#11/29/20

[zhansww]

敬若[沈]明 (jing ruo shen ming) to hold somebody in the same regard as one would a God

#waroffaithedit #war of faith #zhui feng zhe #wei ruolai #shen tunan #shenlai #compilation #long post #zfz 9 #zfz 11 #zfz 12 #zfz 14 #zfz 16 #zfz 17 #zfz 20 #zfz 21 #zfz 28 #zfz 29 #zfz 38 #my gifs #replaced the shen for 'God' with the shen from stn #coulda been their cp name too

[jtl-fics]

Math nerd please. More from Alex

WIP Wednesday - 11/29/23 (Closed) | Math Nerd

Alex laughs again and it remains one of Andrew's favorite noises to hear, "Okay sure, I wouldn't wanna be accused of being involved in crime." Alex says.

Suddenly faced with two questions Andrew pauses, "What's your favorite subject?" he asks in return.

"Math." Alex says without hesitation.

#Math Nerd AU #AFTG #AFTG AU #Andrew Minyard #Neil Josten #Andreil #Math Nerd - Endless Summer - 13 #11-29-23 WIP Wednesday #20

[microwaveexplosion]

#ephesians 3:20 #exodus 14:14 #jeremiah 29:11

[bebebisous33]

Jinx: Dire 😢 Youth 👦 Mystery🔍 Unraveling

#Jinxmanhwa #Jinx #징크스 #JINX #kimdan @_MinGwa #jinxchapter49 #joojaekyung The essay “Dire😢Youth Mystery 🔍Unraveling” is finished. It took longer than expected because of its length: 8154 words. Retweet/like it as support. Thanks. Essay locked soon.

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#Analyses #Baek Junmin #Chapter 11 #Chapter 12 #Chapter 13 #chapter 16 #Chapter 19 #Chapter 2 #Chapter 20 #Chapter 26 #Chapter 27 #Chapter 29 #Chapter 3 #Chapter 30 #Chapter 31 #Chapter 32 #Chapter 33 #Chapter 34 #Chapter 35 #Chapter 36 #Chapter 37 #Chapter 39 #Chapter 4 #Chapter 40 #Chapter 41 #Chapter 42 #Chapter 44 #Chapter 45 #Chapter 46 #Chapter 47

[lumafiiks]

"Tus planes en las manos de Dios"

Proverbios 16:1-3 “El hombre propone y Dios dispone. A cada uno le parece correcto su proceder, pero el Señor juzga los motivos. Pon en manos del Señor todas tus obras, y tus proyectos se cumplirán.”

Todas nuestras capacidades y oportunidades son bendiciones de Dios, Él espera que nuestros mayores anhelos nos hagan verdaderamente bien; que nos ayuden a crecer, que seamos de bendiciones para nuestros semejantes, si los hacemos así, seguramente honraremos el bendito nombre de Dios. 

Si ponemos nuestros propósitos en las manos de Dios Él los hará prosperar, si nos dejamos guiar conforme a su voluntad revelada en su palabra seguramente tendremos buenos resultados. Procuremos que nuestros planes coincidan con los buenos propósitos que Dios tiene para nosotros.

Lectura complementaria:

Porque yo sé muy bien los planes que tengo para ustedes —afirma el Señor—, planes de bienestar y no de calamidad. Jeremías 29:11

Que Dios te conceda lo que tu corazón desea; que haga que se cumplan todos tus planes. Salmos 20:4

Oraciones: 🙏🏼 Que Dios apruebe y bendiga tus planes. Que tu iglesia reciba visón fresca de parte de Dios por medio del Espíritu Santo. Amén

#Proverbios 16:13 #Jeremias 29:11 #Salmos 20:4 #Oracion #reflexiones #lumafiiks #iead248 #cristianismo #evangelio #jesucristo #palabra de dios #dios #oracion

[drshermaines-wisdomnuggets]

"THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE"

