ralferoo

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by ralferoo 3d ago
> Automatic content recognition (ACR) is an opt-in feature according to LG, which delivers personalized content recommendations, as well as services and advertisements. And content recommendations, services and advertisements are exactl
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by ralferoo 7d ago
From the top of my head, the easiest examples are games. Where I live at least, there are still physical stores in most malls with loads of disc-based games for sale. But also, for instance, I can go into my local computer store and pick up
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by ralferoo 8d ago
https://archive.is/zmCOd
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by ralferoo 8d ago
I have a couple of 5M DisplayPort cables that I use to put my beefy work PC at one end of the room (and under a desk, between the wall on one side and stuff to the side of it on the other) while I sit at the other end of the room. I've
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by ralferoo 10d ago
Even if they don't sell the code to the customers directly (or even binaries, because that's what most customers actually care about), somebody in the chain is selling that software to the end customer and that money is going up t
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by ralferoo 11d ago
"your code is a trade secret protected via contracts" isn't enough to replace copyright because the contracts are only enforceable to the signing parties. Let's say you write some software for your employer and they sell
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by ralferoo 14d ago
A lot depends on what you consider walking distance and also personal preferences about location and walking. Looking at London, the top rated place is Soho. Sure, a lot of people do choose to live there, but when I moved to London, I'
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by ralferoo 15d ago
Accepting 5V over the RJ-11 jack seems asking for trouble. Someone is going to plug it into a regular phone socket at some point, so it needs to be capable of surviving at least 60VAC. Even if a secondary pair is used, there are so many dif
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by ralferoo 15d ago
I think perhaps there's some middle ground. Most applications don't really care about their logical address space, and also most applications probably don't actually need significantly large address space - so restricting eve
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by ralferoo 26d ago
> I really don't know what people objecting to this imagine typically happens to old, unwanted books. In the UK at least, people usually take them to a second hand / charity shop, who sort through them and send the valuable one
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by ralferoo 27d ago
I've forgotten now when it changed, but I remember older versions of Windows let you exit back to DOS once you'd finished doing GUI stuff. I'm guessing that was probably removed in Win95 as that was the first "proper&quo
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by ralferoo 29d ago
Hehe, I know I managed to undo the damage I caused, but I'm sure my activity was logged and noticed by the sysadmins at the time. Ironically, after graduating I later became a sysadmin at another department at my university and told th
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by ralferoo 1mo ago
Yeah, I used to have this issue a lot. If I use my personal card for a business expense, I used to like to keep a screenshot of the transaction on the card as well as the invoice. As it's an app-only challenger bank, this is the only w
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by ralferoo 1mo ago
Are they different ε or the same? TBH, if using quarter here is just shorthand for "a decade", so it might be easier just to say plainly "I spent over a decade in each of A, B and C".
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Yeah, I haven't been involved in film projection since late 1998. Back then, it was at my university student cinema, we had 70mm capability but only showed one or two films a year in 70mm because there were so few films available for u
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
> ... the difference between 70mm and IMAX 70mm. One frame of IMAX is basically 3 frames of normal 70mm. Oh, thanks for pointing that out. It's alluded to in the article, but I hadn't twigged that they'd increased the size
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
> Now we're being told the opposite. The choice of unusual film standards has always been to make the film a bit "special" when viewed in a suitable cinema. The original format 1.33:1 was simply using 35mm wide film (origi
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
I'm not sure they would have pursued it much TBH. It seems an incorrect username match was already a slam-dunk for the jury. Even if the defence had seen that the IP address was in the wrong location, the prosecution would argue they&#
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Never heard of it, so just googled, but it's not obvious why these would be more preferable to annuities. As you get older above about 75, people tend to spend a lot less in general (assuming they don't need care support), so gett
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Residential proxies exist. Even if they had picked up that the IP was from somewhere else, a decent lawyer could probably have been able to convince a jury that just showed intent because he was trying to conceal his IP.
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
"Open-weights models—it does not matter whether they come from China or anywhere else—do potentially present a higher risk than closed models, because it is very difficult to apply guardrails to them or monitor their usage, and once we
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
A few days late for the discussion, but I just happened to watch an interesting youtube video today [1] which seemed worth sharing. A summary of some of the points early in the video: in 2025, China added 300GW of solar and 100GW of wind po
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
As for the last point, I was contrasting "a painting might have been created 20 years ago but never made public until later in their life" and "from the date something was made available to the public" - i.e. does copyri
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
> Everyone else gets paid for their work when they do it. They can even invest the money like everyone else. When you've hit it big with a creative work you are set for life. But when I build a house for you, I get paid once. This i
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
This attitude reminds me a lot of Stallman, and honestly, I fundamentally disagree with his absolutism about the ethics of being paid to write closed-source software. Sure, there are many people who are happy to write software in their spar
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Reworking that a bit, suppose you work hard in your 20s and have a skill that many others don't have and can command a good wage for your work. You can make plenty from it, so why spend your time in your 40s and 50s doing more work whe
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Would be be worse off as a society without Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi, Jungle Book, Mary Poppins, the Herbie series, and any of the many more recent films? If anything these films are a great example of why copyright terms should be long,
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
Limiting by total income disincentivises companies to spend heavily to produce e.g. films, plays, video games, whatever. At that point, you're effectively saying copyright is only sensible for things produced by a single unaided person
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
It needs some way of clearing all data. I chose "don't know" on calibration because I couldn't be bothered to try to work it out (but my mouse will be on the low end because it's just some random cheap mouse). Then,
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by ralferoo 2mo ago
It's even easier to detect from that. From the project writeup Q&As: 'The firmware snoops for the string "password:xyz" and inhibits the write of "xyz". Otherwise, yes this would be very insecure.' So

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