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by poizan42 3y ago
Did you mean "copyright infringement" instead of "counterfeiting"? Counterfeiting is when you make a knock-off product and claim it's the original. Also I assume "mitigation" is "settlement"?
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by poizan42 3y ago
Saying "compatible with <trademark>" is if anything one of the best established examples of nominative use. Like PC-compatibles which IBM had no way of stopping. Apple could try to sue, but the case would get dismissed immed
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by poizan42 3y ago
It's not a full-blown userspace filesystem like fuse or dokany (which already has a fuse wrapper). The projected file system still needs a local folder where it can place copies of files from the "backing store". E.g note the
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by poizan42 3y ago
You should use 'su - root' to get a root login shell. Otherwise you will still keep your old environment, including $HOME and $USER. (The man page recommends using --login over the single dash, but it also says they are equivalent
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by poizan42 3y ago
For the public documentation for NtPulseEvent, see PulseEvent (which just calls NtPulseEvent): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/...
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by poizan42 3y ago
I don't remember anybody in this thread making any claims about what Microsoft should or should not support.
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by poizan42 3y ago
No, the "nefarious" means they are simply using APIs like WriteProcessMemory/ VirtualProtectEx/CreateRemoteThreadEx to modify the memory of runing programs or use SetWindowsHookEx to install global hooks (which inject yo
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by poizan42 3y ago
A third party library can claim whatever it wants in its license, that doesn't make it enforceable. There needs to be some mechanism that causes the terms of the license to apply to you. If you don't distribute any copyrightable p
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by poizan42 3y ago
What is the point you are trying to make here? You can't use a proprietary library without a license because you can't distribute it. Whether you can have code linking to the proprietary library without distributing the proprietar
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by poizan42 3y ago
> If you use any 3P library it’s a derived dependency by law. Is that what you are arguing? It’s settled law at this point. Not it's definitely not. For B to be a derivative work of A it needs to include copyrightable elements of A.
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by poizan42 3y ago
In Old Norse mythology, the Midgard Serpent (Jörmungandr) encircles the earth, so it would seem they believed the earth to be a disc.
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by poizan42 3y ago
They could have given them $313373 or at least $31337 instead.
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by poizan42 3y ago
Here in Denmark criminal records becomes inaccessible to non-government actors 2-5 years after sentence served, depending on the severity of the crime, and 10 years for the government/public sector. In theory it's never wiped and
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by poizan42 3y ago
Lazarus is an Object Pascal IDE modeled after the old versions of Delphi.
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by poizan42 3y ago
I was under the impression that the sanctions worked the other way around, i.e. Loongson can't buy a lot of things from American companies. > Entities on the Entity List are prohibited from purchasing or licensing American technolog
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by poizan42 3y ago
You can buy systems based on earlier Loongson CPU's from Ali Express right now if you want to. I can find dev boards, some small raspberry pi-like devices they call Loongson Pi as well as the tower-pc-like LS3A5000-7A2000 system. They
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by poizan42 3y ago
A small correction - this is recital 42, not section 42. The part of the actual text that deals with consent is to be found in Article 7. The part in 7.4 is even broader * When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall
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by poizan42 3y ago
You can totally reference a trademark without infringing on it, see Nominative Use / Nominative Fair Use[1]. Whether or not a usage falls under Nominative Use is ultimately up to a court to decide. Of course a company can send C&D
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by poizan42 3y ago
I don't think the issue at hand here is the letter of the law, but rather when a bargain is "too good to be true" which is up for interpretation.
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by poizan42 3y ago
If that had any ounce of truth clearly they would have tried taking down mineserver and minetest long ago. If projects gets taken down it's because of copyright infringement, not because they are referencing the name. Removing all refe
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by poizan42 3y ago
What's superstitious about that? Soap isn't made for human consumption, it seems prudent to avoid consumption unless proven safe.
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by poizan42 3y ago
OpenTyrian is ported from the original Tyrian code and the original assets have been made freely available, the original graphics artist even made a remastered version of the tileset [1] [1] https://lostgarden.home.blog/2007
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by poizan42 3y ago
I installed WhatsApp for the first time in my life just a few days ago because I needed it to communicate with some event organizers at my current holiday destination. Once I'm home again I will uninstall it again and will probably not
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by poizan42 3y ago
Eh, I'm an EU citizen and the whole NSA surveillance program cooperation shows that my government (Denmark) can't be trusted when it comes to surveillance capabilities. Also I certainly don't trust Hungary under their current
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by poizan42 3y ago
Isn't retaliation for chargebacks a violation of most merchant contracts with the credit card companies? The one time I have had to request a chargeback I was basically told to contact the financial institution[1] in case the merchant
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by poizan42 3y ago
That's definitely the wrong definition. A self-signed certificate is a certificate that is signed by the private key corresponding to the public key contained in that certificate - in other words it's signed by itself. In fact eve
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by poizan42 3y ago
As I understand that restriction has been ruled invalid in the EU[1]. I don't know what the situation is in the US. [1] Case C-128/11. European Court of Justice. USEDSOFT GmbH vs. ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORP
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by poizan42 3y ago
I mean, Japanese isn't a Romance (i.e. Latin-derived) language, but the word "pan" is a loan word from one.
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by poizan42 3y ago
Not Japanese. They got the word from Portuguese missionaries though.
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by poizan42 3y ago
IPv7 was used for the "TP/IX: The Next Internet" proposal from 1993: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1475 The next available version is IPv10

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