Programming Leftovers

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parallel @ Savannah: GNU Parallel 20210522 ('Gaza') released
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Counting the number of matching characters in two ASCII strings
Suppose that you give me two ASCII strings having the same number of characters. I wish to compute efficiently the number of matching characters (same position, same character). E.g., the strings ‘012c’ and ‘021c’ have two matching characters (‘0’ and ‘c’).
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Google only rejects 10% of DMCA takedowns. Microsoft Bing 0.5%. Microsoft GitHub has numerous ethical problems.
What’s becoming increasingly clear on the modern web is that corporate rule prevails with information being deleted out from under our feet by the billions of links per year. Now, with companies like Microsoft GitHub, entire software programs risk being lost forever.
The DMCA was passed to prevent and curtail piracy and, as a “compromise”, included provisions that would discourage abuse. Two of these were that the person complained about could respond to the complaint and there would be an investigation into what was really happening performed by the service provider, and that sending a DMCA notice that was faulty could be a criminal offense. However, to this date, and with millions of DMCA letters sent over the past two decades, nobody has gone to prison.
Corporations often set up DMCA complaint mills where law firms robosign complaints and send them directly to companies like Google and Microsoft, often without any human involvement.
The notifications themselves are usually even automated, sometimes in an unbelievably sloppy manner….only about 17% are even valid according to TorrentFreak, citing WordPress.), knowing that these companies that recive them almost never put up any fight.
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While they’re both bad, Microsoft complies with the DMCA 99.5% of the time, even though 83% of the requests are invalid in some way.
If that’s their policy on Bing, what do you think your odds are on GitHub?
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