Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy
After "awareness" campaigns that failed to move the needle for years, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy. The Rights Alliance confirmed it will begin filing civil lawsuits against individual students who are caught sharing even a single digital textbook. The anti-piracy group prefers not to mention the targeted platforms but says it uses undercover monitoring of private groups to gather evidence.
Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy * TorrentFreak
After "awareness" campaigns failed, Denmark’s leading anti-piracy group is shifting to a more aggressive litigation strategy.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
The world is trying to log off U.S. tech
U.S tech backlash grows as countries and startups seek alternatives - Rest of World
Proton Mail and UpScrolled attract users looking to quit Big Tech services like TikTok, Meta and Google.Rina Chandran (Rest of World)
Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion
Spotify and Major Music Labels Sue Anna’s Archive for $13 Trillion
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The write up is from December when it was first disclosed afaik
Kinda sad the flagship instance is the biggest turnoff to wider adoption. Also, I gotta try / switch to Piefed.
Doing an "Orphan Black" re-watch and this scene gets me every time.
Oh, there's an "-ism"
Felix goes to a club and is disappointed to learn there's an "-ism" required to be there.
‘We Don’t Know the Word Surrender’: Cubans Respond to New U.S. Threats
Limia Díaz is a historian, writer, member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and director of the Cuban TV program MARCAS.
Feb. 2, 2026
The U.S. military leaders know that Cuba is not Venezuela, that they wouldn’t have the easy victory of January 3rd. We do not know the word surrender, and that is why Trump has set out to recreate the shameful chapter of Weyler’s Reconcentration, ordered by that Spanish general to starve our people into submission, given his inability to defeat the Mambí Army on the battlefield. They cannot forgive us for being considered a moral compass despite all the difficulties, and the spirit of revenge leads them to act with genocidal cruelty. What will humanity do: succumb to fascism or respond with courage and integrity? “Whoever stands with Cuba today, stands for all time.”
‘We Don’t Know the Word Surrender’: Cubans Respond to New U.S. Threats - World-Outlook
On January 29, 2026, U.S. president Donald Trump issued a new executive order declaring a “national emergency” because of the “unusual and extraordinary threat” the island nation allegedly poses to the United States.world-outlook.com (World-Outlook)
Waaiiiittttaminute
how do you not know the word if you are able to use it correctly in a sentence?
Hmmmmmm
Understanding LLM Inference Engines: Inside Nano-vLLM (Part 1)
Understanding LLM Inference Engines: Inside Nano-vLLM (Part 1) - Neutree Blog
When deploying large language models in production, the inference engine becomes a critical piece of infrastructure.Neutree
Best gas masks
Best gas masks
Trump’s DHS is waging war on American cities, tear gassing civilians. This is how and why they are buying their gas masks.Sarah Jeong (The Verge)
32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital
32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital
A Chinese programmer died in hospital after fainting while working at home late last year.Gao Guanghui (transliterated), 32, allegedly died of cardiac arrest, leading his family to believe that he died from overwork.AsiaOne
The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore
I haven’t thought about it in a while but the premise of the article rings true. Desktops are overall disposable. Gpu generations are only really significant with new cpu generations. CPUs are the same with real performance needed a new chipset and motherboard. At that point you are replacing the whole system.
Is there a platform that challenges that trend?
Home Assistant will create a device database
I'm choosing devices based on how good they work with zha and HA and usually have to browse a bit before settling for something. If they manage to implement this properly, I'm all here for it.
Maybe they should talk to the zigbee device compatibility repository people (or maybe they already have).
How we'll build the device database, together
We're building a device database to help everyone make better choices for their smart home. Discover our plans and how you can help shape them.Home Assistant
War crimes against Russia have no statute of limitations — Medvedev
War crimes against Russia have no statute of limitations — Medvedev
According to the politician, this applies not only to those "misled by the Bandera regime," but also to foreign mercenaries and a number of other individualsTASS
Kiev-backed suicide bomb plot thwarted in Russia – FSB
Kiev-backed suicide bomb plot thwarted in Russia – FSB
The Federal Security Service has reported thwarting a new Ukrainian plot involving an unwitting suicide bomberRT
Man that shit looks planted. He could fit what, a kilo of C4 in there? So the plan would be to go somewhere and martyr himself?
Jesus the Russian public is gullible.
'No, That Is Not Your Job,' Say Critics After Schumer Claims 'Job' Is to 'Fight for Aid to Israel' | Common Dreams
Jon Queally
Feb 02, 2026
Progressive critics of Senate Minority Chuck Schumer had fresh reasons to speak out Sunday after the powerful New York Democrat said that “one of many of [his] jobs” in the US Senate was to fight for ongoing taxpayer-funded military and financial assistance to the Israeli government, a position that has been the focus of growing protest among rank-and-file party members and the public at large in the face of Israel’s brutal genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza.“I have many jobs as [Senate] leader... and one is to fight for aid to Israel — all the aid that Israel needs,” Schumer said at a gathering of Jewish leaders and community members in New York on Sunday.
According to Jacob Kornbluh, who provided footage of the remarks while reporting for The Forward, Schumer told the audience that his support for Jewish security funding will only continue growing under his leadership, calling it his “baby.”
'No, That Is Not Your Job,' Say Critics After Schumer Claims 'Job' Is to 'Fight for Aid to Israel'
"Seventy-five percent of Democratic voters oppose sending Israel more military aid, as do 66% of independents and 60% of Americans overall," noted one domestic policy expert.jon-queally (Common Dreams)
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in reply to slothrop • • •The fact that Anna's Archive isn't responding to the court tells me they couldn't give a shit about the lawsuit.
Glorious.
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Anna’s Archive: LibGen (Library Genesis), Sci-Hub, Z-Library in one place - Anna’s Archive
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in reply to slothrop • • •If the litigants suffered these tremendous losses bc of AA, can they not deduct these losses from their taxes?
Oh, wait...
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in reply to AlreadyDefederated • • •Just like the Pirate Bay they will try to find and prosecute individuals behind it and then try and force governments to block the domains. Which they did, all of those guys spent trivial prison sentences (this was early internet and in Sweden, circumstances are not the same anymore), and TPB was down for like... A year I think, before it popped right back up and is going just as strong as it ever did. Because just like these capitalist laws to protect the technofeudal class evolve to protect them, so does the methods by which creative hackers employ tech to fuck them in the ass.
Hydrabay 4 lyfe
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in reply to etherphon • • •According to the article, $150,000 is the maximum damages allowed per track. So $150,000/track * 86,000,000 tracks is around $13 Trillion. So they are asking for the maximum that the law allows.
They could ask for infinity billion dollars for all it matters; you can't get blood from a stone.
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in reply to slothrop • • •At this point I must cancel my Spotify subscription. Any suggestion on how to implement a somewhat automated music discovery system that can replace Spotify's "radios" and playlists?
I already run a Navidrome instance.
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in reply to slothrop • • •$13.000.000.000.000
Like, are we 12 now? I too would come up with these bazonker numbers at that age.
Fuck Spotify,fuck the current legal system that got us here
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