THE HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK IN JEREMIAH: God’s call and anointing upon Jeremiah’s life as a prophet began in the womb. God reveals to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating you; [and] I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5 AMPC). This reveals that the…

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#2 Corinthians 4:4 #Believers #Bible #Chef Shermaine #Church #Encouragement #Faith #God #Holy Spirit #Jeremiah 1:5 #Jeremiah 29:11 #Jeremiah 31:33-34 #Jeremiah 32:38-39 #Jesus Christ #Knowledge #Luke 16:10 #Matthew 28:19-20 #Matthew 5:13-16 #Matthew 6:24 #Scripture #Understanding #Wisdom #Word of God

[bojackson54]

Doubting Thomas? Maybe You Should Hear the REST of the Story

“Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.” A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the…

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#doubting #doubting Thomas #evidence #Jesus #John 11:16 #John 14:5 #John 20:24-29 #proof

[haemosexuality]

trying to work out how old i think betty is

#i feel like before everything went to shit she was prob like 2 or 3 years younger than simon #but then between the crown and a thousand years passing and time travel that probably got fucked up a bit #im using simon as reference cuz i have nothing else to go off of iwnfuwwfirg #ok im gonna improvise a petrigrof timeline rn #they met when they were post graduate students. according to google the average age of postgrads is like late 20s early 30s #so m gonna say betty was like 29 and simon was 32 #they stay together a long time i mean they wrote a book together. ill say like. around a decade. betty is now 38 and simon is 41 #at some point during that time they get engaged #then the crown happens and betty jumps into the future #a year after that the war begins (i dont think we have any indication that betty knew ab the war do we?? if thats a thing then pretend she #went to the future a year later idk) #also marceline was born 2 years ago. shes in this timeline too bc shes relevant to simons story #when simon is 44 and marceline is 4 the bomb drops #hes 3 years into the ice king transformation #so his mental aging is like... slowing down #and his physical age is speeding up #marcy is 6 and hes 46 when they meet #and shes around 11 and hes 51 when he leaves #then a thousand years passes and betty appears in the future #shes 38 and simon is insane #shes 39 when she gets magic mand and 40 when she gets golbd. damn that woman cannot catch a break i didnt realize before now how fast all #that happened #and simon is still over a thousand years old. until he gets reset to how he was before the crown! or at least thats what i think happened! #so as of cawm hes like 41 again. and betty is dead #damn ive been calling him grandpa but hes barely even grandpa aged. yet. he is by fionna and cake/obsidian time tho #ok yeah im satisfied w that #adventure time #betty grof #simon petrikov

[oh-hools]

I GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE (in bed, in the dark, before i start rotting)

#hooly noises #only posting this when i get up #30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 #19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 #9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 #ok imb up

[missingn000]

#final thoughts as i sit down to reply to comments on 28 #many ppl were like omg congrats nanamin on fastest adoption award #i actually think it's tied for the fastest??? getou vs rika -> yuuta adoption took ~20 mins as well #im gonna say makis took 6 months bc thats how long it was btwn when they met and when toji fought the special grade & she moved in w him #not sure where to put yuujis since it was kinda gradual and snuck up on both of them #toji & gojo were also kinda gradual but if were going by like..exact dates they met on dec 11 and toji refers to gojo as his kid #in toji vs getou for the first time which was on aug 29 of the following year. so like a bit over 8 months #as for pre-tpg i think miminana is tough to say bc i dont think getou was thinking much at all when he killed the village but #probably distantly knew he'd be their caretaker when he made that initial decision #as for gojo #he knew of the existence of megumi for a year before doing anything about it but when he did decide to do something about it #it was with full intention to immediately adopt him so. not sure where to put that one either #and i guess tsumikis was...kinda instant since he learned of her and immediately adopted her so?? #anyway #tpg

[elicatkin]

#date stamp #20/11/2022 #01:29

[mostlysignssomeportents]

