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Made a little video illustrating quality of malware detection by antiviruses for Windows (Avast in particular): https://i.imgur.com/MLt1Ajw.mp4
I've got to wonder how many users think that it really does protect them from "threats" when stuff like this happens.
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@schestowitz 3 hours to replace an expired TLS certificate sounds perfectly reasonable… for Microsoft.
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@schestowitz They changed the default in GIMP 2.10.
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why was it such a big deal that Anakin Skywalker had a secret wife, and why did she need to be a secret, did anyone ever watch the Clone Wars show?? Obi-Wan was a FrankerZing grapey-slaying Potato Knishes machine, this man kiwied CONSTANTLY and nobody seemed to give a rat's ass about it.
Thursday, 06-Feb-20 06:33:28 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@nerthos Whoops, I thought the filter would catch that
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@nerthos look man you know how the saying goes. Old enough to podrace, old enough to consummate
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I just want to start challenging politricksters to trial by combat in exchange for their positions
Tuesday, 04-Feb-20 15:52:20 UTC from web-
@scribus The great electoral boogaloo
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I had the best terminator batcavepost but the file is too big :c
Thursday, 06-Feb-20 06:33:58 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Just got back from a shooting range, it was pretty cool
Wednesday, 29-Jan-20 22:40:05 UTC from web-
@nerthos Oh yeah man, that's some flash right there
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@scribus TFW my grandfather's nice revolver with mother of pearl grip got stolen ;_;
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Watched "Little Witch Academia". It's alright. The overarching plot however is weak and with a lot of wasted potential.
Sunday, 02-Feb-20 19:19:15 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan The movies or the show?
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@nerthos the show that is on Netflix
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@adiwan Oh, yeah, the tv show. It is a bit loose in the overarching story department. The movies are more solid in that regard, but the events in them are somewhat ignored for the show.
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special shoutouts to the woman who just called me ugly to her daughter in Spanish because she thought I couldn’t understand her. When I raised my eyebrow she turned to me and said “I was just telling my daughter you look like someone we know”. Okay, ma’am.
Sunday, 02-Feb-20 02:29:46 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@mrmattimation "El que lo dice lo es"
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O Lord, the Girl Scout cookies...
Saturday, 01-Feb-20 08:29:42 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@scribus But but but what if the Girl Scouts are using the cookie selling as a front for drug delivery?!?!
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@adiwan CIA, Girl Scouts division.
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the whole experience did sort of underscore everything i believe about that sort of thing though, there was a guy with an AR-15 in the booth next to me and a guy with eight(!!!!!) magazines on his belt in the other booth, and it made me SUPREMELY uncomfortable
Thursday, 30-Jan-20 07:29:10 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@mrmattimation That's about 250 rounds downrange assuming they're 30 round mags loaded to 28, it's not a lot for proper practice. Most people who take it seriously will do 200-300 once in a while. It doesn't cost too much if reloading the cases. Semi-auto rifles eat through ammo really fast so going to the range with only a mag or two means you'll run out of fun in minutes.
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@nerthos Nah the guy with the mag belt wasn’t using a rifle, it was a handgun, and by my count each magazine had between 15 and 18 shots.
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@mrmattimation Still normal amounts, this guy just put down the money to buy all the magazines instead of the usual two or three mags + a cardboard ammo box to reload. 1000 9mm rounds are like $150 over the counter, so the guy probably spent like 15 bucks in bullets if reloading.
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I'm not sure what digital magic my cousins' tv is doing to The Simpsons but man is it ever uncanny
Monday, 27-Jan-20 22:05:43 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan The high frame rate video debate is scheduled to be the next big generational tech gap, according to one headline I skimmed once online. "Gemini Man" will remain dumb, regardless.
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@scribus High frame rate video is one thing but another thing to interpolate frames of lower frame rate to a higher and smooth out "choppiness", especially with non-contiguous motion like in animation with few feature points in the picture. High frame rate video will be the norm some day. Right now the amount of data is mostly not feasible or the technology is not good enough to simulate. Current films are exported in 2k because all of the rendering time and visual effects. Also visual flaws get more obvious with a higher temporal resolutions. I heard that "acting" is more apparent at higher frame rates, meaning that the acted motions and emotions are perceived as not genuine.
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@adiwan I can vouch for the last bit, a perfect example is the marvel cape movies. They look just fine on tv or a cinema screen, but look at scenes in >1080 60fps on a high DPI cellphone screen and the actors look awkward, movement looks cartoony and poorly acted, you can notice the weird physics from cable pulls and all that.
