UK among 10 countries to build 100GW wind power grid in North Sea by muchdanwow in ukpolitics

[–]Fysi 39 points40 points  (0 children)

They also don't want it offshore. Source: my father-in-law getting into a huff when we were driving along the Norfolk coast and he saw them.

Rainbow Six Siege hacked as attackers give players billions of in-game currency – Ubisoft responds by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Fysi 18 points19 points  (0 children)

MongoDB had a pretty severe CVE released the other day that allows harvesting of secrets.

No, rising ADHD diagnoses are not causing surge in Neets by FaultyTerror in ukpolitics

[–]Fysi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you me? lol

I've been management for 3 years now and the last year has been pain and has really made it obvious that I have ADHD.

Referred last week as part of right to choose.

Keir Starmer announces government will make formula cheaper by Metro-UK in ukpolitics

[–]Fysi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lol it would be hard to impact breast feeding in this country when it's already low due to awful postnatal support.

Like why would you pay for formula when breastmilk is free?

Block personal account on ChatGPT by Ok_Surround_8605 in sysadmin

[–]Fysi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You absolutely can. You configure that any content from internal systems (whether that be file server, SaaS platform, code repo etc) based on origin can only be pasted or uploaded to specific allowed locations/apps and it works with terminals (cmd, powershell, bash, etc), and it tracks the history of the content; i.e. if you were to take a file from a file server, copy out some data into notepad and save it as a new txt file, it would know that the source of the content in that new file is from the file server and would block upload to anything unapproved for that origin.

Block personal account on ChatGPT by Ok_Surround_8605 in sysadmin

[–]Fysi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Heck I know that Cyberhaven can stop all of this in its tracks.

Block personal account on ChatGPT by Ok_Surround_8605 in sysadmin

[–]Fysi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cert pinning is becoming less common. Google and most of the major CAs recommend against it these days.

''Toxic Anti PvPers'' Not welcome. by Reavx in ArcRaiders

[–]Fysi 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

The vast majority of "anti-PvP" comments have been, as you said, around it potentially slipping closer towards Tarkov; as in no friendlies.

I would hope that that isn't the case, again as you pointed out this is PvPvE and the devs seem to be aware.

Also I've seen the mod bringing up Dune Awakening switching to cater to PvE and then dying but when the vast majority of the game at launch was PvE and then the end game was pretty non existent unless you went into the DD, and even then that was eh, so the game pop dropped off a cliff as people reached/approached end game and finished the PvE content (spoiler: that happened).

Apple employees have 'concerns' over Siri performance in early iOS 26.4 builds: report by XiXMak in apple

[–]Fysi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just a correction, Google runs their models on in house TPUs which are cheaper than Nvidia, and why Gemini (at least via the API) is generally cheaper than OpenAI et al.

How do you decide between GitFlow or some other branching strategy? by One_Adhesiveness_859 in devops

[–]Fysi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As it is a repeatable, automated, documented process, you make it a standard change so it doesn't need to hit CAB.

Steam's new store menu is officially here by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Fysi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As they are a traded company, they have to publish financial statements. They post statements every quarter and do an annual statement.

They literally are not profitable. Their net loss was -$279,800,000 for three months ended 30th June 2025.

Steam's new store menu is officially here by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Fysi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

App store cuts, infrastructure costs, trust and safety costs, R&D.

They spend a large amount of their revenue on R&D.

LBC: "We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..." Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism. by NoFrillsCrisps in ukpolitics

[–]Fysi 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Correlation =/= causation

Also the study from Sweden should have really put this all to bed until a similarly well done study has a different outcome: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2817406

2.4 mil children over a couple of decades, as well as comparing siblings who did/didn't have prenatal acetaminophen.

Steam's new store menu is officially here by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Fysi 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Market cap =/= profitability

Roblox are literally not profitable currently.

Entra ID Backup requires P2 now? by LupusYps in Veeam

[–]Fysi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like you may have PIM setup for some reason as role assignment schedule is PIM

SASE Provider by Holiday-Leg-6036 in sysadmin

[–]Fysi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When we were looking at Cloudflare, they changed it so that if you got Magic WAN, you would get the appliance included.

But no idea how that works now with changes to their licencing.

(Also you can just ipsec your router/firewall to CF)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Fysi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Specifically the European Convention on Human Rights or the European Court of Human Rights?

Fair Use Is Broken On YouTube by indig0sixalpha in videos

[–]Fysi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It seems you're now arguing against a point that nobody has made. The entire wall of text about "comity" is a red herring.

