echoangle

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by echoangle 3mo ago
I can’t hear this degrowth strawman anymore. There are probably 20 people complaining about people wanting degrowth for everyone who actually advocates for that. It’s not like every politician in Europe is advocating for that.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
No normal user wants that. You would still need some infrastructure to link users with IPs, and if you lose your device, all your chats are gone.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Technically true but practically you know what people mean when they say that, right? Do you think there’s a 3D artist out there that models and renders something in blender on a smartphone?
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Same. Peak hours are: Peak hours (in UTC): 1:00–4:00 AM and 6:00–10:00 AM.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
> but doing that doesn't guarantee shell scripts will work. How so? Can you give an example that should work according to the POSIX spec but doesn’t in a POSIX compliant shell? The example in the post is just some behavior the POSIX
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by echoangle 3mo ago
I don’t get this point either. If local is not in the POSIX spec, I guess you can’t use it if you want to be POSIX compatible. Just because many shells do it doesn’t mean it’s POSIX.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Pretty bad argument. If it’s not defined by POSIX, it’s not POSIX compatible if you rely on a specific behavior. If you only use defined behavior and it works, it is compatible. It’s like saying C99 isn’t a compiler. True, but you can still
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by echoangle 3mo ago
paragraph 2 I don’t really see why it’s hard to believe that the design of a website wouldn’t be protected. Obviously a digital painting is protected, so hand writing svg code to generate an image would also result in an image that’s protec
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Germany? The creative work is protected, and the design can be a creative work. How you implement it doesn’t really matter.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
It would be illegal for them to release the weights
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Probably not, but I never claimed that’s what happens. But for a regular person, it’s probably a high enough risk to stop doing the thing the government wants to disincentivize.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
> No one's gonna hack Enpass of all their passwords because that would require hacking all of Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, etc. and looking for the files manually. Or they compromise their self-update system if that exists.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
What’s the penalty if you get caught?
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Yeah, because the digits of pi aren’t random.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
I was thinking of this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 Of course you’ll always be able to get access but the risk can be made so high that most people won’t try it. There are countries that have
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Believe me, if the government wants to stop you from having access to something like that, they could do it. Just give people some incentive to report you and make really harsh punishments and everyone will be thinking really hard about how
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by echoangle 3mo ago
I think that’s dependent on jurisdiction. This comes up with fonts where what you said applies in the US but in Europe, the actual visual result of the software also counts and is protected (afaik).
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Copyright applies even without the contract.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
I think what you mean is that functional designs aren’t protected by copyright. Of course you could patent it. But in this case they almost exactly copied the graphic design and copied the text verbatim which would maybe infringe copyright.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
But this only explains why software used for work is like that. What about software people use privately and where they could chose a different one?
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by echoangle 3mo ago
That wasn’t what I meant. I am saying that the reason nobody offers better software is that people don’t want it enough. The average user is a little bit annoyed from time to time but not enough to actually care, so there’s no pressure to c
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Probably true, but maybe you should also ask them how much they would be willing to pay to fix that. I guess it would be less than $100 for the lifetime of their device.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Wow, I didn't know that Camcorders were that expensive at the time. That's $2k today according to https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm .
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Kind of hard to judge though, it’s not really objective how good a pelican looks.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
The illegal part would be reciting the stuff you memorized to other people. Copyright doesn’t prevent you from making a copy as long as you don’t distribute it afaik.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
By that logic, every security task is doomed to fail. Spam detection and antivirus are cat and mouse games too. I wouldn’t say they fail just because they have to adapt over time.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Oh my good I hate AI articles. Why do we have to make an interactive visualization for every single sentence? Thanks for showing me how distorted text is made in steps. And being a cat and mouse game doesn’t mean the defenders failed.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Probably depends on who made the mistake. If the design is faulty the designer, if the part itself is faulty factory, if the installation was wrong even though the instructions were reasonable, the person doing the installation.
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by echoangle 3mo ago
Interesting, that’s lower than I expected
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by echoangle 3mo ago
It does because for one you can go to court. If a company stops playing nice because they think you’re defrauding them if you tell them your package went missing during transit, company niceness doesn’t get you anything. (That’s a random ex

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