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| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-03-23, 18:41 (revision 1)
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #120 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1546 days Last view: 1544 days |
Posted by BearOso Well, the violation occurs when you distribute it without a written offer. Presumably, passing on an already distributed version that lacks said offer isn't a violation, only the combination of strip offer+distribute binaries, or else someone by accident could throw his freedom away by deleting a text file - not good. So assuming it wasn't the same person who made and leaked it, they should be required to release the source. Much would have more. So I went out on the hunt for more GPL violations in devkits. There's an unmarked 7z file named "n64sdk.7z". In it are two folders, nintendo and ultra. In ultra, a folder named GCC. It was made by a company named "Kyoto Micro Corporation", and they did some custom modifications of it. There's a readme file, and it describes "Some additional functions not shown in a manual". The writing style is distinctly Japanese, so it's probably them. >Moreover, by describing a header file etc a user uses in __elfcom.c file, debugging information which is same as one defined in the file will not be output to each file, and peculiar portion of each file alone will be output as debugging information. >By using this function, an object size of each module will be reduced and therefore, time needed for compiling/linking will be considerably reduced. And, since a memory used for linking is reduced a memory size needed for a host computer does not have to be large. There does ship a copy of the GPL, but no written offer or sources. CodeWarrior wrote their own compiler though, so at least we have one N64 compiler that isn't a walking GPL violation. EDIT: Apparently they're still online. Could anyone who speaks Japanese translate this properly?
Posted by Google translate To be specific, are they implying that they're just shipping an unmodified GCC? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 19-03-23, 18:45 (revision 1)
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Post: #160 of 426
Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 282 days Last view: 9 days |
Firefox 66 now allows muted videos to autoplay, even if autoplay videos were previously blocked. To disable all autoplay videos, open about:config and set: media.autoplay.default=1 media.autoplay.enabled=false media.autoplay.allow-muted=false (though some video players still seem to be able to auto-play?) AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Screwtape |
Posted on 19-03-28, 01:24
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Full mod
 Post: #185 of 443 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 884 days Last view: 81 days |
Posted by Screwtape The fix for "extra click in the sidebar" landed relatively quickly, but the font-override fix only just made it into nightly yesterday. I guess that makes sense - the extra-click thing was super annoying while the font problem was largely cosmetic, it's natural that one would be prioritised higher than the other. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-04-03, 11:41
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #167 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1546 days Last view: 1544 days |
FSF/GNU project still hasn't responded to my email (2019-03-23, about the N64 devkit). Anyone know if they usually take this long to get back to you? I'm not in a hurry, but I want to make sure they got it. Man, fuck email. ONE JOB, delivering messages, and it can't do it well. At this point, it's just some kind of interop protocol for gmail and friends, since they shitlist most other email providers except for the big ones. Don't even send them to spam, just silently drop their emails without notice. To make matters even worse, email nowadays just means any long-form message (e.g. not IM) sent via a computer/smartphone. "I emailed him about it on Facebook" is a completely valid thing to say. That nobody came up with the idea of requiring a captcha for each message (rather than just account creation) boggles the mind. That would make your service completely useless to spammers, while still allowing senders to remain anonymous. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-04-03, 16:48 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #241 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Posted by sureanem I'm pretty much sure that a Silly Valley startup already has a $200M VC-funded app for that™. But it will only work on smartdevices (not on Real Computers), will siphon your private data to China/the NSA/FSB/Jeff Bezos secretary, and will go out of business as soon as they splurge their 4th funding round in hookers and Lamborghinis. Either that or Google will buy them just to drop the axe on them after 3 months. Posted by sureanem FTFY. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-04-03, 18:49
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #168 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1546 days Last view: 1544 days |
Posted by tomman No, a single email provider could implement this. It would make their email service considerably less likely to get shitlisted because of no spam emanating from there. Doesn't have to be part of the protocol or even announced, the mechanism is self-regulating, just like the ubiquitous phone verification. Of course the issue is rather that users would complain about how their obscure clients have stopped working. And you'd need a protocol extension to fix THAT. That is, make them work again, not make people stop complaining. No protocol extension for that. And because of this, we get phone verification rather than typing letters in a box. Ironically, because of these hardcore nerds, who (along with the mobile users) are the only people still using email clients. The Silicon Valley already has "solved" this problem, although I wouldn't call Facebook a startup company. Just be glad they haven't merged with the state identity databases yet, although I suppose it's just a matter of time before they do because GDPR. (and "the safety of our users," "cracking down on hate," "cyberbullying," and so on and so forth) There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| Screwtape |
