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871.
by LocalH 3y ago
Sounds like they took the "roll your own and don't tell anyone how it works" approach. Security by obscurity is never security. History has shown that the open encryption standards are the most secure.
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by LocalH 3y ago
It's not done for the purposes of content protection/DRM. There may be other laws it falls under, but I don't think the DMCA is one.
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by LocalH 3y ago
Arguably, software companies tend to release more that I would class as "malware" than the pirates do nowadays.
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by LocalH 3y ago
"AI detection" is a scam. Already such detection in education has been treated like "the computer says your work is AI, so that's final and you're getting sanctioned" rather than "the computer alleges you
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by LocalH 3y ago
Leave it to the capitalists to decide "all those people sleeping? we should find a way to make them work while they sleep so I can make more money!" Fuck outta here. What gives them the right to decide that? Money? Pfft. Money is
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by LocalH 3y ago
U-Matic existed then, as did open-reel videotape (half-inch, if I recall). VHS and Betamax weren't the start of home video.
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by LocalH 3y ago
This is the spectre of infinite growth permeating everything, at every level.
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by LocalH 3y ago
Xbox One is probably the closest. I'm not aware of any Xbox One games being decrypted.
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by LocalH 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the voice is distorted because they were a bit off on setting their audio subcarrier frequency. I doubt that sound was their goal. I wish that one day someone finds the master copy of this tape in an estate sale or some
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by LocalH 3y ago
Minority Report was a playbook for these bastards, instead of a warning.
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by LocalH 3y ago
> “You guys can sit in your offices worried about the ethics of something, but you’ve never had to walk into a room where you were facing a patient with a family who’s dying, who’s been waiting for an organ, and who is not going to get a
882.
by LocalH 3y ago
This is garbage. Imagine if other law worked this way. "We're going to arrest you and put you in jail, but we won't tell you what you're accused of, nor give you a proper appeal." During an investigation, I get it.
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by LocalH 3y ago
> We all know what is a drug. Kindly expand on this thought please. I heavily disagree with your assertion.
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by LocalH 3y ago
And I thought it was impressive to see Second Reality cloned on the C64. This is going to be a quite enjoyable watch tomorrow.
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by LocalH 3y ago
MAS my beloved
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by LocalH 3y ago
Does modding a game that uses a bespoke Lispish scripting language count?
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by LocalH 3y ago
Really shows how much these industries respect the actual art involved.
888.
by LocalH 3y ago
Putting applications in the browser was a huge mistake that we're still paying for today.
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by LocalH 3y ago
Insurance companies should not be able to override a patient's doctor in making a determination of what's not "medically necessary".
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by LocalH 3y ago
Ow, My Balls
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by LocalH 3y ago
I'm a mature adult and find such childishness refreshing and needed in this world.
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by LocalH 3y ago
The leap from "detectable signals before sensation of choice means no free will" is laughable to me, as it presumes instant signal propagation within the brain, and instant processing speed, neither of which can be presumed. Your
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by LocalH 3y ago
Not "instead of", but "in addition to".
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by LocalH 3y ago
AI turtles all the way down
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by LocalH 3y ago
The word you're looking for is "tyranny"
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by LocalH 3y ago
One of the few situations where CGA was arguably better than highres EGA or VGA
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by LocalH 3y ago
It should be illegal to use this for news, local interest, and educational programming. Have you seen any channels that have enabled encryption that haven't done it wholesale? There should also be a maximum amount of time per day tha
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by LocalH 3y ago
15.4.1 is the latest jailbreakable firmware for A15 chips.
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by LocalH 3y ago
Google is doing what their monetary analysis says will make them more money. Same reason the whole SSSniperWolf thing is being handled so poorly.
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by LocalH 3y ago
I was previously on an iPhone 7 that I had happily jailbroken on 14.8.1 (and the 7 didn't get iOS 16 so upgrade options were limited anyway, and iOS 15 jailbreaks are far less optimal on small devices like my 32GB 7). The biggest thing

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