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by efitz 3y ago
It’s designed to restrict the purposes for which the consumer can use the work. It is exactly like DRM in this way.
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by efitz 3y ago
A huge amount of DRM effort has been spent in the watermarking area, which is similar, but not exactly the same.
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by efitz 3y ago
This is the DRM problem again. However much we might wish that it was not true, ideas are not rivalrous. If you share an idea with another person, they now have that idea too. If you share words on paper, then someone with eyes and a brain
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by efitz 3y ago
And the ladder
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by efitz 3y ago
Did you ever fix the cost per kWh?
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by efitz 3y ago
Because our justice system believes intent is an element of criminality, not just effect.
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by efitz 3y ago
Apple blacklisted Parler in January 2020. Of course, they were an app store app, not a user, but they established the precedent that they ban for political views they don't like.
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by efitz 3y ago
Captcha IMO is way worse in terms of user experience than 2FA. And the only 2FA that I don't detest are app push and TOTP.
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by efitz 3y ago
I love the Apple ecosystem, however I always have a low level of dread that someday I will somehow offend them and be permanently blacklisted. This is the main reason I've drawn the line at using their password manager or email - I us
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by efitz 3y ago
I wish billionaires would spend more money setting up trusts to fund research projects like this one, rather than spending so much money on politics.
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by efitz 3y ago
I have both an LG washer and dryer, about 2 years old I’m unable to connect the dryer to WiFi at all (UniFi). The washer does nothing useful on WiFi. All I want is them to connect to HomeAssistant or HomeKit and send a notification when
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by efitz 3y ago
I bought Eve brand motion/occupancy/illuminance sensors for high traffic areas. I run them in Matter mode so everything is local and vendor neutral. I use an Apple TV as a controller and I use HomeKit automation to create rules
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by efitz 3y ago
I went with Lutron Caseta. It is way more reliable than z-wave when you have a large number of devices, but they limit each hub to 75 devices which kinda sux. As a side note Lutron did a pretty good job with led brightness which is a big d
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by efitz 3y ago
Yes, this was the natural consequence of my rule. I have to travel on business from time to time and didn’t want a tech support call in the middle of the night when I’m halfway around the world because my family couldn’t turn the lights on
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by efitz 3y ago
Smart Home has kind of been my hobby for the last 7-8 years. I have well over 100 devices controlled by my smart home setup. Before I installed the first smart device in my home, however, I had a single requirement: EVERYTHING MUST FAIL NO
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by efitz 3y ago
I am less than impressed with Tuya. They want to be an ecosystem, just like HomeKit or SmartThings, so you either have to go all in on them or use some bridging solution. And they charge (a lot) for their cloud development platform (used
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by efitz 3y ago
Here come the USBC hair dryers and space heaters.
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by efitz 3y ago
Dr. Fauci’s conduct and statements during the COVID pandemic severely damaged public trust in the integrity and competence of US public health authorities and in the safety and efficacy of not only the COVID vaccine but of vaccines in gener
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by efitz 3y ago
Warning - GenX get-off-my-lawn follows: I've been driving for 40 years. Drivers today are way less considerate than when I started driving. It's not speed- people have always driven fast, and teenage boys have always driven reckl
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by efitz 3y ago
I visit Thailand frequently with my family and drunk driving is rampant there. I never drive there after dark due to the danger. Anecdotally I have also noticed an increase in driving aggressiveness there over the last couple of years (mai
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by efitz 3y ago
The first thing authoritarian governments do is take away citizens’ weapons. It doesn’t mean that disarmament means that the government means to turn authoritarian, but in the last century, we have yet to see a case where it didn’t.
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by efitz 3y ago
It would be interesting to have consumer standards (perhaps even regulatory standards) about the brightness and color of LED indicator lights on devices. Someone beat me to the “dimmer sticker” idea several years ago [1], there’s clearly a
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by efitz 3y ago
When you spend a lot of time around a mammal, you will start to see that it has a personality, particularly if you’ve spent time around other individuals of similar species. Humans have very similar neurological equipment to other mammals.
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by efitz 3y ago
I thought this was going to be an article about how someone used a Raspberry Pi and some maker fu to connect 0x7 on their terminal to a cathedral or something.
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by efitz 3y ago
In 30 years we will be seeing class action lawsuits and regulatory action about bacteria-inhibiting polymers contaminating food supply and particles in the oceans. No one will look back and estimate the number of lives saved; they and their
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by efitz 3y ago
Antibiotics produce chemical effects in the bacteria; eg disrupting metabolic processes. We like antibiotics because they target bacteria without injuring the host. Antibiotics are subject to antibiotic resistance because some bacteria ar
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by efitz 3y ago
Very old joke. Here’s the role-independent version: “Blame your predecessor” “Blame the reorg” “Make three envelopes”
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by efitz 3y ago
You mock the idea, but then support it? I do not understand. I agree that the US defense industry likes the status quo, and lobbies congress to keep the money flowing. I agree that the US gains considerable influence over Europe via the cu
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by efitz 3y ago
> Kind of like the argument Europe is benegiting of US military spending They are. The US should pull out of NATO and save a bunch of money; the EU is wealthy enough to provide for its own defense.
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by efitz 3y ago
It takes a lot of money to bring a drug to market. Those costs have to be recovered and there has to be a net profit or no one would do it. Pharma companies charge different prices for drugs in different markets. Markets with single paye

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