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CPU Microcode or firmware updates are often included in windows update because they can be applied at runtime like most anything else, but unlike a real bios flash they do not persist through a reboot and have to be reapplied again every time the OS loads. Also actually flashing your BIOS is like a...

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Krom wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2024 5:09 am A windows update cannot make your BIOS screen stop working.

I don't believe that's strictly true though. I've seen BIOS updates pushed through Windows Update. They were shoehorned into the rest of the driver updates.

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Do they really not make "dumb" cars anymore in the typical consumer price range? I remember struggling to find a 4K dumb TV a few years ago. I eventually found something, but I had to settle for mediocre picture quality. But, it turns on instantly, and it will never nag me or phone home.

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Just to defend AUR, I see it as just 1 of 4 different sources. The standard pacman repos work just the same as you'd expect from a deb from launchpad. Then you have snap and flatpack repos. AUR shouldn't be what your whole system is built on, rather just a few programs that you want compiled on you...

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Google has to deal with an adversarial threat model where the adversary is allowed to adapt their strategy in response to changes Google makes to theirs. Specifically, spammers are studying Google's methods and evolving their tactics to compensate for whatever improvements Google makes. Even if your...

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I still use Ubuntu after all these years (since 2005), even though it is a bit "corporate" these days. Debian-based distros are generally the path of least resistance just because a *.deb is one of the most common ways to distribute linux software. You don't feel there are more options un...

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What about free email hosting like Gmail? I don't see ads in their interface. How long before Google wants, or needs to, monetize that service? I'm sure I'll hit their storage limits and have to pay for more eventually. I just use the email by my internet provider. No ads ever. I think the ISP's an...

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I still use Ubuntu after all these years (since 2005), even though it is a bit "corporate" these days. Debian-based distros are generally the path of least resistance just because a *.deb is one of the most common ways to distribute linux software.

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Just tell us what we have to do for you to stop posting here.

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I guess the question is, if you were trying to advertise your product, how much would you pay a Website to put your ad in their ad gauntlet?

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It's called enshittification. Once a company's product has reached its maximum market share, the only way for the company to make more money off that product is to increasingly squeeze the product's existing user base.

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Is style of art something that can be copyrighted? Is there anything stopping me from making art in Samdoesart's style (other than an obvious lack of skill and ability)?

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But really, who is going to claim copyright infringement over a generated person with three arms and missing a thumb?

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I'm not a lawyer, and this ultimately seems like a legal question. But to use an analogy from something that I'm familiar with, if you copy even a single line of GPL'd code into your project, then your project is derived from that project, and now you are obligated to GPL your project as well. How d...

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The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that these types of questions are seeded by "AI" companies to exaggerate the capabilities of their machine learning models so that we think that their models are so powerful that they introduce all of these terrible ethical and legal quandaries.

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Gongrats TC, I see you indeed killed E&C... but then this is what you wanted as you're too lazy to actually be a moderator. You have no concept of how to get people to post other than dim insipid posts and certainly no idea how to reign in the name callers. And yes, now I am gloating but I doub...

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I believe this is what you mean? https://descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?t=142

It looks like the formatting got messed up in one of the forum upgrades, but it looks much better here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101121231 ... .php?t=142

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It looks like it was released by Kevin Bentley. There is some commentary here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048177

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Available here: https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3

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If it works with Proton, I might check it out after it is released, but it's not enough for me to invest in the kickstarter.

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No linux version.

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It's scary because I used google fonts for django, wordpress, and regular html websites. This also implies any php plugins could theoretically could cause a site to violate the law, even if it's just to support a basic function, not provide ads. Even if GDPR doesn't mind, your visitors might, since...

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I don't know the answer to your question, but not all cookies require consent under GDPR. Specifically, "strictly necessary" cookies do not require consent.

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No linux support.

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It looks like their GitHub link is broken. https://github.com/BredaUniversityGames/DXX-Raytracer

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vision wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 10:33 am It's true. If Hollywood stopped making movies that reflect American values they would go broke immediately.

These days it's the intersection of American and Chinese values.

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Thanks for opening up about your trauma TC. I'm very sorry about your loss.

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That reminds me, I'm due for my fourth jab. Got mine two days ago. It was weird, my previous shots all came with some degree of immune response, usually just the sniffles and maybe a slight headache for a few hours. But this time, nothing. My arm wasn't even sore. I started to think maybe I got the...

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The right thing to do is.........nothing. Who the hell gave you the right to decide who lives and who dies? Your inaction is killing people all over the world...when is the last time you went to Africa and fed some starving person? Isn't this the argument though? That the same right that you have t...

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LightWolf wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 1:16 pmit's almost universally agreed killing an innocent person is not okay.

Should it be illegal to let someone die from hunger? Should it be illegal to let someone die from lack of healthcare? I don't think your use of the word "killing" is any different.

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Here we enter into my lobster ethics example again - since the child is potentially viable, in any other circumstance the ethical imperative would be to treat it as viable and not take any action to harm it. If you found a lobster were parasitically attached to you, you would pluck it off, even if ...

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Like there is some sort of Big Brother type of environment that is somehow different than the same surveillance we have in the US. Because the censorship and surveillance environment in China is far more extensive than whatever North American examples you might have in mind, and you are falsely equ...

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Tunnelcat wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 2:27 pmJeff250, your Covid death rate I take issue with, especially since I'm older and more vulnerable.

In case my sarcasm/satire/etc. didn't make it through, my point was to demonstrate that edge cases *are* important.

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I think you can deconstruct virtually all news as being just edge cases. People who die from COVID? Edge cases. Subway shooter? Barely anyone in New York was shot. Russia invading Ukraine? Why aren't we talking more about the countries that Russia hasn't invaded?

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Actually it was probably one of the very extensions to block those credit score ads that slowed down the speed test a bit. When I run Firefox in safe mode, it performs as well as Chrome:

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Evidently to improve my results all I had to do was run the test from Chrome instead of Firefox (sigh).

Just had to crop out all the ads relating to improving my credit score...

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Our drugs utilize exon skipping in order to make the body produce new and working versions of dystrophin, the protein that is made incorrectly in people with Duchene Muscular Dystrophy. But ya that's "qanon" you ignorant fools. I can't wait until the evil precedent that this nonsense has ...

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I don't think that our criminal justice system is equipped to handle a scenario like this. I can only hope that there is some justice found via a civil lawsuit. P.S. I agree that the argument about state lines is weak and sounds like something you would hear in a nation with much weaker guarantees o...

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News flash about bats and cornonavirus: bats are a great place to look for viruses that could infect humans, and they are studied everywhere around the world. When someone says "they studied bat coronaviruses in Wuhan" I think "So? we study bat coronaviruses in dozens of countries.&q...

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That's true, but I suppose if consciousness is so easy to arise, then in some sense that makes this universe even more lucky to have atoms since we didn't even need them in the first place.

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