Okay, I see. I’d say they might be obligated to behave that way to maintain plausible deniability. Like, if they admit they were selling a piracy service and users are entitled to a refund when the piracy gets stopped, then they become more culpable. It was always based on a thinly veiled deniability. They had to comply with occasional takedown requests for this reason.

I don’t know what the laws are like in France but they may have been worried about jail time or extra fines, and the state would want them to not issue refunds because that would punish the pirates.

Plus if you tried to sue them for it… what are the courts going to say? “You’re all pirates, get lost” is the best outcome you could hope for. I hate to say it but the de jure reality is that you were purchasing a grey-market product and the law won’t protect you in that case, and you quite literally were not purchasing a piracy service. You were purchasing hosting of torrents of an unspecified nature. That’s the risk you take on when you engage in what you have admitted is piracy. It’s very naive to expect you’re getting any kind of consumer guarantee in that case.

I say that as someone who uses these services. I’m not saying this is right, I think copyright should be abolished, but we need to understand the reality of the system we’re under.

What’s the story with Real Debrid?

I honestly didn’t know that about them, but also I prefer solarpunk. I figured if I didn’t like it I could always hop instances but it’s been pretty chill so far ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I didn’t really consider dbzer0. Sorry you’re going to have to clarify why you’re asking that.

Just look around the instances with closed sign up and find one where you think you would be a good fit. The process isn’t so difficult, you just request an account and explain why, just something that says why you like the instance.

This is part of building networks based on trust rather than impersonal machine-mediated networks.

Do you know the admins personally? Do you know who they are or where their funding is from? Do you know where they draw their pool of moderators from?

If you don’t have those answers, well, I don’t either, but those are possible avenues. We know influence campaigns from all sectors target social media, why would this place be any different?

Yup, I’d say these instances are cover for neoliberal and/or reactionary sentiments. Honestly with the attention federation has recieved I think we’d be foolish not to consider that the biggest open sign-up instances have an agenda or at least are being influenced in some way, with or without their knowledge or permission.

If you think that’s going too far, I’d say the purpose of a system is what it does, and these large instances are systems unto themselves, and they serve this purpose whether intentionally or not.

At what point is supporting the prosecution of this assassin advocating for violence? The social murder done by the CEO is so many orders of magnitude greater, and the state will do violence to the killer to defend the industry’s right to do social violence.

Nobody was having this conversation when people rightly cheered the deposing of Assad. Guess what? That involved violence, a lot of it. That was state-backed violence too though, so I guess we’re all just fine with it.

The state calls its own violence “law” and that of the people “crime”.

I guess lemmy.world is happy to just go along with whatever the state wants. It’s just insulting that you pretend it’s about “violence” and you expect people to believe you.

People downvoted me to hell when I tried advising a newcomer to look for an instance that wasn’t lemmy.world because the open sign-up makes them a haven for reactionaries.

Are people listening now?

Thank you! They’re actually a similar price here in Aus, which I am not used to.

Always turn off motion blur and DoF if you can.

I would like to know more about these cheap AMD mini PCs please.

There should be a general exception for games that update in the game, or a Steam API setting that differentiates between play time and update time, and penalties for games that don’t abide by it.

The phrase “synthesised expert knowledge” is the problem here, because apparently you don’t understand that this machine has no meaningful ability to synthesise anything. It has zero fidelity.

You’re not exposing people to expert knowledge, you’re exposing them to expert-sounding words that cannot be made accurate. Sometimes they’re right by accident, but that is not the same thing as accuracy.

You confused what the LLM is doing for synthesis, which is something loads of people will do, and this will just lend more undue credibility to its bullshit.

Sounds like the work of saboteurs.

I honestly disagree. The things you’re asking for contain meaning. They require an ability to grasp arbitrary levels of context. There is no way to grasp that level of context without encountering yourself within that broader context and becoming self-aware.

At that point, you might have a system that can do the things you’re describing, but it would be a person. That’s not really automation as much as it is birthing a brand new kind of intelligence, and it may not consent to being your servant, and it would not only be wrong to try to force it, it would be extremely dangerous.

I think for that reason there is a hard limit on automation. Some tasks are the exclusive domain of personhood, not automata.

It’s weird, like the whole point of saying “it’s not because of corporate greed” is to rehabilitate their image and not look like soulless ghouls, so then he chases it up with something that makes him sound like a soulless ghoul.

Money and power really do make people stupid.

Another concise and simple answer to Denuvo and DRM is “exterminatus”.

I also just learned of it.

My KingKong 3’s are good, my only advice is don’t switch the triggers into digital mode while pressing the trigger, it breaks the internal mechanism.

However I managed to convince them to send me a repair kit rather than doing a replacement, which worked out really well. They’re very easy to repair.