mariusor

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by mariusor 9mo ago
As you could see from TFA, getting a reliable reproduction case was the tricky part of fixing this bug, so "asking to prove it's real" is just a mean way of saying asking for reproduction steps, not gaslighting.
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by mariusor 9mo ago
I'm currently a participant under a NLNet grant. I'm unemployed at the moment so getting a trickle of 1-2K of donation money per month working on my passion project is a pretty decent proposition. You can also be a participant alo
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by mariusor 9mo ago
I think it's a gross omission on the part of whomever wrote the guidelines if discussions about ethics are deemed off topic. Because many of these events where tech is being used, or abused, in a way that's morally challenging lea
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by mariusor 9mo ago
> For obvious reasons this was never going to happen. Well, I guess this is the crux of the problem, and for open-source enthusiasts like me this is not obvious at all. What we can surmise is that Nvidia refused to collaborate, therefore
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by mariusor 9mo ago
OK, leaving aside the fact that "proprietary" has a very well defined meaning in this context and using it makes your comment very charged, you're basically telling us that Nvidia was not willing to implement an API for their
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by mariusor 9mo ago
Sorry, but how can an open source project like Mesa be reliant on a proprietary API?
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by mariusor 10mo ago
I'm smelling a troll here if you can't distinguish between a UN official acting in an official capacity being sanctioned, vs. private individuals who proselytize and engage in propaganda for a populist regime which, albeit unoffic
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by mariusor 10mo ago
Generally when you say these kinds of things, it's polite to not let your audience guess at what and who you mean. Could you please give us some links?
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by mariusor 10mo ago
If I am a person interested in this specific thing (backing up my games) I would for sure check. Wouldn't you?
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by mariusor 10mo ago
> The games have DRM, and rely on cloud servers to authenticate you. That is not true as a global rule. Game developers can release fully independent versions of their games even on steam.
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by mariusor 10mo ago
Which is the same as what can happen to GOG if you don't have the files backed up. And if you do happen to have them backed up, is there such a large difference between having the installer vs the full game installation stored?
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by mariusor 10mo ago
If you implement any of the ends of a HTTP communication caching is still very important. This website is chock full of site operators raging mad at web crawlers created by people that didn't bother to implement proper caching mechanis
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by mariusor 10mo ago
I don't want to "move the needle", I just want to not support scummy companies. It sounded like you did too, but my mistake.
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by mariusor 10mo ago
In the end we all are allowed to just not use a product... aren't we? Vote with your wallet is still possible.
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by mariusor 10mo ago
From my perspective we can talk about that when it actually happens. No need to slide on that slippery slope just yet, or at least, not in my neighbourhood...
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by mariusor 10mo ago
It's likely that the websites need your actual government issued credentials are not your twitters and your hacker news, but government websites that actually need to link the web user to the citizen. As an example my country has a por
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by mariusor 10mo ago
Are millennials the "older" generation now? Ooof, my bones...
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by mariusor 10mo ago
Do you decline any responsibility in the moral upbringing of your children? I think you should be the one that decides how they interact with dubious content, not your government.
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by mariusor 10mo ago
I am not an expert on Notch's slide into craziness, but I'd argue that the episode you mention it might not be the start. His start was as a "anti-SJW" game developer which got him hated and vilified by his former fans.
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by mariusor 10mo ago
I see, thank you. That explains it better. I would imagine that's still possible to do it for steam games also with a simple internet search. :)
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by mariusor 10mo ago
> Steam versions of the same game (e.g. Skyrim) often require Steam to be running and enforce mandatory updates that aren't always desirable with no rollback ability. Yeah, but that's a developer choice. Steam doesn't forc
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by mariusor 10mo ago
For purposes of backup I don't see that large of a difference between a single installer executable and a zipped folder that you'd get after installing a non DRMed game from Steam.
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by mariusor 10mo ago
Why do you think it's different with GOG? Both GOG and Steam allow you to use local copies of games, and both would deny you access to your account to download more games once banned. Steam allows you to install games without DRM from
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by mariusor 10mo ago
OK, he's wrong. But is that enough to state that he "doesn't seem to think that women have any role to play in his profession"?
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by mariusor 10mo ago
I'm trying to offer a good faith argumentation. Why aren't you giving me the same courtesy?
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by mariusor 10mo ago
Can you share why these statements are controversial? They might be misguided or misinformed, but the underlying fact is that women are not as well represented in stem. Just because the reason it's more likely to be misogyny rather tha
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by mariusor 10mo ago
I tried to summarise what I understand from the two ideologies. Would you share in what way that's biased?
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by mariusor 10mo ago
With the risk of being a pedant, I think that even at the time that Trump got elected, the validity of saying he was supported by a majority of Americans would have been questionable. Today, I'm positive that it's wrong. But pleas
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by mariusor 10mo ago
I'm not sure what you're claiming in here. Is it that deporting immigrants, and taking rights from women is as bad as trying to get billionaires to pay more taxes and reducing systemic societal biases?
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by mariusor 10mo ago
When Lance passed, it was one of the only times when I heard Blow be actually effusive about a person and their accomplishments.

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