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In case you wanted to trust Scroogle and the US Government even less!
Federal investigators have ordered Google to provide information on all viewers of select YouTube videos, according to multiple court orders obtained by Forbes. Privacy experts from multiple civil rights groups told Forbes they think the orders are unconstitutional because they threaten to turn innocent YouTube viewers into criminal suspects.In a just-unsealed case from Kentucky reviewed by Forbes, undercover cops sought to identify the individual behind the online moniker “elonmuskwhm,” who they suspect of selling bitcoin for cash, potentially running afoul of money laundering laws and rules around unlicensed money transmitting.
In conversations with the user in early January, undercover agents sent links of YouTube tutorials for mapping via drones and augmented reality software, then asked Google for information on who had viewed the videos, which collectively have been watched over 30,000 times.
The court orders show the government telling Google to provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers and user activity for all Google account users who accessed the YouTube videos between January 1 and January 8, 2023. The government also wanted the IP addresses of non-Google account owners who viewed the videos. The cops argued, “There is reason to believe that these records would be relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation, including by providing identification information about the perpetrators.”......
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I was thinking about having several bots, but didnt want to hammer the rdrama API so I split the api querying part of my application off.
Its designed to publish events to redis maintaining an nosqlish database of the retrieved items set to time out in 1 hour.
You could subscribe pretty much as many apps as you want to it and that way only one thing is hitting rdrama at a time
Its also leveraging bottleneck, so if you use bottleneck in your API calls back to rdrama and configure it to use the redis instance, you wont exceed rate limiting, and all your applications will share bandwith nicely
I might grab posts or other things, for now Its just focused on comments.
Efficient Data Retrieval: Fetches comments and posts directly from rDrama's APIs, optimized for minimal bandwidth usage.
Redis Integration: Utilizes Redis for caching content, significantly enhancing data retrieval speed and reducing API call redundancy.
Incremental Fetching: Employs smart fetching strategies to avoid duplicate data retrieval, ensuring that only new or updated content is processed.
Scheduled Fetching: Automatically executes data retrieval operations at configured intervals, enabling up-to-date synchronization with rDrama content.
Graceful Shutdown: Implements robust error handling and graceful shutdown processes, ensuring data integrity and application stability.
Scalable Architecture: Designed with scalability in mind, allowing for easy horizontal scaling to accommodate growing data volumes.
.webp?x=8 "P-Hat (red) - おれはPig*mericanですおれはばか i am average american man i enjoy bad game runescape")
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!codecels is this true?
I got it from this random thread https://kiwifarms.st/threads/175606/ about a dude who hates orange site and declared that his Hyprland project is "toxic" and transphobic after pulling the plug on it.
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I've caught a whiff of some drama happening in the gacha community. The creators of a waifu game, Azur Lane, are making a new game, Azur Promilia, and this one is rumored to have the unthinkable - playable male characters. So I decided to do some preliminary research on topic, thinking I might make a thread about it here later on. I went to Twitter, logged on my account, and as soon as I typed in "azur pr", the search function automatically recommended this
Okay, so it looks like it's a topic people are talking about. I clicked on it, and got... nothing.
What the heck? No results? Why is it offering "Azur Promilia male" as a search? Did I frick up somewhere in my own search options and filtered results?
No, both of these options are unchecked. So what's going on? Why won't Elon let me see gacha drama on Twitter?
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The Context
Epic originally sued Google on August 14, 2020 over the removal of Fortnite on the Google Play Store, which was less than 24 hours after its legal salvo against Apple for the same with iOS App Store. The Epic v. Google finally kicked off with a jury trial on November 6, 2023.
The month that followed was marked by a series of explosive revelations against Google, so darning that the judge presiding over the court case called Google out for, amongst other things, "...intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence". The verdict, handed down on December 12, found Google guilty of anticompetitive and monopolistic behavior.
Yesterday, Epic Games Store tweeted:
We're coming to iOS and Android!
Same fair terms, available to all developers, on a true multi-platform store – with amazing games for everyone.
The Drama
The tweet is posted to /r/Android. There would be a lively discussion about competition, app commissions, and the quality of mobile games... right?
Can't see how this can be a bad thing, but people really seem to have a hateboner for epic
They removed Games from Steam to be exclusive on Epic Games. Greeting from Rocket League
[user A] Aka they offered Devs a good deal to continue developing their games.
[user B] Valve has more exclusives than any other store including any console.
[user C] So? Steam also has "exlusive" games... Valve and steam are the evil ones here.
[Well there are several factors, their exclusivity deals, their way of trying to be a good guy when they are after market share. The fact that more and more developers put their games into their engine. Tencent being one of the big owners.
