The Netherlands had a tax on blank CDs to "compensate" authors, essentially legalizing piracy (until the EU changed the rules).
Fleppensteijn
joined 2 years ago
The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.
This is not piracy. We've always been allowed to record e.g. radio and TV for personal use.
I do the same but I'm using the Tabstash add-on to organize the tabs
She puts a sim card in another phone that's used as a hotspot. The title suggests she doesn't use a sim.
It sucks to go through "prove you are human" screens that seem to time out half the time. Even worse when they put RSS feeds behind this Cloudflare wall
There was a warez site that politely asked to click their ads to support them, which I did. This was around the year 2000, adblocking nor user tracking were really a thing.
Wouldn't it show the icon of an executable file and ask if you want to open it or execute it?
My colleagues also like to shun me, which shouldn't be a problem working remotely, but all the people who come to the office and have connections just got their promotions. Working hard and being good at your job are just not as important as being loud and knowing people. I just had a short holiday and I just can't get my motivation to work anymore since I'm back.
So I'll just keep slacking off and look for other opportunities in the meantime or maybe they'll fire me at some point and I'll have some time to travel or something.
I tried using it for a while and kept saying I'm not interested in this topic on nearly everything, but Google News just keeps being shit. Can't even call it news mostly.
Years ago, Facebook kept nagging about privacy settings and almost pushed users to turn off all tracking etc.
Now, my Facebook always says there is no recent activity, downloading all data from FB shows they seem to have nothing on me. So are they just lying about what they share with who?
I just came back from that area and there were so many people coughing there. I got home sick with what I thought was bronchitis and it's not going away
(Paywall, can't read – but) I spend over 8 hours per day working before I have time for cooking, shopping, cleaning etc. It's around 9pm when my life begins. Who has time to sleep early?