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by Semaphor 5mo ago
> the bulk of the catalog is made up of DRM games Is it? Is there even a list of them? I know some are, some aren’t. Sometimes it’s even mixed (e.g. Pathfinder Kingmaker is DRM free, the DLCs use Steamworks DRM). As you say, they aren’t
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by Semaphor 5mo ago
I like to assume there aren’t that many deranged murderers around for it to matter. The state of affairs all my life has been that drivers are as careful as they have to around crosswalks.
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by Semaphor 5mo ago
Somehow that works very well in Germany without it resulting in some kind of chaos. There’s no need to make eye contact. Crosswalks (or Zebras) are the ultimate "pedestrian has all the rights" element.
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by Semaphor 5mo ago
In Germany it's illegal not to stop if a pedestrian is close to the crosswalk.
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by Semaphor 5mo ago
Cool, yeah, he had the 16 kb extension and his own software written on a cassette/tape. He says hi back, for him it was purely a work machine (PhD in Chemistry, never did anything with computers as in CompSci), he doesn’t remember too
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by Semaphor 5mo ago
Stuff like that is also cool (reminds me a bit of modding some games), patching machine code to improve performance of a compiled app? Very cool! (My dad might have done that, he has an old ZX81) But I thought specifically patching somethin
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by Semaphor 5mo ago
> My recollection is that most CP/M programs were configured via patching. At least that’s how I configured them. I remember my WordStar manual coming with details about which bytes to patch to do what. There was also a few dozen by
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by Semaphor 5mo ago
Oh yeah, it's not for that at all. I only listen to albums, so I don't need that. Heard people using listenbrainz recs for similar things
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by Semaphor 5mo ago
Big Bandcamp fan, I get almost all my music from there. But their AI removal (well, or piracy removal for that matter) is rather lacking. Any action takes over a week, sometimes more. Just like with clear piracy (pre release leaks have been
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by Semaphor 5mo ago
I don’t think that matters as it’s usually curl | sudo sh
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by Semaphor 6mo ago
How do you do that? My naive idea: Download 100 TB every 3 month to a 2nd device, create a list of files restored, validate checksums with the original machine, make a list of files differing and missing, check which ones are supposed to be
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by Semaphor 6mo ago
There’s a reason I have HN set to 200%
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by Semaphor 6mo ago
AFAIK not much in most of the world, in Germany you get a letter from lawyers wanting ~1000 EUR
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by Semaphor 6mo ago
Might depend on the tribe, and on personal circumstances. The biggest/weirdest thing for me was the whole night vigil and brewing (Umqombothi) and cooking/roasting of the lamb to honor the elders, which had several guests, but not
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by Semaphor 6mo ago
My wife is Sotho from South Africa. While there were certainly a bunch of, to me, very strange practices when my FiL died, it was nothing like what was mentioned in the article. That said, funeral insurance is extremely common in SA, as eve
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by Semaphor 6mo ago
FWIW, this is not new, though. Only the article about it is, I’ve been using it for a long time to redirect reddit links (as I’m not logged in on my phone)
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by Semaphor 6mo ago
I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing something like (Dog, Cat) pet = new Cat(); So without defining the union with an explicit name beforehand.
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by Semaphor 6mo ago
I think I read all of his series, yeah. Interdependency was great.
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by Semaphor 6mo ago
Oh wow, that's hidden. Thanks. Wait, OMW book 7? Wtf? Thank you even more! That'll be up next after my Hyperion re-read (RIP Dan)
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by Semaphor 6mo ago
First I'm hearing of that, is there an easy way to tell that's available?
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by Semaphor 6mo ago
I had one website forward my mail to their legal department who asked me why I’m impersonating them :D Only required a short explanation though.
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by Semaphor 7mo ago
That does requires laws. We have those here.
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by Semaphor 7mo ago
Sure you do. All of those are available in local versions without Internet. You just need to care enough, be able to afford them (while my vacuum has no camera, it requires the cloud, but it was significantly cheaper than a local or hackab
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by Semaphor 7mo ago
Yeah, this is the AI tax. I have several times as many services (28) on a vastly smaller machine (N100 fanless), but besides some very light AI for image detection which runs on CPU, I have no AI there, so I don’t need a desktop PC.
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by Semaphor 7mo ago
> Your comment is why these people are often wrong. Interestingly, it’s the opposite for me, and I almost exclusively see comments about software support & linux mainlaine. That said, I think 90% of the time it’s better to buy small
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by Semaphor 7mo ago
Why use HTML if you want to avoid CSS? HTML default styles only?
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by Semaphor 7mo ago
Weasyprint [0] is OSS and supports CSS Paged media. I’m not actually sure why you’d ever use something like this project (or headless chrome for that matter, maybe you need some automated login as well?) which doesn’t. print-css.rock [1] ha
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by Semaphor 8mo ago
All this, and no mention of Sealand [0]? An unrecognized micronation in (formerly) international waters, with a hosting company (back then) that allowed almost everything, and its own coup and counter attack by the "legitimate" ro
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by Semaphor 8mo ago
It looks like quad9 blocks the domain. dig @9.9.9.9 hackmyclaw.com ;; ANSWER SECTION: ;hackmyclaw.com. IN A But using their unsecured endpoint .10: dig @9.9.9.10 hackmyclaw.com ;; ANSWER SECTION: hackmyclaw.com.
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by Semaphor 8mo ago
Ohh, wow. First off, thanks for prosody, been using it for several years, ever since I switched from my early 2000s jabber.org account to selfhosted. And yeah, I get what you are saying, I'm using it the same way you envision snikket,

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