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  • I have a feeling you don't quite understand what Docker is doing for you and how it works. I suggest looking for an intro to Docker and understand the basics around Docker volumes and networking in docker before trying to orchestrate a complex set of software in Docker.

    Don't give up! I was you about 6 years ago. I'm on my 3rd server setup now, and I've gone from where you are now, to being able to script my setup using Ansible and having those scripts versioned in Git, so I never have to worry about remembering how it's all glued together.

  • ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say
  • Yeah but the 5 Eyes and their friends are everywhere outside of the CCPs borders. So if they really don't want to let the US have that algorithm, and probe the interfaces the CCP propaganda arm used to access the TikTok backend, there's few places overall that have a reason to buy it, and can also afford it.

  • Another trans candidate in Ohio faces disqualification vote for omitting deadname
  • Yes there is evidence. Just a few days ago a third trans candidate in Ohio ran into the same problem and their board of elections overturned the rejection during their appeal.

    So this year you've had 3 trans candidates with the same problem. 2 upheld and 1 overturned during the appeals process.

  • That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says
  • Well, libraries are collections of APIs and sdks are usually collections of libraries. So they're unfortunately kind of interchangeable when discussing them. But I agree with you the correct thing would be to say they're using Nintendo's proprietary libraries.

  • That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says
  • Hi, Android dev here. This is a different issue albeit a tangential one. But ultimately it has no bearing on the matter.

    The Oracle v Google case revolves around Google's reimplementation of the Java APIs on the Android platform. This is key. Back when Android started, they used Apache Harmony to provide the Java API set on Android. Harmony was an open source implementation of the Java API set. Sun (the creator of Java) didn't care, they held the copyright to the Java implementation, but made their money in different ways, so they let the Harmony project live.

    Fast forward a decade. The Apache Harmony project is dead. Android is stuck at Java 6 level APIs because of it, Android devs are annoyed they can't even get Java 8 features. And Oracle bought Sun, and is monetizing the shit out of Java. They started charging money for the official Java SDK. Google didn't want to pay Oracle, so they started reimplementing the newer Java APIs into Android, to pick up where Harmony had left off. Oracle saw this, found some code in Google's reimplementation that was similar to the official implementation from Oracle (which is out in the open in the openjdk project) and sued the shit out of them looking for the payday they didn't get when Google refused to pay Oracle a license.

    Ultimately, the SCOTUS ruling says that APIs themselves are not copyrightable (ie you can't copyright the .toString() function name). But you can copyright the implementation of that function. Ultimately Oracle still won a bit, because they found something like 6 function reimplementations that Google could not successfully defend as clean room implementations.

    Why this is irrelevant to the Portal64 issue, is because the dev is not using the open source reimplementation of the Nintendo APIs. He's literally using the Nintendo owned implementation of the APIs. That's why he says he needs to switch to open source libraries. Those open source libraries have the same functions within them, but the implementation of said functions aren't the same as the Nintendo ones (or they are and Nintendo just hasn't sued the project into oblivion yet, I have no idea about the details).

  • That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says
  • From what I read, the codebase is using Nintendo proprietary sdk libraries in its codebase. So that is technically Nintendo IP. The fix is to switch to open source implementations of those libraries. But the dev is hesitant to put in that work without Valve's approval, because if he does that work Valve can still fuck him over for using their Portal IP, and an n64 game isn't distributable on Steam, so there's literally nothing in it for Valve to bless/support it. So he's worried that all that effort would be for naught. And Nintendo already threatened Valve in the past when Dolphin was attempting to distribute on Steam, and Valve backed down. So the theory is that Valve doesn't want to piss off the big N in any way legally.

    Now, we can ask ourselves why almost 30 year old sdks are still valuable to Nintendo, but unfortunately copyright law being what it is, it's technically illegal to do what the dev did. He should have seen this coming and used the open source libraries instead of the Nintendo proprietary ones. But I say this not knowing how good those open source libraries are, they could have problems, be incomplete, etc., or maybe not exist when he started the project. But either way a dev should have known using Nintendo IP in any form is fraught with peril.

  • The four houses dads belong to.
  • What are the magic search terms for these things? I went searching for such to adapt my porter cable batteries to craftsman (since they're all Stanley black and decker) but I didn't find anything. Looked on thingiverse too. I'm ready to print up the adapters! This lock in sucks!

