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Stromae - Papaoutai (I found out it existed because Pentatonix did a cover of it)

That guy’s also got some other interesting songs, with quite a bit of social commentary: carmen, Fils de joie, tous les mêmes, Santé

Amazon clearly lying about "ownership" on Prime. (lemmy.world)

You all remember just a few weeks ago when Sony ripped away a bunch of movies and TV shows people “owned”? This ad is on Amazon. You can’t “own” it on Prime. You can just access it until they lose the license. How can they get away with lying like this?

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This sort of blatant violation of the First Sale Doctrine shouldn’t even require a lawsuit to stop; the FTC should prosecute companies for it proactively. We need to demand our government start doing its goddamn job again.

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…you believe the CEO feels entitled to gamers becoming OK with subscription models. What he actually feels is a hope that subscription models will take off

That sounds like a distinction without a difference to me.

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You do care and piss off everyone else on the road

Or worse, incite a bunch of extra passing maneuvers, making the road less safe.

How does Usenet content not immediately get DMCA'd into oblivion?

For instance, say I search for “The Dark Knight” on my Usenet indexer. It returns to me a list of uploads and where to get them via my Usenet provider. I can then download them, stitch them together, and verify that it is, indeed, The Dark Knight. All of this costs only a few dollars a month for me....

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Do you happen to know if it’s just put together sequentially or if there’s XORing or more complex algorithm going on there? If it’s only the former, they would still be hosting copyrighted content, just a bit less of it.

Copyright is a legal construct, not a technological one. Shuffling the file contents around doesn’t make the slightest bit of legal difference, as long as the intent is to reconstruct it back into the copyrighted work.

(Conversely, if the intent was to, say, print out the file in hexadecimal and wallpaper your house with it, that wouldn’t be copyright infringement even if you didn’t rearrange it at all because the use was transformative. Unless the file in question was a JPEG of hex-digit wallpaper, of course.)

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I don’t have video of the actual demolition that started this week, but here’s a video I happened to watch the other day that gives interesting background info about the project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcUrUE6-ZCw

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Thinking Free Software isn’t inherently political is like getting mad at Green Day for being suddenly ‘woke,’ LOL.

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…says the guy with “Linux” in his username.

It is very important that you all know that Sarah Silverman made out with Tim Russ during the time she was on Voyager. (www.cinemablend.com)

I kissed him [Robert Duncan McNeill] at the end of the episode, and he was standing on an apple box because God forbid you’re the same height as the girl. And then, I made out with him [Tim Russ] in real life....

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“Look, either we make the guy taller or I turn this into an Angel One or Code of Honor remake” – Berman, probably.

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Screw that! Photon torpedoes, full spread! Target their warp core.

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“Poor?” Nah, that fake-ass commercial “tradition” got what it had coming to it!

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I read this immediately after posting a link to the Oracle scene in The Matrix in another thread. In that scene, the Oracle has “temet nosce” on a plaque above her door and points it out to Neo.

Anyway, weird coincidence.

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They’re butthurt that being white men doesn’t give them enough unfair advantages anymore, and they’re not capable enough to succeed without them.

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You realize the telcos themselves know exactly where the spam calls are coming from, right? You can be damn sure that functionality was a top priority from day 1 because (just like for all subscribers) they need to know the spammers’ usage in order to bill them for it.

They just don’t bother passing that information along to end users or law enforcement because nobody’s forcing them to.

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I also use AnySoftKeyboard (installed from F-Droid, BTW) but IMO it kinda sucks. In particular, it often tries to autocorrect things to capitalized proper nouns, which is almost always exactly the wrong thing to do.

Frankly, I’m reading this thread in hopes of finding something else to replace it.

How do y'all deal with programs not supported on Linux?

I’ve been seeing all these posts about Linux lately, and looking at them, I can honestly see the appeal. I’d love having so much autonomy over the OS I use, and customize it however I like, even having so many options to choose from when it comes to distros. The only thing holding me back, however, is incompatibility issues....

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I hate rebooting to play games (or even just closing my other software, for that matter), so I choose to reject games I’d have to reboot for.

grue,

I was going to guess LS120 (a.k.a. “superdisc”), but that’s not it.

Turns out after some searching that it looks like 3.5" magneto-optical.

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Dude, I said I needed Windows for games in 2002. I’ve been Linux-only for gaming for the better part of a decade now.

As long as you’re okay with skipping the few games from asshole developers who deliberately make it difficult, the transition you’re hoping for already happened.

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What kind of sadistic fucking moron do you have to be to prefer that the government spend more money persecuting and incarcerating the homeless than it would on treating and housing them?

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Congratulations! The first step is admitting you a have a problem.

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I think that speaks to OP’s point: instead of thinking in terms of trying to replicate the meat dish without meat, think in terms of making a vegetable dish that satisfies the same mood.

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What mountains? There aren’t any mountains between Fort Wayne and Mobile, AL. (Or between it and Fort Albany, ON, for that matter)

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Welp, that’ll teach the seller not to use the cheap shipping.

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That’s why this is different and they aren’t talking about going back to fully-rigged sailing ships.

(Actually, who are we kidding? They couldn’t care less how hard and dangerous the work was. The real reason they like this new design because it doesn’t have masts to get in the way of loading cargo.)

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400% efficiency is good, but it’s not better than the ∞% efficiency you get from something that doesn’t require fuel input to begin with. (I’m pretty sure the Technology Connections guy would agree on that point.)

If nothing else, think of it this way: even if you still want to use air conditioning to make sure you get all the way down to comfortable room temperature or whatever your target is (which a Qanat, although able to achieve a >15°C ΔT, might or might not be able to do reliably), it’ll still give you a big head start and greatly reduce the amount of energy needed. It’s a lot like using a ground-source heat pump instead of an air-source one. What’s not to like‽

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