No no, you don’t understand. That doesn’t apply to us plebs (US citizens). It only applies to other countries so that the government can checks notes “strongly condemn” them.

So is he insinuating that communities should have IT people who keep things running for everyone (like a digital librarian of sorts)?

Because that takes time, effort, and money. Like a lot more than one would spend or need for just themselves/family/maybe a couple of friends.

Also, community-run self-hosting just seems like a bad idea from a privacy and legality standpoint. One pirate getting caught isn’t usually so bad (usually a warning or small fine). But once you start distributing, then you’re going from a kiddie pool of consequences into an ocean of consequences. We’re talking massive fines and/or jail time.

Edit: I should clarify that I’m not talking about services here, but content itself.

Your Cybertruck now identifies as a WWII era Porsche tank.

Close enough. Welcome back, Lego Island.

I can’t bring myself to use a Pixel because I don’t trust Google-everything. I have so much to say, and yet I’ve said it a thousand times already. So I’m just gonna sigh.

And yes, I know I’m on Android either way.

They should actually take to the streets (again). Not joking. What is this nanny-state BS?

It wasn’t even a good mission. You fight him. You “kill him”. Then there’s a cutscene where he’s revived in a lab… So what was even the point?

I remember getting ads for this months ago on social media. I was like, “Why is the guy from Mafia 3 in this?” Fast forward to now, and my understanding is that the game is simply a series of scripted sequences (“missions”) made in a Fortnite/Roblox-like platform called “Everything”.

It sounds like the game is just that, with FMV’s?

Citizens United says what?

I’m a part of Lemmy.zip for a few months now. Great server with transparent admins who post about server updates and such. It’s tech-oriented as an instance, but it’s federated, so you still have access to all other servers. I’m a computer nerd, hence why I picked it.

Your comment tldr: “You guys don’t get it; they’re both bad”

and then everyone clapped for you. /s

No disrespect towards you or your response (which is a good response, btw) – but the Bot API being good means absolutely nothing when the core app is garbage. By “garbage”, I mean that it ignores basic best-practices (like not E2EE everything, which they claimed wasn’t possible with device sync – but look at FB Messenger, Signal, Whatsapp, etc all able to do it).

Nobody is allowed to ask me why that matters. Because the answer is $300 Million.

Been saying this for years. Then they introduced Premium to “help fund things” (but they’re also taking $300 MILLION from Elon, and giving them access to user data.

So will basic features stop being paywalled now? Or are people going to have to keep paying to stop random people from messaging them?

I don’t know why people stuck with it. I’ve used it; I get that a lot of the initial success/hype was:

• It’s not owned by Meta
• “Putin hates Durov!”
• “Unlimited” storage (lots of people using it as free cloud storage, which is dumb if you value your files)

But your messages are not E2EE by default (only “Secret Chats”, which aren’t synced across devices)…Telegram (the organization) could always read your messages. I said this so many times and got called everything under the sun.

“Why would they care about my messages though?” ------> Because $300 Million.

Thanks for the info. I’m sure it’ll also be useful to others reading the comments.

This sucks because, functionally-wise I have zero issues with Emby. But morally, this bothers me a lot. I thought it was going to just be because of the license (I think I paid $99 around Christmas a few years ago for a Lifetime license).

Guess I’ll be switching to Jellyfin then and donating to the project. If I paid for Emby, there’s no reason I can’t donate to a free, open-source project being developed and maintained by volunteers.

Do you mind elaborating on that? It sounds like I got in on Emby after the rugpull. It works fine for me and I use it without the Connect (online account) feature.

Can I ask why nobody recommends Emby? I’ve been using it for years with zero issues. The only thing I can think of is that Jellyfin exists and is free. Emby is sort of a middleground between Plex and Jellyfin; it has a paid license (lifetime option exists), but it’s closer to Jellyfin than Plex on the whole.

They get off on it. I’m not joking. I would share videos of it, but there are too many. The hatred is cultural and engrained in society.

Literally yes. This is why nobody takes their “peace offerings” seriously. Putin is ex-KGB/FSB; it’s a strategy.

Don’t forget the Xash3D engine for GoldSrc games (e.g. Half-Life and mods). It runs on everything from a PSP to a PC. And it’s faithful. It relies on the original assets.

https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs