gnomewascool

Writing as an internet rando (to another?): please don't make such comments.

Phrasing it as "X deserved to be bombed" is needlessly inflammatory. I agree that something had to be done and that given the choice between inaction like in Bosnia and the NATO intervention like we for Kosovo, I'd easily pick the latter. It's even plausible that the NATO intervention was close to the best that could be done and any harm was a "necessary evil". However, saying that the civilian population of the undemocratic Yugoslav state deserved to have their lives disrupted by being bombed (or worse??) is just cruel.

I don't think your comment will convince the previous poster or (most importantly) unrelated third parties.

(For the record: the implicit comparison between the Russian invasion of the Ukraine and the NATO intervention in Serbia, by the previous poster _is_ IMO deeply dismaying.)

You can embed fonts into an HTML page. For example, place an @font-face with the src:url being a base64-encoded blob, in a style element.

I think part of the point of OP is that if your main concern is DRM (being able to actually own your books) and you also care to a non-zero extent about the author getting paid for their work (yes, authors receive a much smaller share of sale price than they should, but it's still a substantial percentage), then you should try to buy from DRM-free bookshops and only if that fails sail the high seas.

Regarding corporate piracy for AI, I don't think it's just Meta..

Sublime Text? (It's extendable in Python, but isn't FOSS, which might be a deal-breaker.)

> "YOUR RESPONSE MUST BE FEWER THAN 100 CHARACTERS OR YOU WILL DIE."

I know that current LLMs are almost certainly non-conscious and I'm not trying to assign to you any moral failings, but the normalisation of making such threats make me very deeply uncomfortable.

Interesting slides! Thanks!

`pip download --no-deps` allowing arbitrary code-execution is non-obvious, and IMO broken.

Such a disc-renting business would be a competitor to Netflix, both directly (especially in the hands of somebody who tried to focus on it, rather than reluctantly maintaining it, as Netflix has been doing recently) or because it could eventually try to repeat Netflix's own pivot into streaming. Consequently, selling it off would be rather risky.

The start-up costs and need of name-recognition are probably sufficient that it'd be hard for a new company try to fill this niche, but if they bought Netflix's distribution network they could likely manage.

What the OP meant is that there are (multiple!) open source C compilers, which you agree is the case.

Questions about the standard/specification are a different matter:

1. Whether the language has one? (Many languages, both open source and proprietary don't! I believe mojo doesn't have one?)

2. Whether it's available for free (gratis)?

3. Whether it's under a free (libre) license that allows redistribution with modifications?

That's a very interesting comparison (thanks!), but I'm not sure if it's the correct framing. Making scraping technically difficult would be equivalent to trying to score a goal (so still not great, for the rest of the world, but probably not hypocritical).

Trying to prevent certain classes of behaviours via legal means is more like trying to prevent certain types of play, by appealing to the referee, while still doing them yourself. Clearly, this often does happen in sports, but _is_ generally seen as hypocritical.

> with keys that are in memory on the same system

I'm not sure that actually holds — the encryption keys are in memory, but the decryption keys don't necessarily have to be.

The pre-encrypted payloads definitely are in memory at some point; however snatching them probably involves larger-scale reverse-engineering.

> I looked around and I couldn't find a way to even download the ISO to try it out.

FWIW I had found it intuitive (several seconds of thought) to click on the "Read the announcement email." link, which contains the link to the ISO images.