Snarwin

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[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"Title II" in this context refers to Subchapter II of 47 U.S.C. Chapter 5. 47 U.S.C. is the Communications Act of 1934, the act of Congress that established the FCC, and Chapter 5 is the part that deals with "Wire and Radio Communications."

If you want to know what this law empowers the FCC to do, you can read the statute yourself. Or, if that's too difficult, you can also use your access to the internet to look up more accessible sources, such as Wikipedia's "Common carrier" article.

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As long as you copy from the device file (/dev/whatever), you will get "the raw bits", regardless of whether you use dd, cp, or even cat.

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

Patent infringement claims in 2019 saw Mozilla reach a settlement to avoid litigation. As part of that settlement it was forced to make changes to MLS that impacted its ability to invest in (commercially exploit?) and improve the service.

Yet another nice thing ruined by IP trolls. It's long past time we threw software patents into the dustbin of history where they belong.

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

You're thinking of Mtgox, a Magic card trading website that reinvented itself as a Bitcoin exchange—and then disappeared with its users' money.

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago

Posting something on a website does not make it public domain. Typically, the website's Terms of Service will require that you grant the website operator a license to use any content that you post on the site (so that they can display it to other users). That license does not extend to other visitors of the same website.

Of course, in practice, it's very unlikely that someone would take you to court over copying a website comment. But if someone posts, say, an original work of art or a short story in a comment thread, you should be aware that it is still protected by copyright.

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 24 points 8 months ago

As someone who occasionally dabbles in music production on Linux, I love that Pipewire lets me run JACK and Pulseaudio apps side-by-side without having to jump through hoops.

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 23 points 8 months ago (5 children)

On my distro (debian) I can use systemctl --user restart pipewire.service.

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

This website explains the process: https://git-send-email.io/

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Honestly, meetings like the one you describe don't sound like they'd be helpful for anyone, especially not beginners. You say you "feel like" the new developers are getting something out of them, but have you actually asked them? My guess is, they're just as bored as you are, but doing a better job of hiding it.

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Alt+Backspace works in bash too, and should work in any other command-line program that reads input using readline.

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Naturally they only get to charge for already-sold copies if you accept the new terms that include the charges. As for how it's legal to include those charges in the new terms to begin with, I guess you'd have to ask a contract lawyer. Presumably Unity's own lawyers are convinced they can get away with it, or they wouldn't have done it.

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unity licenses are sold as a subscription. When the subscription runs out, you either have to renew it and accept the new terms, or lose the license and stop distributing your game.

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