“We leveraged the fact that many people know about the world and story of the original Final Fantasy VII when we designed the remakes,” Hamaguchi told me during the leadup to Rebirth’s release. “In this title, our general framework follows the original storyline, but at the same time we incorporated elements clearly not included in the original, such as the Whispers and Zack.” This creates a unique opportunity for a remake: uncertainty. “That sort of thrill is very important for this title as a piece of entertainment.”

We have a name for that, “reboot”. Or more cynically, “cash grab”

It hits the “tethered network services” anti-feature which is hidden by default in F-droid.

Since the title gives nothing away:

This is an extensive article by Ed Zitron on how the technology that you’re required to interact with every day has become explicitly user hostile. It’s a 42 minute read, but IMO worth reading at least the first section.

Ed Zitron also has an excellent podcast on the topic of tech companies being awful called “Better Offline”

This maneuver may sound simple, but it involves an entirely new and unique code for which the researchers have sought a patent.

How to make your discovery worthless in a single, idiotic move.

There’s always package forwarding. I’m about to find out how bad an idea that is.

https://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca191482/s3la.html

It does require a court order, but notably you do not need to be suspected of a crime.

Dont we have a right […] to not self incriminate?

Not that I’m aware of, but if you find otherwise, let me know!

They can compel you to reveal your password without a warrant but can’t touch your phone? Is that a state law?

This is exactly what DMCA was made to do.

And randomly crash.

Sounds like wine is emulating correctly!

The “solution” is buy their product.

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That kind of sucks, but it should only be for a dev release

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp-data/-/blob/main/images/splash-log.md

I worked on software at one point that had at it’s core a number of “modes” that it switched between. It was, at the time, in the process of migrating from enums and switch/case trees to an inheritance based system.

In practice this meant there was a single instance of “Mode” for each mode which used pointer equality to switch/case on modes like an enum.

To add a new mode (that did nothing) I think I had to change about 6 different places.

Interesting to see how different that is from Australia. In your example only lane 3 is a passing lane, and “undertaking” isn’t a thing, it’s completely legal to overtake in any lane.

What do the exclamation points mean?

Two of the “questions” are just statements

Unpaid Open Source developers will have trouble fulfilling increasing government requirements, for example the EU Cyber Security Act.

Emerging companies like Tidelift, which pay developers, will solve the current problems of Open Source.

Open Source Software follows the Open Source Definition, while Free Software follows the Free Software Definition.

They have heavy overlap, one is not a subset of the other, and they are similarly restrictive, just shepherded by different groups. I’m sure there are licences that satisfy one but not the other, but they would have to be few and far between; just reading through each it’s not obvious how one could satisfy only one definition.

What thing called turtle are you referring to?

You would be giving up some feed-rate control and retraction. Probably not too bad with certain materials and large scale prints, but I’d be surprised if you could do anything moderately precise with this.

Note to studios: there is no amount of potential, unrealised profit that makes it ethical to install malware on another person’s computer.

These guys are Canadian and I’ve always thought their tech seemed really creative and novel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion