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  • I wouldn't need to be wholly convinced that there's anything heinous going on over there, just that the person accusing them of it had good reason to think so. So pretty much anything more than no info at all would probably have done the trick. Anyway, thanks for putting up with me for a little while and good luck to everyone at lemmy.ml, but I'm outta here. I'll probably go try kbin or something.

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  • It was added to the "exclude" list in an apparently unrelated commit three days ago with absolutely no explanation. Glancing at its front page I see nothing objectionable, just a lot of anime stuff. When challenged u/dessalines had nothing to say other than "no, that is full of CSAM" and just closed the discussion without further comment.

    Unless some more info comes to light it does not look good. Probably as good a time as any to depart from lemmy.ml.

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  • int is_even(int n)
    {
        int result = -1;
        char number[8]; //should be enough
        sprintf(number, "%d", n);
    
        // check the number
        // TODO: handle negative numbers
        for (char *p=number; *p; p++)
        {
            if (*p=='0' || *p=='2' || *p=='4' || *p=='6' || *p=='8')
                result = 1;
            else if (*p=='1' || *p=='3' || *p=='5' || *p=='7' || *p=='9')
                result = 0;
            else {
               fprintf(stderr, "Your number is wrong!\n");
               exit(1); 
            }
        }
        return result;
    }
    
  • Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson said Covid was "nature’s way of dealing with old people" and he agreed that "we should let the old people get it"
  • Amazing how Johnson's government managed to combine this callous indifference to the fates of its people with one of the most cruel and restrictive "lockdown" regimes in the world, arresting people for going out to walk their dogs and so on. Boris really had a talent for ineptitude that was exceptional even among prime ministers.

  • Biden releases AI executive order directing agencies to develop safety guidelines
  • AI that is used to monitor cameras and identify our faces to track everywhere everyone goes: Why would that concern you? Do you have something to hide, citizen?

    AI that might be used to generate agitprop, competing with conventional advertising: HOLY SHIT we need a new international treaty right away!

  • The future of Linux
  • Well okay, since it's up to me: Let's have free software. Fully free Linux on every phone, including all "firmware" which has gotten awfully soft lately. No more proprietary driver blobs for ethernet controllers or cellular modems. No more proprietary DRM modules. No more "smart" consumer goods that come without source code. The free software revolution has gone pretty well in some respects, but we need to finish the job and put an end to all that garbage.

  • Police in Canada look into tech that accesses your home security cameras
  • I wonder how disastrously bad things will need to get before it finally breaks through into public consciousness that maybe putting surveillance cameras everywhere was a bad idea. I expect we'll find out in a couple of decades.

  • Mozilla and the burning need for clients for power users

    > Mozilla seems to be asleep at the wheel, when it once drove online activity and communications. We have some suggestions where it could go.

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    Product Content Matters: 70% Of Online Shoppers Say It Can Make Or Break A Sale
    www.forbes.com Product Content Matters: 70% Of Online Shoppers Say It Can Make Or Break A Sale

    The critical importance of product content and the role it plays in whether consumers abandon their shopping carts, make a purchase, or return a product.

    Product Content Matters: 70% Of Online Shoppers Say It Can Make Or Break A Sale

    > Steve talks about the critical importance of product content and the role it plays in whether consumers abandon their shopping carts, make a purchase, or return a product. In fact, 70% of online shoppers say product content can make or break a sale.

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    My 100 favourite Skyrim mods part 2: A Better Magelight

    I like small mods that make a big difference. It's simply a better Magelight that comes in various colours. If you've got lighting mods that make dark places really dark, it's all the more useful. I like the red one, since it looks okay and a backyard astronomer long ago told me that red is the colour to use to avoid spoiling your night vision.

    It may require a bug fix or two if you want to put down large numbers of lights everywhere, such as along the roads as you travel at night in the fog at new moon. I think it was possibly the Community Shaders "light limit fix" which made that work for me.

    But even without that, it's nice to be able to stick a few long-lasting colourful lights on the ceiling in the course of a dungeon crawl to light up a big area when your cover is blown and you want to see what's going on, and to mark where you've been. Or depending on other lighting settings, just make it possible to see who you're talking to in the Ragged Flagon. It changed Magelight from something I never bothered using to one of my most-used spells.

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    Court Grants Preliminary Injunction Of California Age Appropriate Design Code, Enforcement Date Now Uncertain
    www.lexology.com Court Grants Preliminary Injunction Of California Age Appropriate Design Code, Enforcement Date Now Uncertain

    On September 18, 2023, the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction in the case of NetChoice v. Bonta (Case No.:…

    Court Grants Preliminary Injunction Of California Age Appropriate Design Code, Enforcement Date Now Uncertain

    California's attempt to force "age verification" on us all is having legal problems.

    "Based on the materials before the Court, the CAADCA’s age estimation provision appears not only unlikely to materially alleviate the harm of insufficient data and privacy protections for children, but actually likely to exacerbate the problem by inducing covered businesses to require consumers, including children, to divulge additional personal information."

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    I would just like to express my love for the Fabled Forests mod

    I've installed a dozen more mods and am starting out in Skyrim once again. I can't remember any other one that's made a bigger difference than this. Finally my personal version of Skyrim has forests that feel like real forests, where you can't see all that far a lot of the time and it'd be easy to get lost if you didn't have a compass.

    Sure, that is achieved by making the trees fantastically big and closer together than you'd expect for such giants, but it makes sense to me and it looks great from ground level when you're in the woods. There's obviously less gravity on Nirn judging from how high I can jump carrying a 200kg backpack, so why shouldn't the trees grow bigger? The only problem I've seen so far is that wild animals occasionally have trouble navigating, such as an elk that just ran headfirst into a tree instead of going anywhere. But they do that kind of thing sometimes in pure vanilla Skyrim as well.

    It's just beautiful. I prefer "mythic" mode. It's what I always wanted in a video game forest.

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    They might do a remake so it's time to buy Oblivion on PC in case it becomes unavailable

    I never did get any of the DLC when I played it on the PS3. Finally I will get to experience the horse armor.

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