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New comment by PythagoRascal in "AI that copied musical artist files copyright claim against artist [updated]"

PythagoRascal — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:34:46 +0000

Sue who? Youtube? The claimants?

A fraudulent claimant like this is often some anonymous operation that can pop up under a different name the next day. Good luck finding them (and hope they are even located in a place where suing for copyright would even make sense).

Youtube is protected by their terms and the DCMA, as far as I know.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

PythagoRascal — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:52:36 +0000

I'm interested in the opposite direction too. If the iPad could do real phone calls and sms, I would ditch mobile phones. In the process I'd hope to reduce some screen time. I could live with Pod+Pad+Watch, but I doubt they'd ever make that happen :(

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Anna's Archive 'Releases' Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback"

PythagoRascal — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:42:43 +0000

I doubt they'd just add a UUID in a file header somewhere. If they uniquely modify the actual audio samples in a way that is inaudible during casual listening, that would be much harder to "diff", I think.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional"

PythagoRascal — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:38:51 +0000

Does it need to? Unfortunately, a threat of a lawsuit by a large company is weapon enough to make people buckle.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Data Viz Color Palette Generator (For Charts and Dashboards)"

PythagoRascal — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:59:48 +0000

Adding another link, here's the one I often use: https://flatuicolors.com

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety"

PythagoRascal — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:10:20 +0000

Could you elaborate on which features are premium only? Or maybe also put them in the AppStore description? I tend to be averse to even downloading apps with IAP, without knowing what they are going to be.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Does iOS have sideloading yet?"

PythagoRascal — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:30:46 +0000

> How many give you a 25% discount on top of that? Nobody.

Because they are not allowed to sell the game cheaper elsewhere if they also want to sell on Steam. Their dev ToS require that.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "The Floppotron 3.0 (2022)"

PythagoRascal — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:49:37 +0000

There is also the amazing Franzoli Electronics with his tesla coil music. Great selection of tracks. from AC/DC - Thunderstruck to Megalovania - Undertale OST, you'll find something you like: https://youtu.be/99aLrgk-uqs

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Text Editing Hates You Too (2019)"

PythagoRascal — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:09:40 +0000

My best guess would be: selecting with the mouse from the left until the (first two?) arabic characters, then extending the selection using the right arrow key while holding shift. Might be that the arrow key skips the cursor to the right side before extending the selection.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month"

PythagoRascal — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 07:52:42 +0000

As far as I know they are using a customised variant of the "wave-function collapse" technique, used and popularised by Oskar Stalberg in his games "Bad North" and "Townscaper". The technique boils down to hand-crafting tons of tiles with adjacency rules about which tiles can slot together. When the user adds/removes a tile the algorithm iteratively tries to find fitting tiles and, if needed, changes neighbouring tiles for ones with the best transitions. He gave a talk where he goes into detail about this[1]. You can also find more if you google his name and "wave-function collapse". [1]: https://youtu.be/0bcZb-SsnrA

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Arena-based parsers"

PythagoRascal — Wed, 08 May 2024 07:20:51 +0000

I would be very interested in a more detailed write-up, if you have the time (or have one already).

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Banks start using purchase history for targeted ads [video]"

PythagoRascal — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:04:18 +0000

What does it achieve to be snarky to someone who can do nothing about it?

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)"

PythagoRascal — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:08:13 +0000

Yes, and an individual's convictions remain static forever and cannot be influenced by others. You can't convince me otherwise.

Your argument sounds tautological.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "The Reddit blackout will continue"

PythagoRascal — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 07:43:32 +0000

For not being a charity they seem to gladly accept a lot of free volunteer work and free content created for them.

I'd say in terms of value to the platform they got a great deal.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links"

PythagoRascal — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 10:12:08 +0000

Haven't tried it, but this comment on /r/DataHoarder mentioned these two repos:

https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Show HN: Pashword – Hashed Password Calculator"

PythagoRascal — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:20:11 +0000

Am I misunderstanding something or is this not just replacing one password with two salts and another password? What benefits would this have over just generating a password?

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Isometric Pixel Art"

PythagoRascal — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 14:47:51 +0000

Somewhat related, there is a Twitter thread about (not quite isometric) hex-grid pixel-art [1].

In a previous thread [2], Oskar Stålberg, creator of the games Bad North, Townscaper, is talking about his use of grids and their dual for procedural tile placement.

Franekk, an amazing pixel artist, is reacting to this that hex-grids are difficult for pixel-art, and later figures out that Oskars trick does indeed work for pixel-art too [3].

[1]: https://twitter.com/Franrekk/status/1485669221711425544 [2]: https://twitter.com/OskSta/status/1448248658865049605 [3]: https://twitter.com/Franrekk/status/1486045914930233351

New comment by PythagoRascal in "GitHub Copilot investigation"

PythagoRascal — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 23:37:33 +0000

> It is learning from it just as a human reader would

I don't see how that invalidates the copyright/license argument. So, instead of just a straight up license violation it's a license violation via plagiarism.

That argument wouldn't hold up even if it was a human that caused the violation. You can't just paraphrase someones licensed work and then lie about looking at and pretend you made it yourself, which is basically what seems to happen with co-pilot, as it doesn't also automatically reproduce the license of the code it reproduces.

New comment by PythagoRascal in "A database without dynamic memory allocation"

PythagoRascal — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 07:44:04 +0000

Two great resources are:

- https://www.gingerbill.org/series/memory-allocation-strategi...

- https://www.rfleury.com/p/untangling-lifetimes-the-arena-all...

New comment by PythagoRascal in "Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes"

PythagoRascal — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:50:37 +0000

Except if they purchase a subscription to these benefits through one of the two companies (same parent company) that provide them. The subscriptions are of course competitively priced, since they only have the best interest of their customers at heart.