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This, and the WordPress mess, are two contenders for this years “wtf are u even doing” award.

haha no.

Listen, if there isn’t a server you can download maps and umods on that allows you to fly a shark in the sky with redeemer rockets over a Burger King, then I’m not interested…

UT99 was too good for us.

Ext4 is faster, but I love BTRFS not just because of CoW, but subvolumes as well. You could probably get something similar going with LVFS, but I prefer that to be baked in, hence why I’m waiting for bcachefs, because it’ll up the ante with tighter integration, so that might translate to better performance.

Notice my use of the word might. BTRFS performance is not so great.

I’m going to switch from BTRFS at some point, but at this point that’s going to be a few years down the line.

Good. The whole family angle is traditionalist, nationalist, fascist tripe and should be gotten rid of. “Oh, you’re a childless woman, therefore you’re not qualified.” Gtfo here. What’s that got do with governing? I’m voting for you, not your snot nosed brat.

And while we’re at it, yankie politicians, keep Jesus’s name out your mouth when giving your schpiel. How dare you blaspheme so? Praying in public even? Vanity is a deadly sin. Go back to your room, pray in solice and ask for forgiveness over your transgressions, you filthy sinner. Putting His name into your program? Why, maybe you need a bit of self-flagilation to learn some humility.

Liberalists cry into their guano coffee. “Nooo! You’re not supposed to do that!”

But honestly, if a European monarchy has not become self sustaining by this point, they should be dissolved, but goddamn they be raking in the money.

Also, the nordic monarchies do more as philanthropists than most billionaires and they focus on cultural preservation.

The American brain cannot comprehend.

Audacity is now basically part of the Muse family, which is a for profit venture, with it’s own - wait for it 🥁🥁🥁🥁 store front launcher

Nothing makes me hate music software (or games) more than yee old SaaS/DRM pile-on, especially when you add another goddamn launcher. I’m trying to lay low latency buffers here, not facilitate another UI stack and background processes. I nuke the printer spool, and you think I want more? I will download the cracked version, even if I own the damned software, to get rid of all that.

Jokes aside, considering the whole funding issue in the open source world, MuseHub (the “plugin boutique”) takes a fairly common route in the audio software world, since pretty much every single one of these DAW, plugin or sample pack outfits have a storefront - or use one, if not several.

If say the Audacity we know is still free, but the add-ons cost money, that’s fine. It’s very “freemium”, but as long as they don’t remove VST3 or CLAP support, it’s fairly harmless.

In regards to tracking, is it opt-out, opt-in, identifiable or anonymized telemetry? It’s contentious, to say the least, but if it’s a concern, you could always block domains - even though the average user would probably not concern themselves, and at that point I wonder if it’s better than other creepy freemium models that are even more predatory.

Though it could be the type of telemetry used in most modern DRMs to confirm ownership by using plenty of CPU cycles and network communication to validate identity.

Because DRMs is the worst technology segment invented in all of modern history, and it needs to die in a fire - I swear * TO GOD* you do not need to hit several friggin domain many times a day, once is enough - in fact, once is too much! You can take your iLok and shove it. I paid for this software, and if I put a Jolly Roger in it, it’s because your DRM drains my soul.

your launcher is bad and you should feel bad

I swear, this heckles my kekles sooo much.

Damn, these rpm-ostree distroes are taking off. I mean tbf, having a “cloud native” approach (a two buzzword combo) with system images is kind of great for testing, and it shows people can now actually carve out some systems in a relatively effective manner. Good show!

That is supposing it is rpm-ostree, because ostree can actually rebase to an entire different distribution. There’s people getting arch working as an ostree install, and eventually, we’ll have gone over to a new dawn, where you don’t need to reinstall, just rebase.

Goddamn open source is awesome.

Friggin’ GIMP 2 is sun setting. GIMP 3 with everything replaced in GEGL and non-distructive editing is the new standard. Who tf needs Photoshop?

Thanks Microsoft for spotting that, and thanks to Google and CloudFlare for blocking or redirecting Polifyll.io network traffic.

Credit where credit is due.

Namaste.

Here’s a careful reminder that “public domain” is not a worldwide thing ^^; in fact, very few countries have a public domain.

In some cases, if you try to publish something as “public domain” from a certain country, it is invalid - because their judiciary does not define public domain as anything.

It maybe considered public domain, until you die and someone wants that copyright, in which case the family takes precedent over the estate - full stop.

There’s a difference between countries that have common law (US and UK) and those that have civil law (the Nordics), so yeah.

But CC is valid license pretty much everywhere, with a few exceptions.

When it comes to creative work, Creative Commons is the way to go. I know a guy who exclusively releases music under the Creative Commons license.

Here’s a “Chooser” wizard, that asks you some questions and then suggests a suitable CC license for you.

PEOPLE AREN’T ALLOWED TO CHANGE POSITIONS

Really? How about the constant of a doggy style then, because an entire country is getting rammed from behind.

Fucking neo-liberals.

“But they are the Labour party.”

…fucking neo-liberals. "Sovereignty for me, but not for thee hurpa durpa durp ".

That’s the point of new public management. We all see how waterways are treated as it has fully settled in the private sector. You pay 10x more to feed a bunch of consultants, and the service itself suffers in quality.

Margaret Thatcher was wrong and still is.

Laugh all you want, but you know Microsoft will make a TUI version of VSCode and Copilot+ will be implemented into BASH.

Torries are partly classical liberal. “Classical liberalism” is just liberalism mixed with nationalism, like some peanut butter and jelly sandwich from hell. Of course they’d be pro subverting the masses. But hopefully the courts shall prevail. If not, Brexit will be the least of the UK’s worries.

Y tho? Care to elucidate?

Surely this will revitalise the economy, once the health sector has been fully privatised… because you’ll be paying 10x more.