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Different operating systems have their own interfaces to allow user level programs (like games) to communicate with hardware. This is a great-over-simplification, but one OS may understand something like "drawTriangle(x, y, z)" while another may expect "drawPolygon([x, y, z])".

There are software projects to attempt to translate commands meant for one OS for a different OS (such as "Wine" or Valve's "Proton") and those work fairly well in cases that: 1) there's an analogous command, 2) the analogous commands have been accurately mapped, and 3) the analogous commands operate in user space.

That last point is the primary reason why, despite the best efforts of developers, some games still cannot work across OSs. Operating systems are built on top of different levels with the lowest being the "kernel" (of "kernel level anti-cheat" notoriety) and the highest being the user space (where you interact). Both Windows and Linux have these, but the boundaries around them, what they can and cannot do, and how to interact across those boundaries differs between each system.

So when a Windows game installs a driver to monitor everything that your computer does that driver (kernel level anti-cheat) is tailored very specifically to the extremely powerful, low level, and unique Windows kernel. Linux cannot run that natively. If the game pretends that spying on you is an essential component to launch then the game will not launch. If, however, a game is perfectly happy to just stay in user space where it belongs then it will probably work fine with the available translation layers.

3d printer or desktop CNC with a pen attached and a software layer to translate svg path data to gcode?

I'm American, fwiw. Formally I say "double you," informally I say "dub."

Obviously not. Why would I stop advocating for prison reform when the work isn't done? What did I say that gave the impression I was fine ignoring something I explicitly said was a systemic problem that required advocacy for all cases?

He wasn't pardoned.

I'm also sick of the 2 tier justice system. That doesn't mean I want all criminal rich fucks to suffer. It means I want all criminals to be equipped with the skills and support structures to be reintroduced.

I bet it was to the kids he unjustly imprisoned and their families.

Would 4 more years of house arrest resolve that?

Funny how that goal is only meet for rich connected scumbags.

Yep, that's a systemic problem. The solution to that is not to regress to a worse outcome for all cases but to advocate for a better outcome for all cases.

Honestly not that big a deal.

Dude was sentenced in September of 2011 to 17.5 years. He'd have been released in February of 2028, so about 4 and quarter years from now. He's already served about 75% of his sentence. He's spent the last 4 years on house arrest.

Everyone involved in this scheme went to jail and had to pay restitution, and this guy's off the bench, retired, and thus incapable of re-offending in the same way.

This seems like a textbook case of the President's commutation powers, and now the state won't have to spend extra money on him.

Biden commuted just shy of 1500 sentences and the media latched onto this case because it's sensational. If this is the worst of the bunch then it was a good move.

Our incarceration goals should be to reintegrate people into society not just to put unsavory people in time out.

Its okay! All she did was murder someone and accuse 3 others of rape and assault so that someone would get to know God better!

Republicans killing kids again :(

It's crazy that if Israel wants a demilitarized buffer zone it has to happen in another county, not their own, and be seized by their military.

It depends on your jurisdiction, distribution platform, and the AI you use.

In the US and distributing on Steam you can use AI assets, but you do need to indicate your use of AI.

Keep a couple of things in mind though:

• Your future customers may not appreciate that you used AI and you will get downvoted reviews solely because you opted for AI
• You'll likely have a better result making as much as you can yourself and using AI to fill in the gaps (i.e. if you have an interior scene, make the models and lay stuff out and maybe only use AI for a picture hanging on the wall or a coach fabric material--things that are inconsequential to the actual game play).

Overall, I'd say if the supplemental use of AI during development is the difference between you finishing and publishing a game and you not, then sure--go ahead and use it, but make clear to prospective buyers how it was used and be prepared for blowback.

One man's toppling a regime and an opportunity to build anew is another man's civil unrest and opportunity to seize more land.

Can we crowd source ads around Manhattan and have people with bullhorns on the sidewalks around the court entrances announcing "Jury Nullification is your right!"?

Republicans keep killing kids. :(

Class war is war.

The US has literally bombed its citizens on 2 occasions because of class resistance. The military has literally taken up arms against the citizens it swore to protect over class differences. We describe violent clashes between workers and the bourgeoisie as "battles."

Just because we've experienced a period of unprecedented peace doesn't mean class conflict is over--it will not be over until class is abolished.

Also, revolutions, civil war, and war in general are most often illegal.

The state has convicted and executed innocent people. The average criminal subject to capital punishment has killed an order (or several) of magnitudes fewer people than the health insurance industry.

As a country we seem to weigh more heavily acts of individual violence than those of systemic violence or violence borne of policy even when the latter 2 have far more impactful and wide spread negative results. It's completely logical to draw a distinction between the 2 circumstances.

I'm not saying all vigilante justice is good, and I wouldn't necessarily be against the state holding to account executives who have produced systems and policies that result in the harm or death of the state's citizens, but in the current system justice is rare and in this act millions of people received justice.

At least in Florida, according to this, you are entitled to complete at least one phone call.

You can use your phone call for whomever, just know it's not private and you best hope whomever you call will actually help you.

The distinction I was making is that the response to "can you get me a lawyer?" could just be the cops walking out of the room and coming back several hours later and seeing if you've changed your mind. The same thing for "I'll wait till my lawyer is here."

Don't ask. Tell them to get you your lawyer.

When I was about 10 a kid on my block only found out that Santa wasn't real when he was 13. This sent some ripples through the neighborhood families cause he was now also doubting God. So all the good little Christian parents sat down their kids and reassured them that Santa was fake but Jesus was real. 20 years later I'm an agnostic atheist.