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• On the post: One Restaurant Sends Cease And Desist To Another Over The Word 'Juicy'

  

  dfed ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2020 @ 06:22am

  So glad this is about some other state's Juicy burgers and I don't have to watch other Minnesotans rage about "Jucy" versus "Juicy" and other malarky like anywhere other than Matt's Bar being the place to get one.

  I swear I am going to start a bar and make my signature burger be "The Moist Argument." It'll have salty tears on it.

• On the post: RIAA Tosses Bogus Claim At Github To Get Video Downloading Software Removed

  

  dfed ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2020 @ 12:10pm

  So they waited until Github was owned by Microsoft to bitch about code on Github that can download videos from youtube?

  Sure that's not a naked cash grab against a large corporation at all. Clearly this is about merits.

• On the post: Bill Murray Responds To Doobie Bros. Copyright Letter With Snark, No Offer To Pay For Use Of Song

  

  dfed ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2020 @ 09:15am

  "Old white men yell at each other about money in front of a crowd" used to be just an embarrassing moment with crazy uncles at a family outing, but thanks to the wonder of the information superhighway we can see everyone's crazy uncles being assholes.

• On the post: DOJ Releases Its List Of 'Anarchy' Jurisdictions The President Thinks Should Be Blocked From Receiving Federal Funds

  

  dfed ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2020 @ 05:57am

  Honestly I think I am just pleasantly surprised at the sliver of consistency of Trump about my city: Apparently the White House remembered Minneapolis is a No-Go Zone (TM) because of Sharia Law being enacted, not because we're an anarchy.

  (Christ, what an asshole.)

• On the post: Confused Critic Of Section 230 Now In Charge Of NTIA

  

  dfed ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2020 @ 02:56pm

  Stop giving "critics" of 230 the benefit of the doubt by calling them confused. These people know exactly what they're doing.

• On the post: Law Firm Southtown Moxie Responds Hilariously To Stupid Cease And Desist Letter

  

  dfed ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2020 @ 06:22am

  One wonders if Ms. Harper's attitude toward damages will be governed by the nature of the reply.

• On the post: Publisher Decries Damn Libraries Entertaining The Masses Stuck At Home For Free

  

  dfed ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2020 @ 11:02am

  But these factors pale in comparison to the simple fact that four out of five books are read at no charge.

  Yes, how dare these libraries do....the thing they literally are designed to do and have always done?

• On the post: Trump, DOJ Claim ANTIFA, Other Extremists Are Hijacking Protests. DOJ Filings Show No Link To Outside Groups.

  

  dfed ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2020 @ 10:47am

  Re: Re:

  I mean, if you wanted evidence of terrible and nefarious antifa actions in Minneapolis you can watch that and think "Clearly these are outside agitator because they're not dancing to Prince, The Time or Doomtree."

• On the post: Trump, DOJ Claim ANTIFA, Other Extremists Are Hijacking Protests. DOJ Filings Show No Link To Outside Groups.

  

  dfed ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2020 @ 03:17pm

  Re:

  *Perpetrated. Ducking autocorrect.

• On the post: Trump, DOJ Claim ANTIFA, Other Extremists Are Hijacking Protests. DOJ Filings Show No Link To Outside Groups.

  

  dfed ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2020 @ 03:01pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: gaslighting

  I didn't see you at the protests. What the fuck are you doing?

• On the post: Trump, DOJ Claim ANTIFA, Other Extremists Are Hijacking Protests. DOJ Filings Show No Link To Outside Groups.

  

  dfed ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2020 @ 12:52pm

  Re:

  I literally live in the middle of this, and it is very likely based on what I witnessed that all three of your bullet points were happening. But my favorite moronic tell from these asshats was that so many of them decided to take the plates off their cars and drive around causing their trouble in those cars, during curfew, with the largest law-enforcement task force deployed in the history of Minnesota concentrated in 50 square city blocks. That takes a special kind of idiot.

• On the post: Trump, DOJ Claim ANTIFA, Other Extremists Are Hijacking Protests. DOJ Filings Show No Link To Outside Groups.

