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> the Rust trademark policy mentions firearms for some reason. I read that bit! I can explain it to you! Yes, the Rust trademark policy _draft_ mentions firearms once. It's because they won't endorse an event that allows attend
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> If the review is banned, it seems that the review in question was the reason for ban/lock.\nI wouldn't read into "please make sure you are not spamming or advertising". Having said that, (that is what I said), the m
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I think it shows a lack of insight into how software that accepts user input should work.
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The user that posted the review had their account returned to normal [0] around the time this was posted. They were told by Steam support that their "account was locked for promoting or posting malicious content" but the message d
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For small numbers of pages, the SingleFile[0] extension for Firefox (WebExtension) is pretty handy. It's not "archival quality", though, if that's the kind of "archiving" you're doing. [0] https:/&#x
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I'm not particularly familiar with the project, but: The claim is that it enables social network/s that are resistant to censorship. It doesn't say that it is a social network that's impossible to censor. It's a
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I don't think it is a sudden change. The Rust Foundation was established early 2021. One of the reasons for its creation is to hold/manage the trademarks/IP, in a similar arrangement to other substantial free software project
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> AI is not ‘replacing anyone yet’ and no one has to worry. I have seen these comments and this excuse (among others) as well. The thing that amuses me, before that amusement turns to some sort of cosmic existential horror dread, is the
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It should be obvious that `Thing` generating tools/machines will displace/replace `Thing` generating humans as soon the tool meets the employer's threshold of affordability/quality/speed. This is how capitalism work
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Oh, dear. Talk about whipping a dead llama. Just let it rest, please.
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Cumming[0], or Graham[1]? [0] https://www.exploregeorgia.org/city/cumming [1] https://cityofgrahamga.com/
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I don't understand the rationale of preventing a user registration because you found a forbidden string in the name/address/town field. I can understand not wanting "offensive" usernames (that would be displayed by
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> So is the Rust Foundation trying to pivot to profit from license fees and merchandicing? No, this doesn't seem to be the case at all.
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Actually, the foundation's motivations seem pretty straightforward and sensible. The issue seems to originate from the commonality/ambiguity between the Rust Foundation and the Rust programming language. The fact that you can rele
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It's almost as if they didn't want the toxic monetisation features to be mentioned in any reviews... This is a game that costs money. The game has been designed to make purchasing these "time savers" appealing. That is,
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I don't really see the problem you are seeing. > all of the above tools need to be re-written and adapted to each possible compositor These sorts of tools have always been (re)implemented by each (moderately large) desktop environme
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You're right that it wouldn't, of course. You might be interested to know that I was also wrong to act as if there was an air of mystery surrounding the definition of '1kb'. It's readily apparent that the '1k&#
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[Disclaimer warning: I appreciate that this discussion is a serious one and I would like to set some expectations about my contribution to it.] Disclaimer: I was aware of what this "club of singular kilobytes[^]" was prior to ente
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Applications should not have network/internet access by default. Operating systems should be competing on features that put you in control[0]. To do anything less than blocking every connection until you've allowed it is putting a
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I like writing and humour. But it's already been April 2 for more than 7 hours, which is how long ago this was posted (on HN). So please only post serious things now out of respect for those in or near the arse end.
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(I don't know who this person is) I assume they're talking of 'AI safety' as opposed to AI being used by the wealthy to further suppress the working class. If it's unreasonable to take AI safety seriously because no
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I'm not sure that such a path of least resistance will necessarily be obvious from the outside. Likewise, I'm not sure that (from the audience's perspective) one can so easily infer simple and exact reasons for why an adaptat
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Don't know, but it certainly jumped out at me. All I could think of was that some part of the design isn't finalised and/or hiding part of it (or an identifying mark?) in an attempt to delay the counterfeiters.
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> i want to mess up with wine, now I just backup ~/.wine, do whatever, restore. You can set WINEPREFIX to use a non-default prefix path (other than `~/.wine`). Note that the prefix doesn't contain everything that wine spil
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That's what I thought, but what's different now is that someone's about to make a photo-realistic gaming simulation and shoot a movie in it. From the article: > “somebody’s going to invest in a [gaming] simulation that’s p
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With the torrent of live service games failing spectacularly over the last several years, the Economist is here to tell you about why making good games is bad for business, that single-player is dead, what a 'live service' is (now
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There is only one feature I would need to see changed to get me into Counter-Strike again. Remove the loot boxes. At least make the game itself not include a slot-machine. Ideally, do something about the third-party gambling websites. The
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It might be fraud/criminal to sell a license to something that someone else holds the copyright to . > why isn't the CEO of Getty in prison? CEOs usually won't even be charged for their (what we would call) "crimes&q
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There's a kicad library [0] and (STM32F4*) firmware in rust [1] on riskable's github. Ed: Untested Void Switch Reference PCB Implementation [2] [0] https://github.com/riskable/void_switch_kicad [1] https:&#x
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As far as I know the "other times this has been tried" all have had individual displays (and controllers) in each key. The difference being that here there is just one panel under the whole board with most of the parts above the d

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