tabular

tabular, 17 days ago

It’s a chicken and egg problem. Both users and devs need to move at the same time, in reality that means bit by bit.

tabular, 16 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

“We can’t open source Car Thing because we used someone else’s copyrighted code to make it and we we not allowed to do that, or we don’t want to follow the license” - Blemishify, probably.

tabular, 16 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Even if Firefox were to win it’s still a bleak future because the ridiculously complexity and scope of browsers prevents new ones being made. Without the possibility of newcomers either the war never ends or there is one victor. We should start to abandon browsers in favor of apps that focus on each part of the browser (e.g. why does a browser need to render video to the screen when the user already has an app for that).

“Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory, and ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat.”- Kahless

tabular, 20 days ago

Bet the school and students will continue to use Word and risk future critical times with proprietary software they’re not in control of.

tabular, 18 days ago

“Add to Cart”, “Continue Shopping”, “Purchase for myself”, “Purchase as a gift”, “Purchase”.

Who knows, one day a court may find these terms could lead people into believing they’re buying a game and force some companies to allow us to to trade or resell them (an EU court most probably).

tabular, 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Software can be both a product and a service:

• it’s a product when running on my computer (i.e. the game)
• it’s a service when running on their computer (i.e. providing the hosting for downloading, multiplayer client-server hosting).

The issue preventing one practically enacting on software is that copyright defaults to preventing you redistributing it, and you need the source code to be able to modify (fully). Thankfully some games are free software/open source when you can act on your ownership.

tabular, 17 days ago

That would at least be more honest… from my perspective anyway. The games industry has done this for so long that this is the norm for generatations who grew up with consoles being online - this is “purchasing” to some as words have usages and not inate meaning.

It would be better if they just stopped doing that but you get more money that way.

tabular, 17 days ago

You can resell Windows CD keys legally in the EU as the courts rejected the “only for you” part of the argument: invalidating that part of the EULA. I probably have the right to resell my Steam game tickets.

tabular, 16 days ago

I can’t even understand what this means

I think that’s the intent, and they fucking nailed it.

tabular, 23 days ago

I tried searching for this but couldn’t find it, thanks.

tabular, 23 days ago

It’s a reference to ⛳ Tiger Woods PGA tour 2004

tabular, 23 days ago

TECHNOLOGY

tabular, 21 days ago

What sjw activites?

tabular, 25 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

There are people out there with short-range, wireless pacemakers with no security. Most just provide information you’d expect but some of them are also defibrillators (they can kill). As far as I know none have been harmed in an hacked attack but a hacked brain implant brings to mind more than just killing the owner. We may have an interest as a society in making this illegal because it’s not worth the gamble to us for people’s actions to be hijacked remotely.

tabular, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

I don’t understand how one could think brain implants is a totally safe invention for a society. Did you consider more possibilities than just manipulating people into to physically attacking others?

tabular, 20 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

I doubt me giving suggestions is worth the effort here. I worry thoughts and beliefs could be manipulated with enough knowledge of the brain. Technology to interact with the brain directly is a revolution of the manipulation already enacted through our eyes and ears.

tabular, 23 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

The Gemini I know is “an application-layer internet communication protocol for accessing remote documents, similar to HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and Gopher”. It’s not used much but it could be part of a useful alternative to the, now Google controlled, internet. Maybe Google named their project Gemini to obfuscate a potential competitor for simple web pages (or perhaps both project teams are bad at choosing names - if Gemini isn’t a human cloning machine you’re doing it wrong).

tabular, 23 days ago

Maybe they should, but focusing on adding new features endlessly is how we ended up with this state of internet browsers. The most complex app running on a desktop are too big, it’s basically impossible to create a new one. (Yes you can fork but that’s just adding toppings to ice cream). The browser war ends only one way.

If we break up the do-everything application into significant parts then a healthy “war” can exist. Why does a browser need to play video, you already have an app for that.

tabular, 21 days ago

What if look down into a reflective surface 🫣

tabular, 26 days ago

Hopefully most have a tech literate friend within their circle, and the wherewithal to test their assumptions. It falls to the tech literate create the alternatives and preach the values of software freedom.

tabular, 26 days ago

Do we need to do anything? Microsoft updates do the bulk of the work - surely everyone has a last straw?

tabular, 23 days ago

“Install Windows into walls, not computers” - Leviticus line 5056. Hate the sin, not the sinner.

tabular, 24 days ago

If Android could stop “warning” me to enable Google Play services 8 times a day that would be great.

tabular, 25 days ago

Is the most effective target not to just find another place to buy it illegally? Certainly more realistic that to have any affect in politics.

tabular, 25 days ago

I used to think LGBT legal issues were just a case of speading information, but my hope in conversation is rock bottom.

This appears to be a harmful action that can be more easily attributed to malice rather than protection. I expect some protests will contain violence in return.