LocalH

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by LocalH 1y ago
I see more pirated media sourced from streaming services than physical media nowadays.
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by LocalH 1y ago
All it takes is one person to figure out how to get the bits out, and then the only other potential solution would be to make devices that cannot play unencrypted content.
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by LocalH 1y ago
Why is it not? We've referred to the whole species as the "human race" for eons
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by LocalH 1y ago
A clear example of how piracy is really a service problem.
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by LocalH 1y ago
Why should copyright last 70/95/120 years after death of the author/publication/creation (depending on the situation)? Extension of copyright is theft from the public domain in a way that non-commercial piracy has neve
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by LocalH 1y ago
Isn't that essentially what "Do Not Track" was? Then Microsoft defaulted that setting to "on", which advertisers summarily used as an excuse to just ignore the whole thing.
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by LocalH 1y ago
Making a video game "without an engine" is basically another way to say "making your own game engine". Which is a fine thing to do, but you're "just" making a bespoke engine for one game (or series of game
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by LocalH 1y ago
No. The author is saying that, in order to run the demo on MartyPC, the emulator previously required a small "hack" (in this context, that means a slight inaccuracy in emulation) to get the effect started. The post then covers t
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by LocalH 1y ago
Once they are released to the public, they are owned by the public, but on temporary lease to the copyright holder. Parent commenter only spoke to what should happen with works released to the public. Any copyright holder who has supporte
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by LocalH 1y ago
Too bad the US is not a democracy.
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by LocalH 1y ago
We made Jimmy Carter sell off his family peanut farm for this? Ludicrous. Criminals, the lot of them.
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by LocalH 1y ago
The Commerce Clause has been abused to control plenty of things that the states should have power over. Wickard v Filburn was one of the worst judicial decisions ever made.
643.
by LocalH 1y ago
Then Google will sell ads for terms related to your business and eat your lunch. The original vision of Google died when they bought DoubleClick.
644.
by LocalH 1y ago
What's wrong with that statement? It has historically and traditionally been true for raster displays, even if there do exist ways to use standard Cartesian-style coordinates with a computer.
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by LocalH 1y ago
Another comment in this overall thread indicated that they still receive LLM slop despite not offering bounties. Clout can be as alluring a drug as money.
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by LocalH 1y ago
Idea for a "challenge mode" on top of that, since this would probably be too hard for casual play: A series of levels where you are given a score at the beginning. You must find the path around the map that brings your score exact
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by LocalH 1y ago
Sixteen tons
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by LocalH 1y ago
I downvote comments like that, regardless of platform, in almost all situations. They don't really contribute much to the majority of discussions.
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by LocalH 1y ago
Scale matters. There's a difference between individual humans taking time to study copyrighted works, and so-called "AI" doing it on the scale of the equivalent of millions of man hours.
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by LocalH 1y ago
The problem is the algorithms that surface people's posts to those not friends with or following them. That's what turns a basic and true "social media" into a hyper-competitive arena which encourages a race to the botto
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by LocalH 1y ago
Those devices also don't provide the one feature the participants of these Signal chats wish to have - exemption from record-keeping requirements.
652.
by LocalH 2y ago
Billboards are a safety issue.
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by LocalH 2y ago
Giant Enemy Crab
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by LocalH 2y ago
THe "thin blue line" that keeps otherwise good cops from snitching on bad cops is the whole issue. You won't go far as a cop if your intention is to root out corruption. Did you know, in the US it is possible to be overquali
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by LocalH 2y ago
Please write for yourself if you wish to contribute.
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by LocalH 2y ago
The "software development community" isn't going to do shit, quite frankly, as long as bean counters rule the world. The businesses will keep hardening their equipment (or paying someone to do it poorly), and they'll thr
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by LocalH 2y ago
They shouldn't go away in fifty years. The manufacturer should have zero say in what your device can do after you buy it, especially such pedestrian features as a rinse cycle, which has been a standard built-in feature of dishwashers f
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by LocalH 2y ago
That's what they WANT. They want you to be just satisfied enough that you accept the lack of local control, the cloud-first approach that allows them control over the device you paid for (or in this case, the landlord paid for, and ess
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by LocalH 2y ago
The world used to be driven by DIY. Now, people are afraid of it (or advocate against it) in some way. What changed?
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by LocalH 2y ago
A contagious virus is not "poison". It can transmit to others . Anyone who takes actions that cause them to be infected with a potentially deadly virus, and transmits it to others, potentially killing them, should be tried for th

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