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astraeus , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in batman or man bat?

Creates a Time Machine to go back to 1988 and tell them do not create bash

astraeus , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in batman or man bat?

I can’t tell you how many times the missing fi has hurt my feelings and made me waste precious hours of my life

astraeus , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in batman or man bat?

I know but some strange part of me loves it

astraeus , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in batman or man bat?

ins and uin for some reason feels wrong, like inst and tsni feels more right to me and I know it shouldn’t.

astraeus , 2 months ago to Interesting Global News in Biden urged to ban China-made electric vehicles from the US

Yeah this whole subsidize, too big to fail horseshit was status quo fifteen years ago but Stellantis isn’t even an American company. Let the Jeep factory shutter, stop giving into their demands for government fuel. Dry them up, let them go down. If they can’t survive without the subsidies, better more effective companies will.

astraeus , 2 months ago to Interesting Global News in Biden urged to ban China-made electric vehicles from the US

You know what, the US automotive industry has only served to produce useless vehicles with lower quality standards than anything other manufacturers produce. They cost the American taxpayers over $30 billion during the market crash of 2008 and most “US” brand parts aren’t even made in the US anymore. Toyota makes more “American” vehicles than GM or Ford do at this point and Chrysler is owned by Fiat!

astraeus , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in batman or man bat?

I’m kind of curious how far he got with this

astraeus , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in batman or man bat?

When you haven’t proselytized Rust in the last 5 minutes

astraeus , 2 months ago to Technology in The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge

Almost as if the article was already written by AI 🤷‍♂️

astraeus , 3 months ago to Technology in Stop Killing Games — An initiative to stop publishers & developers killing games

So Ubisoft has just pulled the server plug on The Crew rendering the game useless for everyone who bought a copy? Obviously a ploy to get people onto the new entries but the only issue is that since it’s not an offline game, they have rendered a good inaccessible. This was probably in the TOS, but even so I think one could argue that is a terrible position to put a customer in who may have spent more money on DLC and likely spent a lot of time on progressing in the game.

Arguably, if Ubisoft is going to make profit off DLC, they should be forced to at the bare minimum either refund a fair amount of the purchase back to the users or allow the DLC to be used in a later release, along with giving pre-existing players a discount towards the newer entry. That’s how you treat your customers right.

astraeus , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in The XZ-Backdoor shows again the problem of FOSS maintainers regarding support and donations

The Linux Foundation isn’t doing most of that legwork though, multiple corporations with their own interests are. Microsoft, Valve, and Red Hat are some of the biggest contributors to the kernel, but they aren’t paying teams specifically to keep up Linux as much as they are paying teams to develop for them things which must be contributed back to the kernel.

astraeus , 3 months ago to Technology in Humans are not perfectly vigilant

Pretty damning for the current state of AI, I’m just glad it’s not a hype piece like every other article out there. AI is nowhere close to the same thing as a useful tool, it gains much more from us than we do from it.

astraeus , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in The XZ-Backdoor shows again the problem of FOSS maintainers regarding support and donations

Kind of goes against the underlying principles of FOSS to hire a team to work on a project. Not that all FOSS work is volunteer based, but once something becomes an incentivized project the FOSS part starts to become a bit ambiguous.

astraeus , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in The XZ-Backdoor shows again the problem of FOSS maintainers regarding support and donations

As someone who makes a living supporting servers running various forms of software, almost all of which is open-source, even just the things I know of the top of my head have large dependency trees. Just look at a base install of Ubuntu, you probably have no less than a thousand projects supporting the system. That doesn’t even begin to include additional functionality, install PHP or Python, even just system drivers, and you can easily double or triple that count.

astraeus , 3 months ago to Free and Open Source Software in The XZ-Backdoor shows again the problem of FOSS maintainers regarding support and donations

Make a list of all the FOSS/OSS things you use in your daily life

I wasn’t prepared for a project of this magnitude, seriously OSS is everywhere