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   by jowea 2y ago

   Would a future ISO-standardized country get assigned a code that collides with an historical code?
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   by jowea 2y ago

   And there was that Worldcoin thing too.
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   by jowea 2y ago

   Disclaimer is very relevant because TFA seems to be very specifically discussing the original DnD, which is not what 90+% of people will think of when reading "D&D", which I think is confusing some of the discussion here. I th
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   by jowea 2y ago

   That made me realize something, those "stupid rules", specifically the ones about what is an appropriate marriage, are the reason the probably most well known Habsburg was in a modern convertible car on his last day.
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   by jowea 2y ago

   As someone who could find such a thing interesting, I googled a bit and there seems to be some RPGs with more of that focus, although I think people mostly play video games for that: https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads&#
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   by jowea 2y ago

   Fair enough but that's not fantasy.
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   by jowea 2y ago

   Half of Europe is still monarchies, I don't think it was inevitable that they would lose all their thrones.
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   by jowea 2y ago

   Yes yes but openly flouting the court order to block Twitter is not helping their case. It's being used as an argument to retroactively justify the minister's argument that Starlink and Twitter are part of the same corporate group
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   by jowea 2y ago

   Previous poster meant Starlink usage by Ukraine.
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    by jowea 2y ago

    > they were frozen to penalize the majority stakeholder I'm no lawyer but from what I gather there's two issues with Starlink, one where they had their bank accounts blocked to make them pay for Twitter's fines, which is h
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    by jowea 2y ago

    I never thought I would miss old Elon. Can't we get back to pointing out why Mars colony isn't going to happen while secretly wishing it happens?
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    by jowea 2y ago

    That's actually an interesting point. As of before this dispute, Starlink obviously operated in Brazil because it operates ground stations in and has paying Brazilian clients. Assuming it continues operating without that, I wonder what
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    by jowea 2y ago

    Exactly, if SpaceX obeys the court they can get their assets unfrozen and back to making a profit.
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    by jowea 2y ago

    Starlink definitively operates in Brazil as of right now, Internet service works (including ex-Twitter).
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    by jowea 2y ago

    It's not 100% Musk owned, so I got curious if the other owners could boot Musk over this, but Wikipedia says ownership is "Elon Musk (42% equity; 79% voting control)". Could Musk be vulnerable to a suit alleging he is unduly
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    by jowea 2y ago

    I think the multimedia empire franchise explanation is more likely to explain which of those survive than pure popularity. Minecraft seems like it could be replaced by something else in the same genre, but MS is still actively developing it
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    by jowea 2y ago

    Interestingly some places give legal effect to those preambles it seems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble#Legal_effect
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    by jowea 2y ago

    I think this is slightly less common for general software. But I remember some cases of old software failing to install because the online DRM servers were taken offline.
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    by jowea 2y ago

    I wonder if CDPR will support this proposal if it gets somewhere.
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    by jowea 2y ago

    I watched a video on this proposal, and one interesting argument is that this isn't even supposed to be necessary, since leaving a game broken that you paid for is a violation of your property rights. Any (armchair) lawyer wants to opi
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    by jowea 2y ago

    I don't know, I think the EU has already proven itself willing to regulate the tech industry. And I'm not sure if this proposal is something that the game industry would die on a hill to stop. So getting some relatively easy brown
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    by jowea 2y ago

    Not even search makes the cut?
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    by jowea 2y ago

    Shouldn't that be on the config page for the repo below the "private" button with a note saying private is not actually private if it's a fork? And ditto for delete?
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    by jowea 2y ago

    Probably runs in some dev machines through. Maybe it can infect a valuable FOSS dev and then do the xz backdoor without bothering with the Jia Tan persona.
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    by jowea 2y ago

    I admit none, but isn't that just because ransomware frequently comes into a network through user error which usually is using a Windows machine?
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    by jowea 2y ago

    I don't know, out of the software crises I can remember out of the top of my head, 2 (Heartbleed and Log4Shell) are from FOSS.
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    by jowea 2y ago

    Is this a good moment to relitigate the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate?
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    by jowea 2y ago

    Important advice since normally I'd resort to percussive maintenance way before getting to 15.
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    by jowea 2y ago

    In addition to the already mentioned irony of bring up ST, what do you think of say, Starship Troopers? Sure there is some scifi that's about some mind screwy science but there's more to the genre. Anyway I like Asimov's clas
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    by jowea 2y ago

    I guess it depends on the episode, and I do prefer when it's more abstract, but when do you think it's political if indirectly advocating for example gay rights or environmental protections isn't?