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Because, combined with a police state and selective enforcement, its prohibition is an amazing tool for filling prisons with black and brown bodies.

Because everyone and their dog would say they want it, or are interested in it, even if they don't actually want it. This puts up a (small) barrier that helps gauge true interest.

It's the same idea as setting up a landing page for a product that doesn't exist and seeing if people click "pricing" or "buy now" to determine if there is a market for it.

If we want to argue about intrinsic rights, though, you could also argue that there is no intrinsic right for an author of an intellectual work to have any ownership over it whatsoever once they share that idea with another person.

The fact that they have legal ownership of a work is a societal construct, enforced by government, to incentivise the creations of said works for the sake of the public good.

The notion of intellectual property, of ideas "belonging" to the first person who had them publicly, are a fairly recent invention in human history; and the notion of practically eternal copyrights held by immortal entities spanning multiple human lifetimes is an extremely recent invention.

As much as the capital-L Librarians like to jump up and down yelling "Property rights! Property rights!", those rights are only exist because there are folks with guns willing to use them to enforce those rights;

So with that in mind, the only thing I think worth arguing is what the terms of that deal should be. I am of the opinion that that the term of a copyright should be as short as possible, while still being long enough to incentivise creation. I think this was the original idea of the 20ish year copyright term. Personally, I think that the sooner a society can claim a work, and continue building off of it, the better.

Some surprising takeaways for me; Facebook uses a Django app in their infrastructure. That app was in debug mode, revealing server secrets. That app was also configured to use the Pickle based session storage, leading to one of the few serious RCE vulnerabilities in Django.

I'll have to remember this next time I think an exploit scenario is too unlikely.

Because zip codes can, in many cases for many historical reasons, strongly correlate with brown and black folks, which are legally protected classes.

As much as you might think you are being clever by just saying "Oh, I'm just excluding AREAS, not people" you are still running afoul of the law since you are effectively using zip codes as a proxy for race. This has been tried before and the courts aren't really fooled by it.

So, no, there is nothing inherently wrong with excluding certain areas from seeing your ad, unless you are using the area exclusion mechanism as a proxy for excluding based on race/sexuality/religion or some other protected status.

If you find yourself in such a situation, you should say something along the lines of "At my previous job, I provided a tremendous amount of value to the organization, and was unsatisfied with the amount of that value I was capturing for myself. Given the current market conditions, this is something I feel comfortable remedying"

This case hinges on three facts. First, displaying housing ads that exclude protected classes is illegal. Second is that Facebook built tools that allowed advertisers to create said illegal ads. Finally, Facebook had no oversight process to reject potentially illegal ads. The fact that Facebook created tools that allowed advertisers to effectively cause Facebook to break the law in an automated fashion isn't really much of a defense.

And they tend to do a damn good job. There is a brand called May Wah that makes incredible fake meats. I have no issues eating meat, but some times I crave May Wah nuggets.

The geotargeting polygon was literally RED!?!

I can believe that being an oversight, but holy Shit those optics... yikes

Indeed! And there have been some truly heroic hacks of the little buggers!

https://books.google.com/books?id=lvMxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT248&lpg=...

I've lucid dreamed a few times, and every time I am able to summon a "debug menu". Sort of a drop-down menu with all of the dream parameters. I can never think of anything more interesting to try than Physics>Gravity>moon.

I turned off collisions once, and spent like twenty minutes just putting my hands through walls and giggling.

Can you elaborate? I just set it up on a new phone yesterday and all it asked for on mine was; contacts (makes sense) files (to send pictures, files, etc) receive and send texts (if you want it as your default texting app/validating phone number via sms) Access to camera and microphone (for calls and in app photography)

These all seem like reasonable permissions for the features available.

Here's the thing, though. If it weren't for government regulations holding civil engineers to a higher standard, they simply wouldn't produce the same quality.

Unless there are strong business requirements demanding high quality code, no business is going to pay the costs of it.

