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‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

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I think it's like this: if your game is not on Steam, you won't sell many copies. Publishers fight to make sure the game is on Steam.

If your movie isn't on Steam, the company doesn't care. No one goes to Steam for movies. So Valve has to fight to get the rights to distribute (and compete with streaming services).

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I don't know about that guy but you can't even get cheque books in NZ anymore. They were phased out, mostly because electronic payments are ubiquitous and most places already stopped accepting cheques a decade or two back.

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Personally, most stuff is in cloud storage. For local stuff I use syncthing.

But for the average person, I'd expect using iCloud, Google Drive, Onedrive, or Dropbox and then creating a shareable link for the other person.

I also can't remember the last time I used a USB drive for anything other than installing an OS.

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Hey ChatGPT, how can I ...

"Locking as this is a duplicate of [unrelated question]"

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What a weird thing to say about a company that had $2.5B in revenue last year and 17M paying subscribers.

It's like saying "who users gmail these days?", where the answer is a shit ton of people just not the early adopters that have moved on.

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Is it just Kbin, or does every fediverse service have the issue of being totally swarmed with bots advertising illegal pharmaceuticals? Is this just the result of limited moderation?

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With Lemmy, we have seen huge numbers of bots at times but most large Lemmy instances have registration applications turned on. As in you apply to join an instance instead of just being able to make an account.

By default this means waiting for manual approval of your account, but many instances set up automated approval behind the scenes.

This function means many spam bots are averted before the public sees them, and also spammers avoid instances with registration applications.

I mention this because Kbin, or at least Kbin.social, doesn't appear to have registration applications which makes it a prime target for spam.

Also Lemmy has coordination between dozens of instance admins sharing details of spammers. I.e. a lot of hard work behind the scenes. I'd guess the lack of moderation at the admin level also accounts for part of the issue on kbin.

(A lot of Lemmy spam also comes via federation from Kbin.social, so much that many instances block high spam communities on Kbin and some block Kbin completely).

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I think performant is probably the key thing here. There were ad blockers before and there are alternative ones now, but the thing that sets unlock Origin apart is how light weight it is.

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What proportion of the bots were fediverse servers syncing with each other?

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I worked full time in a produce department years ago. It was physically demanding for an hour or two in the morning unloading the truck and stacking it away, then it was mostly playing cricket out the back with a plank, an onion, and a rubbish bin for the wicket.

As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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Interesting how there are so many mentions of people worried about AI and only sharing photos in closed groups on Instagram/Facebook. I'm not sure that's actually keeping the photos away from AI.

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Are you talking about capital gains tax?

First, let's be clear, the reason the rich pay little tax doesn't have much to do with the capital gains tax rate being lower.

Now the reason for the lower rate (at least ostensibly) is that while income is earned at a point in time, capital gains happens over large amounts of time. Therefore often a big part of the gain is inflation. Let's imagine you bought a house for $100k and 20 years later you sell the house for $140k. Over that time inflation has been a steady 2%.

Due to inflation $148k is now worth what $100k was worth 20 years ago. But when you sell you have to pay tax on the $40k profit even though you actually made a loss?

Lower capital gains rates are meant to adjust for this. Basically saying we understand part of the gain is inflation, so let's call it half inflation and half profit and we'll account for this by setting the capital gains rate at half the income tax rate.

Remember companies (that you might have shares in) or yourself as a land lord are (ostensibly) paying tax on profits as you go. Capital gains tax is in addition to this.

This comment is already long enough so I'll leave the conversation on whether this stuff is true in practice as an excercise for the reader, but it at least starts from a sensible place.

At least where I live (not the US), if you're day trading stocks or flipping houses you'll pay income tax not capital gains tax (ostensibly 😆).

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Ah I see now there's another post about this: https://lemmy.world/post/14092260

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I think it depends why you want to bypass cloudflare, but realistically I don't think you're gonna be able to access those sites without going through cloudflare.

If you want to avoid accidentally stumbling into cloudflare, you could probably block their IP ranges. But of course that means you can't access any cloudflare sites.

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I have minor beef with Immich and basically any larger project and the way they go about their Docker Compose. Basically I feel they make the assumption that they’re the only thing running.

^Disclaimer: I fully accept this is all just me being too stupid and not the Immich development team.

This might be my turn to be too stupid but isn't the point of docker that they all run in containers so it doesn't matter? They can all use the same database port, because the database is in a container and so doesn't prevent another database container using the same port. The port doesn't need to be exposed to the host.

The only issue that comes up when running lots of services is accessing them all over http, and that's what a reverse proxy is for. I run a dozen services on the same machine, mostly using the default docker compose files, and never have to mess with things like you have here.

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I can't seem to find info on it other than a few screenshots on the play store. Do you choose the home screen apps or are they auto-selected?

My launcher of choice right now is KISS which looks similar by default but I can't tell if they function the same. Anyone tried both KISS and Niagara?

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Thanks for the run down! I saw there's a free version but didn't seem too different, so it's good to get the opinions of a user!

Rather than having to search everything you can have your commonly used apps show in a list on the home screen. Personally I turn this off and have a clean home screen, but pin favorites above the search bar. Tapping the search bar shows the most commonly used apps.

Also I think gestures are not from search results but from the home screen. I use gestures on my blank home screen. I have it set up so a swipe down opens the notification tray, a swipe right opens the camera, swipe left opens search, swipe up opens browser. But this is customizable. Not sure if it works if you have the common apps list showing on the home screen.

