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roastedpeacock
4y ago
It is an complex idea but in theory one could produce a live-image that spins up the Whonix 'gateway' and 'workstation' virtual-machines into RAM. Boom, probably better than Tails. The most obvious concern is the RAM-usa
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4y ago
Am I missing something or did Medjedovic simply use unforeseen actions in the implementation of the contract as arbitrage and did not have an agreement to not attempt such actions? Do not see any 'unauthorised access' in that case
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roastedpeacock
4y ago
Nintendo have had a conflicted stance about community projects over the years. From threatening UltraHLE (early Nintendo 64 emulator) developers back in the late 90s to largely ignoring the Wii exploits and homebrew scene in the mid-to-late
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roastedpeacock
4y ago
> Why did it take so long to add monero support? Some third-parties did sell gift-codes using Monero before Mullvad had native support although I had no experience with them. > I've heard a rumor that you've shared a user IP
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4y ago
Not saying not to try but are others pessimistic by the proverbial 'boiling of the frog' when other countries started adopting DMCA type measures in part by US imperialism also pressure from extra-governmental organizations like t
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4y ago
This makes me think an important question. What can individuals in western countries with imported IP-imperialism do to protect open source and other independent innovation from attempts at censorship by anti-hacking laws such as CFAA, DMCA
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4y ago
Another disturbing issue is the 'laundering' of DMCA analogues into other countries through trade-deals and other extra-political processes, with the general apathy and sweeping under the rug that precedes these changes. While not
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4y ago
The lack of per-application isolation with desktops is one of those ugly truths people try and sweep under the rug. I foresee two potential solutions to this. 1) Run everything in a VM like Qubes (essentially nerfs certain application like
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4y ago
Anyone care to comment how hard it would have been for a third-party to reverse engineer the 10NES chip at the time rather then perform the 'easy' way and obtain the source code under questionable circumstances from the copyright
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4y ago
Anyone have an archive of the incident notice?
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Unmasking China’s State Hackers
(zetter.substack.com)
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5y ago
Was it suicide or?
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5y ago
> Nintendo threatening modders legally is literal child's play compared to the literal mob tactics MS and Activision used against what they perceived as financial or PR threats. I am sure you are aware of what Sony did around 10 yea
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5y ago
Within reason I do believe some things. But given the state of the world and the people in it I respect your view on this.
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5y ago
Million dollar question. Anyone know about the inner workings of the various Switch modchips that allow homebrew on newer consoles with RCM exploit patched?
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5y ago
> allowing a small, incredibly talented, incredibly missed individuals to reverse the firmware/NAND challenges and correctly respond to the challenge. Let my guess. Related to the various 'stealth' servers that exist for X
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5y ago
Makes me wonder how thin the lines are for the youtube-dl and yt-dlp projects at this point. (The former fell victim to a DMCA takedown from RIAA asserting it was a 'circumvention' tool to download publicly accessible content that
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5y ago
LP is exactly what I was referring to by my previous comment.
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5y ago
Not an attorney, but I suspect two mistakes the YouTube Vanced team did with the project is having "YouTube" in the name (Could be considered as a false association and trademark violation by Google or YouTube), and redistributing
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5y ago
I would assume that relates to lack of substantial case law or precedents outside of US&EU.
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5y ago
The kinds of assignments involved with GPZ also shy away from server-side applications ran by other companies. Maybe doing approved bug-bounty research in a competitors webapp is a safer proposition.
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5y ago
> And is a Wordpress-hosted blog truly anonymous? Would not be surprised if someone figured out how to register a free Wordpress account to the point where any disclosed information is a dead-end trail to any corporate investigators. Tak
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5y ago
Unfortunately I just checked with the new onion service and it appears nothing else has changed in that regard.
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5y ago
> The interesting thing about this is that YouTube is clearly trying to make it more difficult for non-official clients to stream video, as is evident from the required workaround described here: Can not reply with the entire situation b
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5y ago
Thanks for answering my next question, how much world of hurt would be involved with this solution in terms of breaking userspace. Kind of insane how Linux kernel developers didn't test and resolve this in a similar manner before this
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5y ago
While I am no advocate with regards to for-profit piracy, can we get to prosecuting other serious criminals with comparable sentences? (i.e Capitol rioters, price gouging of certain essential supplies during this pandemic, etc)
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5y ago
Care to describe your favorite subreddit before it rose in popularity? For those who were not involved before this all happened.
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5y ago
> Nvidia's TOS forbids doing that or publishing any software that does that for others. IANAL, but just because TOS claims something doesn't mean it is enforcable in all jurisdictions, and could potentially fall against certain
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5y ago
IANAL, but in the act of distributing the emulator not including any decryption keys and/or otherwise copyrighted content by the console vendor gives a valid defense against copyright infringement
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5y ago
> DMCA can not superseded the 1st amendment, sorry You may think that but unfortunately in several cases either the plaintiff attempts to scare off the defendant(s) with the prospect of a court case, offering a blanket settlement to disc
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