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nintendiator

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  • Perpetual Motion finally achieved!

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  • That and the weird aversion to introducing new or useful keywords, or even extending the symbol set that doesn't even use full ASCII.

  • Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users)

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  • Eh, I've always felt these solutions are complementary, or supplementary, rather than a "versus". Each one, in particular cases, covers gaps the others can't cover. The only one that's unneeded is Snap.

    For example, I like Flatpak. I like that I can get software from an authorized hub, much like with a package manager. I like that the releases of the apps in the hub are mostly well documented.

    But no matter how nice Flatpak seems to be, its overreliance on "portals" and "buses" and "seals" comes associated with trying to over-engineerize my system too much for its own good. Every app I have ever tried on Flatpak, for example, doesn't support audio, apparently because I have the godly, eternal, battle-tested ALSA and not the manchild's crap that is PulseAudio. But since apparently PulseAudio is the GNome / Microsoft approved way to do audio on Linux, I'm supposed expected to have it. What's next? systemd-flatpakd?

    OTOH, I picked up the AppImage for Freetube and not only do I get audio but it loads and runs noticeably faster than the Flatpak version. And since it's an official release I know where can I trustably get an update from. Literally no downsides!

    But I sure as hell am not going to go for an AppImage for an app from which I expect more integration with my desktop activity, such as say a code editor or an advanced image / model viewer. Not if I can help it. Because I am going to be expecting to be able to stuff like drag and drop, have a correct tray icon, etc.

    So that means I have to keep an eye on both solutions.

    Hey, at least I'm avoiding Snap!

    Now if there's an AppImage for Steam somewhere.... maybe...

  • A Hong Kong-based crypto exchange used deepfakes of Elon Musk to claim the billionaire was its lead developer

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  • Hahahahaha lol, I wish it had gone unnoticed a bit more. Scamming techbros and cryptobros sounds cool.

  • Come on, science!

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  • If successful it could

    Wanna bet what capitalism is going to say about that?

  • Would you teach your kids how to pirate?

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  • From an ethical standpoint, in the modern world, not teaching your children how to pirate is being an irresponsible parent. Not just because the "download stuff for free" aspect of piracy, but because piracy is associated to a number of moral and ethical decisions and tenets that also form important ideologies. Getting ready access to information, and being capable to redistribute information, for example, is a key element to anti-fascism ideologies which is why eg.: punk places an emphasis on radio. Being able to fight your own fights instead of only trading on the currency (digital or otherwise) other people impose on you is a core element of both digital and physical sovereignty, which is one of the reasons why stuff like KYC laws or banning of sex workers in economic operations have to be fought against.

  • EU Party Pushes Back Against Gaming Companies Shutting Down Games People Have Paid For

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  • Would need a change to eg.: DMCA as well because even if the IP was lost to the public domain, having to crack the DRM to get the game working in the first place would still be illegal.

    Heck, just taker the oppoerunity and also redo DMCA from scratch.

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  • There should be a way to give directly to the developers

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  • If there was a way to do that, i’d be more happily inclined to spend my money on a decade year old game.

    True. And this falls squarely on their responsibility. If they set up a Patreon or Kofi something, for example, and make it known, then we can support them directly.

    Or they could just publish the information required to do a cash mail / wire transfer. But I don't know how the fees would work for that with small donations.

  • Nintendo submit Yuzu DMCA request to Internet Archive

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  • Because you are not exhausting parts that actually get exhausted, nor that can actually get a harm to reputation in their industry due to association to the corpo. If you want to go after a corpo, you go after the employees, the physical facilities (they cost money and time to rebuild / migrate) and, if possible, the jobhunters.

  • IFTAS release a guide to help instance admins comply with the Digital Services Act

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  • I've seen nothing in the requirements that say that the designated person has to be reachable. If I had to set a fediverse instance of something, I'd just set the mailer inbox to /dev/null or smth to save storage. Or just subject the corpos to the same treatment they subject normal citizens,

    Dear sender. Your request has been added to our queue for review - might not want a malintentioned party get through safety procedures, wouldn't we? We know you understand us better than anyone. You may get a reply in a period from 48 to 72 days, our staff is very busy but we certainly have you in our hearts. God bless America, Heil Trump, and we'll make the free software communists build the wall and pay for it! Cheers.

  • Nintendo submit Yuzu DMCA request to Internet Archive

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  • I’m talking about exhausting the corpo and damaging their imag

    All you'll be exhausting is an AI. They're using AIs now to write the DMCA requests, which actually does lead me to wonder if such takedown requests are even legal (an AI can't, to my knowledge, legally represent the interests of a legal person). But the point is, if you're thinking of "exhausting a corpo" you're thinking it wrong.

  • Piracy was NEVER stealing

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  • Devil’s advocate: “If you copy it, the [original] owner doesn’t lose anything…”

    They loose the right to distribute it or not distribute it to who they choose.

    They already lost that right when they gave their product over to a licensor or distributor. Especially more in some industries such as book publishing.

  • Piracy was NEVER stealing

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  • If morality is tied to law,

    How cute how innocent you are.

  • My C is a little rusty

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  • Word, Rust shills are the most annoying and shitting of the programming language zealots I've seen since the Java Enterprise shilling of the early 200xs. WHat's worse, their memes aren't even good, unlike the JS memes.

  • Have you ever encountered a joke edit of a movie while sailing the high seas?

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  • Not sure if joke but I once found a The The Matrix Matrix (the The Matrix movie but entirely visualized as Matrix code) torrent.

  • Economic explanation for piracy and the prisoner's dilemma

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  • It is dangerous when the population of pirates to increase, because this will cause things and create domino effects which will put us at nash equilibrium due to more regulation of piracy and a crackdown of piracy,

    Nuh-uh. DRM and draconian laws were already being passed own without piracy, or when piracy was at a low. This also falls into the fallacy that DRM and laws on that line are exclusively the result of piracy - they are not, they come from military / corporate authoritarianism, see for example the effects of 9/11 (the US one, not the Chilean one, although they do also are related in this respect).

    tl;dr: Everyone benefits if more people pirate.

  • Economic explanation for piracy and the prisoner's dilemma

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  • But the problem is if piracy become too big, the corporation s will no longer have enough incentive to make the product/servixe at all,

    Then let it not be corporations who create. In the end, it is artists who create. People were pretty fine create things in the 1050s, after or before the Arbitrary Christian Epoch, without big corpos around.

  • Pipewire vs PulseAudio: What's the Difference?

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  • But their choices do impact other projects. I may not use Gnome, but the choices made on theming (or lack of) , for example, now also effect XFCE.

  • “It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis

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  • A friend has a corollary for that: "Don't attribute to stupidity when it can be attributed to capitalism".