“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”

20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired. I'd publicly noted my disappointment with glowing Wired reviews of DRM-encumbered digital devices, prompting Anderson to call me unrealistic for expecting the magazine to condemn gadgets for their DRM:

https://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2004/12/is_drm_evil.html

I replied in public, telling him that he'd misunderstood. This wasn't an issue of ideological purity – it was about good reviewing practice. Wired was telling readers to buy a product because it had features x, y and z, but at any time in the future, without warning, without recourse, the vendor could switch off any of those features:

https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/29/cory-responds-to-wired-editor-on-drm/

I proposed that all Wired endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:

WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.

Wired didn't take me up on this suggestion.

But I was right. The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations. Inkjet printers were always a sleazy business, but once these printers got directly connected to the internet, companies like HP started pushing out "security updates" that modified your printer to make it reject the third-party ink you'd paid for:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

Now, this scam wouldn't work if you could just put things back the way they were before the "update," which is where the DRM comes in. A thicket of IP laws make reverse-engineering DRM-encumbered products into a felony. Combine always-on network access with indiscriminate criminalization of user modification, and the enshittification will follow, as surely as night follows day.

This is the root of all the right to repair shenanigans. Sure, companies withhold access to diagnostic codes and parts, but codes can be extracted and parts can be cloned. The real teeth in blocking repair comes from the law, not the tech. The company that makes McDonald's wildly unreliable McFlurry machines makes a fortune charging franchisees to fix these eternally broken appliances. When a third party threatened this racket by reverse-engineering the DRM that blocked independent repair, they got buried in legal threats:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war

Everybody loves this racket. In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls locomotives. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they've been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves:

https://mamot.fr/@[email protected]/111528162905209453

Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive, including Article 6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this month – Germany is also a party to the EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real – but so is the threat to conferences that host them:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/

20 years ago, Chris Anderson told me that it was unrealistic to expect tech companies to refuse demands for DRM from the entertainment companies whose media they hoped to play. My argument – then and now – was that any tech company that sells you a gadget that can have its features revoked is defrauding you. You're paying for x, y and z – and if they are contractually required to remove x and y on demand, they are selling you something that you can't rely on, without making that clear to you.

But it's worse than that. When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they invite both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remotely, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in the worst person at the product-planning meeting proposing to do so. The fact that there are no penalties for doing so makes it impossible for the better people in that meeting to win the ensuing argument, leading to the moral injury of seeing a product you care about reduced to a pile of shit:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification

But even if everyone at that table is a swell egg who wouldn't dream of enshittifying the product, the existence of a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature makes the product vulnerable to external actors who will demand that it be used. Back in 2022, Adobe informed its customers that it had lost its deal to include Pantone colors in Photoshop, Illustrator and other "software as a service" packages. As a result, users would now have to start paying a monthly fee to see their own, completed images. Fail to pay the fee and all the Pantone-coded pixels in your artwork would just show up as black:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process

Adobe blamed this on Pantone, and there was lots of speculation about what had happened. Had Pantone jacked up its price to Adobe, so Adobe passed the price on to its users in the hopes of embarrassing Pantone? Who knows? Who can know? That's the point: you invested in Photoshop, you spent money and time creating images with it, but you have no way to know whether or how you'll be able to access those images in the future. Those terms can change at any time, and if you don't like it, you can go fuck yourself.

These companies are all run by CEOs who got their MBAs at Darth Vader University, where the first lesson is "I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further." Adobe chose to design its software so it would be vulnerable to this kind of demand, and then its customers paid for that choice. Sure, Pantone are dicks, but this is Adobe's fault. They stuck a KICK ME sign to your back, and Pantone obliged.