Posted on 19-04-06, 04:22
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Full mod
Post: #204 of 443 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 884 days Last view: 81 days |
Today I learned about hyperlink auditing. If you're making a website and you want to record what links people click from your site to external sites, you can't just say: Enter hyperlink auditing. The idea is that you stick the ping attribute on a link, like this: Everybody wins - websites can track external links more easily and they don't lose referrer information, regular users have pages load more quickly because they don't have to wait for a redirector, and privacy-conscious users can turn hyperlink auditing off once for every site, instead of using custom per-site rules to remove redirectors. Or at least, they could. Apparently, Safari and Chrome have both removed the ability to turn off link auditing, which I find mystifying since it seems to me like the whole point of adding this to HTML was to lure websites into doing link auditing client-side where it can be controlled. Firefox, on the other hand, has supported link auditing since 2006, and had it disabled by default since 2008. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-04-06, 11:57
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Dinosaur
Post: #244 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Posted by Screwtape Google is an advertising company. Apple claims not to be an advertising company but sure enough they do behave as one too (as long as you keep buying into their ecosystem). What's not to expect from them? More reasons to NOT use Chrome and/or own iDevices then. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-04-06, 14:33 (revision 2)
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #174 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1546 days Last view: 1544 days |
Posted by tomman Are they? It seems like if you buy a $1000 smartphone and $2000 computer from them, that easily dwarfs any and all profit they could make from their ad ventures. At least this was the case a few years ago. Although they're probably going to try and transition into it real soon, because you can only sell so many computers if they're not getting any better. Soon we'll just have thin clients dynamically loading parts of WebAssembly apps, with most computing done on the back end in some data center in the US. You thought proprietary software was bad? At least then you had access to the machine code and could pirate them. You thought hash matching was bad? Just wait until Google Drive (your new storage, the built-in SSD of your chromebook requires all writes to be cryptographically signed by Google) no longer has an "upload arbitrary file" function, but rather just can ingest content from within the Google ecosystem and approved websites. You couldn't even temporarily hold content that Google didn't want you to, because there would be nowhere from which to ingest it. A camera recording done by person X would always be marked as such, there wouldn't be any way to deal with content without also taking the meta-data with you. And good luck with the encryption, by the way. Sure hope those apps get signed by Google without key escrow implemented. But then again, gracious Google will encrypt it for you so you won't have to think about it and can just get on with your life, doing the things that matter to you. Computers for the rest of us. Maybe you'll be able to continue using legacy hardware forever, but good luck connecting it to the Internet. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-04-06, 21:25
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Custom title here
 Post: #391 of 1151 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 12 hours |
Posted by sureanem Apple's hardware sales have been going down for a while now. Most of their profit growth is subscription services. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-04-06, 23:05
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #176 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1546 days Last view: 1544 days |
Posted by CaptainJistuce Are you sure about the subscription part? Apple's financial statements lists "Services" as 12.9% of revenue, up from 10.3%, but it's not only stuff like App Store and iCloud, but also sales from Digital Content and Services, AppleCare, Apple Pay, licensing and other services ... amortization of the deferred value of Maps, Siri and free iCloud services, which are bundled in the sales price of certain products. And perhaps most importantly, the fee Google pays to be the default search engine in Safari. According to Goldman Sachs' analysts: Posted by https://www.businessinsider.com/aapl-share-price-google-pays-apple-9-billion-annually-tac-goldman-2018-9 If they're right, that's $3 billion, or $0.75 billion per quarter, which would amount to around 43% of the 1.75 billion increase in quarterly services revenue between Q1 FY19 and Q1 FY18. That said, even after factoring out this, sales revenue is still shrinking, so if the trend continues (which it probably will), it will end up that way eventually. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-04-07, 01:20
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Custom title here
Post: #392 of 1151 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 14 days Last view: 12 hours |
I did say sales growth, not sales. That the services section of their income sees spikes when they introduce new subscription services makes it relatively easy to figure out what impact they have when they're introduced, even if they vanish under the umbrella next year. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-04, 11:54 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #289 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
