Yes, that’s how it is. If you look at the commit history of yuzu, there’s basically only documentation changes. [1]

The joke about the Hydra many heads is just not true for software projects where only actually capable developers are able to meaningfully contribute. And those most likely already have a well paying job. Getting sued by Nintendo isn’t on anyones bucket list.

[1] https://git.suyu.dev/suyu/suyu/commits/branch/dev

Dieses Gesetz, sowie Chatkontrolle etc, zeigen mal wieder, wie unfähig manche Politiker/Ausschüsse sind.

Begriffe sind nicht (ausreichend) definiert, sie gehen z.B. von ihrer begrenzten Erfahrung aus (wsl. nutzen die nur den App store auf dem Mac und iPhone, etc.).

Generell finde ich Regulierungen wichtig, aber solche Gesetze führen einfach nur zu einem Standortnachteil für Unternehmen, und schränken nur die Nutzer ein (bei welchen OS geht so was gut: handy OS, bei denen der Nutzer nichts machen darf, was nicht explizit vom Hersteller abgesegnet wurde. Toll.).

Sounds an awful lot like a piracy tax…

It’s pretty similar. The difference is that it only exists for legal private copies, not for generally illegal piracy.

We pay this tax on any device which can store bits, it’s not just some storage mediums.

That’s also the case in Germany (and likely most of Europe). The actual rate depends on the product category.

I don’t know about your piracy tax specifically, but there’s also a tax on any storage media, printers etc. in Germany.

The “Urheberrechtsabgabe” (copyright duty) is not about paying for pirate copies, but it’s a compensation for the loss due to the right to a private copy. A private copy is e.g. a copy of a CD I own in case the original gets destroyed. It’s explicitly not allowed to share them.

Sadly the right to a private copy gets canceled as soon as it’s necessary to break a “working” copy protection. CD copy protection has been broken for decades, but it still counts as a “working” copy protection. Thus a private copy is practically not possible legally, but we still pay this tax on any storage media… I really hate the copyright lobby.

A “great” thing about copyright infringement in Germany is that the statue of limitations only starts after the copyright holder learns from the copyright infringement.

This means, even if I torrented a movie 5 years ago, and the copyright holder finds out my name only now, they’d still have another 3 years to sue me.

Anyway, there’re private torrent sites in Germany. It’s only public sites that don’t exist.

DDL and streaming sites are really big in Germany. Usenet too, but until a few years ago I don’t think there were Indexers with API’s, so it’s been either manual downloading or streaming.

TorrentLeech is easy enough without a seedbox, especially if you’ve enough storage to seed lots of content and collect bonus points. On other sites I do agree though.

But if you’re gonna do public trackers you should most definitely get a seedbox.

I misread and wrote the sentence above thinking you wrote “private trackers”. Did you mistype? I’d say a VPN + binding to the network interface is enough for public trackers.

In diesem Artikel hört sich unser Verkehrsminister Wissing geradezu kompetent an. Das hätte ich wirklich nicht erwartet und muss jetzt meine Meinung von ihm grundsätzlich überdenken.

Schade, dass seine Amtszeit nur noch ein paar Monate dauern wird, und er nur Teil einer Minderheitsregierung ist, die wenig davon Umsetzen können wird. Vielleicht lag seine Leistung tatsächlich nur an seiner ex-Partei — obwohl, da fallen mir schon wieder Flugtaxis als Gegenargument ein.

Yes, ~/.local/share/flatpak includes all user installed flatpaks, while /var/lib/flatpak includes all system wide installed flatpaks. Both include repository information and required runtimes (i.e. dependencies).

This does not include user data, which is stored in ~/.var/app.

Make sure to test your backup just in case on another system/VM.

Piracy is a large community on Reddit, and it is one of the few subreddits which officially created a community on Lemmy. So it does make sense that it’s also gotten big in terms of subscribers.

But I think monthly active users is a way more ueful metric than total subscribers. Creating new accounts is easy, so total subscribers tends to only go up, compared to the fluctuating MAU.

Also, it seems there’re communities with more subscribers, altough they aren’t listed on Lemmy Explorer. E.g. Lemmy World’s Technology has nearly 60k subs.

Lemmy Explorer for context: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Many encodes of their internal groups are also on TL. Other content is likely shared with TL.

Idk about fake YTS, but it not being fake is an advantage.

Their internal groups focus on 3-8GB x265 1080p movie encodes. Altough with fewer seeders, they also have other larger torrents. E.g. there’s also a few remuxes.

It’s not possible to change the name for services independently. I’m either with my real name in a phone game, or with a pseudonym in Messages…

What a terrible idea.

@palordrolap@fedia.io

A great, short explanation of the different meanings of HDR is up to minute 1:40 in the video below.

https://youtu.be/frBNnNWEbyk

You put it in a hole, done. Humanity is capable of that, for sure

Looking at the discussion where this hole should be doesn’t give me confidence. Everyone wants long term storage, but no one wants it near themselves.

We’re producing nuclear waste for half a century and there’s still no long term storage location. The generation who created this early waste is currently dying away and I don’t think the generation after wants to deal with the problem either.

Not everything is about economics, otherwise we probably wouldn’t be talking about renewables at all.

Taking the long term impact of coal, gas and oil on our climate and nature into account, renewables are cheaper. The cost of destroyed infrastructure through (ever more likely) extreme weather events alone is immense and often not taken into account, not to mention the impact on food.

The amount of money countries have is limited. If the goal is to replace coal, gas and oil as quickly as possible it’s more efficient to use cheaper technology.

As for “free energy”, no energy is free.

Yes, my point was about already built solar and wind turbines, that lose money the moment they are not running. The same is true for a powered down nuclear reactor, as the fuel isn’t the expensive part of the operation.
My point is that technology that is expensive even if not curently in use, does not make for good backup power. This makes renewables and nuclear not a good combination, as it’s quite expensive.

Biomass isn’t practical as it releases far too much emissions to be worth it, you almost might as well use gas.

Yes, biogass is only an option as an addition and shouldn’t be used continuously (for backup power it should be fine).

This is especially true for Thorium technology or actinide burners. Actinide burners literally reuse nuclear waste.

Those are future technologies never used commercially (if at all). Thorium reactors are not even in the testing stage yet, it’s even worse if you look at acinide burners. I’d like to switch to low emission energy now, not in a few decades.

Oh I agree. Keeping the status quo is a terrible idea and will get increasingly more expensive (as in increased likelihood for extreme weather events which are bad for health, food, infrastructur, …).

There’ll be at least alpha 5 and 6, so early next year a beta might come out.

Yeah I’m really fond of the 2017 too, likely because I’ve started using Firefox again around that time.

I don’t know why brands have to continuously update their branding, without any need (e.g. I understand why they no longer use the Red dino, that’s a bit outdated). On the other hand I don’t really care about branding, as it’s the product I actually care about.

People arguing against nuclear power for it’s cost and unclear timeline usually don’t argue for coal, oil and gas.
Wind and solar are cheaper, continue to get cheaper and can be built within years, not decades.

Also, renewables are a proven technology while proposals for new nuclear reactor tech have usually never been deployed successfully (as in running continuously and actually contributing to the grid).

Nuclear stocks rise and fall with state funding. It’s neither practical to privately ensure a fission recator, nor is it practical to build them privately.

There are better investments.