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hwh
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About hwh
Majored in law studies (yep, that), I am programmer and systems administrator in the IT department of the (rather large) university library, switching over to IT project engineering at the moment.
Hobbyist software and hardware hacker, application developer, Open Source proponent, yaddayadda. Too many projects and programming languages and stuff to remember it all, sorry.
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Comment #48775694
I started OpenOven in my free time of which I had a lot when I was still studying law. Ovens were always something I was interested in and I created FunkyPizzaHeater, as it was nam…
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Comment #48224032
I would be very surprised if the ebook license they bought does entail using it for training machines. In fact I'm pretty sure it didn't and I thus do not think they did such a thi…
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Comment #46081539
it is, but the threshold for mandated debate is high. So high in fact that this doesn't really happen at all. Usually, petitions like this are mostly a PR vehicle. A lot of them is…
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Comment #34177263
takedown DCMA requests are US law. Very different rules might apply, much more restrictive/punitive in a lot of countries. Also, you mentioning that it is about different countries…
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Comment #30456667
An MCU is a chip in a package that just cannot interface with anything your consumer PC or notebook comes with. You'll need an adapter in any case. That said, lots of current MCUs …
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Comment #30385691
That is not true. See https://github.com/littlefs-project/littlefs/blob/master/DES... Sorry, as a commenter on this pointed out, the comment I was replying to was probably talking …
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Comment #23007553
No, it wouldn't. Your examples are mostly hints that it's actually your terminal emulator (which might also serve as your "SSH program" in cases like PuTTY) which might need a slap…
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Comment #22979514
Here in Germany, the last mentioned tier will also have looked fondly upon getting the money wired in from Ireland and may have lived with the assumption that they don't have to th…
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Comment #22866886
On the grounds of article 7, referencing article 2, of the Treaty on European Union (this is basically the constitution of the EU).
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Comment #22182099
For me it's just easier to get my head around having a new network interface presented rather than this pile of security associations and transform configurations. I can just re-us…
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Comment #22182020
Can you please elaborate? As far as I see it, IPsec is encrypting traffic. IKE is for setup of security associations. What part of IPsec would do routing, and in this case: potenti…
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Comment #22009575
Actually they are writing them during that time and use their staff (paid by public money), too. Whether it's copywriting, news checking for the next edition or, in fact, writing p…
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Comment #20107031
Actually this is default law in the EU if you are a "customer" and the other party is not. All "surprising" clauses within a T&C document are void.
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Comment #18920301
I got mixed results with a completely different approach: starting with what actually exists within a Git repository (i.e. roughly: focusing on aspects of the plumbing layer first)…
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Comment #16911933
You still need reliable clock sync / latency. Otherwise you can just announce, not communicate bi-directionally.
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Comment #16418443
This is a strangely worded question. LuaJIT is compatible with PUC Lua 5.1. It will thus not run (without problems/tweaking) run code that is designed for Lua >= 5.2. However, the …
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Comment #16143863
It mostly mirrors classic consumer protection law. It's a civil law issue and regulation in such issues is always a try to remedy imbalances of power. As law enforcement goes, ther…
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Comment #16143761
This is for prosecution. The removal of such speech is a civil suit. Facebook/Twitter might have taken a post more serious when the police came and asked questions, but then, they …
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Comment #16143734
A notion in the more calmed legal discussion (as opposed to lobby talk from the freedom movements, which I usually support but feel to be very narrow-sighted at the moment w/ regar…
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Comment #16143707
Unless you give more facts, I'd say you are mostly repeating the argument the post you answered to, albeit from another viewpoint. Of course there is the notion that the law is app…
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Comment #16136354
The right exists without a court order (and I'd wager it is more often granted than not by established outfits, with notable exceptions like tabloids - like Germany's largest newsp…
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Comment #16122455
When seeing "simple" as an absolute measure, the author surely has a point. As for a relative measure - I think the argument is unjust, as you can easily come across much more comp…
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Comment #15636357
It (the ESP32) is right in the middle of the bottom view photo. The actual SX1278 is smaller, on the right. On the bottom, you have the SPI flash for the ESP32.
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Comment #15634516
It is all a question of use case. This reply comes up all the time when I talk about how I use microcontrollers and what I use them for. For myself, microcontrollers offer me maxim…
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Comment #15448280
The fines you are probably thinking of are mostly antitrust law based. I don't see grounds for making this issue an antitrust case - at least as far as I can see, nobody else says …