Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
You might be hearing the coil/capacitor whine when the CPU/GPU has a surge of activity and suddenly pulls more power.
Back in the day, on some computers, you could hear when someone was dragging a window across the screen. The larger the area being repainted, the louder the noise.
I can still hear a CRT line scan (625×25=15625Hz for PAL)… but used to hear up to 21KHz, now I’m down to 17KHz. Which according to my otorhinolaryngologist means “perfect hearing”… and he’s unable to do anything about the super-high pitch tinnitus, around an octave higher, that doesn’t let me sleep at night.
Dunno… “it’s complicated”? 😅
Not all fluids mix together, oil and water being an example.
One can make “dry water” by mixing in some fumed silica: https://youtu.be/lbNF8k-gFeY
Not necessarily expecting any legislation; it might be the simple inequality of you having an instance, while they have a bunch of datacenters.
What’s 1TB/s more or less, a rounding error?
Big names scrape the whole web all the time; best case scenario, they’ll have an optimized scraper for federated networks; worst case, they’ll scrape as they would any other website and not even notice the difference.
From a copyright point of view… the rights to each piece of content are of each owner… but each owner is sharing that content with an instance, with the intent of it getting re-shared to further instances.
In a strict sense, most instances are in breach of copyright law: they don’t require users to agree to an EULA specifying how the content will be used, they don’t require federated instances to agree to the same terms, they don’t make end users agree to the terms of other instances, and generally allow users to submit someone else’s content (see: memes) without the owner’s authorization, then share and re-share it across the federated network. A fully “copyright compliant” protocol, would need to have these things baked into it from the beginning… which would make joining the federated network a royal PITA.
With the current approach of “like, chill bro”… anyone can set up an instance, federate with whatever target or federated-of-a-target one, and save all the data without any consequences. The fact of receiving federated data, carries an implicit consent to process that data, and definitely does nothing to prevent random processing.
Scraping the web endpoint of an instance, carries the rules set by the EULA of that endpoint… which tend to be none, or in the best case, are that of the least restrictive instance offering that federated data.
All of that, before scrapers simply ignoring any requirements.
As usual, the unresolved underlying issue is, how to get funding for FLOSS projects. Entitled cheapskates are nothing new; a generic solution to the issue, would be something new.
What seems to be lost on most, is that money has been coming “out of thin air” for close to a century already. The problem is that every time less money gets destroyed than created, it dilutes the worth of the total… and people who still think in terms of gold nuggets, are completely unprepared to propose anything that would make sense.
Gen Beta might have more of a grasp on things.
That’s going to be a “he said, she said” case. Chances are, since she was an activist in the US, that she might’ve been labeled as an “instigator” in whatever ID database they are using.
You can learn about manipulation techniques so you can spot some sooner… but ultimately it’s up to you to make a decision, and chances are you’ll either over-react, or under-react. It’s very hard to not make any mistakes, or spot the ones who spend their whole life learning how to manipulate others.
By the time they’re about to go belly up, companies no longer have the resources to ensure they comb through the code to remove the parts licensed from 3rd parties, and the liquidators see all assets as something to sell in order to cover whatever loans the company got.
In an ideal world, consumers would never buy a non-open sourced car, or phone, or IoT device.
In the real world, regulators need to force companies to give consumers at least some basic way to control the products they buy.
Smart to have a buyback clause in the contract, otherwise this would’ve been lost and locked until the patent expired.
You say I don’t read… then proceed to explain the same that I already said? Ok.
This is going to get interesting:
The decision imposes a daily fine of R$50,000 (£6,800) on individuals and companies that attempt to continue using X via VPN.
A judge’s ruling on a previous case makes that ruling law.
Previous rulings are a precedent in Common Law systems like the US, UK, Canada, or Australia.
Only Supreme Court rulings become a precedent in Civil Law systems like the EU, Russia,most of the rest of America.
To draw an example, the EU never made a law about cookie splash screens.
A very poor example; Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002/58/EC.
The EU at its top level creates “Directives”, which member states then are bound to transpose into their national Civil Law systems. Judges can interprete that law in different ways, none of which creates a precedent. Only a country’s Supreme Court decision creates a precedent for that country, but even then it can be recurred up to the EU Tribunal, which has the last saying.
Where I am, the news said:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse
Terrorists, pedophiles/child molesters, organized crime like drug dealers, intellectual property pirates, and money launderers are cited commonly
Do we have a BINGO?
It may not be just the Kremlin. I’ve had several cases where I wrote about something in a Telegram chat, stuff I had never talked about before, and in a matter of seconds started seeing related ads on Facebook.
Alternatively, it could be the keyboard leaking all text, or I could have some other spyware, but I’ve only had that happen to me between Telegram and Facebook.
Then again, Telegram group chats are unencrypted, and personal chats are unencrypted by default.
Well, there is an OpenSource client, and private servers with custom rules. That makes every modification possible.
Not great. We’ll see during next hatching season.
I was raised Catholic, but my mom got me out of religion class at school and let me take “ethics”, where we learned about multiple religions. Then I went one year to a Catholic school… and decided that I was an Atheist.
After that, I looked at different religions, occultism, parapsychology, and other weird stuff (tarot too)… until I decided that I was going to live according to the scientific method above all, and denounce all sort of beliefs. So I became a Humanist.
Only I’ve since lost even more trust in humanity, so now I’m a Transhumanist.
I haven’t been able to practice much lately, but my goals were to either improve humans with technology, or to let technology (AI) take over. It gives me solace to see that even if I can’t contribute much at the moment, the world is pushing towards one of those outcomes.