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  • On the post: Bureau Of Prisons Seeking To Criminalize Social Media Access By Inmates

    pyrosf ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2024 @ 12:03pm

    It costs 37k to 45k to put someone in Normal / federal Jail. This is just normal jail. Jailing people at the rates we are is just not worth the labor we get from them. I am sure firms are making some money here but the cost to the US to keep so many people in jail is crazy vs what we could use that money for.

  • On the post: One YouTuber’s Quest For Political Action To Preserve Old Video Games

    pyrosf ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2024 @ 08:58am

    Cybersecurity is all about liability and best practices. If you know that your app can run someones malware remotly you have a big heap of liability. The Gov wont tell you how little or how much liability risk you take, but the industry will destroy you if you ignore it to much.

  • On the post: Comcast, Paramount Eye Merger Because The Streaming Sector Is Completely Out of Ideas

    pyrosf ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2024 @ 05:55am

    A lot of your legacy firms like IBM, Ford, GM, some could argue airlines, etc don't innovate much anymore. Their stock price is reflected in the fact they mostly just make slight updates and sometimes adopt new tech often made by someone else. Compared to say Tesla that for a while was bigger then the entire auto sector. Often times MBA types are told to sell cash cows (sections of a firm that are in maintenance mode) in order to chase growth in other areas of the firm. This is likely why you don't see it often.

  • On the post: Comcast, Paramount Eye Merger Because The Streaming Sector Is Completely Out of Ideas

    pyrosf ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2024 @ 05:03pm

    Wallstreet has gone Insane

    I think its fun to note that industrys are not allowed to simply mature past the growth phase anymore. Google kills projects that don't make an arbitary amount of money even when they are growing money makers. Now Streaming, which could settle down into a few models that are profitable, choose instead to double down on all you can eat AND cancel shows after 1-2 seasons and wont even try to pay anyone on the show well. Thank you great "Shareholder Value" gods!

  • On the post: Disney, Hulu Follow Netflix In Password Sharing Crackdown As Streaming Enshittification Accelerates

    pyrosf ( profile ), 08 Feb, 2024 @ 10:21am

    I am sure this is because Wallstreet wont reward firms that have simply stable income and cost. Everything has to be hyper growth focused reguardless of ability or its a junk stock.

  • On the post: Cops Charge Teen With Murder After One Of Them Dies Shortly After Restraining Him

    pyrosf ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2024 @ 09:30pm

    I assume they are trying to get him on one of those "Felony Murder Rule" Charges that basically say if someone dies for "Any Reason" you can charge the suspect with Felony 1 Murder. This rule is clearly insane in some situations like the one above. I did already see lawyers argue that someone having a heart attack because a suspect shot a gun is enough to trigger this rule. Example of how crazy this law is: https://reason.com/2023/04/05/he-got-30-years-for-murder-after-a-cop-killed-his-friend/

  • On the post: Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past

    pyrosf ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2024 @ 07:55am

    There are enough ways from pirate streaming to going through a proxy that the ISP level is no big deal anymore. In addition only the new big stuff is really being tracked anymore, stuff on Torrent with 1 seed is highly likly not being tracked at all and in that case one could make the argument that the person filing the suit had the authority to distribute the work in question (not that I will try this, but an arguemnt could be made)

  • On the post: Tesla Lied To Customers, Blaming Them For Shoddy Parts The Company Knew Were Defective

    pyrosf ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2023 @ 06:43am

    Just wait for the Colorado ruling on Trump to hit the Supreme Court. Soon the Republicans are gonna say they can elect whoever they want, rules be dammed.

  • On the post: Yes, The First Amendment Protects Displaying The ‘Thin Blue Line’ Flag Even In Publicly Owned Buildings

    pyrosf ( profile ), 01 Dec, 2023 @ 12:48pm

    The rule just needed broader, something like the government shall not discriminate, advertise, or make statements related to anything non official within government buildings. This is of course why we can't have nice things too, but banning any kind of speech not limited to the thin blue line, should be fine since it's government property and the town can say no to non public forums. Does this ban girl scout cookie posters, yep. Price you pay in this situation.

  • On the post: NY Federal Court: There’s A Right To Record Police Officers And State Law Says That Includes Inside Station Lobbies

    pyrosf ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2023 @ 08:39am

    I dont think anyone has an argument for recording your own interaction with cops. On the other hand sensentive people sometimes are required to interact with cops, say a rape victom, and espically if its a minor. These are people who do indeed have special rules for their own protection, and these people would likly want to have non publically recorded interactions. Espically since the there very presense in a lobby could be used aginst them or used to threaten them. I wish I could say this was spy games territory but a guy sitting in the lobby 24/7 posting everyone coming and going is an intimidating thing that could prevent normal people from coming out of fear or intimidation. So yes, I am in favor of limited rules for a limited public forum that by todays norms did not traditionally have someone recording 24/7, nor people "hanging out" with no appointment or waiting to meet with someone.

