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I am currently in the process of learning C and having never seen any B code before I am rather surprised at their striking similarities. What could C do at the time that B couldn’t? Why did C eventually replace B?

I recommended checking out Tom Scott’s video on DMCA (0). It’s 40 minutes long and rather YouTube centric however it paints a very clear picture as to why these companies are engaging in a seemingly broken practice. It’s not because they want to, it’s because they are legally required to do so.

(0) - https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU

> So if I wrote a sequel to Gone with the Wind, they would have had the rights to it.

Edit - I should have asked for clarification, do you mean when you are on the clock or off the clock? I interpreted your comment as the latter and wrote my comment below with that in mind.

Is the practice of companies owning the rights to software you make on your own time commonplace?!?! I am a student and I really want to go into the field of computer science, however whenever I read stuff like this it is incredibly disheartening.

Also the semi-recent Nginx ownership rights issue comes to mind.

The problem isn’t necessarily that they won’t move to colder areas (well that is a problem for coastal regions susceptible to hurricanes, etc, but I digress). The problem is that the waters around those reefs are warming up faster than the reefs could ever possibly hope to move. Reefs are built by corals excreting calcium carbonate onto their attached surface. This process is an incredibly slow one with mature reefs taking many hundreds of thousands of years to form. The reefs can’t keep ahead of water temperatures that are projected to change within the next 50 years.

How do you go about generating these posts? I think I would like to play around with something like this but I am not sure where to start.

Same with Torrents as well.

> This only exacerbates the problem.

I personally haven’t found this to be the case. I’ve often found that starting out with an apology leads the offended to be much more receptive to what you have to say next. Best case scenario the person you are apologizing too isn’t offended at all and tells you so. Worst case scenario the offended uses your apology as justification that a wrong was committed in the first place. Thankfully I have only ever encountered either the former or people somewhere in the middle.

It appears as though you click on each button and see what color the button turns. If the button turns red the site doesn’t have the permission to do what the button says. If the button turns green then the site can do what the button says.

I have been using Syncthing for a few months now and I love it!

I have noticed that 7-zip offers the best compression ratio out of the options you listed above when set for maximum compression. I personally am happy to hear this news.

Thank you!

Hmm, you’re right. Thank you for expanding on this point! I really appreciate it!

That’s pretty funny! Thank you for sharing!

I did enjoy the anecdote. If the original commenter is comfortable sharing the story I would also enjoy reading that as well.

If you don’t mind, could you explain what happened?

As a teenager myself I experience a lot of external pressure from my peers, adults, and even the education system to not be boring.

My friends don’t want to hang out with someone who is boring. Adults don’t want to talk to a kid who can’t show that they are mature and can’t provide experiences to back that up. Colleges aren’t going to admit a potential student who can’t an tell an interesting story.

There is too much incentive to not be boring in my current environment.

This makes me think of Whoopi Goldberg's introduction to the second volume of the "Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection" published in 2005 [0]. Warner Bros faced the same kind question that we see these companies grappling with now and decided it was best to keep a majority of the offensive content in the collection. Most importantly, the collection was prefaced by Whoopi Goldberg and she explained why the offensive clips were included. I highly recommend anyone who reads this comment to watch the video below.

I personally feel as though it would be better to do something like this with Dr. Seuss' books rather than ceasing their publication.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_oEOdIBOpU

Edit - Whoopi Goldberg also did something similar for the third volume of the collection as well --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCT1clqci3I

May you please upload a screenshot of the tweet? I can’t see the tweet as I don’t have an account. It appears as though the user has blocked all non-Twitter users from viewing their posts.

Edit - I found an archive of the tweet https://archive.md/VpYl2

I really recommend you all look up the work of Social Phycologist Jonathan Haidt. Specially his work regarding his book “The Coddling of The American Mind.”

In it he covers the consequences of over-protective parenting on today’s American youth and how those consequences have spilled over onto college campuses in the form of over-protective policies. As a kid myself I feel as though his work really resonates with me and I *highly* consider all current parents to become at least familiar with his research.

Personally, all I can say is thank you and keep it up. I am almost 18 myself and my parents have been raising me in manner where I had little meaningful responsibility delegated to me during my earlier years. Because of this and with college just around the corner adulthood feels incredibly overwhelming.

I highly recommend you look up the work of Social Phycologist Jonathan Haidt. Specially his work regarding the book “The Coddling of The American Mind.”

Woah, I had no clue that Privacy existed before but it looks really cool! What do you think of the service? Have you had any problems with it?