I don't think KISS has smarts like Niagara seems to. Just showing commonly used apps is about as smart as it gets. To my knowledge no notifications on the home screen either, though you can add widgets so maybe that's solvable in some way.

Anyway, seems they are similar but Niagara is a bit superior with KISS being a bit inferior but FOSS, both good options!

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See the other reply by @CaptDust

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That's racist!

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I'm currently reading A City on Mars, by that web cartoonist guy and his wife. So far they are strongly arguing that stages 1, 2, and 3 are not actually feasible and that we should wait until technology is there and jump straight to 4. Basically the only reason the ISS works is because it's next to earth, you need way more support around the crew (i.e. way more people) if you can only launch a rocket there in a launch window every two years, it takes 6 months to get there, and it's too far away to do live comms.

It's been quite good if you're into that stuff. It has a chapter on space sex, and I just read a section on how the NASA tampon thing wasn't really about how NASA engineers don't understand women, but then gives an example that shows they definitely don't but it's not because of the tampon thing.

They also specifically address the single rocket landing then add more rockets to make a city thing.

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Why block everything except the few you like, when you could just subscribe to the things you want to see then stay out of /All?

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That's a perfectly acceptable approach, but it's a bit odd to complain about seeing things you don't like in /All. Of course you do, no one likes everything.

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If you struggled with the UI because you're familiar with Photoshop, you may want to have a look at PhotoGIMP.

Otherwise Photopea.com is a free online photoshop clone.

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I've been using it with Facebook for a long time and I've never had any issues or scary messages. It's the main reason I use it as I don't want Facebook on my phone.

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Me too! Just commenting to show it doesn't happen to everyone.

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Wouldn't the elderly be a huge benefiter of a car free city? You get old enough or frail enough that you can't drive. Then what?

I like in a city that provides free busses and trains to those aged 65+ if they ride in off peak hours, and it's heavily used. This is in a city designed around cars.

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I stream from ethical services for some movies

What are these ethical movie streaming sources?

Is there an easy way to blur/censor my house without giving up my soul?

Have you tried this process?
https://mashable.com/article/how-to-blur-your-house-on-google-street-view

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I'm curious what makes Netflix or Amazon "ethical", and what you're comparing them to? Are you just meaning not piracy?

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I use Outlook (new) at work, and I still sometimes look at the icon in the taskbar and think I have new emails because it has a little "new" badge.

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If it's only local, doesn't it make sense to block people from out of the area to prevent all the common scams?

It's probably nothing to do with using a VPN, you just need to connect from a local server (if available).

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Some third parties may have a legitimate interest.

Some.

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To be fair, if you don't know about how gravity works, you would just hold up a rock, drop it, and say obviously things can move without someone moving it.

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"Reddit, except it's mostly leftist trans Linux users."

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Well, except sky rockets, which have been cheaper to launch.

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In the past I've heard of power shell scripts you can run to actually disable or uninstall stuff. I wouldn't trust these toggles to do much at all.

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I've asked ChatGPT to explain maths to me before. I can't remember what it was but it was something when I knew the answer and was trying to calculate the starting value.

It told me the answer and I asked for the explanation. It went something like this (not actual, just a tribute):

  • Step 1: 1 + 1 = 2
  • Step 2: 2 * 2 = 4
  • Step 3: 4 / 8 = 0.5

Me: Uh, the answer is supposed to be 9,000,000.

ChatGPT: Sorry, it seems you are right. Here's the corrected version:

  • Step 1: 1 + 1 = 2
  • Step 2: 2 * 2 = 4
  • Step 3: 4 / 8 = 9,000,000
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It was a question like where I knew the answer and needed the correct value to put in the equation to get that end result. I wish there was a better way to search previous chats because it would help if I could remember the context. But anyway, the first time it got the maths right from the starting value to the ending value, but it didn't actually answer the question because the ending value was not the one I asked for. It was as good as if it gave me a random answer.

I pointed out that it hadn't answered the question, and that's when it just changed the last step to make it the answer I was looking for. It was supposed to adjust the starting value to make it have the correct outcome.

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I can't remember! It was probably a year ago, but knowing me I probably tried random starting numbers until I got the answer I wanted.

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I also think it would be many years if at all that Google could get a site going that is popular enough people filter their search results by it like I do with Reddit.

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How about Jellyfin server, synced with Kodi for playing on the TV?

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I head the Jellyfin apps aren't great. However I admit to never testing them.

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I don't have Android TV :(

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I use the Android app, and yeah, I wish you could download and play like on commercial streaming apps. It's not just the hunting down of the file, but also the remembering how much of the episode you've watched when part way through, and having Jellyfin know that you've watched the episode so the play next is right.

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Oh no I have an old laptop literally strapped to the back on my TV. It's running the Jellyfin server (among many other things) and I installed Kodi on it along with a PC connected remote to control it.

It works well so I haven't looked any further.

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Nice, thanks! I'll check it out.

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I'm running it on a Linux laptop, so I don't see any reason why I couldn't have both. I'll check it out.

I have Kodi connected to broadcast TV streams and Disney+, can I do this with Jellyfin?

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I have Kodi set up, and it seems to work well. There are different ways to do it, I did the database merge option which prevents you having non-jellyfin files in your library but it works nicely.

I also have broadcast TV streams and Disney+ through there too, which gives it a smart-TV feeling which is nice for others using it.

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My instance's image cache is like 230GB. Plus a bunch more for the db. Can confirm storage is needed.

(unrelated question 😶 - anyone running pictrs 0.5 on local storage happily?)

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