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marysol5··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
"You are hereby charged with the offence of rape. How do you wish to plead?"

"I am sad"

"Okay, you are free to go"

marysol5··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
It's also weirdly interesting how people defend Swartz activities, while calling on other people (or corporations) doing it to be prosecuted.
marysol5··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
He'd been caught once already, then continued and went around ever barrier they put in place to try and stop him.
marysol5··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
Not in this case, also why because it's "digital" does it change anything.

SWATing is "digital" but leads to very real death

marysol5··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
Here in the UK we have "Duty Solicitors", who are on-call in the police station should you need them.

Problem is, the pay out from the government for their services is atrocious, so not many are willing to go onto the list. And the ones who are, aren't the good ones.

marysol5··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
I can attest to this.

My duty solicitor on the day of my arrest kept making comment that he believed I committed the accused offence (I didn't). Mostly because he didn't understand it it, so that's proof enough it seems.

He then sent me a letter outlining what he understood, which outright stated he believed I did it (again, I didn't). Dropped him like a hot stone when I got charged, and paid for my own. Who after some research was actually half-good.

Then the barrister I had at trial said "You'll likely go down, the judge you have is a bastard, and has sent a lot down", great..

And now when I'm trying to get some reconciliation for all this nonsense. The legal firm I hired to sue, are ignoring my instructions and went for something entirely different and offering a whopping £1000 compensation.

My legal costs alone were many times that

marysol5··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
Not all legal professionals are good, and not all are even working in the interests of their clients.
marysol5··on A faster way to calculate the day of the week
"We need Jungle I'm afraid"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8jZUTPPf6do

marysol5··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Everyone knows a guy, who knows a guy, who's dog met a guy
marysol5··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
That would require you to actually follow the constitution, instead you've got "Nuh-uh! I don't read the rest of the 2A"
marysol5··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
I mean 3 seconds after the Nazis surrendered, there was suddenly no Nazis in Germany
marysol5··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Those damn commies have banned me from owning an ICBM
marysol5··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
>No, it’s because the right to own firearms is very explicitly stated in our constitution

No it isn't, it says you have the ability to form a militia. Not wave a AR-15 in Walmart. It's lobbying by the NRA that has changed the definition.

marysol5··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
>Well, most of Europe simply has banned guns in the hands of civilians instead

Nope

marysol5··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Lets not forget the UK defines violent crime as any sort of threat, shouting at someone in the street is violent crime.

The US defines violent crime as literal murder.

Those are no way near comparable.

marysol5··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
To be utterly fair, most of the "emails" are just inane conversations he had with people.

People love to throw around the statistics about the number of documents, but most are entirely blah

marysol5··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
I always love his defenders who will cite "But he banned him from MAL"

Yes, as in the documents, he kicked him out for "stealing his girls".

Fucking hell

marysol5··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Donald J Trump banned the purchase of bump stocks.
marysol5··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
>yet almost nothing seems to be done to prevent CSA.

>that many of the people actually arrested are arrested for CSAM and not CSA

So there are, or there aren't arrests?

Also you hear about CSA arrests all the damn time. If anything it's underplayed in the media somewhat when they're a specific people.

marysol5··on Show HN: Cartopolis – OpenStreetMap rendered like it's 1999
The search seems to not find a lot of places.

>Sorry, "Glasgow" was not found. Try again!

Thank christ for that

marysol5··on French President Macron backs effort to ban kids under 15 from social media
I love how painfully obviously American that comment was by using "mall food courts"
marysol5··on French President Macron backs effort to ban kids under 15 from social media
This is France, not America
marysol5··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Nobody hacks because that's illegal

marysol5··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
Banks don't want to run physical branches anymore, hence why, at least in the UK all local branches are done. And central branches are all that exist.

They want to close even them because the only services they have now is ingesting cash, which is getting less and less anyway.

But yeah, any time I've gone into a branch, which they made me do a few months ago to "validate" my documents for a mortgage. Which was just scanning and uploading to their internet..., they've made me sit on the phone to their call centre.

marysol5··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
>I have senior citizens asking me

>instead they have a mixed Windows + Apple setup with 3rd-party password manager

Why do I feel like this scenario is entirely fabricated.

What fucking "senior citizen" is confused by a passkey, but has multiple devices and password managers?

marysol5··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
Lest we forget that enterprises have had passwordless auth long before any of this
marysol5··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
Eh, PassKeys are consumer friendly by virtue of allowing the keys to be synced across multiple devices. That actually breaks some of the security of it for the benefit of the end user.

No end user wants to export and store a keychain. So they hand that off to somewhere else.

marysol5··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
Everything you ask is nothing to do with PassKeys, but to do with whatever platform you use authentication flow...
marysol5··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
He's sat in his bunker, wanking himself to death thinking about the end of the world.
marysol5··on The US has collected about $13B of Venezuela's oil money. Where is it?
Or smashed the window, smashed the barrel and collected your car into it's parts and re-sold.
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