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barsoap,

The second operation, carried out by the internet access providers at Hadopi’s request, consists, inter alia, of matching the IP address with the civil identity data of its holder.

Which just opens more questions: How long are ISPs allowed/required to store customer IPs, and then what happens if I have an open wifi: Can they just assume that I did it or declare me responsible anyway, that is, is it possible for a private individual to enjoy ISP privileges?

barsoap,

Instead of moving along the digits from highest to lowest, as in “Four hundreds and two tens and nine”, we do “Four hundred and nine and two tens”.

English is less consistent, going from nine-teen to twenty-one. German stays consistent with its lower two digits.

barsoap,

They’ll be forced to accept it, at least in the EU, they will also need to enable you to resell your games. EU law on this is clear, rulings in other cases are clear, all we’re waiting for is for Valve to stop appealing or lose before the ECJ, whatever is first.

The tl;dr is if they want to argue that they’re simply renting out licenses then they shouldn’t be taking one-time but regular payments, or only give out time-limited licenses for one-time payments, or some such. They should also avoid terms such as “buy” and “summer sale” like the plague.

barsoap,

With a physical good you’re transferring ownership of that “thing”,

A use-right is also a thing that can be sold and for which stuff like the first sale doctrine applies. Possession and property of the use right is all yours, even if it does not include the right to make additional copies, that is, to sublicense.

At least that’s how it works over here, always has. You can get perfectly valid Windows Pro keys here on the cheap, there’s a small cottage industry buying up volume licenses at bankruptcy proceedings and the like and unbundling them. If Microsoft can’t stop that then Valve won’t, either.

barsoap,

In the US not all licenses are transferable, and that includes things like “accounts”.

That’s maybe a service that you can’t transfer but it’s still holding property of the account holder. More like escrow.

As to lawyers, well, they aren’t hiring lawyers to follow the intent of the law but to write terms that they think they might get away with, at least for a while, and if not, not be nailed for fraud or such. Corporate lawyers are just as slimy in the EU as they are elsewhere.

barsoap,

He’s a judge by profession, btw. Any law weasel’s worst nightmare.

barsoap,

Unsuuuure if Linux is compatible with the graphic/music production software I’m working with, or if there are viable work arounds.

I have no idea about music production but ardour is linux-native and the technical backend stuff is definitely there (you’ll want to use jack in real-time mode to hook everything up and together). Graphics-wise if you can do what you want to do with blender and/or krita you’re also set. You’ll be able to sync up blender and ardour via jack. Dunno about video editing blender has always been sufficient for me and I already know it. There’s also plenty of more coding-oriented music stuff, have some live-coded music.

barsoap,

Dogs are way more intelligent than that. LLM tech is basically a way to quickly breed fruit flies to fly right or left when they see a particular pattern.

barsoap,

The false positive problem actually works in favour of the dogs, here: Their noses are excellent they know exactly whether there’s drugs there or not. They also know that the humans can’t tell so it’s easy to get a treat regardless. And they also know to not overdo it.

Even more complicated are cats, figures that they are by and large uninterested in being studied or proving anything to you.

barsoap,

Because allow/blocklist are just as old if not even older and are way clearer terminology.

“white” and “black” there are metaphors, the “master” in git branches and SCSI isn’t.

See at some point you have to ask yourself the question whether you’d be opposed to the change if blue-haired college students really into performative politics weren’t a thing. Imagine the idea coming from your slightly computer-illiterate 60yold shop floor boss saying “I don’t want to think about the terms here, I want to do CAD/CAM. Speak English, whippersnapper”.

barsoap,

Actually, the massacre wasn’t happening on Tiananmen Square, but next to it.

That one’s true. There’s probably been some deaths on the square itself but the bulk was in side-streets blocked by Peking locals in solidarity with the students, once the army fought itself through that and arrived at the square it issued an ultimatum and the students caved. Eleven of the withdrawing students were later killed away from the square by a stray tank crew. The tank man picture was taken the day after.

Don’t get into fights with tankies over such things. Rather ask why the CCP was stomping Dengists – which is what the students were.

Salman Rushdie’s alleged assailant seeks plea deal with US (www.semafor.com)

Hadi Matar, the man accused of nearly fatally stabbing British-American writer Salman Rushdie, is negotiating a plea agreement with both US state and federal prosecutors that could shed light on whether a foreign government or terrorist organization was involved in the attack, officials involved in the case told Semafor....

barsoap,

From what I heard dishing out death sentences without trial is a big no-no in Islamic law and the Ayatollah essentially made himself a heretic doing that.

barsoap,

The trough of disillusionment is definitely already there in academia but the market forces that be override that with massive amounts of hype, silicon, and YOLO. Billionaire capital and attitude can provide that, it can’t provide basic research, because velocity is valued way higher than going anywhere sensible.

barsoap,

Half the reason why I bought an RTX GPU was for the video enhancement features like SDR to HDR conversion and AI upscaling

Neither of those things have anything to do with raytracing. Well the tensor cores used for denoising in RT workloads are suitable for all kinds of AI workloads and thus also upscaling, but really it hasn’t got to do anything with raytracing. Or AI in particular any GPU can do convolutions.

I don’t own an nvidia card and honestly few linux users do because their driver support sucks, I’d say if nvidia advertised those features and their linux drivers don’t have them your complaints should be directed at nvidia. They won’t care.

Meanwhile, mpv does inverse tone mapping natively. They don’t integrate AI upscaling but there’s various projects providing glsl shaders which mpv can use, here’s the configs for Anime4K. There’s also frame interpolation around somewhere but I haven’t used it in ages because variable refresh rate is the best solution to odd frame rates.