  

  dfed ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2020 @ 12:28pm

  Re: Re: gaslighting

  I live 15-ish blocks to the west of where George Floyd died, I am blocks from the 5th precinct where there was a LOT of activity after the 3rd precinct fell. I have chased asshats off my street trying to light trash cans, garages/fences or cars on fire and watched the instigators as this happened around me. Antifa wasn't here as far as anyone could tell on my block, but everyone who doesn't live here sure keeps telling me they were. I did catch a bunch of cars that were driving around without license plates moving their rioting and arson activity around to avoid the national guard and cops out. The next morning the report from National Guard/Police in the press briefings was those were violence tourists attempting to start a full blown race war. Some from out of state, many from third-tier suburbs and the boonies. A lot of AR-15s confiscated from cops stopping those cars, and more than one of those trucks/cars without plates had QAnon stickers that I saw. I guess antifa is a better boogey man than the more nuanced reality happening. Sure getting sick of assholes telling me what I literally witnessed though.

• On the post: Trump, DOJ Claim ANTIFA, Other Extremists Are Hijacking Protests. DOJ Filings Show No Link To Outside Groups.

  

  dfed ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2020 @ 12:54pm

  HOLY SHIT! LOOK AT ALL THE HORRIFYING ACTS PERPETUATED BY ANTIFA IN MINNEAPOLIS!!!

• On the post: YouTube And Demonetization: The Hammer And Nail Of Content Moderation

  

  dfed ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2019 @ 09:41am

  I think a better way to think about this is not that Youtube wants to improve itself and grow the platform, but that Youtube has cornered the performance art of punching oneself in the crotch using the heads of their content creators.

  Be sure to like, subscribe and ring the bell so you can see them punch themselves in the crotch next time!

• On the post: Congressman Introduces Bill That Would Allow People And Companies To 'Hack Back' After Attacks

  

  dfed ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2017 @ 07:23am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Sounds good - until...

  I am a meat popsicle.

• On the post: Trump Administration Wants A Clean Reauthorization For NSA Surveillance

  

  dfed ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2017 @ 08:42am

  So they want to reauthorize the surveillance law that likely has yielded sigint which can probably show collusion between trump's team and Russia during the election?
  
  Ballsy. Stupid, but ballsy.

• On the post: Electronic Arts Unveils New Policy For Marking YouTube Videos As 'Supported' Or 'Advertisement'

  

  dfed ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2016 @ 03:30pm

  Re:

  So does this mean GG will stop harassing people online? Or that it works and they'll now harass more people?

• On the post: Electronic Arts Unveils New Policy For Marking YouTube Videos As 'Supported' Or 'Advertisement'

  

  dfed ( profile ), 23 Nov, 2016 @ 03:23pm

  So...wait...this actually is about ethics in game journalism?
  
  Huh.

• On the post: In Wake Of Trump Win, ISPs Are Already Laying The Groundwork For Gutting Net Neutrality

  

  dfed ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2016 @ 08:55am

  Re: Re:

  "They just don't want to become a dumb pipe."
  
  No, they want to be AOL and Prodigy for the 21st century and control not just your internet experience, but all media and communication.
  
  Gatekeeping is control, control is money.

• On the post: Akamai: 12-Year-Old SSH Vulnerability Fueling Internet-Of-Broken-Things DDoS Attacks, And Worse

  

  dfed ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2016 @ 06:27pm

  Re: Configure to prevent exploitation at the source

  While I agree with you, most of the design of the control software on these devices doesn't even assume that a home network would have more than 1 broadcast domain or subnet. This leads to apps not being able to connect from wireless if the IoT thing is on another subnet/etc.
  
  It causes some issues from time to time, especially when they auto-discover their counterparts or control devices on one subnet and don't think there might be another locally. I recently had an issue with chromecast like this: It was joined to the 2.4gHz wireless, which was technically being used as a sort of "device wifi" and my phone on the 5gHz wireless (on another subnet/vlan) wouldn't allow me to enter an IP - it just kept trying to search the one vlan/subnet.
  
  That was before they released chromecasts with 5gHz support, so maybe they fixed this, but things like these non-considerations for more complicated home networks turn me off to most IoT devices. That and I trust the security in them so little I doubt I would let the vlan they are on out to the internet, which probably breaks most of them.
  
  tl/dr: agreed, but that breaks a lot of the functionality of these things.

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