I would have a problem if a terminal app were to do something like this, but for GUI apps, it is expected for them to make stuff easier.
And I feel like, if you were to use a slash in a file name, it would most probably be either an "or" slash or a fraction slash, so the substitution is fine in my books.
illegal characters
Not sure about calling it that, considering it is a standard UTF-8 character. (0x2044 in UTF-16)
Now just if we had all famous people saying stuff like this.
But they won't. Guess why? Because the "won't" is what made them famous (and rich),
Lay people give more heed to those acting from the start, like they have the answers. That's what "charisma" is about.
Also one of the reasons why religion gets easier wins. Because when people hear something that makes them have to think more, they ignore it more.
Well, considering that I am with coworkers who don't remember when to and not to put the '/' at the start of the file path (despite me explaining it to them multiple times), "slash e t c" is probably the better way.
Just tried. It processes the escape first and then finds the path with it. Essentially, making it look into a directory made by the characters before the \/.
The above was when I tried:
bash
echo "asd" > asd\/dsa
But then I tried using Dolphin (GUI File Browser) to make a file and:
bash
❯ ls
1 2 3 4 'asd\⁄sad.txt'
❯ ls
1 2 3 4 asd⁄sad.txt
In the first one, the backslash is not the escape character, but part of the text.
Turns out Dolphin just replaces the forward slash with U+2044 "Fraction Slash" character, hence, not requiring any escape. I'd call that cheating, but it works well.
ANI does seem to be getting the Streisand effect going though. I would never have checked their Wikipedia page and never have known of said allegations. And no, I didn't even have to see the Wikipedia page, to know that something on those lines was written on Wikipedia.
For the average Indian, it would be just a minor inconvenience. Having to visit a site full of ads and half-assedly written information, whenever they want to know something new, is the price they will pay.
For Uni students, looking for stuff to plagiarise, it won't be much different either, as most of the times, Wikipedia is considered a less reliable source than a shady website having 10's of ad popups leading to malicious targets. Probably because the one grading it, only has to check to make sure it is not a Wikipedia URL and doesn't really need to actually open the link to see here it leads.
Wikipedia kinda works like a Democracy of the type, 'Logical Consensus', making it very hard for people to just throw money at it to get false information shown, at least on topics with enough hands-on people^[as compared to a normal democracy, which only relies on number of people supporting a decision]. This makes it very unappealing for political campaigns. Meaning, Govt. doesn't have a reason to care for it.
What we lose:
As a kid, most articles I read on Wikipedia were Science and Technology related. They seemed to have a certain amount of care put into writing them and I picked up a bit of "care" from it.
We lose this potential positive influence on future inquisitive children, which will probably turn to video based sources (assuming they don't just give up and go back to WhatsApp/X/other stuff). While video based sources are also fine, IMHO, the way Wikipedia tends to have stuff laid out, is a really nice way to let people learn new stuff, which might be leagues away from their on level and domain.
What Wikipedia loses:
India has a lot of people. A lot of them would be contributing to the information in it. That is lost.
Catch: A lot of the Indians in Science and Tech tend to just emigrate. So, Wikipedia still has those.
Blind Spot: I don't really read much other than Science and Tech and won't be able to assess the amount and value of other articles. By extension, the contribution by resident Indians to those.
What Wikipedia as a company, loses:
A bit of money maybe.
Though still much less than what ANI is trying to extort
What I gain:
Another reason to consider emigration
A reason to vote. And not incumbency this time.
What happens if Wikipedia pays out?
A precept
I'd rather have WMF block Indian access, than this happen.
Wikipedia explained that the delay had been caused as the platform didn’t have any physical presence in India.
Wikipedia here, explaining that they have a limited ability and asking HC to be reasonable.
"We will close your business transactions here"
Judge, realising they are showing weakness, increasing threat level.
Current actions vs Past actions
Refer "Relevant Article" in the post.
Low impact companies asked Supreme Court and were shot down
Company with a high standing and a potential political backing, asks the High Court and gets full attention
On top of that, Delhi HC Judge decides to move to "Contempt of Court", making it much harder for Wikipedia, in case they move Supreme Court (SC) in the future, for a re-trial
I feel like this would have gone differently had ANI gone to SC from the beginning.
Writing this part separately in a comment, because I understand this includes my bias.
Also, if I don't interact with any comments later, please excuse me. GOI might have stopped my internet, just for posting this, because they can.
I have the ability to create basic a 3D, line based design tool. Though I would have to read up on NURBS. Maybe QCad has the potential to grow in that direction.
I just still tend to hope that it may be implemented in something fully featured like Blender, which is more geared towards artistic modelling and replaces stuff like 3dsMAX and Maya. It does have some plug-ins to support precision drawing, but last time I checked, I was still not convinced of using it in an AutoCAD like workflow.
By default, Ubuntu will give the Snap version, which Steam devs don't like to support.
And installing another version will probably require some configuration and terminal stuff, so I'd suggest going with something that plays well with Valve.
Try searching Google for "Saganumenousness"