Development of X halted, the few patches that are still landing concern xwayland, don’t expect anything to happen there. KDE 6.0 ships with experimental HDR support on wayland, you might not need to wait five years go give a live USB stick a spin. Arch wiki has some pointers (not that I’d be recommending arch but I am recommending their wiki).

barsoap,

Biden said in his speech that the capabilities of Hamas and the threat to Israel have already been eliminated.

Thing is Hamas is not just its armed wing. It’s also a political party, with that comes a government apparatus (as in bureaucrats), and it’s also a charity. It is, after all, a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot and, well, ask the Egyptians how hard it is to root out the Muslim Brotherhood.

If with “total destruction of Hamas’ capabilities” they mean the whole thing then that’s just another way to say that they want to keep on going forever. Biden OTOH simply seems to have referred to military capability. Israel, also the more moderate factions, will likely insist on at least dismantling the government apparatus and TBH plenty of Palestinians feel the same. Things are murky because of the war but Hamas rule was not exactly popular, charity nonwithstanding.

barsoap, (edited )

WW2 started with the attack on Poland, 1st September 1939. By that date, Irgun had already bombed plenty of civilians. The Ottoman empire was broken up after WW1, not WW2.

barsoap,

The Egyptian military doesn’t need US aid to launch a coup. Sure the military will have made sure that the US continues to consider Egypt as an ally but that’s about it. Politically both are taking potshots at each other.

Mursi was democratically elected, yes. Quoting Wikipedia:

Within a short period, serious public opposition developed to President Morsi. In late November 2012, he issued a temporary constitutional declaration granting himself the power to legislate without judicial oversight or review of his acts, on the grounds that he needed to “protect” the nation from the Mubarak-era power structure. He also put a draft constitution to a referendum that opponents complained was “an Islamist coup”. These issues — and concerns over the prosecutions of journalists, the unleashing of pro-Brotherhood gangs on nonviolent demonstrators; the continuation of military trials; and new laws that permitted detention without judicial review for up to 30 days, and impunity given to Islamist radical attacks on Christians and other minorities — brought hundreds of thousands of protesters to the streets starting in November 2012. During Morsi’s year-long rule there were 9,000 protests and strikes.

Is Sisi a champion of democracy? No. But also he was elected, and he’s legitimately popular. Morsi rode to power on an illusion about Brotherhood politics, once they unveiled their true colours Egyptians quickly decided that they’d rather have secular than religious authoritarians in power.

barsoap,

There’s one alternative: Mikrotik. Availability of OpenWRT images is spotty not because the devices would have locked bootloaders or something, or they wouldn’t provide kernel sources, but because Mikrotik’s software is ISP-grade so very few people want to run anything else on it. Want your AP to talk BGP? No problem.

barsoap,

Back in the days a CPU was a chest-height cabinet with another chest-height cabinet besides it, containing a magnetic drum or core memory or something, acting as RAM. That stuff moved into the CPU case, then it moved into the CPU package there’s really no difference the central processing unit is still the central processing unit no matter how much stuff you include.

This was the first SoC: An ARM3 core, memory controller, IO controller, video accelerator. It’s hard to find an x86 nowadays that doesn’t have all of that on the package: A system processor to manage everything, multiple application cores, usually at least two memory controllers, decent to absurd amount of PCIe lanes, and a GPU. Chipsets nowadays do little more than manage power, feed the SoC its initial code, and split up some PCIe lanes to provide custom IO because keyboards don’t tend to speak PCIe.

barsoap,

The reason is flexibility, the board manufacturer can decide how many PCIe lanes to send where, how many USB ports there’s going to be etc. Modern mainboards are a power delivery system and IO backplane.

barsoap,

Yeah but then you can’t switch out the chipset without having a different CPU skew and probably also socket because changing IO without changing up pins doesn’t sound like a good idea. People would barely notice the additional sockets with Intel but we don’t want to take Intel as a benchmark there, do we.

barsoap, (edited )

The best non-DSM category for socio/psychopath I’ve come across is the lack of affective empathy, but intact cognitive empathy. (non-DSM because that’s just symptom clusters not aetiologies, you quite literally need to have broken laws to be diagnosed with ASPD). Then you have a look at what skills are useful to have as a surgeon, like not flinching when you cut into people, and their character traits including their bedside manners, yep there’s plenty of perfectly integrated psychopaths around. Same goes for pyromaniacs fire departments are full of them, you only ever hear about the ones who don’t get the curve.

barsoap,

The statist perspective is unable to properly address these inequalities and injustices because it cannot reject the hierarchical power structures that caused them in the first place.

I mean I can reject them all I want doesn’t mean that Wagner rolling tanks through my village wouldn’t upend the idealism quite quickly as I’m staring straight down hierarchy’s barrel. It sucks, yes, but there’s also shit all that could currently be done without breaking means-ends unity.

Which doesn’t mean that nothing at all can be done – but even the most hardcore anarchist will have to become a mere liberal in practice as making a pact with the devil might be the only way to fuck him over. To assuage your conscience, that goes both ways: Even the Pentagon has taken note of Rojava’s unparalleled capacity to stop those ISIS fucks in their tracks and they’d rather have the headache of yet another hundred anarchist (or at least anarchisty) places than the instability that the likes of ISIS bring. As they say a compromise is when both sides are unhappy. I’m sure that they’d be happier with more Rwandas (which is currently in the progress of becoming Africa’s Singapore) but the conditions that bring about authoritarian regimes which are neither corrupt nor power-mad are so fickle as to be impossible to bring about by design.

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