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by mod50ack 4d ago
I've gotten mmWave on Verizon in certain spots in Midtown Manhattan. But it doesn't really give me a lot of practical benefits over non-mmWave 5G. In general, putting aside the bandwidth/crowding concerns (which are real, of
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by mod50ack 27d ago
It's not surprising, though, since the ECJ held in the Infopaq case that copyright (under the EU Directives) can only exist for something which is the intellectual creation of an author.
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by mod50ack 5mo ago
Nope
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by mod50ack 5mo ago
You can always reboot to recovery and install an update that way.
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by mod50ack 8mo ago
They aren't the same thing. Under US law pre-1989, publication without notice would lead to a loss of copyright, but publication WITH a copyright notice, that is, publication of a copyrighted item, meant all rights were reserved (unles
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by mod50ack 9mo ago
There are different levels to these things. The number of SIM card slots or bands varying from model to model isn't that unusual. The average user just needs it to work. In fact, the SIM and band configuration differences have nothing
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by mod50ack 9mo ago
UTM already runs on iPad OS.
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by mod50ack 9mo ago
Any license that discriminates based on use case would not qualify as open source under the Open Source Initiative definition, nor as free software under the FSF definition. You also shouldn't expect for your project/code to be re
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by mod50ack 9mo ago
These things are essentially the opposite of one another. Bellard's project is a PC emulator in JavaScript. Compiling things to wasm is pretty trivial now, but jslinux was much more impressive when it came out. It actually still is, fo
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by mod50ack 9mo ago
Where did he say that?
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by mod50ack 10mo ago
My old school district moved from a localized URL of this kind to a .org a number of years ago (in the early 2010s). It seems to just have become the style, but I never really got it. I'm sure there was a significant cost to migrating
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by mod50ack 10mo ago
> arbitraires That's the key word.
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by mod50ack 10mo ago
The original intention was to allow for what is called a "line-item veto." Let's say you had a bill (and this is not uncommon) with a lot of basically unrelated provisions. It creates programs A, B and C. This would allow the
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by mod50ack 1y ago
This is really just a mistranslation. The author's native language seems to be Spanish. The Spanish word propósito can be translated as "purpose" or "intention." Here, it really means "intention."
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by mod50ack 1y ago
The Homebrew channel was never on the Wii Shop Channel. It was only installable by using a hack.
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by mod50ack 1y ago
OpenID certainly hasn't replaced email. Young people still all need email to sign up for ~anything online - not to mention things like job/school applications or plenty of other real-world things. What email has become is an ident
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by mod50ack 1y ago
Legally, it is enforceable. That's not the same as practically enforceable.
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by mod50ack 1y ago
The difference is legal, not technical. You don't have the right to redistribute copyrighted material with permission, except according to exceptions to copyright law (which are narrow enough to not apply here). Cisco gives permission
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by mod50ack 2y ago
Contracts in the US require consideration. A promise made in exchange for nothing is not a contract because there's no consideration.
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by mod50ack 2y ago
Caring too much about IQ is not exempt from Goodhart's law.
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by mod50ack 2y ago
As an aside — intelligence is not the same thing as accomplishment. A lot of people do well in school (and do well on IQ tests) and do not achieve anything of note. The people we remember are those who achieve great things, not those who do
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by mod50ack 2y ago
It wasn't until 2009 - which is also when my family got WiFi (and switched from dial-up) - that I got mine: a Nintendo DSi. Objectively, that browser was terrible, even at the time. But the ability to just read text on my own (and not
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by mod50ack 2y ago
One, ChatGPT isn't a "visualizer." Two, I have aphantasia and didn't picture anything. I got it the first time without any confusion. Are you seriously asking ChatGPT to read things for you? No wonder your reading compre
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by mod50ack 2y ago
Until the mid-2010s, most apps were unverified and people trusted the distribution channels where they got them from.
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by mod50ack 2y ago
That's not true anymore. You have to press the Firefox logo on the about screen a few times, which will make the menu option appear in settings to install an extension from the local filesystem
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by mod50ack 2y ago
LibreWolf is essentially a custom build of Firefox with stuff like this disabled or removed.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
Lineage is great. One thing I wish we had, though, is a repo (F-Droid?) where you could download individual Lineage apps for use on non-Lineage Android.
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by mod50ack 3y ago
> Sure, not at first. But how long has it been since most people interacted with a CD player now? Most teenagers haven't, ever. Yeah, but it's a lot harder to switch from a DRM-less digital download format to a DRMed one. Who i
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by mod50ack 3y ago
> There has been plenty of attempts at copy protection on CDs. Some more successful than others. Yes, but they're fundamentally incompatible with the CD standard. I'm not denying that digital downloads for music were the first
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by mod50ack 3y ago
The explanation is that CDs came along before DRM was a thing. The industry could not break compatibility with over a 15 years' worth of CD players, especially since people had them in their cars, etc. The home playing software always

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