Could have been…

Both were about the same timeframe.

As an aside, have you been following how Ukraine uses drones for anti personal attacks? Interesting stuff.

Well, one of the master keys leaked about 15 years back. A researcher posted a paper back in 2003 or so that outlined a method of finding a master key that was likely used by the people who made the release. It was a fun time to be on the internet, the people came together and said, yeah fuck those corpos and everyone reposted the key to every form of social media possible. I knew someone with the key tattooed on their arm (as part of their piracy themed artwork, I used to have pictures)

Now, that particular master key was patched out with a compatibility breaking upgrade, specifically 2.1 of the standard, which was proven to be broken in 2012, but there was less coming together to share it the second time, or the third for 2.2 of the standard.

But yes, if you wanted to code your own, you easily could. Just don’t share it or the sue happy corpos will come knocking.

If it’s just a single shot, then preventing the Brooks Brothers Riot would be the best use of your time.

All it would take is an industrial sized can of pepper spray. Just like the kind police regularly use on leftwing protesters.

I think that was part of Gamer Gate. The toxic rightwing backlash to women existing on the internet, and not in porn. It was the exact same time period.

Could have been. Reddit never actually told us anything. One of the other mods got a private message on another channel (discord maybe?) from the missing mod about it. But details were light, and the missing mod never even tried to return to Reddit. Said the ban was good for his mental health.

Then there was some Subreddit specific drama, and Reddit admins actually did the good thing. Then the API change, the blackout, and a couple other things that specifically fucked over mods. So I too, mostly left.

I do indeed. I didn’t actually have an account back then, because I was mostly browsing from work… I also mostly frequented Digg until the 4.0 fiasco.

Naming the account “sysadmin” is another massive red flag.

Oddly, that was Spez, and when he went away for a bit, Reddit got really good. And then he came back and it went to shit.

The HDMI founders were Hitachi, Matsushita (now Panasonic), Maxell, Philips, Silicon Image (now Lattice Semiconductor), Sony, Thomson (now Vantiva), and Toshiba.[3] Intel contributed the HDCP copy protection system.[4] The new format won the support of motion picture studios Fox, Universal, Warner Bros. and Disney, along with content distributors DirecTV, EchoStar (Dish Network) and CableLabs.[2]

While Sony is a technology company, they’re also a very sue happy IP holder through Sony pictures and Playstation.

Sony continues to be a major player on the HDMI forum.

Are you me? Because that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. I set my default browse experience to Top 6 hour and then scroll All.

I do miss the community aspect of Reddit. There were other users who I ran into regularly in the comments. And usually not in a hostile way.

Hell, there was one sub where I was invited to the mod team because of those interactions. I did that for a couple years and continued to be active in the sub until Reddit start pissing off mods. That and my main “friend” on the mod team had his account nuked by Reddit after he fell for a troll.

Reddit removed every comment he had ever made, including wonderful and well cited rebuttals of the right-wing bigotry of the day.

So yeah, I logged out of that reddit account and have never logged back in, instead I use a burner account and try not comment on anything.

The movie studios. As the person above said, the HDMI consortium (owned by movie studios) is focused on protecting their members IP rights from pirates. HDMI has built in DRM, that could be removed from an open source driver.

It was a machine, it was not an engine. At no scale could it be used to power anything. And it would actually be dangerous to scale things too much. We know because people tried.

The aeolipile was a toy. And yes, toys can showcase interesting physics. I owned several of them as a child, and own a few today as, arguably, an adult.

Still, the thing about invention is that it isn’t a flash of inspiration and a new thing appears, it’s more of a slog of learning new things and applying old things in new ways.

Most often in history the most striking inventions were new ways of getting the raw resources, or improving the quality of those resources.

You can’t have a steam engine without a way to consistently produce steel.

The aeolipile wasn’t really a stream engine. I’ve played with modern versions, and you can stop the spin with your hand. Not a bare hand mind, because it’s rather hot. But a cloth or a glove is fine.

These toys have zero power to do any useful work.

This is why an actual steam engine uses a reciprocating piston. Because doing it that way builds pressure and thus power.

He literally said it. And then dodged the followup questions multiple times.

Jefferson was a massive hypocrite. A slave owner who often spoke of freedom. People of the time called him out for the hypocrisy.

But specifically, it’s been proven through genetic testing that he impregnated one of his slaves, who was the much younger half sister of his wife, because Jefferson got his slaves from his slave dealing father in law, who also raped his slaves.

More hypocrisy, Jefferson wrote about how Americans should live idyllic lives on small farms in touch with nature, and ran a slave powered nail factory.

Specifically, young teen boys, because their hands were smaller, and could more easily operate the dangerous equipment.

There’s so much more, and all of it bad.

The point is that design patents are fucking stupid and should not exist in the first place.

Apple has sued other phone manufacturers over them making a rectangle with rounded corners.

And it’s fucked.

We had one called manslaughter, it was basically just vodka, Red Bull, and Kool aid.

But the kicker was the pineapple. Sliced pineapple that had soaked in everclear for an hour before mixing everything else.

I loved TF2 back in the day. I should see what the game is like these days.

Either Clinton or Maxwell’s horse.