Since it sounds like you know what you’re talking about, out of curiosity, how do you feel about SPARC?

Imagine going back in time to 2015 and showing this article to someone.

I don’t know much about photography, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but would something like focus stacking help with this?

That is to say, make the lens less of a bottleneck so you could benefit from a higher resolution sensor.

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Considering the amount of Youtube react vids, it seems legal to do that for money.

Actually if anything those are illegal considering they usually contain the entire video with some moron’s face in the corner. You could argue that they fall under fair use for criticism and analysis, though I don’t think you’d be able to do so successfully given the amount of original content included and the insubstantial nature of the commentary. Its more like these videos usually copy work from creators that don’t have the resources to put up a fight.

Your emulator might be legal, the ROMs for them aren’t.

Yeah, that’s what I just said.

As far as the ROM patch fixes go … yes, selling those is technically not allowed. You can ask for donations, but the patch itself must be freely distributed.

I’m really sorry to tell you this but IP law doesn’t give a tinker’s damn about whether or not you’re making money from something. It might aggravate a company’s lawyers into action more readily than if you are not, but a company is fully within their rights to shut you down whether you’re violating IP law to make money or if you’re doing it to help underprivileged kids with cancer.

And that product relies on other people’s work to deliver its advertised experience

Copyright laws, as the name suggests, govern who has the right to make copies of a particular piece of IP. If you are not making and distributing copies of something in some way then copyright law doesn’t apply.

You are effectively arguing that I shouldn’t be able to make and distribute lists of songs I think are good to listen to together unless I get the permission of all the song creators. That is ridiculous.

If companies are able to exert legal control over anything that relies on their IP to function, not just copies of their IP, the implications would be far reaching and disastrous. For one, custom phone ROMs, even completely original ones, are usually specific to specific models of phone because they rely on interfacing with firmware that is different from phone to phone. Currently it is legal for consumers to modify phones they own (which is something that had to be fought for, by the way), but under that standard a manufacturer could DMCA ROM developers. Nvidia would be able to DMCA the developers of the Nouveau driver since it relies on their GPU firmware in order to function.

Something everyone here needs to understand is that law in general, but IP law especially, is not a set of platonic ideals handed down by god. It’s very very fuzzy and what flies and what doesn’t relies heavily on precedent. There are things that were common practice in the 1960s that would get you sued now even though the law hasn’t changed. Companies constantly try to push to expand the scope of their control while consumers try to push back. Yes I know “I like free mods, I like wholesome CD Projekt because they ran GOG, I think this is a good thing”, but you need to think of the broader implications of things like this. I don’t give a shit about this specific developer or whether they “deserve” to charge for their mod or whatever, the precedent that game companies are able to exert legal control over, and set standards for, mods of their game is very very bad. Even if you think daddy CD Projekt would be a good steward I can assure you other companies would not be.

You are not comprehending my comment at all.

CD Projekt is not the only company in the world and legal precedents affect more than just the case in which they are created. As of right now this isn’t a court case, but consider:

• Currently it is completely legal to create an emulator provided you write all the code yourself and none of its parts include intellectual property (such as firmware images or copies of games).

• Currently it is completely legal to make and distribute patches for, for example, NES game ROMs that contain none of the original information from the game, but merely consist of a list of locations where values should be modified by a specified amount.

• To give a non-game example, it is completely legal to distribute a commentary track for a movie so long as you don’t include the movie footage within it. Even though that commentary track is essentially useless without a copy of the movie. There even exists sets of instructions for re-cutting movies to create fan edits.

Now, assuming that the mod in question doesn’t redistribute parts of Cyberpunk, and is instead a completely separate piece of software that happens to be capable of interfacing with the game, what right does CD Projekt have to tell them what to do? Possibly they use the word “Cyberpunk” in the name of their mod, which is indeed a trademarked term that CD Projekt could potentially assert control of in this case, but other than that?

What it says to people is basically that they have no responsibility and shouldn’t make any change.

There’s always been a sort of false dichotomy about this. On the one hand there’s this idea that climate change can be solved by individual consumer choices and personal responsibility. On the other there’s the idea that the average person can continue on with their life exactly as before if we just fix things “behind the scenes”.

