If you - rather than the instance as a whole, and for other reasons - are the target of defederation circumventing that would be sockpuppeting.

If your instance was defederated for reasons unrelated to your behavior and content, then no - you’re simply creating an account on their instance.

They’re learning through hands-on experience [only].

“no warranty” is very different from “expect bugs and breakage”

It tells me they’re not confident in or trying for stability. Which means I have to expect issues and fix up time requirements. Which I’m not willing to invest regularly.

Looks like a video game.

From how it looks I assume the “boost” is an AI filter?

Smearing/Smudging was obvious when you looked for it, as well as artifacts on edges on movement.

Do you see more than with your eyes? I doubt it. Otherwise it could’ve been interesting as a live viewing aid.

Seems like it’s application would be very niche and situational. And only if you’re willing to accept visual artifacts (rather than having a “truthful”/quality as possible video.

Your first link:

42 million user IDs and phone numbers for a third-party version of Telegram were exposed online without a password. The accounts belong to users in Iran, where the official Telegram app is blocked.

How is that a state exploit of Telegram? It’s not even about Telegram. It’s a third party app.

• ⚠️ Expect bugs and breaking changes.
• ⚠️ Do not use the app as the only way to store your photos and videos.

Well that’s not very confidence-inducing…

It shows the central content of the site.

No consent is automatically given or anything like that.

Commenter specifically talked about gog and itch. Other commenter then replied you wouldn’t own it [there].

The comment chain specifically moved away from “general trend”.

GDPR:

These types of infringements could result in a fine of up to €20 million, or 4% of the firm’s worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year, whichever amount is higher.

4% can be a lot in absolute numbers for these massive corporations. But it’s such a low percentage that it could indeed be included in operational cost and then be ignored.

What makes you say so?

GoG about page explicitly talks about owning, and terms even explicitly mention advance notification so you can download Dr free versions if they will ever become unavailable.

GoG terms do not qualify purchases as temporary access licenses - only to the degree of servicing downloads as long as possible and without other limitation.

• https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog
• https://www.gog.com/about_gog

We don’t believe in controlling you and your games. Here, you won’t be locked out of titles you paid for, or constantly asked to prove you own them - this is DRM-free gaming.

because rights that can be taken away on a whim are no rights at all

They’re rights to temporary access. A contacted temporary right.

I agree with your main point that it’s not ownership though.

The video is a visual spectacle, and a well made peace of art.

It raises various themes, but - I find - in a quite convoluted way. It’s not sharing substance. But it certainly is a spectacle and interesting to watch.

“A.I collaborator” for the artificial persona as “artificial I”

Nice word play

Any recommendation or advice you will get here will only be from a very limited view, from what you shared, and impersonal, as we can’t know many things about you, your personality, and your life and life circumstances.

You say you have a decent job, and you consider focusing on that. Which seems like a good and split idea to me.

You tried more than once to get back into it and finish it, but failed, so that doesn’t seem viable. It’d at least need a break, but if you have the alternative, and good prospects in job etc, then I don’t see why you should have to or would try to force what evidently doesn’t work out at the moment.

Surely you got some things out of your studies already, and job experience counts just as much as studies. You have a job, and surely provide value there, so they depend on you to a degree. It’s not like you’ll be lost.

When it is “okay” to drop out is entirely subjective. As a broad answer to a broad question: it’s always okay. Sometimes people notice it’s not what they were looking for, or doesn’t fit them. Unless there is reasons to follow through, it’s better to cut losses and focus on something more fitting.

Isn’t usenet a closed - as in non-publicly-anonymously-accessible - platform?

You got it wrong.

See the linked post. Transcription has been available for premium users for a while now.

Now free users get two per week too.

transcribe voice messages for free

Not really. It’s limited to two per week.

With this update, all users can convert up to 2 messages per week into text

Official Telegram release blog post.

Do you still do webdesign? You may want to check on your website vs content encoding.

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The relevant: Manifest V3 drops support for filter list updates. Adblocker updates, even if only filter list updates, need to go through the Chrome Web Store extension update approval process.

When Manifest V3 becomes mandatory, those updates that need to arrive “at minimum on a daily basis” will no longer be an option. Limiting remotely hosted code sounds like a totally reasonable limitation until you realize that. like most Manifest V3 changes, it seems carefully crafted to cripple ad blockers more than other extensions. Is a filtering list update, which is essentially just a list of websites, really something that needs to be limited by the “no remotely hosted code” policy?

So since all filter list updates now need to go through the Chrome Web Store, how long does a review take? Multiple sources on the web put it at anywhere from a few hours to three weeks, depending on the whims of Google’s review system. Keep in mind these timelines are before Google will dramatically increase the workload of Chrome Web Store reviews by requiring absolutely all changes to go through the review process.

A domain registrar rents domains to individuals (including companies as individuals). At least for the common standard registrars/top-level-domains the rented domain is owned with a guarantee of being able to extend it.

Like with any possession, how it is sold depends the owner.

Where did you find it and where would you “press add to cart”? If it’s a trustworthy platform, the following process depends on them, but for such a high cost I would expect a manual contracted process instead of an automated one.