Snarwin

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Snarwin,

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gimp

(offensive) : a disabled person

Snarwin,

"Title II" in this context refers to Subchapter II of 47 U.S.C. Chapter 5. 47 U.S.C. is the Communications Act of 1934, the act of Congress that established the FCC, and Chapter 5 is the part that deals with "Wire and Radio Communications."

If you want to know what this law empowers the FCC to do, you can read the statute yourself. Or, if that's too difficult, you can also use your access to the internet to look up more accessible sources, such as Wikipedia's "Common carrier" article.

Snarwin,

As long as you copy from the device file (/dev/whatever), you will get "the raw bits", regardless of whether you use dd, cp, or even cat.

Snarwin,

Patent infringement claims in 2019 saw Mozilla reach a settlement to avoid litigation. As part of that settlement it was forced to make changes to MLS that impacted its ability to invest in (commercially exploit?) and improve the service.

Yet another nice thing ruined by IP trolls. It's long past time we threw software patents into the dustbin of history where they belong.

Spain orders Sam Altman's Worldcoin to shut down eyeball-scanning orbs due to privacy concerns (arstechnica.com)

Spain has moved to block Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency project Worldcoin, the latest blow to a venture that has raised controversy in multiple countries by collecting customers’ personal data using an eyeball-scanning “orb.”...

Snarwin,

You're thinking of Mtgox, a Magic card trading website that reinvented itself as a Bitcoin exchange—and then disappeared with its users' money.

Snarwin,

Posting something on a website does not make it public domain. Typically, the website's Terms of Service will require that you grant the website operator a license to use any content that you post on the site (so that they can display it to other users). That license does not extend to other visitors of the same website.

Of course, in practice, it's very unlikely that someone would take you to court over copying a website comment. But if someone posts, say, an original work of art or a short story in a comment thread, you should be aware that it is still protected by copyright.

Snarwin,

On my distro (debian) I can use systemctl --user restart pipewire.service.

Snarwin,

As someone who occasionally dabbles in music production on Linux, I love that Pipewire lets me run JACK and Pulseaudio apps side-by-side without having to jump through hoops.

Snarwin,

You could try the solution suggested in this reddit thread, and use systemctl to start and stop wireguard instead of wg-quick.

Snarwin,

For me, Crunchbang was a great introduction to the possibilities of customizing your Linux experience. No giant, monolithic desktop environment, just a handful of programs that you could (and were encouraged to) tweak or replace to your heart's content.

I still run a Crunchbang-inspired setup on my vanilla Debian install—openbox, tint2, conky, nitrogen, gmrun, Win+Letter hotkeys for frequently-used apps, etc. While I've outgrown the need for a preconfigured distro myself, I'm glad to see these projects still providing an on-ramp for users looking to dip their toes into the deeper end of the Linux pool.

I feel like breaking my windows install was a rite of passage

Lately ive noticed that i was wanting to do certain things on Windows that just seemed much easier and more intuitive on Linux, based in the OS specific solutions i would see to problems i encountered. And i was more frequently using software where Windows support seemed like an after thought....

Snarwin,

Same thing happened to me. Borked my Windows install and didn't have a recovery disc, so I just wiped the whole thing and went Linux-only. Never looked back since. :)

Sometimes, all you need is a little push to get you out of your comfort zone.

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