IMO the reality is that climate change mitigation requires systemic top-down change, but that change is going to affect people’s lives. In some ways for the better and some ways for the worse. The kind of “individual choices” we need people to make is to choose not to throw a hissy fit when their local government removes a car lane.

It’s really not.

There are large chunks of it that are really repetitive and boring, just things like the number of goats and chickens owned by so and so.

And like a lot of ancient mythology it can be really hard to relate to, given the vastly different cultural context that produced the text. That can be kinda entertaining in it’s own way, but mostly it just means that you’re not really going to understand the character motivations or themes of a story. Also sometimes the protagonist will do something horrifically immoral by today’s standards without the text treating it as notable at all.

IMO all of the actually interesting parts (like Genesis) are all really short and you probably know them already from cultural osmosis.

Yeah, assuming they’re not redistributing any content from the game, I hope everyone cheering for this realizes that the same justification could be used to forbid emulation, or modding as a whole.

This guy doesn’t look that old.

Anyone interested in this concept should take a look at plan9. Everything is even more of a file there.

Taking a screenshot, for example, can be done with:

cat /dev/screen | topng > screenshot.png

That combined with the way that parent processes can alter their children’s view of the filesystem namespace allows for extremely elegant abstractions. For example, every program just tries to write directly to screen or audio, but the desktop environment redirects their writes to the relevant servers. Which means that, in the absence of those servers, those same programs can run just fine and don’t care whether they’re being multiplexed or not. That also means that the plan9 userspace can be nested inside itself just using the normal mechanisms of how the OS works (that is, without a special tool like Docker).

There is a pretty clear influence from ancient Greek and Roman religion on Abrahamic religions (especially neo-platonism), but you don’t even have to go that obscure to make the argument you’re making.

They descend directly from the ancient Babylonian religion, which was polytheistic. It was converted from a polytheistic to a monotheistic religion first by moving to monolatry (the other gods are real, but its only valid to worship one of them), by conflating various gods with each other (saying that they are simply different names for the same god), and finally by creating a false history where the favored god was always the only one and the other ones were always considered false/idolatrous/demonic.

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In your opinion is there anything useful we can do with that part of the radio spectrum as those stations switch off, or are those frequencies going to be silent in the future? Will they be turned over to hobbyists maybe? (or would the power requirements be too high at those frequencies?)

Since the portable radio doesn’t have much power, you may need to use digital modes to get through.

I don’t know much about radio stuff, but ever since I learned about LoRA I’ve wondered what kind of range a station could get if the longwave or AM bands were repurposed for use with a spread spectrum digital protocol. And what kind of bandwidth something like that would have.

I think being able to do datacasting over really long ranges would be useful, so, for example, you could send emergency alerts to people even if the local cell infrastructure was down. But with the way things are headed I guess that role will be taken up by satellites.

If anything happened it would just be mechanical damage, yeah.

But like the other guy said, I think they would probably just sit there and groan as they tried to compress each other’s frames.

Same thing that would happen if you tried to lift your friend while they tried to lift you.

Or, to remove the layer of indirection: grab your own feet and lift up. Same thing as that.

Chemicals like sodium lauryl sulfate and other fatty acids with organosulfate head groups, which are much more powerful surfactants than the fatty acid sodium salts you get by reacting lye with a fat (like vegetable oil). “Traditional” soaps like that also contain glycerol (formed when the lye cleaves the glycerol backbone off of a triglyceride), which acts as a humectant moisturizer.

Technically, at least in the US, chemicals like SLS aren’t legally classified as soap, and must be called a detergent. Which is why so many products are called things like “body wash” and “body bar”, and you wont find the word “soap” on their packaging.

If you wouldn’t interrupt a stranger at a party to announce that America is doomed, don’t do it here.

Apparently the microblogging format has made people so socially dysfunctional that they’ve forgotten what a conversation is.

My mom has trust issues with computing so deep she doesn’t even do any fucking software update.

IMO software vendors have created this attitude. Don’t get me wrong, in an ideal world users would be much more technically literate, but given the behavior of the software industry this really should be the expected outcome.

Its similar to how popups on the web trained users to instantly close dialog boxes without reading them. Its not the fault of the individual person writing the CRUD app that uses a dialog box, but it is the fault of the system that collectively produced all of the things you see on the computer’s screen.

Modern ICE cars aren’t really any different in that regard.