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New comment by mafuy in "Internet Archive Switzerland"

mafuy — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:18:56 +0000

In Germany, this was the case, too. So this happened:

1. Copyright holder files bullshit charges against the IP holder. 2. Police investigates and for this purpose gets the personal data for the given IP address. 3. Copyright holder gets personal data of the subscriber from the police. 4. Copyright holder aborts charges so police stops investigation and is no longer involved. 5. Copyright holder contacts the subscriber to extort money.

Police complained about the many bullshit charges, so of course a law was made so ISPs had to give out personal data directly to the copyright holders.

New comment by mafuy in "Internet Archive Switzerland"

mafuy — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:54:06 +0000

Back in the day, this would 100% get you letters from law firms that extort money from you (usually around €400 to €2000). Failure to pay had a fair chance to get the case in front of a judge. You will have argue with him that you did it for fun and did not actually up/download anything.

If the judge does not believe you, expect to pay something like 3-6 months of income. If he does, you only have to pay your lawyer (the opponent will not). Back then, I'd say it was a 50:50 chance, provided you have excellent documentation and a good lawyer.

New comment by mafuy in "Internet Archive Switzerland"

mafuy — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:44:39 +0000

Yeah, there is no threshold to how much copyrighted material has to be uploaded. Any upload suffices to make it illegal. If I recall correctly, the intent/justification was to ensure that uploading a single song, or half a single song, is captured by the law, but of course it was written in a stupid way.

New comment by mafuy in "Internet Archive Switzerland"

mafuy — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:08:45 +0000

In Germany at least, uploading even a single byte of content is illegal. We don't really have Fair Use here; there are only few, very narrow exceptions.

It is also not even required to show that that single byte was uploaded, your IP getting logged as part of the swarm suffices. The burden of proof is on you now. It was much, much worse than in the US.

While all this is technically still true today, a new law a few years ago luckily mostly blocked the path. It was badly needed, because the situation was horribly abused by law firms.

Bambu Lab Sent a Cease-and-Desist. The AGPL Might Send One Back [video]

mafuy — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:40:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdZ5Z7nRDY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049323

Points: 2

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New comment by mafuy in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

mafuy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:29:40 +0000

This is a completely stupid take and I have no idea why so many people repeat it. This responsibility just means you have to have to document your work understandably and have a somewhat sensible reason for decisions. It does not at all force you to greed.

New comment by mafuy in "UAE to leave OPEC"

mafuy — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:40:35 +0000

> In Europe you get about 1000kWh a year from 1000kW of solar panel

Typo, 1000kWh from 1kW of solar panel.

I got my 4x 455W panels for 70€ each from BayWa (random vendor in Germany), plus delivery. Microinverter ~200€. Aluminium etc for installation ~400€ or so. I installed them together with a friend. Total cost ~900€ or so. At 30ct/kWh in Germany, break even is in 3 years. Would be earlier if I had a better roof to put them on, mine has some shadow.

New comment by mafuy in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

mafuy — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:13:09 +0000

That's an understandable point of view, but besides the easy to spot main plot twist, there are several minor issues woven into the story. The hints are sometimes quite subtle and spotting them early is not trivial, but is made possible through their well-made representation and consistency in the game. There is actually little fluff in a game that overtly shows almost purely random idle talk.

New comment by mafuy in "Migrating to the EU"

mafuy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:38:41 +0000

If you have a good path and a bad path that may or may not converge sometime later on your journey, you still should walk the good path.

New comment by mafuy in "Migrating to the EU"

mafuy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:36:49 +0000

You misunderstand this. Yes, there have been moves by some in the EU to reduce privacy, but they face resistance and have actually been repelled often. The ChatControl debacle you mention is one such instance. And on the other hand, sometimes there is actual progress, like with GDPR.

But more importantly, at least there are privacy laws in the EU that do something. In the US, there are virtually none, so of course you won't hear about their erosion.

I trust the EU ten times more than the US in this regard.

New comment by mafuy in "Migrating to the EU"

mafuy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:25:02 +0000

This account is sockpuppeting. They are not participating on this site in good faith.

New comment by mafuy in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

mafuy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:13:13 +0000

Yea, reading through the page, these two accounts have been sounding exactly the same. I suppose it is in line with the childish behavior of AT.

New comment by mafuy in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

mafuy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:02:15 +0000

You cannot seriously argue that performing a DDOS on a website, and causing other people to participate in it unwittingly, is a-ok.

New comment by mafuy in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

mafuy — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:10:54 +0000

And with the money (or else: the authority) to get the data from private businesses. So they get the full data without any restrictions that they themselves would face.

New comment by mafuy in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

mafuy — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 04:24:26 +0000

You're thinking in terms of independent errors. I would think that this assumption is often not the case, so 3 errors right next to each other are comparatively likely to happen (far more than 3 individual errors). This would explain such 'strange' occurrences about ECC memory.

New comment by mafuy in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

mafuy — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:39:16 +0000

A product can be both, according to the current US administration. DHL is not necessarily at fault here.

New comment by mafuy in "Bet on German Train Delays"

mafuy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:10:11 +0000

The free choice of train does take this into account. You just need a (single!) ticket that, overall, will expectedly suffer from a delay long enough.

New comment by mafuy in "Bet on German Train Delays"

mafuy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:09:10 +0000

Nitpick: Unless it changed, you cannot upgrade from regional to interregional vehicles. You can upgrade from IC to ICE, though, and in general, the free choice of vehicle on your route is very useful.

New comment by mafuy in "Bet on German Train Delays"

mafuy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:59:10 +0000

No joke: 15 years ago, when I was riding DB trains regularly, I got whole packs of refund forms. Took a while to find someone who would not refuse this request. I built a rudimentary transparent template in latex that had my name, address, etc. Pushed a whole pack into a printer to fill out most of the forms, leaving only the date and train to be manually inserted. My trains were always delayed, so this saved a lot of time.

New comment by mafuy in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

mafuy — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:36:33 +0000

"I know, I'm reading along!"