I know I’ve seen “cryptographically secure” levels (as in, you can only possibly beat it within a human lifespan if you know the specific “combination” or “cryptographic key”), but maybe only in Super Mario Maker 2.

And I’m not sure if in 1 you can inspect the whole level. The SMM2 cryptographically secure ones I’ve seen rely on mechanisms that must remain off-screen the whole time or else it’s trivial to derive the key.

What makes you think we “need” to work now?

You bastard!

You asked for it. ;)

“Actually, Sonny wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever. I am informed by staff that such a change would violate the Constitution. … As you know, there is also [then-MPAA president] Jack Valenti’s proposal for term to last forever less one day. Perhaps the Committee may look at that next Congress.”

• Mary Bono

The line in the Constitution that justifies the existence of copyright law in the U.S. specifically requires that copyright last “for limited times.” The “proposal for term to last forever less one day” Mary Bono referenced basically meant that Congress should extend copyright every time anything ever gets too close to entering the public domain.

And then in 1998 Congress passed the so-called “Sonny Bono” Copyright Term Extension Act extending the term of copyright to 95 years for work-for-hire works and life plus 70 years for other works and you wouldn’t believe what Sonny Bono’s widow Congresswoman Mary Bono said about how long copyright terms should last.

It’s really disturbing how popular the notion that rootkit-based anti-cheat is a good thing is on the internet at large.

I love it when a thread like this comes up on Lemmy every single comment condemns EAC’s whole anti-cheat model.

Y’all are all right.

Stahp.

Ha! I mined bitcoin before I figured out it was a scam. That was in the early days, though, so mining bitcoin consisted of leaving my mid-range gaming machine on with the Bitcoin client running 24/7 for a couple of weeks until I lost interest and getting about 1/20th of a bitcoin out of it.

I still have it to this day. I suppose I could find some poor sucker willing to trade actual money for it. They could add it to whatever bag they’re already holding.

I went to buy Norton Antivirus. (This was… probably almost 25 years ago?) I went to https://symantic.com/. The correct domain name was https://symantec.com. (“e” vs “i”).

https://symantic.com/ went to a page owned by… I think it was Avast. But the page was (in retrospect) very obviously meant to look like it was made by Symantec/Norton. It had images of cardboard boxes like software CDs used to come in and such, in exactly the Norton yellow/orange.

I went through their purchase funnel and installed Avast before I realized it wasn’t Norton. As soon as I realized it, I immediately uninstalled it. I don’t remember if I found any way to contact Avast, but I did call the credit card company and contested the charge. Avast contested the… con…test…ment…? I appealed and Avast gave up.

And I bought Norton.

The coolest. (That’s a pretty big list, but still barely scratches the surface!)

Is this professor Paul Stamets?

I expect the answer would be “nuh-uh, ‘liberal’ is short for ‘socially liberal conservative.’”

You’re really asking why people prefer Lemmy to 4chan? To 4chan!? Really?

Very cool. Are there laws about practicing medicine without a license (at least in some jurisdictions) that might need to be navigated carefully when, for instance, making a prosthetic or some such for a human?

I remember looking into the OpenEEG projecct long ago. I remember hearing of folks getting into legal trouble for lending a homemade EEG unit to someone else. Not sure if that applies to 3d-printed “medical … and quality-of-life” devices (for humans.)

A question for your “FAQ” in the sidebar: Can I post an album?