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fartsparkles

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  • A new homelessness law in Wales is being called 'world-leading'

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  • I’ve been immensely fortunate to grow up with such a wonderful role model.

    It’s important to note rough sleeping is only one part of homelessness but it’s the most visible.

    I’d recommend reading Crisis’ page on how you can help.

  • A new homelessness law in Wales is being called 'world-leading'

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  • I’ve been supporting Crisis and Shelter every month for years now. I’d gladly pay more tax so people have a right to somewhere safe to live.

    Growing up, my sister would never ignore someone who was homeless and would get to know them and support them however she should (a coffee, help with forms and letters, even just a general chat). Every day, everywhere we’d go. She drilled it into us that there’s never an excuse to ignore someone who needs help and luck could turn and we could easily be in the same situation ourselves.

    As a society, we shouldn’t view a roof over our heads as an asset but a right. We spend plenty of money on nuclear reactors for submarines that can launch the apocalypse, I think we can spend some more on helping the most vulnerable not be forced onto the streets.

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  • What’s with the wave of depressing comics recently?

  • Actor Noel Clarke arrested over allegation of attempted rape in 2007

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  • After the years of stories of how rude, unkind, smug, self absorbed, and arrogant they are, I’m not surprised ‘rapist’ is getting added to that list.

    Hopefully justice prevails for the victims.

  • A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters

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  • It’s almost as if they factored the cost of licensing a third-party IP into the price.

  • YSK You can buy a @linux.com domain for email flex

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  • Depends how you view priorities. $10/y or one time $250. I’ve owned several domains for longer than 25 years. $250 is a pretty sweet deal.

  • What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"?

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  • There’s no place like /home

  • What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"?

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  • It started with making office computers personable for home use in Windows 95 e.g. “My Computer”, “My Documents”.

    This carried on into web services like My Yahoo, or terms like My Account.

    Smashing it into one word was also a thing back in the late 90s / early 00s because it (a) was easy for searching in older search engines and (b) sounded like Apple’s iPod, iMac etc (MyPod, MyMac).

    Continued use today is usually because of either (a) it’s been called that for a couple of decades already or (b) the product manager is themselves old and has forgotten how old the trend of trying to make those new fangled computerybobs sound welcoming and friendly.

  • Steam Deal: Save 15% on the Last Starship

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  • Awesome game by the original developers of Prison Architect.

  • Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?

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  • If Epic spent half as much money as they are suing organisations and instead funded developing their shop into a gaming community platform like Steam, they’d probably have caught up by now.

  • I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software

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  • I agree with you as I’m an old FOSS beard - we wouldn’t have gotten here without GPL/MIT/BSD etc.

    But things aren’t working for a huge number of projects. And is it right that so many critical dependencies are maintained by so few with so little resources, if any? Just look at the xz fiasco we narrowly avoided catastrophe over.

    The Linux Foundation is a good model for core infrastructure and projects that underpin the ecosystem like the kernel - LF are turning over $300M or something a year.

    But for smaller projects that aren’t critical or aren’t looking to be a core dependency like xz, dual licensing seems the only obvious way forward.

  • I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software

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  • Most corporate owned devices are managed with some kind of tool (for restricting what users can do, pushing out software and updates, etc). These tools are called Mobile Device Management (MDM).

    The developer is detecting the presence of MDM tools and using that to present a splash page to the user about the licensing requirements etc.

    Some educational institutes use MDM to manage students, even so far as to require it be installed on personal owned devices. The developer has been working with edu users to except them.

  • I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software

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  • I’m a huge FOSS advocate but I understand where this developer is coming from. It sucks to have huge orgs take your work and monetize it heavily without contributing back. The number of maintainers I know suffering from huge volumes of bug reports from corporations using AI tools yet not financially supporting the project is pretty heartbreaking.

    I wonder if it’s time FOSS projects started taking the view that liberty is for individuals and not corporate use, and license accordingly.

  • I love it

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  • X11 isn’t Linux… Linux is excellent for backwards compatibility. Can’t say the same about userspace though.

  • I love it

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  • It does work but if you’re using Wayland, it won’t. But one would be rather silly to expect an X11/Xlib tool to work without X11.

  • I would like to know what native English speakers think of my writing?

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  • Good spot. And I love lowercase 𝑓 with ascender and descender.

    𝑓𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠

  • I would like to know what native English speakers think of my writing?

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  • The sorry state of saving (mostly a rant)

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  • I don’t think you understand what “the engine supports saving at any time” entails.

    Having the ability to serialise objects is not the same as handling the input and output of serialisation.

    You might as well be annoyed by why aren’t all developers letting us rewind time in games? Load from our last save? No thanks. Developers are so disrespectful of our time. They just need to log all the changes that happen and play them backwards. Every engine supports that!

  • The sorry state of saving (mostly a rant)

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  • I recommend you try implementing a save feature in a game engine then you might have a little more respect for the difficulty of the problem you’re irritated by.

    Developers aren’t being unthoughtful or lazy, you’re just trivialising a rather complex software engineering problem that isn’t easy to solve and one solution over another has trade offs / weaknesses.