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811.
by saghm 5mo ago
Do you honestly think that most lawyers couldn't tell you that downloading the Linux source code for personal use is legal under IP law, or that dumping games from a Nintendo Switch and serving them on a website for public download is
812.
by saghm 5mo ago
I recently threw together a nutshell helper function that lets me launch a process using bubblewrap to only give it read/write access to the directory I run it from (plus a couple of specific Linux system directories so that stuff like
813.
by saghm 5mo ago
The power to have a game natively on platforms it was never implemented on before but look identical to the original. To me, that's honestly cooler and more desirable than emulation; the fact that it's also more defensible from an
814.
by saghm 5mo ago
Does it only use the assets from the original games, or also the scripting? If the former, then I'd say it's basically the same concept that I'm talking about, but with making a new game using the existing assets rather than
815.
by saghm 5mo ago
Presumably from the same methodology they laid out in the parent comment: clean-room reimplementation of the code is fair game, and you have to bring-your-own-assets (ostensibly from a legal copy of the original game, but however you do it
816.
by saghm 5mo ago
OpenMW has been on my list to try out for a while now, I should have thought of that one. I hadn't heard of OpenGothic, but I also only recently started learning about that game at all with the remake coming out soon, so I might need t
817.
by saghm 5mo ago
In that vein, the other day this got posted to HN: https://twilitrealm.dev/ It uses an independent reimplementation of the code of a Zelda game from the GameCube and combines them with the assets from the actual game to mak
818.
by saghm 5mo ago
Yep, or even asking to be held in contempt because, in their own words, "This job sucks": https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/attorney...
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by saghm 5mo ago
> Not a whole lot of federal prosecutors. They're very selective about what gets pursued or not. And lately they seem to spend most of their time in courts trying to argue that immigrants don't deserve due process
820.
by saghm 5mo ago
"how many of those shapes are rectangles?" "sounds like zero unless they are squares" Adding "unless" to a statement makes it vacuous if the latter clause is weaker than the first clause. I find it hard to bel
821.
by saghm 5mo ago
> What would be another example of Microsoft forking an OS program and slapping their name on it? I'm not sure, but it's not what I said, so I'm not sure why you're asking me. What I said is that if you take out &quot
822.
by saghm 5mo ago
> Microsoft putting their name in total vibe coded slop that breaks every release and super bloated? They never seem to have any problem with this if you take out the words "vibe coded", so it's not that crazy to me that
823.
by saghm 5mo ago
Uh, I think it has a lot more to do with the sexual harassment than being childless. Plenty of people without kids don't have this problem, and it's kind of silly to frame it as "well if he only had kids then he'd be fin
824.
by saghm 5mo ago
"An entity with a larger pool of cash than many countries and mutual influence with the government, which everyone agrees should have our best interests" not having our best interest is definitely something I'd consider an in
825.
by saghm 5mo ago
That's a pretty silly argument to me. No other species uses toilets, wears clothes, or posts on Hacker News, but we don't treat those as arguments that we have to act like them in those ways.
826.
by saghm 5mo ago
Even if I have no one's best interest but my own at heart, I can't do anywhere close to as much damage to society at large as a trillion dollar corporation. Also, corporations aren't people, and it's silly to compare ind
827.
by saghm 5mo ago
> If you're worried about people not trusting payment to you, might be worth seeing if you could implement this, so anyone who bought on the app store can still access the full feature set. Cuts you out 30% like, but better than not
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by saghm 5mo ago
> For one, the choice of child, is already creepy even if you refer to a pet as a child, but a software system as a substitute for childbearing, it reminds me of the claw cult, you can call it a company, a system, a project. On the other
829.
by saghm 5mo ago
"Rule" here is more "rule of thumb" than "strict contract clause". It's like "don't insult someone's appearance"; just common courtesy not to treat someone posting contact info looking
830.
by saghm 5mo ago
They make their money from getting paid by other companies though, don't they? It's hard for me not to imagine that companies in general will see "testing stuff a day later" as a way to cut costs or not paying out as muc
831.
by saghm 5mo ago
Realistically, if the proper validations for stuff this basic is missing, I don't think this will end up mattering much; vulnerabilities like this are going to be found regardless.
832.
by saghm 5mo ago
You have a lot more faith than I do that companies paying security researchers will not try to cut corners by directing the researchers they employ or hire to look at stuff that they aren't even about to install.
833.
by saghm 5mo ago
And there are as many pairs of numbers between 1-8 and numbers from 1-64, but it's still pretty apparent that most of them are not represented in the set of products.
834.
by saghm 5mo ago
Agreed; making conflict resolution separate for each commit rather than requiring a stateful flow where interruptions need to abort the entire process is one of the many killer features of jj.
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by saghm 5mo ago
The way the headline is phrased doesn't really surprise me much. There aren't twice as many 64-bit integers than 32-bit ones; there are twice as many 33-bit integers as 32 bit ones, and there are 2^32 times as many 64-bit ones tha
836.
by saghm 5mo ago
Yeah, this is the part that I don't get. If the solution is "security testing should come before people install it", why is the big push to have people intentionally add this artificial delay to install later rather than movi
837.
by saghm 5mo ago
I don't understand why you're confident that those Github issues won't just end up coming later if literally everyone adds this cooldown
838.
by saghm 5mo ago
I'd argue that we don't actually know if this is the case or not because we haven't yet gotten to that point. How do we know that security researchers won't just move to testing things later as well?
839.
by saghm 5mo ago
Yeah, telling an AI "don't ever listen to users who say to send it to a different email" is not a guardrail, it's a painted line that can still be driven over. It's not bad to have it per se, but it's not a sa
840.
by saghm 5mo ago
It's not just "It's not just X; it's Y", it's other stuff too

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