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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • zero_iq@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    Which will just push people towards file sharing. If your DRM makes your service less convenient than copyright infringement, people will infringe copyright.

    If companies start getting too draconian, the ad-blocking/circumvention/copying/sharing technologies will start getting smarter and harder to detect and circumvent. It is a battle that cannot be won.

    I’d say the main obstacle in the short term is that as Google controls both client side (Chrome) for the majority and server-side can manipulate web standards to make ad-blocking harder, by exploiting their near-monopoly. They’ve already done this to an extent by modifying browser extension APIs. But people can just switch browsers. I’ve already done that on mobile. And if ChromeOS prevents it, I’ll be erasing it and installing native Linux.

  • zero_iq@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    If its possible to watch the video, then it’s possible to watch the video without ads.

    Worst case scenario: videos can be downloaded and adverts stripped from them. (If you can watch it, you can copy it.) Would you be prepared to trade, say, a 20 minute timeshift delay on your YouTube videos’ initial publish time for no adverts? I would.

  • zero_iq@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Which do you use: Lead pencils or normal pencils?
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    1 year ago

    Lead pencils are normal pencils. A “lead pencil” is any pencil with a fixed lead running down the centre.

    However, the “lead” in a pencil is not made of lead, the chemical element. It is graphite and clay, and other materials depending on the type of pencil.

    Modern-style “lead pencils” have never used actual lead as the pencil lead.

    However, it should be noted that lead paint has been used in the past for the coating, which could lead to toxic effects when chewed or sucked, but this stopped by the mid 20th century.

    Do you perhaps mean mechanical pencil? (Where you can feed out the lead mechanically and refill, reusing the casing.)

  • zero_iq@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is it possible to train cats to group-walk with you like a pack of friendly wolves that consider you part of their kind/group?
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    1 year ago

    It is possible to an extent with certain breeds, e.g. Egyptian Mau. However, they are curious and skittish so may not follow you everywhere if they find something interesting or get spooked. When you get too far from their known “territory” they may stop and wait for you to come back, (while also yelling at you to come back to the concern of passers-by!).

    I used to go for walks with my gf and her egyptian maus. They would follow along like a pride of tiny lions but spread out a bit, so while we walked on paths their parallel routes would go through gardens, over roofs, fields, fences, etc.

    In fact it was more of an effort to train them not to follow us everywhere, e.g. to the shops, work, etc. They would often follow neighbours’ children to school and back (and sometimes follow the wrong child home and get lost!).

    Maus are also more amenable to being on a leash than most breeds, although you need to get them used to it early in life.

    The main problem is if they decide to run away from something they are blazingly fast and near impossible to catch and recover from whatever inaccessible perch or hidey-hole they run to. My gf’s cats had been trained to return to the sound of jangling keys, but that only worked most of the time.