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Moreover, Grimms' copyright has been expired while Disney's copyright is set to never expire.


This.

Also, advertising every file in torrent (of unsuspecting user) to entire world would be a HUGE privacy flaw.


But you already advertise (via the DHT, which offers no secrecy) the torrent file... and that contains all the data needed to get all the files within the torrent.

So this data is already being published, just in a less queryable form.


But why? The current Kademlia implementation built in eMule/aMule does exactly this. Primary data advertised is file name string, there is also a support for several meta fields. Transfer proto sucks, but I don't think it really matters in the case of ultra-rare content.


That `ultra-rare content`, eMule is mess if you need collection of files, ofc you can share ZIP but they get somehow repackaged too often. Torrents nicely group the stuff - it is kind of album.

I've dreamed of federated meta-client which mixes all available p2p networks in a wild and can download missing torrent part from eMule or Soulseek.


I just dropped here to praise archivists and their merit in general. I treasure content (regardless of its perceived quality) preservation much more than legal or even ethical problems associated with it.

Anecdote: Remember when Microsoft Corp. declared what they love open source software and launched CodePlex platform, and then lost their business interest in it (when they bought GitHub) so they completely erased CodePlex archives? I was able to reach several long forgotten project I was interested in thanks to invaluable work of independent volunteer archivists. (It was quite tough manual job for me, I had to d/l database then locate desired archive segment and only then could transfer required files via bittorrent proto)


Well, given they were injecting untested and unproven SARS-CoV-2 "vaccine" which wasn't even a vaccine till they changed the definition, they could do a traditional medicine plant despite the mild toxicity and the absence of other clinical evidence...

But why FDA is to blame? Just get it from nearby euro-drugstore and do your unlicensed fix.


> Copilot is the largest disrespect to open source No, its owner, Microsoft Coproration is. Remember, what they did with CodePlex archives?

But they ain't some kind of special villains, its today's monopoly market kicked in. Selling startuprs to Yahoo comes with consequences.

> capable of laundering open source code That's an exaggeration. Copilot is still a dumb machine which accidentally learned to mimic the practice of borrowing intellectual property from human coders.


Looks like a toy for me. Also written in Go which itself means its not serious.

When tampering gubment censorship, one should apply the usual opsec rules and thus stick to mature and proven solutions and refrain from experimenting. This means Tor or reputable commercial VPN provider, not yet-another-tor-killer. And the developers in general should invest more efforts into low-level attacks like GoodbyeDPI instead.


> Russian special military operations in Ukraine

It is a war. There is no demand for this euphemism.

And no, free speech is absolute thing, otherwise it simply doesn't work.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.


Free speech is not absolute. Every (almost every?) country have laws against child porn. Does that mean every country is violating humans rights by banning it?


Thanks for reductio ad absurdum baiting. And yes, these "laws" are clearly an abuse. Most of them ends up banning virtually any drawings because its impossible to assert if particular manga really depicts non-minor. Funny thing to see where burden of proof is in this particular case. Even more funny what its been almost 1.5ky after Justinian's statute.

But anyway... Why should I give up my freedoms just because of someone's parenting failures? Irresponsible parents are putting their children in danger, not the ABSOLUTE freedom of speech. Which isn't a subject of quid pro quo, really. And even not because my libertarian views on this matter, but because it simply doesn't work otherwise.


Some child porn laws may be an abuse, but that doesn't mean all child porn laws are.

The exact example I mention doesn't matter. I am just saying free speech absolutism doesn't make sense unless you are anarchist. Free speech doesn't include hiring a hit man, treason, libel, slander, etc.

If you are actually in support of no regulation on speech then do you actually support removing the laws I mentioned above? You don't think somebody hiring a hitman to kill you or a loved one should be punishable?


Yet another

A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia

She “single-handedly invented a new way to undermine Wikipedia,” says a Wikipedian.*


Its better than the others but also very unprofessional as the other web stuff. It DOES link but its absolutely impossible to view generated map. People are just hyping about codegen related microoptimizations but don't care about layout at all.

Very typical for today's world where javascript coder counts as software engineer.


After the rant, the very least you could do is to educate us about the tool that allows us view codegen and "layout".

>>> Very typical for today's world where javascript coder counts as software engineer.

Oh, hello software engineer from yesterday's world.


Well polite people at least say "please". Otherwise you just go buy more SDRAM and ALU chips and be computer scientist.

Curious thing is, you yourself dropped into gcc studying tool discussion clearly having no idea what I was criticizing in it.


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