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#3321582 17-Dec-2024 12:47

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For a "computer company", the Dell website is a slow trainwreck. Everything takes ages. Every page load is painfully slow.

They're putting bloatware on their own website now?

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#3323402 22-Dec-2024 21:53

'United Healthcare' Using DMCA Against Luigi Mangione Images Which Is Bizarre & Wildly Inappropriate: Above The Law

Someone purporting to be United Healthcare is filing DMCA requests to scrub the internet of artists’ depictions of the surveillance video of Luigi smiling, parody merchandise of “Deny, Defend, Depose,” and other merchandise showing the alleged shooter [of the CFO of United Healthcare].

If it is really the health insurer filing these notices, it wildly oversteps any legal rights the company might have, but if there’s any company willing to preemptively breach the law and dare the other side to spend their limited resources trying to protect their rights it would be a [American] health insurer.

404 Media reports that a number of DMCA takedown requests from “United Healthcare” have hit artists depicting the newsworthy event. The publication reached out to the company to confirm that it’s behind the filings but didn’t hear back.

For those keeping score at home, the DMCA provides that a copyright owner must inform an internet entity that their intellectual property is being abused and the service provider then has an opportunity to expeditiously remove the material and avoid possible liability. That said, the DMCA only provides a shield against legal action and if the copyright claim is — to use the precise legal term — “utter bullshit,” they don’t have to comply. Unfortunately, hosts routinely err on the side of caution and remove content when there’s zero cognizable claim.
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this image is one of many that got of a real-life copyright takedown notice sent to the original artist.

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#3323454 23-Dec-2024 03:03

Another Christmas market rampage in Germany.

What brain-dead people who are granted asylum and not even an Islamist. A doctor!

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#3323510 23-Dec-2024 09:24

Tinkerisk:

Another Christmas market rampage in Germany.

What brain-dead people who are granted asylum and not even an Islamist. A doctor!

A doctor, Saudi immigrant, who hated Islamism and apparently sucked into the AfD far-right mindset.

But then again, latinos voted for Trump. So not unheard of people that aren't welcome into a political group supporting that group.

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#3323530 23-Dec-2024 10:42

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…

But then again, latinos voted for Trump. So not unheard of people that aren't welcome into a political group supporting that group.

Akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3323532 23-Dec-2024 10:50

eracode:

freitasm:

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But then again, latinos voted for Trump. So not unheard of people that aren't welcome into a political group supporting that group.

Akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

"Leopards Eating People's Faces Party"

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#3323703 23-Dec-2024 15:47

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A doctor, Saudi immigrant, who hated Islamism and apparently sucked into the AfD far-right mindset.

He is now in custody - we can't make any sense of it yet.

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#3323708 23-Dec-2024 16:07

freitasm:

Tinkerisk:

Another Christmas market rampage in Germany.

What brain-dead people who are granted asylum and not even an Islamist. A doctor!

A doctor, Saudi immigrant, who hated Islamism and apparently sucked into the AfD far-right mindset.

But then again, latinos voted for Trump. So not unheard of people that aren't welcome into a political group supporting that group.

The irony of a fiercely pro-AfD ex-Muslim using ISIL-style tactics to make a point is utterly lost on him. Then again, AfD & ISIL hardliners seem to have much more in common than they'd like to admit.

And he sounds just like those slam-the-door-behind types who'd deport their own grandparents.

"I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce." — J. Edgar Hoover

"Create a society that values material things above all else. Strip it of industry. Raise taxes for the poor and reduce them for the rich and for corporations. Prop up failed financial institutions with public money. Ask for more tax, while vastly reducing public services. Put adverts everywhere, regardless of people's ability to afford the things they advertise. Allow the cost of food and housing to eclipse people's ability to pay for them. Light blue touch paper." — Andrew Maxwell

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#3323726 23-Dec-2024 17:00

deepred:

freitasm:

Tinkerisk:

Another Christmas market rampage in Germany.

What brain-dead people who are granted asylum and not even an Islamist. A doctor!

A doctor, Saudi immigrant, who hated Islamism and apparently sucked into the AfD far-right mindset.

But then again, latinos voted for Trump. So not unheard of people that aren't welcome into a political group supporting that group.

The irony of a fiercely pro-AfD ex-Muslim using ISIL-style tactics to make a point is utterly lost on him. Then again, AfD & ISIL hardliners seem to have much more in common than they'd like to admit.

And he sounds just like those slam-the-door-behind types who'd deport their own grandparents.

And of course idiots like Elon saying that only alt-right can save Germany against immigrants, disregarding the fact this immigrant actions were a consequence of alt-right indoctrination.

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#3323733 23-Dec-2024 17:17

If you help them, it's not right. If you don't help them, it's not right for them either. You face problems that you wouldn't have without it. There must still be someone somewhere who benefits from it. They set fire to the Reichstag themselves back then.

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#3324276 24-Dec-2024 18:39

One of the victims of the attack was a 9-year-old boy who was a member of the children's fire brigade in the small village where he came from. Hundreds of firefighters from all over Germany travelled to the memorial service yesterday, and overwhelming donations are arriving from all over Europe. I have great respect for the young man's early sense of duty, who was torn from life so unnecessarily.

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#3324774 26-Dec-2024 20:31

Wild Christmas gift.

Link with playlist

Flamethrower organ jukebox

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#3324917 27-Dec-2024 10:38

The 40kph speed restriction signs are flashing outside the local primary school, and all the traffic is ignoring them. Surely there is some way to turn them off when the school is closed. Hope they don't keep going until school returns in February.

Is it just this school or is it the same with all schools?

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#3325001 27-Dec-2024 13:06

k1w1k1d:

The 40kph speed restriction signs are flashing outside the local primary school, and all the traffic is ignoring them. Surely there is some way to turn them off when the school is closed. Hope they don't keep going until school returns in February.

Is it just this school or is it the same with all schools?

I did some work at a school that had a little radio transmitter in the office that could be used to configure them. I assume there is no-one in the office and no-one thought to disable them.

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#3325057 27-Dec-2024 14:13

k1w1k1d: The 40kph speed restriction signs are flashing outside the local primary school, and all the traffic is ignoring them. Surely there is some way to turn them off when the school is closed. Hope they don't keep going until school returns in February.

It's OK, pretty soon all vehicles will be required to travel at no more 4mph and have someone walking out the front with a red flag to warn people of their approach. #RoadToZero. #ThinkOfTheChildren.

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