Agreed. While a noble cause, it was honestly predictable.

I don’t understand why they did that. Their status was already quite shaky. They really shot themselves and their users in the foot

that’s for fediverse. not bluesky

we just need to bully that nerd fish back into water

“[He] had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history”

SpaceX still has the benefit of being run by someone who is at least somewhat less unhinged (shotwell)

you need to keep in mind that microsoft is a small business, so they don’t have a lot of resorces to assign to this

Build a PC with 15-20 floppy drives and insert and mount them all.

10 floppy drive raid, please. don’t want to lose that critical data

frosted glass exists

yup. The couple of times I had to use one, the bad UX absolutely annoyed the hell out of me

opening new settings will just replace where you just where

I don’t use windows super often anymore, so I don’t really have that usecase, but man. Just imagining it makes me annoyed and angry

My default download directory is /tmp, so I don’t really accumulate much of random download files

Can’t be more than a hello world

That’s the neat part.

I don’t

no good bleach on temu?

might as well chug a bottle of bleach with that perspective

“well, because they want to sell their products. isn’t that obvious?”

He and his lawyer started doing that in the late 90s. When the labels just started knowing what the heck this newfangled internet even is.

In den späten 90er Jahren, kurz nachdem er wegen Kreditkartenmissbrauch verhaftet worden war, wurden in Hackerkreisen Stimmen laut, dass Kimble auch seine Freunde an die Softwareindustrie gegen Entgelt ausgeliefert habe. Der damalige berüchtigte Schwarzkopierer-Jäger und Anwalt Günther Freiherr von Gravenreuth hat seinen eigenen Aussagen zufolge Kimble als sogenannten Testbesteller beschäftigt.

Source

Just one of the articles that goes into this assholes history

Translation

In the late 1990s, shortly after he was arrested for credit card fraud, there were rumors in hacker circles that Kimble had also handed over his friends to the software industry for a fee. Günther Freiherr von Gravenreuth, the notorious pirate hunter and lawyer at the time, said he employed Kimble as a so-called test orderer

They mass-collected the connection data and started mass-sueing/extorting. Nobody else did on such a large scale at the time.

from odd eccentric file sharing site founder

no. he basically started with credit card fraud and “sueing people who fileshare”. Together with a lawer he basically invented the practice of “see which IPs share copyrighted data, request the user data from the ISP and send out C&D extiotion letters to the ISP customers”

It’s arguably not even him that it really running it