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  • Chinese semiconductor outfit has Linux MPP repository on Github disabled after a DMCA takedown request & FFmpeg team accuses it of using libavcodec code without attribution

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  • Dude, all Rockchip had to do to avoid this was a bit of license-related bookkeeping. They're a corporation, so they're used to dealing in bookkeeping and contracts. Someone at their end whose job it is to track this stuff either screwed up or let this through on purpose, assuming they wouldn't be caught (more likely the latter, because China).

  • Is an old raspberry pi useful for anything based on Linux?

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  • SD card readers that plug into your USB port are still quite cheap, even if you have the misfortune of being in the US.

  • Is Canada being blocked from Venezuelan news? ( edit, we're not )

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  • The page is reachable for me in a Javascriptless desktop browser window and does not throw the error you described, so it's probably a broken script or embed. Or at least I hope it's just broken and not malicious.

    (What's additionally weird is that 413 is an error you would normally see when uploading a file too large for the server . . .)

  • Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog

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  • According to records obtained by the group, “it’s often impossible to tell which parts of a police report were generated by AI and which parts were written by an officer.”

    This does not give me a great impression of the literacy level of American police officers. Another good reason to stay out of that country.

  • Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet

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  • If you have no internet but want your music as a file, that's how you go about it.

  • Northlander revival gains steam as Ontario releases proposed train times

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  • If I recall correctly, they're diverting to Timmins instead of continuing north to Cochrane (although it's been a little while since that part was in the news, so I'm not 100% sure). Still an improvement over the current state of public transport in the area.

  • How the AI ‘bubble’ compares to history

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  • They picked the wrong history, in my not so humble opinion. The AI situation looks more like the dot-com bubble, recycled.

  • [SOLVED] Send commands to Linux box via e-mail?

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  • It's possible—I've used Perl scripts to pull data automatically out of email attachments stored in a maildir setup, and you should be able to pick commands out of a plain-text email body with a scripting language even more easily—but I will add my voice to the chorus that's saying you should look into any other method you can find before settling on this. If it turns out you must proceed along these lines, think long and hard about security.

  • HDMI monitor for headless linux server

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  • You should be able to set up the system to autologin on startup and then run commands from the auto-logged-in user's .bash_profile, if you can reduce what you want to do to a script. You'd probably want to specially set up a user for this, to reduce security risks.

    (I just stood up a weird little Gentoo media PC that does approximately this—logs a user in on startup and then runs startx from .bash_profile to make it easier to use with no keyboard attached and no DM. You'd just want to put a different command in instead.)

  • Former MP Charlie Angus planned a quiet retirement. Now, he'd rather 'kick at the darkness'

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  • Have you ever lived in any of the Northern Ontario ridings (or any other part of northern Canada, for that matter)? I have, and do, although I haven't lived in Kap-Timmins-Mushkegowuk specifically since the 1990s. Still, I doubt it's changed much.

    To put it bluntly, it's an area that's used to being ignored if not outright mistreated by government at both the provincial and federal levels. Small and shrinking population with a high percentage of Indigenous and Francophone individuals, large tracts of land with limited transport options, little industry, few jobs, and no influence. Our MPs normally have no influence either, unless they somehow make it into Cabinet. It almost doesn't matter what party they belong to.

    Charlie, according to everything I've seen, heard, and read, tried. Dude worked his balls off for his constituents, and for Canada in general, with little in the way of result or recompense. I don't know if he's doing more for Canadians right now than he did when he was in Parliament, but his seat didn't give him much more scope to accomplish anything than he has as a private citizen.

  • Anime Fall Season and 2025 Year-End Discussion [2026, Week 01]

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  • Time for this season's silly awards!

