gjsman-1000

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   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   > Including disks with the latest MKB? AFAIK, it appears so. Also AACS LA appears to have given up and stayed on v68 for a few years now. Maybe there is a new one at last... maybe. AACS 2.0 it sounds like started from v72 and counting
2. 2942.▲
   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   Well... no. Right now there are multiple software packages available from questionable sources that break AACS offline on-demand no problem. So... yeah. As for Cinavia, if you shift the pitch of the music, you can cause the player to stop r
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   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   Not quite. If that were true, Blu-ray would have been quite happy with AACS. It had it all: key revocation, device-specific keys, blacklists, remote updates, it was plenty, and it even worked on the defunct HD DVD. But they heaped on BD+ VM
4. 2944.▲
   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   Well... they tried to patch that by locking the analog outputs on Blu-ray players to 960x540 (slightly better than DVD quality), and by removing the analog outputs entirely in 2013 on all new players after that point. However... even the be
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   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   And in the movie world, look at Blu-ray. HDCP (for HDMI Cable Encryption), versions 1.4 (1080p) and 2.2 (4K). BD+ (a literal VM running on the player to correct intentionally erroneous data on the disc), AACS v1 and v2 (tons of keys, player
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   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   I was at a school which used "Lockdown Browser" to try to lock-down the Windows environment to only the exam. Unfortunately for the school, I had experience with Windows programming, and blew the doors off Lockdown Browser in abou
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   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   Ah... no? Firefox, before Quantum, was slower than Chrome, had worse battery life than Chrome, and (on a Mac) was way louder than Chrome. And by the time they mostly fixed these problems, there was basically no reason to use Firefox other t
8. 2948.▲
   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   No. Firefox has been dying for, what, a decade now (losing market share since 2013)? The only people using Firefox are the people who care about Firefox as a product and a competitor, which is (in the grand scheme of things), almost nobody.
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   by gjsman-1000 4y ago

   Building a web browser that is feature-complete, bug-compatible with Chromium, and relatively secure is about as complicated as building a whole operating system from scratch. Plus, as Mozilla has learned, nobody ever made money from sell
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Don't even need Audio driver trickery. All you need is a desktop PC, and a 3.5mm jack cable with male ends on both sides, about $5 on Amazon. Plug the headphone jack output into the line in and hit Record. Quality is decent enough, and
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    I got into programming websites with PHP at a time when everyone was yelling Node for everything, JavaScript frameworks for everything, SPAs for everything. I absolutely agree they have their place... but I don't have regrets. I'l
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    This is painful, but it is worth considering that "outliers" so far have meant 1 person dead from an AirTag, as well as a few dozen stalking incidents. I believe anti-stalking features should be added, but there needs to be balanc
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    I don't disagree with that it can be dangerous, I disagree on the level of danger. Someone died - yes. Also, 1,000 children are injured in California alone from pencils yearly. You are more likely yourself to die from a pencil than a s
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Existed forever. Battery-powered GPS trackers, Tile trackers, Private Investigators, buying cell-phone location data, there are plenty of options, and none of those options even bother trying to notify the person being tracked. Sure, AirTag
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    "How the hammer became a murder tool" "How the computer helped increase suicide" "How knitting yarn became a strangulation method" "How electricity became a torture method" "How candles caused un
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    You clearly haven't researched Tile. They've been around forever, and last a long time as well.
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    At this point I can say I am stunned at the hypocrisy of Hacker News’ hivemind. Deplatform KiwiFarms for their harassment, don’t deplatform PornHub from Instagram for having almost-useless non-consensual upload prevention systems.
18. 2958.▲
    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Perhaps a good reason to go back. Every day that passes makes it more suspect purely from natural reason.
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Are they really less tenable? Because, if there be a God, on the judgement day present in many of the religions we know, he might point out that the sheer complexity of the universe should be a sign of his existence. What are the odds? Are
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    "misunderstanding the use of the word" Aka, I've used someone else's redefinition of the word away from the vernacular understanding, to redefine it to support my view of the world. See also "recession."
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Perhaps, if there is a God, he does not desire us to learn about him by knowledge or by science, but by love for him and seeking him out. For who is man to say, that man must only learn about God through objectively verifiable facts, becaus
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Her main point is that "what goes around comes around." You might receive a $10K bailout, but later your taxes will help someone else. That's her principle behind her thinking on why this is OK. If you hurt now, it will benef
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    I was suggesting ideas. I don't think they are the best ideas, rather that the main idea being presented of a one-time bailout is the worst of all worlds. This is not built to be a one-time bailout. This is going to need to be, to be &
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    I disagree with her on many of those points. - "Young people pay for Medicare for our seniors." Medicare is literally going bankrupt within the next decade, as is Social Security. When it was founded, there were 30 young people fo
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    I left at the end of 2020.
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    I had an opportunity to go to college, and decided to do my own thing. This cancelling of student loan debt plan, although I understand the plight of young people in debt, it is also infuriating. Myself: Was in college, left, did my own thi
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597071 for information about how Copernicus was received academically from an academic's point of view. Also worth recognizing is that it was Protestants, not Ca
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    Try here for a purely academic overview (no religious Catholic websites or other "biased" commentators for this), that was also very recent. There are plenty of other sources, but this was just what I found first that was academic
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    > "The teachings of the Church must not be undermined by heliocentrism or evolution research, so findings in those areas will be strictly filtered for heresy before publication." This is actually a bit of a historical myth that
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    by gjsman-1000 4y ago

    You mean TSMC. Well, they would be seriously hurt. However, does that matter when almost every tech company (including Qualcomm, MediaTek, AMD, Apple, ARM, Broadcom, Marvell, Nvidia, Intel, so forth) would also be harmed? TSMC going down is