mcwhy
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the scientists will switch sides with minimal issues, like they did after WWII
westerners often have these idealized images of opposition leaders in authoritarian regimes when in reality they are the same products with a different paint. Navalny, Aung San Suu Kyi, Machado and all the others.
everything thats wrong with The Internet in one comment
just as patents drove the film industry to California. "AI" Acts will drive the AI industry to outside of EU.
youtube is the modern nanny and that is the most valuable ad space on the planet
that has already been debunked. It was the hunger making CJ stomach growl that people mistaked for bigfoot sounds.
3,000 emails are included in oracle free tier
Some hosting providers (hetzner) are very scared about any letters so they will boot you for getting any random letter.
The general public is never going to voluntarily start wearing glasses, no matter the features people do not want to look like a nerd.
Remove gold farming and competitive sweatlord ladders from your game. Majority of cheats exist to make money, remove their income and they will leave.
Breaking into the big book scene with no name recognition is almost impossible. It is a lot easier to gain traction in new media like podcasts/webcomics/socials(tiktok)
Posted by
mcwhy on Monday July 04, 2022 @08:31AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Based on recent top stories and their comments of people bragging the best ways to share their ill-gotten TBs, HN seems pro-piracy. Which is a strange position to have for knowledge workers whos main output is also intellectual property that is stolen constantly by others.
and Japan's government is equally dysfunctional and influenced by minority fringe groups and religious zealots.
Those games are still going on, and according to various sat-tv forums recently movistar is fairly successful at it.
Posted by
mcwhy on Thursday May 19, 2022 @02:07AM
from the libera.chat dept.
That's the whole point of a TPM/Pluton/etc, remote attestation and corporate control over people.
you can add a security key (real or emulated one) then add TOTP and after remove the security key
even GNU has really hard time keeping up their IceCat releases
The output of nuclear plants is also affected by the weather, few years ago the Finnish nuclear plants had to reduce output in the summer due to the Baltic Sea warming up too much. Heating it even more from cooling water would damage the ecosystem.
It could also be used for IP reputation, running ssh can be a sign of a proxy or other server/service that website owners might want to block.
and all the packers, protectors and obfuscators that are sold as "must have"
Same reason Android, iOS and OSX require it: vertical control over the platform.
but movies are still 24000/1001 fps
This feature is (ab)used heavily by pirate video/image sites
Posted by
mcwhy on Monday October 09, 2017 @07:07AM
from the getvideodrive.com dept.