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Buelldozer

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The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

  • I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

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  • I spent an hour this afternoon reviewing the article and then Reticulum and while I really like the idea it's just not going to replace Meshtastic or Meshcore without some serious tweaking. It needs to support both of those environments as interfaces or its not going to go anywhere.

  • Corporations Can Vote in Some Delaware Elections, Judge Says

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  • LLCs are pass-through entities and not corporations. Thankfully no pass-throughs have been granted personhood yet.

    Limited Liability Companies are expressly discussed in the article and the court filing.

  • Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad

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  • I think I read that licensing for the transcoding or something was the hang up.

    There's several problems. Transcoding is one but there's also issues with content providers requiring the use of their own apps along with Linux not (until very recently) being able to use any HDMI spec beyond 2.0.

    I've been a ROKU user for over a decade but the last year has had me thinking more and more about boxing up my devices and sending them to their HQ with a note "Since you treat these like you own them I figured I'd just send them to you."

    I am really REALLY tired of them dicking with my boxes and updating / reconfiguring things however and whenever they see fit.

  • Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled de

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  • It wasn't widely known to the general public. If you were / are new to the community it's highly likely that you don't / didn't know.

  • Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled de

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  • As someone with a BL P2S I really appreciate other people helping with this fight. I won't buy another BL product but I'd like to keep using the one I already have.

  • France has ditched Windows 11 for Linux on 2.5 million government PCs

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  • The current cost for what they’re calling “windows 365” is $99/yr per user.

    Windows 365 Enterprise basic starts $31 per user per month and goes up from there.

    I suspect you are confusing Windows 365 with Microsoft 365. The former includes a virtual (Cloud) PC and licensing for Windows and Office, the latter only provides Office licensing. Additionally the price point you quoted makes me think you are looking at Personal / Home pricing because Commercial & Government Office 365 pricing is calculated per user / per month and will vary wildly in price from $10 pu/pm to $50+ pu/pm.

  • Modeled and printed in copper filled filament one of my favorite buildings in Chicago. The Union Power House.

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  • Me neither!

  • Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names

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  • First the US isn't mentioned in this article. Second this is NOTHING like Minority Report. Your comment is dumber than a bucket of hair.

  • Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

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  • It's not enabled by default.

  • Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague usage policy violation

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  • Since we’re whipping out credentials, I’ve been in IT almost 30 years and I can tell you it’s not going to work like that.

    I'm not the person you were replying to but I've also been in tech since 1996 and lots of things have worked just like that. All successful technology starts off barely functional and improves over time until nearly all members of it's intended audience can successfully use it.

    As an example in 1996 setting up a router was a specialty task that required training, by 2016 any moron could buy one off the shelf and have it running in an hour. As another example basic HTML was a specialty skill in 1996 but by 2003 you could do it with Microsoft Word. Smartphones are another example, they went from barely functional Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices which required ridiculous amounts of back end skill to deliver email to iPhones and Androids that any numskull can use for nearly anything at all.

    My point is this; too many people are stuck on the "What use is a newborn baby?" question without realizing that the infant is growing-up at blinding speed. It's also the first technology to carry the promise, real or not, of self-improvement when it reaches sufficient maturity. Assuming that happens all further improvement will be increasingly automatic and happen even faster.

    AI isn't going away and it's only going to get better as time goes on.

  • The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing

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  • Engineer open-sources DIY radar system that's 95% cheaper than $250,000 commercial offerings, has 20 kilometer range — Moroccan engineer designs Aeris-10 radar, shares it on GitHub

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  • Not even close, both of these projects are wildly deficient for that kind of use and the effort required to solve those deficiencies would at least 10x if not 20x the cost.

    That doesn't mean they are useless, I can definitely see some eyebrow raising asymmetric possibilities.

    If you're seriously interested in this DIY Radar System I strongly suggest you grab a full copy from Github and put it on local storage as I doubt it's going to remain up for long.

  • The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing

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  • Two States, California and Washington, are not "The US" any more than France and Germany are the European Union. They are important no doubt but they do not themselves represent the entire entity.

  • EFF is Leaving X | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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  • And what is the actual work requirement to copy-paste you post to your twitter?

    Zero, there's plenty of software out that there allows you to write once and post everywhere. This isn't about declining engagement either since they are still reaching literally MILLIONS of people every year.

    This decision was reached because of Xitters owner, no other reason makes sense.

  • ONLYOFFICE flags license violations in “Euro-Office” project

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  • The whole thing doesn’t seem to add up.

    Likely because we don't know what the agreement is between OO and NC. They obviously have one because they've been partners for nearly a decade.

  • ONLYOFFICE flags license violations in “Euro-Office” project

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  • and clearly in violation of the idea of the AGPL

    Dunno how that could be since the idea of requiring attribution is specifically called out in Section 7, item B.

    I guess this is something courts will have to settle.

    Almost certainly true.

  • ONLYOFFICE flags license violations in “Euro-Office” project

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  • How can you retain the original logo if you don’t have the right to use their trademarks?

    I'm confused by that as well.

    This feels like a sleazy attempt to find a loop hole in the AGPL language to restrict commercial use.

    That cannot be the case; OnlyOffice has been working with Nextcloud for years to provide interoperability.

    If Only Office doesn’t want people to do this, they could have very easily just chosen a different license from the beginning.

    I don't believe that "restricting commercial use" is the problem. In this article OnlyOffice has apparently been having problems with Nextcloud pushing past their licensing boundaries and even soliciting OnlyOffice's customers directly.

  • Optical illusion

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  • Yeah, I totally use my training hammer to be prepared to use my real hammer when the time is right. I also have a set of training screw drivers to be prepared when I need to take my computer apart for cleaning. And to be proficient with the air canister I have a training canister.

    I have hammers for driving nails, 12 shaped hammers for doing body work, rubber hammers (mallets) for banging on softer materials, and 4 different sledge hammers weighing between 3lbs and 50lbs. I also have screw drivers in sizes from itty bitty eyeglass / watch to computer to jumbo. I also have air canisters, a 3 gallon pancake air compressor, and 50 gallon shop sized air compressor. You use the correct tool in the correct way to accomplish the job. Your attempt at making a false equivalence is rejected.

    Your individual experience may be sensible for your specific scenario, but it’s not sensible for the vast majority of gun owners.

    So in the first half of that sentence you admit your own argument is false, or at least not universally true. It IS sensible for at least some gun owners to have different firearms for different purposes. As for the 2nd half you do realize that there are between 15 and 16 million hunters in the United States, right? This is not a small number of people.

    It might be sensible for a BSDM practitioner to build a sex dungeon, it doesn’t mean a sex dungeon is sensible for everyone having sex.

    Okay first off, false equivalence again and second...what's wrong with sex dungeon? They're pretty easy to build if you have the right tools. :)

    Edit: In case it's not clear I'm approaching this as a semi-friendly conversation.

  • Optical illusion

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  • Close, but the best estimates are there are 470 million guns in US civilian hands.

    That's the the lower boundary. The real number is probably closer to a billion.

    You have to remember that untold millions of firearms were sold before anyone really started keeping track, no federal authority was keeping track before 1968ish, and that firearms will easily last a century if they are not fired too often and given even a minimum amount of care.

    I myself inherited several pre-'68 firearms that would never have been counted. My 90 year old father in law has a dozen or more that he inherited or bought (western ranching family) that are still functional despite being manufactured over a century ago!

    To put a fine point on the issue; into the 1970's you could buy firearms off the shelf at hardware stores or even CoD via mail order. 470 million is a low number.