Is digital piracy (i.e. the unauthorized copying of digital files and the removal of digital copyright protection systems) morally wrong?
>>107612145numbers are not anyone's property. numbers are not scarce, and property is a way of managing scarcity. therefore property in the context of digital media does not make the slightest sense. Intellectual property is not a real thing in the slightest.
>>107612145It's morally neutral for the most part, but I'd imagine there are more times when it's morally good (or even a moral imperative) than when it's morally bad.
>>107612145Copying of drawings and statues and books etc. I don't think that was ever wrong.
>>107612145If it causes unmerited loss to somebody and/or is driven by a parasitic mindset, it is, by absolute biblical standards.Personally I don't think public archival and preservarion of old digital assets without commercial value or security backups (so long as unauthorized distribution doesn't follow) fall in such category.
Yes.
So I decided to protect my Linux system with Secure Boot. I've generated own certificates, didn't add Microsoft keys because I thought I don't need them since I'm using Linux in a single boot configuration. I signed bootloader, kernel image, enrolled keys and everything went smooth so far. After a while I decided to try loading Arch Linux live image, and surprisingly it loaded, only in BIOS mode. I figured out that it's some compatibility option that allows legacy boot records to load on modern systems. "Well, it's better to turn it off to enhance security" I thought. And this is when shit hit the fan. After disabling CSM I couldn't boot into UEFI firmware yet my Linux system was booting just fine. What the fuck? TURNS OUT things such firmware and UEFI GPU drivers have to be signed by secure-boot accepted keys AS WELL, and this GPU ROM is only signed by Microsoft key.So, if I don't want to dump my GPU ROM, evaluate it hash and write it to db and do such retarded nonsense every time I upgrade my GPU I have to add Microsoft key, literally allowing any Microsoft distribution to run on my machine. Furthermore, no GPU developer can write a ROM without asking for Microsoft permission, even if they never intended to make drivers for Windows.Why didn't any antimonopoly service such as FTC fucked them over? It's basically a definition of monopolistic behavior.
>>107614766>So basically his statement still stands because of a lot of consumer and small business hardware is not vPro/AMT?yes>So you expect regular users to somehow acquire USB drive with new Secure Boot keys and enroll them manually?I understood the word 'can't' in the literal sense
>>107614613Windows 11 works just fine without secure boot
>>107614079You only need to sign the bootloader, kernel, and initramfs.There's an optional ability for Linux to force all modules to be signed, but that has to be enabled at compile time IIRC.If you use grub, you might need to sign the kernel and initramfs with a GPG key, instead of your secure boot key. You could directly boot Linux as an EFI file, and then you might not need any extra signing, as grub is what enforced the GPG signging if secure boot is enabled.
>>107614244nope. you don't have to sign shit that chainloads. this is literally how shim loaders work.you're just too retarded to figure it out. also secure boot isn't really useful in the first place if you're not using tpm for full disk encryption.
>>107615217I think you still have to add a key and sign your kernel if you use one of the shim loaders signed by Microsoft's third party certificate.https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Shim#Signing_the_kernelOtherwise, there would exist a shim loader which can basically bypass secure boot entirely on anything that has the Microsoft third party certificate enrolled.
What are you maids working on?Last thread: >>107542891
>>107575071"improving" my 4chan viewer for emacs
>>107612592very nice, I would use it
>>107612794>You should just generate the appropriate simple instruction chains to create higher level behavior, since it makes things more uniform and general in the VMYes, if it's low level instructions, RISC essentially, it's nicer for code generation. But if your language uses boxed values and a GC you don't need to do that, it will be dog slow and it's not more complicated to make instructions get the raw values from boxed type, do the operation and put the result in a newly allocated boxed type. The thing thing that really complicates the overall VM is the GC.>>107613170>but eventually the language wants GC supportnot in the admitedly rarer case of a VM for a statically typed manually memory managed language>tail call supporttrivial, if we're talking about a special call instruction that the compiler emits>to not have to pop/push so much data you're slower than Python.yes, hence a registed VM design with 3 address codes. I've done a prototype a while ago and run a microbenchmark of a loop adding all integers until N. It was very fast, faster than C lua.
Made my own package manager in a custom scripting language. The server is online already. The whole project can be seen as written in Go, since both the server and the scripting language (minimum) are written in Go.
>>107614636https://pastebin.com/7A0VrvxM
Absolutely no coding experience and it took me four hours to make a 4chan app for iOS just telling Gemini what i want, copy pasting where it told me to in Xcode, and having it change bits here and there that I don't like.>can download indiviual images/videos or the whole threads images to Files in a thread-specific folder>full mp4/webm support with audio>can favourite threads and come back to them>can switch between list and grid view for boardsIf I worked in coding I would be shitting myself right now
I know the Internet and basic websites like 4chan must seem like sophisticated black magic to a non-technical person like you. But there's nothing about what you built that's impressive. You basically reskinned a site with a simple, table-based layout, and you're acting like you just made a break through in computer science. This is why vibe coders are so cringe. They sit at the point on the competency curve where they lack the competency to even know what the full problem space looks like. So anything they have to say is out-of-touch with reality.
