As others have said, that’s not the “banned” message. That’s some overzealous automatic thing they’ve put in that seems to try and stop excessive traffic all coming from the same source. When it works “right” it mainly just pops up to stop people on VPNs (lots of traffic from a relatively small set of IP addresses).
It’s stupid as hell, and just more poor decisions stemming from their attempts to prevent scraping by AI, but it’s not a ban.
Yeah, I don’t get this mindset from content creators. It doesn’t have to be some big thing if they’re worried about losing viewers and money.
Bare minimum: Uploading a video to Youtube, a Peertube instance, and to Archive.org isn’t much more work than just uploading to Youtube. Put links to all three in every description with the note that video mirrors are available at these following places.
I think the real issue is that giving up Youtube means giving up a revenue stream. Not a ton of people make video content just to create stuff anymore.
Yes, but it still deserves the question to be asked explicitly. I don’t think most iPhone users looking for a music reccomendation app would assume they’d need to selfhost in order to use an app.
And again, if as the dev he’s not prepared to set up his own server for use to pass basic testing, it begs the question of what exactly he’s expecting out of his end users and if it’s truly a reasonable ask even if they’re prepared to self host
Wait, how is this app going to function on release if you can’t stand up the basic resources for it to function for them to test it? Every user has to self host their own?
Which brings up another issue: if there isn’t an easy way for you to secure the server as the developer, is it fair for you to just dump all that on your end users?
This is just “android sticks allow sideloading apps”. Nothing Amazon specific to any of this.
Lately Ars Technica seems quite intent on losing any quality they had.
What kind of boot licking, inaccurate, non-news shit is this?
The only potential reason for this article is farming engagement bait clicks from people who don’t know shit about fire sticks, and from people like us stunned at the stupidity.
That’s some real main character syndrome right there. “I’ll be the one to make a massive change! I just need a little help to point me in the right direction.”
Have you actually been pregnant or raised a baby? They show plenty of personality long before toddler stage, assuming you choose to pay attention and interact with them.
If it still works like it did in the original, putting some sliders up will move others back, but it isn’t equal, so you can ping pong between the sliders that are meant to be mutually exclusive and get both to levels that they shouldn’t be able to get to simultaneously.
Edit: Also, the sims with slider unlockers gets even worse than Oblivion, as the game will use the unlocked/modded sliders when it generates random townies. I love my town of goblins with half inside out faces.
Do you somehow think that if you just fake the technical requirement for this .lpf file it will be smooth sailing?
What happens when this gets caught by an actual human being?
Lemmy doesn’t show overall karma anywhere by default, and as far as I know, no communities are using automated moderation to prevent “low karma” accounts from posting.
Not saying it isn’t, just that there’d be no point.
Exactly. This isn’t some little iconic flourish in the corner, footer, or the header. There’s also some general rule of thumb with watermarks being flagrantly disregarded (keep it simple and monochromatic so it doesn’t impact content legibility).
And even if I personally didn’t have a problem with it, I would seriously question the competency of any law firm that mis-read their audience so dramatically. I can’t imagine many courts looking at that and not having at least an immediate knee jerk reaction of “The hell is this? Are they fucking with us? Is this a joke?” which is an absurdly poor opener to your case as a lawyer.
If some firm got a headshot of the lawyer handling the case scowling and used that as the background of every page in their document they’d be laughed out of court. Just because “dragons are cool” or something doesn’t make this any less silly.
Edit: The dragon icon in the footer is perfect if they wanted some visual flair to set them apart, and it’s a relatively simple monochromatic design. It just makes it even more absurd that they didn’t just use that and instead went for this detailed and visually busy picture.
Yeah, an important reminder that nothing on the fediverse is truly private. Use rotating alternate accounts, opsec, and VPN/proxies if you believe yourself to be in potential danger for your opinions.
The Protomen’s cover of Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground) is a slower burn than the original, but I feel like the emotions intented by the song are so much clearer.
It’s off their album The Cover Up, which is an entire album of well done covers. It also tells a strong story through the tracks and the transistions between them. I love this band, and the last third of this album from Hunted (a transistion piece) onward is fucking amazing.
Now if only they could count to three better than Valve. Been at least a decade waiting for the ending of the story/universe they created. Act III when?
And calling out their plan to explicitly keep bypassing copyright and directing to where they plan to continue doing it.
If Kodansha already has eyes on your subreddit, they’ll see this post and go after the Discord too. It’s only a matter of time.
Don’t make it this easy for them.
At that point why bother?
I’ll let you in on some reality about sysadmins: we generally don’t care what you’re doing until it causes problems. Clearly this guy’s amount of traffic did.
So yeah, absolutely. This is normal and reasonable.
It has to be against the rules for situations exactly like this where OP should be using a seedbox. But generally, they have better things to do than track down every little minor rule abuse.
Like playing their own pirated games while wfh. Or fixing other problems. Most teams of people who support shit like this are understaffed.
For instance, I’m sure that people are using my work network for all sorts of shit. I’ve seen people streaming Netflix to their desks. We lock down what we can, and don’t worry about shit until we have to because it’s causing a problem. Like years ago when someone streamed Netflix at an old location with I think only a T1 connection, saturated the network connection, and then no one could access anything on the network.
Most people don’t go around looking for reasons to enforce the rules. They use them when they have to because there’s a problem.
The amount of domain knowledge to even begin to parse what the fuck you’re talking about is absurd.
Secondly, why would anyone want this?
I’m glad you’ve found yet another project to look nice for your github portfolio, but maybe be up front about that instead of drowning everyone in near gibberish and what seems like poorly written advertisement.
“Hey, I’ve made another quasi-social media network leveraging the fediverse, AI, and a programming language made to resemble normal english. Check it out!”
Otherwise this is just blatant buzzword salad. I’m going to guess you’re also using AI to get project idea involving the latest buzzwords? Maybe even using AI to write this psuedo ad-copy?
Again, more power to you if you’re trying to build a portfolio/github/resume where you can say that you’ve “created numerous projects leveraging federated social media and AI”, but just be up front about what you’re doing when you post about it here please.
No one needs more shit pretending to be something it isn’t. It’s okay for your little portfolio project to be just that.
What games are you playing where it’s showing its age? I’m using a 2070 super personally. With a variable refresh rate monitor I hardly notice slowdown unless it’s below 30fps, or if it’s spiking.
I also play old games. My recent ones (past year) have been Fallout New Vegas, Stardew Valley, Watch Dogs, Watch Dogs 2, Sonic Unleashed Recompiled, and Cyberpunk 2077.
And the Police won’t investigate because of whatever mental gymnastics of the day they come up with to avoid the paperwork.
“You never actually recieved it, so it was never your property to be stolen.” Or something.