Dark Arc

The problem is a hash algorithm is exactly the sort of thing that copyright would be horrible at protecting. The source code is hardly relevant at all, it’s the operations that matter.

A big part of patents is to allow private sector research to occur. RCA failed and maybe patents should just fail too.

It’s not about logic it’s about feeling.

Yeah all that is true (at least I’m fairly sure), but because it’s a virus the “feeling” of responsibility just isn’t there.

It’s too abstract. The virus has a life of its own. Blaming Trump for those deaths is kind of like blaming Biden for hurricane that hit North Carolina.

Yeah, Trump could’ve implemented policies that he didn’t that the experts have told us could’ve saved lives. However, that’s all hypothetical savings.

That’s very different than “Trump deported my friend” or “Trump’s FDA let heavy metals into my Little Debbie’s” or “Trump’s economic policy resulted in me losing my home because I couldn’t afford to live.”

like the umbrella wedge/spring to make it open automatically.

That to me is a very specific algorithm. It’s a simple mechanism but putting it together might be a bit tricky.

That’s very similar to SHA, it’s a fairly simple set of mechanisms but the actual composure of those ideas into something that works as well as SHA does takes very specific research experience. It’s not at all an abstract idea, it’s a very concrete and specific set of operations that you invented first.

Imagine if the patent was “an umbrella can open itself with the push of button” no further details. That’s close to the level of detail some software patents are argued at and effectively what the “put a game in your loading screen” patent was awarded on.

You can’t patent the idea that “an umbrella should be able to open [somehow]” so I likewise think it’s ridiculous that someone was able to parent “your game [somehow] runs another simpler game before it runs.”

Patents should be to protect very specific research so that the private sector can do said research and profit from it. Patents should not block out broad concepts. The patent in the video game situation was and should’ve been ruled as bogus. It’s not the type of thing anyone needed to research or think about, you just literally go “what if I added a game to my loading screen” and you’re in violation.

I think software patents should really only apply to extremely tricky algorithmic “discoveries” (which I would consider inventions, as someone that’s written a SHA256 implementation from reference material, nobody is “just coming up with that”).

“Ingenuity patents” like that loading screen game are everything that’s wrong with software patents. It’s not all that crazy of an idea to add a game while waiting to play the main game. There’s no radical research required there, just an idea.

I don’t think vague ideas like “a game in a loading screen” are sufficiently creative to warrant a patent.

Or at least the bar should be much much higher. Like if you’ve invented the SHA algorithm… Fine.

However, if you’ve just invented “a way to purchase something over the network via a phone”… That is not patent worthy.

Yeah, unfortunately I think we’re at a point where people are going to need to get burned first hand to have their minds changed.

We really should split up some states… I’d also be in favor of making major metropolitan areas their own city-state within the federal government.

The government was set up for smaller states… These giant states really just break too much.

There’s also the “other” factor. “Our county”, “our state” etc surely does it right but what about the other counties and states?

The fear of the other is one of the worst impulses humans have

If anyone who pays for the post or trusts its writing, isn’t already voting Kamala and would’ve been swayed by their endorsement, I’ll be shocked.

How can you blame Democrats for Trump’s words?

If it was BitWarden where I can see the client side code … and there wasn’t a better option, quite possibly.

I give my ISP and many other places my BitWarden vault all the time and I just trust they’re not recording the traffic and trying to decrypt it.

I recommend against hosting a password manager yourself.

The main reason is self hosted systems require maintenance to patch vulnerabilities. While it’s true that you won’t be on the main list if e.g. bitwarden gets hacked, your data could still be obtained or ransomed by a scripted attack looking for e.g. vulnerable VaultWarden servers (or even just vulnerable servers in general).

Using professional hosting means just that, professional hosting with people who’s full time job is running those systems and keeping people that aren’t supposed to be there out.

Plus, you always have the encryption of the binary blob itself to fall back on (which if you’ve got a good password is a serious barrier to entry that buys you a lot of time). Additionally vaults are encrypted with symmetric crypto which is not vulnerable to quantum computing, so even in that case your data is reasonably safe… And mixed in with a lot of other data that’s likely higher priority to target.

And yes, Obama himself said that Roe wasn’t a priority

Yeah in 2009 when Roe was assumed to be the forever law of the land and things were fine…? Why would he make that a priority?

Obama had a supermajority for seven months during his presidency

Go read a promised land and see how much of a majority he actually had. We’re lucky we got the ACA in the end.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act comes to mind

Which was a bipartisan bill OPPOSED by some democrats:

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1151/vote_115_1_00303.htm

like forcing Congress to stay in session for example

Which would do nothing to solve the issue of abortion.

It was used to try and pass the National Civil Rights Act and emergency aid for Hurricane Katrina.

Which both had bi partisan support and were passed in less heated times.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h182

even when we hand them the power to make change.

Here’s the problem, WE DIDN’T.

You don’t have power to make change unless you have a super majority or you can caucus with people across the aisle. If I put YOU in the Senate right now instead of Sherrod Brown it won’t help. It might help if I put you in instead of J.D. Vance, but only if we don’t lose Sherrod Brown.

This isn’t just some “you work really hard at it and you can get anything done” situation. You need the votes, Democrats as a party agree on what the vote should be, but there are not enough representatives from the Democratic party that agree with the party platform to take the vote.

It’s not some conspiracy, it’s just how it works. It sucks, but the only way to fix it is to get more people to vote and just keep voting. Vote in primaries for people you think can win. Vote for ranked choice initiatives that might allow us to get away from two party voting. Vote for Democrats that agree the filibuster should be done away with.

Do not just go around making up stories about how the Democrats have super powers they don’t have though. It’s simply false information that ultimately hurts Democrats.

No democratic president has had a super majority in decades. If you think they have, you’re sorely mistaken.

Manchin and Sennima (a flimsy senate majority of 1) were not going to get it done.

It’s not excuses, it’s reality and you should pay more attention to it before spreading propaganda.

while Dems were in power, and the Democrats did nothing to stop it

This is straight up misinformation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Legislature

The Idaho Legislature is controlled by Republicans via a super majority.

The United States Legislature is half controlled by Republicans.

The bigger problem could become selective enforcement to target and harass people.

This is why you use fish shell and just type something vaguely similar to what you remember and hit the up arrow key.

ClamAV is mostly for filtering things on mail servers or uploads to a shared resource like a wiki.

You can also use it as a system virus scanner, but most viruses it detects are Windows viruses.