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4 minutes ago, StDragon said:

RT superconductivity is bogus. It doesn't exist. I hope these ass-clowns get rug pulled and their credentials shredded.

Many people have said this throughout history about things we now know to be true. Elliptical orbits of the solar system's planets, the sun being the center of the solar system, relativity, and more facts of our universe have been derided as fraudulent prior to having evidence showing their truth, and their eventual general acceptance.

I mean really, even the flat earthers say the sun is the center of the solar system. And they think the Earth is flat. lol

"sir, we could be hacked due to CVEs that have been known for many many months"
"ok, but upgrading hardware costs money :("

-time passes-

"sir, we are hacked"

"why did you not upgrade this hardware, you are fired"

44 minutes ago, wanderingfool2 said:

It's a valid point of contention though.  You can't just pretend that it doesn't exist; or do nothing to mitigate it.

 

While the servers themselves might be mostly decentralized...the fact remains that they still essentially offer the initial vessel to connect to the decentralized servers.  Decentralized also doesn't actually have the intrinsic property of not being able to police things either.  They could easily have built into the protocol their ability to.  As a note, Skype protocol was decentralized and they still managed to police things back in the day.

"Offering the initial vessel to connect to the decentralized servers" is just that. It's up to you and the larger network to police those items. And there is plenty of ability to police that kind of content on the fediverse. Reports federate too, if you see something you can report it and it's up to the admins of that instance to take action against the user posting it, and/or bring it up to YOUR admins and have them defederate from that instance as a whole. The people in those articles where they say "mastodon is FULL of CSAM" admit that almost 90% would not have shown up if they'd consulted a defederation blocklist in their investigations.

I'm really not sure what you're trying to say. Using a service should not be equated with the user giving approval to & supporting all the activities occurring on that service.

I use either the APC Back-UPS Pro 1500 S or the Back-UPS 1500 depending on if I absolutely need the sine wave functionality or not. Very pleased with them both, though I will say I am NOT pleased with their software, PowerChute, which tends to make Windows think that my $5k desktop computer has magically become a laptop.

45 minutes ago, GarlicDeliverySystem said:

this is one of the reasons people are still sceptical

Skepticism in science is good, as is people trying to test the concept.

I'm glad so many people appear to be testing this out, it could be huge, or it could be another fraud publishing for clout, but either way it'd be good to see.

On 7/8/2023 at 1:55 PM, Raytsou said:

I was thinking it sounds like he was describing fediverse, but I hear it's closer to a decentralized reddit. I'm not too familiar with the technical implementation but I suspect a decentralized twitter might actually not be possible.

Fediverse is DEFINITELY not like decentralized reddit, lmao. It's absolutely decentralized twitter.

Sucks for the developers.

I never understood why people bought this hardware though. Every review I've seen says it's flaky at the best of times. You pay just about as much buying a decent audio interface or mixer from a reputable brand as you did buying the GoXLR, and the audio interface/mixer doesn't need software to work.

30 minutes ago, r00tb33r said:

Not just paywall, but the terms of the subscription prohibit redistribution.  Meaning if you get it in the portal...  I don't know if that supercedes the license in the source.  I suspect not, but that's where the opinion between Alma and Rocky seems to be split.

You are only forbidden from redistributing the source code if you leave all the Red Hat trademarks in (EULA Section 2 https://www.redhat.com/licenses/Red_Hat_GPLv2-Based_EULA_20191118.pdf). If you extract the trademarks as Alma/Rocky have already done, then you should be in the clear. I'm not sure why Alma says it would be a violation, considering Rocky has already stated they're going to pay for a RHEL subscription, remove the Red Hat trademarks, and re-publish it for themselves.

2 hours ago, Rysters Tech said:

Putting RHEL's source code behind a paywall rides the line of what is and isn't legal per Linux's own GPL licensing agreement.

No it doesn't. Every version of the GPL says you may charge people a fee for access to the source code. Copyleft also applies meaning if you derive new work from GPL-licensed work, you must license that derivation under the GPL.

7 hours ago, LAwLz said:

If we look at websites like "KilledByGoogle.com" it's easy to glance at the long list and go "wow they sure kill a lot of products", but in a very large portion of cases they are not actually "killing" the product. They are just folding it into another product, or rebranding it.

