Archive.org admits that their IP range was explicitly blocked.
This is like saying "Hey, I noticed there was a lock on the front door, so I went in the back. Clearly, this was the proper thing. There was never a lock there before!"
Nevermind that the very presence of the lock, indicates that the building's owner wishes to restrict entry.
You might be surprised how valuable tumblr might be to future historians and anthropologists.
The bullshit, and moronic things that people do with cameras and the like, are a valuable window in the the currently modern era. That it was uncensored, uncurated, and unabashed-- means it is of the MOST value to such future generations of historians-- It is free from the associated biases those practices append.
OK. In a legal battle between legitimate archival of content, and the laws governing unauthorized computer system access, which one wins?
It is quite clear that Verizon DID NOT authorize the archivists to archive the data prior to the mass purge, as evidenced by the imposition of the IP blocking. As such, there is a strong case to be made that Archive.org was in contravention of the CFAA, and the workaround could be said to be a technical means of circumvention of that restriction of access (and thus, technically 'hacking', even though I REALLY hate to use such a word for such a simple solution.)
It is also quite clear that there is a cultural asset that was going to be removed, purely for PR reasons by Verizon-- which was in need of preservation, and the Archive.org folks acted to accomplish that preservation.
Oh, don't get me wrong--- "swatting" with the robot peacekeepers would become a major spectator sport. I expect hellhole-future-reddit would be awash in spoiled progeny of the plutocrats engaging in such spectator bloodsport.
When AI is that good, there will be no reason for a human to be assigned the task to begin with. This means there will be no reason for any humans to be employed; AI would already be better at everything humans are capable of doing.
The humans will be too busy looking for a way to survive, while the robots seek ever more exploitative means of amassing wealth, as they were programmed to do.
Don't worry, I am sure the 1% that own them will be understanding how the 99% are starving to death, as they sip their pumpkin spice latte, and review the surveillance data from all the smart cams, smart speakers, and other misc. telescreens keeping tabs on all the 99% so that they cannot effectively organize with pitchforks before the automated robot peace keepers arrive. I am sure that future will be grand and dandy indeed. A true dream. I mean, who WOULDNT want to live that dream?/s
No, It's a native app greybeard, and a "TRUE apple hipster!" that are upset about something,
That something being Electron, which from the sound of things, is a solution looking for a problem. (Or a problem pretending to be a solution? Hard to tell anymore.)
Basically, somebody got the bright idea that thin clients were awesome, and are trying OH so hard to drag the world back into that dark and dismal corner. The sensible native app greybeard says "Uh, that's retarded." and the "TRUE apple hipster" goes on some tirade about how Apple was supposed to save us from this horror, but True Apple HIpsters are rare now, because apple became popular, and no longer hip.
"Look, web apps are bad, ok. Really. You cannot just dump native app support, it's insane."
Coupled with
"Yes It is! Only the BLESSED, TRUE mac users, The TRUE hipsters from before Mac became popular, can TRULY appreciate how truly horrible it truly is!"
This is of course, absurd. There is also the Unix greybeards. Remember "The Unix Way" ? "Do one thing, one thing only, and do it right." ?? (You know, the REASON why SystemD is reviled?)
No, that cannot be, because it does not worship at the throne of apple, or some such shit.
Part of the reason why they feel entitled to the higher pay, is the outrageous demands from employers. (mostly because HR is incompetent, and thinks that "years spending money at a university == job competence!")
When the employer demands 4 years of feminine studies, and those classes are overbooked, have hyper-inflated pricetags, and there is no work that does not have that requirement, it is NOT wrong to demand that employers pay for what they demand.
Of course, it isn't the feminine studies classes that cost a fortune. That's the university porking students with an inflated CV, when the student is career-oriented in their education, not university oriented in their education. The problem is that the HR twit insisting on the university degree, and shirking the ordinary college degree.
Reality has this habit of catching up with people who deny it. This is true in industry as well. When you demand the sun, the moon, and the stars in the sky (because damnit you are worth it!), you should not be surprised when you get the bill in the mail.
