Anecdotal; but I spent 5ish years pirating via torrents from my home in Canada. Never once used a VPN and received an emailed copyright notice forwarded through my ISP about once every 3-5 days.

They never went further than that. The ISP isn’t permitted to give out my personal contact info short of a court order, and the copyright holder(s) can’t be bothered to pursue it further to get that info.

As long as you never reply to the notice; all they have is an IP, a time stamp, and a copy of the letter they sent to the ISP. They don’t know who I am to drag me to court; so first they’d have to sue the ISP for that info. Even then, tieing one specific individual to an entire IPs traffic is next to impossible. Was it the IPs subscriber? Another person in the household? A guest? Someone with unauthorised access? Too many variables/possibilities to prove ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ in a court of law.

Now a days however I use usenet. $12/year for an indexer, and ~$5/month for access to a usenet provider/server. Fast reliable downloads that always complete within 5min. No more waiting on slow or seedless torrents that potentially take days before giving up and trying another. This is all done though an ssl connection to a private server, so there’s nothing to snoop/get reported for.

Post a link that isn’t working for you? Maybe I just haven’t found a broken one…

What version of yt-dlp are you running?

Yt-dlp still works just fine; I used mine lastnight.

Remember to run ‘yt-dlp -U’ to update it.

I watch something like 20 YouTube videos a day from many different subscriptions. I don’t really want to straight download them all.

I opened youtube on a corporate PC the other day - viewing ads on the platform for the first time in I don’t even know how long, at least 8 years, probably a fair amount more - and was immediately repulsed. How do people live like this? I don’t understand it either.

Pihole, revanced, sponsor block, ublock, … Essential tools to access the Internet. My phones permanently connected to a self-hosted vpn that keeps it behind pihole wherever I am.

I swear god; If I ever look up at the night sky and see a billboard shining down at me from space, I’m bombing my nearest Google office.

No. Every wheel lock kit comes with the socket/key required, and there are so many different wheel locks out there you are VERY unlikely to need/use the one you have on a different vehicle.

That said; you should always keep your wheel lock socket/key either in your glove box or with the roadside jack for the spare tire of your car. You don’t want to end up at a mechanic or stuck on the side of the road without it. (so it should have just gone with the writen off car too)

Your entire fucking government is worthless; burn it all down and re-build.

Deals on meat that you just can’t beat.

If you have a static IP address, you can just use A records for each subdomain you want to use and not really worry about it.

If you do not have a static IP address, you may want to use one single A record, usually your base domain (example.com), then CNAME records for each of your subdomains.

A CNAME record is used to point one name at another name, in this case your base domain. This way, when your IP address changes, you only have to change the one A record and all the CNAME records will point at that new IP as well.

Example:

A example.com 1.2.3.4

CNAME sub1.example.com example.com

CNAME sub2.example.com example.com

You’d then use a tool like ACME.sh to automatically update that single A record when your IP changes.

I think it’s even bigger than that. It seems this particular law allows pulling the Feds in as well, bypassing their immunity.

In this case, the ACLU’s attorneys argue that federal officers worked closely with the county sheriff and city police officers to terrorize families at the racetrack raid, and were therefore part of a conspiracy.

Defendants in the Idaho case include officials from ICE and the FBI

Humans are just overgrown monkeys, and (at least) one of us already wrote Shakespeare’s plays on a typewriter.

THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD!

Nobody breaks the law on my watch! I’m conficscating your stolen goods. Now pay your fine or it’s off to jail!

Now you can have the satisfaction of smashing it to pieces and then you get to build it, in the end you’ve got a fully constructed set and you didn’t have to build it twice.

Oh hell yeah; instant buy

I’ve had a few tv/stereos in the past that had a half mute as well. Press mute the first time and it cuts the volume in half, second press mutes completely, then third press restores full volume.

Not that I agree with that guy, but:

‘Firing a customer’ is actually a commonly used phrase/trope, meaning outright refusing to serve an individual in the future.

In Canada at least; companies can refuse service to anyone for any non-discrimintory reason, or even no reason.

I really wish these were sent as a DM automatically when a comment or post is removed.

For anyone that doesn’t want to look it up; reason for mod removal:

“reason: Anyone can fake screenshots, report it thru the DM if it’s real”

https://lemmy.world/modlog

Damm, ‘free access’ however I have to create an NYT account and it’s not available on archive.org

Any mirrors?

Nice :)

Some of the managers are very nice and are happy to bend obviously stupid rules, others have a massive stick jammed deeep up inside their rectum…

The manager that hired me, re-wrote my employment contract and forged my signature on the new one, to put me as part-time instead of full time. Didn’t find out until 3mo later when I asked about my benefits package to the manager that replaced her and got confused looks/responses.