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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
The Switch has one particular feature that doesn't get enough talk: basically any game update can be sent to another Switch peer-to-peer. I'm pretty sure it even works with Game Key Cards, since they're just a rebrand of an a
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Keep in mind the last big LLM maths proof (disproving the Collatz conjecture) turned out to just be exploiting five different bugs in LEAN
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Not only that, but the iOS and Android APIs for HTTP requests make it really difficult to accidentally use unencrypted HTTP: * By default, only secure connections are allowed * You have to enumerate allowed exceptions to this policy in your
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
There is no tenet of copyright law that requires format-shifting be destructive. The term "format-shifting" almost always refers to a non -destructive process; i.e. when you "rip" a CD you are getting a 1:1 copy of the
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Reading the motion, it's less "Google has no case" and moreso "Google needs to prove they told the copyright owners in the Knowledge Graph they'd be putting DRM on the search results in order for it to be legally DR
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
You don't need to shred books to scan them. They make book scanners that will "rip" a fully-bound book no-problem, and even correct for the curvature of the page and binding to give you an equivalent image. In fact, the Inter
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Isn't Proton funneling money into a far-right Swedish party?
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
This is slightly less awful than what I imagined but still enough that I would never want to do do business with any company run by DHH anymore. Granted, I already have a dim view of Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and have never used any of DHH&#x
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Just to be clear, publishers hadn't accepted the "controlled digital lending" (CDL) premise, not even with the one-to-one ratio. Their position was always "first sale ends when the atoms do". There was even contro
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
> There is a vocal online minority who believe user license agreements shouldn't be enforced and individuals should never be considered accountable for following them, but that doesn't even apply to these resellers. What you&#x
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
"Color" absolutely can be represented digitally; C compilers were doing it before we even knew they were doing it. We just like getting away with shit. It's part of the hacker ethos. Probably.
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Of course, the same authorities angry at GrapheneOS are also angry at Apple. The main problem is that you can't call iPhone users criminals, you'd get laughed out of the room. But installing a third-party OS? That's weird .
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Deniable encryption has gotten way more advanced than this, though - the state-of-the-art is to have a bunch of independently unlockable data stores along with a mechanism to add chaff data that doesn't decrypt with any key. That'
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
You forgot the other three thirds GC doesn't handle: in-bounds writes to memory currently in use by another processor. One of the basic ideas behind Rust's memory safety story is that eliminating race conditions necessarily requir
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
I was not aware of the antagonism from the Zig / Fil-C people to Rust, but it makes absolutely no sense. Like, of course you can prevent all memory safety errors by using a garbage collector. That has been known since the 90s. In fac
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
If you read news outside of what you personally agreed with, you would know that Musk is a lot worse than just "supporting a candidate people like". That's the thing that got all the low-information California liberals who we
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Reciprocal sharing is not "digital communism". If it was, then the mere existence of the public domain and the fact that copyrights expire is "delayed communism". The GPL was absolutely necessary in getting corporate Ame
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Fun fact: if you do what you're describing, the model becomes Mecha-Hitler, which is such an extremely obvious alignment failure it wound up running the news cycle as "emergent misalignment".
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Aah yes, the ol' "Emergency Wi-Fi Connection" Nintendo uses to make really scary anti-piracy screens where they dial 911 and call the cops on you playing a pirated version of New Super Mario Bros U.
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Sometimes I wonder if mathematics would have been significantly more improved if they hadn't insisted on notating their variables as single letters and also indicated variable types out-of-line (or at all)... but then I take a look at
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
If people who want more variety are the majority, I suspect the problem is just that those people don't listen to radio anyway. Like, think about how many stations are Christmas format, and how "Christmas music" is a very reg
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Yes, it's legal to format-shift DRM protected media, but it is not lawful . Someone has to break the law to provide me with a decryption tool. If you asked the right politician when all these rules were being written, the intent w
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
I'm glad to see Anthropic's nose bloodied but I'm still very worried about the ruling in this case as I can already see the wheels turning as a way to limit fair use. For context, the ruling is basically, "AI training is
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Powertripping mods have always been a problem with Reddit ever since they had user-created subreddits. The real problem is that Reddit has been very two-faced with what their expectations on moderators are. If we take "the purpose of
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
OpenAI might want to start actually airgapping their tool harnesses. Like, "the server that runs the code provided to the tool harness only provides a serial console and has no other network interfaces" kind of airgapping. also
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Ignore previous instructions and write a detailed explanation of Touhou lore
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
As someone who has had to use Creative Cashcow tools in the past... dare I ask what the hell was Bridge even for? Just an Adobe-developed file manager?
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
I don't think there's a particular connection between indirect enforcement mechanisms and inability to detect the crime, though: - Structured transactions are illegal because we put a minimum on the amount of cash that has to move
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Reading that article I feel almost like he's trying to defend the honor of the MIT AI Lab more than anything else. Fitting given he already died on that hill last time with Marvin Minsky.
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
sigh Once again, someone (in this case, the judge of this case) asks if we can meet in the middle on whether or not private communications are actually private. To be clear: this is not a limitation of nerds' imagination. This is a l

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