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  • On the post: Big Telecom Allied GOP Lawmakers Pretend New FCC Net Neutrality Push Is ‘Unlawful’

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2023 @ 09:34pm

    yeah, pretty much, and that's what me and Karl decided on the latest episode of Tetch Talk, that came out earlier this week on this whole net Neutrality thing.

  • On the post: Astronomers Say Starlink, Amazon Light Pollution Keeps Getting Worse

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2023 @ 02:44pm

    Thanks to chronic insomnia, I took up 'satellite spotting' as a hobby earlier this year. On a good morning, if there's not too many street lights and trees around, you can see 8-12 satellites with the naked eye in the 90 minutes before dawn. That doesn't count the half-dozen or so starlink's you'll see at hte same time, which are easy to tell because they're usually not in the tracking apps (there's too many of them) and their motion is so much faster while being brighter. most 'normal' ones you have to strain to see, starlinks just jump out at you. They really are a pestilence on our night skies.

  • On the post: Officer’s Body Cam Recording Helps Get Him Stripped Of Immunity By Appeals Court

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2023 @ 02:54pm

    Sad Things

    The sad things are, that this is how it shakes out. They violated the Constitution, which is the highest law of the land and which all other laws have to abide by, and yet there's no real penalty for that. They also committed criminal acts, in that they assaulted him, and kidnapped him, while armed. Which are all criminal actions. And yet at most, someone else (the taxpayers) will have to pay some money and there's no consequences for the officers involved, who committed violent crimes that would have anyone else locked up for decades on top of violating the simplest and most central laws of the country. In fact, the constitutional violations are only possible by law enforcement, and yet that seems to turn what would be a decade+ imprisonment into a week off work. That's messed up, anyone should be able to see that, but too many will excuse it because if cops have to face consequences for their actions, cops won't want to continue being cops, and worse, the wrong sort of people will start filling prisons, and be unable to vote for the kinds of politicians that have protected police.

  • On the post: Minnesota’s Top Court The Latest To Say The Smell Of (Legal) Marijuana Can’t Justify A Warrantless Search

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2023 @ 09:23pm

    If you want to risk Contempt of Cop, there are a number of answers that can be given to officers claims to smell something. "Perhaps you should launder your uniform better" is up there, along with "you should probably check your pockets then" (shoutout to HPD's Gerald Gains) Although the best would be "are you sure it's not burnt toast?"

  • On the post: This Week In BestNetTech History: August 20th – 26th

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2023 @ 12:55am

    Of course Steele, aka Federal inmate 14421-104, was released Jan 18 2022. Hanns' (20953-041) is projected to be released in June 2030

  • On the post: Elon Musk Finally Realizes That Verification Requires More Than A Credit Card, Planning To Make Users Upload Gov’t ID

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2023 @ 11:44am

    facebooks does not require you to take a selfie real-time. just upload up to two pictures.

  • On the post: Elon Musk Finally Realizes That Verification Requires More Than A Credit Card, Planning To Make Users Upload Gov’t ID

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 07:23pm

    Yeah, I have this problem with Facebook, Where this is my public/professional name/identity. Because I ran the facebook page for TorrentFreak (as part of my job) last march they wanted me to 'secure' my account with 2 factor. But they sent me this request a week after I had a nervous breakdown so I was in no position to do anything about it. A few months later, when I was to the point of being able to use a computer again, I went to try and access it, but it demands a 2nd factor I don't have because it created it itself, and never gave it to me. So I have to send identity documents. I have nothing in my 'professional name' that they'll accept, and nothing that's a government ID matches the name on the account. So it's locked. And It's why I felt the idea of Meta making this an upsell earlier this year was a bad thing, and offered my experience to Mike as an example. So yeah, this is really going to screw a bunch of people up.

