EarlKing

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by EarlKing 2y ago
> on Amigas To be more specific, it was done on Video Toaster. Since the Video Toaster effectively guts the Amiga's video system and substitutes it with its own its hard to even call it an Amiga anymore. And yeah, it has numerous ex
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by EarlKing 2y ago
> Lrf, guvf vf n cha. And here with the birth of broadband I thought we'd moved past the age of line noise.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Only if love is denominated in dollars and amounts to a seed round, anyway...
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by EarlKing 2y ago
> It takes a court decision to know if the law was broken or not. It takes only a working mind to know that, and the court's decision was obvious to most before it was rendered. This could have been foreseen (and was). > You appa
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by EarlKing 2y ago
The law is the law, and the court doesn't care about your opinion. They broke the law. Seriously, I don't understand the reluctance of some to admit this. It's almost like the rule of law just doesn't exist for you as lo
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by EarlKing 2y ago
THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT A COPY IS MADE. They broke the law. This isn't that hard to understand. If you don't like the law then either work to change it, create substitute works, or break the law in a way that doesn't involve
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Making a copy is not always illegal when it is considered fair use or fair dealing. Part of the analysis for determining the same involves the quantity of material copied. They copied entire books. Your other points are entirely irrelevant.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Digitally accessible and searchable on site, not on line... unless you're saying the Library of Congress makes *in copyright* works available on line to all comers?
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by EarlKing 2y ago
No, it isn't. They're issuing a copy to the reader for the duration of their checkout. Your argument might hold some weight if they scanned a book, destroyed the book, and then deleted the book from their own servers every time it
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by EarlKing 2y ago
We already knew what those limits were. This accomplished nothing other than endangering the internet archive by committing mass acts of copyright infringement. Ultimately, if he wanted to push the limits and get the law changed through jud
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by EarlKing 2y ago
A physical library does not involve making a copy, but lending out an existing physical copy. One book, one reader. "Controlled Digital Lending" literally involves making and transmitting a copy to another physical medium electron
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by EarlKing 2y ago
A broken clock may be right twice a day, but it's still a broken clock.
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by EarlKing 2y ago
> The headphone jack just works ...except when you can't make good contact and you wind up with one stereo channel muted and you have to fidget manically to fix it....which seems to occur with every damn headphone jack on every devi
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by EarlKing 2y ago
....I mean, you're already in Vegas, so...
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by EarlKing 2y ago
Yeah, it made sense to management looking to increase shareholder value. OTOH, since Apple isn't competing on price, they didn't have to do that. So everything that has ever, or will ever, go wrong with their devices is an entirel
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by EarlKing 3y ago
> widespread cooling You might want to look into just how much heat is contained within the Earth, how much escapes naturally every year, and how much is replaced by radioactive decay. Suffice it to say ..... no. There is no way that man
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by EarlKing 3y ago
And this is why no one should have anything to do with Google. If the last fifteen years haven't taught people that, well, there's just no hope for you. For everyone else: Stay away from their offerings as if they were the plague.
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by EarlKing 3y ago
There is. It's called Pay The Author. If you don't have a bare license conditioned on someone's pinky promise, but rather you pay the author and thereby perfect that promise into an actual, enforceable contract, then when som
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by EarlKing 3y ago
So you'll have no problem if I start digging through your posting history for clues about your identity and contacting your employer to let them know what a horrible person you are, right? .....or is that sort of thing only ok when it&
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by EarlKing 3y ago
A quick search turned up a registration for them in the UK? Is this them?[1] And if so..... where is any of this even documented on the matrix.org website? Lastly, use of a CIC is a horrible idea for precisely the sort of shady shit we&#x27
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by EarlKing 3y ago
Without looking at how this organization works, let me clarify: a 501(c)(3) cannot be paying for software development insofar as this constitutes Product Development. Product Development is outside the scope of charitable work and, if cau
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by EarlKing 3y ago
More specifically, they're affixed to certain opcodes that require them. There are a number of byte-sized opcodes that do not require a ModRM or SIB byte (although a number of those got gobbled up to make the REX prefix, but that&#x2
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by EarlKing 3y ago
There's a good reason for using vector instructions over REP: Until relatively recently that was how you got maximum performance in small, tight loops. REP is making a comeback precisely because of ERMS and FSRM, so unfortunately this
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by EarlKing 3y ago
Aaaaaaaaaand it's hugged to death. And there's no archive.is. Well, have an archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230202105734/https://devopedia...
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by EarlKing 3y ago
> I suspect someone involved with this had a national security background. ....or, like me, they were simply not asleep during the 1990s when everyone and their dog remotely involved in information security became aware of Tempest, parti
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by EarlKing 3y ago
"Is it cool if I just call you "X"? I can't really pronounce all that..." "Only if I get to call you "Nutlicker"" "If bullshit were music, you'd be a big brass band..." -- Th
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by EarlKing 3y ago
> Legally I am not interested in your arguments predicated on what bourgeoisie law courts have said. They have natural rights the same as anyone else, and they are being trampled upon. No one is fooled, and no one is going to get dragged
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by EarlKing 3y ago
Some people have posted home addresses... just like some people have posted child pornography on Twitter. Does that mean Twitter is responsible for their actions? That is the key point that none of you seem willing to touch because you&#x27
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by EarlKing 3y ago
It's called the kyklos because it is a cycle of human civilization: we go forward, we go back. Over and over without end. The struggle between the proletariat and bourgeoisie is an inevitable part of that cycle. There is no 'losin
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by EarlKing 3y ago
Commerce is not the right to arbitrarily deny people services you have freely offered either, but here we are. You people built an edifice at law, called it 'public accommodations', went to great lengths to stretch it as far as po

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