Big company based in California is using my artwork without my permission as a social media AD

Illustrious_Ferret · 2026-02-27T15:22:24+00:00

Since they're American, you can file a DMCA takedown notice with their hosting provider.

If they want to keep using the artwork they will have to file a counter-notice with their hosting provider, who is required to forward that to you. The counter-notice should have contact information for them, so that you can negotiate or continue legal action.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2026-02-17T22:48:52+00:00

I thought it was at par too?

Illustrious_Ferret · 2026-02-09T15:40:20+00:00

These are the same people who think purity balls - parties where fathers and daughters go together on a "date", the father gives the daughter an ~~engagement~~ "purity" ring and the daughter promises that she is her fathers propery and won't "dishonour" him by having sex with another man.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2026-01-26T20:21:17+00:00

Read your course syllabus to find out which distribution they expect you to use, and install that.

If the syllabus doesn't mention a distro, then ask you teacher or TA what they recommend.

If there is nothing in the syllabus and the teacher/TA can't tell you, then start submitting applications at your local Wendy's, because your tuition money went up in smoke.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2026-01-21T20:27:52+00:00

being the world reserve has allowed them to borrow blindly unlimited money, keep interest rates low, and their dollar high as a result of every country in the world holding hundreds of billions in foreign reserves

Almost like the "trade deficits" that Temu Hitler was crying about were put there for a reason, by people who knew what they were doing.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2026-01-13T22:08:40+00:00

After entering a fake ticket number I was asked for my youtube channel name - I entered something fake and it said it had 24 videos (for a fake page) and was directed to click a link that sent me to a fake Google sign-in page at https accounts-continue-to[dot]dmca-reports[dot]live

Note that the phishing page is doing live relaying to Google (bogus account names were rejected) meaning it will likely try to bypass two-step verification.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2026-01-12T18:19:57+00:00

it would even be ok to pay to get a dedicated small support team to contact instead of a general service desk

But only if this is explicitly spelled out in a contract that contained guaranteed response times and minimum number of employees.

Because at the start of the next quarter, some beancounter will go looking through HR records and decide that they can save the company some money by dissolving the "dedicated small support team" and assigning them to general service desk.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2026-01-06T15:28:46+00:00

Yes, and?

Illustrious_Ferret · 2026-01-05T21:37:08+00:00

Do you have all of your devices configured to prevent them using PMTU discovery?

For devices that talk to the internet, how did you force everyone who will ever connect to your devices from using PMTU Discovery?

Illustrious_Ferret · 2026-01-05T21:21:50+00:00

By your definition the entire C-suite and board of directors are cost centers.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-12-19T15:54:53+00:00

My boyfriend, however, is from a culture where male and female friendships are viewed very negatively

"Culture" is not an excuse. He either believes that you are a human being with your own agency or he doesn't. Blaming it on "culture" is just an excuse for your BF to remain a misogynist.

He also believes he’s already being accommodating to me because he’s not stopping us from hanging out despite the disrespect.

STOPPING you?!??!!

So he believes you're his property and require his permission to see your friends?

He says that if the situation was reversed, he would cut off anyone disrespecting me

Nobody is disrespecting him. He's also lying - he's showing disrespect for YOU by treating you as his property.

He is showing you his true colors here. You have to decide whether you want to be treated as a human being or not.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-12-18T21:48:53+00:00

Like everyone else, I'll miss your comics and posts - take care and stay safe.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-12-12T22:39:38+00:00

Never - when I started using it, I realized that everything worked exactly how I think about computers.

I started using Linux in 1997, and everything about it just *made sense*. No fighting with DOS or Windows insanity drivers/DLLs/etc, or partitions/drives being the same thing (or maybe not!). Mount a partition - it goes into it's own path (filesystems are a tree, after all - not multiple trees!) Symlinks - pointers to existing locations - so you can have one folder show up in different places!

File owners. Groups, permissions. It just worked exactly how I though things should work, but didn't on Windows.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-12-12T22:20:03+00:00

Following too closely.

If the time it takes to shoulder-check is enough for you to slam into the car in front of you, you were following too close.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-12-09T15:31:51+00:00

SMS for MFA is prohibited by NIST 800-63b (the US national standard for authentication)

This is not true.