No business will ever willingly do the right thing unless someone is holding a gun to it demanding they do so. They simply won't be able to compete against businesses that aren't.

The true craftsmen out there will consistently see themselves passed on for promotions, and receive negative performance evaluations in environments where features introduced to a codebase are treated as far more important than bugs introduced into a codebase. The folks who treat it as a job will quickly find their salaries increase as they migrate into management positions.

Strongly disagree, at least in situations where the works are abandoned, largely unmonetizable and on the verge of disappearance.

I believe that the risk of discouraging innovators who would be upset at the idea of their works existing in some form, years after their relevance is a reasonable trade off in comparison to the value that the sum collection of these works could provide to the future.

Especially when you consider that every innovator working today is building off of the preserved knowledge of past generations who's works have similarly fallen into the public domain. Disney didn't have to cut a check to Shakespeare Holdings, LLC when they made The Lion King; for example.

That's not to say that I am an anti-IP absolutist in this regard. I think that the ideas of copyrights and patents aren't inherently bad. I think it makes pragmatic sense to offer a temporary monopoly on works. I just think that the balance point between serving the creator and serving society needs to be evaluated.

I think when it comes down to a conflict between an individual's property rights, and the entirety of future human culture having access to a work to learn from and build upon; I say fuck your individual property rights.

Especially in situations where a work is entirely digital, and preserving the work does absolutely no harm to the owner of said work.

It is passthrough, but it just so happens that the hdcp protection doesn't quite make it through on many of these devices.

If you don't mind me asking, what are some listservs worth reading?

You can use 256 colors per-frame, as well as using transparancy. Also, each frame is just a diff from the previous frame's content. So it's not unreasonable, just pointless when video formats are so good.

Like many things, using it maliciously

The client will kill the connection if it has the file cached, sooooo, not much.

but why, tho?

What sorts of devices would benefit from a system like this? Can someone give me sone use cases where being able to run containers on embedded devices would be useful? The tech seems pretty cool, but I am just having a hard time wrapping my head around it as someone who's experience with embedded stops at hacking on raspi/arduino/esp* devices

This is a bit of a disaster. Not surprising, though. Lots of US government electronic services have gone unmaintained under the Trump admin. The website for servicing defaulted student loans has also been completely broken for months: https://myeddebt.ed.gov/borrower/

I got lucky on that one! I have been remapping caps lock to escape for years now on every machine I use. It's great, until I need to use literally anybody else's machine.

Awesome! I have played with godot before, and while it has some sharp edges I am thrilled to see an opensource engine coming together so well. Great job to all involved!

I don't think it's callous at all. In fact, it's a sort of higher order empathy. If the goal is to save as many lives as possible, then this is exactly the right way to think about these things.

It's like how most Americans are more likely to die from obesity related diseases than terrorism, but we spend orders of magnitude more resources trying to prevent terrorism.

Of the developers/tech folks I know it's mostly a weed/booze crowd. A few people that do party drugs. And a few people who occasionally do psychedelics. No one I know seems to have any outwardly visible issues with it. I do know one person who I am sure has problem with painkillers, but it's that scary blurry ground between "addict" and "chronic pain sufferer". I don't think it effects her work, but I wonder about their personal life.

Also stimulants. I almost forgot to mention them because they are basically water in this industry. Almost everyone who isn't on some sort of health kick is using some combo of caffeine/amphetamine derivatives/coke/modalert/etc.

Online proctoring is actually a really busy space in edtech. There are numerous companies with products deployed that are fully automated. They record videos of students taking the tests through a webcam, then send the analysis back to the instructors highlighting which videos are worth watching.

I noticed twitter was down, and my first thought was "Oh, man. Wait until I tell all the people on twitter!"

Then another search engine will happily take the that browser's market share.

All my smart lightbulbs revert to lightbulbs in a black out. Even without network access, they still work like dumbulbs.