Mozilla broke your addons ONCE AGAIN because they're https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/05/04/0457201/a-glitch-is-breaking-all-firefox-extensions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823701 Oh wait, this time wasn't a deliberate action from the enemy (addon signing certificate expired - no, you "tech journalist" illiterates, an expired cert IS NOT A "glitch" by any means!), more like a consequence of another earlier deliberate action (mandatory code signing for addons). Still, if you're an addon user, you know this really sucks and aren't precisely wishing good things to Mozilla's staff. Since Mozilla can't really fix this without issuing renewed certificates (which will require a Firefox update), these are your workarounds for today: - Rollback your PC clock to a couple days before the troublesome cert expiration date (and risk breaking everything else that relies on accurate date stamps, like websites failing to work just because your PC clock is off) - Disable code signing for addons (xpinstall.signatures.required = false). Unfortunately that only works if you're running ESR or Developer builds, not the regular mainstream build since that's aimed at "computer-challenged people" - Try this (convoluted, involves unpacking addons!) or this (danger stranger Javascripts!). You have to redo that each time you start your browser (1) or once a day (2) until Mozilla gets its shit together and fixes their browser - Official workaround: enable Studies/Normandy (whatever that is, apparently this is enabled by default for most plebs nowadays), which allows Mozilla to - Have you considered to move to Seamonkey? They could use your help, y'know... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-05-04, 18:28
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #229 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1546 days Last view: 1544 days |
Man, what fucking clowns. I was just going to head on here to complain about it. Thanks for the rundown. Mandatory code signing for add-ons was a mistake, and it will have disastrous consequences in the future. Not allowing you to disable it in the regular builds is just straight up evil. Sure am glad I use ESR, so I'll keep that enabled for the next time they screw it up. Rumor has it it was due to their hiring policies. Why would you use Seamonkey? All I know is that it integrates some stuff I don't want (like an email client), has bad extension support, and is poorly updated. But I know you use it, so what are the upsides? There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-04, 20:35
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Dinosaur
Post: #290 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
> All I know is that it integrates some stuff I don't want (like an email client), has bad extension support, and is poorly updated. 1) I DO use the email and IRC (ChatZilla) client, hence they're stuff I do want/need. I'll grant you that the HTML editor is pure garbage, but since it isn't based off Electron, no Javascript boys would want to touch it. 2) Not their fault. Seamonkey supports XUL-based addons, now deemed as "legacy junk" by Mozilla hipsters. Support for WebExtensions is in the works, apparently (not that I want them in first place, but they're pretty much forced to, given the shared Gecko base) 3) Absolutely not their fault. If only they had more manpower... > But I know you use it, so what are the upsides? - SANE UI. You know, OS/WM-provided title bar, menu bar, shared toolbar+address/search bar, bookmarks bar, tabs, client area, status bar. Just like good ol' Firefox 3.6, definitely something you can't have past FF29/56. - Not ruled by a bunch of art school dropout hipsters that believe that I should not have choice on my settings because "it's for my own good" - For the people that hates Poetteringware(tm), you can still use ALSA as an audio backend under Linux - No hidden experiments, no secret advertising (Looking Glass, the whole Mr. Robot stunt), no shoehorned "pref updates" (Normandy), nothing that gets in your way. You only get a web browser (plus some extra tools you're free to ignore, I doubt the ~100MiB from your SeaMonkey folder are going to bloat your HDD/SSD too much, considering your glorified IM clients can easily take triple that space) - Not a product by Moonchild Productions, where they have grown up to the status of "Mozilla-lite" ("'your browser you way', except when we say the contrary!"). I'm very happy with Seamonkey. I don't need support for the "latest and greatest" in the clusterfuck of the "living standard" that is HTML5/JS (dear god, who in the hell decided it was a good idea to not have stable versions of anything anymore!?). I'm well aware of the limitations of the project (mostly caused by Mozilla, who would be happy to kill the project for good and have done their hardest to ensure it so). Still, behind the scenes there IS progress, but they can only do so much considering there are next to no active devs willing to contribute with the project, and the Gecko codebase is no walk in the park for any coder out there. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| creaothceann |
Posted on 19-05-04, 21:17
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Posted by tomman No need to wait if you follow the steps here. My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10 |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-05-04, 22:15
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #231 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1546 days Last view: 1544 days |
Posted by tomman Yeah, I'm not saying it's their fault. But it seems like a poor tradeoff - just switching which browser I use accomplishes nothing, but I lose support for many extensions and I still am using a bloated and dodgy browser. I just use roundcube or outlook online, never understood mail clients unless you're paranoid. (in which case, don't use email)
The title bar is native, and the menu bar at least looks the part except upon closer inspection. My system theme is uglier than Firefox', so it doesn't make much of a difference. What do you mean by "toolbar+address/search bar"? You can put icons to the right of your search/address bar in Firefox too. Do you mean like Chrome? You could do that, although I don't see why you would.
