Installing Valetudo stops any firmeware updates forever from the OEM. [1]
I wouldn't consider it a hack. It's an alternative way to run your vacuum, with yes potentially less features if the OEM makes a lot of future updates, but Valetudo also comes with their own set of updates.
Unless you happen to live in a jurisdiction that care more about users than companies, like the EU. The manufacturer would have to prove that the new custom firmware is actually the cause of the damage, otherwise they need to fulfill the warranty guarantee regardless of what firmware you run.
> Good luck proving that changing the firmware is not voiding a warranty.
You're thinking about it the wrong way around. The manufacturer has to prove that the custom firmware is the reason it broke, you don't have to prove anything. Username not accurate.
The state might be comprised of people, but unless everybody is directly involved in the final decision process you'll always have (at least) a principal-agent problem between the people acting as political representatives and everybody else.
In terms of property theft: exactly. Which is why your tax advisor would insist on a contract with you that outlines compensation for services rendered, time and material, etc.
not sure I get your point. So because a movie producer didn't sign a contract with a pirate it's okay for the pirate to copy the movie without compensation and that's the only difference?
To me, in both cases someone did some work that someone else wants. In both cases they should pay for that work. If they are not willing to pay the price the person who did the work is asking, then they should go get work from someone else. At no point should they just say "well, I never contracted with you so therefore making a copy of the work you did is totally cool"
I was talking about the definition of theft and whether what you did in your example constituted it.
If I did your taxes (as in: did all the calculations) and you took a picture of my results, copied the values, etc. no theft happened. If I filled out your tax return and you took that without paying then obviously theft happened, but I assumed you didn't mean that since then your example would have no connection to TFA.
What did happen, though, is exactly what you described: you asked someone to do work for you ("contracting"/"work for hire") and they did just that. Then you decided not to pay them, which is a simple civil law case of contract fulfillment.
EDIT: depending on the "creativity" of my tax calculations, copying them might be considered IP theft and I could come after you using the DMCA, but I guess creative accounting only goes so far ;)
Give them a try without any of the expansions/DLC, if you want a "simpler"/leaner experience. One of the big complaints you'll see for every new iteration of Civ is how parts from the previous one are missing, which is usually fixed through DLCs later on. So this might be right up your alley (or at least closer to it).
I'm with you, and at least here in Germany this is already the law, though it is only required if your deceleration rate is greater or equal to 1.3m/s² (it is allowed starting at a rate of 0.7 m/s²).
There are already voices against this, as the recuperation functionality of electric vehicles can repeatedly trigger this feature if the driver lets go of the gas pedal for a short time.
I don’t understand the voices against it: even if it’s recuperating, the car _is_ decelerating, which is why it triggers (and it should). What’s the problem according to them?
The threshold can be a problem- you don't want the threshold to be too low, or else the brake lights come on when even slight deceleration is occurring. This would give an annoyingly too-common signal that would possibly be disregarded/ not be an effective form of visual communication.
As I understood it, it's less of a real problem and more of a perceived annoyance. People accelerate, let go of the pedal, realize that a deceleration sets in, accelerate again, etc. so their brake lights are flashing all the time (instead of just using their cruise control to have this happen much more smoothly and ideally below the relevant thresholds).
I don't think it was that extreme here in Germany, but I do recall my father coming home various times throughout the years with cases containing ~20-50 3.5" floppy disks for our Atari STs that were either completely unlabeled or with hand-written or home-printed labels. Always interesting finding out how to start each game and looking at the colourful intros.
I've only got superficial knowledge in this regard, so please take it with a grain of salt, but: the way I understand it is that PCIE has full direct memory access, so devices connected through it can use zero copy and similar techniques to access and process data much faster, especially with lower latencies than over regular USB. Using USB might/will require copying the data to transfer/read from and to different buffers, between user/kernel space, etc.
Honest question to somebody who seems to have a bit of knowledge about this in the real world: several (German, if relevant) providers default to a TTL of ~4 hours. Lovely if everything is more or less finally set up, but usually our first step is to decrease pretty much everything down to 60 seconds so we can change things around in emergencies.
Lower TTLs is cheap insurance so you can move hostnames around.
However, you should understand that not ALL clients will respect those TTLs. There are resolvers that may minimum TTL threshold where IF TTL < Threshold, TTL == Threshold, Common with some ISPs, and also, there may be cases where browsers and operating systems will ignore TTLs or fudge them.
From experience, 90%+ of traffic will respect your TTLs or something close. So on average, it definitely does make a difference. There's always going to be a long tail of straglers though.
Personally, my default for names that are likely to change often is 5 minutes, but 1 minute is ok, but might drive a lot more DNS traffic.
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