mctoasterson

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[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 41 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Eventually people come to the surprising realization that their best product was actually the Zune.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

Not a lawyer but I believe in the US this would be legal as you are granting the use of the original license and not duplicating any content for simultaneous use by others.

What I would like to see is a gentlemans agreement of sorts where companies agree not to come after people for playing pirate, emulated or archival copies of games that are decades old and not for sale in any format anymore. I guess this is somewhat encompassed in the framework of "Abandonware".

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While you should do this to block your TVs telemetry and other undesirable behavior, realize that YouTube native TV app ads can't be blocked at DNS level alone without also blocking the core functionality of YouTube, due to the way it serves the ads.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is and has been a big deal for a while. Do we really want easily trackable movements on every major road? What happens when they start feeding that data into federal fusion centers for cataloging and storage "just in case" they need it later?

What happens when a regime that criminalizes dissent has access to realtime vehicular and individual (via mobile phone) tracking data?

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago

He did make passing reference to the Migswitch which is why Nintendo is big mad.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 94 points 1 month ago (25 children)

Yeah... fuck this shit. This is part of the reason I still drive a nearly 20 year old vehicle. It has features I want, and can't be stolen via fucking API calls. Absolute insanity.

I think Hyundai/Kia group has done unfathomable damage to their brands. Kia, despite being a budget brand, wants to be seen as a legit competitor to Toyota or at least Nissan. Their corner cutting with the immobilizers and the resulting "USB" theft shit was bad enough. Now this exploit.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 0 points 2 months ago

Imagine thinking that platform only "went bad" recently.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretend you like, and are interested in the meaning of, her unnecessary wrist tattoo. That's good for at least 5 minutes of conversation.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 76 points 2 months ago (6 children)

This is where "piracy" is actually the industry's saving grace. Decades or centuries later, will record labels exist and be well-managed (and flush with cash) enough to preserve archival copies of their artists catalogs? Probably not.

Will obscure weirdos exist all around the world on Usenet, IRC, or seeding torrents? Possibly.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 12 points 2 months ago

This is stupid. I will dig further into the real impact to Graphene.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I thought about experimenting with this (Guess it is a good thing I didn't). There are so many low effort "Lo Fi" types of streams and tracklists on Spotify and elsewhere. Who is to say my software generated garbage would be any worse than those?

There are also YouTubers who generate low effort music and ask their normal content subscribers to stream their shit on Spotify even if they aren't legitimately listening. So are those streams fraudulent as well?

It sounds like the thing he is getting popped for is the volume of automated streams.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 10 points 2 months ago

Moons over My Hammy

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