"Our bosses are insane, and keep mandating inhuman and inhumane hours, while simultaneously cutting pay and benefits. They tell us that this is just the market responding to industry pressures, but somehow our quarterly reports remain stellar, and our bosses bring home multi-million dollar bonuses every year."
then yes. That is epidemic. The only real solution is the Pyrrhic option of unionization. (Yes. I know it has real bad sides. There really isn't a valid alternative without legal enforcement from the feds, and face it-- the suits have more money than you do, and will never support such an initiative without a shotgun pointed at them.)
If you mean "There is an unhealthy sexist culture that makes me feel uneasy or victimized."
That is somewhat supported, but it also goes the other way-- "I am afraid to even so much as mention the word "sausage" at the office, lest I be fired for being gender insensitive." This is a situation where a carefully balanced degree of enforcement is the ideal, and management needs to resist the urge to over-enforce to placate vocal minorities at the expense of silent majorities.
If you mean "The building is literally toxic. There is fucking asbestos hanging out between the ceiling tiles, falling on us every day."
that too has a surprising incidence rate. (It combines with the first interpretation, where "employees and their welfare are not worth spending investor money on!" is the pathology.) However, it is ALREADY illegal to provide such a work environment... which brings us to--
If you mean "My employer is abusive, and threatens extraordinary consequences for addressing grievances of any kind. Shit is real here, but if I speak up, I will not only be sacked, but never work in this industry ever again."
That too is a thing, especially in the hyper-connected world we live in today. Sadly, this would require sweeping changes in how HR approaches social media and how it automates its hiring practices in order to prevent abuses in the employer/employee relationship of this kind, as well as stronger penalties for industries that defacto engage in it. This suffers the same problem as the first interpretation; the solution requires the individuals with all the political momentum to work against their own interests, in favor of those with little to no political or financial power.
This is still a useful question to ask, but it needs the followup to clarify. Of course, I dont think industry or government really want to know.
No, the major push for censorship happened when the notion of "safe harbor if compliant" was brought forward with DMCA.
Rather than giving blanket immunity for what subscribers did with a service, and holding the individual subscribers directly accountable, and not the service provider, which was the prior legal practice.
But that was "too hard!!", and service providers had more money, and more direct control that could be enforced, and here we are.
Terms of service documents changed all over as the threat of legal responsibility for the vitriol produced by subscribers became a real and present danger for service providers.
But by all means, continue with this nonsense about NN being responsible. All NN really did was say "No, you cannot suddenly abandon the open-ended agreements the internet started with just because now you can get much more profit by double dipping with charges, and with offering graded or exclusive service levels." That was all.
I dont know what you are complaining about AC. A chromebook *IS* a real computing device. Just one with some rather unusual hardware inside it.
My celes is just fine, considering it is the apex of
1) cheap (celes costs 250$.) 2) ultra portable (1/2 inch thick when closed, weighs a little over 1lb) 3) Fully unlockable (Full UEFI firmware from MrChromebox supported) 4) absurd battery life (8hrs, ACTIVE USE.) 5) reasonably powerful (recent models have 4gb RAM, but I have an old 2gb version. Same CPU though. Intel N3050: dual core x86-64 @ 1.6ghz)
and all you have to do is remove a tiny screw inside to totally overwrite the firmware with the coreboot UEFI firmware-- It's totally a modern netbook after that. Just needs a little prodding.
AMD did it before nVidia a good 5 years or so. I distinctly remember outright refusing to purchase Radeon graphics for this very reason.
The usual drivel of "But our DEVELOPMENT TIMES!!!!ELEVENTYONE!" is bullshit. Use a real compiler, and not visual studio. Use real winapi, and not the.net McInterfaces. Your product will be much faster, and wont have absurd dependencies.
No, your raging vagina being hurt by this simple fact is not sufficient reason to foist shit onto end users.
They made software that can accurately READ A DOCTOR'S HANDWRITING!?
This is AMAZING news! Everyone else in the medical industry labors trying to decipher the arcane hieroglyphics of their scripts! This will revolutionize the industry!!
On the one hand, I am quite glad to see such an actively involved CEO that is not afraid to smack down on senior staff. (as this mitigates feelings of complacency, and resists the formation of entrenched bureaucracies.)
On the other, I am concerned about rushed deadlines and schedules, since you should not fuck around with things that can cause tremendous amounts of damage to other investments should they go awry. (Like a satellite, or a space vehicle of any kind.) To say nothing of the risks of the finished product not being suitable for purpose...
