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You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will by Kata1yst in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Most debt actually can't be inherited, instead debt collectors get first dibs on inheritance assets until they're made whole or the estate runs out of assets, whichever comes first.

That doesn't mean that debt collectors won't try to convince family members to pay. Just tell them where they can shove it.

Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two by Kata1yst in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago

MRSA infection following hospital admittance for Pneumonia. That shit is serious and way more prevalent than people think, it's just that it usually kills people who are already terminally ill.

Unlikely to be an assassination. But not impossible. Either way, looks very bad.

Man Thinks Games Were Better When He Was Blind to Their Blatant Political Themes by Kata1yst in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 103 points 3 months ago

Reminds me of the kid who I worked with who tried to convince me in earnest that Colbert was a champion of Conservatism.

I thought it was a joke for weeks and played along before I realized he just was that dumb and naive.

Vince McMahon Resigns From Endeavor-Owned Sports Group After Horrific Rape & Sex Trafficking Claims by Kata1yst in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 113 points 5 months ago

Don't forget Ghoul-ianni and the specifically underage encounter caught on tape by Sacha Baron Cohen.

The Perfect Solution by Kata1yst in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago

Rofl. I just imagine OP furiously updating LinkedIn with "AI Programmer".

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Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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16.5% of new car sales are compact crossovers, but only 6% of those are EVs.

Kids are brutal by Kata1yst in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago

Probably tweeted years ago.

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What would you all like to see from this magazine? (kbin.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As I'm sure some of you noticed, very shortly after Ernest posted the update to KBin that allowed for abandoned magazine adoption, I took over this magazine.

After a quick flurry of activity kicking the former moderator and owner who hadn't logged in in over 3 months and using a spammer as some target practice for my shiny new ban hammer, I haven't done much aside from contribute a pair of crossposts.

It's been quiet, which is totally okay of course. There are other great Threadiverse selfhosted communities I hope all who are interested have already found.

But I'd ideally like to find a niche for this community to fill. My small contribution back to the community at large I've been benefitting from for over a decade now.

Do any of you have cool ideas? We could do themed days, giveaways, weekly posts, a wiki, a matrix server, whatever really.

Or we could simply update the sidebar to redirect to other selfhosting communities.

Any and all ideas welcome!

YouTube now allows monetization on videos with breastfeeding nudity and 'non-sexually graphic dancing' | TechCrunch by Kata1yst in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 73 points 7 months ago

Umm, yes. Breastfeeding doesn't come to new mothers naturally. It's a learned skill. And many new mothers have never been taught. When my wife was shown by a lactation consultant at the hospital, they were so busy they only were able to stay for 10m. And this was with a mother and baby having issues.

Easily accessible videos properly demonstrating techniques with a real baby would have been extremely helpful, but at the time exposed breasts for the purposes of breastfeeding weren't allowed on YT at all, let alone monetized. This has been huge effort by feminist groups for a reason.

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What to use as offsite backup? - Divisions by zero (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Good conversation here. I migrated from Duplicati/B2 to Kopia/B2, happy with it so far!

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Ditching MyQ for OpenGarage - Open Source Garage Door Control - Lemmy.World (lemmy.world)

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Not your typical selfhosting, but a very cool use case.

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‘The Onion’ Stands With Israel Because It Seems Like You Get In Less Trouble For That (www.theonion.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The past week has shown humanity at its worst: A horrific terrorist attack left at least 1,300 Israelis dead, among them peace activists and even innocent children. The fates of many more kidnapped civilians still lie in the balance. Meanwhile, statements from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggest retaliation…

Valve Says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS Not Happening Because There Aren't Enough Players on Mac to Justify It by Kata1yst in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You mean repackaged Wine that they're pretending to have invented? Yeah should do.

Polish experts confirm missile that hit grain facility was Ukrainian by Kata1yst in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Missile was fired in Nov 2022.

By Occam's Razor an accident is FAR more likely than a grand conspiracy to eliminate an ally's important military and political target... let me check my notes... yup. A grain silo.

First congressional Democrat calls on Menendez to resign by Kata1yst in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago

Dean Phillips is a real one. He represented me while I lived in his area. I emailed him a couple of times to insist on the right to repair, find solutions to police brutality, protect Internet freedom, and various privacy votes.

