EamonnMR

I think that’s up to device vendors giving parents decent controls and parents monitoring their kids devices. Which is admittedly not great, but still better than the honor system and more reasonable than submitting your license.

The idea isn’t to let sites restrict adults, just let them restrict kids. So there wouldn’t be a child internet.

Huh, I didn’t know you could do that. Where do you go to get to the downloads?

Are they ending the ability to upload files to Kindle too?

The Internet Archive would be the usual place.

On a superficial level it’s a lot nicer than Ada for people who didn’t learn to program on Pascal. Rust’s real flaws don’t show up until you need to do large refractors and change your application’s memory model.

By litigate I mean, if a person is creating something and says they don’t plan to distribute it, do we take their word for it?

If it ends up getting distributed anyway, should we take their word that it was an accident?

We consider people’s private data important enough that if you leak it even by mistake you are on the hook for that. You have a responsibility.

I think that rather than framing this as something harmless unless distributed and therefore intent to distribute matters, we should treat it as something you have a responsibility not to create because it will be harmful when it is inevitably distributed.

How do you litigate ‘intention’ in this way?

Well it sets an upper bound on compute requirements at ‘simulate 10^27 atoms for thirty years’ remains to be seen if what we can optimize away ever converges with what’s feasible to build.

It would become Twitter.

I’m so hype for typed dictionaries

I agree strongly with your gut reaction. I personally use it as the archive of record whenever I digitize some media that would otherwise be lost. I use it when trying to establish how something looked in the past. I don’t need IA to go out and pick losing fights with publishers at the expense of the excellent services they already provide.

It should be noted that if you want digital book loans Libby is fine.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that his contrarian personal views and his contrarian technical views are both expressions of some underlying contrarian-ness. Not that we shouldn’t be asking if he’s a decent person, just that I’m not super surprised to find out he’s gone mask off weirdo.

I lost all respect for his technical taste when he confessed that his daily driver is FreeDOS. I know linux folks skew at least a little contrarian but at that point I don’t think we’re speaking the same language of computing and there’s not much I can learn from ya. Not super surprised to hear he went way overboard contrarian in other ways I guess.

When I search for stuff I don’t seem to get anything.

I’m trying to picture how the other room music is supposed to work. Are you cranking the volume on your TV speakers loud enough to hear in the other toom, or using the PC to control an extra set or far away speakers, or did people used to wire their houses with everywhere speakers controlled from a single receiver?

Great video. Haven’t finished it yet, but did he ever explain why you’d want your media center to be luggable? I feel like if they’d ditched the screen and keyboard they would have something better than a modern streaming box except in 2006, but maybe they sold something like that too.

So like systemd but ten times more dramatic.

It’s not specific to Godot 4, but I found this couple of videos really useful for understanding how to build interpolated multiplayer in Godot:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=w2p0ugw3afs (and the one after on extrapolation.)

Huh, TIL about the Pliche: https://lowendmac.com/musings/pliche.shtml

I’m sure they have sentimental/kitch value. At the very least, I’m sure a junk shop would take it off your hands.