The problem is that brute-forcing passwords hasn’t been a thing for ages. It’s all about phishing and social engineering now, something passwords can’t protect against. It doesn’t seem like they’re pushing for pins as much as passkeys, which I much prefer using over other bandaid fixes like SMS 2FA (well, now that Firefox for Android properly supports using passkeys from Bitwarden. Before they fixed that, they were really obnoxious to use).
If he wanted to give it to the public domain, you don’t need creative commons. CC0 is public domain, but you don’t need to use it, the copyright holder just needs to state “I dedicate this media to the public domain” and bam.
And any copyright they still have over their media isn’t “forever”, it will expire eventually. In the meantime, yes their estate likely has the rights, whoever that may be.
Do you have a static IP address? CG-NAT has done a really great job of hindering torrents, since my understanding is that at least one side of the connection needs to have an open port. So, if you don’t, then only the few people who do are able to download from you, which can make it seem like no one wants your stuff.
Tails is a bit overkill, even for this. It’s not just privacy focused, it’s for the same people who need to use TOR (Tails even routes all traffic through TOR by default IIRC, no?), i.e. those who are sharing classified government intel or running large darknet drug markets. Unless OP is that paranoid, they can probably start off with a basic Debian or something, which is already leagues ahead of Windows in terms of privacy.
I would not bother archiving the mainstream releases that can already be found on many torrent sites (like, you don’t need to archive Star Wars or Lord of the Rings) and focus on the bootleg disks first. You just need any standard DVD drive, then use Handbreak to rip the disks to a video file. For official releases, many of them have forms of copy protection, but 15 minutes on Google should tell you how to get around any you come across.
Also, for reference, “burning” a DVD is writing data to a disk, so the opposite of what you’re trying to do.
Sorry, Microsoft might make crappy software, but they aren’t actively trying to invalidate my existence as a person. Absolutely not comparable.
Why would you need to block apps installing from non-Play Store sources? You shouldn’t be plugging your phone into mysterious USB ports, and the OS should always prompt you before installing a local .apk file. If you’re savvy enough to use F-Droid, you’re savvy enough to not need that hand-holding “safety” feature.
You mean the scientist who, as the article says, “represented cigarette maker R.J. Reynolds in negotiations with the Department of Health and Human Services about cigarette additives, according to a 1984 corporate memo”? Yeah, I’m sure this guy is completely unbiased towards corporate interests.
I’m guessing that all mods will more or less need to be remade from scratch (apart from assets)
I did! I remember it being fun, but not my favorite of the Lego board games.
Side note: I really love the Lego dice pieces, I’m glad I got some.
I mean, it’s about as permanent as you can get within the US’s political system. It’s not really up for “interpretation” like Roe v. Wade, it’s literally just “the State Constitution has changed so this law is now unconstitutional”. If a future judge(s) were to overrule this, it would be blatantly and objectively partisan, which is a much bigger deal with state courts than it is Federal ones
Yeah. It turns out that the “Alpha” and “Omega” wolves are just… The parents of the pack. It’s got nothing to do with the Alpha being macho or assertive or anything like how it’s been portrayed for decades.
The researcher who first published his faulty observations has been trying to correct the public consciousness for years, but it’s really hard to undo something that was taught so widely
Ive never had to download a codec to use VLC, it should come built-in with every codec you may reasonably encounter on commercial DVDs.
If you take something to block your body’s natural production of hormones and don’t take anything to replace them, you will eventually develop osteoporosis, which is very much not fun.
Is “prior art” not still a thing?
I’m in the same boat as you, I can’t deal with greasy hands. So in the winter, I put on a good amount of O’Keefs Working Hands right before I go to sleep for the night. The sticky lotion feeling doesn’t bother me when I’m falling asleep since I’m not using my hands for anything, and by the morning my hands are a lot less dry and the stickiness is gone.
Asus has always been a solid brand in my experience. I would recommend anything Ryzen-based, since they’re definitely in the lead over Intel right now, but anything with at least 4 cores that can run at at least 4.0GHz will be fine.
Minecraft servers can eat up a ton of RAM, so I would focus on that first. 32GB minimum, maybe 64. Should also preferably have an M.2 SSD, but anything non-mechanical is fine. Other than that, there isn’t much spec-wise you need to worry about.
I have the same problem with CloudFlare’s 1.1.1.1. Are the two services related? I also remember the same issue going on with archive.is
That tells me you’re either a cishet, white, male, or you’re woefully uneducated and selfish. You’re totally in favor of development crunch too, aren’t you?
Funny enough, Usenet is still around too, it’s used as an alternative to BitTorrent for sharing pirated stuff.