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Court Rejects Appeal of Youtube-dl Hosting Provider 'Uberspace'
  • I mean, that was Getty Image's whole case against Google's "view image" button. And Getty won that legal battle, so clearly they have some legal ground to stand on, even though most people would think it's bullshit.

  • need help finding new pants
  • May I suggest looking on sites like eBay for a second-hand pair of those pants? I've had surprisingly good luck finding replacement clothes that are barely worn, so it might be worth looking, and maybe setting up an alert so it will email you if a new listing is posted for those pants.

  • Surprise! Nintendo Tracked Down Alleged Switch Pirate in Arizona via Reddit Posts and Repair Orders
  • Uhhh.. he literally moderated the r/SwitchPirates subreddit and had ties to multiple pirate shops that distributed the pirated games.

    I don't support Nintendo's lawsuits, but people are making it sound like they're going after some random Joe who just mentioned pirating games in a comment or two. Unless you're moderating one of the biggest Nintendo pirating communities or working to distribute pirated games, AND are really bad with op-sec, you're probably fine.

  • Scientists compliance
  • Basically, the anonymous peer reviewers told the authors "you should cite these additional papers in your work". It's expected that any such recommendations would be relevant to the topic at hand, and therefore are worth bringing attention to, but the authors clearly do not agree that they have anything to do with their research.

  • Claude 3.5 solved my mapping problem very nicely
  • LLMs are also really good at generating regex based on a short description. It's saved me a bunch of time, since I don't use regex often enough to become proficient at it, but it's necessary for certain particular things (such as find/replace with Notepad++, or hyper-specific URIs in Bitwarden)

  • Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST)
  • Personally, I would not recommend diving into Linux headfirst by installing it as your only operating system. If you can afford an additional small drive (128GB should be plenty), I would suggest buying one and installing something like Linux Mint on that, while putting Windows on your main drive.

    That way, you can switch between them whenever you want to (when you turn on your computer, you can just use a menu to choose which drive to boot to), and get somewhat familiar with Linux before deciding if it's worth your time to really dive in.

    (There's a way to put both operating systems on the same drive, but it's really easy for something to go wrong and end up with one of the operating systems inaccessible. Since you're inexperienced, I would avoid going that route for the time being, and just keep both on separate drives.)

  • Arab Americans Prefer Trump... While Also Thinking Racism and Hate Crimes Will Get Worse Under Him - You Can't Make this Up
  • That makes sense, but how well did that work in 2016? Pretty fucking badly, and now we're stuck with a conservative Supreme Court for possibly the next few decades.

    Change needs to start from the ground up. Once left-leaning voters can actually match conservative voters' numbers in off-year elections, then we can talk about reforming the party.

  • Is there a subsect of the minimalist community that's focused on portable/utilitarian living?
  • That's a pretty sexist outlook. I don't think the image makes an entire 51% of the population angry. And I think people like Jeff Bezos show that not all men require "so little to be happy". It's almost like genders are not hive-minds, and generalizing anything that broadly is only going to result in looking like a boomer who complains about how terrible their spouse is.

  • Why do people form cults around bad companies?
  • Same here. I only support those companies because they're the best options for what they offer, and I'm not gonna let perfection get in the way of progress. Even though Mozilla is making some business choices I don't agree with, I'm gonna keep recommending Firefox until some other non-Chromium browser comes along (which unfortunately isn't gonna happen for a long time).

    Same with AMD- they are so much more friendly to the open-source community than Nvidia or Intel, so I will recommend them to everyone, until the moment they start being worse. At that point, I'll start recommending whoever seems best at that point in time.

  • Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill removing synthetic food dye additives from California schools
  • I know it's anecdotal, but my younger sister would go off-the-walls bonkers any time she had Red 40 as a kid. Which sucked, because I swear everything has red 40 in it, even stuff like white vanilla frosting. We would have to buy the "all natural" versions of a lot of stuff, which can get really pricey.

    Point being, if there's actual research corroborating the hyperactivity, then I completely support banning artificial dyes in schools. It will likely make the price of natural food dyes come down, or make dyes be excluded from foods in the first place, which is fine because kids don't need neon colored lunches.

  • How do you lure a stray cat to your yard/house?
  • Start feeding it too, or get one of the neighbors who's been feeding it to help out. Your best bet is a feral cat trap, which are kinda pricey, but if you call around to a few local rescues or "trap, neuter, release" programs, they may be able to lend you one. Then you can likely just use food to lure it into the trap.

    Of course, if this cat used to be someone's pet, you could even just try luring it into a garage or, hell, a big cardboard box, from which you could put some thick gloves on and transfer it into a pet carrier

  • Is Google Maps getting worse?
  • That's fair, although I think that depends a lot on the type of car you drive. There's an option to tell Maps what type of car you drive (electric, hybrid, or gas), which will change the results, because cars with regenerative breaking often get better "city" milage than "highway" milage.

    It also probably depends on factors like how aerodynamic your vehicle is, because it makes a huge difference above ~50mph (air resistance/drag increases exponentially with speed)

  • Is Google Maps getting worse?
  • It does indicate the "fuel efficient" route pretty clearly though, and always gives multiple other options including the quickest one that isn't as efficient. If this is what's causing the issue, OP just needs to look closer at what's on their screen.