that’s very important, agreed!

hard disagree on the screws:

philps and flatheads can be damaged too easily: torx or nothing!

these teeny tiny screws are really finicky and both philips and flatheads are prone to slipping, causing faster wear and easily leading to stripped screws…

any design that is inherently resistant to that is a must for small parts!

source: worked in a repair shop ;)

oh, that wasn’t really the point; i just pointed out that a ban isn’t the only way to undermine a culture or language!

it was in addition to what you wrote, not meant as a counterpoint.

overall good points, but I’d like to expand on the one about forbidding languages at educational institutions:

a ban isn’t even necessary to expediate the decline of a language; it’s often enough to simply defund it.

teachers need funding, and simply not giving any to other languages or other cultural curriculum is effectively the same as a ban.

few schools and administrations would shoulder the costs of “extra” curriculum, because few have the funds to do so, particularly when it comes to minorities…

source: am part of such a minority (in central europe though) and our state actually sponsors extra language classes, courses, and cultural clubs, activities, and events in order to preserve our unique identity and culture.

it’s still trending towards extinction though, as such minorities tend to do…

tl;dr: no need for a ban, just withhold a bit of funding and it will die out within a few generations…

.:|:;

Windows itself already splits those up in security and feature updates…

so first of all: fair points.

but also to consider:

• the Vatican is the only not-country with a permanent seat at the UN (this in itself is somewhat insane)
• the Pope’s direct influence might be limited, but the cultural influence the catholic church holds should not be underestimated. if the pope gets killed or injured or simply stubs his toe in gaza, europe will, absolutely, go berserk. it’s pretty dumb, as you’ve pointed out, but it will happen.
• beyond religious influence, the cultural influence of the catholic church is actually incredible! (consider: every settlement, from village with population 5, all the way to metropolitan cities has at least one church in all of europe! every single one!)
• the pope is held in high esteem, even among other religions and their leadership. killing a pope is, effectively, a declaration of war to the entire world. that’s the kind of shit that makes north korea go “wait, that’s insanity, wtf?!” (and this isn’t pure admiration, it’s simple survival instinct: the leadership of all major religions is smart enough to realize “if it can happen to the pope, it can definitely happen to us”, and that includes jewish leadership)
• even most people that feel contemptuous about the church as an institution (which i definitely am one of) would be extremely upset by such a blatantly hostile action against a major foreign dignitary. even just harming a pope is unthinkable to most europeans raised in christian households. even if we’ve become firmly atheist later…
• imagine the president of germany, france, italy, poland, spain, or really any other european country being assassinated in gaza. all of europe would revolt. it would cause absolute mayhem in geopolitics and most likely result in immediate International intervention, i.e. severe sanctions. (because israel has nukes, although they would most likely be forced to relinquish or severely reduce their capabilities and they would definitely be subjected to international oversight.)
• the US cannot, i repeat, can not ignore hostilities against the church. there will be riots, and it will unite people like basically nothing else could, because even conservatives would get severe whiplash from those news. trump claims to be christian, and even the nutty american christians would be upset enough to force a reaction out of the white house. yes, even this white house. because, as someone else has pointed out, not ever in history was a pope killed in a military conflict. never.

or to some it up:

✅: fuck the catholic church and fuck the pope!

🚫: but never, EVER, fuck with the pope!

Madonna really, truly, has a point here: the pope could probably end this genocide!

because as you’ve pointed out; having fans in gaza isn’t really important!

…but the leader of THE most influential religion in the entire world?

hell yeah, that guy has influence! and hell yeah they could definitely throw their weight behind this cause!

and Madonna drawing attention to that fact is actually solid strategy to get the church to respond:

no response means complicity, but virtually any response other than a resounding renunciation will be seen as weakness.

she is putting them on the spot, forcing a reaction. that’s how politics works, and this is a political move, and an honestly pretty great one at that!

edit; forgot this bit:

this is why Madonna pointing at the pope is more than just a rich person that could do more being cheap; nobody in the world has the sheer support of the pope and the catholic church. she’s acting as a force amplifier. that’s something that goes beyond mere monetary influence, although you are absolutely right that she could do more.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

check your email addresses, then check for malware on your system.

that’s definitely not normal…

what a ridiculous idea. that’s not how anything works:

copyright applies to the intellectual property, not the exact file.

so the code itself is the copyrighted thing, not the file you download.

it doesn’t matter whether you download the gpl version, you type out the gpl version by hand, or delete all new code until only gpl code is left.

all you would need to proof is that the code is identical to the gpl code. how you got to that code is completely irrelevant.

you have some fundamental misunderstandings about copyrighted material, intellectual property, and fair use.

most importantly: copyright applies to intellectual property. the idea of a thing, not the physical thing.