Chromebooks are JUST netbooks with a fancy bios, running a proprietary linux.
Nearly EVERY model of chromebook can be completely liberated from Google's hungry clutches. For no added cost above the hardware itself.
A fun activity that this supposed IT teacher could do?
"OK class-- Today, first thing, we are liberating our chromebooks. After that, we will discuss the script used to accomplish this noble goal in detail, and what it does. Tomorrow, we will install a proper operating system."
Even then, what's stopping a school from buying a shitload of chromebooks, and then ripping Google's OS out of them and going with whatever the fuck they want, using something like MrChromebox?
A chromebook is a full computer. Just one that has 15 years behind the times performance, at a fantastically low price point, in a very portable package.
Nearly every variety of chromebook in the wild is capable of having its firmware extended to support booting true linux. Many are capable of booting windows after the extension as well. (It does not need to wholly replace the chromebook's proprietary firmware. The firmware has a region that is reserved for legacy booting, which is frequently unpopulated. The extension just puts the missing functionality in where it was designed to go.)
I am posting this from a liberated chromebook at this very moment in fact. Other than the weak CPU and GPU, the often crippled RAM compliment, and the notoriously small internal storage, it is perfectly functional for general purpose computing. The shitty internal storage can be supplemented with a spacious SD card that has been properly formatted, and careful use of zram and tmpfs in heavily written to areas.
Liberated chromebooks neatly occupy the niche that netbooks did a decade ago.
To roll an oat, you first remove the seed coat, either through mechanical removal, or the use of a caustic agent, like lye. Then, you steam the oat to soften the starch inside it. Then, you take the steamed oats, and squash them with a big steel roller. Hence, "Rolled".
The process makes it significantly easier to cook and digest the oats, and reduces the amount of chewing needed to consume them. Oats are NOT naturally flat. That is the result of the rolling process.
There is no such thing as a "Naturally rolled" oat that I am aware of.
That implies that Cubefarm Dystopia does not itself subcontract, or otherwise have very transient operations necessitating it being the one doing the report modification.
We *ARE* talking about seeking the lowest priced option, and covering it up here.
It only takes ONE kind of case if there are multiple millions of dollars of "shareholder value" on the line.
It is much easier to make cherry backroom deals with the telecoms to look the other way over such things (as a rule rather than an exception, so that end users have no real means of identifying that Callcenter Dystopia Inc is really who is answering all the support calls, so that Fortune 500 Inc can post EVEN BETTER quarterlies.) than it is to pay callcenter people at the pay grades otherwise demanded within their organization (especially from people that are supposed to be competent enough to answer difficult support calls about edge cases, and at call volumes and response times normally found only in telemarketing firms) and so it is not in the telecom's financial interests to "Fix" the problem.
In fact, they get paid a lot by "legitimate" players to do the opposite.
Fortune 500 company decides that it wants to use the services of "Call center cubefarm dystopia" for part of its service call needs.
Call center cubefarm dystopia INC clearly is not Fortune 500 Inc, but has an agreement to PRETEND to be, with Fortune 500 Inc. Fortune 500 Inc DOES NOT WANT customers to know that Cubefarm Dystopia Inc is who is really handling their support calls, because that's just bad PR. They also do not want to train, retain, or operate the support staff themselves, because $$$.
So, Cubefarm Dystopia Inc spoofs being Fortune 500 Inc on their caller ID.
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Archive.org admits that their IP range was explicitly blocked.
This is like saying "Hey, I noticed there was a lock on the front door, so I went in the back. Clearly, this was the proper thing. There was never a lock there before!"
Nevermind that the very presence of the lock, indicates that the building's owner wishes to restrict entry.
You might be surprised how valuable tumblr might be to future historians and anthropologists.
The bullshit, and moronic things that people do with cameras and the like, are a valuable window in the the currently modern era. That it was uncensored, uncurated, and unabashed-- means it is of the MOST value to such future generations of historians-- It is free from the associated biases those practices append.
OK. In a legal battle between legitimate archival of content, and the laws governing unauthorized computer system access, which one wins?
