True, I guess the process is the studios have deals/threats to sue the ISPs if they don’t do it.

Either way regardless of their reason or motives. The ISP is the one that’s in charge of sending the threat and dealing the punishment, and again the key point is (again region may vary, do research on your ISP), but typically they send a warning first. So in short, if you just want to get started quickly, you can just start torrenting with no VPN (you should probably seed things for as little time as possible), and hope you can afford a VPN before you get the threatening letter, if you do get the threatening letter… then stop all peer 2 peer based piracy until you can afford to do it safer.

Honestly explains a lot of my younger self. I always prided myself as the snitch…

In school, regularly was hated because I was the one to destroy academic cheating groups.

One of my closer female friends cheated on her idiot boyfriend that I barely could stand… I ratted her out.

Later on that same idiot boyfriend was at least trying to cheat on his newer girlfriend… also ratted him out.

Later on idiot friends girlfriend was my girlfriend for 14 years… However my blind sense of justice also causes me to think that the world works when I’m not in the right position… I wound up paying through the nose for her to visit a female friend across the country… who, didn’t actually exist. Afterwards she broke up with me, and almost imidiately had a new boyfriend… coincidentally from the location she had just flown to… and they were married within a few months.

Got an awesome son out of the deal though… Honestly the part that eats at me, is just the realization that, there’s almost certainly people that knew what was happening… that just, ignored it.

True, I suppose maybe there’s an alternate route… like allowing WW1 to happen, but perhaps, finding a way to change the Treaty of Versailles to be less punative and leave more room for economic growth.

Also worth noting with that definition of time travel, logically it would seem, time travel would be self eliminating.

IE, I go back in time, stop whatever I would consider the worse event in history… thus putting the world on a trajectory where myself or whoever invented the time machine no longer happens, leading to someone else inventing it, going back for a different reason, also changing the trajectory of history also eliminating the events leading to his time machine’s creation. Effectively the dice keep re-rolling until we get a world where the time machine is either not invented or not used, most probably early human extinction.

At first I thought you meant that killing hitler would effectively kill everyone born after hitler since the conditions of their birth didn’t exist anymore.

Well I would say, actually a really good point there, though I wouldn’t say “everyone born after hitler”, I guess really depends on one if WW2 happens. IE you kill hitler, but Heinrich Himmler lead the nazi party and history played very similarly. then you could expect possibly generations to unfold almost identically to the original timeline.

But yeah it’s the variation of the art career concept, except that I find the premise that hitlers actions were the cause… Fascism and Hitler were, a symptom of a broken country. Prevent the collapse, and the germans don’t vote for Hitler.

Honestly I oppose the idea of going back in time and killing hitler. To me butterfly effect and everything. Just break into the hospital and swap hitler and another babies places, and poof you won’t get the same combination of nature and nurture that created hitler.

Or even more important, wouldn’t stopping WW1 be the key there. No historian here but there’s a lot of complicated economic stuff that happened after WW1 that leads to the rise of facism. Would seem to me killing hitler (or preventing his rise in other ways), would just wind up with a new guy in the same roll.

2 fronts I’d say.

1. Yeah it makes it clear someone breaking in, was doing the effort to conciously get into something that he wasn’t permitted to rather than just, opened the wrong door.

Also would point out, low knowledge low effort crooks, really 9/10 situations there’s an easier way to get in than the lock. Your house is far more likely to be broken in by someone smashing a window rather than picking a lock.

Well first off, torrenting doesn’t “require” a VPN, you may want to look up your area etc… in most of the united states, basically if you torrent without a VPN, there’s a chance that your ISP will detect it and typically they will send you a letter saying “we know you downloaded _____ illegally, if we catch you again, we will cancel your service”.

which depending on what you are going for (like say new releases and big name targets are what they will be watching for the most)… that could take years to even happen.

Now as far as safe, and lower risk… you could always look up pirating on the IRC… it’s not the most user friendly route out there, but that’s kind of the point, it’s ancient technology and for the most part no one bothers to monitor it.

and then of course there’s just tons of bootleg streaming sites. bottom line anything that’s not peer 2 peer, is pretty much impossible for ISPs to identify what you are doing on… and thus are pretty safe.

Well TVs… think about that again, Price of TVs has gone down, size has gone up. pick up a nice 50" or 70" TV for $200 or less.

Big, hard to move, fragile… Very bulky, very non descrete… and pawn shops are kind of over loaded with them so… big cut in price.

