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> Fair use is the same doctrine that allows a school to play a movie for educational purposes without acquiring a license for the public performance of that movie. This is a pretty…

There have been several recreations of Emacs in Common Lisp over the years, including Hemlock, CEDAR, and Climacs. They never catch on, because they’re not compatible enough with t…

NGL, I came here to get the link to make a _The Core_ joke to several friends…

It turns out that most fast food burgers are made from heavily processed meat that includes various preservatives and whatnot that make it noticeably less healthy than plain hambur…

> …but you won’t pay $12/month for it? But it’s $24/month, isn’t it? Double that if they invited the kids, in-laws, or neighbors but they don’t use it regularly because those peopl…

This copy is hosted in (one of) the old homedir of Karl Ramm, who passed away not so long ago. I believe that he would be tickled and mildly but pleasantly surprised to find the li…

“TikTok is unique...” might be true, but then why is TikTok not the only company targeted by this royal edict? When 17 year olds can “own Twitter” and Facebook just budgets 9 figur…

FWIW, a common thing to do with a chromebook that has gone out of update service is to install either a non-Google ChromeOS like Cloudready, or just install Linux directly. Both ap…

It doesn’t stop working at all. It stops getting free OS updates, presumably because there are many dozens of hardware configuration to manage, and having fallen into that trap onc…

I don’t know what things are like in other parts of the world, but the US market has shown a preference for renting large-library access over buying individual works. There are exc…

True. Now, compare the number of music albums produced per studio to the number of movies. We’re explicitly talking about paying per time rather than per work here; one movie versu…

I clicked on the link thinking that this was about the card game “Lunch Money”. Disappointed.

> As someone who watches the financial news, it almost feels more like baseball statistics... If you hear a loud banging noise, don’t buy?

There are a couple of these MDS vulnerabilities that also exist on AMD, but the vast majority are Intel-specific. Thanks not to say that people won’t find some on AMD, but a) they …

I don’t have any experience with NordVPN, but off the top of my head, it’s not hard to imagine someone looking at an internet backbone map, doing some math, and just paying for a c…

Technically possible, practically unlikely (you iOS phone would be a terrible router, giving the people who made the calculator app a slow, unreliable output node that would identi…

(This part of) Akamaiks value prop rests on two things: they have servers all over the world, and they can figure out which of those are both functioning well and (network-wise) cl…

Nobody claims that NordVPN customer connections are being used for this; the claim is that they are probably using Oxylab, which is probably using Oxylab customer’s connections, wh…

At least in the past, Apple has had significant contributions to LLVM. These days, that might be limited to the Swift stack.

I would argue that the stronger reason is that Windows typically doesn’t enforce, allow, or contains any distinction between kernel code and user-space code. This happens because t…

Thinkpads are nice, but that device has a much worse screen, worse processor (significantly older, but... Intel), lower max ram, lower max storage, and (for most people) worse trac…

Offhand, I’d say “too much theoretical math in the starting and middle stages of mastering the language.” Syntax that is based around/descended from APL. Lambda calculus prominentl…

There are Chromebooks that you can buy today that give you best-in-class battery life with good suspend/resume, and run android apps as well as containerized Linux. Multiple/hidpi …

“Just don’t think about it” is actually a rational approach to the earthquake in WA issue, because if the subduction zone goes, the tsunami will wash everything away.

> From far away, Windows and Fuchsia are very similar, but Windows have to contend with decades of code compatibility needs even if they want to start shoving everything into a loc…