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tabular , 2 days ago

If a party won't fix the serious issue to let me also vote for who I want, they're not entitled to my vote.

tabular , 2 days ago

You should be able to vote for both.. 😮‍💨

tabular , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

Voting for a party I don't want is also suffering, though I doubt you'd believe that. Keeping the main parties in power via a rigged system ain't ending this catch 22 cycle.

tabular , 1 day ago

It is my hope that greater political diversity will prevent more suffering in the long run by governments better representing the people.

It's very comfortable to blame others if your political opponents get into power. If you don't have another suggestion I can at least leave you with the small comfort that this bad person won't vote for the main party you dislike the most out of spite.

tabular , 1 day ago

Lucky for you I'm not French. I just oppose tactical voting in favor of voting in someone who may have a chance of removing the need for tactical voting.

I don't know how long it will take and I don't know which paths actually leads to the least amount of suffered in the short term. I just know it needs to change.

tabular , 12 hours ago

There are voting systems that completely prevent the need for tactical voting (e.g. instant-runoff voting, aka alternative vote) but if the system still trends towards having two main parties then not much has really changed.

A bigger issue is that a single candidate/party is not very good at representing an area in comparison to having more (3, 5, ideally more). If people vote 80% A and 20% B and A gets the single candidate then 20% are misrepresented. With 5 candidates then that could be split 4 to A and 1 to B, a perfect representation.

tabular , 3 days ago

Perhaps they were not suggesting deep end transphobia (hate) but just low end aversion? You should have the right to not date a trans person, or a different color person, but we could ask would it be better if none of us cared about that?

If we look for the source of people's choices one may find the answer to also be biology, with the rest of enviroment. The conventional wisdom to blame people for their choices is not supported by evidence. Even the most evil people in history didn't choose to have a psychopathic personality, or choose their bad parents, or their hateful beliefs.

tabular , 3 days ago

I'm bi and would date trans people so it's difficult to relate. I wouldn't write "only interested in (for example) white people" on a profile because it may imply racism, even though there may be no hate and the intention would be to just save both people's time.

I use the word aversion to make a distinction between other people who hate. Someone who feels sick seeing a same-sex kiss is having an aversion to homosexuality but that doesn't mean they hate, or want to kill and could be an ally in all ways. So yes, I would say not wanting to date trans people falls into a category of aversion by my definition, but that's my brain trying to sort things. I don't mean anything bad by it.

tabular , 5 days ago

Same choice as normal: whine about and then tolerate a change you don't want in proprietary software rather than spend time learning to use a software-freedom-respecting alternative.

"But my workflow".

tabular , 5 days ago

No hard feelings towards people who couldn't, or didn't, see this sort of thing coming.

tabular , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

No one has an unlimited tolerance to being mistreated. They will care at some point because it can, and will, get worse. It's just of question of if people discover what is happening or if they carry on oblivious.

tabular , 8 days ago

Data harvesting.

tabular , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

There are many motherboard manufactors but only 2 CPU manufacturers (for PC desktop). Board makers don't "makes deals" so much as have the terms dictated to them. Even graphics card manufacturers made them their bitch back when multi-GPU was a thing - it was them who had to sell their Crossfire/SLL technology on their motherboards.

tabular , 12 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

"We can't open source Car Thing because we used someone else's copyrighted code to make it and we we not allowed to do that, or we don't want to follow the license" - Blemishify, probably.

tabular , 12 days ago

I can’t even understand what this means

I think that's the intent, and they fucking nailed it.

tabular , 12 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

Even if Firefox were to win it's still a bleak future because the ridiculously complexity and scope of browsers prevents new ones being made. Without the possibility of newcomers either the war never ends or there is one victor. We should start to abandon browsers in favor of apps that focus on each part of the browser (e.g. why does a browser need to render video to the screen when the user already has an app for that).

"Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory, and ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat."- Kahless

tabular , 12 days ago

What's the difference?

tabular , 12 days ago

Apps being created seperatly doesn't mean they can't interact with each other, so I don't see those concerns as a problem. Is there anything fundamentally preventing the creation of new apps to do tasks currently exclusive to browsers?

Isn't the possibility of single apps getting bought out an argument against having all your eggs in one basket? 🙃

tabular , 12 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

I don't know what to say regarding your claim of no ad blocking in apps because I don't understand why you think that. I disagree because it's the same game just in different apps, depending on the medium:

• images then you could do what ad blockers fo now: block based on domain
  -video you still disregard other ad files, or have a sysyem like sponser block
• text (e.g.) on a Gemini client you'd need to detect the text that looks like ads.

tabular , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

I value software freedom so I don't promote proprietary apps that prevent users doing their computing the way they want. There's not much I can do about how companies mistreat their users. Just contribute to free (open source) software, advocate for a culture that values freedom over convenience, and advocate for laws against proprietary software.

tabular , 11 days ago

If the code of your app is like uBlock-Origin then you have the freedom to remove ads from your software. If an app dictates how you do your computing that's a bigger issue than reckless feature creep leading to the end of browsers.

tabular , 14 days ago

"Add to Cart", "Continue Shopping", "Purchase for myself", "Purchase as a gift", "Purchase".

