HW/FW security researcher & Demoscene elder.

I started having arguments online back on Fidonet and Usenet. I’m too tired to care now.

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  • IANAL - but I’ve worked for Big Company and have gone through the patent process a few times. A patent isn’t what’s written in the supporting text and abstract. It’s only the exact thing written out in the claims.

    First claim from the patent the abstract is from:

    1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a game program causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to provide execution comprising:

      controlling a player character in a virtual space based on a first operation input;

      in association with selecting, based on a selection operation, a boarding object that the player character can board and providing a boarding instruction, causing the player character to board the boarding object and bringing the player character into a state where the player character can move, wherein the boarding object is selected among a plurality of types of objects that the player character owns;

      in association with providing a second operation input when the player character is in the air, causing the player character to board an air boarding object and bringing the player character into a state where the player character can move in the air; and

      while the player character is aboard the air boarding object, moving the player character, aboard the air boarding object, in the air based on a third operation input.

    Exactly everything described above must be done in that exact same way for there to be an infringement.


  • Our transmission capacity is enough for our own needs (since the danes forced us to close the perfectly working nuclear plant Barsebäck) - but it’s not enough for our needs and Germany’s.

    I’m very much pro EU but I do have issues with a huge part of Sweden having 10x the electricity prices of the rest of the country. It hits our manufacturing, farmers etc. I would be in favor of limiting our export to just our surplus. Germany could’ve skipped closing down their own fully working nuclear plants …

    (Sweden and Norway are also the ones to thank for Denmark being able to live mostly off wind power since it’s our hydro and nuclear power that they use to balance their network)

    I own a rather large property so I’ve had to become “an expert” on our electricity issues.

    From the paywalled article:

    I stället måste vi tidvis exportera el under dygnets mörka timmar till elbristens Tyskland. Därför blir strömmen 10-20 gånger dyrare i Skåne än i Norrland, Stockholm och Göteborg. Därför är det omöjligt att skapa en prisutjämning inom Sverige.