According to the German (I have not found an EU equivalent) office for statistics, you are part of the top 1% of full-time workers if you earn >213,286€ per year:

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2025/04/PD25_134_621.html

Sure, this doesn’t include billionaires who don’t work but there just aren’t enough of them to matter. It’s not like there are hundreds of thousands billionaires in Germany.

Earning 400,000€ in two years makes you part of the 1% though?? Where else would this guy be? Upper middle class?

Do we know this?

I suspect they usually compress videos at most a couple times (for each resolution) and then keep the results cached somewhere. At least for popular videos that combined take up 99% of bandwidth. For 0 views videos I’d imagine they only store the highest resolution and compress it further down on demand.

I’d argue DRMing all those popular videos would take up so much computing power it cannot be offset by ads.

DRM is expensive. Very expensive in fact because it is basically non-trivial encryption.

A website with as much traffic as YouTube cannot afford to DRM every single video stream. There just isn’t enough processing power and electricity available.

Netflix et al. have a tiny fraction of YouTube’s traffic with more income per user due to subscriptions.

Plus YouTube’s storage demands are many orders of magnitude larger. A maximum upper bound for Netflix is 1 PB I’d imagine. Archiveteam alone has selectively downloaded more than 3 PB. YouTube has, I’d imagine, a double digit exabyte amount of data stored + backups.

That’s what I’m saying.

The argument:

If you never pay for music, artists won’t be able to make new music

is fundamentally flawed. Nearly all artists don’t make more than pocket change at best.

Even if we were to abolish all copyright tomorrow and no one would every pay for art again, art would still exist and be published. Because as it turns out, people enjoy making art.

That’s not to say they shouldn’t be paid. Of course people should make a living by selling art. But OP saying art will cease to exist if there is no money is completely wrong.

Open https://bandcamp.com/discover?s=rand and check how many albums have sold more than 5 copies.

How are those artists able to make music without making money? Because according to you, they can’t.

Boo, bad article.

Here’s a better one:

https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/iot-malware-gayfemboy-mirai-based-botnet-campaign

Highlights:

Upon execution, the malware displays the string “twinks :3.”

The malware uses the string “meowmeow” as a trigger to activate its backdoor functionality.

The known C2 domains include:

cross-compiling[.]org
i-kiss-boys[.]com
furry-femboys[.]top
twinkfinder[.]nl
3gipcam[.]com

If only you sharted in your pants instead; then you would’ve been able to partially accomodate OP’s request.

Huh, you’re right but the umbrella company was still only called “Old Mutual”.

No, that’s Old Mutual Wealth which rebranded. Wealth, not Health. Maybe this is a mistake in the article?

I would be very impressed if he surgically removed his own legs. I mean, there is a lot of tissue and bone to cut through. That’s not easy to do by yourself. But if that’s the case, that’s where the fraud aspect could come from.

Also, is that a thing? “Disability by choice” so you get a lower payout? But even if, wouldn’t that be paid by some other insurance - like a specific disability insurance rather than your typical health insurance? At least in Germany the latter is very much different, health insurances only pay for treatments, recovery and prevention.

The lie about the cause of the injury must somehow be related to the payout, otherwise I can’t believe how it would constitute fraud. Still, this is really confusing because private health insurances usually cannot decline/reduce claims due to intentional injury.

I don’t understand this story. It’s really badly presented:

Hopper dishonestly made a false representation to Aviva and Old Mutual Health that his “legs had been amputated because of illness rather than self-inflicted injury”, the court heard

Aviva is a private health insurance, Old Mutual Health doesn’t seem to operate in the UK, only in Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa? Either way, don’t insurance companies legally have to pay even for treating self-iflicted injuries requiring amputation?

In April 2019, he used dry ice to freeze his legs to the extent they were no longer viable and required amputation.

The amputation had to happen, else he would have died. Hell, I’d even argue the freezing occured due to mental illness so he misrepresented it only by claiming the amputation was physical illness. How is the cause even relevant for a health insurance?

After the amputation, he made claims to the insurers that resulted in payouts of £466,653.81. He spent the money on a campervan, a hot tub, wood burner and building works.

These are health insurances. Not life insurances or similar that would pay you for losing your legs. Don’t health insurances just cover the treatment (amputation), recovery and prosthetics? Sure they can get expensive - a six digit figure seems like a lot still but not fully implausible - but why would you get a “payout”? Health insurance would only cover bills.

Surely it can’t be insurance fraud to harm yourself and then make an insurance claim for the recovery, right? Otherwise literally everyone who survived a suicide attempt would have to cover all associated expenses.

So where did the fraud part come from?

In the EU platforms can be found guilty for what they publish though. It is the platform’s responsibility and duty to check whether their content is violating the law or not.

If a German newspaper were to publish an ad advocating for the murder of an ethnic group, both the creator of the ad and the newspaper would face charges.

I can’t say much more about the rest but there are certainly legal standards for boxing that need to be abided for a boxing event to be legal. This includes having medical staff on site, a referee which manages the match, gloves being mandated for the boxers etc. If these standards aren’t held, you can charge a boxer for participating in an illegal fight and manslaughter should the other boxer die.

If this were actually done to children/teens surely their brains would not form any associations between being restrained and horny, right?

Oh, that’s cool.

Eventually™ I will have to change this.

Yup many people had the same issue which is why someone created a docker container mod for LinuxServer’s qbit docker image:

https://github.com/t-anc/GSP-Qbittorent-Gluetun-sync-port-mod

I’ve been using it for over a year now and it works well.

Holy AI slop this article sucks. Nothing screams ChatGPT more than a shitton bullet points in the form:

• Keywords: A sentence to describe the keywords.

Also, Wayland is gay and X11 is trans.

AI was never more than algorithms which could be argued to have some semblance of intelligence somewhere. It’s sole purpose was marketing by scientists to get funding.

Since the 60s everything related to neural networks is classified as AI. LLMs are neural networks, therefore they fall under the same label.

Duckduckgo uses Bing which has deindexed a couple of sites.

I have found the emulation wiki to no longer show up through DDG. It’s the first result on Google but DDG gives you just Fandom garbage.

Notice how the developer argues he forbids packages and how the AIR is in violation of this? But an AUR PKGBUILD is not a package - it’s build instructions. It doesn’t distribute or package anything, you can check it yourself. It’s not called “PKG” for a reason. He misunderstands his own license and believes the allegedly broken PKGBUILD violates it.

He may be right about some users annoying him with bug reports though I’d be surprised if it was that common. It seems like he got a couple of reports, noticed the “forbidden” PKGBUILD and then reacted like this. Just like when changing the license from GPL to CC-BY-NC-ND in order to combat… GPL violations and trademark infringements?

Frankly, the project has not had parricularly stable leadership in a while. Though a bit unfair of a comparison, compare it to Dolphin and you can see a night and day difference in project management.