  • On the post: Maine Voters Once Again Show ‘Right To Repair’ Reforms Are Overwhelmingly Popular

    pyrosf ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2023 @ 09:07am

    The ultra wealthy are often not a unified front. Apple for example thinks its better to control the repair process (and make it a pain in the ass). Other firms have forced the situation because farmers are worth 10 votes in the senate vs most city people who get much more diluted voting. Guess whos mad? Farmers with all that extra voting power. So small people do get the power, sometimes. But its only because an issue can only be pushed so far by money when your also fucking over a large block of people.

  • On the post: The US Healthcare Scam Illustrated In The Impossibility Of Getting A Bill For Five Stitches

    pyrosf ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2023 @ 01:29pm

    In case I was not clear, Insurance wants the price of baseline healthcare to go up, so that it can tell states costs are going up, so it can charge more, so it can increase the total pie that it gets to take its cut from. For example, say CA has a mandatory payout of 90% customer premiums. The insurance will want to get to as close to that number as it can, say that costs are going up, charge more to customers and as such grow its revneue and profit. The Hospitals are stuck in the middle

  • On the post: The US Healthcare Scam Illustrated In The Impossibility Of Getting A Bill For Five Stitches

    pyrosf ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2023 @ 12:38pm

    Its worse then this

    The healthcare system is caught in a war with Insurance and Wallstreet. Wallstreet demands 7% growth, forever. Insurance can only grow by getting more customers, raising rates, or paying out less. There are some problems however, Customers are mostly locked down, and states have mandatory pay for care amounts. So insurance needs to raise rates. This means Health care profesionals (Hospitals included) have been under pressure to raise rates for standard care so insurance can have a bunch of standard bills they want to pay to get them up to the states minimums. But 7% cost growth when workers are not getting more pay means one thing, end users are getting shafted with costs that don't make any sense and they will keep going up for wallstreet.

  • On the post: Fifth Circuit: The Government Doesn’t Need To Pay You For The Home It Destroyed To Effect An Arrest

    pyrosf ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2023 @ 10:40pm

    That is quite the chilling result. In general services agree to things like paying for this to prevent the idea your saying. Entire community's won't call cops for any reason today already.

  • On the post: Disney Joins Netflix In Harassing Password Sharers As The Enshittification Of Streaming Continues

    pyrosf ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2023 @ 07:41am

    Actual Solution...

    A single platform could solve this fairly easily by paying per play of a show. Disney, HBO etc made platforms because they felt Netflix was not paying enough for their content. Today they know far better what their content is actully worth and how costly a network like Netflix is to build. We know this wont happen because of sunk costs.

  • On the post: Court: Apparently Vindictive Detainment And Strip Search Are, Yep, Constitutional Violations

    pyrosf ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2023 @ 12:51pm

    That line of thinking stops working when one side is willing to break all norms and let people loyal to it off on crimes. So now you're stuck with tyranny of the minority who will do everything they can to keep things as they are in light of problems.

  • On the post: Authors Guild, Jealous Of Other Terrible Author Lawsuits Against AI, Decides To Join In The Party

    pyrosf ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2023 @ 11:41am

    AI training is NOT the same as reading a book. AI training's goal is to learn what words link to what other words and in what context those words should link to each other the most. The AI engineers just go out of their way to make it hard to understand whats happening in the black box, its not learning like a human, its taking the exact data and turning it into an AI understanding of that data then cross linking it with other data it has. So at best its format shifting.

  • On the post: Authors Guild, Jealous Of Other Terrible Author Lawsuits Against AI, Decides To Join In The Party

    pyrosf ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2023 @ 11:29am

    Its the output, Search engine outputs the ability to find the origional content, only providing enough to see if your can tell its the origional that you want. The AI bot's goal is to create new content. Often in the format of an author, or a style that mimics something closely. So the AI is scraping content with the goal to create the next Steven King book or Scinfeld episode. This means the origional writer is now definatly compeating aginst the bot who can write in the style of a copyrighted author with 80% accuracy. At the other end entire publishers are shutting down new submissions because of the amount of AI generated trash coming their way. So the AI tool might not be the best thing to attack, but there are not many other vectors to go after a tool like this.

  • On the post: The Enshittification Of Streaming Continues As Amazon Starts Charging Prime Video Customers Even More Money To Avoid Ads

    pyrosf ( profile ), 23 Sep, 2023 @ 04:44pm

    Crazy part

    The Crazy part is that the fix is fairly simple, move from "All you can eat" to a just slighly limited model (100 hours per month!) with extra hours costing like 2.99 per 100 or something. Now you can go back to huge catalogs since residuals and fees can be paid out of the sub and hours allotments. Hell with all the news and writers strikes and such the general population is primed for a change here.

  • On the post: Unity’s New Pricing Plan Unites Everyone Against Unity

    pyrosf ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2023 @ 09:25am

    Well known trick

    So um.. This is an actual trick, They can cancel sell orders at any time. So if the firm is going down they setup a ton of advanced sell orders. Honestly they will set the orders years out so people cant say when they set the order was whatever when it was placed. The trick is they cancel the sell order when things are good, and let it run when things are bad. So if they let the orders process they know something.

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