There are many factors why you shouldnt cuddle with mr tim.](https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1bjk1xb/epic_games_store_were_coming_to_ios_and_android/kvs8sj8/?context=8)
That's just normal stuff isn't it? I don't understand why everybody is sucking off the clear market leader but hates on companies trying to compete. Steam would do all the same if they needed to but they don't have to. Not because their product is so much better but because of their early moved advantage. I mean steam UI looks like it's from 2008.
it's more to do with tim sweeny's lies and hypocrisy, but sure it's just the launchers.
Why can't we say anything about Epic, Sweeney or the EGS without people jumping at our throats defending them?
Doesn't mean that we like google or apple's practices either
it's a weird thing i've noticed where there's so much hate for something, eventually some amount of contrarians will always show up and defend it, even when there's very little to defend. honestly a little baffling.
What people are mad about is Tim Swiney calling Valve's Steam a monopoly while Valve has never forced a developer to be exclusive to Steam lmao.
Most games that were released only on the EGS died there and had to release on Steam after a year to make money and even then it was DOA (the latest Predator game)
The service steam provides is vastly superior to epic, all my friends are on steam, my games for the past 14 years are all on steam.
Valve is historically pro-consumer are innovate in the gaming space, Epic made a child's game super popular and now want a piece of the case, they haven't done anything ground breaking.
At least Google never outright blocked third party app stores. Instead, made it easier for third party app stores to autoupdate apps.
Apple having to be forced to do this is the real lede.
Yeah instead Google just pretended to be an open platform whilst threatening OEMs and developers behind closed doors, so much better.
Exactly more competition is good for everyone
Sadly what timmy wants isn't competition and instead a walled monopoly
He managed to do it on PC by buying up third party exclusives and I bet will have an easier time on phones
Steam fanboys are a fricking weird breed.
How tf does Epic has a monopoly when Steam controls the majority of the market?
That's called competition. Are we mad about competition now and implying it's shady?
What exclusives? The only games that Steam has that are exclusive are developed by Valve themselves, publishers choose to be on steam because that's where the players are. Valve has never paid any developer or publisher for exclusivity on Steam.
You write these comments like it doesn't benefit the developer/publisher. God forbid a team of highly talented individuals have done the research and found out going with EPIC meant they can fund their next project etc.
All it means to you is you have to click a different icon on your desktop. Oh no.
EDIT: Why did I expect any rational, non selfish, thought in /Android
Flairs:
Might as well do it by white knighting themselves online
yelling "you fricking people" doesn't make you smart
most of the other Redditors were still in their daddy's balls
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Livestream of @Neuralink demonstrating “Telepathy” – controlling a computer and playing video games just by thinking https://t.co/0kHJdayfYy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 20, 2024
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.webp?x=8 "Top Hat (kek) - Technically a top hat, shut up")
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Rafael putting his @cybertruck to work on Kane Creek Road. pic.twitter.com/BCLaLg4rS1
— Kyle Field (@mrkylefield) March 14, 2024
https://twitter.com/mrkylefield/status/1769549346100629720
Some of the other hardcore offroading the Cybertruck os capable of
https://twitter.com/mrkylefield/status/1769416291650343372
https://twitter.com/mrkylefield/status/1770074529844646243
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/02/21/ai-can-now-make-you-immortal--but-should-it/
How times have changed. Imagine if all this technology just fails?
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Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709089
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: Wait apex is a source game?
- BWC : Yes, but it runs on a very modified version of the Source Engine iirc
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Respawn and EA have postponed the North American Finals in the wake of the “competitive integrity” of the game being compromised. This involved a wild situation where someone was giving the pros hacks like aimbots and wallhacks as they were playing in the Finals event, effectively ruining the entire thing without anyone actually attempting to cheat. Here's what that looked like (warning: language):
This has led to a mass of complaints about Apex's anti-cheat systems, which clearly failed in a massive way for this situation. But it also speaks to just how advanced cheats have become as this is a private lobby for pros playing in an esports final.
Not that this is necessarily related, but Respawn was just hit days ago with 23 layoffs including Apex Legends developers, some of whom were longtime veterans. Though if anything, this shows that EA needs to beef up Apex's security team to some extent as something like this requires all hands, or more hands, on deck than they currently have now, it seems.
Should have learned to code better 
Easy Anti-Cheat's response- It wasn't me
or stripper 
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If you see this post, I was able to make this post on Ladybird Web Browser 
lol
Joe Biden Quietly Planning To ‘Kill' Crypto And Destroy ‘Billions Of Dollars' Of Value After Huge Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP And Solana Price Surge - 35
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