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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Very confused on whether I'm supposed to be cheering for England, the African EU haters, or some kind of god or king, or saying "I am milk" to a confused Spaniard.

Is this what happens to your brain when you try to grow concrete in your meth lab?

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Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
I can confirm that when I accidentally heard that the numbers coming out of the ball performance were the wrong numbers, I nearly spilled my extra vegan double soy latte with my own cum in it

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Microplastics posted:

I can confirm that when I accidentally heard that the numbers coming out of the ball performance were the wrong numbers, I nearly spilled my extra vegan double soy latte with my own cum in it

Wrong sort of ball performance

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh

forkboy84 posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/05/risky-online-behaviour-almost-normalised-among-young-people-says-study

The article goes on and tries to link this to the online safety bill but man. "Cyberdeviancy". Trolling and piracy (a victimless crime) being put on the same category as posting revenge porn and posting hate speech? Yeah, alright guys.

quote:

An EU-funded study found evidence of widespread criminal, risky and delinquent behaviour among the 16-19 age group in nine European countries including the UK.

A survey of 8,000 young people found that one in four have tracked or trolled someone online, one in eight have engaged in online harassment, one in 10 have engaged in hate speech or hacking, one in five have engaged in sexting and one in three have engaged in digital piracy. It also found that four out of 10 have watched pornography.

This is a drop in the crime figures. The most accurate figures are self reported and all this is showing is that adolescent crime, the highest form of crime by a huge margin if you ignore white collar, is moving away from the two brackets of graffiti/vandalism and drugs/violence and towards the internet. This is loving fantastic because it's a shift to non-visible non violent crimes that won't get kids sent to detention centres and prison. I'm not saying hate speech online is great but that these are the exact same kids who would be peer pressured into hanging around outside shops yelling slurs at people, which often escalates to violence if it's a LGBT+ person.

There is a curve with crime, the adolescent crime curve, which is uniform since any records began, which shows crime rates start to go up age 13, peaks at 19 and is dropping right back down at 22. It is directly effected by what is going on in the social environment at the time, high resentment towards the police and more police cars get vandalised, not much going on then back to the old classic of bus stops getting smashed up for example.


We want whatever the current generation of little shits is to be pirating music.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

sebzilla posted:

Wrong sort of ball performance

It's cumming home

learnincurve
May 15, 2014

Smoosh
If you want to know more about what those figures mean then Criminology a very short introduction by Tim Newburn is a couple hundred pages of super packed in information, he does have to both sides a bit but does it sarcastically and throws in some quotes from communists.

Convex
Aug 19, 2010

Ah, the Bari Weiss "they were totally going to fire me" approach

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6pTyPYwqpY

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Or as its called these days the Phil Foden

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Or the Standard Reference Man

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Aipsh posted:

There are legal firms in Germany who buy lists of people who are currently (probably unknowingly) seeding literally any media on P2P and make a business of sending them legal threats and rinsing you for money on behalf of whatever media company is impacted and they do it constantly. I know a couple of people who got nabbed for fuckin Black K Klansman being seeding for around five seconds after downloading it (because they couldn't get it legally anywhere) and had to pay 1,200 euro to make them go away.


Tldr: do not P2P in Germany

Also I once got a naughty naughty letter from Virgin media here telling me to stop seeding 'Abba's greatest hits'. I didn't have anything more than an iPhone and playstation at the time. I think they sent a third warning until I just said 'I can assure you that's not me and also how would you prove it' and they never replied. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


:edit: pirating has completely fallen out of common practice but VPNs are hugely on the rise - which is fine because geo-fencing media beyond the depiction of something obscene/something that might impact innocent-until-proven-guilty, itself, is ridiculous

This is why I bought a VPN subscription. I also think a lot of the VPNs will hand over your data if asked. Nord is one of the safer ones.

Also remember reading doing that might not be entirely legal, or at least it wouldn't have a leg to stand on. In Finland anyway.

pumpinglemma
Apr 28, 2009

DD: Fondly regard abomination.

I refuse Nord on principle because they do so many obnoxious sponsored Youtube segments. No-one who spends that much on marketing is actually the best option.

Tarnop
Nov 25, 2013

Pull me out

I've been happily torrenting away with a Private Internet Access VPN for 5 years now and have never heard a squeak from the ISPs I've had in that time

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.
I feel I hardly ever see Nordvpn commercials anymore. But the articles I read on the subject pointed them out as one of the ones who actually did what they claim. IIRC ExpressVPN wasn't that secure.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
dVPNs where there's no central authority to even have a complete picture of that information to give are the new hotness.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Oxford English Dictionary has selected 'goblin mode' as it's word of the year.

