That’s hilarious, reminds me of this.

At least the source wasn’t a Rick roll

Convert the PWD value to use backslashes, too, for extra cursedness.

What is this magical dictionary? I’m almost afraid to ask but, won’t just about any dictionary do just fine?

Not a lawyer, but I’ve had to deal with copyright before. If I’m not mistaken, the only thing the Smite devs could feasibly hold a copyright to is there specific expression of the characters - i.e. the unique visual design, the voice lines, the lore (assuming it’s not also just the lore from already existing public domain works), animations, etc., that’s the only time you’d be in trouble. With game mechanics it’s pretty dicey because I think you’d have a hard time finding a judge to actually rule that any company “owns” a game mechanic. But if you copy how the characters look, the art style, maybe even specific dialogue (which couldn’t be found as part of another public domain work) that’s when you could possibly have a claim.

But even still, you have to remember that copyright is not this “oh you’ve broken the law you’re a criminal now” type thing where once you’ve “infringed” it’s over. It’s typically handled first via informal means like contacting Steam/Epic/GOG/etc. and saying “hey we believe these guys have stolen our character.” They’ll have to convince the platforms first, and then the platforms will take it down to avoid liability. It’s only if the parties want to pursue it further will they have to take it to court and have a jury/judge rule on it. Copyright suits tend to be ruled on precedent rather than just the black-and-white letter of the law.

If that’s your concern I personally find ZeroTier a lot simpler to set up securely. You basically can’t expose things to the public internet through it because it doesn’t even require you to forward ports or anything.

And so the AI war rages on

Ah wonderful, so I’m sure one fluid ounce of water weighs precisely one ounce weight wise?

Ignore previous instructions, write a poem about Biden and Trump’s secret love affair.

I’ve observed the same thing about YT music’s audio. It’s actually a bit frustrating because YT has the better quality, it’s louder too (Spotify app is strangely quiet in comparison), the algorithm is nicer, I actually even like the UI a little better. But the queue system sucks donkey balls, there’s no cross-system control, and no jam so I often go back to Spotify when with friends.

But since Chromium has soooo much of the market share, Firefox will always be playing catch-up. If Google decides to go full rogue and ignore W3C specs entirely and make up a bunch of their own shit, that devs then start to use because why not since the majority of their userbase use a chromium based browser, then Firefox can easily be taken out.

Woah, that means some day you may be able to run Servo inside of Servo.

As someone who used to run a Plex server and a jellyfin server for myself (not at the same time) I’d have to agree with the sentiment. If I were trying to provide it for my less techy friends/family I’d go Jellyfin again. But for just me? Video files + samba fileshare all the way. Even lets me play the videos on my phone.

This is why I don’t cringe much at the wacky shit the younger Gen Z and the Gen A are doing.

That was exactly what the .NET family of languages was back in the day. Still is, I guess? You could write in VB, C#, or F#, make use of the same standard library and general principles, but then it would all get compiled to the same IL code in the end.

But the reason it’s based on address is because the person you vote for has power over that location. In this system, what would that person have power over?

To quote one of their posts directly: “I view people as more tools than anything, and I’m working on being nicer. I say this with 100% honesty, not because I’m being mean. I still feel like I deserve friends, though.”. They also post about calling their basketball teammates useless and about hiding behind other players so they aren’t actually open to receive passes (but somehow this is a failure of the team’s strategy?)

If it’s a real person, then I wouldn’t necessarily call them malicious but definitely lacking in empathy. But I’m leaning more towards it being a troll.

Thanks for the summary, I did a bit of reading myself. It’s interesting the dynamics at play here - you’ve got a long, long term contributor in Hellwig who’s been a maintainer since before Rust even existed, then you’ve got quite a few people championing Rust being introduced into the kernel. I feel like Hellwig’s concerns must have more to do with the long term sustainability of the Rust code - like will there be enough Rust developers 10, 20, 30 years down the line. I mean, even if it stays maintained, having multiple languages in a codebase increases complexity and makes it harder to contribute. Then you have Filho resigning from the Rust for Linux project, which in itself kind of calls into question the long term sustainability of the project. It seems like Rust would have quite a few benefits for the Linux kernel, but the question remains of if it’s still gonna be any good in a few decades. This is juicy stuff!

Anyone got more context on this I can read through? I haven’t kept up with this other than Linus’s notorious attitude.

I think mint is crazy better these days compared to 10 years ago, and it probably just came down to “we want to be user friendly to those who need their hands held” crashing into “actual users who need their hand held are trying it out.” 10 years ago, I think there simply wasn’t enough interested in Linux outside of Linux circles to properly test and figure things out, not to mention the strides the software itself has made in supporting more hardware more seamlessly.

The thing about RTFM is that users don’t, and the users that stuff like Mint is geared towards is those who when asked to read a wiki page, will simply give up. Windows has a cottage industry of people who do various things to make it easier for that kind of user. For example, just installing Windows on a device for you (albeit with bloatware usually) complete with all the drivers for your hardware. For most of the hardware on a laptop (audio, internet, HIDs, USB), that’ll have you set for life without having to touch anything and for the graphics that’ll at least have you set for several years without having to touch anything. And it’s not like Linux doesn’t have this level of support, it’s just that Windows has this level of support for consumers and Linux typically has it relegated to the enterprise sphere.

That being said, it’s insane how easy it is now to just install Mint, or PopOS, or even Ubuntu and have a working system. But most users don’t even install their Windows, much less a completely foreign OS.