This has been the case since SATA revision 3.3, released Feb 2016. So while I may have exaggerated with “ancient”, a brand new PSU certainly shouldn’t still be feeding 3.3v to that pin.

I have done this with dozens of drives and have never had to do any pin blocking. You only need to do that if you’re using an absolutely ancient sata power cable that doesn’t know about the spinup pin change

Absolutely unacceptable. Glad I got rid of Netflix a long time ago

Just more nonsense showing how broken modern copyright is. It’s too hard to write weasely legalese to just say you have the right to reproduce content submitted to your website, you have to own it entirely. And if you own it, why not sell it?

Google makes some really fuckin bullshit decisions. Jpeg XL being removed from chrome, same with DHCPv6 missing in android. I hate google

He already said it once

“Responsible reporting” is for security vulnerabilities… It’s extremely hard for me to believe that jailbreaks like this should be considered security vulnerabilities, especially if it’s something local-only or otherwise limited to something only the owner of the device would feasibly be able to do.

Does anyone believe the portable is actually a more secure device now than it was before this patch?

That’s exactly my point. There are people working hard to make these things happen and generally these are very well supported by the public, but without the plan behind them, theres no substance here.

The reason these don’t get passed is because of the particulars of implementation. you can’t write a bill with the only text being “universal healthcare” without a lot more to it. Once there’s a lot more to it, then it gets picked apart and rejected.

So instead of banning tipping you mean removing minimum wage exceptions for tipping.

Fwiw a lot of restaurants worldwide are starting to include an obnoxious 12+% “service charge” that can be “removed” if you have a complaint. Basically, enforced tipping that wouldn’t be changed by your “ban tipping” plan.

I definitely agree hard with more emphasis on removal of after-the-listed-price fees

Do you think wyoming deserves to be a state? Every state gets the same representation in the Senate and I think that’s fair. I don’t think it’s fair that the proportional side of the legislature isn’t proportional anymore, though, and fixing that goes a very long way.

• ranked choice voting - ok I think we can agree here
• Mandatory voting - how? Currently voting is handled state by state, you want to make the federal government take that over? What would the punishment be for not voting? Frankly I disagree with this
• Universal vote by mail - even more how? Again, federal takeover of voting process? How do you ensure no votes are lost especially when someone will be punished for not voting?
• Voting day national holiday - definitely agree.
• Legalize marijuana - this takes a lot more than just saying “marijuana is legal now.” Are previous marijuana related convictions going to be overturned, if so how? Are marijuana sales going to be regulated? If so how?
• Legalize prostitution - similar questions as with marijuana
• Revert citizens United - certainly agree here but that’s a big fuckin how? It was explicitly the supreme court overruling a law passed by Congress. Amend the Constitution to say something explicit?
• Abolish corporate home ownership - very strange stuff here because you start touching on the above, too. Maybe more you’re looking to cancel corporate personhood but that comes with a huge amount of problems too
• Abolish electoral college - sure why not if you’ve solved the voting issues above
• Abolish gerrymandering - this is what made me make this response in the first place. You can’t just say “abolish gerrymandering” without some plan for it. That’s like saying “abolish borders” like it’s meaningful. How? Who decides what districts look like? Will there still be districts? If not how will representation be determined?
• Abolish filibuster - I think the filibuster is fine. If everything else on this list goes through, hopefully we have meaningful ways of ousting useless obstructionist politicians instead
• Merge Senate into house - why? What does this solve?
• Remove house rep cap - FUCKING agreed. The cap is unconstitutional and absurd
• Universal healthcare - lots of hows here too but Obamacare was a good start and I’m down with single payer
• Universal basic income - how much? Does it count toward the 50k below?
• Income up to $50k untaxed - fine. I also think any monetary amount in the legislature should be increased by the CPI automatically every year. Fines, limits, payouts, etc.
• Ban tax prep - hmm ok
• IRS files taxes for citizens - how does this work? Is tax code flattened to make it so citizens have no choices to make? Do things like tax credits for buying solar panels go away?
• Vat for luxury items - who decides what’s luxury?
• Supreme Court 15 year limit - disagree, the whole point of lifetime terms is to prevent getting what’s yours and getting out.
• Increase highest bracket tax - sure why not
• Collateral for loan is realized gain - expand?
• Abolish PACs and lobbying
• Politicians banned from stocks - so they can’t own shares of any companies? Or they just can’t trade while in office? Does this go for any elected official? More than just elected officials?
• Municipalize Internet - at a minimum declare it a utility. What’s the rest of the plan?
• Abortion constitutional right - I’d argue it already is one, though the supreme Court evidently isn’t in agreement. An explicit “bodily autonomy” amendment would be nice. Add a right to privacy to that too, expanding on the 4th.
• Ban tipping - idk if I agree with trying to codify what should be a cultural change, but I’m generally on board with the Idea. There’s a million loopholes to close in any language to this effect
• free financial education - just like… Government funded seminars? Mandated high school courses? What do you take out to fit this in?

I’m kind of surprised RED is still small enough and Nikon is still big enough for this to happen. In my mind I expected them to have a thousand+employees

Fucking exactly this. We have levels of corruption, inequality, poverty, etc on par with countries like Brazil but our violence stats are compared with countries like Norway.

Nobody should be okay with taking away personal defense options when every day we see corrupt, inept, and abusive police officers with guns that we should apparently depend on instead of ourselves with guns. It’s absurd.

Billy Mays*

I’m not convinced many of the grips pictured actually work to pick things up with the chopsticks, much less grip something weighty with them

Valve wasn’t simply ignoring the project, they were in contact with each other about how to make it work as an official licensed product. If Nintendo caught wind of that kind of sponsorship on an infringing work, they absolutely can come after Valve.

Which is why, since there wasn’t any such sponsorship, licensing, distribution, all Valve needed to do to protect themselves was indeed not do anything further. Severing themselves from it doesn’t require takedowns etc.

You say that like Nintendo is not a massively litigious company when it comes to copyrights. Would you pick that fight?

Yes. As litigious as Nintendo is, they at least aren’t morons. They’d go after the developers and even GitHub before Valve at the current stage of involvement.

But valve didn’t license portal for this, nor are they distributing content.

I’m sure valve doesn’t want their IP associated with that, but that’s not what the quote said. What the quote said doesn’t actually make logical sense, which is why I’m saying that’s stupid.

Valve is the bad guy here, trying to make it Nintendo is ridiculous.

I’m not entirely sure if Nintendo can go after valve on it if valve is hosting it, but I think there are issues with hosting illegal content that probably cover it.

Valve, if it was hosting it, could get a dmca or even lawsuit from Nintendo… But they aren’t and never have been hosting this project in any way. There’s no reason for valve to be afraid of Nintendo for some 3rd party developer posting something on GitHub, which is what this boils down to.

Valve is protecting their own IP here, the Nintendo thing is complete BS

Yes, all of what you said is true about Nintendo vs the developer of this fan project… Not valve. At no point does Valve risk being sued by not issuing a takedown notice for this.

Jokes on you, most Republicans can’t read