Each time he personally called me. He himself. We'd have a conversation. And then when new votes came up around the same topics, he'd call me back to discuss. Once a year he'd call to get my opinion on how things were going in general and what I was concerned about. He also holds regular virtual town halls.

I should stress I'm nobody important, and he does this with anyone who engaged with his office.

If all reps were like him, our country would be much better off.

Hyprland is a toxic community by Kata1yst in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago

What a tone-deaf response, yikes.

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Naïve Toddler Getting Awfully Attached To 90-Year-Old Grandmother (www.theonion.com)

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DAVENPORT, IA—Perplexed by the toddler’s affection for the nonagenarian, sources confirmed Tuesday that local 2-year-old Ava Kerper was getting awfully attached to her 90-year-old grandmother. “She knows the average life expectancy is like, 77, right?” said the sources, who scoffed while watching the child demonstrate her complete and embarrassing obliviousness, wrapping her arms around her grandmother and announcing, “You’re my favorite!” “Personally, if I were going to choose a favorite person in the whole wide world, I’d choose someone with more than six months to live, tops, but hey, you do you, I guess. Christ, this is not going to end well. If this kid’s not careful, Grandma will die with Ava on her lap, and then she’ll live with that regret.” At press time, sources confirmed it was Kerper’s own fault for not learning her lesson with her 98-year-old grandfather.

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Study: More Americans Buying AR-15s To Defend Selves From Toddlers Who Found Their Guns (www.theonion.com)

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WASHINGTON—Shedding light on the enduring appeal behind assault rifle ownership, a Pew study released Monday revealed that more Americans were buying AR-15s to defend themselves from toddlers who found their guns. “Many Americans stressed that they felt safer knowing they had an AR-15 at the ready in case their toddler stumbled across a shoebox holding a loaded gun on the floor of a closet and started firing away,” said researcher Jonathan Lieu, noting that the majority of AR-15 owners told his team they purchased the lightweight rifle due to their recurring fears about waking in the night to their 2-year-old giggling as they shot bullet holes through the bedroom door. “One response we often heard was that it was a Second Amendment right for gun owners to defend themselves against their own young children. They also stressed that a baseball bat or pepper spray simply wasn’t enough firepower to take down their gun-toting kids.” Lieu added that many Americans also rushed out to purchase tear gas grenades after their children inevitably got their hands on the AR-15s.

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The Biden administration proposes new rules to push insurers to boost mental health coverage (apnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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President Joe Biden’s administration has announced new rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments.

Are there any good Blu-ray ripping software for Linux? by Kata1yst in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can link the makeMKV libs to handbrake so it's a one step process disk -> compressed form.

#!/bin/bash

# Intention: replace aacs decoding with makemkv's superior libmmbd programatically

# elevate privilages to sudo
[ "$UID" -eq 0 ] || exec sudo bash "$0" "$@"

# test if libmmbd is installed already, exit otherwise
libmmbdpath=$(find /usr -name libmmbd.so.0)
echo "libmmbd path is $libmmbdpath"
if [[ ! $libmmbdpath == *"/lib/"* ]]; then
    echo "libmmbd not found, please install makemkv first"
    exit 0
fi

# test if libaacs is installed already, set desired path otherwise
libaacspath=$(find /usr -name libaacs.so.0)
echo "libaacs path is $libaacspath"
if [[ ! $libaacspath == *"/lib/"* ]]; then
    libaacspath="/usr/lib/libaacs.so.0"
else
    echo "libaacs found, you must uninstall libaacs"
    exit 0
fi

# test if libbdplus is installed already, set desired path otherwise
libbdpluspath=$(find /usr -name libbdplus.so.0)
echo "libbdplus path is $libbdpluspath"
if [[ ! $libbdpluspath == *"/lib/"* ]]; then
    libbdpluspath="/usr/lib/libbdplus.so.0"
else
    echo "libbdplus found, you must uninstall libbdplus"
    exit 0
fi

# if we made it here, it's time to take action

# softlink mmbd to aacs
ln -s $libmmbdpath $libaacspath

# softlink mmbd to bdplus
ln -s $libmmbdpath $libbdpluspath

echo "successfully set up libmmbd as the system decrypter"
exit 0