  • On the post: Canadian Media Orgs Said That Meta Linking To News Was Anticompetitive; Now They Say NOT Linking To News Is Anticompetitive

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 02:19pm

    the scam undone

    What I've not seen anyone mention is that this would make news orgs profitable. how? SPAM! The news orgs get paid per link, no matter who posts it. So, post hundreds, thousands even. You'd have seen CBC and others spammed like never before, because each post now has monetary value. Not the content, the link itself. Of course, understanding that is expecting too much out of Midnight Flashers like Pascale St-Onge

  • On the post: NY Times Considering A Potentially Very Dumb Lawsuit Against OpenAI Because It Learned From NY Times Content

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2023 @ 04:58pm

    The real takeaway is that the NYT wants no learning from their publishing. They've worked very hard to craft that editorial direction, and they'll be damned if ChatGPT will go against their wishes and end up knowing more after one of their pieces than they did before, instead of slightly stupider for reading it as intended.

  • On the post: Rockstar Scoops Up Modding, Roleplay Communities In A Departure From Previous Policy

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2023 @ 03:38pm

    eh?

    Sorry Tim, but you must have read some very different announcements from myself and a lot of other FiveM users. they went from saying "There are only two authorized Grand Theft Auto online services - the Rockstar Games -hosted Grand Theft Auto IV multiplayer feature and Grand Theft Auto V "Grand Theft Auto Online". Any other online Grand Theft Auto service is unauthorized and your use would violate the license for your software. If you develop software for or host unauthorized servers you are at risk of legal action by Take Two" to saying (changed on the 13th) There are two authorized Grand Theft Auto Online multiplayer services:

    • Grand Theft Auto V’s Grand Theft Auto Online
    • Roleplay or Community Servers supported through Cfx.re Platform Server (FXServer)
    FXserver is FiveM. No-one is looking on this as a positive step at all. Especially coupled with June's change in status about 'roleplay' which really hits at things like LSPDFR.

  • On the post: Federal Judge Says State Troopers’ ‘Kansas Two Step’ Bullshit Violates The Rights Of Drivers

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2023 @ 10:05pm

    You know it's bad

    ...when a Federal judge expresses incredulity, and disgust in the actions of the police to the point where they do anything except tut that they're so mentally deficient they can't be held legally responsible for their actions. Let alone to make the cops have to tell those they stop how little power they have to continue a stop. Usually the attitude of the federal judiciary is that while cops are to incompetent to know the Amendments to the Constitution even exist or the difference between right and wrong, but citizens are required to be fully fledged bar members fully up to date on all laws and judicial rulings on the implementations of those laws (because ignorance of the law is no excuse). But to go even further and suggest pulling Daubert from 'consent on 4 legs' is making me wonder if we're in [a good] Bizzaro-world Good grief, all I can assume is that some point soon, Kris kobach is going to take a break from trying to prosecute imaginary voter fraud, to have Judge Vratil involuntarily committed to a mental health facility as Kobach finds the judge certifiably crazy, and "creating a menace in Kansas as a result" by taking away the ability of the police state to exist.

  • On the post: Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2023 @ 03:39pm

    except them. We're never allowed to know what they're doing. Or cops. and they constantly go out of their way to hide what they're doing, while trying to deny anyone else the same ability.

  • On the post: YouTuber Tries To Register Abandoned MythBusters Trademark; Discovery Is Not Happy With This

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2023 @ 10:06pm

    I was talking to some lawyers in one of my discords about this, seems the sell-off is a not unexpected thing, as it allows them all to close it without having to go all the way to trial and costing even more, especially with the trademark status in limbo like it is. but yeah Mike, I was in the same mindset as you. But I was also curious how they let it lapse to begin with, having worked with some of this (amongst other things, I was the safety guy for what became the original pitch of mythbusters) and talking with other people at and working with Discovery, they never usually come close to letting things like this lapse.