The thing is it's a sign of disorganized executive thinking on Google's part. Obviously there are some stuff that the site exaggerates, but I'm still baffled by some of their decisions.

e.g., having Google Talk and choosing to create a brand new messenger for Google+ along with Hangouts, killing Google Talk, then killing both Google+ Messenger and Hangouts in favor of Google Chat/Google Meet, then creating Duo for some reason and folding it into Meet. All of these services have entirely different UI/UX as well, despite fulfilling the same niche of software.

I'm glad they're streamlining things, but it's going to mean killing/merging more products, and sometimes those mergers or their replacement services are not even close to the thing they killed off.

Summary

Google is shutting down Google Domains, passing all domains (and their users) to Squarespace.

Quotes

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In an unexpected announcement today, Google Domains is “winding down following a transition period,” with Squarespace taking over the business and assets. 

 

Squarespace announced today that it “entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement with Google, whereby Squarespace will acquire the assets associated with the Google Domains business.” This includes “approximately 10 million domains hosted on Google Domains spread across millions of customers.”

 

Google cited “efforts to sharpen our focus” in selling the Google Domains registrar business, which launched in 2014 as a big proponent of HTTPS and top-level domains (TLDs) as of late. The service exited beta in 2022.

 

...

 

More notable today is how Squarespace “will become the exclusive domains provider for any customer purchasing a domain along with their Workspace subscription from Google directly for a minimum of three years.”

My thoughts

I mean, what else is there to say? The jokes kinda write themselves with Google killing things off. While I wonder what Squarespace's domain experience is, I'm glad I got onto namecheap when I did.

Sources

https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/

https://killedbygoogle.com/

55 minutes ago, Kisai said:

How many people even knew about it's existence?

Plenty of people knew about it and used it. They had the good high-quality stuff. Now it'll be fun trying to sift through the virus laden ones or finding a private tracker to use.

1 hour ago, Taf the Ghost said:

Cellphones have to be able to call 911, in the States, if they're connected to a network.

It's actually more than that. Any phone that is capable of connecting to a network, when dialing 911, MUST connect to a network even if the phone is not authorized to do so for normal calling, or even if the phone has no SIM card at all.

Also this is absolutely a thing I support. AM is piss-easy to implement on transmit and receive; a low power AM station can reach far further than a similarly powered FM station. The highway signs are usually associated with a low power station broadcasting info for that part of the highway.

People might not use it for general listening, sure, but that's not the primary usage of those bands anymore.

On 5/17/2023 at 7:56 PM, Quackers101 said:

Might not count for everyone, since youtube is so big.
If its true or not.

 

On 5/17/2023 at 10:11 PM, Kisai said:

Maybe someone got the message that if they do this, they might cause people to rip the site extremely hard.

Doesn't matter. Hoard the data. They would not have said this if they did not fully intend to do it.

Google is no stranger to deleting ENTIRE SERVICES that people are actively using. You cannot trust their statements, official or unofficial.

>the steam deck wins on low power, but this wins on higher power modes

Isn't lower power consumption kinda the entire point of a portable handheld gaming device? You want it to consume as little power as possible while still being performant enough to play.

Sure, this is faster on high power, but more power in means more power out. If the steam deck wins when it's using only 10 W I think that's a bigger win than the ally winning with higher power draw.

It's worth noting that steam's 2 hour limit is not completely rigid. If you say "I was unable to play the game within 2 hours due to shader compilation taking 3 hours" you will almost assuredly get a refund.

I was able to do that with MS Flight Simulator when it took 6 hours to download the "asset packs" in-game and I wasn't able to actually play the next day.

6 hours ago, wanderingfool2 said:

So if you rarely print (to the point the ink would dry up), you could literally go out and purchase 4 inkjets and just have them at hand in case they dry up. 

Or you could spend 400 dollars once, not generate 4 printers worth of e-waste, and not have to worry about it for the next few years at all. Idk, to each their own. I know if I need a new printer ever, it'll be a laser or LED one even though it's gonna cost more.

