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Hildegarde

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Hildegarde ,

You can delete files by overwriting the data. On Linux its shred -zu [file]. Its slow but good to do if you are deleting sensitive data.

Its good its not the standard delete function.

Hildegarde ,

If you delete normally, only the index of the files are removed, so the data can be recovered by a recovery program reading the "empty" space on the disk and looking for readable data.

If you do a single pass erase, the bits will overwritten one time. About half the bits will be unchanged, but that makes little difference. Any recovery software trying to read it will read the newly written bits instead of the old ones and will not be able to recover anything.

However, forensic investigation can probably recover data after a single pass erase. The shred command defaults to 3 passes, but you can do many more if you need to be even more sure.

Unless you have data that someone would spend large sums on forensics to recover, 1 to 3 passes is probably enough.

Hildegarde ,

You would have to show ID if a police officer pulled you over. It's literally how the previous commenter described. The EU has the schengen area, which is an open boarders agreement that works nearly identically to the open boarders agreement between US states.

The reason the social security card says not to use it for identification is beause it's really bad at it. But it is used as an ID number anyway. The US doesn't have a national ID system in theory, but in practice it does. Not having an official national ID number just makes it less secure and convenient.

Hildegarde ,

The US subsidizes american car companies too. Pot calling the kettle and all.

Hildegarde ,

All auto manufacturers put spyware in their cars now. This isn't a china problem, this is an everyone problem. We need anti-spyware laws that apply to everyone.

EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)

EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...

Hildegarde ,

EA already did this. Many games had real ads on billboards in the world. Need for speed underground 2 was sponsored by cingular wireless. Your ingame pager was product placement and the company's logo was on screen whenever you were doing free roam.

This is very EA with historical precident.

Hildegarde ,

In the US the permanent resident card is green, and its often called the green card. Sometimes americans use the term for equivalent documents in other countries.

Hildegarde ,

I'm pretty sure she's from the American Capital Territory. It's often mistaken for the only state with the word state in its name so I understand the confusion.

Hildegarde ,

Banning young people's favorite app and then doubling down on the genocide is not the sort of strategy that wins elections.

Hildegarde ,

Light theme used to be the only theme. People now need dark themes because they're eyes are too week from all the worke.

Hildegarde ,

No not that far back

Hildegarde ,

CG artists use available assets to finish project on time, within budget. Don't trust any computer generated speculative graphics to be accurate in any way. Some artists are just filing in the blanks to get the thing done.

Hildegarde ,

The rendering looks way too 90's to be made my modern AI image generation. Why would anyone ask midjourney to generate images that look like they were made in Bryce, when they could have it make anything else?

Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote (www.engadget.com)

[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”

Hildegarde ,

Imagine being so entrepreneurial that you think you need to buy twitter for way more than its worth in order to develop an app that does something entirely unrelated.

Hildegarde ,

Doc Mitchell is good. How do I get the good ending where he rules the Mojave?

Hildegarde ,

Doc Mitchell is better than you think

Hildegarde ,

We should instead be using AI to decimate the CEO industry.

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Google knew youtube shorts didn't stand a chance in a fair market.

Hildegarde ,

Voting is a popularity contest. Any unpopular opinion community that uses voting to drive the sorting will run into this issue. Genuinely unpopular opinions will be unpopular and thus downvoted, genuinely popular opinions will be downvoted from being clearly unsuited for the community. The opinions that get votes are the ones that many people agree with but think are unpopular. You won't get unpopular opinions, only popular opinions that people think are a bit spicy.

This is the cursed problem of unpopular opinion threads on lemmy or reddit. It is unsolvable.

The fact that the moderators are moderating in a way that maintains the community as it is, is not the main problem as far as I see.

Hildegarde ,

And facebook tells its users to vote. Encouraging people to make their voices heard and engage in the democratic process is a good thing.

Hildegarde ,

This the goal of this bill.

Hildegarde ,

If manipulating content were the issue they would have introduced a bill banning that practice. Banning a few specific countries from operating does not prevent sites from manipulating content.

Hildegarde ,

This is nothing to do with national security.

Hildegarde ,

The bill literally mentioned tiktok and bytedance on the first page when first introduced. They wrote the bill to ban tiktok.

Hildegarde ,

If the bill identified tiktok and byte dance by name they would just rename the app and company to avoid the regulation.

The fact that this law identifies byte dance in the overly verbose and broad language typical of how laws are written does not change the intent.

It sounds like this is your first time reading the full text of a bill, and you are drawing uninformed conclusions.

Hildegarde ,

If the text of this law said that the app "Tiktok" and company "ByteDance" cannot operate in the US, it would be trivial create a new company called, "BitSamba" which operates the "Tuktuk" app, and this specific law would not apply to them.

