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  • Yeah, it seems like the U.S. 2nd federal circuit ruled in 2001 in Universal City Studios v. Corley that the DeCSS algorithm itself could not be “trafficked in” without running afoul of the DMCA’s anti-trafficking measures. Not just the DVD private keys. (Which I guess DeCSS doesn’t strictly need in order to remove DVD DRM? I’m not sure I fully understand exactly how DeCSS works. But anyway.)










  • Where I work, the infra folks are way overworked. Getting them to do things is impossible given their existing todo list. And when you do get them to do something (by throwing managers at them) they half-ass it.

    (I’m not blaming them. I blame the managers. It is frustrating though. Anyway.)

    And as a result, there’s one system that I use frequently that they set up, but cut corners and never hooked it up to our single sign-on solution. And so in order to get into this system, everyone has to use a shared username/password. “readonly:readonly”. And every time I log in, my browser nags me about the known weak password.




  • I still don’t get it, though. Is the woman on the right a Democrat? A citizen of Yemen? Is she serious or sarcastic? Is the operative word “secretly”? Does this have to do with the Atlantic guy being in the chat or not? Who is she yelling at on the other side of the fence? Is the image one I should recognize?

    My guess is that it is a joke and the point is that while Obama (a Democrat) famously “secretly” bombed Yemen, Biden probably did the same, Trump bungled his attempts at secrecy through the whole inviting-the-Atlantic-guy-to-a-“private”-Signal-chat thing, the woman in the image is someone who boycotted the vote rather than vote for the Democrats who secretly bomb Yemen, and you’re mocking her (rightfully so if any of this interpretation is correct) for helping to get Trump, who bombs Yemen more, elected. But I’m about 10% certain that was your intention.

    Also, you claim “this is no joke” but it’s posted in a community named “Funhole” “…exclusively for fun content”? You being the only mod of this community, I can’t imagine you weren’t the one who wrote the sidebar description. About the only guess I can make as to what your meaning is that maybe the original post, strictly speaking, is a joke but the point it’s making (through humor) is a very serious one. (Which, well, yeah. It’s about bombings in Yemen, which is bullshit.)



  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzomg
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    This isn’t intuitive to people?

    2/sqrt(2) = ( sqrt(2)*sqrt(2) ) / sqrt(2)
    

    Then cancelling out one of the sqrt(2)s in the numerator with the sqrt(2) in the denominator, you’re left with sqrt(2).

    I do a lot of toodling around in OpenSCAD, though, and sqrt(2) tends to come up a lot because, you know, Pythagoras and right triangles and all that.