Because free speech is still a thing. They would need to find evidence that he had/distributed csam content, or had actually molested someone.

Best we can hope for is that they started an investigation and will manage to link something to him, but an adult talking to other adults isn't illegal so they aren't going to arrest him on the spot in the airport.

If they are working on an investigation they won't actually arrest him until they think they have enough concrete evidence to actually win a case, and that is usually weeks/months later.

It is as much a scam as the cards themselves. Artificial scarcity designed to addict our brains to gambling.

The grading feeds on/into the main scam of the cards themselves. The whole cycle requires that we place "value" on their slabs of paper and grading helps make that value more concrete in your brain. The more value you see in the cards the more of them that you want to buy. More cards sold means more grading, so the cycle goes round.

Have fun playing the game, just be aware the whole thing is no different than going to the casino. They just hope the psychological effect of not gambling with money addicts extra people who wouldn't normally gamble with money (i.e. children or those morally opposed to gambling)... and the house always wins.

This would be more of a use case for blockchain, any site(/user) wishing to mirror the social media would participate in the chain. A post on one site would get pushed into the chain and show up on every mirror.

Media would likely have to be links outside of the blockchain since it isn't usually very good at storing large datasets (it would make it difficult to mirror over time as it grew), so if you wanted a full mirror you would probably have your site fetching media as soon as it is posted and mirroring it yourself.

Or media might be a good spot to integrate with your bittorrent idea. Blockchain handles the distributed state of the site (communities/post text+metadata), and any submitted media is added to the post as bittorrent hashes. I don't know how scalable bittorrent clients are though it might take considerable overhead to seed millions of pictures/videos.

There are probably millions of "Netgear" SSIDs across the globe so Google doesn't really use your network name to do the mapping. Every wifi radio also has a BSSID, which is the unique MAC address for your radio. This or the combination of both would be what they are using to do the lookup.

So adding the _nomap to your ssid is the only option you have to prevent your BSSID from being added to their database. If you don't trust Google to honor the _nomap you could regularly change your BSSID. Many consumer routers let you change your WAN MAC but almost none of them will let you change your BSSID.

Them's fighting words! ;) yyyy-mm-dd is superior in every way. Sorts properly and much less potential for confusion across cultures.

If you click the link button it opens up the video instead of the preview jpg.

Well that would be the description of the community, but the actual rules section doesn't say anything about privacy/control.

So at the end of the day Plex is self hosted (you run most of it) so it should qualify. It might not 100% match the spirit of self hosting it does still meet the definition.

You can argue most Jellyfin/emby installs have the same problem because most users are still are dependent on external services because of things like metadata plugins.

And on the privacy front those plugins aren't any better than Plex. For instance The Movie DB which is the primary movie and TV metadata provider for Jellyfin has a privacy policy that clearly says they will use and share any interaction you have with the site including location and personal information. They almost certainly keep track of what is in your library. They don't have a user account for you that they can use to track across IPs, but if your ISP keeps you on the same IP for long periods of time they have a good idea of what you are watching.

You can run Jellyfin without those plugins enabled but unless you want to build/collect manual nfo files to import that data you are going to have a subpar experience.

Same problem for the **arr stack since they need metadata as well. Some of which go to different providers so you are giving out that information to additional parties (i.e. Sonarr goes to TheTVDB which has a similar privacy policy).

You can configure the arrs to write out nfo metadata and have Jellyfin consume that so that at least you aren't giving away your info to two external parties.

Well they did try to schedule delivery and apparently UPS wouldn't let them do that, but yeah certainly not anything to do with Valve.

If this were pre-covid UPS likely wouldn't have left a note and reattempted delivery the next day. But all of the shippers took the COVID no-contact rules to mean that they could just leave packages at the door, snap a pic, and be done with it. Saves them a huge amount on redelivery attempts, and they get to pass the blame on to their customers for not being there.

UPS asking you to open a case with Valve is normal. You didn't pay to ship it, Valve did. Even if it is a line item on your invoice it was a contract between Valve and UPS, so you can't call up UPS demanding investigation/money because it is Valve that gets the money not you (who in turn refunds it to you).

If Valve gives you the money back they are likely taking a loss on it to keep you happy. As far as UPS is concerned they delivered it (presumably with photographic evidence), so why would they pay up on insurance. Unless Valve pays for the higher level of insurance UPS won't cover for porch pirates.

It is unlikely that Valve paid to have that level of coverage, but that is because they know only a small number of packages will be stolen. It ends up being cheaper to just give a few refunds than it is to pay for the higher level coverage on thousands of packages.

Hopefully that is the case on how Valve handles this and you get a replacement or at least your money back. Good luck!

Exactly this.

People think they are getting punished, like the bank doesn't want you to take out another loan. The reality is that it is just an algorithm that sees major events like that and realizes that sometimes paying off a loan and immediately getting a new loan makes you more of a risk not less of one.

The score is a snapshot on a single day of how the algorithm thinks you could handle more credit than you currently have (it is used to apply for new credit), and if you paid off a loan and proceeded to walk into the bank days later to get right back into debt that is clearly/statistically a red flag.

The problem is people see the score like their current value as a person, but the score was designed for loan applications not for you to monitor month to month.

It's not the bank trying to punish you it is just an algorithm that frankly has very limited data (no concept of assets, only sees statement balances, usually doesn't include utilities/rent and many other bills) on your actual capability to pay off a loan.

Enterprise agreements using Copilot have "your data doesn't leave our cloud, and we won't train on your data" clauses. Even if you are just a M365 customer using the free tier of copilot you have enterprise data protection.

If you don't believe them on that clause they were probably already storing that data on one of the cloud providers anyways, so Microsoft would have already had full access to that data right at the database instead of some snippets of prompted context.

Did you check memory usage at the same time? Install would certainly be IO intensive but probably shouldn't max out a decent nvme drive.

If you ran out of ram due to the games installer and you started swapping that could quickly max out IO and DEs tend to stall quickly when the system is short on ram which also matches your symptoms.