pivot_root 14h ago • 100%
Unfortunately, rich assholes like Musk tend to be above the consequences of the law. Even if a grassroots movement gets far enough for him to be convicted of anything, he'll just get a slap on the wrist like every other billionaire douchebag.
pivot_root 2d ago • 100%
I get grim satisfaction from asserting my knowledge of theory against the smug liberals.
That checks out. Now if only the tankies would have the collective spine to admit that their countries of choice are capitalist-flavored imperialism under the self-proclaimed veneer of communism.
pivot_root 3d ago • 100%
That assembly is for a DOS application. It would be more verbose for a modern Linux or Win32 application and probably require a linker script.
But python turns that cute little line up top, into that mess at the bottom.
Technically, not quite. Python is interpreted, so it's more like "call the print function with this string parameter" gets fed into another program, which calls it's own functions to make it happen.
pivot_root 3d ago • 100%
I'm probably completely insane and deranged, but I actually like assembly. With decent reverse engineering software like Ghidra, it's not terribly difficult to understand the intent and operation of isolated functions.
Mnemonics for the amd64 AVX extensions can go the fuck right off a bridge, though. VCVTTPS2UQQ
might as well be my hands rolling across a keyboard, not a truncated conversation from packed single precision floats into packed unsigned quadword integers.
pivot_root 5d ago • 100%
Ah. Then yeah, emergency mode won't suffice for protecting the full contents of the disk.
I can't say Apple actually does this, but it is possible to protect important data by further encrypting user data with a separate encryption key derived from the passcode, and then clearing the key whenever the screen is locked.
pivot_root 5d ago • 100%
In a lot of modern phones, and particularly iPhones, the encryption key is stored in the TPM. The TPM itself handles the encryption and decryption of data. If someone manages to get read access to the system memory, the most they're getting is whatever cleartext data is stored in memory for cache or process memory.
Citing my Claims:
I'm not going to bore myself or anyone else with whitepapers and PDFs, but Apple themselves summarize how T2 (TPM) works with disk encryption on Mac devices. The iPhone has the same chip and an even stricter threat model. In M-series Apple devices, they rolled its functionality into the SoC.
pivot_root 5d ago • 100%
If you're lying to the consumer and not disclosing that it's a product concept, yes.
pivot_root 1w ago • 88%
They're marketing them as something they will be...
That is false advertising—which is illegal.
pivot_root 1w ago • 83%
You can believe what you want, but there's absolutely no way you would be correct. Any large company sponsoring a cyber attack, if caught, would be nailed to the wall and made an example of. The extreme risks are simply not worth the comparatively small reward of reducing a tiny fraction of piracy.
A more realistic and reasonable avenue would have been to sponsor the companies going after IA for copyright infringement as a result of them loaning out unlimited digital copies of books without DRM.
pivot_root 1w ago • 100%
My thoughts: they pridefully use the same formula in each of their open-world games, thinking consumers won't recognize that Far Cry's gameplay is basically AC with guns and a different story.
pivot_root 1w ago • 100%
So if I steal something from someones vacation home and return it before they visit, its not stealing either right? Thats residential piracy is it?
It's still theft. You intended to and successfully managed to deprive someone of their property, albeit temporarily. You would also still end up in front of a court for trespassing and breaking and entering.
How about I love a painting so much but I'm an asshole and I think artists don't deserve to be paid for art, so I sneak in while he's sleeping, with a replica in tow, and swap out his real painting for the identical fake.
Still theft, but with copyright infringement on top. You have deprived the artist of his property—his physical copy of the painting.
I don't know what changed over the years really, it was stealing in the 90s and stealing in the 00s, and then some people figured if they just said it wasnt stealing enough it would stick?
People unquestionably accepting falsehoods is what changed. Have you noticed that when pirates do get caught and taken to civil or criminal court, it's for copyright infringement, computer fraud and abuse, wire fraud, or something else tangential to theft but not actually theft? It's because digital piracy is legally not "theft".
its hard to argue you should get all your games for free just because, oh well nothings lost.
I am not making that argument.
I even pirate games but I'm not afraid to call it stealing.
I don't, and I still wouldn't call your digital piracy stealing. In English-speaking countries, at least, the law considers it to be copyright infringement.
