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While I sympathize with the author's frustration (especially towards the one who intentionally republished their code without permission), it seems the author either does not fully understand the DMCA process or that it is not unique to GitHub.

I am not a lawyer, but it is my understanding that a DMCA counter notice asserts that - under penalty of purjury - there is a good faith belief that the DMCA takedown request is invalid. Once a host receives this, they wait 10-14 days and then must restore the hosted content. The only available next step in the process for the copyright holder is to use the court system.

"In order to protect against the possibility of erroneous or fraudulent notifications, certain safeguards are built into section 512. Subsection (g)(1) gives the subscriber the opportunity to respond to the notice and takedown by filing a counternotification. In order to qualify for the protection against liability for taking down material, the service provider must promptly notify the subscriber that it has removed or disabled access to the material. If the subscriber serves a counter notification complying with statutory requirements, including a statement under penalty of perjury that the material was removed or disabled through mistake or misidentification, then unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the subscriber, the service provider must put the material back up within 10-14 business days after receiving the counter notification.

Penalties are provided for knowing material misrepresentations in either a notice or a counter notice. Any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing, or that it was removed or blocked through mistake or misidentification, is liable for any resulting damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) incurred by the alleged infringer, the copyright owner or its licensee, or the service provider.(Section 512(f))." [1, Page 12]

[1]: https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

Could you not perhaps git fetch && git rebase origin/master (for instance, to pull remote changes into a local development branch)?

Very good rundown of why encryption backdoors are fundamentally flawed (and why governments should stop pushing for them).

I'll be interested to see how the proposed reputation system rolls out. It sounds like a complex system to get right.

FLIF was superseded by FUIF and then by JPEG XL, but it hasn't been fully integrated. JPEG XL has parallel decode and uses MAANS entropy encoding instead of MANIAC, which results is slightly less compression for some situations (but faster decode). That said, I certainly agree that JPEG XL is already very impressive and hopefully the next majorly supported image format.

How does this compare to Pomerium or other open source IAPs?

Nice to note, though, is that FLIF tech will not just be thrown away. FLIF was superseded by FUIF which was then superseded by JPEG-XL. It's doesn't have as great compression in all cases as FLIF, but I'm very optimistic about JPEG-XL being a highly adopted new image format.

Does anyone else really struggle with comfort when using headphones which go into the ear canal (IEMs)? I know there is better sound isolation, but for some reason I cannot stand the minor pressure of them in my ears.

Me too, the Jak & Daxter games have a very special place in my heart as my childhood introduction to gaming. I'd love to reach about it!

I've had the same (mostly) great experience with them.

My only issues with TransferWise have been having to ask recipients for their full addresses and then manually having to translate address schemes into something that fits in the boxes TransferWise provides in their forms. Sometimes things don't map over 1-to-1 (some Japanese and Taiwanese addresses, for example). I've also found that some Japanese banks only have one branch without a name and Transferwise requires a branch name. I eventually figured things out by researching the branch number online though.

All minor gripes though. Transferwise has let my business operate smoothly and make connections to vendors that would otherwise be cost-prohibitive to pay.