wildbus8979

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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Give Voyager a try? There are others too, and obviously the official app Jerboa. None of them are enshitifying themselves.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Verbatim carried quite a bit along its range of products and over time.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

The best time to switch was fifteen years ago. The second best time to switch is today.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Automation APIs?? When the other option is libvirt? You can't be serious.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Had been for over a decade and a half. There's no reason to use it over virt-manager.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Compare food prices between Germany and Canada right now...

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How do you not have Johnny Mnemonic?

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Also anything that runs Tasmota or ESPHome.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You don't need to a passport to visit Massachusetts. Also, not my state.

Here are the valid IDs to purchase alcohol in the state:

  1. Massachusetts Driver’s License;
  2. Massachusetts Liquor Identification Card;
  3. Massachusetts Identification Card;
  4. Passport issued by the United States or a government that is officially recognized by the United States;
  5. Passport Card for a Passport issued by the United States;
  6. United States Military Identification Card;

My information though was slightly dated.... And since April of 2025:

  1. Valid Driver’s License issued by another state; and
  2. Global Entry Card issued by United States Customs and Border Protection

Before April of last year, out of state driver's licenses were not a valid ID to purchase alcohol in the state of Massachusetts.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yes beer as well. Massachusetts is incredibly anal about IDing. If you're from out of state you better have a passport, even for American citizens.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Driver license? I don't have one, I use my health care card. Which, yeah, is just as sensical ;)

Massachusetts has liquor license IDs.

 

(Via @ididathing)

 

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/178547

arubox tvOn Tuesday, 52-year-old Grenier traveled from Aruba, an island off the coast of Venezuela, to Canada’s Montreal airport.

Law enforcement officers of the Sûreté du Québec (SQ – Quebec Provincial Police) escorted Grenier to the SQ police station in Shawinigan. Police had carried out an operation in February 2024 which targeted Grenier and several individuals linked to the current prosecution. Grenier, who was outside Canada at the time, avoided arrest and remained at large for more than a year.

Court Hears Allegations Concerning Signal Theft and Pirate IPTV

The warrant for Grenier’s arrest was issued as part of an investigation into the illegal acquisition and sale of TV channels distributed by Canada’s leading telecoms companies. Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor claimed their losses ran to several million Canadian dollars.

Grenier appeared at the Trois-Rivières courthouse on Wednesday. The prosecution alleges that devices supplied by Grenier provided customers with access to thousands of television channels, most if not all pirated, for a low subscription price of ~CAD$25.00 per month (US$18.00).

The authorities accuse Grenier of operating a company which in turn owned pirate IPTV service Arubox TV. As per our 2023 report, Grenier made no secret of his involvement in the IPTV market.

Grenier Advertising IPTV Boxesformuler z8-grenier

Police say that Arubox TV and a linked service called Stocker IPTV provided thousands of customers, 7,000 in Quebec alone, with illegal access to more than 3,500 pirated TV channels.

Grenier faces ten charges linked to the theft of telecommunications services, including conspiracy, fraud, theft, and money laundering. The alleged offenses took place between June 2020 and February 2024, generating annual profits of at least CAD$2 million (US$14m) according to Sûreté du Québec estimates.

• Conspiracy to defraud Bell, Rogers and Quebecor • Theft of telecommunications services • Production of devices linked to illegal signal access • Trafficking in devices linked to illegal signal access • Sale of devices linked to illegal signal access • Trafficking in property obtained by crime • Theft of more than CAD$5,000 • Laundering proceeds of crime • Transfer of money linked to crime in Canada with intent to conceal/convert • Computer data ‘mischief’

Other charges concern alleged trafficking in the prescription drugs Sildenfil and Tadalafil.

Seven Co-Defendants

Grenier will remain in custody until his next court appearance. The prosecution argued against Grenier’s release and insisted that he should face trial by jury, rather than by judge alone. Grenier’s co-defendants, several of whom previously appeared in court following their arrests in 2024, have already opted for a trial by jury.

A total of seven people stand accused of various crimes in the same case.

Le Nouvelliste identifies the co-defendants as follows:

• Danick Rouleau, 39, of Saint-Eustache (alleged Stocker IPTV operator) • Sarah-Maude Grenier, 25, of Brownsburg-Chatham • Marie-Ève ​​Poliquin Karaguioules, 26, of Saint-Eustache • Éric Laforge, 44, of Gatineau • Daniel Perreault-Marcotte, 38, of Saint-Henri • Patrick Cyr, 49, of Longueuil • Christian Sabourin, 60, of Princeville

Are Customers at Risk of Prosecution?

While police have offered assurances that customers are not targets in the current criminal investigation, possession of a pirate device could be a criminal offense in its own right. Police are therefore advising affected customers to dispose of their pirate devices at recycling centers.

Pirate subscriptions make legal devices illegalarubox-tv-spec

The IPTV services in question are known to have been installed on relative expensive Formuler set-top boxes. When fresh out of their packaging, these Android-based devices are perfectly legal; only the subsequent configuration for piracy purposes changes that.

A full and properly executed factory reset will remove the offending configuration, help the environment, and via legal apps installed from Google Play, provide access to legal streaming services.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.


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The Wafa news agency has additional details of the assault that killed two Palestinians in the Far’a refugee camp.

Medical sources told the agency the young men died in an Israeli drone attack and that several others were also wounded in the bombing.

The Palestine Red Crescent told Wafa that their crews are facing difficulties in reaching the wounded as Israeli forces have laid siege to the camp and are preventing the entry of ambulances.

The agency reported that a large number of Israeli soldiers accompanied by a bulldozer are active in the ongoing raid on the refugee camp and that the military has deployed several drones and stationed snipers in and around the area.

Al Jazeera English Israeli military launches large-scale operation in occupied West Bank [video]

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