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by sjy 6y ago
The Betamax case predates the DMCA, which created the “anti-circumvention” laws the RIAA is relying on here. It was also a 5:4 decision that depended on “a significant likelihood that substantial numbers of copyright holders who license the
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by sjy 6y ago
> Restricting movement in Europe between countries is more comparable to restricting movement within a country. Which is another significant policy that was implemented in Australia, both this year and during the Spanish flu pandemic. h
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by sjy 6y ago
The population of South America is more than 15 times larger.
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by sjy 6y ago
The “Feynman technique” is all about writing your own notes, reviewing them to identify gaps in your knowledge, and organising them. That is basically how you are supposed to use spaced repetition software. In this context, Feynman’s critic
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by sjy 6y ago
I baulked at the $25 price as much as anyone else would, so I used the free desktop app, and web app which works on mobile (ankiweb.net), for a month. After that, I was happy to pay $25 to support the developer and get the ability to edit c
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by sjy 6y ago
I have no formal training in history, but Anki has got me much more interested in it. Before Anki, I tended to collapse centuries of history into ‘the distant past,’ which made it hard to appreciate how events related to each other, or dist
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by sjy 6y ago
I put all kinds of things in my Anki deck, mostly unrelated to software development, but I have created cards for things like the definitions of CRDT, ACID and monad, what link-local IPv6 addresses look like, and some useful flags in grep a
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by sjy 6y ago
I don’t think any of that is possible with the JavaScript APIs exposed (if any) by common PDF readers. I’ve tried to do useful things with JavaScript in a PDF and failed utterly. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3259
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by sjy 6y ago
Analogous to the ‘serverless’ platforms, there are many companies selling shared PHP hosting, so you can just upload your code and expect it to work without worrying about security updates, service management, configuring TLS, etc.
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by sjy 6y ago
A similar process exists in Australia. It is a bit strange that the burden is on the recipient to object to an unlawful subpoena. I understand that it’s pretty common for vexatious litigants to issue subpoenas requiring politicians, governo
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by sjy 6y ago
The issues can’t be ‘fixed’ in the Wayland protocol, but have been addressed by individual compositors and libraries like wlroots. The difficulty is not in building a decent Wayland desktop from scratch (GNOME, Sway and ChromeOS have all do
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by sjy 6y ago
The GNOME Settings app allows you to assign global hotkeys under Wayland using the normal GUI [1]. Not sure about configuring those hotkeys in a config file like i3/sway, I assume it’s some dconf thing. [1] https://help.gnom
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by sjy 6y ago
I tried a bunch of tiling window managers over the last two years, and found that the choice of X11 or Wayland does not make much of a difference with regard to the “second class citizen” effect you described. What finally solved it for me
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by sjy 6y ago
It is based on the weaker premise that youtube-dl is “primarily designed or produced“ or “marketed” for the purpose of circumventing copyright protection.
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by sjy 6y ago
> Are only gui based webbrowsers with large market share the only legal way to access multimedia content? I believe they are the only supported way to access content on YouTube. As for whether the unofficial ways to access YouTube are
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by sjy 6y ago
I recommend Steffen et al, Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene (2018) [1]. You can’t read the whole thing in 5 minutes, but you can read the three figures and their captions, which say a lot, and it’s open access, peer re
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by sjy 6y ago
> what is the die that is being rolled in these election statistics? A program which randomly generates outcomes for each state, based on probability distributions inferred from the polls, and calculates who wins the election given those
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by sjy 6y ago
It’s odd that this question which specifically refers to “legal obligations” appears on skeptics.stackexchange.com and not law.stackexchange.com. But the accepted answer hints at the true position when quoting another source that says “the
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by sjy 6y ago
“I want to make it clear that this Uighur genocide is not just [about] religion ... it’s a test for humanity, for the whole world.”
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by sjy 6y ago
The RIAA says the technological measure at issue is YouTube’s “rolling cipher,” which is more than the conspicuous lack of a download button.
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by sjy 6y ago
In that analogy, the RIAA is saying “hunting knives are illegal, because they’re primarily designed or marketed for hunting, which is illegal” and you are saying “that’s unfair because I use my hunting knife to cut pizza.” The analogy break
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by sjy 6y ago
You seem to be reading “the purpose of this source code is to circumvent technological protection measures” as though it means “this source code can be used to circumvent technological protection measures.” There is a difference.
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by sjy 6y ago
> Meh, we're only going to throw anecdotes back and forth. That’s a big problem with this whole debate. I think we’d be better off without copyright and that creators would find new, better ways to make a living. But it’s pretty dif
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by sjy 6y ago
You could make the argument that the technological measures are not effective (the RIAA says this was rejected by a court in Hamburg), but not in that extreme form. If the existence of a working circumvention tool implied that the technical
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by sjy 6y ago
There may be significant differences between US and EU copyright laws, but the anti-circumvention laws in question here are pretty consistent, as they implement the WIPO Copyright Treaty ratified by both the US and the EU: https:/&#x2
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by sjy 6y ago
(A) seems applicable to me. It is obvious that the primary purpose of youtube-dl is to download videos from YouTube. It is also obvious that most videos on YouTube are copyrighted, and the absence of a ‘download’ button protects the copyrig
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by sjy 6y ago
Are they lying when they say ‘YouTube’s “rolling cipher” is an effective technical measure within the meaning of EU and German law, which is materially identical to Title 17 U.S.C. §1201 of the United States Code’? That seems quite plausibl
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by sjy 6y ago
The issue here isn’t that youtube-dl infringes copyright, it’s that (according to the RIAA claim) its purpose is to “circumvent the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services.” Even if youtube-dl was tested excl
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by sjy 6y ago
youtube-dl needs to be regularly updated as streaming sites add new countermeasures to block it. If those updates can no longer be crowdsourced from a popular, reputable site like GitHub, the tool has a good chance of dying.
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by sjy 6y ago
The logic behind the DMCA complaint is that youtube-dl is “marketed … for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a [copyrighted] work” [1], not that it “allows you to download potentially copyrighte

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