wizardbeard

A tangentially related but good example of this sort of thing is BluRays and community movie nights (like setting up a projector in a park).

Most of these movie nights are de facto illegal, as even though you own the BluRay, it is not licensed for public showings, just for personal use. Obviously no one gives enough of a shit to enforce this against small groups, especially if they aren't making money off it, but if a theater started offering showings of shit the owner just bought on BluRay or UHD disks, it wouldn't last too long.

Similar thing here. Just because you can access the content to view it yourself doesn't mean you have the rights to do more than that with it. As an individual, you're likely fine to break those rules. As a giant fucking corporation, it's time for you to pay up.

yt-dlp is generally the best open source tool for downloading/backing up videos from the internet. Despite the name, it works with thousands of video streaming sites, not just youtube. Completely free. I would never pay for a video downloading software.

It is command line based though. I'm sure there are forks with a UI, but I'm not familiar with them. There is a fairly detailed wiki for it, and a discord support channel. The defaults are fine for youtube back ups.

I would reccomend uploading whatever you back up to the Internet Archive. Then you aren't responsible for hosting, and it's available to the public.

Not upset, just thought it needed to be said.

It seems odd to expect people to realize this is largely addressing issues in mastodon when it is posted to Lemmy and the summary uses terms that are interchangable. Most people are not going to take the time to follow the link if they have a negative reaction to the summary.

In short, the summary is very easy for people to take as some sort of attack on the places they personally spend time in on the fediverse as lacking. I don't think most people look around on Lemmy and see evidence of what is being addressed as though it is an all encompassing problem, and so you get knee-jerk downvotes and that's the extent of the engagement.

I think examples might serve people better in this regard. It can be hard to accept things as real that you've never experienced, and don't fit with your lifetime of experiences, purely on faith alone.

Edit: I realize this is the exact opposite of "just accept other people have different experiences", but it's hard to deny that this is something a lot of people have trouble with in a lot of aspects of life. Expecting people to just override the natural state of viewing the world through their own personal lens is always going to be a hard ask.

People asking for examples are not always trying to find ways to tear other experiences apart. Sometimes they might need examples to help them understand better.

Then perhaps this is not the correct audience for this piece.

Do they not already have access to the beginnings of this through driver's license photos?

I'd also be shocked if there aren't companies offering identification services based on scraping publicly uploaded pictures off social media (mainly facebook due to connection to real identity).

Like, I hate this, but I'm not sure there's a reasonable counter to it.

While not connecting to your personal identity, you can be tracked through multiple camera feeds of a crowd through gait analysis already. Tie that into getting your identity by paying with a card at one of the in-stadium vendors and boom. Alternatively, they know when you entered by scanning your ticket, what entrance it was scanned at, and the name associated with the ticket. So now you can say "Persons 345-367 entered from west entrance when John Snow's ticket was scanned, so he's one of them. Let's cross reference it with demographics data available on him from a third party."

I'm just not sure there's a safe, private way to attend big sports games as it is without putting in a ton of effort.

If it's a concern for a corp, they can just ship the devices through the mail if there's less scrutiny through the mail system (there usually is, they aren't going to check the contents of every drive or try to crack the pin on every phone), or they just store their data in the cloud and pay for a new device for use at the destination so it never crosses the border.

Hades.

Avoiding spoilers, the game just keeps unfolding out additional gameplay content and story long past what originally appeared like it was going to be the end.

There's definitely some slow parts in terms of progression though, as the resource costs for some of the permanent stat upgrades and house contractor stuff are just expensive enough to be annoying. Like, do you want to have fun this run or do you want to pray to RNGesus that you get the resource multiplier boons and hit a brick wall later when you haven't gotten enough combat boosting boons? Otherwise enjoy doing multiple runs to unlock one single thing that may or may not be purely cosmetic.

The gameplay carries it through any rough spots though, along with the drip fed stories of the different characters that progress each time you lose a run.

Overall a wonderful game.

If you're playing on PC and end up wanting more content, I can't reccomend the Stardew Valley Expanded modpack enough.

Adds a ton of new townsfolk, and an entire second neighboring town, all as fully fleshed out as the OG townies and all woven in with base game content to the point that they don't stand out as mod added.

There's a handy "Take Action" button at the bottom of the article where you can look up your representative and send them an editable pre-written email.

But that would imply that it can be relied upon for accuracy.

Yes, the only options are left, do nothing centrist, or extremist right.

Don't have time to debate you right now, but that is an absolutely absurdist level false dichotomy and cheetah speed goalpost moving.