#circumventions

[nicohischier]

Just saw a post on twitter that had one of connors old tweets from when he was like 15 saying something like anybody else ever jealous when they award the stanley cup #dream and so now i have kill myself before the game today

and if this makes me want to die? what then?

[shiominato]

yuzu emulator is dead and has to pay nintendo $2.4 million

[switch]

the yuzu case is intensely frustrating but also the sentence that they agreed “to hand over any physical circumvention devices” makes me laugh because we’re talking about the switch so i just imagine a scene of someone in court very forlornly reaching into their pocket and handing over a single paperclip

[yinwaryuri]

Free my man Korn Palat from the dubbed violin solo, let a professional PLAYYYYYY

[chicago-geniza]

Anyway yesterday at the free book store I found this pamphlet from 2003, produced by an org in Chicago and published in Vermont

[vriska]

friendly reminder i block blogs with default icons and 0 posts/no title bc of bot problems on tumblr! if you have been mistakenly blocked please let me know

[malkin-mind-meld]

Look I just keep imagining if it were my least favorite team that all this cap circumvention stuff was happening to and like… I couldn’t fault the br*uins or isl*nders if they made bomb trades at the deadline that my team wouldn’t be able to afford anyway. There are so many other reasons to hate them, that wouldn’t scratch the top 10

[ailelie]

Circumvention of Lawful Pathways

Deadline to Submit Public Comment: March 27, 2023

The Gist (as far as I understand it):

The Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice have proposed a new rule that will limit asylum seekers.

According to this rule, people seeking asylum at the US's southern border will be determined ineligible unless:

the individual is granted parole prior to arrival,

presented themselves at a port of entry through a pre-scheduled time and place, or

sought asylum or other protection in a country they traveled through and received a final denial

The rule also relies heavily on an app of all things: CBP One. The app requires Internet access to function and there have been reports of how buggy it is (e.g, it does not recognize black faces). This is the app asylum seekers require, though, if they want to make an appointment to satisfy the second bullet above.

There are some exceptions to using the app, but they're narrow and require the asylum seeker to come up with a 'preponderance of evidence' to get the app usage waived.

Unaccompanied minors are exempt.

The rule is only supposed to last 2 years, but there's allowances for review, extension, and modification.

If you agree this rule is shitty, you can submit a public comment.

Your comment must be unique. Duplicates will get collapsed into one and only count as one comment.

Click where it says 'comment.'

The form is super easy to follow and fill out. No weird boxes to check or anything like that. It took me about 5 minutes.

Some tips:

Be clear in your opening that you OPPOSE the rule.

Provide a reason (e.g., against my faith to be welcoming to others, against domestic and international law to protect the right to seek asylum, provides an unnaturally high barrier for asylum, relies on faulty technology).

That's it. Here's some sites talking about this if you want more info:

American Immigration Lawyers Association

International Affairs Forum

National Immigrant Justice Center

Asian Americans Advancing Justice

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Catholic Legal Immigration Network

(Even the Heritage Foundation doesn't like this rule. Of course, their reasoning is very different, but they also call for people to oppose the rule. So strange bedfellows, no?)

[speedlimit15]

with the potential of RESTRICT passing, now would be a great time for everyone to familiarize themselves with pgp encryption and similar privacy tools for communication

[femmefaggot]

It would make sense that someone with a url for a certain overly hyped horror podcast would have bad opinions.

[interpolationz]

i really dislike vpns

i don't have a defense here

i just desperately hate them for no good reason

[malkin-mind-meld]

If you think simply acquiring a guy bc he’s a fantastic player (and you’ve got say $9 mil lying around) and dropping him into a different system automatically makes him productive…as a pens fan, I can assure you it doesn’t 🙃

[phantomrose96]

Concept I've been stewing on for a while here. I've got a name for it now and I'm calling it the Shot Dog Factor. It's a numerical value, assignable to any internet post, which represents the average number of engagements it needs to reach before someone comes along acting like this post shot their dog.

And for the sake of High Number = More Danger, which feels like the intuitive and sensible read, let's call it the inverse. As in the chance that any given interaction results in a Shot Dog response.

"Hee hee haa haa" type of silly shitpost? Low Shot Dog Factor. Largely safe. A genuine political opinion? Critically high Shot Dog Factor. Guaranteed to elicit such a response if it breaks containment.

As a result of this phenomenon, you see phrasings and circumventions added specifically to lower the Shot Dog factor. Every "now I know this doesn't apply to EVERYONE'S specific situation, but I just think--" about something where the non-specificity was obvious, but OP needed to add that disclaimer to avoid the Shot Dog from someone who thinks it needs to apply to them.

And another--perhaps the most--critical thing to understand about the Shot Dog factor is that 0 is not a valid value. There's a discontinuation at 0. And as such, the Shot Dog limit, as engagement goes to infinity is, in fact, 100%. Any and every post you have ever made, given enough containment breaching, WILL piss someone off in wild ways. You can lower the Shot Dog factor but it is never 0. Sometimes when a post of yours escapes containment, you must simply sit back and accept this reality.

[obsessingoverl]

Ah, tenure. Usually good, sometimes very bad

Astronomy I-

[countdown-til-sanders-take-over]

the other problem with polls is that by the end i realize i actually only care about the opinions of like max. six other people alive and will probably not be following the outcomes. on that note ur notes were actually very helpful and i choose to believe that you are, in fact, a style icon

Glad to be one of those six-ish people <3

[mgeist]

Huge Win for Copyright User Rights in Canada: Federal Court Rules Digital Lock Rules Do Not Trump Fair Dealing

The Federal Court has issued a landmark decision (Blacklock’s Reports v. Attorney General of Canada) on copyright’s anti-circumvention rules which concludes that digital locks should not trump fair dealing. Rather, the two must co-exist in harmony, leading to an interpretation that users can still rely on fair dealing even in cases involving those digital locks. The decision could have enormous…