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by zucker42 6y ago
Stuff like this is a natural consequence of Facebook cracking down on questionable content and acting as an arbiter of truth.
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Probably not, at the very least since Widevine is licensed by Google.
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The ambiguity here is why I said potentially. Does circumventing a technical measure mean to access the content without Widevine, or is using Widevine in an unintended way enough? However, the law quite clearly says that fair use doesn&#x27
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I've been thinking a lot about the issue of blockchain enery usage recently. And I wonder how much culpability people who simply own cryptocurrency have for the ecological impacts. The logic goes like this: because someone owns cryptoc
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> I thought when someone sends a DMCA request to you, the platform, that you are required to take the content down and wait for a counter notice from that contents author. This is almost correct. GitHub could refuse to take it down and i
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What is EC?
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> Title is very missleading, your web browser works and google does not block you, it's all about DRM. Google, Microsoft, and Apple effectively control access to DRM. They are acting as a cartel to prevent competitors. So, yeah perh
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Potentially, there's a 5 year jail sentence for doing that[1]. [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1204
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M1's success shows how efficient and advanced the TSMC 5 nm node is. Apple's ability to deliver it with decent software integration also deserves some credit. But I wouldn't interpret it as the death knell for x86.
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> This is probably what makes this complaint possible. What makes this complaint possible is that the MPA blatantly expands the scope of copyright, counting on their large legal budget and the skewed possible consequences to discourage p
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I'm curious if the author used incremental builds and what hardware exactly was used.
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The Supreme Court ruling you might be thinking prevents patents of the form "[unpatentable thing], but on a computer".
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> I am not a patent lawyer, I likely don't know what I'm talking about. I'm not so sure patent lawyers, and more importantly judges and jurors, know what they are talking about when it comes to technical details.
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One thing that needs to happen is clear opposition to the current patent system from technology companies and employees of those companies. Too many people and companies are willing attack "patent trolls" but still defend the pate
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Here are two articles about this: https://fee.org/articles/facebook-suspends-ron-paul-followin... https://reason.com/2021/01/11/ron-paul-says-hes-been-locked-...
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I find undesirable to buy a phone where a company can arbitrarily decide what I am and am not allowed to run on my device. Because economies of scale make things cheaper if many people want them and because I generally believe in fighting t
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This is really a key point. If the same thing that happened on Wednesday happened in Belarus, I'm sure a lot more people would be sympathetic toward it. Sometimes, as a last resort, violence is necessary to depose evil rulers. So the m
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Isn't fission already practical?
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Hell no we shouldn't kill people for this. I can hardly think of a more damaging and terrible way to combat these crazies.
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The problem is no other laptop manufacturer besides Apple has the capital and resources to build their own chip.
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Not useful for someone who wants a laptop within the next 10 years. Top of the line laptops are probably going to be last devices that adopt RISC-V even assuming it significantly gains market share from ARM and x86.
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What's wrong with their aesthetics? I've always found their simple design to be quite nice.
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I don't think the value proposition of Rust over C#, Java, and Go is that it eliminates more errors. I think the advantage is it eliminates the same number of errors and performs better/has less overhead. I agree with your post ge
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I thought the problem was there is simply a bug in the implementation because restrict isn't used frequently enough to have exposed the bug earlier.
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Of all the possible alternative measurement or incentive systems for scientific progress, I can hardly think of a more meaningless and damaging one than patents. There's a huge problem of companies submitting vague, overbroad, or super
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> I can't see why they would care about people modifying the games or equipment they own. Nintendo has previously sued a company for selling a device which allows people to mod the device they owned. https://en.m.wikiped
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> It's hard to argue with that logic, TBH. If you can't come up with an argument against that then you're not trying hard enough. The most obvious is that sharing a mod is free speech and ought to be protected as such. It&
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They are threatening to use their size and legal savvy to pressure a prosecutor to bring charges against him. At least that's how I interpret "mutually acceptable agreement with Neimod to discontinue hacking of Nintendo systems&#x
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What's the point of accumulating Bitcoin if not to spend it?
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If a company is investing in non-synergistic assets with excess cash, why not just instead convert that cash to shareholder profits?

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