You lack discernment. A bastard is still a bastard when he mistreats a delusional freak, but this post is about the delusional freak. There’s no reason why we can’t feel superior to both sides in a stupid squabble.

Microsoft gets paid a lot of money by its users to ensure that updates don’t break anything, yet they manage to fuck it up every single time. Ubuntu is distributed free of charge. You’re not even comparing apples to oranges, you’re comparing elephants to radio antennas.

This is just one of the many reasons why our current IP laws are complete and utter garbage.

Anybody who needs to be told this is either a newborn or braindead.

This hexagram brings the image of a fox crossing a frozen river. If it drops its guard before reaching the end, its tail will get wet and all the care it took until then will be wasted.

Flux decided to make the fox humanoid and to completely thaw the river but I liked the result.

I didn’t mean to imply that they did. Just pointing out a difference.

At least launchers don’t fry your SSDs and tank your performance like Denuvo “allegedly” does.

The only one I know is Street Fighter 6 (over a year after release too) but I’m sure there’s at least two others. Your point is made, however.

If you’ve never watched the movie 12 Angry Men, do yourself a favor and watch it. You are going to love it and it has everything to do with your comment.

I think this is an example of where the left-right axis isn’t the most adequate way of viewing things. The Fediverse in general is anti-authoritarian. You can be all the way from a far-left anarchist to a far-right anarcho-capitalist and still be anti-authoritarian, just like both tankies and nazis are authoritarian.

But isn’t that exactly what they were saying? If you go on X, for example, you can literally be banned for using the word “cisgender”. Musk considers it a slur. Here, you can voice any opinion.

However there’s a different between agreeing with some right-wing policies and being a full-on MAGA fascist. Full-on MAGA fascists shrivel up and die when exposed to any discourse that hasn’t been heavily censored and editorialized in their favor. So naturally they’ll avoid places where different opinions are shared. This alone is enough reason to call this place an echo chamber, because a (sadly) very prevalent set of opinions isn’t represented here.

And I can, for example, get away with referring to MAGA fascists as MAGA fascists knowing full well that not a single one of those Trump-fellating pussies will say anything against me for it, and even if one does, the community will not have their back.

Not all fraud is venture capitalism, but all venture capitalism is fraud.

Wrong premises lead to wrong conclusions. Games are expensive because publishers that add absolutely no value to the product take a big cut of the revenue. The solution is not to raise prices and continue feeding the parasites, it’s to cut costs. Otherwise, the price increase will simply lead to less people buying the products and even lower profits.

How many people are smart enough to open an issue on GitHub but stupid enough to run code from a password-protected file in a random Mediafire link?

YouTube ReVanced still works. Also, ad blockers on desktop.

~ resolves to your home folder only if it’s at the beginning of a path. /~ isn’t the same as ~. Go ahead and test it with something other than rm if you don’t believe me (this is the Internet, I could be lying).

This ridiculous narrarive is unlikely to convince anyone who wasn’t already going to vote for the orange gremlin anyway. In fact, I hope that the right wastes a lot of time attacking this angle. It’s less time they have to spend on some other, potentially more effective approach.

This isn’t the typical case for an ex post facto law, though. The PROTECT Act didn’t criminalize any conduct that was previously legal. It simply changed the statute of limitations for conducts thatbwere already criminal. Since the basis for rejecting convictions based on ex post facto laws is the fact that nobody can be expected to act according to laws that didn’t exist at the time of their actions and posession of child pornography was very much a crime when R. Kelly posessed child porn, and since the expectation that the courts will fail to do their job on time does not enjoy any legal protection, there is nothing inherently wrong with applying the PROTECT Act to R. Kelly’s case.

This is my opinion as a lawyer, however I am not licensed to practice law in the USA specifically, so I may be 100% wrong.

If they actually did that they’d go out of business really fast. They have to fight against your right to block ads instead.

I was under the imoression that Telegram was a better alternative to WhatsApp but even WhatsApp doesn’t have ads. What should I be using, then?