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You seem to be thinking about "adblocker running in browser", since you brought up EULAs.

That's not what OP alleges - they are saying people are redistributing modified versions of OP's copyrighted code. DMCA is an appropriate measure in such a situation, but it's unclear why OP's DMCA takedown was rejected by GitHub. Without more detail, it's hard to comment further

You did not read it correctly. Author stated that people are modifying and redistributing their code in an unauthorized manner.
USPS still sells denominated stamps from $0.01 to $10.00, in addition to "First Class Forever" stamps - see near the bottom of the filters sidebar on https://store.usps.com/store/stamps
Re:I Tried to Solve Hangman on Sunday August 23, 2026 @06:35PM (#49413275)
Companion video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApdLgfgfh5o

(I'm not the author, "I" is from the video title)

Fn+Tab is the backlight toggle on my V5 Max (and it's specifically called out in the user manual https://www.keychron.com/pages/keychron-v5-max-user-manual)
Re:Upcoming breaking changes for NPM v12 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @07:38PM (#48469300)
The default behavior for the automated "add everything existing to the allowlist" is to include the specific version: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/using-npm/config#allow-script...

Together with a lockfile that does achieve "package xyz postinstall allowed with hash <1234>"

Re:Evolving Webflow for the Agentic Web on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:00PM (#48297103)
> "...we made the difficult decision to restructure Webflow’s team and operating model. As a result, many of our Webflow teammates are leaving the company today."

Leaving implies agency. You've fired these people. Using a euphemism that implies they had a choice in this matter is disingenuous and not "owning this decision"

Re:Dogme 25 – Vow of Chastity on Monday May 18, 2026 @08:25AM (#48178738)
"dogme" is the Danish, Norwegian, and French spelling of the word "dogma"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dogme

tl;dr: autovacuum was seen to be active during an earlier incident, assumed to be at fault, and was disabled. It was never re-enabled. The long-term implications of disabling autovacuum were not actively considered.
I think the graph is getting cut off for you - for me it reads "Agent Teams"
Re:A Founder Tried to Pitch – and Got a Restraining Order on Thursday April 02, 2026 @09:08AM (#47613973)
"Workplace violence restraining orders" in California appear to be a type of restraining order that can be filed by an employer on behalf of an employee, to protect said employee from a third party

https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/WV-restraining-order

Re:Copilot Edited an Ad into My PR on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:26AM (#47573399)
> We've been including product tips in PRs created by Copilot coding agent

If the PR is wholly authored by Copilot I get the spirit of this, although maybe not the best implementation. And "tips" like this that look like an ad for a product _definitely_ feel like an enshittification betrayal of the user, even if it was a genuine recommendation and not a paid advertisement.

In the OP's situation, where where Copilot was summoned to fix some thing within a human-authored PR, irrelevant modification of the PR description to insert unrelated content is specifically egregious. Copilot can easily include the tip in its own comment, so I'm curious why it was decided to edit the description of a PR instead.

It's unnecessarily splitting hairs.

> interaction data—specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context [...] will be used to train and improve our AI models

So using Copilot in a private repo, where lots of that repo will be used as context for Copilot, means GitHub will be using your private repo as training data when they were not before.

Re:Antimatter has been transported for the first time on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @07:19PM (#47524600)
Nope, it's pretty compact. The first image in CERN's photo gallery shows it being loaded into that truck: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2957407?ln=en

Of course, it's compact because it only has to last so long. CERN's press release discusses needing a generator and a cryocooler in the truck for longer trips: https://home.cern/news/press-release/experiments/base-experi...

This older article about the test they did with ordinary protons, indicates the outer frame measures "2.00 meters in length, 0.87 meters in width, and 1.85 meters in height" and comes in under 1000kg https://ep-news.web.cern.ch/content/cerns-base-step-leap-for...

Re:Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @09:26AM (#47412339)
An ASIC is custom silicon, no?

Anyways, I found this article discussing it a bit more: https://www.eetimes.com/taalas-specializes-to-extremes-for-e...

"Taalas is borrowing some ideas from the structured ASICs of the early 2000s to make its hardwired model-specific chips. Structured ASICs used gate arrays and hardened IP blocks, changing only the interconnect layers to adapt the chip to a specific workload. At the time, this was seen as a more cost-effective alternative to a full-custom ASIC that was more performant than an FPGA."

"Taalas changes only two masks to customize a chip for a specific model, but the two masks can change both model weights and dataflow through the chip. On the HC1, the model and its weights are stored on the chip using a mask-ROM-based recall fabric paired with a (programmable) SRAM, which can be used to hold fine-tuned weights and/or the KV cache. Future generations of chips may split the SRAM onto a separate chip, meaning they could be denser than the HC1."

Re:Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI on Monday March 16, 2026 @07:06PM (#47406273)
It's a tech demonstrator for a company that turns models into custom silicon for fast inference. In this case llama3.1-8b https://taalas.com/products/
For a sense of how crazy 30 detections per day is: Super-K is a cylinder 41.4m tall and 39.3m in diameter [1] and neutrino flux on Earth is 65 billion per square centimeter per second [2]

The tank's cross sectional area relative to the sun depends on its relative orientation to the sun. We'll ballpark it at somewhere between its circular endcaps (Pi x ((39.3/2)^2) = 1213 square meters) and its curved cylindrical face (which, pointed right at the sun, has a rectangular cross section of 41.4 x 39.3 = 1627 square meters).

So, conservatively, the neutrino flux through Super-K's tank is 1400 m^2 x (100cm/m)^2 x 6.5e10 neutrino/second/(cm^2) x 86400 seconds/day = 7.86e22 neutrinos/day passing through the tank. Of which 30 are detected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino (end of intro section, just before History). Wikipedia says only that the "majority" of the 65 billion flux is from the sun, so we might be off by a factor of two-ish in the worst case.

I've done the same thing - making a USB-only printer available on my LAN - following this guide: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-print-server/

One nice thing is I can print to the CUPS server even if the printer is off

Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto on Sunday December 07, 2025 @11:35PM (#46188348)
BTC cannot be split beyond 10^-8
Re:DIY NAS: 2026 Edition on Thursday November 27, 2025 @09:24AM (#46069541)
Every time I've looked into doing a DIY NAS in the last few years Topton seems to come up - as far as I can tell it's because they make MiniITX boards with a boatload of SATA ports.
"I'm sorry for how you feel about it" isn't exactly an empathetic opening stance
Re:FCC Accidentally Leaked iPhone Schematics on Monday September 29, 2025 @07:00PM (#45419919)
> I doubt Apple could demonstrably prove damages before the civil statute of limitations expires.

Statute of Limitations is about how long you have to file the case, by no means is it a deadline by which you must fully prove damages and have no opportunity to continue your case after it passes.

Re:SimpleFold: Folding proteins is simpler than you think on Friday September 26, 2025 @06:38PM (#45391728)
Apparently from a F@H blog post [1] they say it's still useful to know the dynamics of how it folded, in addition to the final folded shape. And that having ML-folded proteins is a rich target for simulation to validate and to understand how the protein works

[1] https://foldingathome.org/2024/05/02/alphafold-opens-new-opp...

Re:You didn't see it coming on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @08:28AM (#45359358)
It's a $12 stock photo, making it even stranger to put any source label on it https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/gm2076276464-564919694

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