  • On the post: Elon Starts Bribing His Biggest Fans As He Admits The Company Is Still Burning Cash (Despite His Earlier Claims To The Contrary)

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2023 @ 02:20pm

    I'll take snowflakes for $100 alex

    What so-called businessman is so bad at business his companies employ people to distract him from doing anything, has committed immigration fraud, and whose only qualification is a degree in money-astrology he bought from Wharton.

  • On the post: Finally Close To Having A Voting Majority, Will The Biden FCC Actually Restore Net Neutrality?

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2023 @ 03:56pm

    it'd be nice to happen. At this point i'm skeptical if we'll even have anything as good as the 2010 rules, let alone the earlier ones.

  • On the post: Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed As Nearly 2000 Laid Off Employees File Arbitration Claims

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2023 @ 06:11pm

    More fun is who another of the lawfirms is

    you noted that Lichten & Liss-Riordan is the biggest one involved, and that Bloom's firm is makign it a little easier for them, another one of the lawfirms is KUSK, as in the same lawfirm whose paralegal is destroying DoNotPay. Akiva Cohen, one of their lead lawyers, sent this letter to Musk back in December, and made sure to publish it on twitter for all to see. https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1598487532764798983

  • On the post: What Would Aaron Swartz Think Of Reddit’s Ridiculous New Direction?

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2023 @ 11:32pm

    I fail to understand how owners of advertising based businesses think they can increase the value of the business by upsetting the turning away the people the advertisers want to reach
    What are you talking about? Apollo has 1.5M monthly users. Reddit has 430M monthly active users. So the number 'turned away' is maybe 1% when you add all the [dozen or so] clients that would be impacted this way. And those users, they're NOT SEEING THE ADVERTS. So, your argument about 'turning away the users the advertisers want' fails, because the total number of users actually impacted is low, and they literally didn't see the adverts anyway.

  • On the post: What Would Aaron Swartz Think Of Reddit’s Ridiculous New Direction?

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2023 @ 11:27pm

    as a reminder, nothing about those mod tools access were changing. The claims it was was part of a whole pile of BS claims, that those mods staked their position on, and now literally can't back down on because their egos won't let them. And no, Volunteers don't get paid, that's what volunteer means. Also, this IS the corporate-friendly thing (what it's not friendly to, is the ego's of the big subreddit mods) as a lot of it was prompted by the news ChatGPT was trained on reddit, and these costs make it expensive for anyone to do it again. so it's reducing their liability from the scraping. Plus it's an income stream that means those making millions off reddit and not paying reddit a penny (such as Christian Selleg) will start paying for the content he's monetizing.

  • On the post: What Would Aaron Swartz Think Of Reddit’s Ridiculous New Direction?

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2023 @ 07:36pm

    A few weeks ago, the developer of Apollo, a popular Reddit app, said that Reddit was pricing the new API in a way that would cost his firm $20 million per year, a price so ridiculous that Apollo has now announced it’s shutting down the app.
    What's forgotten is that he has 1.5M monthly active users, and has a $5/month subscription option. His company also makes NINE BILLION API calls a month. When he says he can't afford to pay $20M, he means that then he'll have 20M less in income. His users keep saying the app is so amazing and great compared to everything else, yet not great enough for those users to pay $15/year (far less than the $60/year they currently offer), which would more than cover it even at the 30% apple cut (which they don't pay, being in their 'small business' exception). but there's been a lot of peer-pressure thrown at subreddit mods, by mods from other ones, usually with helpings of lies, like its killing accessability features and all that.

  • On the post: Advertisers See Elon Musk As A Liability As They Avoid Twitter

    K`Tetch ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2023 @ 06:17pm

    Professionally, he is an Econ major.
    Exactly, he even bought the exact same degree that Donald T**mp did. And even those that actually bothered to study don't know much because Economics is basically just 'Astrology, but with money'. They make rough guesses, try and keep things as vague as possible, and claim success when you 'interpret' it to match reality. Or claim there was a magical, mystical factor which they didn't know about, and couldn't therefore account for in their "Wanking of the woo"

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