In the same vain, I wouldn't call randomly sucker-punching someone "assault": it's battery.
pivot_root 1w ago • 75%
At that point, just let them self-select out of the gene pool. In a few generations, maybe our descendants won't be so adverse to basic self-preservation and common sense.
pivot_root 1w ago • 100%
Because it's not—by definition—stealing?
Theft is the taking of another person’s personal property with the intent of depriving that person of the use of their property. Also referred to as larceny.
Digital piracy is:
- Copying, not taking.
- Not affecting personal property.
- Not depriving the creator of their property.
pivot_root 1w ago • 60%
Then drag and I are in agreement :)
I saw drag clarification that drag comment was just about milk and not politics or economics. Myself and others had a different interpretation, which is where things were misunderstood.
pivot_root 1w ago • 100%
Understandable. I hope drag has a good day and glass of ethical milk.
pivot_root 2w ago • 100%
I mean, digital piracy isn't stealing regardless of the premise that buying ≠ owning.
Stealing is taking another's property without the intent to return it. Making a digital copy is not taking any property, it's creating a reproduction of it. The only place left to argue that piracy is stealing would be to say that you're stealing the company's theoretical revenue... but that revenue was never tangible property, being that it's your money up until the moment you give it to them. Piracy is, and only is, copyright infringement.
pivot_root 2w ago • 100%
Be very careful with the wording of those exemptions, or you're going to have an owner living in a tower with 230 roommates.
pivot_root 2w ago • 100%
The only thing liberal about corporate media is how liberal they are being with the definition of "liberal" when it's applied to them as an adjective.
pivot_root 2w ago • 20%
If drag does not support China, drag is probably not a tankie. If drag calls drag communist and consider Russia and North Korea communist-led countries, drag is wrong, however. A charitable description of those countries would be "socialist" by Marx's definition.
pivot_root 2w ago • 42%
So, Drag thinks countries that act as though their neighbors are part of a greater whole ruled by them as the motherland, and have political structures where the governing body consists of a small cohort (and not the proletariat) are communist?
That's imperialism, buddy.
Let me know when: 1) China stops trying to exert absolute control over Tibet, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; 2) North Korea accepts that their ownership ends where their globally-recognized territory ends; 3) Russia stops invading neighboring countries; and 4) All three of them abolish the ruling class and give the power to the people.
\>Focuses on optimization which only helps in specific workloads like synthetic benchmarks \>Markets technology like its a solution to world hunger \>It's actually worse than before The solution is to deprecate the slower one, right? ... Right? ...
It's almost as if the real money is where the customers are at, and not in little Timmy's wallet.
Once one company gets away with it, the rest follow.
The [Citra website](https://citra-emu.org/) has been replaced with the same statement made on the Yuzu website, and the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/citra-emu/citra) is now gone as well. --- Other build dependency repos taken down with it: - [Dynarmic](https://github.com/merryhime/dynarmic/), the JIT recompiler. - [Sirit](https://github.com/yuzu-emu/sirit), a SPIR-V assembler.
Crossposted from !technology@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/12728165 --- This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code. The GitHub repo page for Yuzu now returns a 404, as well. The website is still up, though.
This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code. The [GitHub repo page](https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu) for Yuzu now returns a 404, as well. In addition, the repo for the Citra 3DS emulator was also taken down. As of at least 23:30 UTC, [Yuzu's website](https://yuzu-emu.org) and [Citra's website](https://citra-emu.org/) have been replaced with a statement about their discontinuation. --- Other sources found by [@Daughter3546@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/Daughter3546): - https://gbatemp.net/threads/yuzu-emulator-shutting-down-paying-nintendo-2-4-million-in-lawsuit-settlement.650039/ - https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendos-yuzu-lawsuit-puts-emulation-in-the-spotlight-opinion - https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-says-tears-of-the-kingdom-was-pirated-1-million-times-pre-release-in-lawsuit-against-emulator-creator --- There is also an active Reddit thread about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1b6gtb5/
An ad that showed up as I was browsing through the news. Bloody ridiculous...
You may know it as [Space Melody by Luna Park](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gUt636-qGxw) or as [ResuRection by ППК](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gYPTgJbfJZ8) (English: PPK), but the original melody was composed by [Eduard Artemyev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Artemyev) for the 1979 Soviet film [Siberiade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberiade). The original name of the song, as titled in the movie's soundtrack release, is *la mort du héroes* (*the death of heroes*, if my French is correct). [Here's a link to the original composition, if you're curious.](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rRhprJV--uU)