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If IP laws didn't exist, you wouldn't have to make due with the unimaginative pandering garbage Disney deigns to think up. You would be able to tell, share, and transform, movies. That is a vastly better world.

Nor world it cost so much to make movies, because the best way to do that, including the best software and hardware design, would belong to everyone.


When a company's existence hinges on IP ownership, works are blocked from creation - almost by definition. Literally what IP law does, is prevent creation from outside of monopolies.


"Digital Piracy" is not a real thing. It's a convention you're advocating for, and one that reasonable people have still not heard a decent argument for adopting.


I wonder if one could just stuff the tubes with hydrogen, then lanthanum powder, then just let them expand? They might auto-heat from the pressure, and assemble themselves, if you just unfroze them.


"For Windows, install WSL and a distro of your choice and follow the Linux guide."

I love these instructions!

Also, I'd love to see this converted to a native executable. I wish Nintendo would actually allow that, although I'm sure they wouldn't.


If I remember correctly, some time ago I saw a video from someone who managed to build a substantial part of SM64 as a native executable and was able to verify that tool-assisted runs ran perfectly on in it (hence it being accurate). The video displayed the game as a wireframe and had no audio, since those parts are surely tied to the N64 hardware.

I can not figure out the right keywords to find it again, but you may be able to if you are interested.

EDIT: Even though I can't find the video anywhere (I promise it existed!), from https://warosu.org/vr/thread/5644072

"To answer your questions, yes: This is a full source code which can be recompiled with modern toolchains (gcc: ive done this already) and even target other platforms (PC) with quite a bit of work. There already exists some proof of concept wireframe stuff."



A native executable? It's not like the Nintendo 64 was using DirectX


You'd need to emulate/simulate/shim all the graphics calls and state changes, but that shouldn't have any bearing on the actual code architecture. In fact, given that Dolphin uses a JIT, you could argue that this already happens to some degree when you're playing Gamecube games, having the source just allows ahead-of-time compilation.


That particular horse was never broken to begin with, much less in anyone's barn.

fbreader has a tts plugin, and Android has many utilities to convert between different formats. I sometimes use TextAloud (with Paul16, the best TTS voice imo) on my PC, to make audiobooks for myself.


I have heard suggestions, that the drive for 5g is to increases the density of wifi signals, since the technology developed for airport scanners can passively image people in areas of high wifi-signal density.


I think that was just refactoring tools.


I’m pretty sure Jai has (or at least did when I last looked) a type modifier keyword that changes the layout (the code working with it doesn’t change)


It should based on livestreams, but details on Jai are so far and few between, it's hard to say


Yeah, my comment was based on some old fan-made documentation and the latest live streams I've seen where he talked about it (which was a good many months ago now, but it certainly seemed like its supported)


Slack is good for organizations that deal with complex, difficult information, and have a strong respect for seniority.

If questions are easy, inane, and ubiquitous, anti-communication swarms become the norm. When most communication is about a plethora of trivial facts that have to be constantly wrangled, it's better to use a ticket system with forms that naturally rate limit low-effort questions.

When it's about deeper information, and invalid conversations can be trivially spotted and rejected, the ability to instantly organize any kind of conversation whenever, is a god-send.


Twitter has denied that it is a publisher in court. It is a Common Carrier in effect, and has benefited - to the detriment of its competitors - from common carrier protections.

Any time Twitter has been called to account for what it publishes, it claims it's not a publisher. Give them what they want.


They are a platform distributing UGC protected by the CDA.

Any discussion of “common carrier” is entirely orthogonal, and basically nonsensical in the context of something like Twitter.

“Common carrier” generally arises as a trade-off for a government granted monopolies based on limited access right-of-ways. This was true for railways, and true for telephone wires. Why would this apply to a random service like Twitter?


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