Snarwin

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[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] 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 8 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 8 points 8 months ago

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

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

I've been playing CrossCode, an indie action RPG that's basically a love letter to 2D retro games.

I've found it incredibly engaging, almost addictive. I'll sit down to play, and multiple hours will pass in what feels like no time at all. There are parts where the difficulty gets high enough to become genuinely frustrating (mostly in the puzzles, not the combat), but the game feels so good to play that I've never been tempted to quit. It does an incredible job of evoking the feeling of a retro game without compromising on modern quality-of-life features or polish.

I've found lately that polish is the single thing that most makes a game stand out in my mind, and perhaps surprisingly, some of the most polished experiences I've had have been with indie games. Hollow Knight was one of them, and from what I've seen so far, I'd rank CrossCode in the same league. Very excited to see how the story ends, and check out the DLC.

[–] Snarwin@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

You could try the solution suggested in this reddit thread, and use systemctl to start and stop wireguard instead of wg-quick.

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

The Radiance in Hollow Knight.

Huge difficulty spike compared to what comes before it. Accounted for a full 5 hours out of my 45-hour play time. Even when I was totally in the zone, it took some good RNG to get through the hardest part of the fight.

I don't regret grinding it out, but I'm certainly not going back for seconds any time soon.

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