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by bentley 3y ago
My personal favorite find from Librivox: My Man Jeeves , by P. G. Wodehouse, narrated by Mark Nelson. Well narrated and very funny. https://librivox.org/my-man-jeeves-by-p-g-wodehouse/
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by bentley 3y ago
> I think the emulator developers really do need to consider actually doing something to combat piracy in the long-term, or Nintendo may actually be successful banning it. Emulator developers already scrupulously avoid providing any copy
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by bentley 3y ago
You are not allowed to look at my copyrighted display of Christmas lights on the outside of my house without first paying my stated price.
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by bentley 3y ago
Jack Valenti, president of the MPAA, testifying before Congress in 1982: “I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.” For context: months before Val
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by bentley 3y ago
No ads in Thunderbird, K‐9 Mail, or any of the other mainstream open‐source IMAP clients I’m aware of.
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by bentley 3y ago
> On top of that, metadata, server connection and anything other than the message content is all at the mercy of the server owner. Except to the extent that the client is explicitly designed to minimize what metadata is exposed to the se
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by bentley 4y ago
Fewer and fewer. Canada, for example, changed this year from life + 50 to life + 70. No copyrights will expire in Canada for the next 20 years.
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by bentley 4y ago
The last copyright extension was in 1998. With the rise of companies like Google, there’s enough lobbying power in the other direction that I suspect (well, hope) that a new extension wouldn’t pass.
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by bentley 4y ago
My understanding is those are DRMed: you can’t play a restored game without connecting online to your Steam account at least once.
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by bentley 4y ago
Yes, that was mentioned in the thread I linked. According to the thread, both GOG and the game developer claimed it was a bug, and fixed it. This does not convince me of your statement that GOG has de facto eliminated its no‐DRM policy. A
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by bentley 4y ago
You’re totally right that this is bad, unacceptable customer service and worth criticizing. Don’t take my next paragraph as an attempt to downplay your problem, because I agree with your justification. That said: unlike Steam games, your GO
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by bentley 4y ago
I think having an online account for multiplayer is a categorically different kind of requirement than having an online account for single player. Until there’s a storefront that only sells games that include multiplayer servers that can be
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by bentley 4y ago
When I hear this complaint it usually refers to games that provide certain features, multiplayer, rewards like skins, etc., only through the use of an online account. I’m not saying those things aren’t worth complaining about, but frankly,
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by bentley 4y ago
Well, because it provides offline, DRM‐free installers for your games, often including Linux installers.
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by bentley 4y ago
I wouldn’t call it archaic, but more folksy. I think most people would understand it, but would rarely encounter it outside a humorous context. It’s pretty similar to bamboozle, except that’s gained kind of a “cute” connotation in recent ye
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by bentley 4y ago
This belief is commonly held by Christians as well. It comes from Genesis 6:3: “The LORD said, ‘My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.’” At that point, Genesis had
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by bentley 4y ago
Huh? I described a side effect of these laws—not theoretical, but an actual side effect that happened. You counter by saying… that that wasn’t the intent of the law? Sure, I agree with you: blue laws in the United States were not (usually)
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by bentley 4y ago
“We will appeal.” https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/16394247772647219...
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by bentley 4y ago
> Religion bad, Atheism good In the United States, blue laws have historically been used to oppress religious minorities like Jews and Sabbatarian Christians.
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by bentley 4y ago
“This” Supreme Court? As opposed to any other Supreme Court? Which Supreme Courts have been friendly to fair use and opposed copyright expansionist arguments?
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by bentley 4y ago
> I love leaving my house without my phone when I have the opportunity. I used to do the same, but after a fender bender I decided to keep one with me when driving in case I need to (1) take pictures or (2) make an emergency call. But I
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by bentley 4y ago
There are basic, fundamental things you can do with a physical LP that you can’t with “licensed” bits. For starters, you can resell an LP. Can you resell a music file?
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by bentley 4y ago
You misrepresent my suggestion. By all means, archive. But Nintendo’s hostile practices succeed because ordinary people with no interest in archival are willing to buy the same game rereleased for console after console. Long‐term carrying o
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by bentley 4y ago
It doesn’t have to be this way. I’ve been buying games on Steam for 15 years. Even my earliest purchases are still downloadable and playable, and have been on every PC I’ve owned, including most recently the Steam Deck. The same is true for
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by bentley 4y ago
Sort of. The publishers have always hated the concept. They simply never chose to file any lawsuit until the National Emergency Library came about. The trouble with lawsuits is they might be ruled the other way, providing explicit precedent
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by bentley 4y ago
I’m surprised that you were downvoted, because you’re totally right. UTF‐16 can represent almost a 21‐bit range—yes, greater than 16—thanks to surrogate pairs. The largest codepoint representable in UTF‐16 is U+10FFFF. That’s why UTF‐8 drop
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by bentley 4y ago
Why not life in prison?
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by bentley 4y ago
Only some free software licenses rely heavily on copyright law as their primary mechanism. Permissive licensing, or something like it, would continue to exist if copyright as a concept disappeared tomorrow.
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by bentley 4y ago
Realtime chat platforms like Matrix necessitate an entirely different sort of moderation compared to a traditional mailing list/forum-style community.
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by bentley 4y ago
OpenBSD’s heavy use of pledge, unveil, privilege separation, unprivileged processes, chroot, and strong memory protections do an excellent job of keeping attackers from gaining root.

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