re doing this enough times it can kill a system. 24 characters is too low. I’d say 100 characters is enough for most use cases. 1024 if you’re feeling 1337.

It’s illegal if the company is coercing you to spend money at their “preferred” stores.

That said, so many states have business friendly laws that it’s likely a civil tort and not a criminal one.

OP, call your attorney general or department of labor (depending on the state). You may want to even call your state’s taxation board and you know for fuck sure they are doing something scammy with their taxes if they are watching you this closely.

I always felt informed delivery was a solution in search of a problem. Getting an email of a letter that’s coming to me?

The only solution I could see this for is if you have a PO Box or a remote address.