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by boomboomsubban 9mo ago
>It's been a very long time since I moved to Arch, but I swear that something like 12 years ago it did have some form of menu-driven installer. Yep, removed in 2012 as the last maintainer quit. Maintaining an installer seems like on
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by boomboomsubban 10mo ago
Yes, but largely by a Japanese team moved over out of hopes they could train the Americans and corporate politics.
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by boomboomsubban 10mo ago
It had been a while since I read the DMCA, and I was mistaken. It says "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under (copyright)" so it doesn't need an exemptio
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by boomboomsubban 10mo ago
>What about the anti-piracy measures on the Blu Ray? In the US, bypassing DRM is a crime even if the intended use is legal. There are exceptions for things like criticism and accessibility, but I don't believe they'd be relevan
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by boomboomsubban 10mo ago
It's not hard to imagine the last default search contract negotiation had Google go "we'll give you $x if you kill manifest v2, $x-$150 million if you don't." edited to correct my misunderstanding.
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by boomboomsubban 11mo ago
They list their sources, if you care but don't trust them you could replicate it on your own.
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by boomboomsubban 11mo ago
Creating a new term for the less secure definition doesn't work, as they'll just continue to call it E2EE encrypted.
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by boomboomsubban 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#4._Effect_upon_work's... Seems to say that market harm is the single most important factor in fair use, and it's basically impossible to show that a person writing their
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by boomboomsubban 11mo ago
The distrowatch rankings are based on page views to the distros section on the site. So the distros that lead the rankings tend to be moderately popular distros that link to that page on their site.
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by boomboomsubban 11mo ago
Why is there medicine and then like 8 kinds of medicine? Does this mean something like anesthesiology is also not 'professional?' Or why is podiatry singled out but not the others?
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by boomboomsubban 11mo ago
When EA recently made Command & Conquer free software, it was clear that the various art assets were not covered under this. Is there something similar for a text based adventure game? Does the writing count as code?
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home mentions it.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
I'm assuming entries were done by hand, aa I've noticed a couple typos in my casual browsing.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
Probably, cane sugar was unavailable due to blockades and the Napoleonic expansion of beet sugar was only just starting.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
His goal was the Russian army, they retreated towards Moscow and he pursued.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
The device is followed by the word "Cray" and overall it's similar enough to their trademarked logo I imagine I'd get in trouble if I tried to use it.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
Ah, I noticed they had been acquired by HPE, but their Wikipedia article still listed revenue so I assumed they were a subsidiary. Looking again, the revenue is from the year before the acquisition. My mistake.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
It's not a major deal as nobody will use them, but it's strange to have a company on US legal tender. I wonder what percent of the run Cray will buy?
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
It would be neat to recreate early radio, where a broadcaster would get a play-by-play over the wire and then announce it as if watching it, complete with sound effects. It was one of Ronald Reagan's early jobs.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
I assume so, they were the leader of the USSR in 65 and that looks like his hairline.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
The presumably Brezhnev caricature is an amusing touch.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
Wouldn't "high civilian activity" refer primarily to miners?
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
To me, the article is saying that an "ongoing investigation" is not a valid reason to grant anonymity, not that there are no valid reasons to grant anonymity. Who is being protected from whom by granting this source anonymity? Wit
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
>Why did you put quote marks around the word “legitimate”, like he said the word in his post? They do say that in the associated blog post, though they don't seem to think it's likely to be legitimate. https://cybers
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
To be fair, the mirrors and mailing lists were fine throughout.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
Source?
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
That's not how legal fees work. Hiring lawyers to oppose Facebook and allow your book to be published is expensive, and currently she seems to be losing the fight.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
I assume a hefty chunk of that has gone towards court costs for the fight to publish the book.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
The book publishers had been building a case against the CDL for a decade. They saw an opportunity to control the narrative and took it.
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by boomboomsubban 1y ago
>it was loaning them 1:N instead of 1:1 because "pandemic It was over loaning them 1:1, the pandemic actions were barely mentioned as part of the lawsuit and the result is that 1:1 loaning was ruled illegal. The only harm the pandem

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