In the darkened boardroom of ShittyStreamingService, the presentation continues:

“…and so we’ve set our price at $15 per month. This is a reasonable price that everyone in our target demographics can afford.”

What the numpties at ShittyStreamingService haven’t considered is that yes, maybe I can afford $15 per month. But I can’t afford it for each of the 7,836 different streaming/music/gaming services!!

Without a VPN, your ISP will have some level of meta data. It may be as little as you did a DNS lookup of a pirate site and downloaded 2.14GB of data from that site.

Is that illegal? Depends on what country/state you are in.

Yeah, I realised that, but couldn’t resist it for the lols.

I think it could score a perfect zero by both not correctly comprehending and being offensive to whoever had the misfortune of marking it.

Artificial satellites? Just for fun, I’m interpreting that as fake communication satellites, so:

'Unlike traditional communication satellites, artificial communication satellites are not launched into space via costly rockets using environmentally unfriendly propellents.

Instead, Artificial Satellite Systems (or ASS) make use of artificial intelligence to communicate via Frequency Adjusted Radio Tower Systems (known as FARTS).

FARTS allow for rapid, ASS to ASS communication. Additionally, Multiplexed Over/Under The Horizon’ allows for increased speeds if ASS to MOUTH is enabled.’

Just be aware that any software that has Australians working on it can be forced to include backdoors, and are not allowed to disclose it either

It’s literally right in front of them. Why would they not make pirates walk the plank?

Obviously, the movie industry would love to compare it with the most severe crime they can come up with

Clearly, it’s rape and murder.

You are raping their digital bits by taking them without their consent.

And you are murdering the money they should have had.

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I had a work colleague who had a spreadsheet with one column calculating something to do with a particular date. They didn’t have any formulas at all. For any calculations. They would go in each day and manually calculate and then type in the values. In every cell.

I put in an input cell date, and simplest of formulas in 3 cells, and they looked at me like I was some kind of wizard.

I returned to my desk, put my head in my hands in sheer shock. I still don’t understand what they thought a spreadsheet was for…It made.nice columns?

Anyways, when I recovered, I finished my resignation letter,.and that was the best thing I ever did in that particular cesspool 😁

Jesus, me neither. AFAICT it"s worse, and umm… China!

So where do all the cool kids hang out now?

Besides lemmy, of course…

…

Closing time is the end of the night when everyone is drunk. The guy is lying telling the lady she’s beautiful and a great lady only because he’s desperate and this is his only chance for sex.

In other words, Facebook etc is the last refuge for sad and desperate people to post lies.

Of course, lemmy would never be like that …

Oh, it’s no fun. And we have media concentration issues here too, so you won’t get balanced or even a mention of both sides of an issue.

Australia has been the testing ground for implementing Big Brother’s spying technology policies. The ones that are often tried later on in the US or UK.

Nearly all of them have passed with full support from the two major parties here. I wish everyone better luck.

You think that’s stupid? How about our leaders:

Laws of mathematics don’t apply here, says Australian PM

He said “Read my article” 😁

It was because of ‘security’, which was never explained. And it doesn’t make much sense when other browsers can and do alow it. I’ll see if I can dig up some historical links if I remember tomorrow.

Last time I checked,there was still no acknowledgement of it and appeared to be no intention of ever addressing it. The fact that they’re now telling people to run a webserver suggests that nothing has changed ☹️

Yeah, nah. I’ve already got enough unnecessary apps and services with Android.

Thanks for the workaround, though.

Firefox for Android removing the ability to open local html files killed it for me. Currently on Vivaldi.