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fonix232

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  • Gun Nuts

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  • To date I still find it incredibly weird how the US normalised bloodlust and murderous intent to the point where a considerable chunk of the country considers it their patriotic duty to protect their rights to keep weapons primarily intended for killing while presenting obvious signs of mental instability - as depicted.

  • US demands access to tourists' social media histories

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  • Turns out the guns were never about defending themselves against an authoritarian government.

  • How will Australia's ban on youth access to social media affect instances hosted in Australia?

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  • My point is that the threat of legal action was enough that major sites decided not to risk it, and blocked Europe et al.

    4chan is hardly a financial/corporate entity (though they do seem to profit off traffic with ads), therefore much harder to go against, but blocking the service is still effective. It will be up to 4chan to see if they want to comply with the law and get unblocked or if they can live without Australian traffic.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • DisplayPort to HDMI doesn't need an adapter since DP has an alt signal mode with HDMI support.

    Although I'm not sure 2.1 signalling is available yet or not.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • Because that would open source certain implementations they want to hold captive.

    It also enforces closed source drivers which can be shipped with spyware/crapware, further extending profits for companies... companies that happen to make up the HDMI Forum.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • That is where port markings come into play...

  • How will Australia's ban on youth access to social media affect instances hosted in Australia?

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  • They didn't want to lose custom in Europe.

    Yeah sure that's why major news sites "complied" with GDPR by blocking European visitors...

  • How will Australia's ban on youth access to social media affect instances hosted in Australia?

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  • Not when the specific IP addresses of services are blocked on IPS level - which would be mandated by the state.

    VPN/Tor, sure, but at that point the service itself can't confirm where the visitor is from, therefore Australian laws wouldn't apply.

  • Venturing into the world of black teas, I finally decided to try Earl Grey

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  • Sorry but you're objectively wrong.

  • How will Australia's ban on youth access to social media affect instances hosted in Australia?

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  • National level site blocking, suspension on any future operations, international courts... Corporations are much easier to persecute over borders than private persons.

    Why do you think American companies, even ones with no legal presence in Europe, still went along with GDPR? Same principle applies here.

  • Venturing into the world of black teas, I finally decided to try Earl Grey

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  • You need proper tea, not that bagged shite.

    A good quality Ceylon black with just the right amount of bergamot? With a splash of milk? That's the best fukken tea you can have. Period.

  • How will Australia's ban on youth access to social media affect instances hosted in Australia?

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  • IIRC moving the instance won't be helpful - the issue is the servicing of minors, not where the service is. And while the server being in a different country might be a bit of a roadblock for legalities, the general consensus is, like with GDPR - if you make your service available in Australia you must comply with Australian laws, therefore need to make your instance unavailable to children.

  • Kushner role in bid for Warner Bros raises ethical questions, experts say

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  • We need more Luigis.

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  • Even if the scale was aligned with absolute zero - like Kelvin - it would not be able to describe temperature changes in the multiples primarily because our FEEL of temperature is what matters here. And since humans live in the approx. temperature ranges of -40 to 80 (using an extended range to cover cases like the Arctic/Antarctic stations, or saunas), the best scale to use would be a Celsius scale shifted somewhat to make 0deg the most optimal neutral temperature - which is, in my opinion, 16 degrees Celsius.

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  • You'd think so, but without specifying the scale... it could be anything. ANYTHING!

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  • On which scale? Because that kinda matters.

    Celsius? Kinda hot but not necessarily deadly.

    Kelvin? You've turned your city into an air fryer.

  • stages of winter

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  • I prefer winter too. See, in the summer, it's too hot, and there's only so many layers you can remove before you get the police called on you.

    But in the winter? No matter how cold, you can always just add extra layers!

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  • Plagiarism should only ever be counted for explicitly unique sentences that provide actual value.

    It's actually an ongoing debate in software engineering, due to licensing, as to what you can consider "stolen code" - i.e. plagiarism.

    In fact things went as far as to some companies employing AI-aided automatic cease-and-desist deliveries on GitHub, but the system was so badly configured, it detected even the most basic logic bits as license infringement. Things that are standardised in software development - like, for example, for loops, that happened to have generic parameter names (e.g if you were to create a graphic subsystem for displaying Views, whatever the primary implementation may be, you'd iterate through all views with a for loop, making it a generic call such as for(val view in views) { [do something here] }).

    Well this AI aided detector was so brilliant that it detected such minute coincidences of codebases as legitimate violations (as if any company could copyright generics), and sent these spurious C&Ds to dozens of git repos. What's even worse is that the initial company's codebase used some open source libraries that were directly attacked... for being 100% copies of their own codebase.

    IMO as long as the code/sentence isn't a provably unique statement, plagiarism shouldn't apply. A whole paragraph having 80%+ similarity to something unique? Now that's worrying enough to investigate.

  • Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline

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  • It's not the navigation that requires the server but the processing of the mapping data.

    Which in itself is BS because most of these vacuums come with hardware roughly equivalent of a top of the line smartphone from about 5-6 years ago. They can easily do the raw data to map conversion, even if it's a bit slow and takes 20-30 seconds.

    Also if you read the article it specifies that the damn thing is already running Google Cartographer which is a SLAM 3D map builder software - one of the better pro-grade mapping software suites, mind you. So the whole claim of cloud needed for processing is BS.