Unfortunately most standards bodies are pretty much this stupid though. Blu-ray, DVD, USB, hell even codecs like H265 and MP3 have governing bodies that are mostly enterprises enforcing their collective power on standards. That’s good in ways because it means they all have to decide on a standard that’ll work wihh to pretty much anything, but bad because they can also enforce bullying like HDCP onto consumers.

Right, it’s not really a 3rd option. It’s more like a negative value option. It exists, but it’s not really in the options list. It’s closer to “the only winning move is not to play”

Jury nullification isn’t that they agreed crime wasn’t committed, but rather that they refuse to agree on a guilty verdict because they don’t agree with the law. It’s sort of a natural loophole in jury responsibility and enforcement.

Fuck, I hadn’t heard about Salem’s water concerns.

It’s fucking stupid that I understood this comment and know it’s correct.

I pirate my media. The way I see it, I will pull one over on any company I can get away with that would absolutely swindle me given the chance.

I found ente to be a bit of a pain self-hosted. Setting the storage amount to pretend to be paid was weird, and the iOS app crashed a ton. Switched to Immich and found that to be a lot more stable; though syncing from iCloud from iOS was again a pain, I was able to use icloudpd to import photos directly to the storage location on my server. It’s not encrypted like ente is, so that’s something I need to solve locally.

I did this to myself and it put butt on our website and my boss noticed it while giving a presentation to a client… whoops

I worked at a knock-off Apple Store in the PNW from 2009 to 2013 and I told this same line to MANY people. The thing about being an “Apple Specialist” is that we sold more than Apple did, including “aftermarket” RAM modules to do that upgrade on-site for customers, saving those customer money AND netting us more profit than if we had sold them the Apple SKU with more RAM. When Apple closed this loophole it was not just at the expense of end-users, but their channel partners too.

Gun company says you “broke the TOS” when you pointed the gun at a person. It’s not their fault you used it to do a murder.

Fuckin Mathew Broderick teaching us all a good lesson about thermonuclear war

Wow fuck that guy

RIP Matthew Perry

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Pearson, HMH, and all the major for-profit educational resource providers (and much of the not-for-profits, too) are literally actually evil.

Being homeless is also considered a “crime” in many places

Oh, probably

Isn’t that exactly what the strikes on those Venezuelan boats are?

Lou Wilson, a frequent cast member on dropout.tv works for Jimmy Kimmel as his opening act for the live audience. I don’t think dropout is actually a great fit of audience, but it’d be one hell of a swing to get Jimmy on a smaller streaming service like that. I’d love to see it, however unlikely. Ultimately he will probably just end up on Netflix or HBO

I think it’s okay to be excited about stuff, but when someone is excited about something, am I expected to also be excited about it or else I’m considered a bad person for just being like “oh cool” and then not being any further interested?