>>107614978Hope that seething rage keeps you warm on the bread line lmao
Test
>>107614690I am not a webshitter.
i got fired from my job making 4chan apps last week. thanks ai
I don't regret switching to MacOS. It has all the capabilities of Linux, but is an actually stable just werks OS.
tim apple won
>macs then> mac os is cool. too bad the hardware is overpriced garbage>macs now> apple sillicon is cool. too bad the os is garbage.
>>107610944retard
>>107615261>>macs then>> mac os is garbage. the hardware is overpriced garbage>>macs now>> mac os is garbage. the hardware is overpriced garbage
>>107610783BigMacOS only runs on speshul snowflake hardware, so it only has a smol fraction of Linux' capabilities.
>Just get an OLED bro>The burn-in is a non-issue nowadays
>>107613856What do you think will come out first in an affordable capacity? Qdel or microled?
>>107613411This is a faulty screen. You don't know what burn in is
>>107613856miniled will never be a popular thing.
>>107615186wanting to leave static images on your monitor for extended periods of time is not carelessness you dumb fucking faggot. A monitor should just fucking work
>>107615244Yes, it is carelessness. Burn-in (CRT/OLED) and image persistence (LCD) are facts of life. Being subjected to both is purely carelessness and 100% skill issue.
HOW CAN THEY PERMIT HIM TO GIVE WRONG ADVICE?? WTF!
Humans only learn through pain.
>>107614717are people really dumb enough to use LLMs like that?lol, lmao
if you can't read the manual then you should expect to do it wrong. doesn't need to be a llm
>>107615194>if you can't read the manual then you should expect to do it wrongI hate chatgpt with all my strength. I'm not anti AI, ML or LLM. What I am, is anti Scam Altman.I remember one night I was too lazy to look through a manual or pdf for something and said fuck it, the bot can do it.Gave the nvidiot the manual, the nvidiot said oh here's it's this! There's no bios password jumper, the battery is soldered you'll need this screwdriver.I double take it, that sounds wrong. Go to do some stuff, get the driver, come back to it. Are you sure? Cite which page it's on. I'm sure it has a bios pwd jumper. The retarded nvidia hardware doubles down. I open the case. I look down. It's a T8 screw, the bios password jumper is staring me in the face, inches across the battery sits in a normal battery holder.Even given a manual for a single item, it fucked it up.Woulda been better off consulting with a magic 8 ball.
>Americans will always do the right thing — after exhausting all the alternativesye, try reading the manual next
Apple will make folding phones a mainstream success. Samsung will completely change their folding phones to match whatever Apple does once it’s announced.
>>107613036nice useless toilet ijeet
>>107613028I have a Fold 7 and for consuming video content, I have to agree. Saying that, Rolling Thunder on Mame is just pure class.
>>107613805Get a telescopic controller, anon! Z Fold's aspect ratio is perfect for 4:3 content.
>>107596054I wish they'd put a physical keyboard back on.
>>107614811I wish they would slam a physical keyboard down onto your balls.
I guess it was inevitable. Next I suppose they'll rewrite it in Rust and festoon git-scm.org with the pride progress and Ukraine flags.
>>1075764074channers will seethe about anything
>>107613164>>107613188Nevermind, I misunderstood your post.
>>107599511>2 less characters to typeuse tab completion retard
>>107576407>gitSorry sweetie but nobody uses that uncslop anymore. We've all moved to jj. Not only is it named after a Japanese word (thing Japan :OO) but it's written in Rust.Not convinced? Take a look at what all the authentic non-shill HN comments have to say:>I was skeptical at first, but I decided to try jj over a single weekend and haven't looked back!>You said it pal! I was very much a git-supremacist luddite, but my female coworker (yay for girls in tech!) told me how all I need are these 4 jj command. I'm not team jj for life!>Glad I'm not the only one! It's so much faster than git even though it's all I/O anyway but shhh and also it's super duper safe and I know that I won't randomly execute a malicious script when pushing a commi- I mean log.>jj author here, Im trans btw give me money >omg trans power y'all. Also y'all please stop using latex and use typst instead even though rendering is shit and basic features are still not possible without plugins y'all
>>107576864through insane projection
>the weird AI dash thing is because indians love using the dash
>>107612043indians use them a lot see>>107612040
>>107612087more like hate
>>107609163You are an ESL in spirit even if it is your native language. I guarantee you don't know how the fuck to use a semicolon, you probably just randomly use it like a commaMost publications or published material depending on style and country use en- or em-dashes and more importantly many people writing more casually use a hyphen as an en-dash substitute, or the incredibly ugly double-hyphen as an em-dash substitute. The essential use of dashes is not that uncommon even in casual writing. You're just lack awareness and intelligence so you only notice things when other people point them out, and like so many of the mob you rage against something with less than even a surface level understanding of it.I realise white-knighting punctuation is ghey but this is the power of the autism
>>107615055you use it to combine clauses without using a conjunction or if you need clarity in lists because you're listing something with a comma like a city/state combo, ESL reddit spacer troonliterally only indians use the indian dash. you're just mad that you got called out
>>107613192>gee what character should i use to denote this paranthentical comment
why dont we just put windmills under the water?water is heavier than wind so it will make more electricity
>>107614503why would you make this stuff up?