  • Rental property billionaire says buying a home (with a mortgage) is "fancy bullshit" and you should rent instead
  • This is me. I live in LA, near Hollywood. I pay 3k/month in rent for a 1200sq ft 2br apartment that's close to everything.

    A condo similar to my apartment (it was a condo conversion of a building similar to mine) in my neighborhood sold for almost a million this past year. That's about 6k/month all in w/ taxes and whatnot, not including maintenance costs.

    Why the fuck would I pay double to own the same thing, and lose all my flexibility, when I take that 3k difference every month and invest it. Which builds wealth too. Sure, my investments may not be as inflation protected as a home, but they're a lot more fucking liquid. And I can move in 30 days no unsold house hanging over my head.

  • Do Israeli Politicians' adult children get conscripted just like the average adult Israeli citizen as part of mandatory service?
  • I will admit that I am not totally aware of the value of the land of the West Bank vs Gaza. But from what I've been reading and watching these few months on the history of the conflict, it seems that at some point the PLO stopped being violent after the second Infatada and Hamas took over Gaza and pushed them out to the West Bank. And ever since then the West Bank has been slowly carved up more and more by Jewish settlements, effectively making the Palestinian land in the WB never able to be contiguous, and thus making it impossible for there to be a Palestinian state to be formed there.

    So if the WB land is valuable to the Israelis, I cannot see how Gaza wouldn't be even more valuable. As Gaza has access to the sea, and there's all the recently found offshore gas fields that would fall into Gaza's EEZ if it ever were to be recognized as the Palestinian state.

    So I don't get why they'd disengage and leave Gaza alone when it's valuable land, but they will also for obvious reasons never stop the blockade of Gaza. As an outsider that leans to the left, it seems like Gaza is purposefully put into the state that it's in, to keep a threat around, so the conservatives running Israel can stay in power.

  • Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs
  • My buddy works there now, as the audiobook company he worked for got acquired by them.

    You would be shocked how stupid and manual the content acquisition process is. Book publishers might as well still be operating back in the 90s, it's all phone calls and spreadsheets attached to the emails and manual FTP uploads.

    If the music business is anything like the audiobook business they likely need so many non IT just to keep the machine fed with content.

  • Demonstrators march to protest L.A. City Council’s approval of rent hikes
  • Looked into the deets on this since it affects me - https://housing2.lacity.org/highlights/renter-protections

    It's a 4% max increase, with 1% addons for electricity and gas if they're included in the rent.

    Which, after 3 years of everything being frozen, doesn't sound too terrible. We'll still be a good amount cheaper than market rate.

  • I can't wait for LOS 21

    Google offered me a heck of a deal on a Pixel 8, so I took the offer. I already miss LineageOS on my Pixel 3. I miss the AOSP sounds, the custom network meter in the status bar, and the full control over updating.

    Anyone else upgrade and instantly regret it?

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    Why do some apps need to be installed using root, and others do not?

    Basically, the title. I've used revanced to patch YouTube and Reddit's app. YouTube only seems to work if I install as root. Reddit's app only seems to work if I don't use root. Wondering why that is.

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    Why are there sound glitches with Bluetooth audio in Linux when the BT and Wifi share the same chipset?

    Recently, I ran into an issue where my bluetooth headphones suddenly got super glitchy when working from my parents house. I found out from the Arch Wiki (see Section 2.4.5) that the reason is that in my laptop the Bluetooth and Wifi are on the same card/chip.

    I was able to mitigate by forcing my wifi to 5Ghz. But I am wondering the why behind this. I know BT and older wifi protocols operate in the same 2.4Ghz range. But as the wiki states, this is not a problem on Windows, only Linux. So it must be a driver thing? But for it to be not tied to any specific hardware in the wiki, is it just an architectural thing that can't be fixed in the kernel or something?

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    Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml yaaaaayPancakes @lemmy.world
    Are the Lemmy API error responses documented anywhere?

    I've been looking at the rest client built into Jerboa, to see if I could maybe contribute to making error handling a bit better.

    The Lemmy API docs don't seem to list the error codes/error bodies that can be returned by the API. Are these documented somewhere else? Or do I need to start reading the Rust code of the server itself?

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