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tabular, 12 days ago

you’ve implicitly agreed to it when creating your account

Many people would agree with that, probably most laws do. However I doubt many users have actually bothered to read the unnecessarily long document, fewer have understood the legalese, and the terms have likely already been changed pray I don’t alter it any further. That’s a low and shady bar of consent. It indeed sucks and I think people should leave those platforms, but I’m also open to laws that would invalidate that part of the EULA.

tabular, 12 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

I get what you mean but at face value that sounds like LGPL is the issue, rather than Apple.

tabular, 12 days ago

MIT may attract more people… but why would that be people who would contribute back in the direct you want? I’ve seen many MIT extentions for Godot, maybe they would have some insight.

Most indie devs make their MIT Godot games proprietary and I doubt peer pressure has ever stopped companies from taking MIT work and making it proprietary before. If software freedom of your users is important then the copyleft aspect is an important way to protect their freedom. Imo, not worth losing that on the off-chance it all goes well.

tabular, 6 days ago

Stack overflow error on recursive function “blame parents” at line 1.

tabular, 6 days ago

No mention of a license but it talks about being the “official version”, suggesting one can fork it.

tabular, 2 months ago

Microsoft now permits

The benevolence! Letting people do what they want with their purchased software. wow!

tabular, 12 days ago

Which projects?

tabular, 5 days ago

Peek Technology ! /s

tabular, 4 days ago

Could be a Ternary operator.

Now this thread contains more Technology than most Musk ones.

tabular, 3 days ago

Dislexia* /j

tabular, 7 hours ago

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

tabular, 7 days ago

I use CoreCtrl to control my GPU, mainly for setting a lower power limit and controlling max fan speed. May not be ideal for a new users as, last time I checked, it is difficult to install.

tabular, 13 days ago

That wasn’t the “sudo”, MS just named something else “sudo”.

tabular, 21 hours ago (edited 12 hours 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, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Even the worst people in history were at some point just a child that we could have potentially saved. Even as an adult, or after doing evil, I think sympathy and compassion never stops being the right answer. It’s just in practice we have to prioritise: the needy, the many.

tabular, 2 days ago

If such a person doesn’t deserve sympathy, who does?

tabular, 1 day ago (edited 18 hours 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, 1 month ago

If friends decide they will use something else then I can avoid Discord. Till then, guess I’ll start using it on the web for the adblock.

tabular, 10 days ago

I now require people who offer me to try out a solar powered car to provide directions to said car, lest your comment be labeled a sarcastic cock-tease.

tabular, 1 day 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.

tabular, 1 day 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, 2 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, 2 days ago

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

tabular, 9 days ago

Perhaps they add code to split physics and grsphical fps.

tabular, 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Innovate means needing to pay for an online service to transfer saves between consoles, saves stored on an SD card?

Do they DMCA fan made games because the game concepts have been fully fleshed out?

When copyright expires for FZero in a century perhaps we can find out if there’s more to be done (well, not us personally).