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by waon 6y ago
> That’s not the point of defamation laws. So Japanese defamation laws were designed to facilitate criminals, is that what you're suggesting? There surely are many problems with the political and legal system in Japan, but I think i
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by waon 6y ago
The topic was about Japanese defamation laws. Outside Japan, privacy laws would cover these cases. Also note that facts that “harm someone's reputation” isn’t indicative of illegal or even immoral conduct. For example, having caught th
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by waon 6y ago
I think it’s more reflective of corporate lobbying.
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by waon 6y ago
This seems like FUD. How are the laws itself “excess and absurd” compared to rest of the democratic world? It’s also strange to assert Japan has “strong privacy laws” when the exact opposite is happening in this very article we’re discussin
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by waon 6y ago
> In this article the rights of a photographer was successfully defended The rights of the photographer was respected from the very beginning. The attribution was still there for anyone to see. The “problem” was that it wasn’t included i
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by waon 6y ago
Japan desperately needs a competent organization that can stand up for the digital rights of its people now. They lack organizations like the EFF that are willing to do this.
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by waon 6y ago
> (6) Your original message said that you believed they weren't using an a12z for the demo I never claimed this > (7) The comment below yours suggest that "One can certainly write software that virtualizes another machine&qu
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by waon 6y ago
If you really want a formal definition, you could read this: https://profsandhu.com/cs6393_s14/popek-goldberg-1974.pdf Though some details may arguably be outdated, the general concept applies.
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by waon 6y ago
That's hardly the point. Many virtualization systems do indeed use QEMU for device emulation, but they don't use it to emulate the entire CPU functionality itself. A key point about virtualization is that most code run native whil
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by waon 6y ago
From the Xen paper: > VMware [10] and Connectix [8] both virtualize commodity PC hardware, allowing multiple operating systems to run on a single host. All of these examples implement a full virtualization of (at least a subset of) the u
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by waon 6y ago
> Visit Wikipedia, in the search field type "virtual machine" but do not hit enter or search. Wikipedia is useful tool, but it's wrong to rely on it for preciseness or the as absolute source of truth, especially on highly
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by waon 6y ago
If you look at the original post, it says "virtualization" in big bold letters. The precise definition of the term "VM" may perhaps be debatable, but I don't think it's fair to market your system as supporting
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by waon 6y ago
You may be confusing the concept of hardware-assisted virtualization with full virtualization. Moreover, the famous Xen paper you've linked to never claimed that x86 didn't support full-virtualization because it did thanks to VMWa
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by waon 6y ago
I'm confused, are you sure you've responded to the right comment? No one is talking about paravirtualization in this thread. As I take it, the parent comment was suggesting that Apple was faking virtualization with some kind of so
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by waon 6y ago
Not sure what you mean by "software VMs," but if you mean CPU emulators, they're fundamentally different from VMs. Emulation is not "virtualization."
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by waon 6y ago
I looked into GNOME's gitlab discussions linked here and in the article, and I was appalled at GNOME maintainers' behavior on each and every one of them. Whenever app developers raise concerns that they don't have the adequat
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by waon 6y ago
Mozilla's arewefastyet.com used to show daily benchmark results for all major browser engines. Sadly, it ceased to include Safari after they scrapped the system in favor of a new one. https://github.com/mozilla/are
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by waon 6y ago
> I did not [demand] that anyone do anything. But you repeatedly criticized him for voicing his objections to being de-anonymized. When asked how he could’ve done so differently, you said that he should’ve wrote about how terrible his bl
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by waon 6y ago
> I would have said, "I am archiving the blog until further notice because I need to think about what kind of content should be made publicly available because words have power and it's important to think about what information
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by waon 6y ago
What you argue for matters as much as how you do it. I don't see anything wrong with criticizing people who advocate for racism. Peaceful marches for racism doesn't make racism just, you know.
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by waon 6y ago
> He pointed to several channels including a twitter account, phone number and email. Are all of these channels equally appropriate ways to pursue civil discourse with the appropriate parties? Um, yes? How does using any of these methods
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by waon 6y ago
> Suppose I have a big following. Suppose I know that some of those followers are prone to exaggerating some things that I "suggest". If you know those two facts, would you have written the same letter? By your standards, any f
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by waon 6y ago
He was pointing to the appropriate channel for reporting such an issue. How else do you think people can signal objections? At least not by writing in their own diaries for sure.
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by waon 6y ago
Scott encouraged people to raise objections in a civil way , and he really stressed that point. And yet both you and the article somehow accuse him of orchestrating a harassment campaign despite evidence to the contrary. Honest question, w
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by waon 6y ago
That wouldn't solve the root of the problem, though. The real solution would be to use other distros. Besides, there are quality concerns with browser forks maintained by an understaffed project. The fact that ungoogled-chromium asks f
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by waon 6y ago
I was under the impression that the said system works more like a compiler than a interpreter.
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by waon 6y ago
Even if you ignore the problem of self-modifying code, a completely static translation of x86 binaries is impossible. Things get hard real quick when indirect branches are involved, so you have to rely on a runtime solution when ahead of ti
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A Proposal to Switch Fedora 33 on the Desktop to Using Btrfs(phoronix.com)
8 points by waon 6y ago|1 comments
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by waon 6y ago
Taking an "I was just following orders" sort of stance doesn't really mean you're apolitical, and this is the point. It doesn't really matter that you have a "neutral" stance against, say, producing spywar
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by waon 6y ago
Actually, he did have a choice. He decided to sacrifice an objectively better living to alert the public of what was happening in their names without their consent. He also decided not to go home because he believes it is best for his count

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