dizzy9

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by dizzy9 5mo ago
An utterly insane idea for a law. Age verification inherently means identity verification. There's no way to prove your age without first proving that you are YOU, either by showing your face or authenticating with some third party aut
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by dizzy9 6mo ago
Perhaps it can do 50Hz, which may be beneficial for emulating PAL systems.
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by dizzy9 6mo ago
> In crafting its policy, Estacada incorporated feedback from parents. That led to some key decisions around the cell phone ban. Rather than use pouches or lockers, students are allowed to keep their phones safely stored in their backpac
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by dizzy9 6mo ago
I remember in 2008, when Wizards of the Coast re-launched the official Dungeons & Dragons website to coincide with the announcement of the fourth edition rules. The site was something in the region of 4 MB, plus a 20 MB embedded video f
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by dizzy9 6mo ago
This may be a good alternative to the various web-based services, which suffer from various limitations (cost money, display ads, limited number of feeds, limited retention, annoying features you don't want, etc). The email-style user
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by dizzy9 6mo ago
Facial scan is also identity verification.
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by dizzy9 6mo ago
> presenting only ID to the cashier the same way as buying alcohol Selling alcohol to minors is illegal in the UK. Some do circumvent this by various means (e.g. fake ID or having an adult purchase on their behalf, both of which are also
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by dizzy9 6mo ago
Age verification inherently requires identity verification. The UK's Online Safety Act originally had a proposal that would allow users to purchase an ID code anonymously in cash from a corner store, presenting only ID to the cashier t
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by dizzy9 6mo ago
Some of us are old enough to remember when the RIAA sued children for downloading Metallica albums on filesharing networks. They sued for $100,000 per song, an absurd amount when you consider that even stealing a physical album would amount
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by dizzy9 7mo ago
Sadly, it's Mullvad VPN itself which may be banned in the UK. VPNs will require identify verification. Not a problem for companies which require credit cards for payment, but Mullvad famously allows anonymous cash payments through the
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by dizzy9 7mo ago
Yes, all the episodes have now been set to private, and The Gathering was re-uploaded. Not quite "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube" as reported. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaIZc2icdTU The full series
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by dizzy9 7mo ago
This was discussed when Ghidra was first open sourced. To the best of my knowledge, nobody's found an NSA backdoor in Ghidra.
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by dizzy9 7mo ago
Looks like AI slop and SEO junk. The Guide page you linked opens with an article on Dubai sports car rental. There are also .net and .org variants of the domain, which appear to be also AI-generated slop. There's no such program as Ghi
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by dizzy9 7mo ago
Excellent news. Babylon 5 is underappreciated, but it has mainly good episodes and several amazing ones.[0] However, if I can be cynical for a moment: The article title is misleading. Only a few episodes have been uploaded so far. At the cu
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by dizzy9 8mo ago
In the past, expensive contracts like this were handed out as rewards to Tory donors. Help fund the party's re-election, and your company will receive a cushy reward. See also the Cash-for-Honours scandal, where the Labour party were a
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by dizzy9 8mo ago
Another Deluxe Paint clone is PyDPainter. It's Python-based and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The UI is very much reminiscent of the original. https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter
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by dizzy9 8mo ago
Graham Scheper has a recent video on this topic. He also believes that "Hwaet" is not an interjection, but more like Red Riding Hood's "What big eyes you have!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gZKCP
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by dizzy9 8mo ago
I have seen at least one blog where the author updated his RSS feed manually, but it's one of the first pieces of busywork that you want to automate away, after applying the page template and entering <p> tags at every double-new
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by dizzy9 8mo ago
How the mighty have fallen. A search on YouTube now pulls in 2.14 MB of HTML alone.
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by dizzy9 8mo ago
That's what I first thought of too. The author picks CatchyOS as their first Linux distro, only to find it's more complicated to set up, and then the mouse buttons don't work. For the Linux newcomer, the biggest advantage of
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by dizzy9 8mo ago
Unfortunately, both "amiga" and "vamos" are common Spanish words, making it difficult to search. So far it runs command-line Amiga programs only, but there's an open merge request to add GUI support.
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by dizzy9 9mo ago
The Amiga has become a Ship of Theseus situation. After the 68000 CPU series was no longer developed, third-party expansion boards were developed to add a PowerPC CPU to existing Amigas. AmigaOS 4 was developed to run on PowerPC, and later
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by dizzy9 9mo ago
Perhaps someone in the know can answer this: How reliable is SQLite at retaining data integrity and avoiding data corruption, compared to say, flat text files?