Who knows, one day a court may find these terms could lead people into believing they're buying a game and force some companies to allow us to to trade or resell them (an EU court probably).

tabular , 14 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Software can be both a product and a service:

• it's a product when running on my computer (i.e. the game)
• it's a service when running on their computer (i.e. providing the hosting for downloading, multiplayer client-server hosting).

The issue preventing one practically enacting on software is that copyright defaults to preventing you redistributing it, and you need the source code to be able to modify (fully). Thankfully some games are free software/open source when you can act on your ownership.

tabular , 13 days ago

That would at least be more honest.. from my perspective anyway. The games industry has done this for so long that this is the norm for generatations who grew up with consoles being online - this is "purchasing" to some as words have usages and not inate meaning.

It would be better if they just stopped doing that but you get more money that way.

tabular , 13 days ago

You can resell Windows CD keys legally in the EU as the courts rejected the "only for you" part of the argument: invalidating that part of the EULA. I probably have the right to resell my Steam game tickets.

tabular , 16 days ago

Bet the school and students will continue to use Word and risk future critical times with proprietary software they're not in control of.

tabular , 19 days ago

Maybe they should, but focusing on adding new features endlessly is how we ended up with this state of internet browsers. The most complex app running on a desktop are too big, it's basically impossible to create a new one. (Yes you can fork but that's just adding toppings to ice cream). The browser war ends only one way.

If we break up the do-everything application into significant parts then a healthy "war" can exist. Why does a browser need to play video, you already have an app for that.

tabular , 19 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

The Gemini I know is "an application-layer internet communication protocol for accessing remote documents, similar to HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and Gopher". It's not used much but it could be part of a useful alternative to the, now Google controlled, internet. Maybe Google named their project Gemini to obfuscate a potential competitor for simple web pages (or perhaps both project teams are bad at choosing names - if Gemini isn't a human cloning machine you're doing it wrong).

tabular , 20 days ago

"Install Windows into walls, not computers" - Leviticus line 5056. Hate the sin, not the sinner.

tabular , 20 days ago

If Android could stop "warning" me to enable Google Play services 8 times a day that would be great.

tabular , 22 days ago

Is the most effective target not to just find another place to buy it illegally? Certainly more realistic that to have any affect in politics.

tabular , 21 days ago

I used to think LGBT legal issues were just a case of speading information, but my hope in conversation is rock bottom.

This appears to be a harmful action that can be more easily attributed to malice rather than protection. I expect some protests will contain violence in return.

tabular , 22 days ago

If such a person doesn't deserve sympathy, who does?

tabular , 22 days ago

Even the worst people in history were at some point just a child that we could have potentially saved. Even as an adult, or after doing evil, I think sympathy and compassion never stops being the right answer. It's just in practice we have to prioritise: the needy, the many.

tabular , 21 days ago

There are people out there with short-range, wireless pacemakers with no security. Most just provide information you'd expect but some of them are also defibrillators (they can kill). As far as I know none have been harmed in an hacked attack but a hacked brain implant brings to mind more than just killing the owner. We may have an interest as a society in making this illegal because it's not worth the gamble to us for people's actions to be hijacked remotely.

tabular , 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

I don't understand how one could think brain implants is a totally safe invention for a society. Did you consider more possibilities than just manipulating people into to physically attacking others?

tabular , 17 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

I doubt me giving suggestions is worth the effort here. I worry thoughts and beliefs could be manipulated with enough knowledge of the brain. Technology to interact with the brain directly is a revolution of the manipulation already enacted through our eyes and ears.

tabular , 25 days ago

Could be a Ternary operator.

Now this thread contains more Technology than most Musk ones.

tabular , 26 days ago

No mention of a license but it talks about being the "official version", suggesting one can fork it.

tabular , 26 days ago

Stack overflow error on recursive function "blame parents" at line 1.

tabular , 30 days ago (edited 30 days ago)

Innovate means needing to pay for an online service to transfer saves between consoles, saves stored on an SD card?

Do they DMCA fan made games because the game concepts have been fully fleshed out?

When copyright expires for FZero in a century perhaps we can find out if there's more to be done (well, not us personally).

tabular , 30 days ago

Perhaps they add code to split physics and grsphical fps.

tabular , 30 days ago

I now require people who offer me to try out a solar powered car to provide directions to said car, lest your comment be labeled a sarcastic cock-tease.

tabular , 1 month ago

Which projects?

tabular , 1 month ago

I despise this use of mod power in response to a protest. It's our content to be sabotaged if we want - if Stack Overlords disagree then to hell with them.

I'll add Stack Overflow to my personal ban list, just below Reddit.

tabular , 1 month ago

you’ve implicitly agreed to it when creating your account

Many people would agree with that, probably most laws do. However I doubt many users have actually bothered to read the unnecessarily long document, fewer have understood the legalese, and the terms have likely already been changed pray I don't alter it any further. That's a low and shady bar of consent. It indeed sucks and I think people should leave those platforms, but I'm also open to laws that would invalidate that part of the EULA.

tabular , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

The fact less people of that group actually wear it than do is significant when you want an average sample. When categorizing a collection of images then, naturally, the traditional garments of a group is associated more with that group than any other group: 1/6 is bigger than any other race.

tabular , 1 month ago

I know jailbreak refers more to rooting Apple phones but I think it's a better term than root as it points out you're not in control of your own hardware. You "break out of jail" to gain (software) freedom.