Kazumara

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 93 points 3 months ago (2 children)

While viewing and paying for pre-recorded content remains legal, the law targets live, commissioned interactions, which lawmakers argue blur legal and ethical lines.

Interesting distinction they are making there.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

Yep. Relevant sentence bolded by me below

6d) Convey the object code by offering access from a designated place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no further charge. You need not require recipients to copy the Corresponding Source along with the object code. If the place to copy the object code is a network server, the Corresponding Source may be on a different server (operated by you or a third party) that supports equivalent copying facilities, provided you maintain clear directions next to the object code saying where to find the Corresponding Source. Regardless of what server hosts the Corresponding Source, you remain obligated to ensure that it is available for as long as needed to satisfy these requirements.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

violated the terms of the GPL

Well we don't know that, the terms say that you need to make the source available to people who got the binary. Either ship them together or ship a written offer for obtaining the source with the binary. You do not have to make the source available to the public (but any of your customers later could).

To verify your claim we would have to get the binary from them, and check if source or an offer for it was included.

Edit: The above is true for GPL2, but it seems Signal is under GPL3, in which distribution of offers of source have been curtailed a bit compared to GPL2, if I'm reading Section 6 here right

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I know. Chris Sawyer. If I recall correctly he said he had to use a little bit of C to interface with the Windows APIs but the rest is all assembly 😄

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I played Roller Coaster Tycoon from 1999 recently. That was the exact opposite, and so refreshing. Its an efficient game, which I think it had to be to run well back then with the simulation of 1000 individual guests and the whole park on a Pentium 90 with 16 MB of RAM.

I don't remember how it was back then, but now playing it on a modern computer, it just loads instantly. When I noticed how truly instant it was, I was so surprised that I just switched back and forth between loading two saves for a bit :-)

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 months ago

19 years of age difference, I don't think there are that many roles where you could substitute them

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

virt-manager always seemed good to me, but I'll be interested to compare them. Maybe there are things that could be better, that I never thought about

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago

Hm neither one looks particularly like Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and the headdress style is Saudi Arabian in both.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 months ago

I don't mind. It's true and important for the future of everyone. Biden's fucking around at the beginning of the last election cycle helped getting the current authoritarian who ignores the constitutional separation of powers elected. I also wish the shooter had hit, that's also classless. The personal fates of these two old dudes are almost insignificant compared to their effects on the world, and I think accordingly.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago

I scoured their website and they completely fail to explain what they are actually doing on a technical level. I assume it would probably be a GPON network, just based on the offered speed. Not the best type of fiber connectivity, but probably pretty normal for the USA market.

That said, single mode fiber is absolutely the way forward and if you replace the devices on the end it can scale almost indefinitely. So I would jump on the occasion of having some laid to your house.

They don't have IPv6 and they don't offer static IPs which both kind of sucks, but it might be acceptable: https://support.surfinternet.com/surf-broadband-fiber-faqs No data caps is good at least.

Concerning your question about the markings, they spell out their process on this page, it does include marking existing utilities: https://surfinternet.com/fiber-optic-installation-process/

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago

You just need to choose the correct républicains

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