What surprises me the most about these decompilation projects is that they post the whole decompiled code instead of just a list of directives to feed into a given (hopefully open source) decompiler.
I used to be somewhat active on a ROM hacking message board, and there were rules about how users could share their modifications. Users had to share a patch. Uploading or linking to prepatched or original binaries was prohibited, and moderators would routinely intervene and remove them. Having been exposed to such measures to avoid action from copyright holders in the past, I just don't understand why it is so popular to just post the code openly.
Perhaps there is a concern that the croudfunds could be considered a third party payment under subsection 4.
The only explanation that I can think of for the subsection was to prevent a defendant from claiming that a source like the decedent's own life insurance should be counted against the restitution, but that seems a bit far fetched.
When I first learned about how privileged ports worked, I thought a better system would be to have per port security that resembles filesystem security. That is, each port would have an owner that can decide which users may use the port. A program could run before starting network services that would load the security information into the kernel, and equivalents to chown and chmod would be available to update the persistence file and the kernel in tandem (or separately).
Ground source heat pump systems can handle colder climates well. Underground, the temperature is rather stable through the year. This is especially true when the loops are installed vertically.
These seem nice but the Wikipedia article for GSHP implies only a million are installed globally - surely that cannot mean that Quebec is intending for this to be the predominant source of heating? Even with subsidization it seems the technology is prohibitively expensive for the average Canadian currently.
I wonder if there have been any efforts to sabotage crowdsourced AI training and content moderation by signing up on crowdworking platforms and intentionally providing false responses. A large and tech savvy enough sabotage ring could use a browser extension or the like to keep their responses straight and increase the odds of their fake answers being accepted.
It is pretty common to "verify" workers: a fraction of questions (often 1% to 10%) is asked-before questions with known correct answers. If those are not answered correctly, the entire dataset from this person is ignored. Depending on the platform, they might get paid less as well.
This is designed to detect workers who either did not understand the instructions, or those who don't care about those and answer randomly. But this works against intentional sabotage as well.
Speaking from my experience working at data labeling companies, the sabotage does occurs, but is not intentionally malicious.
What ends up happening is that some labelers learn what the pre-determined questions and answers are and share these via Facebook and Discord to other labelers. That way, the other labelers can stay on the task longer while providing garbage responses to the non-predetermined question/answer pairs.
It's an arms race with labelers on one end, trying to make a quick buck, and data labeling platforms on the other, trying to get quality labeled data.
It was tried. 4chan tried a coordinated “penis” prank on Recaptcha. Despite the much vaunted community power of the website, and despite being coordinated, nothing happened.
It turns out that they are a drop in the bucket. Not only is there low RoI but also the group is too weak.
In February, Arkansas eased restrictions on municipal broadband. I had a quick look at the text of the bill, and it appears that municipalities must get grant funding as opposed to issuing bonds or using general funds.
A somewhat related development in Arkansas is electric co-ops, which were started to provide electric service to rural areas, starting telecommunications subsidiaries with rather firm plans to build FTTH over their entire service area. Several of these have been started in the last few years. Arkansas could see some remote rural areas without paved roads or public water get symmetrical gigabit internet before many urban centers.
Electrical coops are a good solution and in many cases, there are such organizations other than the incumbents who are better suited than the city to build and run operations. I’ve been in the fiber business for a long time (though never for an incumbent). There have been numerous times in my experience where cities and incumbents have such a poor relationship that managers within the cities start to convince themselves it can’t be that hard - we are just talking a few miles of fiber. And yet for every misinformed city manager who thinks they can do it all, there’s one who seems to be able to make fiber work. I guess if I were at the state level, would I want cities to just run around deploying tax dollars Standing up telco operations when we have generally decided in the US that telecom is a private enterprise? Cities tend to make short term decisions that aren’t always the best - take for example the reluctance of cities to share resources with adjacent cities (fire, police, schools). That said whenever a hole is dug I don’t think it would hurt to drop fiber in it. Having reasonable incentives for civil and private works projects to be dual purpose would help to propagate fiber. In combination with reasonable rules for access and build backs this would generally help the situation.
That was true of the DSP-1, but not true of the SuperFX or SA1.
The DSP-1 was a preprogrammed microcontroller that preformed certain calculations that would have been inefficient to preform on the SNES CPU. The inputs were written to a memory mapped location, and the outputs read back. An interposed copier could simply redirect these reads and writes.
The SuperFX and SA1 used the cartridge's ROM and RAM for program and data, and therefore these enhancement chips are placed between the SNES bus and the cartridge memory. The cartridge memory is unavailable to the SNES bus while the enhancement chip is executing, as in the SuperFX, or the the enhancement chip enters wait states while the CPU is accessing the cartridge memory, as in the SA1.
Ah gotcha. My memory is getting hazy. I had a floppy disk copier many years ago and remember using Mario Kart to play other games. I thought it was SuperFX but I was wrong.
It seems like everyone's switched to 8-bit microcontrollers now, but pretty much accurate.
That being said, there is room for a smartphone-controlled toaster / oven; but it should give more control (customizable & shareable heating profiles, as part of a recipe database) rather than less.
Is anyone else having the video stop with a buffering spinner and little or no network activity a few seconds after starting the stream?
EDIT: I ended up working around it by switching between the two lowest quality settings each time the stream hung. Disabling Adblock Plus on the page and adding Flashblock exceptions had no effect.
This reminded me of a toy I had as a kid: the Tomy Tutor Play Computer. The screen was a lenticular lens over a paper scroll, and pressing the space bar caused the lens to move vertically.
I used to be somewhat active on a ROM hacking message board, and there were rules about how users could share their modifications. Users had to share a patch. Uploading or linking to prepatched or original binaries was prohibited, and moderators would routinely intervene and remove them. Having been exposed to such measures to avoid action from copyright holders in the past, I just don't understand why it is so popular to just post the code openly.