so in the case of this emulator, the file and where you got it from is completely irrelevant; only the content of the file, the code, has any meaning. which means any files that contain the same code are identical in the eyes of the law, regardless of how you got them.

copyright is not a contract, but a license. and a license is a manual that explains how intellectual property (the idea of a thing, not the physical thing) is allowed to be used by someone. it’s not specific to an individual, which is why contracts have to be signed by both parties. so no, you don’t have a contract and no obligation to adhere to the new one at all. you can choose to use the old license, as long as you don’t use any of the new code.

unless you want to modify and/or distribute the new code, the license (CC-BY-NC-ND) is irrelevant for the user.

and you can modify your own private copy as much as you want, you just can’t distribute it, or modify and use it in a way that is illegal in some other way. but that’s about it.

and all of this applies to both US and german law.

and none of this is remotely relevant, because the gpl version is still available for download!

nothing got replaced, so the gpl license is very much still applicable to that version of the software!

“new” does not mean that the old version went anywhere; it’s still around. and you can still use, modify, and distribute it under the gpl.

for “this dude” to have any meaning to anyone, there needs to be a name attached at the very least.

that alone is personal information.

personal information is any information that can be used to uniquely identify a natural person.

this app was nothing but personal information being deliberately spread without the persons consent.

man am i glad this sort of bullshit isn’t even up for discussion in the EU…what an absolute nightmare for privacy…

… you DO realize Jesus literally “vandalized” a market, right?

like, Jesus actually did use property damage to make his point, when he trashed merchants property they had set up for sale in a temple.

soooo…maybe fuck off with this houlier-than-thou bullshit?

yes, correct, assuming a solo project!

thank you for the correction.

yes and no:

the copyright owner can do whatever they want, but they can’t really revoke a GPL license. that’s not really a thing.

and the part about

If you obtained your copy under the old license you can use it under the old license when you obtain a new copy you have a new license agreement.

seems to me like you are implying that “use under the old license” means “run the program on my own machine”, but that’s not true, since GPL explicitly allows redistribution and modification.

under a GPL license, you effectively give up control over your software voluntarily:

The GNU General Public Licenses are a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users the freedom to run, study, share, or modify the software.

(highlighted the relevant portion for your convenience)

this makes revoking the license effectively impossible.

you could continue development under a different license, but that gets legally tricky very quickly.

for example: all the code previously under GPL, stays under GPL. so if someone where to modify those parts of the code and redistribute it as a patch, you couldn’t legally do anything about that.

which seems to be what the OOP claims the change to a CC-BY-NC-ND forbids, apparently misunderstanding, that this new license only applies to code added to the repo since the license change, not the code from before the license change.

yes you can!

…for new versions. not for already released ones.

at least not with most common copyleft/open source licenses.

edit: assuming a solo project. see below.

i mean…an app directly copying a black mirror episode (but almost exclusively targeting a specific demographic) does ring some very, VERY loud alarm bells…

like, this is literally the plot of nosedive.

it’s a social credit system.

and none of the people even know they HAVE a score, so it’s somehow even worse than the fictional scenario.

this will, absolutely, hurt innocents and it will do so by design.

“fuck them innocents!”…just because they happen to be men?

how is that anything other than misandrist?

how is that defensible?

how is doxxing, mass libel, and targeted harassment a solution to sexism and rape culture?

I’d be really interested in hearing anything about how this is supposed to help women, because i struggle to see how sowing massive, unearned distrust between men and women is going to make anyone any safer…

I’m really, REALLY glad that the GDPR would nuke this sort of nonsense from orbit…uploading pictures of strangers, for the explicit purpose of gossiping about them behind their backs, spreading awful rumors?

what. the. actual. fuck. is wrong with you people?

and i don’t mean women, or men: i mean americans and their total disregard for privacy and digital safety. what the hell…

says right at the end: this is from 1992

no one said it did:

it can still be the worst crime of this century, because last century had even worse crimes at the same time as this one.

just because the words “what about…” are used, doesn’t make an argument a whataboutism.

a whataboutism deflects from an argument or aims to derail an argument.

what the previous user did was ask for further argumentation about a directly related topic; it’s a continuation, not a deflection.

so it’s not fallacious, buta legitimate question:

you’ve banned some propaganda channels (argument is closed at this point), will you now also ban other, similar channels (new, related argument)?

since the previous argument has concluded, because yt has already enforced their views, wether right or wrong, the follow-up question is perfectly legitimate.

not entirely certain, but i think that applies to almost all steam features, not just achievements.

steam’s DRM, is, afaik, entirely opt-in.

so it’s entirely up to the, let’s be real, publisher wether they want to use it or not.

(although, again, afaik…)

those blocks are not that flexible*

never seen them at festivals or some such?

they’re much stiffer than they appear at first glance!

^{*if they’re properly linked}