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Oh my God.
I’ve just realised what ChatGPT reminds me of. It’s from Douglas Adams’ novel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, published 35 years ago.
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What's the easiest way to set up a simulated network with ISP-style NAT? Preferably without buying dedicated hardware for the purpose, and preferably reproducible for other developers.
Usecase: I am developing a P2P system, and need a reasonably representative environment to test my software in, and how well it deals with shitty residential networking configurations.
I'm a developer, not a network engineer, so my knowledge of networks is limited to a developer perspective and I don't have the spoons to learn it in-depth.
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Neuromancer 2022
The collapse of a startup leaves implanted medical devices in > 700 people
The unavailability of the proprietary SW needed to recalibrate the devices and maintain its effectiveness, and the draining of batteries, will leave them without treatment and with HW implanted in their bodies
They have to hack their own implants
And it is not an isolated case but a trend
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-03810-5/index.html
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"The Wizard of Oz was released in 1939. While technically not an action movie in the modern sense, it had a strong female lead, a strong female antagonist, special effects, action sequences, and is still popular to this day as an all time classic."
Very excited to see the development of "indirect violation" as a punishable offense.
There's no way this will come back to bite me or the causes I care about.
If someone refers to Obama as being "installed", what group is that a shibboleth for? And what idea does it refer to?
Just got my new glasses with that blue light filter and wow, I am not sure what to think.
My fedi feed is finally getting good enough that I am unfollowing the art reposter bots.
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Earlier this year, I became aware of STANDARD EBOOKS, a donation-dependent group of edtiors and layout experts who have been doing the amazing work of taking out-of-copyright books, turning them into top-quality ebooks, and then releasing them for free.
Some of the books they've done are in the Internet Archive here:
https://archive.org/details/standardebooks
They're seeking 75 patrons in December to keep themselves afloat, consider donating to this amazing cause.
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If artistic *style* gets copyright-level protections, most of the styles will be owned by corporations within a generation, and there's a decent chance you'll end up needing to pay a licensing fee or something equally absurd to publish your own art.
Just, like, before you go driving that direction.
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How long does copyright last? I'll use the UK as an example, other countries have similar laws:
- Written, dramatic, musical and artistic work: 70 years after the author's death
- Sound and music recording: 70 years after first publication
- Films: 70 years after the death of the director, screenplay author and composer
- Broadcasts: 50 years after first broadcast
- Layout of published editions of written, dramatic or musical works: 25 years from first publication
- Unpublished works from before 1988: until 2039. This includes, absurdly, things like medieval manuscripts, and vast swathes of the war museum's collection.
Who benefits from privatising our common history and culture? It's certainly not the small-time artist, and it's often not the family of the successful novelist, rather most of all, it's the holding companies that copyright ends up being sold to.
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We would like to remind everyone that none of Torment Nexus products are *covert* surveillance devices.
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The more I look at #webdev as a not-full-time practitioner, the more I start to appreciate what I think of as the #indieweb position:
The basic document structure of the web is #HTML.
The basic layout engine is #CSS.
The more that a framework leverages these things directly--puts them in front of code authors and also expresses them clearly in its output, the better it is.
The more a framework hides or misrepresents them or doesn't engage with their semantics, the worse it is.
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Do y’all remember that time that someone discovered facial recognition cameras couldn't see through Juggalo makeup, then Facebook had a fun “see what you'd look like with Juggalo makeup” thing, and then facial recognition cameras could suddenly see through Juggalo makeup?
How Is the Effective Altruism movement related to LessWrong's Rationality?
Fundamentally: EA is the application of LW's ideas to charity.
Coincidentally: Some people overlap, but no fundamental link.
Unrelated: unrelated
Intentionally typing � {REPLACEMENT CHARACTER}
Or, a font without that character.
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