That is why the bill uses the term "entity that is controlled by a foreign adversary." Try reading at least one more bill, or any municipal code, then you might start to understand. This is how laws are written. Lawyers are very good at finding loopholes, which is why laws are specifically written defensively to avoid unintended loopholes.

The language of this bill will apply to tiktok. Tiktok is the most notable app that will be effected by it. Which is why everyone who knows what they're talking about has been calling this the bill that bans tiktok because that is what it does.

Especially the authors of this bill that but the part about it banning tiktok in the first page summary for all the legislators who don't actually read the full text.

Hildegarde ,

Blue Star OS?

Hildegarde ,

Yes. The only unskilled labor is management.

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of "Twitter.com" to "X.com" automatically....

Hildegarde ,

Biologically it is a twitter and nothing can change that.

Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them?

Just so tired of almost every time a doctor submits stuff to insurance, we have to be the ones to make multiple phone calls to both the doctor's office and insurance to iron everything out, figure out what the issue is (it's always a different issue), and basically be the go-between for the office and insurance. What am I...

Hildegarde ,

How? Who do I vote for to make that happen?

Hildegarde ,

I'm pretty sure this is canada, unless this has become an international trend in record time.

Hildegarde ,

So what would stop them from shadow profiling you by scraping content, or using a different domain? Most lemmy instances are configured to federate with a blocklist, meaning any unblocked instance can download data. Facebook can just make an instance under a different domain and download the data that way. Or they can just scrape user data from the web facing interface.

Posts and comments on lemmy are public. If facebook wants your publicly accessible data from the fediverse, de-federating from threads isn't going to stop them.

Hildegarde ,

I pick 2

Hildegarde ,

It's the practice of preventing you from even using genuine parts. If you buy two identical iPhones, you can't even use parts from one to repair the other. The one phone won't accept the genuine part from the other because it's not paired to that phone by the manufacturer's proprietary tool.

Hildegarde ,

This is a good metaphor on voting. You are not the driver, you are a passenger. Your choices cannot change the route.

Hildegarde ,

why is civil forfeiture not on the chart?

Hildegarde ,

NeXT was successful at being an application for the position of CEO at apple.

Hildegarde ,

To be fair, we're not the only one.

Hildegarde ,

Holy shit. I thought being trans only gave you an air dash.

Hildegarde ,

The gun's name is an initialism for "Fuck Gun Control", with the "9" referencing its 9mm cartridge.

They've got the best branding

Hildegarde ,

The great tit is currently "least concern." They're not even close to endangered.

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    Hildegarde ,

    Ryujinx, Dolphin, Mupen64, Cemu, Visual Boy Advance, BizHawk, RetroArch, Snes9x, Mesen, and others are emulators of Nintendo consoles that have not been taken down by Nintendo.

    There are some important rules to follow if you want to make an emulator. Yuzu made some big mistakes. It's legal to build an emulator. It's not legal to profit from encouraging from piracy, or circumventing DRM which is what Yuzu did.

    Hildegarde ,

    And yet the project still is up.

    Dolphin has a defense. There is a reverse engineering exemption to the DMCA that Dolphin is likely protected by. Dolphin's use of the keys might be entirely legal. If this went to court there's a reasonable chance Dolphin could win. It wouldn't be a clear-cut case at best.

    The other thing protecting Dolphin is the fact Dolphin does not make money. They do not solicit donations publicly. Nintendo doesn't have easily citable patreon numbers to add to the damages, nor would Dolphin have the means to pay nintendo even if they won.

    Taking Dolphin to court is a bad idea for nintendo. All risk, no reward. Keeps Dolphin safe unless one of those things changes, like putting it on steam.

    Hildegarde ,

    They settled because they knew what would happen if it went to a court. Yuzu's actions were blatantly illegal.

    Hildegarde ,

    They were making $30k a month from their patreon. That's enough money to afford a lawyer, and plenty of incentive to defend themselves in court if they genuine believed they weren't doing anything illegal.

    Their patreon had custom builds of the emulator specifically tailored to run leaked games before release. In their own patreon, yuzu's developers admitted to having copies of nintendo's games at a time they could not be legally purchased. They also admitted to profiting from those illegally obtained ROMs for an amount that patreon shares publicly. That is the sort of slam-dunk evidence that would make nintendo's lawyers salivate.

    This isn't an unclear situation. Yuzu was legally in the wrong. If this went to trial they would almost assuredly lose even more. If yuzu was doing more piracy there's no way to hide it during discovery.

    Hildegarde ,

    Did you read the article? The bill bans tiktok for being foreign. There is nothing in this article that describes a bill that outlaws any practices, conventions, or actions that tiktok has done.

    Being afraid of foreigners for being foreign is not effective regulation.

    Hildegarde ,

    I am not a guy. I read the entire article before commenting. The law did not do what I asked for. You would know if you read my comment all the way through.

    Hildegarde ,

    Being chinese by definition can't effect any company. There is enough context.

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