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Apparently that’s only for blob storage (now "object storage), not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob

That’s privilege escalation for you. 7.8 is pretty high.

The compressed binary blob is just a 160 B ELF when uncompressed. I don’t think you can do much with that.

I’m not sure how much of it is obfuscation and how much of it is golfing. Ze golfed it so ze could make the pretty valid “just 732 bytes python script” claim.

The compression could very well be just a way to write a binary in Python plaintext. ChatGPT claims it just attempts to sudo, run /bin/sh if that succeeds, and exit if that fails.

I think I’m going to trust Ubuntu more since the pretty ambitious 25.10 release. They made telemetry opt-in (it was opt-out) in 26.04.

ah, Deutsche-Welle, Germany’s NPR. they are really good, and they publish articles too.

https://www.dw.com/

note that this is a video channel that doesn’t seem to produce articles. every single piece on the frontpage is clickbait. Let’s see if they’re also BS.

The End of Israel: The Ultimate Evidence
You won’t see this on the BBC or CNN

This is just what every Lemming knows about Israel already + “no apartheid could possibly endure”. The video ends on “When and how the system of ethnic supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean comes to an end is impossible to foresee, but end it will.”

I see no original research.

British Journalist UNCOVERS SHOCKING Iran War COVER-UP
You won’t see this on the BBC or CNN
Peter Oborne, US Politics, Global Politics

This is just “British journalism is bad”, illustrated with examples from Daily Mail, Telegraph, BBC. I mean, you’re not wrong, but…

No revelations here. The Guardian isn’t even mentioned and I think The Guardian is still pretty good.

Domestic UK affairs are undeserving of the label “Global Politics” and absolutely not “US politics”.

At this point I don’t want to analyze more videos. I’ll just post the headlines of the other four pieces on the frontpage.

HE’S ACTUALLY DOING IT: Trump, Israel, and the End of the Global Economy
The ULTIMATE Betrayal
Richard Sanders - US Politics, Global Politics

Lowkey EXPOSES Trump’s Iran War for Israel
Lowkey EXPOSES Trump’s Iran War for Israel
Lowkey - US Politics, Global Politics

Iran War EXPOSED: The Video Trump Doesn’t Want You To See
How Trump BETRAYED America for Israel
Matt Kennard - US Politics, Global Politics

Why Trump REALLY Attacked Iran
The Chilling Truth Behind Trump’s Dark Agenda
Lowkey - US Politics, Global Politics

note this neat, website-exclusive disclosure:

The views expressed in this video belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of DDN.

unwilling to take accountability, DDN’s editorial board does not seem strong.

there’s a difference between virtue signaling and just expressing ideas/opinion. the one that matters the most to me is that the latter isn’t hostile

the flippancy you find especially across threads on political news across the fediverse is awful because it drives people away without accomplishing things other than virtue signaling

there’s some distance between just having a (transactional) relationship and a true-love relationship where “I like you for who you are and the comfort of being around you, and you feel the same” fits in, though

The Great Gatsby. Its last page makes a killing, pun intended.

I fuzzily remember that it had happened

Only if you do separate them and do not distribute the copyrighted image.

Thus it doesn’t apply to OP’s examples, that is my point.

(FWIW you can make a copy of a copyrighted image to extensively critique it as long as the copy is not unreasonably detailed.)

Then your criteria isn’t "noncommercial but “noncommercial and transformative” (“the first factor, the purpose and character of the use, disfavored fair use because although the use was noncommercial, it was also not transformative”), which OP’s examples aren’t. Using film music for your videos isn’t transformative. Law doesn’t have a “I didn’t distribute my video” exception either unless that’s how the music was licensed to you.

Your phrasing sounds like fair use is the default case for non-commercial when really it just makes it “more likely” legal. The most obvious example is Hachette v. Internet Archive. US copyright is so pro-business that you never know until the gavel is down.

https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/#%3A~%3Atext=Courts+look+at+how+the+party+claiming+fair+use+is+using+the+copyrighted+work%2C+and+are+more+likely+to+find+that+nonprofit+educational+and+noncommercial+uses+are+fair :

This does not mean, however, that all nonprofit education and noncommercial uses are fair and all commercial uses are not fair;

Edit:

Until the judge says otherwise

Well, yeah, according to the criteria I’ve detailed with sources above.

As @finitebanjo@feddit.online quoted, fair use only applies

for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research

Of the four criteria for fair use, the first one is pretty much that it should be one of those purposes. (https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/#%3A~%3Atext=Courts+look+at+how+the+party+claiming+fair+use+is+using+the+copyrighted+work%2C+and+are+more+likely+to+find+that+nonprofit+educational+and+noncommercial+uses+are+fair. details these criteria. The first criterion also includes favoring saying that really transformative and creative use is fair use hence sometimes sampling doesn’t need permission.) IANAL but this is what we see in case law and case law doesn’t seem to support a noncommercial personal use exemption, even if undistributed. (to answer OP’s question, it’s technically illegal but nobody gets sued for it because 1. nobody knows if you don’t punish your crime 2. lawyers cost money so why bother such a PR scandal)

Here’s a good Tom Scott video covering the allowed purposes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU

Ringtones and notifications are different because they are legal public performance of something still copyrighted: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/court-rules-phones-ringing-public-dont-infringe-co

The examples mentioned are definitely not fair use