[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

"AI" and nuclear reactors... what could possibly go wrong...

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

There's a light side?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, piracy is illegal and it's, in practice, stealing IRL but digital piracy ain't stealing for sure. You're not subtracting anything...

They can and do claim that they lost revenue but they can never claim you stole the movie - they still have it, you just didn't pay them for an extra copy. Rip a friend's DVD, same thing.

Now if you were to hack them and steal all the movie raw material... but then again, Hollywood just spews out garbage nowadays,

Anyway not a lawyer, don't care, stay safe.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I was with you until the last paragraph.

The difference is that i don't give two shits about not enriching multi-billion-dollar media conglomerates that hoard all profits and leave pennies for the actual creators. Hollywood, the music industry and YT fit the bill.

Which is why i buy merch of local bands and/or buy their digital music if it's available as downloadable media i can keep on my devices (i won't buy into subscription crap), that way i'm indeed benefiting the actual artist and not some fat middle-man. Bandcamp and hdtracks have served me well lately, other suggestions welcome.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

just like piracy is effectively stealing.

IRL piracy, sure. Digital... not so much.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I was wondering if i had misread foreskin gaming.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Whenever i see guns in 'Murica being discussed i always recommend these 3 videos: [1][2][3]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Some people do complain about it

It's an Olympic sport nowadays.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

since you now often have to implement things at two places at once.

Huh? Header files should only have declarations, unless you're screwing around with templates.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Ya mean like ppl using classified information in World of Tanks forums to prove a point... more than once?

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The installer is the handbook.

USE flags are freakin' awesome.

It can let you install two different versions of a library.

You can install the binary versions of some big packages like firefox.

Edit: while USE flags are generic, you can also set specific per-package flags.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

As a rule of thumb i buy high-end to last me for ages.

I prefer Asus motherboards, the last one lasted 10 years and i only replaced it 'cos of bad diagnostics on my end.

I prefer AMD CPUs because, so far, AMD has stuck to socket upgradeability - that board came with an AM+ Athlon which i replaced with a Phenom. Current one's Ryzen 5 and i can upgrade to Ruzen 9 if so desired. I'd say Threadripper is overkill, stay on Ryzen.

32 GiB RAM is nice, more is nicer, especially if you play with virtualization. You may want to remount your /tmp as an in RAM tmpfs (otherwise you won't be able to compile firefox on gentoo).

I don't care about graphics cards (beware some CPUs don't support your mobo's on-board graphics) but you mentioned LLMs... so... go gamer on that, can't help you there.

Storage... really depends on your projects... 1TB HDD is more than enough for most stuff, find good brands within your budget/needs. I prefer SSDs because they're quiet and curently have 3 Crucial MX500s on a ZRAID6 2 TB pool.

Same for fans: Noctua or be Quiet.

PSU's probably.. 400W? Dunno, always buy more than you need and you're gonna need to feed that external GPU...

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Anyone with basic knowledge of SQL injection could login to this site and add anyone they wanted to KCM and CASS, allowing themselves to both skip security screening and then access the cockpits of commercial airliners.

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Escaping the smart tv doom.

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What do you use? I'm looking for as many of the following as possible:

  • included battery, preferably rechargeable from the motorcycle's own battery, meaning
  • negligible idle consumption
  • EU coverage, supporting 3-4 constellations
  • 4G+, i provide the e/SIM (i.e. no included plan unless it's grrrreat and cheap af)
  • small form factor (for a naked bike)
  • privacy-respecting app (preferably not relying on AWS, Google Maps, etc) and/or website
  • motion-detection/geofencing
  • cheap of course

I had a cheap one from eBay but the chinese-quality app would sometimes lag hours behind - not useful for an eurotrip.

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/17508868

When Google, along with a consortium of other companies, announced the open-source operating system we call Android way back in 2007, the world was paying attention. The iPhone had launched the same year, and the entire mobile space was wary of the rush of excitement around the admittedly revolutionary device. AOSP (Android Open Source Project) was born, and within a few years Android swallowed up market share with phones of all shapes and sizes from manufacturers all over the globe. Android eventually found its way into TVs, fridges, washing machines, cars, and the in-flight entertainment system of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

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When Google, along with a consortium of other companies, announced the open-source operating system we call Android way back in 2007, the world was paying attention. The iPhone had launched the same year, and the entire mobile space was wary of the rush of excitement around the admittedly revolutionary device. AOSP (Android Open Source Project) was born, and within a few years Android swallowed up market share with phones of all shapes and sizes from manufacturers all over the globe. Android eventually found its way into TVs, fridges, washing machines, cars, and the in-flight entertainment system of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

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a digital wallet is a repository for personal data and documents. Right now, there are hundreds of different wallets, but no standard.

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At least a dozen organizations with domain names at domain registrar Squarespace saw their websites hijacked last week. Squarespace bought all assets of Google Domains a year ago, but many customers still haven’t set up their new accounts. Experts say malicious hackers learned they could commandeer any migrated Squarespace accounts that hadn’t yet been registered, merely by supplying an email address tied to an existing domain.

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/16750896

The NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far) refusing to release it.

Basically, the recording is in an obscure video format. People at the NSA can’t easily watch it, so they can’t redact it. So they won’t do anything.

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The NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far) refusing to release it.

Basically, the recording is in an obscure video format. People at the NSA can’t easily watch it, so they can’t redact it. So they won’t do anything.

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