buran77

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by buran77 6d ago
> Piracy is not theft. It is an infringement on another's right to distribute intellectual property. That wasn't the direction I was going towards. Sony treats digital copies as if only one can have the ownership rights attache
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by buran77 6d ago
> "Were that the case, then Plaintiff Edward Heycock would not have been able to obtain the game Resident Evil Requiem on February 25, 2026 for $69.99 from the PlayStation Store after Plaintiff Jason Mendoza had obtained Resident Ev
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by buran77 7d ago
> Realistically no And you had that one example to prove it. That settles it. I know you want to make your point but stacking up fallacies (same in your "Timmy" comment) isn't helping [1]. Most humans grow up having person
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by buran77 8d ago
Mistral is doing one more thing: building up local know-how in the European ecosystem. This is worth more than money, you can't bootstrap an industry overnight.
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by buran77 8d ago
The Plex rug-pull is just around the corner. I've been running Jellyfin pointed at the same content as Plex for some time now. I still find some rough edges on Jellyfin but they smooth out a few more with each release so I'm confi
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by buran77 8d ago
Moats are obstacles against something you're trying to avoid. It can be competitors coming in, or customers going out. A moat could surround a prison to keep prisoners in. Some companies just choose to treat their customers as prisoner
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by buran77 11d ago
> I pass three speed bumps on my street. I'm driving at low speed [...] I don't even brake before them That's a lot of "I"s for something so many other drivers in the world have to drive across, in many, many dif
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by buran77 13d ago
The elegant way to implement such a speed limit is to have the driver do a "slalom" between things like trees or parking spots set alternatively between the two sides of the street, or green islands in the middle of the street. It
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by buran77 13d ago
I'm surprised the limit was so high on those narrow, low visibility streets to begin with. In many EU countries the limit is 30km/h even on streets that are double the size, if they're in residential neighborhoods to increase
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by buran77 13d ago
Was it a full moon or what's with the dick attitude? It's a few sentences that basically say "you can't have all the hobbies, some people choose something else, everyone pays with whatever they can afford". What&#x2
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by buran77 13d ago
> It's odd that you've gone off on this "Gone off on this"? Wait till you see me go off on people with a lack of reading comprehension, a pathological persecution complex, and a giant chip on their shoulder. Anyway, i
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by buran77 14d ago
> I would call it more of a set of tradeoffs This is mostly wording. It is a commitment, it has an opportunity cost, there are tradeoffs. > This is the refreshening opportunity for us non-admins, and a learning opportunity to automate
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by buran77 14d ago
> The ICC has tools for countering this kind of thing though. That's irrelevant and unrealistic in this case. None of this factored into the US reaching for the sanctions hammer with more and more despicable intentions, like support
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by buran77 14d ago
> The Italian bank says A/I’s account showed no previous anti-money-laundering concerns—but fears U.S. secondary sanctions could endanger services for 130,000 customers and members. > Banca Etica strongly condemns the use of coun
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by buran77 15d ago
It's not really that "absolute". Laws are not all made the same. Some start as a reflection of what society considers "right" at the time. Then the laws fall behind as society's morality reaches a tipping point
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by buran77 16d ago
Now you're trying to weasel out of this (whstl out?). I was trying to be diplomatic and use "good/bad" as shorthand for "should be part of a well engineered (not over/under) product or not". You don't
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by buran77 16d ago
I don't think IT has the same marketing requirements or stringent name vetting policies found for example in pharma, or car industry (Mitsubishi Pajero vs. Montero in Spain comes to mind [0]). After a quick internet search looks like &
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by buran77 16d ago
> As an engineer (the traditional kind) Isn't everybody? Your whole case rests on the insistence that OP's core requirement is no good. Not for any objective engineering reasons, just because you think so. I have a simple quest
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by buran77 16d ago
Don't overthink it. If you judge the engineering then you look at how the implementation reflects the requirements, not whether the requirements are good. Over-engineered simply means there is much more in that implementation than the
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by buran77 16d ago
Just to be clear, that wasn't a judgment value either way from my side. This being said I would expect they contribute a lot for ffmpeg, which was mentioned explicitly, since this is such a critical building block for them.
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by buran77 16d ago
> Just last weekend I used it to do PDF editing which previously would have required me to download really shady software online to do. Last (only) time I used AI for this it helpfully made additional unwanted changes to the document. I
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by buran77 16d ago
Yes, Amazon and other retailers will have one laptop with OS, one laptop without. They need to track two different SKUs even if the conversion is easy. When upgradeable, SSD or RAM are also easily "convertible" but the SKU still n
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by buran77 19d ago
Even without Microsoft's interference, it would still complicate logistics. Two OS options means double the number of SKUs. Some manufacturers offer this option but I wouldn't hold my breath that retailers want to bother.
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by buran77 19d ago
The point isn't how much Google spends on stuff in general, it's their wallet. What's important is how much they contribute back to the development of the tools they actively use to fill that wallet.
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by buran77 22d ago
> Businesses raise prices to account for interchange fees Agreed, which makes the picture even worse for those low income people. Even poor people are guaranteed to occasionally pay the "rich person tax" included in the prices
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by buran77 22d ago
What does that graph tell you? Because I think patio11 wanted to send one message and people accidentally misunderstand the graph. That's the interchange income corresponding to wealthy people. Interchange is paid by the card-accepti
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by buran77 23d ago
> something that happened over 6 months after iron curtain fell That's how you think it went, huh? Six months and every country and person got over the decades of communism like they never existed? Six month was just enough for the
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by buran77 24d ago
At that age a lot of people literally don't have the intellectual capacity to deal with this. Their brain is biologically atrophied due to illness, not exercising it anymore, not seeing or hearing well anymore (this has a huge impact
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by buran77 24d ago
> and they mostly didn't do any serious effort to use that. Those countries who were fresh from behind the iron curtain were really dealt a bad hand. They had lived in a "protective bubble", albeit a very unsustainable one
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by buran77 24d ago
> It’s not that difficult to be honest. Sounds easy if all you have to do is write a short comment about it. People who actually did it, like the recently retired lead of the Jellyfin project, didn't make it sound like it's &qu

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