jmcs

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jmcs,

There’s no reason why 114MB of static content over 5 minutes should be an issue for a public facing website. Hell, I probably could serve that and the images with a Raspberry Pi over my home Internet and still have bandwidth to spare.

I think they are throwing stones at the wrong glass house/software stack.

jmcs,

So a single entity is allowed to commercialize external contributions without any kind of reciprocity. Somehow it sounds worse to me than Shared Source.

If you are worried about leeches just use AGPL and call it a day.

jmcs,

One way of making software more fair is by allowing developers to profit. Many companies today invest resources into taking an existing project and copying the ongoing work of the project creators; afterwards, creating and maintaining a hosted version using their code. In a fair circumstance, should they benefit from using the software, they could add certain features, fix bugs and support the community of users enjoying the product. In many cases they do, but fair-code ensures that this can happen by bringing businesses to the negotiation table when it comes to commercializing software.

This is bullshit when only a set of developers are allowed to profit. Every single project with a non-commercial license I know has an exception for the company that owns the repo. At that point external contributions are not open or fair anything, it’s a company stealing labour.

Either licenses are symmetrical or they are inherently unfair, and calling it Fair is doublespeak.

jmcs,

So if I want to improve their software I need to pay them. Got it.

jmcs,

That makes it source-available (like Microsoft Windows which is available under Shared Source) not open source.

jmcs,

You have never been in any actual court room have you? Or met any police officer or prosecutor for that matter.

jmcs,

The armies of the Baltic countries are tiny for the scale of this war. The most relevant country in the region would be Poland.

jmcs,

Adhering to fiduciary duties to shareholders also includes protecting the company’s relationship with its customers and its long term sustainability. Cashing out while burning out all the bridges is the opposite of protecting the legitimate rights of the shareholders.

jmcs,

It’s mentioned a few times that Vulcans feel strong emotions but suppress them because they are afraid of losing control.

jmcs,

Going a bit more doylist here, when Vulcans are well written they project their own insecurities on other species and that scares them. They then do all kinds of rationalization to deal with their feelings. In one of the season 4 episodes of Enterprise there’s a small scene that covers this a bit.

jmcs, (edited )

Are you comparing things that are physically limited by nature to something that is made artificially limited by a trade cartel?

jmcs,

Basic rights aren’t contingent on not being annoying.

jmcs,

Tuvok was dead. You don’t kill someone to revive another person or even two - otherwise transplant waiting lists would be much smaller

jmcs,

This is a joke right?

jmcs, (edited )

It’s a free speech matter. You are allowed to not buy stuff, you aren’t allowed to say you aren’t buying stuff because of a boycott.

Edit: just to be clear, I’m not defending the policy, I’m just explaining how it works, which is also, probably, the best way to fight it.

jmcs,

If people don’t speak up what’s the difference between a boycott and other business considerations?

jmcs,

This should have been a priority pre-launch and I’m going as far as to say the game shouldn’t have launched without it. I don’t understand why Bethesda gives so little respect to modders when modders have to a large degree been the main responsible for Bethesda’s success. Doubly so in a game like Starfield whose base design seems to have been thought as a sandbox for mods.

jmcs,

Tesla shareholders are gambling addicts that will lose their money sooner or later anyway. Tesla is not worth more than all the rest of the car industry put together, and the bubble will burst at some point.

jmcs,

And this is not even about monopoly. There’s a reason why the new law uses the term gatekeeper for companies that can shape and distort the market instead of monopoly.

jmcs, (edited )

If that’s the case it’s a particularly stupid MBA. Between the companies part of social security and healthcare, mandatory vacation days, virtually unlimited sick days, maternity leave, paternity leave, the ridiculous amount of public holidays in Bavaria, and stronger enforcement of overtime pay, the effective cost per working hour in Munich is not going to be much cheaper.

jmcs, (edited )

What the EU needs is a proper mobility policy to reduce the demand for cheap Chinese crap for every day commuting.

jmcs,

BRB, going to buy shares in all companies producing popcorn.

jmcs,

They couldn’t have Nazis in Wolfenstein because Germany didn’t allow Nazi symbolism in videogames regardless of context before 2018. Since then you are allowed to use Nazi symbols as long as it’s clear Nazis are the bad guys.

jmcs,

Their FAQ says it’s what other VMs call scratchpads which in turn seem to be a tiling workspace you can open as a window in normal workspaces if I understood it correctly.

jmcs,

The best proof I don’t have Death Note is that there was no meteorite falling on top of one of these.

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