It’s the best Democrats can hope for in Missour-uh.

Apparently Trump saw the “The Secret Handshake” browser game and decided it couldn’t go unanswered.

Wait until OP finds out about Base64.

Any day now. (At least we can hope.)

That’s epic!

Questions for you:

• What material did you print it out of? (PLA, ABS, etc.)
• And have you had any trouble with warping or softening due to the heat generated by the laptop and/or hard drives?

So guys should never start sending her flowers. Got it.

Morrowind has fast travel (sortof). It’s called “Recall”.

If you’re trying to persuade people that your take is more reasonable than official stories in UK media, perhaps you’d have more luck by acting… you know… reasonable?

Nintendo was first with the NES. And by that I mean that on the NES controller, you have to move your thumb the same direction (counter-clockwise) to get from A to B as you do on the SNES. So I count that as precedent.

But yeah. Your point stands. The rest of the industry just decided to screw up the standard long ago.

(If Nintendo had “A” and “B” buttons on any Game & Watch systems Before the NES, I’m unaware.)

If there’s a 6, you better hope you hid all the bodies and cleaned up evidence well enough to get away with it.

Jesus? Yeah, back in highschool he could always hook you up with the best warez.

There’s at least one! I sense I’ll probably be printing one of those in the relatively near future.

Damn! My NDS is one of those original ones.

Good show, but Stallone is a huge Trump supporter. :\

What a coincidence. I just happen to be building a new magic center for unicorns and gnomes in the Feywild for one trillion golden eggs laid by a goose I totally have in my back yard.

All I want’s a picture of a god-dang hotdog.

For like half a second he must have thought “Ha! You missed me!” before he realized god had another one in the clip.

Sometimes people need a reminder that we’ve all been the infestation at one time or another. Maybe some of us were never a Redditor, but we were all in a similar position somewhere, sometime, in some context. But I know well that even Redditors are capable of growing and changing as people. And a Redditor having an interest in Lemmy is definitely a sure sign of being deserving of being given a chance.

Sincerely, a former Redditor.

Huh! That’s wild. How have I never heard of this?

I’ve frankensteined distros before, but without the help of Bedrock. An employer asked what OS I’d like on my work laptop and I asked for a Linux system, but of course they didn’t offer me my choice of distro or anything. It came with KDE Neon. I wanted to run Artix and I wasn’t going to let UEFI Secure Boot stop me even if the PC Support department wouldn’t share the BIOS password. Now, KDE Neon uses the Ubuntu kernel, and it booted on the laptop in question, so I knew the secure boot trusted the signature on the official Ubuntu kernel. But Artix uses the Arch kernel which isn’t signed at all, so the laptop wouldn’t boot that. So I made a PKGBUILD that would download the Ubuntu kernel .deb file from the official Ubuntu repository, unzip the .deb file, and build an Arch/Artix package containing the kernel image and initramfs and CPU microcode and such. The result was a system that was entirely Artix except that it used the Ubuntu kernel. Worked perfectly. I’m sure the folks at PC Support were confused when an Artix box showed up on their Nessus asset management software.

My first gut reaction is to say “zero. Not a god damned single solitary second. If you want to own a story or a song or whatever, keep it the fuck in your head you fucking moron what the fuck is wrong with you?”

And my only hesitation to say that is: copyleft isn’t so easy to accomplish without copyright. Particularly, without copyright, the way the GPL does the whole “source code provision” thing falls apart. Without said provision, OpenWRT wouldn’t exist. And for the existence of the source code provision, with a little luck we’ll have FOSS OS distributions for smart TVs sometime in the foreseeable future. And hopefully that same court case will spawn a proliferation of other “OpenWRT but for <kind of consumer smart device>” projects. That actually work.

It might not actually be impossible to do a “source code provision” without copyright. It’d probably involve some kind of NDA with “source code provision” kind of conditions, though. And if you allow for NDAs on stuff in place of copyright and every game or book you buy forces you to agree to an NDA… is that actually better than copyright? It’s probably worse.

So, I think even given all the above, my answer is still “zero”. But aside from that, I also hold the opinion that we should have legislation which makes for a “source code provision” on “all software” (for some definitions of “all”. In practice I could see it being difficult for companies to comply with that with regard to software made well before the law was passed, for instance. For instance software for which the source code is now lost.)

Beyond that, I’ll say that I believe in a right to attribution, which feels a little more like a trademark-y kind of thing than copyright. Rather than artificial scarcity, let’s “promote the progress of… useful arts” (quote from the U.S. Constitution) by helping creators cash in on their reputations. That plus physical products (collectors editions, swag, etc), unique experiences (live shows, theme parks, etc), authenticity (if you get it from the creator, you know you’re getting the real canon and not someone’s fanfic), quality… that sort of thing. Don’t believe the big-copyright industries when they say they’ll go out of business without the outdated and ruthlessly abused model of promoting culture that is copyright. They’ll largely have to pivot into business models that don’t depend on government-granted monopolies. But that’s a good thing.

Plus, consider your favorite individual creators. Most of them don’t make money really on what they do at all. And for the ones that do, would you really put less money toward their creative efforts if copyright didn’t exist than you do now? I support my favorite small creator on Patreon. (Don’t get me wrong. I’m concerned about the chokepoint that Patreon has at the moment, but I like the “patron” model for supporting artists better than copyright.)

Anyway. Go watch “Steal This Film” or “Good Copy Bad Copy” or something.