5 hours ago, manikyath said:

yes but no. buy an "LED" printer. it's like a laser printer but with a line of LED's instead of a laser and fast-moving precision optics. they pretty much dont have any moving part that isnt a 'consumable' by design. so.. as a result, they're cheaper than a laser, easier to maintain than a laser, and smaller than a laser. oh, and next to no heatup time.

Same difference, especially considering most stores will list the LED printers as "color laser" still.

4 hours ago, wanderingfool2 said:

you in general have to calculate it also on drum costs, fuser repairs etc.

4 hours ago, Zomeguy said:

Entry level colour laser (sub $1k machines) is very expensive to run in comparison.

I think the maintenance and restock cost aspect would come in if you're printing on a daily basis. For general purpose personal usage, I'm pretty sure laser/LED operating cost would come out on top of an inkjet in that category, especially considering how inkjets will dry up, clog, and become unusable over time on purpose to get you to buy more cartridges.

Seriously, when's the last time you printed something? I think the only things I print out anymore are my car insurance ID cards. When I need to print something I need it to just work, and LED/Laser fits that bill far better than an inkjet does. My Brother B&W laser printer sits unused most months, and still works and prints as good as it did on day 1.

Stop buying inkjet printers. Buy a laser printer.

Don't get me wrong, laser printers do the same crap and are just razor-and-blades as inkjet printers. It's just that toner carts are much better value for your money than inkjet ink carts, with the bonus of the toner still working perfectly even if you don't print something for a week.

The only good case for inkjet is photo printing, but even there you will lose less money long-term buy ordering photo prints online or doing them in a kiosk in a store.

2 hours ago, spartaman64 said:

if you fight it in court and win you can have your lawyers send youtube the court order. i know this is not viable for most people but youtube cannot chose to circumvent the legal system

Remember that Destiny 2/Bungie debacle where someone fraudulently represented Bungie and MASSIVELY SUCCEEDED at taking down droves of videos? That is YouTube, not DMCA. DMCA requires verification that you own or legally represent the copyright that you're making a claim about. YouTube is just like "ok :)" and leaves the uploader no option than to do a court case? That's broken. That needs corrected. It's not against DMCA or Safe Harbor regulations to verify that the person claiming copyright on an uploader is or has been verified as the holder/legal representative of that copyright.

2 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

That's how the world kinda works.  If I make a claim against you, the police come and sort it out and then you on your way after it's determined I was an asshole.

The problem is that the "police" in this case only work with you if you're high enough profile. If you're a random person on YouTube, and someone abuses the broken DMCA to take you down, you're just done. There's no help for you. YouTube just terminates your account and tells you to go fuck yourself.

1 hour ago, porina said:

It requires those running "online services" to only take those actions when specifically required to do so by an appropriate authority, like a traditional wiretap. 

Regulations/requirements as to when this is needed to be done can be (will be) abused.

10 minutes ago, porina said:

I was wondering if it was possible to comply with the requirements by scanning on the endpoints only. The workaround to those wishing to circumvent that would be to modify the app to not operate as expected which while far from impossible will make it much more inconvenient. 

That has the possible chilling effect of making open-source software illegal. If the source is open, then anyone can modify the program to remove the scanning methods, and that would be against the laws the governments would write.

52 minutes ago, darknessblade said:

But only for the USA.

As they cannot enforce USA law in other countries.

If this passes in the US I guarantee you, it will begin to exist in other countries too.

5 hours ago, FakeKGB said:

Either Lapsus$ is making a lot of crap up, or there's a security flaw that every company has that we don't know about yet.

Third option is they're buying access from disgruntled employees or social engineering their way into poorly secured systems.

5 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

So no news from epic? shouldn't they tell people when their emails/passwords were compromised/stolen? 

It's likely Epic wants to confirm it themselves before alarming anyone. Not smart IMO, but whatever.

29 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

There's definitely a big CVE that's going to drop in a few months. There's clearly a big, deep-in-the-network-stack vulnerability right now.

My money is on a backdoor that only "authorized personnel" are supposed to use, similar to the TSA Approved locks on luggage that only the TSA is supposed to have keys for but you can easily find online.