This is the very same problem that Tor faced when Tor bridge use started to pick up in China around the late 2000s / early 2010s. You only needed a single Chinese user to connect to your server for it to be probed by the Chinese censors. Older versions of the obfs Tor bridge protocol could be detected by active probes and thus blocked very much like these Signal proxies. This is a cat and mouse game that Signal could very easily lose should Iran start to care about probing all new active connections that leave Iran.

Would you mind providing me with a few examples on how shamelessness can be pulled off on an individual level? I can see how shamelessness works when you are really big either politically or socially (Ex: Donald Trump). But I am having a hard time thinking of individual examples where the social cost that comes with doing shameless things outweigh the benefits.

This is super cool! Any plans to support 4 players at once?

I am not sure if bibliotik has more books than libgen by sheer numbers but I am pretty sure that bibliotiks books are of higher quality and better organized at the very least. Oh and if you haven't already got your foot in the door or know somebody who does it is unlikely that people like you and I will simply get invited by some kind stranger on the internet.

Also, a lot of books that were behind the bibliotik signup wall have been freed by /u/-Archivist.

https://www.reddit.com/r/opendirectories/comments/f2teym/pro...

I personally recommend you start with MyAnonamouse.org. They hold invite interviews twice a week over IRC and I have heard that the community is really welcoming to new users.

https://www.myanonamouse.net/inviteapp.php

As a student myself (American highschool, currently senior year + online dual enrollment) I can't help but feel as though a lot of the math classes I am taking are simply wasting my time. Actually, I can't help but feel that a lot of the classes I am taking are wasting my time.

I would consider myself one of the lucky ones in the fact that I never had to touch anything calculus related. My school tested having students take AP Statistics instead of Pre-Calculus (a decision they have now reversed after seeing that only 3 kids passed the AP stats exam) and I avoided taking Calculus for my senior year because I am taking a math class at a local college instead.

I am also quite disappointed that my college Algebra class feels like the same pump and dump memory game all over again. Then again, it's all online due to Covid so I can only hope that the real college experience is more interesting.

I really wish high schools would stop emphasizing on the "common curriculum" and start giving students more freedom to choose what they want to learn. I also think that there should be a highschool class that teaches you how to think instead of what to think.

After looking at some of the setup guides for some of the games it doesn't look like it is using any fancy isolation tricks. So far it looks like it works with games that either allow the user to run multiple instances or the program somehow modifies the game to allow it to run a separate instance. Although I don't know what is being changed that allows the games to run multiple instances.

Here is an example of the program modifying Left 4 Dead 2 so that it can run a separate instance. https://youtu.be/1RHWgHh2Q6M?t=120

>Not sure they have an AES accelerator

The ARM chips in the all of the Raspberry pis do not have AES accelerators. Encrypting your pis drive is going to be a serious hit on performance like you said. I don't recommend it.

If you really really really want to encrypt your Rpi then you need to use a disk cipher like Adiantum. It is based off of ChaCha12 and was made specifically for low end CPUs that lack AES accelerators.

I have been running a Minecraft server on a Raspberry Pi 4 for my friends and I for a while so I may be able to provide some input. PaperMC is the only way I could get the Pi to run Minecraft while having an acceptable player experience.

I have to keep the world files on an external SSD though as the SD card is simply to slow and becomes a bottle neck. I also had to change some of Minecrafts settings as well to reduce CPU strain (disable spawn chunks, reduce render distance, etc). I also overclocked the Pi's CPU to 2 Gigahertz. It actually works out really nicely and I recommend you give it a try if you are interested. You are going to want to use a 64bit os like Ubuntu though in order to avoid a 32bit OS' max memory process allocation limit of 2 gigs, Minecraft is very ram hungry.

I can't speak for how effective Fawkes is but I can speak for the process. I just tried this out with 4 images.

One thing that I took notice of was how long the program ran on my computer. It took about 5 and a half minutes to obfuscate 4 images on an i9-9900K with the cpu was pegged at 100% the entire time. I can't imagine how long this would take on a low end laptop: especially if I needed to cloak a lot of images in bulk.

Another thing I noticed is that the discoloration that is applied to the final images can be easily mistaken for bruising. If I were to see someones post on social media and they looked like my results I'd be inclined to think that the poster is recovering from a bad fight or is a victim of abuse.

Other than those two little nit picks the tool is pretty cool! However I don't think I will be using it myself due to the second point.