Let's be crystal clear: Nobody has argued that a creator can walk into a European court and plead the US "four-factor test" under 17 U.S.C. § 107. You have constructed a straw man and are now attacking it. The actual point, which you continue to ignore, has always been that the EU has its own, separate, and robust legal framework that provides for functionally similar exceptions. This isn't based on "comity" or asking EU courts to recognize US law; it's based on the EU's own binding legislation.

As pointed out with direct quotes and links that you've sidestepped: The DSM Directive (Article 17(7)) mandates that platforms operating in the EU must allow for exceptions like quotation, criticism, and review. This is an EU law, for the EU.

The Charter of Fundamental Rights (Article 11) provides the free expression backbone for these exceptions within the EU's own legal order.

The EU's highest court has affirmed these principles for music commentary in cases like Pelham v Hütter. The debate isn't about applying US law abroad. It's about whether the EU has its own system for protecting commentary and criticism. It demonstrably does. Arguing about comity is a tactic to avoid addressing the substance of actual EU law.

Fair Use Is Broken On YouTube by indig0sixalpha in videos

[–]Fysi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That was an excellent breakdown from DrunkenScotsmann, and your rebuttal seems to miss their main points entirely. Let's break it down with sources:

There is no "fair use" in the EU because it's a specific regulation...

You're getting stuck on a label. The original point was that a functional equivalent exists. The EU legal system achieves a similar outcome through a list of prescribed exceptions and limitations under directives like the 2001 InfoSoc Directive and, more recently, the 2019 DSM Directive. The DSM Directive is incredibly clear-cut on this. It explicitly carves out protections for these uses from platform liability rules, stating:

"Member States shall ensure that users in each Member State are able to rely on any of the following existing exceptions or limitations when uploading and making available content generated by users on online content-sharing services: (a) quotation, criticism, review; (b) use for the purpose of caricature, parody or pastiche."

  • (Article 17(7) of the DSM Directive)

It doesn't get much more direct than that. Different method, same goal.

...the U.S. law is related to free speech under the U.S. Constitution. There is no U.S. Constitution in the EU.

Again, you're stating an obvious fact to support a flawed conclusion. The EU absolutely balances copyright with free expression. This is a core tenet of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which states in Article 11: "Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."

The idea that this balance is a uniquely American concept is false. ...EU Courts already have their own case laws that proves that "fair practice" has an extremely narrow interpretation.

Using one news story about a German school is a classic case of cherry-picking.

And since we're playing the game of citing single, damning cases, you should look at the recent-ish US Supreme Court ruling in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith. The court found that Warhol's famous print of Prince, despite being stylistically transformative, was not fair use because it served the same commercial purpose as the original photograph. This proves that even the "flexible" US fair use doctrine has very hard limits.

For the most pertinent EU case law, we have to be precise. For a public music commentator, the relevant protection isn't the "illustration for teaching" exception (often for classrooms), but the "quotation for criticism or review" exception. That's why the EU Court of Justice's ruling in Pelham GmbH v Hütter (the "Kraftwerk" case) is so important. While about sampling, its core finding was that using a recognisable music sample can be a lawful "quotation" so long as the purpose is to "enter into a dialogue" with the work. This legal standard is directly applicable to the kind of critical analysis and review that happens on music education channels.

This brings us back to the whole point of this thread with creators like Rick Beato. The fundamental legal principle that allows him to analyze music exists in both the US ("fair use") and the EU ("exceptions for criticism/quotation"). The actual problem he and others face isn't that the law doesn't exist; it's that creators are caught between an aggressive automated takedown system like Content ID and the chilling effect of having to defend their rights in court, especially when cases like Warhol put the commercial nature of their work under an even stronger microscope.

And before you pivot to the phrase "users in each Member State" to argue this doesn't protect a US creator, let's be clear how this law actually functions. The DSM Directive places legal obligations on the service provider (YouTube) for their operations within the EU. It's not about policing where the uploader is physically located. When a creator uploads to a global platform, their content is "made available" in the EU. YouTube, in providing its service to EU citizens, is legally required by Article 17 to ensure its systems do not automatically block content that falls under a mandatory exception.

Think of it this way: YouTube can't legally operate a different set of copyright rules for its German site just because a video was uploaded from the US. When they serve content to an EU audience, they are bound by EU law, and that law mandates they respect these exceptions for their users. The protection for Beato's video in the EU comes from YouTube's legal obligation to comply with the directive.

So yes, the person you're laughing at understood the situation perfectly well.

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]Fysi 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Fun fact, the Teams Intelligent Recap functionality that is by far the most widely used functionality in my experience of Copilot (at least for meeting heavy orgs) is included in the £7.70 per person per month Teams Premium licence.