This has been a thing for years although it used to be sketchy blogs (and probably still is tbf in addition to this). Back in the days of rapid share, mega before Kim dotcom got busted, etc. some people just can’t figure out torrents or they live in a situation where torrents can’t be used (isp shaping, internet controlled by a 3rd party that blocks torrenting, etc) and usually http downloads are fine in those situations.
If you ever have to rely on this get jdownloader at least
He already called it a false flag
IP is a bullshit concept that slows down the progress of humanity. They take what is learned and improve on it then sell that because why the fuck wouldn’t you. The only people who have a problem with this are moronic capitalists that say “grrr how dare you improve my technology before I earn my money from it! It’s my idea! I own it forever”.
There is maybe some debate about a small reasonable period to allow someone to recoup r&d costs. On the other hand we can look to an example like during Covid: American pharma companies were not sharing research about mRNA vaccines with each other or the world in the hopes of being “the first” and the financial gains that would come with this. Accelerating this process through collaborative effort would’ve literally saved tens of thousands of lives. This was often defended by Americans who are so indoctrinated they couldn’t possibly conceptualize a world without this approach. “Of course Pfizer needs the IP? How else will they make their money??”
We excuse it because most of the time it doesn’t really matter. A slightly better phone or laptop or whatever is not a huge deal. But then you see things like the Covid example and start to wonder: if that broke down and everything was basically “open source” how much further along would we be?
Lmao no they fucking won’t. I mean maybe like 0.5% of consumers, or less, will. Some number that pales in comparison to the amount that just buy a bambu because “it’s just easier, FOSS needs to get on usability and make it so that it just works 🤷♀️” while failing to see that their utter laziness and incompetence to solve even the mildest of problems and expecting everything to “just work” in exchange for money always means trading their rights and privacy away.
Look at the people that complain about jellyfin but then also complain about plex becoming increasingly hostile. Look at the people complaining about Linux but also whining about windows descent into madness. Etc etc. and in cases like this the buy in cost is nothing but your time! You think the average consumer, who openly invites corporations to fuck them, is gonna be like “hmm I’m gonna spend money to build a solution.”
No goddamn way. They’re gonna bitch about the legislation, they’re gonna bitch about how things got this way, then they’re gonna give bambu and anycubic and Microsoft and openai and Google and apple etc etc all their money. They’ll probably sign up for subscriptions with each company
They were often franchised so whoever in your local community bought a blockbuster franchise decided games weren’t worth it (dumb)
Literally no one came
So did blockbuster. You could even rent consoles at blockbuster. But not porn and they put local rental shops out of business so fuck them, I’m glad they’re dead.
I actually worked at blockbuster on 9/11. I was in high school. They made me and this other girl come to work because they refused to close for the evening. Awesome
It’s probably an EAP which essentially means they pay for a small handful of sessions (4-10 typically) outside of whatever your copay/deductible burden is (though if you have a deductible the EAP almost never applies towards it fyi). Provider network is also more limited because reimbursement is much smaller. Once the sessions have run out you’re back to figuring out how to afford it on your own. If you have a high deductible that you never meet then you’re in the same issue that you had before a month and a half of sessions that probably didn’t miraculously fix all your problems.
EAP actually gives employers less access to data than health insurance but they can still see aggregate, eg “30% of employees used EAP benefit and most common categories of concern were anxiety and stress management” (wrt all employees, not any specific one). This is obviously more of a concern if you work at a company with 10 employees and the report comes back saying 10% of employees…, obviously that’s easily de anonymized
Whereas with the health insurance benefit the employer can see icd codes utilized within the claim system sometimes depending on the situation but again broadly and not like “your” chart or claims data. All this obviously goes out the window if you sign a release for them to advocate to the insurer or a provider on your behalf of course, and then they might get all kinds of record access
Always did, especially so with anime
On this note: if you root your webos tv there’s an app to truly disable Bluetooth, assuming you don’t use it. Imagine my surprise when one day my tv turned on with a request to allow my neighbors phone to connect to it? Modern convenience. I’m sure my neighbor just fat fingered the device list while trying to connect something else but the fact that it was even an option is absurd
Yeah this was my reaction, before AI cynicism there was “this is obviously scripted” cynicism and then even tropes that built on it like nothing ever happens
Account that’s less than a day old replying to an account that’s less than 2 days old both attacking the source despite the source being a document from the file dump that is easily sourced and one of epsteins emails