Laurel Raven

According to the FSF, it’s only free if you tell people what they can do with it, but only very specific things

Obligatory xkcd

Even without serial number, a ghost gun will leave rifling marks on the bullets which can be compared by firing the gun into ballistic gel

I almost explained that, then read your username…

They could also go after him with Thompson’s family in civil suit to destroy him financially, which it turns out is not double jeopardy

Not like we needed help calling them that, and his calling them “parasites” earlier seems at least slightly less generic and more cutting

Holy hell, that’s actually a really good apology, and any company who would be willing to post it, even if written by LLM, would immediately gain at least some respect points from me

Yeah, I’ll admit I kind of stalled out in season 2 but I’ve meant to go back and finish… It would be easier if my wife liked that sort of TV 😅 I’ll just have to watch it alone 😭

I mean, they’ll probably get you more than your dues cost, by a lot… So, there’s that…

I remember watching the first episode and he brought up a terminal and thinking “here we go” then…“holy shit… Those are real commands”

That and the explanations I was ready to laugh at for being terrible, then… Wait, no, those actually make sense

OMG, they just got root access!!!

That sounds pretty bad, but 1) the article is 3 and a half years old (not that big of a deal really, but an update on the current status would be useful at this point), and 2) I see plenty of commits to all five of their pubic facing repos.

I’m not saying they’re wrong…I’m not going to presume to understand it better than them… But I’m not seeing how that translates to them hiding things from public view, or if they were that they’re still doing so. If you’re aware of something I’m missing there, I’m very much interested in hearing about it.

But yes, trust should not be implicit, it should be verified.

Well, of the three I mentioned, 2 are free to play, and the other they did issue refunds for Linux players… Which ones were you thinking of?

If and when they do something shitty, I’ll be right there with you calling them out for it, but I don’t see anything here that fits that description

What they said, exactly:

If that happens on Steam, I can reasonably expect a refund if it was previously Verified, and because of the verification system, they also have an incentive not to break compatibility.

Emphasis mine.

They didn’t say it won’t happen. They said they have far more confidence that it’ll be much less likely to happen. And that they have a reasonable expectation of refund if the developer pulls that.

There are no guarantees here, but Valve has put a lot of time and effort into making Linux games work, and Epic has not. No, they can’t stop developers from pulling those stunts, but they’re no more happy about it than we are and, from everything I’ve been seeing, are actively working on getting developers to stop doing that.

Also, the anticheat excuse is mostly a lie, the ones Destiny 2, Rust, and Apex Legends use are compatible with Linux, and just require, as I understand it, checking a box and including a file in a specific spot, so those are just outright anti Linux for the sake of hating Linux and Linux gamers.

3, just like teaspoons and tablespoons

An octopi is a fun project, for mine I printed a new internal enclosure for the mainboard that has mounts for the pi, so the printer is completely integrated with it (never did finish setting up the internal power routing to power it directly off the power supply, but that’s also completely doable)

This.

We did get pissed off, then turned on a GPO to block it

Oh, sure. Show off how you have a functioning democracy and judiciary. Rub it in our (US’s) faces.

I’ll just be over here, sobbing in the corner for the next four (plus) years…

If most of your games are on Steam, it makes the transition super smooth (with only a few exceptions I’ve had so far, and none that I’ve been unable to get working with a bit of tinkering)