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@moonman It kind of was, but then it slowly reshaped itself into the United States of America.
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@lnxw48a1 There's just no current maintainer.
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time to deny the american people the right to vote
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Space Force is actually happening? Space Force is actually gorram happening!? I always wanted to live in a cartoon, but not this one!!
Wednesday, 15-Jan-20 02:25:44 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@scribus Too old to join space force? No worries, you can still fight space ISIS from the home front.
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@colegotasn@gnusocial.sierranorte.red Affirmative.
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@colegotasn@gnusocial.sierranorte.red Affirmative.
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@noyoushutthepapayaupdad Be aware that #Startpage was apparently bought by an advertising analytics company. https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-group/ Probably not a search engine to recommend any more, even if you're willing to take the risk for your own searches.
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@thegibson @lnxw37a2 @mewmew @mangeurdenuage @lnxw48a1 @simsa03 @moonman @dude Dr. Skrzyk did write that he's okay with how the licence in the footer is now, so it seems like this is over.
Except that I didn't change the footer and it looks just like it was before.
I did add extra links there to address him not being able to find contact information though, but this was after that.
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> It sounds like @drskrzyk tried to go that route first.
@thegibson @simsa03 @mewmew @mangeurdenuage @lnxw48a1 @lnxw37a2 @moonman @dude It wasn't made clear how to reach out, so I do get the issue here.
The way it happened for me is roughly as follows: he wrote to the datacentre about a "copyright violation", of course everyone took it very seriously and what I got on my plate is an ultimatum to resolve this no matter what, or else.
His request can be interpreted as a "remove me", so that's how the person who provides the virtual machine approached this. I removed it the moment I saw it however, as I think that even though it got scary for us, it can be, and therefore should be, resolved through communication. -
> I don't think I've been affected yet, but I'm a content creator and I don't want anyone to use my work for commercial and derivative works, etc. just because they might have found it thru your instance.
@ellakane That makes sense.
However, there's a different issue here, that's been talked about for years, yet Mastodon chose not to address (if they have, I have not seen it) by just hoping it doesn't really matter: when a notice goes through the Fediverse, it is being re-distributed, possibly even commercially, so if a notice is not clearly licensed, it may even be illegal to federate it.
But I'm guy an instance admin, that footer is the default of GNU social, the software that started the Fediverse and has been the mainline of it for many years.
I think the only reason I got to be in the centre of all this is because search engines like !loadaverage for some reason. And because that's not the first time this caused problems, GNU social nightly now asks "robots" not to index remote profiles. -
> The notice at the bottom now says... "CC-BY-3.0 All LoadAverage content and data are available under the CC-BY-3.0 license." so... huzzah! The rest below is historical.
@drskrzyk It was like that before, it has not been changed.
> I guess their solution, rather than to fix the copyright notice, was to just block my account.
It was a smart choice of mine to give a moderator to the person whose livelihood depends on the hosting, I should've seen it coming that she will block you to try to resolve this.
After an extremely bad night, I woke up and unbanned you. I'm sorry, that was not my intent.
> If I'd had a way on their pages (or registration) to find out who to contact, believe me I would have.
It's on https://loadaverage.org/doc/contact
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@simsa03 You're probably right. But then they should at least put this info in their site's docs, so that more experienced users can point to them. There should never be a situation where a user files a copyright complaint at an instance's hosting company because they accidentally discovered that their (public) posts also go to other instances. Nor should the instance admin fail to explain it if the user comes to them.
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> At the bottom of their pages the assign all content to a CC-BY-3.0 creative commons license, which violates my rights to my content as well as anyone else who they are scraping.
@drskrzyk Let me put it this way…
Legally speaking, licences are a giant pain in the arse in federated networks.
So you are saying that stating that all loadaverage.org materials are licensed under CC-BY-3.0 is illegal. Okay, then it's illegal that hackers.town omits that licence.
And licence omission is an implicit "All Rights Reversed", so everything's illegal.
So yes, there is a problem. What's your solution?
> an intellectual property / copyright violation by a client hosted on your network
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> At the bottom they say all the content is under a creative commons license and IANAL, but I'm pretty sure they don't get to reassign license like that.
@drskrzyk Let's just say, it's not as easy as that.
And it's a standard !gnusocial footer, so why go just to the !loadaverage's datacentre with legal threats specifically?
https://fediverse.network/gnusocial – go big instead.
