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Boo, bad article.
Here’s a better one:
https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/iot-malware-gayfemboy-mirai-based-botnet-campaign
Highlights:
Upon execution, the malware displays the string “twinks :3.”
The malware uses the string “meowmeow” as a trigger to activate its backdoor functionality.
The known C2 domains include:
cross-compiling[.]org
i-kiss-boys[.]com
furry-femboys[.]top
twinkfinder[.]nl
3gipcam[.]com
If only you sharted in your pants instead; then you would’ve been able to partially accomodate OP’s request.
Huh, you’re right but the umbrella company was still only called “Old Mutual”.
No, that’s Old Mutual Wealth which rebranded. Wealth, not Health. Maybe this is a mistake in the article?
I would be very impressed if he surgically removed his own legs. I mean, there is a lot of tissue and bone to cut through. That’s not easy to do by yourself. But if that’s the case, that’s where the fraud aspect could come from.
Also, is that a thing? “Disability by choice” so you get a lower payout? But even if, wouldn’t that be paid by some other insurance - like a specific disability insurance rather than your typical health insurance? At least in Germany the latter is very much different, health insurances only pay for treatments, recovery and prevention.
The lie about the cause of the injury must somehow be related to the payout, otherwise I can’t believe how it would constitute fraud. Still, this is really confusing because private health insurances usually cannot decline/reduce claims due to intentional injury.
It definitely cannot go to the EU. I don’t believe any EU country permits private online libraries.
Plus the entire Wayback Machine would be considered systematic copyright infringement since the Internet Archive doesn’t obtain permission prior to archival. And if you don’t have permission then it is automatic copyright infeingement.
I don’t understand this story. It’s really badly presented:
Hopper dishonestly made a false representation to Aviva and Old Mutual Health that his “legs had been amputated because of illness rather than self-inflicted injury”, the court heard
Aviva is a private health insurance, Old Mutual Health doesn’t seem to operate in the UK, only in Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa? Either way, don’t insurance companies legally have to pay even for treating self-iflicted injuries requiring amputation?
In April 2019, he used dry ice to freeze his legs to the extent they were no longer viable and required amputation.
The amputation had to happen, else he would have died. Hell, I’d even argue the freezing occured due to mental illness so he misrepresented it only by claiming the amputation was physical illness. How is the cause even relevant for a health insurance?
After the amputation, he made claims to the insurers that resulted in payouts of £466,653.81. He spent the money on a campervan, a hot tub, wood burner and building works.
These are health insurances. Not life insurances or similar that would pay you for losing your legs. Don’t health insurances just cover the treatment (amputation), recovery and prosthetics? Sure they can get expensive - a six digit figure seems like a lot still but not fully implausible - but why would you get a “payout”? Health insurance would only cover bills.
Surely it can’t be insurance fraud to harm yourself and then make an insurance claim for the recovery, right? Otherwise literally everyone who survived a suicide attempt would have to cover all associated expenses.
So where did the fraud part come from?
The pizza delivery person will invite themselves in and you will eat the pizza together.
Maybe it’s 5 Muscovites worth of Russians.
I wonder what the exchange rate is.
Oh, that’s cool.
Eventually™ I will have to change this.
Yup many people had the same issue which is why someone created a docker container mod for LinuxServer’s qbit docker image:
https://github.com/t-anc/GSP-Qbittorent-Gluetun-sync-port-mod
I’ve been using it for over a year now and it works well.
Holy AI slop this article sucks. Nothing screams ChatGPT more than a shitton bullet points in the form:
Also, Wayland is gay and X11 is trans.
Goddammit you are an hour quicker and have found a more readable source for the same comment I wanted to write.
Anyway, this right is granted in paragraph 36 of Directive 2014/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on the comparability of fees related to payment accounts, payment account switching and access to payment accounts with basic features Text with EEA relevance:
Consumers who are legally resident in the Union and who do not hold a payment account in a certain Member State should be in a position to open and use a payment account with basic features in that Member State. The concept of ‘legally resident in the Union’ should cover both Union citizens and third country nationals who already benefit from rights conferred upon them by Union acts such as Council Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71 ( 1), Council Directive 2003/109/EC ( 2 ), Council Regulation (EC) No 859/2003 ( 3) and Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 4 ). It should also include people seeking asylum under the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951 Relating to the Status of Refugees, the Protocol thereto of 31 January 1967 and other relevant international treaties. Furthermore, Member States should be able to extend the concept of ‘legally resident in the Union’ to other third country nationals that are present on their territory.
Mass and energy are basically the same thing though. Since E = mc² you can substitute mass in any equation with E / c².
Plus even if they were to implement those features, the challenges would still get increasingly harder the more bot-like a scraper behaves.
You can’t prevent scraping entirely but you can certainly prevent scraping that behaves like a DOS attack.
It’s really simple actually. It took me a bit of time to figure it out the first time though since there were no usable guides anywhere. As luck has it, I have actually written a full, comprehensive guide I wanted to post on here eventually. If you want to, try following this “beta” version of it:
I’m frankly surprised there is not a single guide which explains this process. Sure, there is this one on Reddit from nearly 6 years ago but it is both outdated and its assumption there is a user install script provided by the Lutris community rarely ever holds true.