It is quite clear that Verizon DID NOT authorize the archivists to archive the data prior to the mass purge, as evidenced by the imposition of the IP blocking. As such, there is a strong case to be made that Archive.org was in contravention of the CFAA, and the workaround could be said to be a technical means of circumvention of that restriction of access (and thus, technically 'hacking', even though I REALLY hate to use such a word for such a simple solution.)
It is also quite clear that there is a cultural asset that was going to be removed, purely for PR reasons by Verizon-- which was in need of preservation, and the Archive.org folks acted to accomplish that preservation.
So... Which wins here? Just curious.
Oh, don't get me wrong--- "swatting" with the robot peacekeepers would become a major spectator sport. I expect hellhole-future-reddit would be awash in spoiled progeny of the plutocrats engaging in such spectator bloodsport.
God knows they wouldn't have much else to do.
When AI is that good, there will be no reason for a human to be assigned the task to begin with. This means there will be no reason for any humans to be employed; AI would already be better at everything humans are capable of doing.
The humans will be too busy looking for a way to survive, while the robots seek ever more exploitative means of amassing wealth, as they were programmed to do.
Don't worry, I am sure the 1% that own them will be understanding how the 99% are starving to death, as they sip their pumpkin spice latte, and review the surveillance data from all the smart cams, smart speakers, and other misc. telescreens keeping tabs on all the 99% so that they cannot effectively organize with pitchforks before the automated robot peace keepers arrive. I am sure that future will be grand and dandy indeed. A true dream. I mean, who WOULDNT want to live that dream? /s
Ahh, this old canard.
Here, this handy little chart should help you understand what is actually meant with that.
No, It's a native app greybeard, and a "TRUE apple hipster!" that are upset about something,
That something being Electron, which from the sound of things, is a solution looking for a problem. (Or a problem pretending to be a solution? Hard to tell anymore.)
Basically, somebody got the bright idea that thin clients were awesome, and are trying OH so hard to drag the world back into that dark and dismal corner. The sensible native app greybeard says "Uh, that's retarded." and the "TRUE apple hipster" goes on some tirade about how Apple was supposed to save us from this horror, but True Apple HIpsters are rare now, because apple became popular, and no longer hip.
This sounds like a mixture of:
"Look, web apps are bad, ok. Really. You cannot just dump native app support, it's insane."
Coupled with
"Yes It is! Only the BLESSED, TRUE mac users, The TRUE hipsters from before Mac became popular, can TRULY appreciate how truly horrible it truly is!"
This is of course, absurd. There is also the Unix greybeards. Remember "The Unix Way" ? "Do one thing, one thing only, and do it right." ?? (You know, the REASON why SystemD is reviled?)
No, that cannot be, because it does not worship at the throne of apple, or some such shit.
Part of the reason why they feel entitled to the higher pay, is the outrageous demands from employers. (mostly because HR is incompetent, and thinks that "years spending money at a university == job competence!")
When the employer demands 4 years of feminine studies, and those classes are overbooked, have hyper-inflated pricetags, and there is no work that does not have that requirement, it is NOT wrong to demand that employers pay for what they demand.
Of course, it isn't the feminine studies classes that cost a fortune. That's the university porking students with an inflated CV, when the student is career-oriented in their education, not university oriented in their education. The problem is that the HR twit insisting on the university degree, and shirking the ordinary college degree.
Reality has this habit of catching up with people who deny it. This is true in industry as well. When you demand the sun, the moon, and the stars in the sky (because damnit you are worth it!), you should not be surprised when you get the bill in the mail.
NN has nothing to do with censorship in the manner that Parent states. That was the point.
NN is about not prioritizing content, and or, not making content exclusive access.
The DMCA on the other hand, introduced the concept of "Site operator is responsible for content, even when they did not create it."
That did not exist prior to the DMCA. It was this introduction that started the chilling effect, not NN.
If by unhealthy, you mean:
"Our bosses are insane, and keep mandating inhuman and inhumane hours, while simultaneously cutting pay and benefits. They tell us that this is just the market responding to industry pressures, but somehow our quarterly reports remain stellar, and our bosses bring home multi-million dollar bonuses every year."
then yes. That is epidemic. The only real solution is the Pyrrhic option of unionization. (Yes. I know it has real bad sides. There really isn't a valid alternative without legal enforcement from the feds, and face it-- the suits have more money than you do, and will never support such an initiative without a shotgun pointed at them.)
