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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • I’d just like to interject for a moment. What they were referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.


  • There’s little hope since it’s a closed system with authentication chain to google. It doesn’t even work on android phones when google doesn’t feel like it.
    Europe has a few banks that have their own system that might be possible to get running with very good emulation. But those apps too are obfuscated closed blobs with endless proprietary root detection stuff.

    A good solution would need some fundamental change in how payments work.






  • If you have a million stolen licenses, but on the road remain very few, say 1k. While there are say 100m other cars. If you now have 99% accuracy, you will read 990 stolen cars, and misread 1m plates. Since 1% of plates are stolen, you randomly hit 10k of those misreads into a stolen plate.

    This is generally alwayd an issue with rolling out mass tests. If the thing you search is even rarer than your failure rate, most detections are errors no matter how good your test.

    This is why we don’t just test everyone for diseases all the time even when it would be very cheap and simple.






  • Sega doesn’t want to preserve the ownership of their ip, they were bought by a gambling company who took on their name and is using sega as a public relations shield.
    Their aim is to keep sega in high public esteem.

    Meanwhile Nintendos ip is extremely valuable compared to the size of their company, so their aim is to protect ownership way more than making new games or other ongoing business.

    International ip law is weird, so letting fanmade games go runs a risk of loosing ip. For Nintendo that is even more dangerous than for other studios whose ip value compared to revenue is not as extreme. While for sega ultimately loosing ip control is basically the point of the investment.