I’ll start.

Laws:

Aggravated Digital Piracy. Downloading probably thousands dollars worth of content. yaRrr 🏴‍☠️ (btw, check out: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com it’s blocked by lemmy.world instance btw)

I flew a drone without FAA LAANC approval, and beyond “line of sight” rules. (I checked air radar online, there were zero flights near me at such low altitudes that I was flying my drone, so zero safety issues)

I sent a string of encrypted text over Ham Radio bands as a “proof of concept” for a off-grid comucation method. (Rattlegram is an app on Android and iOS, that can convert text to audio; Secure Space Encryptor (SSE) is an open source encryption app that can encrypt a string of plaintext into a string of ciphertext (this app is called “Paranoia Text Encryption” on iOS), you can copy-paste this ciphertext into Rattlegram and sent it over Ham Radio, then reverse the process on the other end. Voila, encrypted off-grid communications) Encryption over Ham Radio is illegal, but whatever lmfao, fuck the FCC.

A lot of jaywalking, because I was feeling suicidal and didn’t care. Never got a fine lol.

School rules:

Probably the most common is the no-phone rule. (don’t worry, my education was fine, didn’t miss anything important)

My high-school (in the USA) made you wear a tie, I often don’t until staff tells me to, then proptly take it off when they are out of sight. (It’s so fucking unfortable) Idk why they even have dress codes when my school was so “ghetto” af.

Workplace:

That no-phone rule again 🙃

Oh, I used a pen and wrote marxist shit on the bathroom walls at my workplace (I’m not even a marxist, I just wanna fuck shit up). Never got caught. Statute of limitations probably expired by now, can’t even sue me if they now found out who did it.

Websites: A lot of Terms of Service. A lot of community rules in forums.

What rules have you broken? 👀

      • southernbrewer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        Yesh they weren’t good people and especially bad with animals. Poor kitten had worms and was super malnourished and they didnt seem to care. Wasn’t spayed either. The new owners got her sorted out and she’s doing fine ever since

        • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Are they like poor? Because I think they are.

          super malnourished

          Bruh, like… is the cat really thin? Idk why people do that, cheap catfood always exist if they can’t afford the expensive ones. I mean they aren’t great, but at least it shows they are trying their best.

          (Or if they are really broke, just shoplift catfood, fuck the law lol, my cats are getting fed, big corp can get fucked.)

          had worms

          The worms tho… hmm yea that is a bit harder to fix when poor, but if the cat was fed, then they probably wouldn’t be weak and have health issues in the first place.

          Wasn’t spayed either

          Yea, bad financial decision, you don’t want kitty to have more kitties, and pregnancy is a health risk, there are too much cats, the cat probably doesn’t want to be pregnant anyways.

          If it weren’t for the fact they they didn’t get fed, I probably wouldn’t be okay with you stealing the cat, I would probably more on the side of “you should probably talk to them”, because medical expenses for pets are quite expensive.

          But yea, in this scenario, the underfeeding is kinda where I draw the line, cat food isn’t as expensive as veterinary care, they should’ve been able to afford it. I mean, when people’s babies are hungry, and they can’t afford it, they don’t let their baby starve, they shoplift. Most juries wouldn’t convict you for stealing cat food, and even then, the judge would probably be lenient. So I’m with you on this one.

          Edit: And if they weren’t in any way poor, especially if they are like “middle class” or above, then they really have no excuses, pets should get all the food they need and all medical problems should be treated since, if money isn’t the issue, then its just intentional cruelty.

  • Trilobite@lemm.ee
    1·
    16 hours ago

    I have a media server with 40tb of videos, the worst thing though was when I was 13 or so I broke into an abandoned trailer with some friends no one had been in there for years and there was cash everywhere we ended up finding over 10k just stashed all over the place and that was lot of money in the 90’s ended up getting busted because we were stupid with the money

  • 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    1 day ago

    In Germany when there’s construction work done in a city they love to put up signs “cyclists step off your bike” while they create a temporary path for cars. Fuck no! Why would lazy turds in their pollution metal boxes have more right to use the street than me? I’ll only hop off and push my bike if car drivers do the same.

    • HawtTism@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      17 hours ago

      It’s FOR your safety, you dunce. They don’t want people getting hurt near the inherently dangerous work going on near cyclists. You’re not sticking it to the man. You’re not really doing anything except slightly increasing your odds of an injury occurring.

  • [object Object]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    1 day ago

    I live in a country that doesn’t care about piracy and has super strong protections for people who pirate, but i’d imagine i would be in deep trouble if i lived in a different country. I don’t download that much, but i do seed my entire jellyfin library with no speedcaps. Here’s this month’s upload stats for my network

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      I mean… don’t announce that you’ve embezzeled millions of dollars from a big corp, nothing like that lol. That’d get you in real trouble.

      Nobody cares about pirates, they’d have to arrest the whole country.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 days ago

    Initiated a cyber-attack on the electronic infrastructure of a right wing extremist group, taking them offline.

    Back in Ye Olde BBS days, there was this group called “Oregons Citizen Alliance” run by this asshole named Lon Mabon.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Citizens_Alliance

    https://ballotpedia.org/Lon_Mabon

    https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/10/04/lon-mabon-terrified-portlanders-with-ballot-measures-but-now-sells-them-gourmet-salsa/

    Everybody had a BBS in those days and the OCA was no exception. But their BBS had an interesting “feature”.

    You could upload files to it, but if the file wasn’t .ZIP, it would uncompress it and re-compress it as .ZIP.

    All you had to do was find a virally infected .ARC or some other format, upload it, and the BBS would infect itself.

    BBS was offline after that.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    181·
    2 days ago

    The worst thing I’ve done is warn people not to admit to their crimes on a public internet forum.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    3 days ago

    double checks statutes of limitations

    Probably smoking weed or destruction of property.

    I used to run a socialist news letter in HS. My distribution was like… one to my friend group, one to a cool teacher, and one to someone I had a crush on. Clearly it had higher readership than NYT.

    In my workplace I’ve got ridiculous seniority so I try and revoice concerns from more junior people. I’d be pretty okay with getting a nice big severance payout so why the fuck not. I also try to be a voice of reason when it comes to AI hype.