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synthsalad 131 points 2 years ago

In 1984, this issue made it all the way to the US Supreme Court, which ultimately decided that recording television to tape using a VCR for personal use (“timeshifting”) is fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/....

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synthsalad 24 points 3 years ago

Q-Tips (cotton swabs.) Generics seem universally worse.

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synthsalad 21 points 3 years ago path: 0 4431943 4437598, hotness: undefined, score: 21, children: 4
synthsalad 21 points 3 years ago

Nightly automated runs of the chkbit script is the only thing that alerted me to the fact that either the SSD or storage controller in my Mac Mini had issues and was corrupting data. I was very thankful to have already had the automation in place for that exact scenario.

It theoretically shouldn’t be necessary for filesystems that have built-in checksumming.

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synthsalad 17 points 3 years ago

Alpine.

I’m a longtime Arch user, and would have preferred to use Arch on a particular system, but didn’t want to deal with needing to babysit ZFS packages from AUR.

So, I decided to use Alpine after never having tried it before, and ended up sticking with it. Like Arch, it’s both lightweight and has a capable/sensible package manager, which are the main things that are important to me.

I haven’t had any growing pains from Alpine’s use of busybox/musl/openrc, things mostly Just Work!

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synthsalad 8 points 2 years ago

No reason it wouldn’t as far as I know, assuming your hardware is compatible.

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synthsalad 8 points 3 years ago

I’m curious if anyone dailies Alpine for desktop use. (I don’t.)

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synthsalad 8 points 2 years ago

My answer is the original BioShock, just like OP. The story, setting, soundtrack, and overall vibe made a lasting impact on me.

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synthsalad 7 points 2 years ago

The Wikipedia article has these relevant quotes from the court opinion:

The question is thus whether the Betamax is capable of commercially significant noninfringing uses ... one potential use of the Betamax plainly satisfies this standard, however it is understood: private, noncommercial time-shifting in the home.[7] [...] [W]hen one considers the nature of a televised copyrighted audiovisual work... and that time-shifting merely enables a viewer to see such a work which he had been invited to witness in its entirety free of charge, the fact... that the entire work is reproduced... does not have its ordinary effect of militating against a finding of fair use.[8]

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synthsalad 6 points 3 years ago path: 0 6500329, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0
synthsalad 4 points 2 years ago

The “National Guitar” line is even more clever than first appears since there were also literal National guitars: https://en.wikipedia.org/...

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synthsalad 4 points 3 years ago

Endless Sky is open-source, completely free, and might be what you’re looking for!

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synthsalad 3 points 3 years ago

AI does not require a raise for doing something right either

Well, not yet. Imagine if reward functions evolve into being paid with real money.

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synthsalad 3 points 3 years ago

This is what I use, will work with any filesystem (it writes hashes in hidden/dot files) and on any OS as long as Python is available: https://pypi.org/project/chkbit/

It runs ahead of my nightly backup. If it fails, the backup won’t proceed.

Edit: Because the script relies on hashing files, it uses tons of both disk IO and CPU when it runs, but the tradeoff is worthwhile to me.

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synthsalad 3 points 2 years ago path: 0 10055093 10081807, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2
synthsalad 2 points 3 years ago

I always admired the concept for the video for Stone Sour’s “Through Glass.”

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synthsalad 2 points 3 years ago

White Christmas, which was written by Irving Berlin, who was Jewish!

I like it because of how intricately the melody is written. It ebbs and flows perfectly against the chord progression and feels much closer to a jazz standard than most other Christmas songs.

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synthsalad 2 points 3 years ago

Excellent, thank you very much!

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synthsalad 1 point 2 years ago

You’re welcome!

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synthsalad 0 points 3 years ago
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thanks for using Leebra!

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