It is still this though, just indirectly. They are still skijoring behind Mozilla's "technology". If they make breaking and big changes, they either have to choose to use inferior tech or get with the program.
ESR doesn't have this problem either, or I've disabled it.
It's a virtuous choice, but I wouldn't think it's a good one. I mean, if I'd want to prove a point I could just use Brave, but if I only want a good browser there's no good reason not to use Firefox, unfortunately. I disabled extension signing, so that problem is solved. It's like using Trisquel or whatever. Sure, proprietary software is bad, but all I do by using their kook distros is shoot myself in the foot. (Also, FSF doesn't consider Debian Free software because Living standard is also, as much as I hate to admit it, a perfectly sane move. Now that all devices are always* online, there is no reason to stick with the archaic notion of updates. It is far superior, from the perspective of the developer, to be able to run testing and push updates without having to bother with obtaining the end user's "consent". And because W3C in practice answers to Mozilla/Google (where Mozilla is dependent on Google) and not the other way around, and because they are the only browser manufacturers of note, the only need for a standard is to document how Firefox/Chrome works, so that people can make inferences without having to reverse-engineer either browser, and also so that they have something to check their implementation against. (Always, in the same sense that the divisor in a division is never zero, or a null pointer dereference never happens) Remember that Mozilla answers to Google and that any claimed opposition is a lie. Mozilla doesn't want any new competitors because they'd primarily threaten them, and they believe themselves to have a duty to strive to hold a position of monopoly (which, incidentally, is not even wrong). And Google doesn't want it because Mozilla does their bidding, they have almost complete control over them, and they need them kept alive for legal reasons. So neither party has any interest in simplifying the standard or their code because it would threaten their position. If only their respective insiders can comprehend the code, the risk for forks is significantly decreased. I can't recall any practical difference between Firefox 56 and 60, nor did I know what version I had prior to opening the About box. For most people, updates are just a nuisance and they are grateful they have been dispensed with. Most people don't even use computers. The only hope for the future of the web (lol, who am I kidding) is that Mozilla shoot themselves in the foot by accidentally making their browser too simple, so that they again fall victim to the downsides of open source. But it doesn't matter, because if that happens Google will just get Youtube to start using Firefox's undocumented APIs (making it de facto unusable for anyone else) and/or start requiring DRM for all videos, which only Real Browser Makers™ get to implement. Perhaps glorious China will save us from Silicon Valley and bring about a peaceful Psycho-Pass style civilization where everyone uses proper software, like Windows XP and IE6. We're going to have all this surveillance anyway, so it might as well be used for something useful instead. Posted by https://www.tomsguide.com/us/huawei-vs-samsung-vs-apple,news-29995.html There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| tomman |
Posted on 19-05-04, 23:01 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #292 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 16 days Last view: 13 hours |
I'll stick to Seamonkey, thanks. When the next week version of The Internet breaks on it, I'll just ignore those websites. I can't stand webmail. At. All. Been using mail clients since I got online for the first time, 18 years ago (if I had understood the importance of making backups back then, maybe my mailboxes would been old enough to drink liquor and buy rifles and porn). And with GMail, I can have the best of both worlds: Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-05-04, 23:37
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #232 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1546 days Last view: 1544 days |
WHAT THE FUCK?! Tor Browser just keeps on running as usual. On first run, you get a warning that some extensions have been disabled, but this goes away. Then you're just casually browsing without NoScript. And this doesn't warrant a hard update? "THERE IS A CRITICAL BUG IN UPSTREAM FIREFOX DISABLING NOSCRIPT, YOU MUST UPDATE"? Instead, they just trust technologically incompetent journalists and whatnot to go to Reddit or someplace to find a fix? Disgusting. I am in lack of words. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-05-04, 23:47
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #233 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1546 days Last view: 1544 days |
Posted by tomman That's a reasonable position, provided you can avoid it. Mail clients seem kind of neat, not having to open a program to get your mail. But the configuration isn't worth it IMO, as well as not being able to use a throwaway account etc. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
