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How dare you question Ming-Chi Kuo 😤

Valve's Proton is open source but is it also free to use and distribute in commercial software?

Yes.

Valve's Proton code is licensed under the BSD licence, which is a "do anything you like with this code" licence.

Wine code is under the LGPL. You can ship this in commercial software as long as you "make the source code available" (which, assuming the distributor isn't modifying the Wine code further, can be achieved by just linking people back to the main Wine project code repository).

DXVK is licensed under zlib, which is functionally the same as the BSD licence.

Some of them were actually pretty good artists; occasionally you'd see them do other stuff and it'd be genuinely good on an artistic level.

The whole stick man, lumpy face, primitivist thing was just an "in" aesthetic (while also being conveniently really quick to produce).

What do you need vim for when Emacs has everything (including vim)?

(jk, I don't care about Emacs or vim; I'm a nano peasant)

I also usually buy cod in Tesco. But probably not in quite the same way.

Keep your filthy Cex parties to yourself, you degenerate.

DDG is largely Bing search at the backend, unless I'm much mistaken. They do value-add work around privacy, but in the basic sense of "does a DDG search return good results", it's largely the same as Bing.

He's already refused an OBE.

I was under the impression that he refused it because Vennells had one. As she's now handed hers back in disgrace, presumably that objection is resolved.

I can imagine an engineer looking at a push-button bean to cup machine and thinking "how can I make this slightly less efficient and a lot more complicated".

Gestures vaguely at Amazon's enormous piles of money

It doesn’t say anything about specific software. They have to allow you to use third party stores, they don’t have to allow you to download torrent apps so that you can pirate.

Literally in the quote I posted...

The gatekeeper shall allow and technically enable the installation and effective use of third-party software applications or software application stores

What are you doing, step-board?

but there’s nothing in the law that states they have to let you sideload whatever you choose

That's pretty much exactly what the law does say.

The gatekeeper shall allow and technically enable the installation and effective use of third-party software applications or software application stores using, or interoperating with, its operating system and allow those software applications or software application stores to be accessed by means other than the relevant core platform services of that gatekeeper.

There's a provision for not letting the user actively break the device, but that's it. And it's couched in terms like "if strictly necessary and proportionate" and "provided they are justified", so it's not something Apple can apply on a whim.

It doesn't have a microphone or camera, or any other way of recording my conversations. Other than laundry-related data, it really doesn't know anything worth sharing.

I'm a big 6'1" man, and generally a lover of dogs, but I'm exactly the same. I once had a massive German shepherd barrel up to me at full tilt, no owner in sight, and launch itself into my belly. It was being friendly, as it happens, but that's hardly much comfort when a 30kg bundle of muscle and claws hurls itself at you at a full sprint.

The owner, when they materialised a few moments later, was a middle aged woman who chuckled about how "he's a big softy, he just wants attention". Like, sure, but it would have been small comfort if I'd been a 10 year old child or something. Keep that "lovable scamp" on a fucking lead if you can't keep them to heel...

I read that as "incineration", and my reaction was "a bit harsh, but fair".

Incarceration works too though.

Why not?

My washing machine has wi-fi. I didn't buy it for that reason, but it just happens to. Using the app, I have some programme options that aren't possible to select using the hardware dials. I can do things like change the detergent dosage and the number of additional rinse cycles. It has some "special" programmes for various specific fabrics. And it has things like maintenance diagnostics and the ability to run a specific self-cleaning cycle.

That's all pretty useful.

And what's the actual danger of connecting it to wi-fi? Will Big Data know how often I wash my towels? Do I need to worry about the government spying on my fabric softener usage? Will hackers seize control of my machine and ransom my ability to get clean underwear?

I just can't see the big downside here (other than the fact that the machine is more complicated than it needs to be, but that ship has already sailed seeing as I already own it).

One of many different "third party frontends" for YouTube which, amongst other things, cut out ads and avoid performance throttling.

Personally I use one called NewPipe, and previously one called LibreTube. There are others too.

I've just had a look on the Play Store, and they notably don't use the word "buy" anywhere that I can see. The button to "buy" the app is just a button with the price on it, and clicking through that it uses the language of "install".

Can't help but think that that's deliberate.

"Oh, and 2/3 of our content is only available via 'channels' which require an additional monthly subscription almost as much as the subscription you're already paying for."

Amazon, you literally own MGM. No I am not paying you even more money to watch MGM content, you greedy fucks.