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by skeaker 4y ago
I think this is great and fully support the change, given that loading your own applications has worked pretty great as the baseline for basically every personal computer since the dawn of computing. As an aside, I'll always be amused
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by skeaker 4y ago
Look, if you want to die, go right ahead. But leave me and my family out of it. We love our lives and each other and I'd like for us to live as long as we can. Proclaiming your disdain research in this field because "death is good
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by skeaker 4y ago
This happens all the time in video games. Fighting game players often revere it as a form of unique personal expression, and it's interesting as a spectator because you absolutely can recognize the players by their plays, but it's
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by skeaker 4y ago
Signal did speak up about it, and flatly denied Facebook's statement.
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by skeaker 4y ago
I should have verified this before I commented, seems I kicked off quite a few threads with bad info. Thanks for the correction here, it looks like you're right. There are still arguments to be made against the longevity of Apple devic
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by skeaker 4y ago
If those processes can be refined to be more efficient than they are in nature, then yeah, why wouldn't it?
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by skeaker 4y ago
An obvious difference is that animals require extraordinary amounts of land to live on and lots of food that needs land to be planted on which necessitates a very significant amount of deforestation, something that will not be needed for a
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by skeaker 4y ago
I'm no vegetarian by any means, but equating the life of corn to the life of a relatively intelligent animal like a pig is really, really disingenuous
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by skeaker 4y ago
What do you mean by highly processed in this context?
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by skeaker 4y ago
What makes you think a human optimized process specifically designed to be simpler/faster/tastier than slaughter won't be? The whole reason it's getting research and work done on it is for the reasons you claim are impor
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by skeaker 4y ago
Apple quite literally had a scandal where it was exposed in court that they deliberately slow older devices down to prematurely make them appear obsolete so that users will discard them sooner. I'm sure there are Android devices that d
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by skeaker 4y ago
Well yeah, it is. Some function that you wrote years ago in an hour having one line taken out of it to be used in a project that wouldn't have made money anyways doesn't hurt you at all regardless of what license is on your projec
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by skeaker 4y ago
This is a failure of Apple and their walled garden, not of Signal. If this is a concern to you, you either need to jailbreak or switch to a more free as in freedom platform.
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by skeaker 4y ago
They're often on this very website, in fact.
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by skeaker 4y ago
I personally don't care about the copyright of my own work when it comes to code. I publish the majority of my work anonymously with a clause that just says something along the lines of "feel free to use some or all of this withou
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by skeaker 4y ago
Tell that to Adobe who disagrees with you to the order of 20 billion dollars.
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by skeaker 4y ago
He clearly doesn't expect everyone to be generous, hence why he advocates for UBI. UBI would be mandated and would therefore force participation from those without such generosity (according to their means, of course). By claiming that
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by skeaker 4y ago
Yes, mostly yes, and yes. Early hardware revisions are easily hackable while later ones require a fairly expensive modchip. Games will run stock but depending on what software you load in Nintendo can detect modifications and ban you from o
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by skeaker 4y ago
If letting the robbers go made the murderers vanish then we probably would, actually.
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by skeaker 4y ago
The Dolphin team is comprised of volunteers, and a single guy was supporting Windows 7 up until a little while ago presumably for personal reasons like lack of time. I don't think the Dolphin team can really be put at fault in good fai
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by skeaker 4y ago
Another thing to note is that none of this is new information. This trend has existed for perhaps a decade or two, and the ignorance to that in this thread is really showing the age of the users on this site.
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by skeaker 4y ago
Because the credit companies are acting under the guise of the law. "I don't want to end business with you, but the law compels me to do this!" If you haven't broken the law, there's no way to appeal this decision t
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by skeaker 4y ago
In the case of Discord which would be today's MSN Messenger, it's not often done because your account will be terminated if you are found to be using a modded client.
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by skeaker 4y ago
It's worth mentioning that while this type of story usually has the prosecuting company as the villain, this particular case concerns Team Xecuter, known infamously in the homebrew scene for stealing code to repackage and sell for prof
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by skeaker 4y ago
Here's something similar, though it's limited in scope to just clone games: https://osgameclones.com/
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by skeaker 4y ago
That's an excellent game and you made an excellent contribution. Community-made updates like that are a fantastic example of why open sourcing games can be great for their longevity and quality!
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by skeaker 4y ago
Open Hexagon is an open source game that started as a clone of Super Hexagon and has since then surpassed it. It also gives the ability for users to make their own level packs with a very robust lua scripting system. The custom levels can b
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by skeaker 4y ago
I agree on every point expect that it's "on-par" with SS13. SS13 has a lot of content; it's one of the most feature-rich games that I know of, up there with Dwarf Fortress. In terms of porting content, SS14 is still se
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by skeaker 4y ago
They are a fantastic strategy, though if one happens to rob you of a lot of remaining words, you should undo it.
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by skeaker 4y ago
This is a fantastic response, honestly. I'll add that your last point about how different users interact with their systems differently is especially relevant for the longevity of open operating systems. General users coming over to Li

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