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- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 1 week ago:
Project wingman and the Ace combat series is great!
- Comment on New York City's new solar-powered school buses will support the grid too 1 week ago:
People don’t need to park busses and trams
What? In cities skylines people can put cars in their pockets but unfortunately that’s impossible in real life. Where the hell are the busses supposed to go then?
- Comment on New York City's new solar-powered school buses will support the grid too 1 week ago:
They need somewhere to park though.
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 2 weeks ago:
Or Linux Or MacOS Or any computer really
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
They should have put the button on the top or front like any other company would do.
- Comment on Trick OR Treat 2 weeks ago:
No, AND won’t match 0,0 while XNOR will. An AND switch would be useless for a staircase.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
I would absolutely agree if Apple was a person with feelings, but fair enough.
Have a nice day/night
- Comment on Trick OR Treat 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I am no electrician. I work in IT.
Being an electrician would be pretty high on the list of things to do if I weren’t allowed to work in IT though. Seems fairly fun.
- Comment on Trick OR Treat 2 weeks ago:
My bad. It’s “must have both or non”
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
No one is genuinely mad. It’s just fun to mock them.
The genocide being committed in Palestine is something that makes me mad.
The fact that we are happy for our largest companies to outsource work to poorer countries makes me mad.
The fact that corporations seemingly control the world and don’t pay their fair share makes me mad.
Fun fact: it’s possible to be mad about those things while also thinking a button is stupidly placed. People that dismiss everything just because there is something worse are just so annoying.
- Comment on Trick OR Treat 2 weeks ago:
Wiring a stairway switch is actually very easy you pretty much just need two wires going from one switch to another and then a light
- Comment on Trick OR Treat 2 weeks ago:
XNOR (Exclusive NOR) is the opposite of XOR (Exclusive OR)
A way to remember XOR is “must have one or the other but not both” XNOR is the opposite so it’s “must have both” so either both inputs are 1 or 0.
XNOR or XOR is very common in homes with staircases so that you can turn on and off the light in the staircase regardless of which floor you are on.
If you google staircase switches, you will be told that they mostly use XOR but according to the wiring diagrams they use XNOR.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
Here, many stores don’t accept cash so I assume accepting credit cards is cheaper and easier than handing cash.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Well, that’s sad.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
It’s stupid. Do you need any other reason to laugh at it?
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
Have you factored in the processing power and the cost of an equivalent processor?
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 2 weeks ago:
Entire Lemmy is like how r/piracy was on Reddit.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen one in a while either, but looking at images it does indeed appear that there are no region markings on the cars.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 2 weeks ago:
The police is called “polismyndigheten” which is a governmental organisation where all police staff are employed (with some exceptions like the “security police” which is a fully separate organisation).
And no, a police from the Stockholm police won’t patrol in a city on the other side of the country. There are police districts and such but it’s still the same organisation. You could probably get transferred to the other side of the country, but that would obviously be a bad idea unless the police is moving anyways. I suspect the union might have something to say if they decide to transfer people wherever for no reason.
Except in informal settings the police is only called the police. For example police cars only say “Police” and never “Stockholm police” or similar.
But there obviously exist some specialised divisions or groups within the organisation that are only present in one place (probably Stockholm). A very small police station in a small town could very well be investing murder but I suspect they will want help for some other station or specialist division if the case is complex.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 2 weeks ago:
Interesting.
If you click the first link under :
Q. How does copyright apply to library lending? What is the “first sale doctrine” and how does it apply to libraries? Why are the rules for lending e-books different than print books? How does copyright relate to used book sales?
www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#109
You get a legal text which is almost completely unreadable to me.
But the law explicitly mentions video games:
(B) This subsection does not apply to—
(i) a computer program which is embodied in a machine or product and which cannot be copied during the ordinary operation or use of the machine or product; or
(ii) a computer program embodied in or used in conjunction with a limited purpose computer that is designed for playing video games and may be designed for other purposes.
© Nothing in this subsection affects any provision of chapter 9 of this title.
Do I understand the section above that? Hell no. It’s in a foreign language to me (literally and figuratively).
I feed the entire section to chatGPT and asked it about libraries and video games. It says that video games generally aren’t allowed to be lend at libraries. It’s AI so take it with a grain of salt but to be fair LLMs are pretty good at analysing large amounts of text like this. But if you can read it, I encourage you to do that instead.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:
- the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
- the nature of the copyrighted work;
- the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
- the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
I’m no lawyer, but I can’t really find a way that fair use is applicable in this case. Also point 4 is taken into consideration here. And no I obviously don’t agree that games shouldn’t be allowed in libraries. The law should be changed. I just don’t see how fair use is relevant.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
No, just laws.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, animals have been used that way for many millennia. It’s just recently we decided that some animals are pets and not tools.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
Spammers ruined this not email companies.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
Comparable, yes.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
If you prefer medieval times then sure.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
It’s all you talk about though.
No one cares about Adam when his ideas are frankly stupid. Or at least how you describe them. He might be a solid dude.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
No, it’s government sanctioned non anarchy.
Go to Antarctica or something if you don’t like society.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
Lol, are you some sovereign citizen‽
The world doesn’t work like that. You can’t just say “No that thing isn’t your! I didn’t agree with it being yours.”
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 weeks ago:
You honestly seem obsessed with that adam dude.
I think your problem is that you seem to think that “perfect” mathematical models will ever work in real life.