If you mean "There is an unhealthy sexist culture that makes me feel uneasy or victimized."
That is somewhat supported, but it also goes the other way-- "I am afraid to even so much as mention the word "sausage" at the office, lest I be fired for being gender insensitive." This is a situation where a carefully balanced degree of enforcement is the ideal, and management needs to resist the urge to over-enforce to placate vocal minorities at the expense of silent majorities.
If you mean "The building is literally toxic. There is fucking asbestos hanging out between the ceiling tiles, falling on us every day."
that too has a surprising incidence rate. (It combines with the first interpretation, where "employees and their welfare are not worth spending investor money on!" is the pathology.) However, it is ALREADY illegal to provide such a work environment... which brings us to--
If you mean "My employer is abusive, and threatens extraordinary consequences for addressing grievances of any kind. Shit is real here, but if I speak up, I will not only be sacked, but never work in this industry ever again."
That too is a thing, especially in the hyper-connected world we live in today. Sadly, this would require sweeping changes in how HR approaches social media and how it automates its hiring practices in order to prevent abuses in the employer/employee relationship of this kind, as well as stronger penalties for industries that defacto engage in it. This suffers the same problem as the first interpretation; the solution requires the individuals with all the political momentum to work against their own interests, in favor of those with little to no political or financial power.
This is still a useful question to ask, but it needs the followup to clarify. Of course, I dont think industry or government really want to know.
No, the major push for censorship happened when the notion of "safe harbor if compliant" was brought forward with DMCA.
Rather than giving blanket immunity for what subscribers did with a service, and holding the individual subscribers directly accountable, and not the service provider, which was the prior legal practice.
But that was "too hard!!", and service providers had more money, and more direct control that could be enforced, and here we are.
Terms of service documents changed all over as the threat of legal responsibility for the vitriol produced by subscribers became a real and present danger for service providers.
But by all means, continue with this nonsense about NN being responsible. All NN really did was say "No, you cannot suddenly abandon the open-ended agreements the internet started with just because now you can get much more profit by double dipping with charges, and with offering graded or exclusive service levels." That was all.
I dont know what you are complaining about AC. A chromebook *IS* a real computing device. Just one with some rather unusual hardware inside it.
My celes is just fine, considering it is the apex of
1) cheap (celes costs 250$.)
2) ultra portable (1/2 inch thick when closed, weighs a little over 1lb)
3) Fully unlockable (Full UEFI firmware from MrChromebox supported)
4) absurd battery life (8hrs, ACTIVE USE.)
5) reasonably powerful (recent models have 4gb RAM, but I have an old 2gb version. Same CPU though. Intel N3050: dual core x86-64 @ 1.6ghz)
and all you have to do is remove a tiny screw inside to totally overwrite the firmware with the coreboot UEFI firmware-- It's totally a modern netbook after that. Just needs a little prodding.
AMD did it before nVidia a good 5 years or so. I distinctly remember outright refusing to purchase Radeon graphics for this very reason.
The usual drivel of "But our DEVELOPMENT TIMES!!!!ELEVENTYONE!" is bullshit. Use a real compiler, and not visual studio. Use real winapi, and not the .net McInterfaces. Your product will be much faster, and wont have absurd dependencies.
No, your raging vagina being hurt by this simple fact is not sufficient reason to foist shit onto end users.
Thanks.
They made software that can accurately READ A DOCTOR'S HANDWRITING!?
This is AMAZING news! Everyone else in the medical industry labors trying to decipher the arcane hieroglyphics of their scripts! This will revolutionize the industry!!
On the one hand, I am quite glad to see such an actively involved CEO that is not afraid to smack down on senior staff. (as this mitigates feelings of complacency, and resists the formation of entrenched bureaucracies.)
On the other, I am concerned about rushed deadlines and schedules, since you should not fuck around with things that can cause tremendous amounts of damage to other investments should they go awry. (Like a satellite, or a space vehicle of any kind.) To say nothing of the risks of the finished product not being suitable for purpose...
So yeah. Mixed feelings.
