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by laumars 5y ago
I wonder how many people in that majority category you’ve described are likely to want to install custom firmware though. I’m a “hacker” with multiple LG TVs around the house (in fact I exclusively buy LG TVs) and I have no interest in putt
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by laumars 5y ago
I think it’s better we do know because that should lead to refinements in licences (eg a GPLv4 that explicitly allows humans to write original works conceptually based off content read but not derived from code from; while explicitly disall
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by laumars 5y ago
That wasn’t even the start of the web era, let alone internet era. For context, GeoCities went live in 1994.
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by laumars 5y ago
> Because code derived from GPL code is also GPL. I’m not happy with the Co-Pilot situation either but for the sake of correctness it should it should be pointed out that your point hasn’t actually been tested in court with regards to
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by laumars 5y ago
Not taking anything away from trackers but DAWs are a lot easier to grok for the average musician. Take your breakbeat example, most DAWs also have a drum machine style layout which allows you to arrange samples in a more intuitive way than
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by laumars 5y ago
Winamp always felt to me to be the pinnacle of functional. I ended up turning to Winamp for a whole plethora of stuff outside of music playback, like: - streaming Twitch-style DJ sets using ShoutCast - streaming to other systems in a point
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by laumars 5y ago
Keep up the good work.
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by laumars 5y ago
Since CD players included a shuffle button. Before that, since it was possible to record songs from the radio into a blank cassette. And before that, since DJs included a second turntable to allow them to structure a set their way (Jimmy Sa
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by laumars 5y ago
Depends on what I’m listening to. If it is a playlist then I love shuffle because it keeps the playlist fresh. However for albums I completely agree with you. You’d think it would be smart enough to detect when an album is on an default to
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by laumars 5y ago
I’d say the MacPaint demo was bigger. We had touch screen devices before the iPhone and several failed attempts at tablets (then called “slates”). The iPhone interface felt like a big leap but still an evolutionary one that we all know some
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by laumars 5y ago
Tools like this are designed to remove awkward silences. What it sounds like the GP is after is something more like hiss and pop removal (to use an only vinyl analogy) and that’s a different and also simpler problem to solve. I’d wager ther
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by laumars 5y ago
I’d forgotten how annoying it was/is picking between all the different Microsoft releases of the same OS.
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by laumars 5y ago
It’s even older than that. It was originally released in the early 80s but is based on mail transfer protocols developed in the 70s. Email dates from an era when it was safe to trust people connecting to your server because everyone knew th
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by laumars 5y ago
You’re conflating a number of issues. We are strictly talking about technical specifications. Not about who owns what nor even arguing that everything should be centralised. In fact it is technically possible to create a better alternative
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by laumars 5y ago
What larger HDDs would you recommend? I need to upgrade a bunch of 3TB and 5TB drives that have been running for several years but really concerned about failure rates. I used to swear by WD Red however I’m hearing some horror stories about
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by laumars 5y ago
SMTP doesn’t really have a universally agreed way of handling authentication, error handling nor even encryption. There are several standards floating about, many of which are little more than pseudo-standards. > What would you suggest
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by laumars 5y ago
HTTP 3 isn’t plain text.
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by laumars 5y ago
FTP is an absolutely bonkers protocol. I’ve written lengthy posts in here in the past detailing why that protocol needs to die. Email is another clusterfuck of a protocol (well, several protocols) that barely functions despite dozens of mod
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by laumars 5y ago
It’s not that easy in practice because 1. It’s not just smart devices that are a risk. Eg some ISP routers are insecure. 2. Smart devices aren’t always so easy to spot. An IoT light bulb is pretty obvious. But what about a TV? These days it
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by laumars 5y ago
That’s a weirdly good example actually, because if you have a window you want hidden then the average user understands that they can install curtains or blinds. But if stronger countermeasures are required for security (eg the window needs
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by laumars 5y ago
Easy for you to say but harder to explain to the average layman. How do they know what is and isn’t a secure IoT bulb or router? In fact in the case of an ISP router, how do they even know how to replace a router even if they did know their
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by laumars 5y ago
A lot of the WiFi improvements came in later service packs rather than the first edition. I thought a Windows 2000 supported RDP? I’ve definitely RDPed onto 2000 servers. Was an RDP server not included in the ‘Professional Edition’? Or mayb
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by laumars 5y ago
SP2 wasn’t released until 3 years into the life of XP. Windows 2000 would have been roughly 5 years old by that point and hardware would have caught up with XPs requirements somewhat so upgrading to XP was a more reasonable choice. I was ta
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by laumars 5y ago
Since network end points have supported HTTP GET requests. If your router or IoT device isn’t secure any webpage online can embed a (for example) <img src=“http://192.168.1.1/enable_remote_access.php”> And it’s n
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by laumars 5y ago
Which utils? I think XP introduced the “switch user” option. But I couldn’t find much in XP to justify the additional drain on memory and CPU. However I might not have needed the same utils you came to prefer (Every user is different).
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by laumars 5y ago
So you are just trolling me then? Pity you couldn’t be bothered to hold a proper discussion here because some of your other posts in other threads have been informative. C’est la vie
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by laumars 5y ago
I agree. People often forget that early releases of XP was basically just a re-skinned 2000 but with a few tweaks for games and fonts. The problem was those skins ended up doubling the memory and CPU requirements. In fact XP was a pretty bl
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by laumars 5y ago
Have a read of the following and then you’ll understand my frustrations conversing with you: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html Thus far we’ve seen DH2, DH3 and DH4 but you haven’t yet refuted my central argument (nor
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by laumars 5y ago
Indeed. Like most aspects of IP, the system is optimised to reward abuse.
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by laumars 5y ago
> You're avoiding the question I answered your question despite it being a straw man argument. > No, you made a categorical, absolute statement that "If you need privacy then you shouldn’t be uploading to GitHub in the fi

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