I suppose there could be business in procurement of “specialty products”. These guys do all the shopping around or find someone to make that one odd part you need or figure where to get 50,000 packages of foobar and how to ship/store it while you continue on with your life.

…have you ever gone?

Piracy will always be a problem, someone is always looking for the free route. The paid routes used to be guarantees of availability, malware free, and a quality copy. Now its almost the opposite, a pirated file is always available, usually malware free and higher resolution than whatever the data mining services feel like feeding you.

Don’t people buy stuff on OF, more than just a sub? Is it easily available for download in a common file format or is access stuck on the website even though you bought it?

I agree that straight piracy of content is bad. Piracy is primarily a service problem, TV and movie piracy was down in the mid 2010s until all the streaming services divided. Music piracy is basically gone thanks to early iTunes and even more so with today’s streaming services. OF piracy will always be a thing because people want their free porn and the parasocial relationship they don’t get on the regular free sites.

If corporations refuse to just sell us the file and can randomly revoke access or change the content (like Amazon’s been doing with book), then the community will find ways to strip out the DRM and other protections just to preserve the content they bought.

I don’t have a problem with github removing of projects that aim to circumvent purchasing content, but projects that simply “unlock” purchased content should be allowed to thrive.

Edit: I should add, if corporations can’t be bothered to respect what the word buy means, why I should I bother to provide them money? morality is a two way street, if one side is dishonest and shady, do they really have a right to whine when others steal from them?

Edit 2: in case it wasn’t clear the “dishonest and shady” one is the corporations. Its to the point were I pretty much only pay creators directly (patreon, etc) where I know good chunk of my money goes to the artist not the publisher/middle man. If I’m buying a movie or something its either a DVD or getting screen caped on the first watch for archival purposes.

Oh great, so NASA is the mean one for not going easy on the kid. Now their big brother is gonna come next time.

Or NASA has better ping than the aliens.

Yeah, that’s classified as dwarf finger now.

Wasn’t that the only thing he could make? Anything else either turned in to mush or a Krabby Patty.

I think that was episode, that or my memory made it up…

YKK exec; hey we’ve pretty much won the zipper market and quality brands default to us. But our social marketing teams says we need more presence in the news cycle, so how can we tank our reputation for clicks?"

YKK exec2; lets add AI to the zippers!

(and I’m not just saying that because that’s what a meth dealer would say)

Hmm sound like something a meth dealer would say

And yeah android does have a lockdown button, if you press and hold the power button, its in the options.

Alternatively you can quickly spam the wrong finger over the sensor a few times until it requires the pass code, which will work for iOS too.

Edit: after a quick test the “wrong finger” method has a a fatal flaw. After using the wrong finger a few times, the pass code UI appears. If you back out of it you can still use finger unlock. You have to get to the code UI and back out 2-3 times before it says too many failed attempts and forces you to use the pin.

Hey, I might not be any of those things, but I’m here!

No, that’s Black Friday. Most sales are fake, I figure there are 4 routes those sales go:

1. They jack up the regular price a month before and just lie saying the normal price is a “sale”.
2. Its an actual sale, but after the sale price will increase significantly.
3. Its the sale of an inferior product, most often seen with TVs and electronics that the insides are easily swaped for cheaper parts.
4. It a real sale, often done by smaller entities pressured into taking a loss for the day hoping to either clear dead stock or get their product into more hands.

At first it was a normal reading voice, but the time I got to the end it was definitely syndrome

I was thinking more random screen shots, but yeah I suppose there’s a ton visual information to identify a location in a picture.

Make sure you run any image you upload through a meta data eraser.

I like exiferaser on Android.

Until they ban that book for an obscure reference about “poor people saving money” and take it away.

Best off hiding them in “Bible - Abridged version heavily filtered by old white men to only include passages convenient for youth indoctrination and reinforcing raciest and homophobic ideology.” .

Oh wow, I can’t wait to buy a 32GB phone to have 7GB unusable due to google bloat and manufacture bloat, and fill it up with 3 videos recorded in the default 4k super max res with 6 underlying copies.

Min should be 64GB at this point, with a cap on manufacture bloat.

Neither were planned, plan was to have 0. Mistakes were made, but hopefully for the kids, not regretted.

TLDR; Scammer/creep is using a woman’s photos, possibly stolen from a webcam hack, and her social media links to privately message people.

People were getting private messages with a few links and a picture from someone claiming to be Nicole the Fediverse Chick.

Of course this becomes a meme and spreads as people talk about it.

It gets weird because there’s multiple different pictures. 1 or 2 stolen pic online, that’s expected for these types of scam. But there’s a whole collection of them out there. Its suspected to be pulled from a live stream or a hacked webcam.

Like usual, the chance that the woman in the picture is actually Nicole sending messages is pretty low. Having her image and links shared to randos online makes an easy target for a lot of people to harass her.

.world admins are saying no more. All references to “Nicole” will be purged.

You make a good point, let’s hold a public hearing to discuss the topic. We will off course need to assemble a task force to organize the meeting.