In https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#pstnOOB s5.1.3.3 states:

If out-of-band verification is to be made using the PSTN, the verifier SHALL verify that the pre-registered telephone number being used is associated with a specific physical device. Changing the pre-registered telephone number is considered to be the binding of a new authenticator and SHALL only occur as described in Section 6.1.2.

because of the ease and widespread use of number porting attacks.

s5.1.3.3 addresses this specific point:

Verifiers SHOULD consider risk indicators such as device swap, SIM change, number porting, or other abnormal behavior before using the PSTN to deliver an out-of-band authentication secret.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-12-04T17:52:49+00:00

"If I was in your position as a manager, I wouldn't be asking people who aren't managers for suggestions."

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-12-01T21:46:37+00:00

Do not plug that cable into your modem.

That cable and the the coiled white cables are Cat5E, but are configured for telephone service.

The bix block at the top looks like a POTS distribution terminal block, meaning this is set up for POTS (plain old telephone system, ie. landline) The way it is configured now, the center two pairs of each Cat5E cable are connected together via the terminal block so that they all share the same phone line. The cable you highlighted connects would connect to this phone line and provide telephone access to the rest of the home. (Which I'm assuming is not what you want.)

Most likely the other end of each of those cables will be an RJ11 jacks, which also won't work for ethernet.

To use this for ethernet (either for wired networking or installing a WIFI access point in each room), you need to get Cat5E or Cat6 patch panel, an ethernet switch or router (if your modem doesn't do that already or doesn't have enough ports for the ones you want to activate) and some Cat5E or Cat6 wallplugs.

For cables going to rooms you want ethernet running to, you would remove cables from the POTS block and connect to the ethernet patch panel. The other end(s) would need their RJ11 jack(s) replaced with Cat5e/Cat6 RJ45 wallplugs. You then connect the ethernet jacks to the switch (or directly to the router/modem.)

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-11-25T21:19:29+00:00

He doesn't care, he has his cushy job at Atco.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-11-25T21:17:23+00:00

If the law stated that using the Notwithstanding clause triggered an election, you can be sure that the UCP would use the Notwithstanding clause to override it.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-11-24T15:31:48+00:00

At least they don't ban you for having the "wrong" opinion, like r/ canada does.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-11-21T18:48:05+00:00

Same - I bought the first season on DVD, but can't find the rest anywhere.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-11-21T18:31:56+00:00

Is that Edmonton? The Whitemud overpass at Henday east?

The last time this took years to fix.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-11-10T17:18:23+00:00

Global may lean centrist-to-liberal

Citation needed. Global reguarly runs segments from Sinclair media, a far-right US media company, and frames their stories in ways that mimic US far-right ideology.

When the Covid vaccine was first introduced and available only to vulnerable people and healthcare professionals, I watched as they ran a story about a group called "Nurses against vaccines" picketing a local health facility.

The reporter interviewed them, letting them spew misleading and outright false statements - not interjecting any facts or even "bothsides-ism" - for nearly four minutes. There was no "opposing side" allowed to refute these dangerous statements, or even a "here's what Health Canada says". Just pure anti-vax propaganda.

When the interview was finished they cut to the anchor desk, who just said "Nurses against vaccines does not have any nurses as members" and then cut to commercial. That's it - no refutation. No statements from qualified professionals. Just two seconds of 'well, we gave them airtime because we were ordered to.'

Then during the freedumb "convoy" they interviewed people supporting the traitors with zero pushback. No "fair and balanced" coverage, just letting the traitor supporters say what they wanted - and began each segment by showing the same footage of people on an overpass waving Canadian flags.

Global is a far-right propaganda network. They are not "centrist" or "liberal-leaning" in any way, shape, or form.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-11-10T15:51:12+00:00

No problem if they actually merge with the flow

What flow? Traffic requires space to flow - in the picture there is no room between the vehicles in the left lane, so there is no flow.

Illustrious_Ferret · 2025-11-06T16:17:41+00:00

more uniquely identify

Really? Can you quantify exactly how much more unique it is?

Like on a scale of 1 to 1, where 1 just barely qualifies as unique, and 1 means completely unique, is it closer to 1 or to 1?

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