But if I remember from back in the day, the DMCA doesn’t have any exception for that. This is why CD ripping was legal, while DVD ripping was not. It had nothing to do with fair use or backups, but rather that DVDs have encryption, and CDs do not. Circumventing that encryption for any reason was illegal.

I don’t think it has changed, but it’s been a hot minute since the Cypherpunks all wore DeCSS T-Shirts…

I think ripping DVDs is still technically illegal, even though CSS has long since been broken. It is still illegal to circumvent encryption in a copy protection scheme, even if it’s for your own personal use and the encryption scheme has been pwned.

I bet if he didn’t mention that his videos were ripped from DVD, they might have left it up.

A lot of good advice here! One thing I would add is that large international flights typically board early. So your long-haul flight to Seoul may board 45 minutes or more in advance. And since you are in Business Class, you will board earlier than most.

My advice would be that once you arrive in Munich, check your phone (or look at the departure screens) to find out what gate your Seoul flight is leaving from, then go there right away. No rush, but don’t hit the gift shop just yet. Once you get there, the screens at the gate should tell you when the boarding time is (or you can ask the gate staff.). Once you confirm that, you can leave for the restroom, grab a quick snack, or go shopping.

You shouldn’t have to worry about a full meal because they normally feed you well in business class. (Free booze, also, if that is your thing.)

Certs and experience are more important for sysadmin type jobs anyway. Besides, if the company values a degree more than your experience, would you really want to work there?

Hurry up and clone that ASAP, this is gonna get taken down once DOGE realizes what it is

It is likely the car USB port is looking through directories for MP3 files, and thats not now those iPods present themselves when hooked up via USB. You might be able to find an audio-to-bluetooth adapter, but it is likely you will not be able to control the device through the car’s interface, so you would have to press play manually.

(Side note: older cars with USB might have a very low-level relationship with the USB sticks, where they read files in the order they were written to the device, without regard to what folders you put them in. There are utilities that can reorder the files’ physical position on the stick so that albums play in order)

Maybe I would take a closer look as to where, exactly, Google puts the pin when you tell it to go to a town. If I tell Google Maps I want to walk to the village I am currently living in, it puts the pin in a random spot sort of in the middle of the village. (It happens to be in a parking lot by a bakery, so now I am hungry).

So, you may be measuring it with regard to when you reach the town limits on that road, but Google may be putting the pin in some oddball place, off the road you are biking down.

Your answer might be all those blue squiggly bits in the first picture on the left. That part of Scotland seems to have a lot of hills. I bet the 18.7 miles doesn’t take elevation into account at all, while the 21.1 miles does

(Oh, never mind, that’s the whole route, while the shorter route in the second picture is “mostly flat”. So maybe not.)

The worst thing that has ever happened to Bitcoin was for its price to skyrocket

Oh. Absolutely, the President shouldn’t be doing this at all. But then again, the President also seems to be using tariffs to directly manipulate the stock market, and Congress is just going to let him.

He’s grabbed the entire Republican party by the pussy…

Bitcoin is pretty widely traded, though. By some accounts, it has a daily trading volume of 50B. 2B is just a drop in that bucket, so it’s not enough to directly manipulate the price.

No, if you want to make money by manipulating prices, you use a shitcoin. $TRUMP has a market cap of $2.5B, and a daily trading volume of 500M. A $2B investment in BTC can then be used on dodgy exchanges to buy and sell $TRUMP anonymously.

This is good for Bitcoin

Furthermore, since it’s very likely that this author is not going to make really complex points, you could just go to the library, skim through it for an hour or two, and take notes on the two or three points worth quoting. (Or go all old-school and make photocopies of a few pages…). This way there is no record of your use of this book anywhere