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by VonGuard 1y ago
Hacker News users now profit from extensive invasion of privacy, from Facebook to LinkedIn, to every ad network, VPN, ISP, etc... They all trade in our private info daily. 20 years ago, the battle cry was around privacy and government monit
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by VonGuard 1y ago
The United States of Ferenginar
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by VonGuard 1y ago
Assyrian in origin, Nimrud was a very talented hunter, but perhaps he got mixed up with a city along the way, and the Bible's thoughts on Assyrians, Persians, and Babylonians is always interesting to trace back to the truth. https:&#x
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by VonGuard 1y ago
I believe this comes from soda jerks: the guys who jerk the soda taps and make you an egg cream or a chocolate coke. I should probably say "made," as it's a job that was eliminated by soda machines. A lot of restaurants even
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by VonGuard 1y ago
This is actually a known pattern in tech, going back to Engelbart and SRI. While not 1-to-1, you could say that the folks who left SRI for Xerox PARC did so because Engelbart and his crew became obsessed with EST: https://en.wiki
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by VonGuard 1y ago
My favorite PE story is about a certain company created by the government that first went public, the PE. After the PE acquisition, an exec stands up in front of the entire company and says, and I am not kidding: "This was a telecom co
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by VonGuard 1y ago
On DMT, you meet elves. On 5-MeO-DMT you hear every voice in the universe at once. Quite a step up, but both last like 15 minutes, max.
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by VonGuard 1y ago
Happens ALL the time. Players even figure out how to emulate MMO servers by sniffing network traffic. When people want to play the game, they will find a way.
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by VonGuard 1y ago
You are talking about the attempted exception in 2024. The 2015 exemption expires every 2 years and has to be renewed and to my knowledge it was renewed during this last effort, as it had been every 2 years since it was granted. The article
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by VonGuard 1y ago
This is one of the few places where the USA has a sensible solution. In 2015, my org (Themade.org) worked with Archive.org, MIT, the EFF, and Harvard Law to obtain a DMCA 1201 exemption for legal DRM circumvention for the case of single pla
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by VonGuard 1y ago
Been using this for a while. It's evolving rapidly and the team behind it is very responsive and passionate. Very excited to see this evolve over time! The only thing that it really needs going forward is more Retroarch cores ported to
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by VonGuard 1y ago
Some of what I am about to say is highlighted in this article but I think it should be restated: The Adam came with a dot matrix printer. All in one giant box. I know because I found one at the flea for $30 once, and I had to carry it for a
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by VonGuard 1y ago
Mullvad swinging for the fences suddenly. They have a billboard in South San Francisco, too. Did they get a cash infusion? Why all of the sudden are they expanding? Honestly, I'd have changed the name by now...
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by VonGuard 2y ago
So, I happen to know a bit about this because his cult compound is a state park in Florida, in Bonita Springs. Highly recommend visiting! Say hi to the loose big turtles! The park is presented as a lovely old commune with vintage bungalows,
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by VonGuard 2y ago
The 1980's when Reagan turned this country upside down and showed the GOP that cutting taxes wins them elections, even if it makes the debt go out of control and you can no longer pay for anything the government buys.
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by VonGuard 2y ago
Hotline was the greatest single platform for the Macintosh in the 1990s. First Class was great, but Hotline was SO simple, you just pop in a tracker address, fire up the server, point it at 1 folder on your HDD and yer out there, as a pirat
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by VonGuard 2y ago
I'm wondering if these sightings are occurring in Grovers Mill, NJ.
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by VonGuard 2y ago
The dumber the people, the more they love Trump. It's a legit strategy, but I never thought people who'd benefited from American' education would buy into this shit and pull up the ladder!
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by VonGuard 2y ago
Being incredibly stupid. Example: I heard the leader of the West Coast Vintage Computer Club remark, recently "Well, the problem is the Department of Education! We need to get rid of that!"
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by VonGuard 2y ago
This is entirely within the realm of the judge to do. They do it fairly frequently as punishment to people who bring bad law suits and lose.
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by VonGuard 2y ago
No, I am not ignoring them. I know Archive very well. They do not preserve copyrighted content deliberately, it just gets uploaded, and when no one comes and complains it stays up. They remove things ALL the time. All of the Atari 2600 game
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by VonGuard 2y ago
OK, but again, people are telling me to take code I do not own the rights to, and to release it under an open source license. That's 100% illegal. This is the equivalent of me taking a Stephen King novel and pasting it into a webpage a
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by VonGuard 2y ago
Hey I agree 100%. We live in a time and place where we could put about 10-Refridgerators-worth of computer and storage into the basement of every library in the world, and fill those drives with every book, painting, movie, song, etc... EVR
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by VonGuard 2y ago
This. I cannot believe people are telling me to just open everything. It's nuts. Imagine if someone found your personal code and just decided to open it without your permission or knowledge!
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by VonGuard 2y ago
OK, so my non-profit with a budget of about $200,000 a year is now expected to lawyer up and take on this risk, where some random company can just sidle up to us, sue us for X, and automatically win because we cannot possibly afford a lawye
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by VonGuard 2y ago
Email me at alex@themade.org and we can chat about options and methods. I've done this a bunch and we can usually figure out a way to meet the needs and keep risk at bay, but we will need to talk to the original rights holders, even if
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by VonGuard 2y ago
Great idea except it won't make anyone money. Therefore it will never happen. Copyright law in America is not based on good ideas, reasonability, or even preservation. They are based on profit. Your idea is great, but we do not live in
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by VonGuard 2y ago
Courts do not do that. The people suing would offer up a big old list of damages into the millions and then negotiate down from there to something like 6 figures AND the loser covering the court costs. The American legal system is completel
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by VonGuard 2y ago
Completely incorrect. This work is being done under a non-profit, and whether or not the original owners care is irrelevant. Doing this would immediately open the non-profit to litigation and endanger the entire project. Just because we don
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by VonGuard 2y ago
This is a cautionary tale for preservationists. My current preservation project is still not open because we are very slowly reviewing the code to make sure we don't accidentally include any IP when we open the source code. The real th

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