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cuckcuckspruce··on The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
It's certainly a DMCA violation if you broke any DRM to make that copy. That does not require distribution.
cuckcuckspruce··on The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
I don't know where you are looking, but I have no problem getting fully digital rips of current run TV shows in 720p/1080p that are wonderful - excelled only by BluRay rips from the box-sets when they come out.
cuckcuckspruce··on Sweden tried to drop Assange extradition in 2013
Wouldn't you be a little salty if the runner up for President of the United States once asked if she could order your extrajudicial killing because she didn't like what you were saying about her?
cuckcuckspruce··on Let’s talk about usernames
If you're serious about this, consider running UUCP as the mail transport. It can be tunneled through SSH easily (or have TLS applied to it with something like stunnel), allows either end to initiate a transfer of data (assuming open ports), handles dynamic network addresses easily, and will likely be a much smaller drain on mobile phone batteries.

Plus it can allow sending and receiving of email and files, if you so choose.

cuckcuckspruce··on Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts
This is the number one reason that I use tinc, and something that competitors (including WireGuard as promoted at the top of this thread) don't have without additional work.
cuckcuckspruce··on Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts
Can it do mesh routing in the same way as tinc? Otherwise it's a poor replacement. It was not immediately evident in the three or so minutes I took to look at the project's web page.
cuckcuckspruce··on OpenSC2K – An Open Source Remake of SimCity 2000
Most SimCity 2000 discs come with the DOS version, the Windows 3.11 version, and the Windows 95 version. The DOS version runs just fine under DOSBox if you don't want to get into Wine too deeply.
cuckcuckspruce··on Free Software Foundation Receives $1M Donation from Pineapple Fund
Yes, thanks.
cuckcuckspruce··on Free Software Foundation Receives $1M Donation from Pineapple Fund
Ironically, many GNU manuals are included in the non-free sections because Debian considers the GNU FDL non-free because it allows invariant sections - sections that cannot be changed.
cuckcuckspruce··on Free Software Foundation Receives $1M Donation from Pineapple Fund
If you brew beer from scratch at home and share your recipe then your beer can be both libre and gratis!
cuckcuckspruce··on Free Software Foundation Receives $1M Donation from Pineapple Fund
Open source focuses on the technical. Free software focuses on the political

Stallman has said many times he wasn't trying to move the state of technology forward with GNU projects - just trying to have a libre computing base because it was the best political option.

cuckcuckspruce··on ActivityPub: decentralized social networking protocol
Mail over UUCP and Usenet over UUCP are optimized for short(-ish) messages, and deal with packet loss, dynamic IP addresses on remote connections, partial transfers, and synchronization scheduling as part of their implementation.

It would seem to be a good base to build something like ActivityPub on top of.

cuckcuckspruce··on Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors
How many bankers have gone to jail for crashing the US economy?

The FBI doesn't give a shit as long as it's the anus of the average citizen being ravaged. They only care when it's against the 1%.

cuckcuckspruce··on ActivityPub: decentralized social networking protocol
All of these social networking protocols feel like we're just re-inventing UUCP at a higher level.
cuckcuckspruce··on Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0
There are software engineering fields where people commit to precise specifications - they typically interface with humans on some biological level (medical devices, etc), and they are quite expensive.
cuckcuckspruce··on No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour
There are plenty of other interests in the main character, and many characters that you become close to as part of the game. The fact that there is a group of heroes, all very close, all interested in saving the world, means that this game, more than previous ones, is sort of subverting the "save the princess, get a wife" trope in my eyes.

Every member of the group of heroes in the story is a realized character with their own motivations (borne out more in the DLC), and all of them, if you are looking for a relationship - notice _you_ not the game, would be potentially interested in the player character.

cuckcuckspruce··on Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator
The WiiU has been dead since the Switch released. Nintendo put out BotW on the WiiU because they hadn't put out a Zelda game on it yet and Switch supplies were short. I wouldn't say that it's hurt sales for the game for the Switch - BotW had an above 100% attach rate at launch on the Switch.
cuckcuckspruce··on Unskilled and Unaware of It (1999) [pdf]
I'm not claiming competence in anything. All I am doing is saying that when evaluating competence that you should test the thing you are looking for - competence - and not accept confidence as a substitute or proxy for competence.
cuckcuckspruce··on Unskilled and Unaware of It (1999) [pdf]
>Taking the point further, can anyone think of a mechanism by which the paper has a positive effect?

Yes - by reinforcing in people that confidence is disjoint from competence, and that 'trust-but-verify' is the best policy when evaluating people's competence.

cuckcuckspruce··on Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
Less nice technically or socially? Speaking as someone who has played countless hours of competitive video games in my downtime after work, I assure you that, socially, 'less nice' is a charitable way to describe gaming chat, devolving into a constant torrent of abuse and harassment depending on your skill level, the sound of your voice, and the Dunning Kruger level of yourself and your other team members.
cuckcuckspruce··on The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won
No, but potential for bandwidth caps with fees for going in light of the removal of network neutrality legislation might tip the balance in the favor of the codec that looks better at a lower bitrate.
cuckcuckspruce··on Penn Station Could Get Worse
Same way that private corporations ensure money is spent where it is intended to be spent.

