I’ve done it twice!

I’ve always debated between it needing to be on my resume as an ‘Achievement’ or not.

For Youtube I was very much talking specifically about how long and how little action they took on the kids-doing-gymnastics videos, even when it became abundantly clear that the target market was pedophiles, and the parents who kept posting these videos were, at the very least, complicit if not explicitly pimping their children out.

(If you have not seen and/or read up on this, save yourself the misery and skip it: it’s gross.)

It took them a VERY long time to take any meaningful action, even after the intent of and the audience to which it was being shown was clearly not people interested in gymnastics, and it stayed there for literal years.

Like, I have done anti-CSAM work and have lots and lots of sympathy for it because it’s fucking awful, but if you’ve got videos of children - clothed or not - and the comment section is entirely creeps and perverts and you just kinda do nothing, I have shocking limited sympathy.

Seriously - the comment section should have been used for the FBI to launch raids, because I 100% guarantee you every single person involved has piles and piles of CSAM sitting around and they were just ignored because it wasn’t explicit CSAM.

Just… gross, and poorly handled.

Couple of weeks ago. NSI decided to push some of their domains into CLIENT HOLD status, and that will cause DNS resolution to stop working for the domain.

Took down uh, well, everything: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/jm44h02t22ck

Exactly: too many people confuse the monopoly aspect with the consumer gaming stuff, which isn’t even pocket change at this point.

CUDA and AI are the whales in the room, and nVidia has a stranglehold on that market and should be investigated.

(Even though, IMO, this is because AMD did their usual shitty job of software, and basically gave the market away.)

[Edit] I’ll have to see if I can find the video.

I can save you the time there, at least: https://youtu.be/hiwaxlttWow

Honestly, I’d contact their support and ask what their processes are and what timelines they give customers for a response/remediation before they take action.

Especially ask how they notify you, and how long they allow for a response before escalation to make sure that’s something you can actually get, read, and do something about within.

It might not be a great policy, but if you at least know what might happen, it gives you the ability to make sure you can do whatever you need to do to keep it from becoming a larger issue.

Everyone loves to hate on Cloudflare, but uh, duh, of course a US company will comply with a request under US law that they have to comply with?

If you don’t want your shit DMCAed, don’t use anything based in the US to provide it.

Go host somewhere that doesn’t have smiliar laws and won’t comply with foreign requests.

There was a recent video from everyone’s favorite youtube Canadians that tested how many USB devices you can jam onto a single controller.

The takeaway they had was that modern AMD doesn’t seem to give a shit and will actually let you exceed the spec until it all crashes and dies, and Intel restricts it to where it’s guaranteed to work.

Different design philosophies, but as long as ‘might explode and die for no clear reason at some point once you have enough stuff connected’ is an acceptable outcome, AMD is the way to go.

This new uh, tactic? of going after a registrar instead of a hosting provider with reports is a little concerning.

There’s an awful lot of little registrars that don’t have any real abuse department and nobody is going to do shit other than exactly this: take it down and worry about it next week when they have time.

It really feels like your choice of registrar is becoming as much or more important than your choice of hosting provider, and the little indie guys are probably the wrong choice if you’re running a legitimate business as you’re gonna need one that has enough funding and a proper team to vet reports before clobbering your site.

On the OTHER hand, Network Solutions is just took down DigitalOcean for no reason, so maybe they all suck?

First: I’m not in any way intending to cast any negative light on the horrible shit the people suing went through.

But it also kinda feels like a lawyer convinced a victim they could get paid if they sued Apple, because Apple has lots of money.

If you really were serious about suing to force change, you’ve literally got:

1. X, who has reinstated the accounts of people posting CSAM
2. Google/Youtube, who take zero action on people posting both horrible videos AND comments on said videos routinely
3. Instagram/Facebook, which have much the same problem as X with slow or limited action on reported content

Apple, at least, will take immediate action if you report a user to them, so uh, maybe they should reconsider their best target, if their intent really is to remove content and spend some time on all the other giant corpos that are either literally actively doing the wrong thing, doing nothing, or are sitting there going ‘well, akshully’ at reports.

I’m on year 5 with 6 of them and they’re all fine.

RTSP stream to frigate, and then frigate does the magic AI and recording shit.

They’re also not allowed outside the LAN and don’t seem to care about not being all internet connect-y, though YMMV on newer models.

I can’t think of a single case of being annoyed with them other than the mounting pressure is a little wonky and a sufficiently fat corvid can land on them and change the angle on one of the ones in the backyard but I’m not sure I’d blame the camera manufacturer because of a fat crow.

Well, fortnite is already full of shitty movie tie-in skins, so that’s not much of a jump.

I mean not the first time they’ve sued over cheats, and they very much took a sweeping victory last time.

I’d expect the same DMCA circumvention provision along with the always fun “Well, literally everything you did is also a CFAA violation so maybe you want to settle now before we try to get you extradited to the US on federal felony charges” threat would result in pretty much the same outcome here.

AFAIK, it’s still not had the code released, so at the moment there’s just the one site and you can’t host your own.

Until a flood of TikTok users bankrupt them, anyways.

Not entirely sure how you’d make the economics of hosting endless video files work without great big piles of money and some way to get even more big piles of money on a routine basis :/

I’d like to ask a different question: why do people keep buying inkjet printers with horribly expensive ink?

Is it the case that people print that many photos that getting a hilariously cheaper-per-page laser just not an option, or is there something else that’s causing people to keep buying crappy inkjets with DRM and subscriptions and that somehow require magenta ink to print black when it has separate black ink already?

Always been confused by the popularity of inkjet printers since they’ve always been kind of awful.

The most hilarious part of this game is that Tencent’s rootkit anticheat is so awful it’s actively causing problems with other people’s rootkit anticheat.

I mean, it’s all awful, but I can’t recall a time when, for example, EAC was actively causing issues with other games and then being essentially impossible to uninstall because why would you ever want to actually remove a rootkit?

I was curious how bad 10% was, so I went digging to see what it should be.

A “good” yield target on a modern process is something like 60-70%, so this is a shocking shockingly bad oof, though it’s also not a complete process, so it’s possible they can salvage this and turn it into something viable but, still, oof.

generally replaced by systemd’s journald service

Basically this, and quite a long time ago. Anything even remotely modern (and by that I mean like, the last decade or so) is either using systemd, or in the case of debuntu, rsyslog.

Wonder what kind of funky environment is using syslog-ng, and to what scale so that there’s literally a ‘syslog-ng engineer’ job posting.

Looks like others have provided MOST of the answers.

Radarr/sonarr do the heavy lifting making symlinks where symlinks are required, but there’s still the occasional bit of manual downloading.

I also have a script that’ll check for broken symlinks like once a week and notify me of them and I’ll go through and clean them up occasionally, but that’s not super common and only happens if I’m manually removing content I made manual symlinks for, since I’ll just let radarr/sonarr deal with it otherwise.

(The full stack is jellyseerr -> radarr/sonarr -> qbittorrent/sabnzb -> links for jellyfin)