This was during the era before streaming services became the norm, when Netflix was still brand new, they actually started by sending physical discs before launching their streaming service existed. You rent a copy and a disc is sent to your home within a few days but there's a written letter telling you have to return it by a certain date otherwise they'll charge extra.

That copy isn't yours to keep, so what ends up happening during those days were people using blank DVD's alongside their PC and DVD burning software to pirate the content from movie rentals (also DVDrips existed, but those file sizes are massive during dial up internet being broken up into .VOB / .BUP in a folder or outright converted into an large .ISO file).

It was either DVDrip (.mkv) or literally copying onto a blank DVD. VCD's are an alternative for compression but sacrifices quality as a CD is designed to hold music rather than video. DVD ripping software exists, but you need heaps of storage on PC to hold thos

Looking for friendly telegram channels or groups that has free stuff

I bought Plex pass years ago for £79. The new price of $749.99 is INSANE.

No wonder all the cool people are using Jellyfin.

South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) convened an international enforcement meeting on June 9 in Seoul to strengthen global cooperation against copyright infringement targeting K-content.

The “2026 International Copyright Protection Enforcement Conference,” held at Lotte Hotel Seoul, brought together law enforcement agencies from five countries — Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and the Netherlands — along with Interpol, the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Korea office, and Korean authorities including the Ministry of Justice, prosecutors, and police.

Private-sector participants included major content industry stakeholders such as Naver WEBTOON and Kakao Entertainment.

The meeting focused on sharing enforcement strategies and coordinating joint operations to track and apprehend overseas copyright offenders. Discussions also covered ongoing international investigations under Interpol's “Stop Online Piracy” (I-SOP) initiative, as well a

Some interesting "Wealth Tax" ideas in there and proposed changes that would net an extra ~$5B (estimated).

• Big corporations tax: The corporate tax rate will be increased from 28 percent to 33 percent for big companies with annual turnover exceeding $30 million. This will impact about 0.7 percent of businesses (e.g. banks, supermarkets and energy companies).

And new income tax rates:

Current

Proposed

Bambu p1s

Pla. Its been dried in dehydrator for 4 hours at 55

Ironing is off (seemed to be the same with ironing on)

Ive tried turning the temp down to 210

There is a prime tower and purging is set to 1x

Flow rate is 0.96

Aux fan is off

Relatively new nozzle (less than a couple months old and I dont print that often)

I dont know what other info might be relevant

Its not the absolute top surface though, the black icons are raised higher and those look fine.

Really at a loss. Does anyone have any ideas?

I have been studying for a while from Prof Messer's videos online. I did a mock test from Gibson's Get Certified Ahead book, i did 20 out of 50 questions, I answered 12 correctly. However, the 10 questions on the CompTIA website, i answered all of them correctly, and they seem much easier.

Obviously, I want to pass. But now I am a little bit scared. On reddit (ew) discussions are always making it like some terrifying thing. While I was very confident, after trying Gibson im now a bit scared and will be studying form Gibson's book as well while maintaining my notes from Messer.

That post about the Office 2019 license expiring on Mac (https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/70667106) made me think how many of us might not understand how people outside the pirate bubble deal with situations like that. My understanding is that the post's author completely misses the point regarding what's happening here. Those who bought an Office license back in 2019 are very much likely to have upgraded their packages already, so they won't even know about this expiration date. The very few who are still using their old Office version will react at that as if it were a notification, buy a new one and won't bother about it at all.

My point is that their relationship with paying for software is very different from how a pirate sees it; paying for a new version of an application every couple of years is not a problem for them. It's like gamers who buy Call of Duty or EA Sports titles every year. It doesn't make them idiots, it's just a different way of dealing with money and that service

Does anyone know what happened to Crunchyroll-Downloader? I tried to log in and I got an invalid client. And then I saw the project was taken off GitHub. Did they finally get noticed and blocked? I’m bummed because I had some series I needed to finish off.