The big difference is that with torrents you also upload data to other peers, which is what fucks you copyright-wise.

Also remember kids, if you’re not in the US throw those DMCA claims in the trash

Yeah, I imagine to younger folks it feels like what usenet felt like to me when I was their age. Mystical land of unknown loot, if you know how to get there

Someone at work unironically said we should hire one

It is for like 350 days a year yeah. Eating take out food in front of the TV/PC doesn’t count? There’s someone else sharing their experience of Brits just “eating” those liquid protein shakes every day, that seems pretty close too. Of course, cultures are not homogeneous, and you can find Italians that drink protein shakes and Norwegians that are really into cooking high-quality ingredients for others. I’m not sure if you were picturing a country where everyone eats pills or what

Sure, I never said it doesn’t. Just that it is not a centerpiece of the culture. The fact that Americans have a big Thanksgiving dinner once a year isn’t comparable to the approach that the French/Italian/Greek/most Asian cultures have towards food on a daily basis

There’s several mentioned in this thread. Among them, Scandinavian countries, England and the US, and I don’t disagree

This policy that would help hundreds of millions of people could potentially be abused by thousands!

“easy if you have a diffraction-limited watt-scale laser” I guess

Intentional deletion is a lot different to entropy-caused bitrot

For many cultures food is just nutrition, something that you have to do. This doesn’t mean you can’t appreciate good food or that your traditional recipes are bad, just that it’s not the same as cultures where there is a lot of importance on both the food and the context of consuming it with others

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For-profit hospitals.

For-profit schools.

For-profit prisons.

For-profit churches.

When will Americans realise there’s something wrong?

Those viewing stats were the result of polling and maybe some heuristics, but it’s not possible to measure how many receiving stations are tuned to a TV or radio frequency

I mean, sony has already installed rootkits under the pretense of DRM. Back in 2005

In the US? I’m not contesting that it’s uncommon there, just saying that it doesn’t seem very Christian. I’m not religious and I don’t care, if not for the hypocrisy.

Oh, the same company that screenshots your content even if you use it as a dumb display? Who could’ve predicted this!

Depends on the country, but yes it is actually difficult to find a TV that is not android TV based or at least has WiFi and smart features built in, especially above a certain size/price threshold.

If it is connected to the internet, that’s not true. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203

FYI, LG and Samsung were both confirmed to take and upload periodic screenshots, whether you’re using native apps or an external input.

Shitty article with guide to disable ACR: https://appleinsider.com/inside/mac/tips/how-to-stop-your-lg-or-samsung-smart-tv-from-tracking-you (you might want to block traffic altogether knowing what they are ok with doing)

Primary source for finding: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203

Probably not unless you have the signing keys.

Buy products based on the features they have out of the box, not promises about future updates

How is a church an event space? It should be a holy site.

small musical performance are held in old European churches

Only in deconsecrated ones, i.e. church buildings that are not used as churches anymore. They do allow non-religious music at funerals (sometimes) but that’s about it