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Yep, documentation and a good base level default installation configuration/guide with minimal friction.
I’m perfectly willing to play around once I know at the basic level that the core flow is going to work for me. If it takes me digging through a stack of documentation (especially if it’s bad) to even get something to experiment with on my own system? I won’t bother.
I could get the “default” to facilitate setup, but as far as I’m concerned it’s seriously fucked not to have the first step of your script be replacing it with the user’s own choices. It’s really hard for me to trust the security as a whole of a project that does that by default, especially because it’s intended to be for inexperienced users and there was no indication during the setup process or other included information that that was the case.
But you can get an Android device with a reader that’s actually functional. Navigating a file system doesn’t even vaguely resemble functional.
I’m not advocating stock Kobo. I’m saying the absolute bare minimum for me to consider a reader usable at all is the ability to navigate/search/filter my library by all of author, publisher, tags, series, and any other metadata. Folders are an extremely poor substitute for actual organization tools.
Just FYI, the official way to watch after the fact isn’t Sunday ticket. It’s NFL+, and removes commercials from the main broadcast, along with providing an abbreviated version that cuts out all the between play stuff but keeps all the action, and access to the film, and is (in the US) $100, not as expensive as Sunday ticket. You can also search for specific plays by specific players with NFL Pro. (Edit: it looks like they still call it gamepass internationally, and you also get the games live).
Doesn’t mean don’t look for alternatives, but it’s not as expensive as you’re thinking unless you want live games.
Only if they give a shit about some random country’s shit law.
There are some treaties in play that allow copyright law to be enforced in some other jurisdictions, but that’s a far cry from a VPN. Switzerland isn’t going to help you enforce nonsense judgements against companies that don’t break any of their laws or laws most of the first world respects.
You should be able to set it up, which seems to be the crux of your question.
The reason for the conflict is likely that the traffic is encrypted through the tunnel, but cloudflare holds the certificates needed to verify the identity of your site and can see all the traffic.
But tunnels are done by having your server initiate the connection with cloudflare, so it behaves like a client in terms of networking, and it should work in most cases.
(Worth noting that video was against their policies for using at least the free tunnels last I was aware, so if that’s part of your use case you might not be able to use it.)
Instead, the court went along with evidence presented by rightsholders, including a report compiled by a representative from the Association for the Fight against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA).
The report revealed that ALPA uploaded a copyright infringing file last year to test the takedown policy. While the uploaded content could indeed be removed, the representative was able to re-upload the same content later, without any countermeasures.
Fuck this shit.
The idea that a site is obligated to proactively scan user content is gross.
My interpretation was by far the most generous to your position, because it’s the only way it’s coherent.
If people bought [this hardware that doesn’t actually provide anything anyone can realistically use at a reasonable price] it might eventually not suck. That’s treating a current purchase as an imaginary investment in maybe eventually being able to buy something useful.
You’re responding to a post about exploiting kernel level anticheat and saying it would only be a targeted attack, despite that inherently not making sense. When you find a vulnerability in that software, there is absolutely no reason not to spread it en masse. The cost to infect one person is the same as the cost to affect tens of thousands or more. The game is both the vulnerability and the distribution method.
Gamers aren’t more valuable. They’re more accessible. Because there isn’t a kernel rootkit “anticheat” developer on the planet who gives two shits about security in any context, and there are a massive number of systems that their insane hacky bullshit touches. Every single one of them has their security automatically compromised. The goal isn’t just information. You’re getting a massive, distributed, residential IP botnet that you can’t lose unless they throw their systems in the trash.
For what reason?
Kernel level game anticheats are a great attack vector, and it’s one that inherently identifies and enables distribution to other vulnerable targets. It’s begging to self replicate.
Industrial espionage does not make sense, because most enterprises have, even if imperfect, restrictions on what can be installed on company computers that contain valuable information. You’re not going to get a game with kernel malware on a managed enterprise computer.
I don’t see it being a mass target attack like a worm could be.
Why not? Malware that survives a full new install is extremely valuable, and there are loads of games adding vulnerabilities with required kernel level rootkits. It’s only a matter of time until one of these vendors is exploited, and why wouldn’t you permanently own the significant chunk of the market with unpatched serious vulnerabilities while you’re at it?
Because they’re P2P. Just watching is also distribution.
So yes, in reality, they’re sending legal threats asking for viewers to voluntarily pay fines to avoid being dragged to court.