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by philpem 7y ago
Thing is, those disks can probably be recovered. Remove the disc 'biscuit' from the plastic shell or jacket and wash it in warm soapy water. Rinse it and dry it out. If that doesn't get them clean, try isopropanol. Then trans
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by philpem 7y ago
"Okay, we'll get Billy the intern to code it. By the way, clean out your desk."
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I find Cliff's closing points extremely relatable. > “I remember when the internet was innocent, when it crossed political boundaries without a care, when it was a sandbox for intellectually happy people,” Stoll had told me in our f
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You can have any five compression ratios you like, so long as they're all zero?
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by philpem 7y ago
Indeed. Context matters, and societies evolve over time. Opinions which we'd consider abhorrent today were, once upon a time, may have been acceptable. A comment made years ago is only a reflection of a person's opinions at that p
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by philpem 7y ago
Are these EPROMs archived or available to play anywhere? You've got me curious! (amateur digital archivist and data recovery hw/sw dev here, I find this stuff fascinating!)
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That would be ActivityPub.
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Pretty sure Oracle trumps Google too, which puts them in second. I guess that makes Twitter third-to-last on that list. ... and Oracle's got one hell of a lead on the rest of the race.
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I'm curious where you'd find these -- do you have any links to Fidonet archives? It's been a while since I looked, but I didn't find anything significant last time I did.
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The difficulty in a lot of cases is finding someone who has a complete copy of the group. Yahoo Groups also had file, photo and database features, and archives of those are likely to be incomplete. You'd have to go through the member l
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by philpem 7y ago
This doesn't seem any different to what most businesses do. If a particular customer is losing you money, why would you continue to do business with them? The only difference here is, it's algorithmic. And really, given the reputa
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by philpem 7y ago
Unlikely. From past experience (a 4-year-long online harassment and dirty-tricks campaign!) the police are generally clueless to online matters. The most common responses I've had were "we don't police the Internet", &qu
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by philpem 7y ago
The trick to this is not hosting your mail server with a provider which has a bad reputation. Mine goes through a DigitalOcean droplet and my mail usually gets through (based on the assumption that if I received a reply, the other person mu
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by philpem 7y ago
I think I've picked a bad example! I was thinking along the same lines you explained -- that the facts wouldn't be copyrightable, but the overall work might be. To that effect - the scan produces a point-cloud. If you repeated the
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by philpem 7y ago
Wow... literally dying of a broken heart. :(
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I wonder if their argument is somewhat similar to the "database right" - the common example being a telephone directory. There's no copyright in the mapping between names and phone numbers, but there is in the specific databa
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by philpem 7y ago
Not just Germany and France. It's surprisingly prevalent in the UK too.
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Sometimes removing the problem is the best solution.
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I sent a driving licence and redacted the licence number, then overtyped the whole thing with the text in my previous post. My goal was to make certain that if it leaked, the overtyped expiry date should make it useless after a certain poin
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by philpem 7y ago
I've sent a couple of GDPR Subject Access Requests out of sheer curiosity. The answer is - in my experience - 'it varies'. One requested a copy of a photo ID or passport and were happy to accept a partly redacted copy with &#
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by philpem 7y ago
That'll be the HP OmniGo 700LX - I still have mine. That thing and a Nokia 6110 saw me through college very nicely. Just enough functionality to be useful. The whole HP LX line was really cool and was even more impressive when you fact
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It more or less has in mammals... though it's kind of swung the other way. Sunlight is required to produce Vitamin D, which it turns out is pretty darn important. The catch is that most people don't get enough sunlight exposure to
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by philpem 7y ago
Nice clickbait. Full title of the article: > Daily blue-light exposure shortens lifespan and causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila Drosophila are fruit flies. File under "interesting, but likely not applicable to mammals&quot
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by philpem 7y ago
I remember a similar Mike Cook "Beeb Body-Building" article from Micro User. He used a similar layout and two potentiometers to build a "radius-arm digitiser". A little bit of calibration and some trigonometry and you ca
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by philpem 7y ago
If you send a counter-notice to a Youtube copyright strike, you're required to provide your full name and physical address. Most providers do the same with reg'lar old DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices. The complainant&#x2
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by philpem 7y ago
It could well be a fear of automation. Automating part of the process may reduce the drudgery, but there's an existential fear from some people -- that if a part of their job can be automated, they'll be made redundant. Or the bos
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I'll give you that. But to a kid playing it on lunch breaks, on the computers we used to do our school work? :) It's also a hell of a lot easier to play with a Voltmace Delta mouseport joystick (and you can say the same for ArcEli
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E-Type on the Acorn Archimedes was pretty good. Unashamedly an OutRun clone, but with a Jaguar E-Type instead of a Ferrari. One of the most amusing parts of the game was the animation you got when you drove into something. The driver and pa
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by philpem 7y ago
More likely "I've been paid, I don't care".
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The bigger problem is what it does to the victims. If you have no possible escape from the situation, you end up falling into learned helplessness -- nothing I do can affect it, so why fight it. Maybe if I pretend to be dead, the predator w

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