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> The court specifically determined that the Internet Archive was guilty of unauthorized copying. That's what the "successfully" in "successfully sued" means.

I really wish Memory Alpha would migrate off of Fandom.

You shouldn't count on the phone ever being returned to you, at least not in working order. Otherwise, yeah.

That's the combination on my luggage!

You can set GrapheneOS to reboot into before-first-unlock state if it hasn't been unlocked within a certain period of time, and BFU is more exploit resistant, and can't be biometri…

It was an official extension, distributed separately from Firefox, but it was so ubiquitous and a dependency for so many other Firefox extensions, that it would be unusual to not h…

I actually use Kodi 90% as a front-end to Jellyfin. If I only watched or listened to my media at my TV, just Kodi and a SMB or NFS share would be fine. But with Jellyfin I have the…

There is a plugin that is supposed to provide this, but I don't think it works with every client, and I'm moderately sure it doesn't work with Kodi. Oddly, skip credits/jump to nex…

I preordered the paperback through bookshop.org the day before it was released. Received it in the mail a day or two after it was released. No bad/unexpected UI.

Yeah, most of the vaunted "checks and balances" in the US constitution either come down to a gentlemen's agreement, or depend on either the nonexistence of political parties, or pa…

Did you get better, though?

To be fair, Android Auto breaks when you look at it funny.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, h…

You just turn around halfway and use your main drive to decelerate. Yes, that does double the travel time, but it's the only way to do it. The hard part is then finding ways to get…

You can start getting decent bluetooth headphones from $60 to $80 if you are picky about the brand. Anker has had several winners in that range over the last 10 years.

Employee Role: Meat Shield

Oh gods, you reminded me of the existence of Borland buttons.

TrueAnon Rule #23, "Always Disavow"

Please elaborate.

Zood Location is pretty good. Open source, location data is end-to-end encrypted (encrypted to the keys of the people you are sharing with before it leaves your device).

Collective action requires coordination among those individuals.

I can think of a nonfiction book whose title would get you rapidly banned from HN. A movie was made with the same subject and title, but because it was a drama and not a documentar…

It appears that they believe you can eat emails (according to the substitutability principle).

As a USAian and an Old, I learned the Zaner-Bloser script in school - a cursive script that tries to minimize pen lifts, but still has "backtracks" as this article calls them, for …