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j5155··on You cannot have our user's data
Use of published information is still always constrained by copyright law. If I had a copyrighted movie playing on my television visible through the window, and you recorded that, redistributing that recording would unambiguously be a violation of copyright law and piracy.

I’m also a little confused by what you’re saying here; are you asking whether scraper bots are illegal, or whether they’re immoral/unethical?

j5155··on But good sir, what is electricity?
Yes. As a more common example, fiber optic cabling is known to transmit information significantly faster then copper.
j5155··on Campsite switches to Creative Commons Non-Commercial license
Campsite team, if you happen to be reading this: consider whether a more permissive license still meeting the FOSS definition, like GPL or AGPL, would better fit your needs. GPL means that anyone who modifies the source code, or integrates it into a larger work, has to release the modified version.

So this would ensure that everyone’s contributions continue to help the wider community. As a side effect, it would also prevent anyone from using your work without releasing the source code for their project or product, benefitting open source as a whole.

The choice is obviously ultimately yours. I personally didn’t realize the benefits of GPL until recently.

j5155··on Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots
Not an audio command, but even just holding down the volume and side buttons to open the power off menu, without actually powering off your phone, triggers the same behavior.
j5155··on One Square Minesweeper
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-REcpPz3vw It causes some strange bugs to occur!
j5155··on Apple releases Depth Pro, an AI model that rewrites the rules of 3D vision
No. You’ll want a photogrammetry or LIDAR app for that.
j5155··on Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal
1. That’s kind of the point of free software, is it not? If you don’t want people “leeching” off of your software for free, don’t make it free. 2. Reddit is an amazing source of coding information and general Q&A on an extremely wide variety of topics. I would not characterize all of it as chitchat.
j5155··on When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind
If that secretary’s summaries were as consistently wrong and unhelpful as those ChatGPT generates, they would be fired.
j5155··on X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
Strict tracking protection mode does not block third party JavaScript. Are you referring to another extension you have enabled?
j5155··on USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
Sure, basic analytics is not objectionable. The issue comes from the analytics not being limited to basic things, as this post shows.
j5155··on OpenAI slashes the cost of using its AI with a "mini" model
How much did the server hardware cost?
j5155··on Git-PR: patch requests over SSH
Some IDEs actually have GitHub PR integration (JetBrains ones) with full comment support. It is amazing and one of my favorite features by far.
j5155··on Annual pre-pay and marketing budgets
Yes, I believe all of those services have gift cards in stores.
j5155··on Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation
Modrinth’s ads are this way.
j5155··on Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation
They are rare but do exist, see ethicalads and Modrinth’s ad program
j5155··on Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
“If you’re doing nothing wrong, what is there to fear?” “I’m fearing your definition of wrong.” - Mon Mothma (Andor, 2022)

I think this sums it up perfectly.

j5155··on Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11
As a younger person I’d say I really enjoy debugging tech issues, enough that I actually go out of my way to do it for other people (active on support forums etc). That’s a lot of the reason why I run Linux actually
j5155··on Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says
Why can’t it just be Teams v2 and Teams v1?
j5155··on Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years
Surely this is not possible (assuming the recently deleted folder is cleared)? I know it could be done with insecurely erased hard drives but I dont think any phones are using those?
j5155··on Blackmagic Cine Immersive Capture for Vision Pro 8160x7200 Resolution per Eye
Not really, that image is stereo but it isn’t 360 degree and it can’t support arbitrary viewing angles and positions after the fact. It works perfectly for passthrough because the headset cameras are physically locked to your head.
j5155··on API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
Interesting; I have had the opposite experience. Many websites will directly enroll my Yubikey and will even let me use it instead of a password, and logging in is as simple as touching the button at the prompt. It’s honestly much simpler then using a password for me, and MUCH more convenient then pulling out my phone for 2fa codes (especially for the university site’s painfully short session times)
j5155··on API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
I’d disagree that there has to be a trade off at all. Using hardware security keys or device based passkeys, secure authentication is actually pretty convenient now.
j5155··on Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant
Framework laptops have physical power switches for camera and microphone. The devices completely disappears from the OS when the switch is moved.
j5155··on Show HN: Pi-C.A.R.D, a Raspberry Pi Voice Assistant
Definitely not. Neither Face ID nor the recently added “screen distance” feature in Screen Time use the camera indicator, and both use cameras (and lidar scanners) continuously
j5155··on YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI
And what happens when people just film an AI video playing on a screen with this phone or camera?
j5155··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
…and if you have a hacked console, you can easily and legally(!) just dump your ROMs and emulate as well.
j5155··on SuperTux
Minecraft (Java Edition) is probably the most notable game like this. It’s continued to be the same game with few engine changes/rewrites from the single dev basement project up until the present day dedicated sub company in Microsoft.
j5155··on I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner
…unless, of course, the port is upside down/sideways ;)
j5155··on Framework Laptop 16 Review
For what it’s worth, that makes at least 3 of us in Alaska with one :)
j5155··on A decade-old Steam bug
If I understand the blog post correctly, this bug only happens when you play CS2 during Washington nighttime.
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