    • Most thorough product placement: Shuumatsu Touring. I really hope Honda paid them well for that episode.
    • Most disappointing: To Your Eternity. Not that it was bad, exactly, but it wasn't up to the standards of the previous seasons. I've come to the conclusion that much of the problem is Mizuha and the heavy focus on her. While her situation is interesting, she is not an appealing character, and I really don't want to spend any more time with her. Hopefully the second cours will return the primary focus to Fushi. (I also could have done without the rope bondage bit, which seemed to come out of left field in a manner more appropriate to Golden Kamuy.)
    • Stupidest smart person award: Towasa from Towa no Yuugure. Apparently she not only knew nothing about human nature, she also lacked fundamental knowledge about computer programming. All non-trivial software has bugs, and directly hooking up a human brain to the Internet with no method to block it again afterwards is so stupidly risky that I can't even.
    • Biggest bait-and-switch: Towa no Yuugure again. The first couple of episodes are set up to look like plucky-band-of-misfits-against-SF-dystopia, but instead we end up getting SF relationship drama. If that was what they wanted to do, they should have toned down the evil-dystopia scenes.
    • Where-can-I-get-some-of-what-they-were-smoking award: Sanda. The last thing I saw that managed to be both this batshit and this thoughtful was maybe Sarazanmai (and that was from Kunihiko Ikuhara, who's always that way). Come for the bizarre premise, stay for the fact that this thing is surprisingly good.
    • Best dragon award: May I Ask for One Final Thing? narrowly beat out the dragon from Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! begging for royal moodle. (Sorry, Bee, you're just not dragonlike enough, and they tried too hard to make you cute. Gap moe works better with dragons.)
    • Most unexpectedly entertaining: Pass the Monster Meat, Milady! for a narrow win over a quite large field of candidates. (A Wild Last Boss Appears! might have won if I hadn't given it a higher evaluation than the other based on pre-airing summaries.) Having the central plot be a romance is a tough sell for me in general, but this time it worked.

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    My Christmas rewatch for this year was Suisei no Gargantia (Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet). It still holds up pretty well for the most part—the Gundam + Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind + Waterworld setting comes together (even though from that description, it really shouldn't), and the character arcs, including the mecha's, work. The thing that doesn't hold up is the visuals. There is way too much 3D water that does not blend with the rest of the artwork at all, proving that sometimes trying to be more realistic causes problems rather than solving them.

  • Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?

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  • Lacking government regulation in the largest markets, proper separation will never be enforced, because it isn't to the manufacturers' benefits. And that probably isn't going to happen until hacked infotainment systems kill enough people to draw attention, unfortunately.

  • Health minister says Canada can’t rely on U.S. health institutions anymore

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  • The US has health institutions? I thought they'd all been defunded.

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  • Animals, including humans, have sensors for pain (nerve endings), and a series of routines in our brains to process the sensory data and treat it as an unpleasant stimulus. These are not optional systems, but innate ones.

    Machines not only lack the required sensor systems and processing routines, they can't even interpret a stimulus as unpleasant. They can't feel pain. If you need proof of that, hit a computer with a sledgehammer. I guarantee it won't complain, or even notice before you damage it beyond functioning.

    (They can, of course, make us feel pain. I just spent the last hour trying to get a udev rule to work . . .)

  • Government suspending ban on single-use plastic exports

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  • Furthermore, we're talking about exports. Does anyone really believe that other countries that haven't banned plastic straws won't just source them elsewhere instead? China's usually willing to manufacture any random plastic object someone is willing to pay for. If plastic straws really are the hill someone wants to die on, environmental activism in the countries that still allow them seems like it would be more effective than an export ban here.

  • DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx)

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  • For some people, recreating the form factor of a book is the point, regardless of its convenience or cost. I'm sure whoever put this thing together was quite aware of how mainstream e-readers are built and didn't want that, or they would have bought a Kindle or a Kobo.

  • What is the longest anime episode of all time?

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  • I vaguely remember that I did not watch the anime adaptation of Atelier Ryza because the first episode was 3x (4x?) normal length, which should be >60 min.

  • "If you think the CCP will treat foreigners better than its own people when it extends its power over you, please think again:" Rights activist warns Canada over risks of trade with China -- [Opinion]

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  • China is a lucrative enough market that some trade with them is inevitable, alas (and, to be honest, Canada as a whole probably can't support itself if it limits international trade to countries that have had fairly clean human rights records for the last fifty years or so—it's just too small a fraction of the world). We just have to be careful that we don't get in so deep that we can't easily pull out again.

    Please let the people in positions of power in this country have learned something from the consequences of the current US administration's antics. We can't afford to put all of our eggs in one basket, no matter how large or tastefully decorated that basket is.

  • Be prepared in case of power outage in extreme cold, say Yukon officials

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  • The record coldest temperature in North America of -63⁰C was recorded in the Yukon (specifically, at Snag, Yukon, in 1947). Brrr.

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