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[–] grue@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While DRM is the bane of everybody there are cases where trust and integrity is important and it’s an intriguing look into how hard it is to manage.

Nah, when the user wants to ensure trust and integrity in his own system, it works just fine. The problem comes when the user who needs to be able to access the data is simultaneously the adversary who needs to be stopped from accessing the data.

In other words, it's one of those situations where the fact that it's hard to manage is a gigantic clue that it's wrongheaded to try to do so in the first place.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to the Open Source Initiative (the folks who control whether things can be officially certified as "open source"), it basically is the same thing as Free Software. In fact, their definition was copied and pasted from the Debian Free Software guidelines.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

he also gave $5MM to Sea Shepherds

Enough to get an entire ship named after him!

[–] grue@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

People in North America identified with their colony/state first, and the United States second back in the 1700s. Give it time...

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I get that they’re different countries, but different states here might as well be.

^ This guy Articles of Confederation.

(Seriously, the European Union basically has the same kind of structure now as the United States did between 1776 and 1789.)

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Less than a week until Dragon*Con!

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

They were both apparently being broadcast by ABC at the time, too.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Edit: wait… return ! 0 ; wtf

I mean, returning non-zero exit status on error is just good practice. It even managed to evaluate to the same numerical value as EXIT_FAILURE when I tested it on my machine (gcc 11.4.0 linux x86-64), although I'm not sure if that's always the case or if it's undefined behavior.

This cursed code is quite well-written.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, as are n and i. Do they not deserve 'fleekness?'

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

My argument applies to any cylindrical projection.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

speeding is bad...

True.

...and that lowering car speeds is good...

Also true.

...so all these changes can be implemented.

No, see, that doesn't follow because not "all" changes are good. Only modifying the geometry of the street is good. Changing the number on the speed limit sign should only ever be done in conjunction with that geometry change, and even then it's just an afterthought.

It's really, really, really important not to give the people in control of the budget any excuse to think that they can cost-cut "fix the geometry" down to "install lower speed limit signs" and still have it count as accomplishing something!

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