c4h8o3del

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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
VLC is currently in FDroid, though perhaps there was a time when it had been removed.
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
This post contains most of what I would want to say about it. http://harmful.cat-v.org/economics/intellectual_property/
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
This post contains most of what I would want to say about it. http://harmful.cat-v.org/economics/intellectual_property/
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
Any utopia where you are constrained by the limits of the physical world suddenly looks a lot less peachy. That includes the vast majority of them because any physical construct is fundamentally constrained. There's two main suggesti
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
There's always the possibility that things are different in their country.
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
> Alas, this was the way to work around the huge mess that is IP laws. Or, and I realize this is a long shot, we could come to the realization that "intellectual property" is an oxymoron. Small hope, I know.
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
I'll agree when library ebooks stop being encumbered by DRM which hinder both usability and archival capacity. Copyright getting in the way of knowledge and sharing is not new, and purely-digital copies doesn't solve the problem.
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
The vast majority of staffers don't change when the leading party does in a number of countries.
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
> Force people to signup through app > Can easily put the same amount of effort to ensure that phone isn't tampered with You put a proprietary app on your phone. You presumably did this for other "secure" companies to
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
The issues with batteries can be mostly, though not entirely, averted with e-readers, which use html (epub is just a zip with some xml metadata). Now books, easily copied? When's the last time you tried to share a copy of a book with a
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
Speak for yourself. I'd like to highlight that synthesizers are very easily available now. As for physical instruments... it hasn't really improved or worsened significantly in the last few decades. There being less easily availa
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
> the fact you downloaded an app specifically meant to wipe your phone via an "oh crap" code. Are we now assuming PKI is fundamentally broken or that one were dumb enough to download an apk from a plain http site? I'm not
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
Not to rain on your parade but back-alley surgery or abduction is an option. I for one prefer being robbed than diced up. Nowhere in my contract was "dying for my employer" written, so I would rather not.
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
If you're using a screen reader anyway, why not export to text instead of pdf? You're just wasting more storage for no benefit you can perceive. This relies on what should be a reasonable assumption that the latex source is provid
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
That's a false dichotomy. If you can't afford a cheap phone these days you likely can't afford five books a year anyway. Guess what libraries provide? Free book and computer access. Nothing changes.
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
latex2html and pandoc can both convert to responsive html5, you don't need to learn anything new. For bonus points, simply distribute the latex file so that the users can convert and read it in whatever alternative format they prefer b
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
Don't act like English is anything close to having a proper syllabary.
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
> If you truly value an photo, make a proper print, archival grade tint, archival grade paper. Or you could parity-pad your backups so even 20% corruption is still recoverable and periodically renew them. Several orders of magnitude chea
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
> Even an average idiot must now realize, that GM food may be riskier than you think. Yes and no. It may lead to dangerous expressions, but plain chemical testing and analysis prior to commercial release should ensure nothing toxic makes
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
The problem with jammers is that if you don't shield the building where you're using them, you're going to interfere with the outside which is a potential public safety risk (it's illegal for a reason). Of course, if you
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
> That's so disproportionate that you might as well just abolish copyright. Ideally that's what we would do.
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
gpg2 --armor --output my-file.tar.gz.gpg -e my-file.tar.gz && curl --upload-file ./my-file.tar.gz.gpg https://transfer.sh
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by c4h8o3del 8y ago
Considering the DMCA is harmful and should never have passed? There's an ethical and moral aspect here you're ignoring.
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by c4h8o3del 9y ago
It's MIT licensed by default. The StackOverflow code, that is.
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by c4h8o3del 9y ago
It might be only tangentially related to your point, but there are Slack API-based clients for [emacs][1] and [weechat][2]. So screen-reader usability is still a thing. The fact it's not using a proper standard open protocol is a probl