But surely that is two words?

Necrothatcher
Mar 26, 2005




I think this thread recommended AirVPN one time and they've served me well for years - and I think they have a strict no-cooperation policy with data requests and don't keep any logs of activity.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

keep punching joe posted:

Oxford English Dictionary has selected 'goblin mode' as it's word of the year.

But surely that is two words?

Lol looks like you just got goblin moded

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
(I don't know what it means)

Tarnop
Nov 25, 2013

Pull me out

"Goblin mode is a neologism for rejecting societal expectations and living in an unkempt, hedonistic manner without regards to self-image"

This is like when I didn't throw out all my old metal t-shirts from the 80s and the thing I was doing already became fashion

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!

Microplastics posted:

(I don't know what it means)

It's when you are alone in the house and free to just be a weird and gross little guy.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
Oh I didn't know that was a mode. Can it be turned off?

Tarnop
Nov 25, 2013

Pull me out

I've been trying but there's fluff or something stuck in the switch

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal


:confused:

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009

Microplastics posted:

Oh I didn't know that was a mode. Can it be turned off?

I was thinking it was related to lock down so possibly.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013


I went to uni with a guy who came in wearing a cowboy hat and a big trenchcoat, and also a lass who came in dressed like cloud from final fantasy 7. I thought both of them were cool.

pumpinglemma posted:

I refuse Nord on principle because they do so many obnoxious sponsored Youtube segments. No-one who spends that much on marketing is actually the best option.

I also follow the rule that if they're advertising it it's bad.

Everyone on youtube started flogging that stupid "buy land in scotland and call yourself a lord" scam and it's bizzare how many people apparently think it's real and also that it's still around because I remember it being a thing decades ago.

Lady Gaza
Nov 20, 2008

When I get a new VPN I am going to try Mullvad

https://uk.pcmag.com/vpn/127074/mullvad-vpn

Unkempt
May 24, 2003

...perfect spiral, scientists are still figuring it out...
I only bother to torrent stuff when it isn't on one of the many putlockers that are easily googlable.

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."

pumpinglemma posted:

I refuse Nord on principle because they do so many obnoxious sponsored Youtube segments. No-one who spends that much on marketing is actually the best option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcPyjr8e8qw&t=1419s

Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor


Unkempt posted:

I only bother to torrent stuff when it isn't on one of the many putlockers that are easily googlable.

Fun fact, I used to build the servers for Putlocker more than a decade ago, when I worked for their DC provider. They were the dodgiest business I'd ever come across, paying something like $800,000/month via paypal, on a month-to-month contract. One day FACT arranged a meeting with my employer and I was instructed to lie and say I knew nothing about Putlocker.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

If there's anyone who knows about dangers to women, it's the woman who won't stop defending Woody Allan and the woman who was put through private school through her father's human trafficking profits.

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Gonzo McFee posted:

If there's anyone who knows about dangers to women, it's the woman who won't stop defending Woody Allan and the woman who was put through private school through her father's human trafficking profits.

Can’t believe I only heard the Emma Barnett backstory today. Remarkable stuff

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

I assume the VPN integrated into the the Opera browser for the PC is a pile of compromised code... cause i've been using it for several years without incident. :kiddo:

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


This AI is pretty impressive!



Though it needs to have more confidence in itself:



The AI bot is https://chat.openai.com/ if you're interested.

Aipsh
Feb 17, 2006


GLUPP SHITTO FAN CLUB PRESIDENT

smellmycheese posted:

Can’t believe I only heard the Emma Barnett backstory today. Remarkable stuff

lol what's this?

a shitty king
Mar 26, 2010

Her last Guardian column was basically 'look at all the famous people i met. Harvey Weinstein said I was dumb and look where he is now!'. An extended Alan Partridge 'needless to say, i had the last laugh' in column form.

smellmycheese
Feb 1, 2016

Aipsh posted:

lol what's this?

https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-sins-of-the-father-the-emails

Basically her dad ran a chain of brothels and trafficked women and she knew all about it, but no one in the media ever mentions it.

cat botherer
Jan 6, 2022

I am interested in most phases of data processing.

smellmycheese posted:

https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-sins-of-the-father-the-emails

Basically her dad ran a chain of brothels and trafficked women and she knew all about it, but no one in the media ever mentions it.
Weird how stuff like that keeps happening.

Dead Goon
Dec 13, 2002

No Obvious Flaws



I use Mullvad VPN, it is very good.

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The Wicked ZOGA
Jan 27, 2022

I desperately need to come out just so my existence can piss off Freeman even more than it does already

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