Fuck, I'm glad kids are getting banned from the internet.
>>1076114081. uranium is renewable2. your green electricity has 0 inertia, it's incapable of providing a stable grid
>>107615082nuclear needs to be disconected if there is a serious fluctuation, and it cannot be load regulated.seriously grid stability is the most retarded argument for nuclearbut again you are saying that uranium is renewable
>>107615082>uranium is renewabletrue, but on a scale of tens to hundreds of millions of yearsin that sense, oil is also a renewable resource
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>>107613711This ain't 2003 retard. Bandwith is cheap. If you can't handle forum attachments kys.
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I told them I have a Bluetooth keyboard and they keep telling me to curse Kim Jong Un. What does that mean?
>No verification required>Tells me no valid captchafix it dev's
>>107614213>4chanXT hasn't updated despite the issue being around for almost a weekHey, keep using garbage, I don't care.
>>107614226kek
>exactly one minute apart>>107613995so it really is just one guy pretending to be retarded and saying X is better than XT
>>107614940you think im pretending? thats flattering
>>1076139524chan-x had the same bug for me, I think he needs to update his script because the day after an update was pushed outBut I am on an older machine right now and somehow it works for me on this one so it might depent
This is not a drill, it's finally confirmed that China has a working EUV prototype since early 2025, it's just undergoing testing and verification right now, expected to enter large scale production by 2028-2030. >In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and weapons central to Western military dominance, Reuters has learned. Completed in early 2025 and now undergoing testing, the prototype fills nearly an entire factory floor.>The availability of parts from older ASML machines on secondary markets has allowed China to build a domestic prototype, with the government setting a goal of producing working chips on the prototype by 2028, according to the two people.But those close to the project say a more realistic target is 2030, which is still years earlier than the decade that analysts believed it would take China to match the West on chips.>The breakthrough marks the culmination of a six-year government initiative to achieve semiconductor self-sufficiency, one of President Xi Jinping's highest priorities. While China's semiconductor goals have been public, the Shenzhen EUV project has been conducted in secret, according to the people.https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17/
>>107581694All of it as with every Chinese "breakthrough" since the last 100 years.>>107581713He's right to be seething, watching as all of Europe and it's colonies throws away centuries of technological leadership over to the enemy so the line can go up next quarter.
>>107582184>thinking that zion don is actually going to fix anythingYou trying to accumulate more of those awards? You are right though, China can literally just take what they need at this point because they've been fed everything they need since the Nixon days while NATO has been getting self-owned. The problem here is that China is still poised to go on the up because they simply have sheer numbers again, like the USSR once did despite being a totalitarian third-world shithole with just as many struggling to afford food/rent and living in poverty there. Don't be fooled by Chinese propaganda either.>>107590377This may come as a surprise to you, but the USA is an English country. Or at least was. Do you have the same reaction to the far more absurd "Asian American" or "African American" labels?
>>107581694God how fucking retarded are chinks they remind me of this guy called Rizzo on Survivor they can't think of anything themselves, he had to check all the puzzles other people had done so that he could complete them. When they land on Mars I hope they will remember the billions of Whites who helped them get every single step of the way there.>>107584881Except its none of that and your genetics are flawed and you are worthless without your betters the Indian is even better than your pathetic race. India who invented most maths and the Hindu religion which is weird and cool. Stop peacocking and acting like you matter or meant a shit in history.
>>107613053market domination and revenue arent tied to the stock value. nvidia have a profitable business and cuda is great and wont go away.but the stock itself isnt tied to anything but cope. its all AI bubble memes of unprofitable venture capitalism.now entire faang economy bubble is tied to this meme and its bloating and hiding all the issues of the american economy.
>>107594906Yeah they make six entire companies all to rip off whatever came out of Gigafactory: Shanghai thanks Elon. Also Ford makes the best EV's but nobody talks about that because everyone is a faggot who just hates Ford for no reason.>>107586506Honestly this is a brilliant masterstroke I never thought of, also paint all the CIA nuke ships in Chinese colors using a Chinese looking crew (all whites in makeup) and get good footage of that shit but not too good ofc, blame China and bully Europe and Israel to recognize it and ignore any doubts
