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This was in the national news like a week ago in the Nerherlands. I remember coming across an article about it.

PayPal passes most billing information to the store where you purchased from. Card info is excluded, but in most cases PCI compliance checks ensure that card info is stored securely (or not at all).

Elected judges really isn’t all that common in the world. To me (Dutchman), electing judges/sheriffs sounds wild. Police does their own hiring, same goes for the judicial system. Judges decide who gets to be a high court judge, there’s no politics involved at all. That to me sounds like a massive violation of the trias politica.

I hope so, yes.

Bombing a house in the middle of a residential area seems “reasonable”?

A judge and jury found the police department used unnecessary excessive violence and violated constitutional protections against unlawful searches.

Definitely do! uBlock Origin is the best one around, and it’s completely free. Even without configuring anything the defaults block 99% of annoying ads.

Music locker services are frequenly targeted and taken down, as GlitterInfection mentioned. There’s multiple cases on the Wikipedia page.

There is a jump between hosting and sharing, but that jump is very small. Share it with 1 other person, and you have made unauthorised copies of the licensed material, and are therefore acting against the law. That’s not FUD, that’s been reality for the past few decades.

Whether or not the illegal sharing of licensed material is done via a generic website, a federated service of even carrier pidgeon doesn’t matter, an unlicensed copy is an illegal copy. Rightsholders have pleny of avenues to force a takedown against specific instances. And if they can successfully argue that the primary purpose of this software is piracy, they may even have enough legal arguments to force a takedown of the sourcecode.

Of course, the main question is whether rightsholders will bother with this as long as it remains small-scale. Legal costs would likely outweigh the missed income. But that doesn’t actually shield you from legal liability.

They would be able to sue the webhost in order to retrieve basically all the data if they have strong and reasonable suspicions that the website is hosting copyrighted material.

This really isn’t as foolproof in legal terms unfortunately. With torrent websites there’s still some ambiguity as the website doesn’t host the copyrighted material, just the torrent files. But here the website itself is liable, painting a massive legal target on their backs.

ISPs can be compelled to share name/address information of anyone involved in publishing licensed material through the courts. Then they’ll summon you to stop or pay a fairly hefty fine.

At least in the Netherlands this would still constitute unauthorised copying of licensed material, and therefore be illegal.

It’s additional space around components showing what’s behind it. So you’re seeing more stuff in between windows, making it look less organised imo. The “whitespace” isn’t really white here. It looks like another unnecessary element crammed inbetween two windows that might as well just sit neatly next to one another, making the windows slightly larger. I also like being able to move my mouse to the edge of things (e.g. the taskbar) without ending up in the whitespace, which causes misclicks for me.

Again, my opinion. Not stating absolute truths here.

I’m surprised you find that the gaps makes things feel less cluttered. Imo it looks considerably more cluttered.

I quite liked him as Arthur Dent.

“Cox ring” sounds like “cock ring”, which is a sex toy.

That’s developed by GameFreak, not Nintendo.

“ente Verification Code” also looks like a misspelling of “Enter Verification Code”. Might also be tripping something up.

In theory yes, but as there are many different video recorders, going with a super high refresh rate could be a better catch-all so to speak.

Lovecraft’s racism is very much a product of fear, not racial superiority. Dude was extraordinarily terrified of everything remotely foreign. It’s why “strange creatures that are vaguely human but completely incomprehensible” is the generic terror in his stories.

In that sense, I find the motivations for his racism far less terrible than the motivations a racial supremacist has.

Chromecast support is on hold because F-droid doesn’t allow gms proprietary libraries: https://github.com/jarnedemeulemeester/findroid/pull/139

The creator deems theme music to be “annoying” so they won’t add it: https://github.com/jarnedemeulemeester/findroid/issues/105

So no dice, it seems.

Findroid does lack Chromecast support and theme music in the library it seems. Other than that it does look good!