[-] emr 1 points 2 days ago

By litigate I mean, if a person is creating something and says they don't plan to distribute it, do we take their word for it?

If it ends up getting distributed anyway, should we take their word that it was an accident?

We consider people's private data important enough that if you leak it even by mistake you are on the hook for that. You have a responsibility.

I think that rather than framing this as something harmless unless distributed and therefore intent to distribute matters, we should treat it as something you have a responsibility not to create because it will be harmful when it is inevitably distributed.

[-] emr 5 points 3 days ago

How do you litigate 'intention' in this way?

[-] emr 8 points 2 months ago

I'm so hype for typed dictionaries

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[-] emr 9 points 2 months ago

I agree strongly with your gut reaction. I personally use it as the archive of record whenever I digitize some media that would otherwise be lost. I use it when trying to establish how something looked in the past. I don't need IA to go out and pick losing fights with publishers at the expense of the excellent services they already provide.

It should be noted that if you want digital book loans Libby is fine.

[-] emr 24 points 1 year ago

So like systemd but ten times more dramatic.

[-] emr 10 points 1 year ago

x86 apps? Awesome.

[-] emr 10 points 1 year ago

In Excession it felt more like

spoilerThe Culture is a race of intelligent starships that keeps humans as pets.

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submitted 1 year ago by emr to c/2600@lemmy.world

I figured some teleco geniuses out here, so I figured I might give it a shot.

The house I grew up in is looking to get rid of it's landline, and thus it's phone number. This phone number is one of the small number I actually have memorized-making it super useful, because I am unlikely to memorize any additional numbers in my lifetime, and certainly no numbers will ever have the same nostalgic ring to them.

They're a different phone carrier, and a different state. The current owner would be happy to hand the number over. Is this type of transfer in the realm of possibility?

[-] emr 18 points 1 year ago

If students hide their phones instead of being distracted by them, isn't that mission accomplished?

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submitted 1 year ago by emr to c/sdfarc

Would the perfect title for the blog post I hope exists somewhere. I, like a few other posters, just grabbed one of these things. I also took the step of reading through a good chunk of Ham Radio For Dummies just to get a handle on the basics.

  • What can I (legally) do with this thing without a license?

  • Any pointers for learning the basics on this particular machine?

  • I should read the manual cover to cover, right?

  • Looks like it's easier to program from a computer, any tips on that?

[-] emr 11 points 1 year ago

I see a lot of people doing flatpacks now, fwiw.

Only thing I install via deb these days is, like, Discord I think.

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[-] emr 10 points 1 year ago

Important note for kbin (and fedia.io): if you sign up and fail to click that confirmation link, I think you're basically SOL. So don't make the same mistake I made! Click that confirmation link, it expires in an hour!

[-] emr 15 points 1 year ago

Will people still be pariahs if they walk around with AR gear like gargoyles? Will VR still cause VR sickness? I don't know how apple plans to solve those problems, though I suppose they'll make a go at it.

[-] emr 7 points 1 year ago

Maybe he found out how many people blocked him.

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