So, let this be a guide for the full FitGirl Repacks install process for newcomers to Lutris. I will be using the game “Beacon Pines” as example because it’s decent (it has received FitGirls’s Pink Paw Award after all) and rather small so if anything goes wrong you can quickly redo the process:
First of all, acquire the files. I have stored them in ~/Downloads/Beacon Pines [Fitgirl Repack]/
In case you have eyes, you may spot the Verify BIN files before installation.bat file. This calls an .exe to verify the MD5 hashes of the .bin files containing the game data. It’s likely redundant, as your torrent client (or browser if you used a direct download) verified the integrity already but it doesn’t hurt to double check.
Head to /<game name> [Fitgirl Repack]/MD5 (in my case ~/Downloads/Beacon Pines [Fitgirl Repack]/MD5
Execute QuickSFV.EXE using Wine. I just ran wine QuickSFV.EXE in the console. This window should then open:
VERIFY WHETHER YOU ARE IN THE CORRECT DIRECTORY IF THIS IS NOT THE FIRST FITGIRL REPACK YOU INSTALL. The program “remembers” the last location and does not choose your current working directory by default except for the very first time. Once you have chosen the correct directory, select the fitgirls-bins.md5 file.
Done! You can safely close this window. If any file is detected as missing/bad you should probably re-download everything.
Before you run the installer, you should make sure everything will be nice and tidy. By that, I mean you should create a directory where the game and the Wine prefix will be located. I chose ~/Games/Beacon Pines for my install.
Now, within Lutris click on the (+) button on the top left and select the option “Add locally installed game” at the bottom of the newly opened menu:
Within the “Game info” tab of the new menu, choose a name and select the “Wine” runner:
Within the “Game options” tab, choose the /<game name> [FitGirl Repack]/setup.exe file as Executable and the previously created directory as your Wine Prefix. This is where Wine will create the virtualized drive_c directory, so this second part is very important to keep everything organized.
Finally, within the “Runner options” tab, select GE-Proton (Latest). Wine rarely works for larger repacks (though for Beacon Pines, the default Wine runner happens to work).
I recommend changing this globally by the way by selecting the gear icon for Wine in your “Runners” tab in the main menu and then switching the setting just like above. After all, the Wine version Lutris defaults to is outdated and shouldn’t be used anymore:
Press “Save”. You should now see the installer in your Lutris game library:
Double-click or press on “Play” to start the installer.
Once you have clicked through the title and information screen - you probably don’t need to limit the RAM to 2 GB - you will land at this screen. You MUST change the default folder. By default, it will be Z:\Games\<game name> - which maps to /Games/<game name> on your Linux file system. And while you can throw away all conventions and have a game directory in your root, it is probably not the smartest thing to do. Besides, the installer doesn’t even have the permission to create this folder and will fail:
Rather, you should select your C:\ folder as the location to install the game. This will map to the path you earlier specified as the Wine root directory - in my case ~/Games/Beacon Pines/drive_c/Beacon Pines.
Also, you can disable “Create a desktop shortcut” as that option doesn’t do anything for you (except waste a couple of kilobytes of storage). You can later create a desktop shortcut through Lutris if you want one:
Install ALL components it shows you. Your Wine prefix does not yet have DirectX/C++ Redistributable/Whatever installed as it is bare bones. In order to run games, you need these files. In theory you could create a single Wine prefix for all your games which would save some storage (because you didn’t have to install DirectX dozens of times, once for each game) but this causes much worse portability.
Press “Install” and wait!
Finally, if applicable only select the “Update DirectX” (as well as C++ Redistributable etc) check boxes. You don’t want to launch the game just yet (even though you could in theory as everything is installed):
As for the Redirection setting: It won’t work on Linux; just use uBlock Origin (you may need to activate some more filter list in Ublock’s settings though):
Press “Finish”, let the check run through and then close this window. A new window for installing DirectX/C++ Redistributable etc. should open up afterwards.
Just like earlier, press the (+) button in Lutris and then select “Add a locally installed game”
Within the “Game info” tab, use the correct game name. This will allow Lutris to automatically recognize the game and download relevant assets such as the icon and the cover image. In my case, the name is just “Beacon Pines”. Common abbreviations (such as GTA for Grand Theft Auto) should also work but don’t rely on them. Remember to select the Wine runner!
Within the “Game info” tab, choose the newly created .exe as your executable. It is located where you installed it. Since I chose ~/Games/Beacon Pines as my Wine prefix and C:\Beacon Pines as my install directory within the FitGirl installer, the .exe is located in the directory: ~/Games/Beacon Pines/drive_c/Beacon Pines/.
As for the Wine prefix: Use the same as earlier:
If you didn’t select Proton-GE as your global Wine runner, you should select it in “Runner options” like earlier.
You should now see the game alongside its automatically downloaded cover image within Lutris. Enjoy! The installer can safely be removed from Lutris now; it will not delete anything in your file system (neither the setup.exe, nor the Wine prefix used by the newly installed game).
Yep! Wine does NOT work with larger Fitgirl Repacks (>1 GB).
Lutris with Proton-GE works flawlessly though. Never had any issue.
You could try installing and running the offline installer for DirectX.
But I recommend trying to run the game without installing these runtimes first. You likely have them installed already. If the game doesn’t run then use the offline installer.
They didn’t care at first. The only reason they began destructively scanning books is because they started to care about copyright law:
Anthropic first chose to amass digitized versions of pirated books to avoid what CEO Dario Amodei called “legal/practice/business slog”—the complex licensing negotiations with publishers. But by 2024, Anthropic had become “not so gung ho about” using pirated ebooks “for legal reasons” and needed a safer source.
Open https://bandcamp.com/discover?s=rand and check how many albums have sold more than 5 copies.
How are those artists able to make music without making money? Because according to you, they can’t.