squaresinger

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This, a pen, and coffee⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nostalgia is a hard drug. I replayed Pokemon Red easily 10 times over the years. I tried Pokemon Gold (an objectively much better game) probably about the same amount of times, but I could never get through it, because I didn’t play as a kid and thus have no nostalgia for it.

  I have more nostalgia for Keitai Denjū Telefang, which I played in bootlegged form mis-labelled as Pokemon Diamond (that was before the real Pokemon Diamond was released), and even though this bootleg is horrible in quality, it’s easier for me to play than Pokemon Gold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You haven’t provided a single source that backs up your claim. I will continue to talk with you once you did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You haven’t provided any sources at all, you just ignored anything I said. So go, your turn. Post a source that says that transferring the patent to the university in 1923 was the wrong decision.

  If you know better than the lawyers they consulted back then, prove it. Back it up with something more than just made-up hot air.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not run out of arguments, I posted a contemporary source that said everything I talked about all along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, I am surprised that you seem to know the exact legal situation in regards to patent law in Canada of 1923, and that you have such a strong opinion on that matter.

  I would recommend you to read the corresponding Wikipedia secton where all the thinking that went into that decision is laid out quite well.

  I would venture to say that legal experts of the time at the time understood the patent law of the time a little better than some random users on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In what world is it not creepy to butt into some strangers’ personal conversation after overhearing details that were clearly not addressed to you?

  Have you ever been in a social situation before?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, but an university owning a patent gives them the responsibility to defend it, and also incentivizes them to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That logic applies identically to a valid patent.

  The difference is that in the case of transferring the patent to the university, there’s a legal department at the ready to defend the patent. The same is not the case for a disclaimed patent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, OP wasn’t donating money, was he?

  The scenario you brought up would be creepy too, but people tend to value money over the slight discomfort of creepiness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nowadays you just google for other patents and done. But back then, I guess that searching for prior art was quite a lot more difficult. Gifting the patent to an university so that they defend open access to the patent sounds like a more reliable plan.

  I mean, even nowadays patents are greenlit my patent offices even though there’s clear prior art (Nintendo’s recent patent for catching monsters in a ball in a game comes to mind, which Nintendo would have to have patented before publishing their first game with that mechanic around 30 years ago), and even today it’s really difficult and expensive to get such a clear nonsense patent invalidated.

  So difficult that e.g. Palworld opted to change the mechanic instead of fighting the patent.

  So I do understand why someone would instead gift the patent to an university under the condition that they keep access to it open, especially 100 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First the birds, then the girls?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Listening in on conversations is creepy, no matter how good-looking a person is.

  And that stuff happens in movies doesn’t mean it isn’t creepy in real-life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember, the 1920s is long ago. Giving the patent to the equivalent of a non-profit organisation was probably better than disclaiming it, since it’s easier to have one large, well-known entity that will fight off people trying to re-patent it than to disclaim it and hope that no patent clerk ever lets a fraudulent re-patent go through.

  In 1920 you couldn’t just google for prior art when fighting a fraudulent patent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They stopped eating meat 3 million years ago. That’s longer ago than the appearance of the first animal of the genus Homo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pandas stopped eating meat about 3 million years ago. That’s before the first being of the genus Homo appeared. Not Homo Sapiens (that was 300 000 years ago), but Homo Habilis (2.5mio years ago).

  If evolution can take us from something that’s barely an ape to humans in that time frame, you’d expect that it can fix an omnivour’s digestive system to work with plants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Google tells me that pandas started eating bamboo 6-8 million years ago and stopped eating meat 3 million years ago.

  That’s not exactly recent.

  For reference, the first Homo appeared 2.8 million years ago and the first Homo Sapiens 300 000 years ago.

  The last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees lived 5-10 million years ago.

  So if evolution can evolve humans in that time frame, you’d expect that it could also adapt an omnivour to a herbivour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nature has proven over and over again that it doesn’t like neat categories :)

  Evolution happens and it follows whatever works, and it certainly doesn’t care about any clever categories and rules we humans come up with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The same holds true for a lot of animals. There aren’t many purely “vegan” animals. A horse will snack a mouse too if it gets the opportunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pandas as well. Non-predator but clearly front facing eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Libraries are cool⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This. In Austria most libraries have a self-scan machine where you have to return your books and the librarians will sort the books back in. Part of the reason for that is that they need to check the condition the books were returned in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They sold the patent to the University of Toronto, so they didn’t exactly sell it to a for-profit patent troll.

  But also, that was in 1923, so the patent has long since expired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero Chull⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out this post, btw: lemmy.world/post/39372777

  There you can see the USB to LAN adapters dangling off the bottom row of phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero Chull⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially considering the price of the phones they are running. Even if they are trashed second-hand ones they will be much more expensive than the adapters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero Chull⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then take this one: m.made-in-china.com/…/USB-to-Ethernet-8-Ports-Swi…

  But even if you can’t find an off-the-shelf solution for this, it’s trivial to DIY one. One USB controller can feed 127 devices maximum. You’ll obviously need powered USB hubs for that, but that’s not an issue. This works because when you enable USB tethering, the phone can be in USB device mode while getting IP over USB. The main issue here is the routes, but if you use an app that creates a local VPN on the phone to capture the traffic you can then tunnel that traffic through the tethering connection, using it in the reverse direction. Now you only need a PC with many USB controllers (easily done using PCI-E extension cards) and you are done.

  Setup is a little complicated, but you only need to configure it once and then copy it over to all the phones.

  I would love to see something like that, but with active cooling and 180-240W PD. And probably dual L6-30s, if not more, to power the damn thing.

  I haven’t seen any devices so far that can deliver high wattage on multiple ports at the same time, so I think the PD is probably the bigger limit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero Chull⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t matter in the slightest. Ethernet over USB works irrespective of the shape of the plug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero Chull⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The lan thing makes sense, I could see that. Still an impressive amount of patch cables, if true. Plus those adapters are cheap but not dirt cheap, right?

  You don’t actually need to adapt out of it. There are Ethernet-over-USB switches that output to USB directly. So all you need are USB cables, and you need them anyway to provide power. So all you are doing (compared to just power over USB) is to use an Ethernet-over-USB switch instead of an USB PSU.

  Here’s the first one I found on google: www.digi.com/products/networking/…/anywhereusb

  The one they advertise on that website has 24 USB outputs, but I’m sure you can find bigger ones. And from them you only need a single patch cable to the next proper switch.

  There’s about 100 phones on the panel and another 100 on the other side, so that would be maybe 8 or 9 of these switches, all wired together into a 10 port switch and that one then is fed by a single input line.

  The upside for a setup like this is that the bandwidth requirements per device are minuscule. It’s a lot of devices, but they aren’t doing anything for most of the time. That’s quite the opposite of what we usually plan for when designing a regular network where if we have hundreds of devices we expect them to actually do something as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero Chull⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The phones are all wired, so I could imagine they receive LAN via USB-C. That would make the whole setup not that difficult.

  On the other side, these phones don’t need to be all active at the same time. I could imagine that they just switch on the Wifi while interacting with one of the phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is NSFW content now allowed on lemmy.world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody can dictate whether you are on social media in your break time, but having boobs on your phone in the break room can get you a meeting with HR real quick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is NSFW content now allowed on lemmy.world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Over here in Europe I wouldn’t call it that, but having boobs on your phone in the break room can get you a fast meeting with HR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What OS does the Batcomputer use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the German speakers under us: Wayne interessierts…