Fire (read: impeach/do not re-elect) those that do not their job by spending money not for its intended purpose. Discover this by regular, full, public audits.

Prosecute those who commit embezzlement and larceny and send the to prison if convicted. Make them serve long prison stints with no hope of parole for having violated their position of public trust and bar them from holding public office or lobbying positions on penalty of more punitive prison time.

cuckcuckspruce··on Why Mickey Mouse’s 1998 copyright extension probably won’t happen again
Capitalism should be abolished.

As it stands, capitalism serves little positive social purpose. The overwhelming majority of laborers get paid little if anything for their work, and still there is a glut of production. So there should be no fear of the world losing lots of great production if there was no capitalism.

Most of the benefit of capitalism is reaped by the middle men, who profit off the work when the laborers that made it have long ceased to do so (if they ever did). Abolishing capitalism will thus mostly affect these middle men, and have little effect on labor itself.

Those laborers that still want to get paid in a capitalism-free era can find business models that don't rely on capitalism, like the military, collective farming, or secret police-like models where one is paid for future work.

cuckcuckspruce··on The Future of Transmit iOS
>So I think they should credit some of their Mac earnings to iOS, and factor that into their figure for the iOS app. Doing separate accounting for paired apps on different platforms makes less sense when those apps have synergy with each other.

I think they disagree with you here, bud.

cuckcuckspruce··on The Future of Transmit iOS
Cool. I think you're entitled for charging your rates for your labor. Do free work for me.
cuckcuckspruce··on The Future of Transmit iOS
As a developer, I can't eat good will, and my landlord doesn't accept it for my rent payment.
cuckcuckspruce··on Humira’s Drug Formula: Start at a High Price, Go Higher
I'd rather not say which exact states, but she was non-pregnant and not considered disabled by the state or the federal government despite applying for it, having the statements of her doctors, and having had a kidney transplant, chronic pain that prevented sitting and standing, blood clots, and lupus. So in the eyes of the state, despite having no income, she was not eligible for medicaid. They did tell her that if her kidney started to fail again then they _might_ consider her disabled, but she shouldn't expect another transplant because you typically only get one.

She was recently determined medically disabled by the federal government and now just needs to get through the financial eligibility steps.

cuckcuckspruce··on Humira’s Drug Formula: Start at a High Price, Go Higher
Some perspective from the US.

My girlfriend has lupus - diagnosed at eight. The lupus destroyed her kidney by her fourteenth birthday. She got a transplant at sixteen. Her transplant was covered by her mom's insurance with the rest of the costs falling onto our state's medicaid because she was a minor and her mom, an RN, was not well to do. Her medications were also covered by her mom's health insurance and picked up by our state's medicaid program.

She and her mom moved to another state when my girlfriend turned seventeen, so from that point it was her mom's insurance picking up the medication. She and I started dating when she turned eighteen. At that time, all of her drugs, including anti-rejection medications, were $5 per 90 day supply at the local pharmacy under her mom's insurance.

Her mom lost her job when she was 21, so my girlfriend lost her insurance and was unable to afford COBRA. My girlfriend did not qualify for medicaid in this new state because she was not a minor, pregnant, or considered disabled by the federal government despite not being able to work with the lupus. At this time, our best option for her medications were discount mail order pharmacies, which cost $1000 per 30 day supply, which we could barely afford with my computer programmer salary, as I could not add her to my insurance due to us not being married.

For awhile, she was on PCIP and then a plan made available on the ACA exchange. Her premiums were $400 per month, and that made her prescriptions $20 per 90 day supply. So it brought the costs from $1000 per 30 day supply to about $450 per month, counting insurance. We managed to make this work for a few months before I was laid off from my programming gig and lost my insurance.

We moved back to the state she moved from due to a job offer. She still did not qualify for medicaid, but my new job allowed me to add someone to my insurance if we were married or domestic partners. So we got a domestic partnership, and her drugs now again cost $5 per 90 day supply.

So I've been with someone on both sides in America - good insurance, no insurance, basic insurance, and then good insurance again. We really need to find a better system. We've survived by luck and really tight financial planning.

cuckcuckspruce··on “Did you copy/paste the info? Facebook seems to read all pasteboard data”
As a data point, my Samsung Galaxy J7 came with the Facebook app and I was able to uninstall it without issue. So it looks like this doesn't apply to all Samsung phones.
cuckcuckspruce··on /bin/false is not security (2005)
If you can trust your administrators then you don't need to worry about shell escapes in editors.

The idea for sudoedit is that it allows you to allow non-root users to safely edit files, and if they shell out of their editor then they've not gained root rights - they edit a temporary file as a regular user and then sudo moves the file into place after it is edited.

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