Chromebooks are JUST netbooks with a fancy bios, running a proprietary linux.
Nearly EVERY model of chromebook can be completely liberated from Google's hungry clutches. For no added cost above the hardware itself.
A fun activity that this supposed IT teacher could do?
"OK class-- Today, first thing, we are liberating our chromebooks. After that, we will discuss the script used to accomplish this noble goal in detail, and what it does. Tomorrow, we will install a proper operating system."
See also, MrChromebox.tech
But it is not necessarily locked away...
https://www.xda-developers.com...
Even then, what's stopping a school from buying a shitload of chromebooks, and then ripping Google's OS out of them and going with whatever the fuck they want, using something like MrChromebox?
https://mrchromebox.tech/#devi...
(Notice, just about all of them support *FULL* UEFI bios replacement!!)
Many chromebooks are getting "Native linux app support" very soon. Theoretically, that could be extended to support WINE.
In any case, projects like MrChromebox blow the lid off of chromebooks, and turn them back into the inexpensive netbooks they really are.
Outdated notions about what you can do with a chromebook need to go in the dustbin.
Not quite true.
A chromebook is a full computer. Just one that has 15 years behind the times performance, at a fantastically low price point, in a very portable package.
Nearly every variety of chromebook in the wild is capable of having its firmware extended to support booting true linux. Many are capable of booting windows after the extension as well. (It does not need to wholly replace the chromebook's proprietary firmware. The firmware has a region that is reserved for legacy booting, which is frequently unpopulated. The extension just puts the missing functionality in where it was designed to go.)
I am posting this from a liberated chromebook at this very moment in fact. Other than the weak CPU and GPU, the often crippled RAM compliment, and the notoriously small internal storage, it is perfectly functional for general purpose computing. The shitty internal storage can be supplemented with a spacious SD card that has been properly formatted, and careful use of zram and tmpfs in heavily written to areas.
Liberated chromebooks neatly occupy the niche that netbooks did a decade ago.
Really?
Oats are seeds. Specifically, seeds from a cereal grain variety of grass.
The seeds are oblong and have a seed coat. They resemble wheat seeds. (which are another cereal grain)
They look like this.
To roll an oat, you first remove the seed coat, either through mechanical removal, or the use of a caustic agent, like lye. Then, you steam the oat to soften the starch inside it. Then, you take the steamed oats, and squash them with a big steel roller. Hence, "Rolled".
The process makes it significantly easier to cook and digest the oats, and reduces the amount of chewing needed to consume them. Oats are NOT naturally flat. That is the result of the rolling process.
There is no such thing as a "Naturally rolled" oat that I am aware of.
That implies that Cubefarm Dystopia does not itself subcontract, or otherwise have very transient operations necessitating it being the one doing the report modification.
We *ARE* talking about seeking the lowest priced option, and covering it up here.
It only takes ONE kind of case if there are multiple millions of dollars of "shareholder value" on the line.
It is much easier to make cherry backroom deals with the telecoms to look the other way over such things (as a rule rather than an exception, so that end users have no real means of identifying that Callcenter Dystopia Inc is really who is answering all the support calls, so that Fortune 500 Inc can post EVEN BETTER quarterlies.) than it is to pay callcenter people at the pay grades otherwise demanded within their organization (especially from people that are supposed to be competent enough to answer difficult support calls about edge cases, and at call volumes and response times normally found only in telemarketing firms) and so it is not in the telecom's financial interests to "Fix" the problem.
In fact, they get paid a lot by "legitimate" players to do the opposite.
That was kinda the point here.
Define "Legitimate"
Here's one all the same though,
Fortune 500 company decides that it wants to use the services of "Call center cubefarm dystopia" for part of its service call needs.
Call center cubefarm dystopia INC clearly is not Fortune 500 Inc, but has an agreement to PRETEND to be, with Fortune 500 Inc. Fortune 500 Inc DOES NOT WANT customers to know that Cubefarm Dystopia Inc is who is really handling their support calls, because that's just bad PR. They also do not want to train, retain, or operate the support staff themselves, because $$$.
So, Cubefarm Dystopia Inc spoofs being Fortune 500 Inc on their caller ID.
That would be true if beer was a crystalline solid at room temperature.
Which it is not.