Games consoles are probably it, but obviously only a hand full per house, and thanks to the modern era having more digital games, accounts etc… New risks in ways you can get caught and you can’t steal the games with it.

and what isn’t… pretty sure in a Ross Ulbricht situation… there was more than enough stuff he needed to remain private currently open, and in the main files. Ulbright could have been on a live CD on a computer with no physical hard drive, and it wouldn’t have helped him since they nailed him after he had logged into the silk road.

and security on pages is useless if you are logged in.

We’re already talking the least of security problems (IE the device being physically confiscated).

In ross’s case which hurt him more do you think, the fact that his system probably had logs of what he installed… or the fact that it was taken while he was logged in as administrator to the silk road? and it supposedly contained a journal… not system logs, but activities that he specifically wrote out detailing his daily activities.

The point again is someone gaining physical access to the computer itself, while you are literally in the process of doing things that you don’t want known about, what you are currently working on is 100x more valuable to the thief, feds or whatever, than any of the low level stuff that the logs are likely to be recording.

am I missing something though, I’m assuming there’s like 18 democrats inn that committee so, what good does giving them the monopoly on questions on anything that matters.

You posted this same silly thing about 3 days ago.

anyway why isn’t the advice “encrypt your drives” instead of “disable all logging”.

I mean your own examples are like the least serious problem.

Who is logged in and when? So we’re talking a multi user system that’s clearly hosting a lot… that’s kind of important for an administrator to be able to track who is logging in when, to know if something goes wrong.

Package manager logs what’s installed. well duh, what’s the scenerio that this is even a factor? I don’t want big government to know I had, qbittorrent or whatever? There’s no program that’s likely installed via apt that’s illegal to have.

So yeah in short, stuff that’s vital if you ever need to troubleshoot, useful in general, almost unthinkable to imagine situations where this is a problem (at least in situations in which someone has your user account, or root access to your system for these to be the high priority.

On the whole the idea there is like.

“If someone steals your car… they could also steal the car users manual”.

don’t they actually have something like that in russia, like their top hockey team has to fake losing to putin like he’s a make a wish kid?

Edit: found video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgbI55HdqQs

https://ktla.com/news/california/march-for-billionaires-in-san-francisco-is-not-a-joke-organizers-says/

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/an-ai-startup-founder-says-hes-planning-a-march-for-billionaires-in-protest-of-californias-wealth-tax/

apparently it looks like it’s intended to be real.

Now I feel like if there’s a march for cancer, or aid’s, I have to take the time to research which side they are on.

What’s the official rules on what they can share? Like could Ro Khanna do like a AMA where we give him page numbers… solid targetted list of

“OK so who messaged epstien about the littlest girl being very naughty”, who all were the co-conspirators listed on page X, etc…

Is that information considered classified he’d go to jail for it? I mean technically everythings supposed to have been released from the get go…

Because we honestly, we’ve seen more than enough to know heads need to roll, hell we can point to so many points in the files where we can see specific people that’s heads should be rolling where we just lack the names.

I think there’s a bit of that, but also a bit of… unsubtle enshittification. I mean the obvious, AI features that nobody likes getting crammed into everything. Apples Intelligence making siri unable to do simple tasks it used to be able to do easily.

A lot of people would be happy to pay premium price for things that do exactly what they want. But more and more software companies are reversing what they do… and even when they do what you want, you still have to be vigilant on them changing their minds and removing features, or adding subscription costs etc…

Well depends, I think some industries just are fake in general,

Chiropractors, stock traders that aren’t using insider information etc…

But otherwise I suppose it’s just how you are “faking it”. In IT the obvious joke is that we always just google everything. But at the end of the day that gets you better at knowing what to google, and over time you’ll memorize most of it. and it’s almost impossible not to start gradually learning the connections of how and why things work.

Well yeah who couldn’t think unpredictability is long term a huge problem, especially when it comes to “deal making” above all things. IE you start with the “we’ll give him what he asks for or he might attack us”, but 1. that encourages everyone to eventually co-operate to get the bully in check… also it wears thinner when you don’t respect deals you’ve already made. Your unpredictable enough and “give me $1 or I nuke your country”, simple request, but if your unpredictability is high enough… they’ve got no reason to think you won’t nuke them even if you give the dollar… hell actually more reason to think possibly the opposite, maybe your possesion of the dollar is the only reason he hasn’t nuked you already.

Yeah honestly I feel that’s the universal problem the world in general has.

What’s worse, our “vetted” sources have all been compromised. Mainstream news is corrupt as hell… all owned by a tiny portion of rich assholes. As trust in them wanes, the focus moves to the “independent” creators on youtube, and instagram influencers, podcastors etc…

Of which many of them are actually getting paid by the same billionares, as scandal after scandal shows, and of course rich monstrocities like Meta, Google, Musk… have the power to signal boost the ones they want to, and to minimize the growth of ones they don’t.