This keeps happening and it's gonna keep happening. Last week, Playstation owners who'd bought (or "bought") Warner TV shows got messages telling them that Warner had walked away from its deal to sell videos through the Playstation store, and so all the videos they'd paid for were going to be deleted forever. They wouldn't even get refunds (to be clear, refunds would also be bullshit – when I was a bookseller, I didn't get to break into your house and steal the books I'd sold you, not even if I left some cash on your kitchen table).

Sure, Warner is an unbelievably shitty company run by the single most guillotineable executive in all of Southern California, the loathsome David Zaslav, who oversaw the merger of Warner with Discovery. Zaslav is the creep who figured out that he could make more money cancelling completed movies and TV shows and taking a tax writeoff than he stood to make by releasing them:

https://aftermath.site/there-is-no-piracy-without-ownership

Imagine putting years of your life into making a program – showing up on set at 5AM and leaving your kids to get their own breakfast, performing stunts that could maim or kill you, working 16-hour days during the acute phase of the covid pandemic and driving home in the night, only to have this absolute turd of a man delete the program before anyone could see it, forever, to get a minor tax advantage. Talk about moral injury!

But without Sony's complicity in designing a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature into the Playstation, Zaslav's war on art and creative workers would be limited to material that hadn't been released yet. Thanks to Sony's awful choices, David Zaslav can break into your house, steal your movies – and he doesn't even have to leave a twenty on your kitchen table.

The point here – the point I made 20 years ago to Chris Anderson – is that this is the foreseeable, inevitable result of designing devices for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades. Anyone who was paying attention should have figured that out in the GW Bush administration. Anyone who does this today? Absolute flaming garbage.

Sure, Zaslav deserves to be staked out over an anthill and slathered in high-fructose corn syrup. But save the next anthill for the Sony exec who shipped a product that would let Zaslav come into your home and rob you. That piece of shit knew what they were doing and they did it anyway. Fuck them. Sideways. With a brick.

Meanwhile, the studios keep making the case for stealing movies rather than paying for them. As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":

https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

Image: Alan Levine (modified) https://pxhere.com/en/photo/218986

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

#pluralistic #playstation #sony #copyright #copyfight #drm #monopoly #enshittification #batgirl #road runner #financiazation #the end of ownership #ip

[meatcute]

pick one. this is your new roommate

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[bebebisous33]

Jinx: ✨ Magic hours ⌛🌆🌃

#징크스 #jinx @_MinGwa #kimdan #joojaekyung #jaekyungxdan #jinxmanhwa #JaeDan #manhwa #blmanhwa The essay "✨Magic hours⌛️🌆🌃" is finished. I hope you'll like it. Retweet/like it as support. Thanks. Feel free to comment. Essay will be locked.

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[apaminerala]

Soirée Carnaval @ Embassy

À vos costumes… prêts, partez !La fameuse soirée Carnaval de l’UFE ROUMANIE est de retour ! Rejoignez-nous pour une soirée déguisée mémorable, avec open bar jusqu’à minuit, DJ et rires à volonté!QUAND ? Le 29 mars, à partir de 20h. OÙ ? À l’Embassy Gallery, Piata Alexandru Lahovari, nr 8.160 lei/pers tarif non-adhérent130 lei/pers tarif adhérentLien d’inscription à l’événement…

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[martyschoenleber]

Nine Biblical Reasons to Reject Donald Trump as a Candidate for President

Wednesday is for Political Controversy I don’t want to write this post.  Despite the fact that I wrote a book with the title Picking a President or Any Other Elected Official, I’m not a really political person.  I’m a registered Independent. Have been all my life. I wish all Christians were registered Independents. I don’t think it is wise for Christians to be identified with either or any…

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#1 Kings 12 #1 Timothy 5:6-7 #Donald Trump #Election #James 1:20 #John 8:44 #Philippians 2:15 #Politics #Presidential Candidates #Proverbs 12:15 #Proverbs 18:2 #Proverbs 19:1 #Proverbs 26:12 #Proverbs 29:11 #Proverbs 29:20 #Proverbs 8:44