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woelkchen , vor 18 Tagen

Rule of thumb: if your full license text is longer than your actual source code, you've probably picked the wrong license.

woelkchen , vor 17 Tagen

That is actually a really bad rule, though you probably are only joking.

No, I wasn't.

There are many examples of short, but very valuable code. Just think about anything math or physics related.

A rule of thumb is not a strict law. I never disputed that there are certain edge cases. What has to be considered but is not on the radar of most people: Threshold of originality. A "valuable" 3 LOC bash script is likely not being able to be copyrighted in the first place. In cases where the work is tedious but not creative, the work may also not be able to be copyrighted (depending on jurisdiction). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow whether a certain jurisdiction protects tedious work or not.

woelkchen , vor 17 Tagen

Interestingly enough, Tanenbaum doesn’t seem to mind what intel did.

Yeah, duh. Intelligent people read licenses before they pick one.

But there are some examples out there of people regretting releasing their work under a permissive license.

That's like signing a contract before reading it and then complaining that it contains provisions that surprise you when they are enacted. I'm baffled on a regular basis by how many people understand FOSS licenses only on the basis for hearsay, for example when people insist that GPLed source code must be made available free of charge for everyone. The GNU project has a FAQ about the GPL that spells it out that this is not the case and yet hardly anyone discussing FOSS licenses has even read the FAQ.

woelkchen , vor 17 Tagen

And if I were to reverse-engineer a binary then I could still add that code to my software.

That's actually an important factor for ancient software whose source code was lost. A developer could, for example, declare all their old Atari 2600 games to be under GPL by just announcing it in their news blog. Collectors could then hunt for the binary files and decompile them. Decompiled software is still a derivative work, so that source code would still be under GPL. Sadly I'm just aware of one case from years ago where I can't even remember the specifics who and which software it was but he was like "I found some floppy disks from the 1980s, I lost the source code but binaries under GPL, so have fun".

woelkchen , vor 20 Tagen

this is an amazing step towards safety and security for Moldova.

Looking at how the EU dealt with Cyprus: Nothing will change. All of Cyprus is EU member, yet the EU happily accepts Turkish occupation in the northern half.

woelkchen , vor 20 Tagen

I think this is a little different as (Greek) Cyprus joined after the island had already been divided

So exactly like Transnistria?

woelkchen , vor 23 Tagen

Nein, man kann aber anhand von Beispielen klarmachen, dass BSW rotlackierte Faschisten und keine Linken sind.

woelkchen , vor 23 Tagen

Der Internationalismus war ein linker Aspekt der SED (was nicht heißt, dass die Partei insgesamt gut war). BSW hat nicht einmal das, sind also einfach nur noch Faschisten.

woelkchen , vor 24 Tagen

Wie viel Geld bekommen sie für diese Aussage vom Putler aus Moskau?

Vielleicht ja auch gar keines und sie sind bloß Hirnwäsche-Opfer.

woelkchen , vor 25 Tagen

Volvo already is a Chinese brand because it's owned by Geely. It's not an independent Swedish car maker that just happened to outsource production to China.

woelkchen , vor 26 Tagen

How many red lines did Russia cross with barely any intervention by the US?

woelkchen , vor 26 Tagen

No, not any longer. In Windows 11 "update and shutdown" includes a reboot in-between and then shuts off. The only way you get this these days is to "update and reboot" and manually shutting off the computer during BIOS initialization.

woelkchen , vor 26 Tagen

Three words: High Dynamic Range.

Works fine on Steam Deck. (The comment you're replied to is about Linux, not a specific DE, so your experience with a specific DE doesn't really count as counter argument about Linux in general.)

And if you have a newer GPU, there’s also AI upscaling, which is great for watching HD and SD content on a 4K display. Pretty sure you can’t do they at all in Linux, at least not in real-time.

That is wrong.

woelkchen , vor 26 Tagen

It’s expected for HDR to mature on Linux later this year.

HDR works on Steam Deck right now. It may take a while until it trickles down to distributions other than SteamOS and not every compositor may support it equally but in general support is there.

woelkchen , vor 26 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 26 Tagen)

Most distros don’t use Gamescope.

Well, that's the problem of the person making a general statement about all of Linux and not going into specifics.

woelkchen , vor 28 Tagen

First bundling everything in a tar file just to compress the thing in an individual step is kinda stupid, though. Everything takes much longer because of that. If you don't need to preserve POSIX permissions, tar is pointless anyway.

woelkchen , vor 28 Tagen

Use an archiving format that does both at once then, preserving whatever tar use cases has and compressing. The two steps are stupid, no arguing against that.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

The Russian plane didn't breach Latvian air space, it just flew near it. The article spelled it out.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

Teslas run Linux. Not sure they finally comply with the GPL, though.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Because striking Ukraine from elsewhere is fine?

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Who else is doing it?

Russia is striking Ukrainian targets from Ukrainian territory which, according to the used phrasing, is fine.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Bogen macht halt null Qualitätssicherung und gibt rollenden Distributionen einen schlechten Namen. Deutsche Wertarbeit hilft.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

Pacifism is not lethargy to not defend oneself. Pacifism is to be the aggressor, like to not attack the neighboring country just because your country might have a dispute about trade with the neighbor.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Ich dachte es geht darum feddit.de zu übernehmen und auf ein stabiles Fundament zu stellen? Liest sich nicht mehr so.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Habt ihr mal überlegt direkt auf Piefed / Pyfedi zu setzen? Meine Prognose wär ja dass das deutlich zukunftssicherer ist.

Was ist zukunftssicherer an einer Plattform, die nur von zwei Leuten entwickelt wird?

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Ever since KDE made their software more modular with Plasma 5 / Frameworks 5, a Plasma session can be cut down by a lot. Personally, I don't think it matters much because as soon as you browse the web, the RAM demands of the web browser dwarf that of even a fully decked out desktop anyway, but the options are there – perhaps for certain use cases that don't involve web browsing.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Nein, weil nach seinem Tod angeblich Leute zu ihm gebetet haben und infolge davon zwei Wunderheilungen geschehen wären.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Wenn du nicht auf Akkus setzt, die mit einem Schaft in den Griff des Werkzeuges geschoben werden (wie bei Ryobi), haste eigentlich für alles gängige Adapter. Bosch-Akkus auf Ryobi, Makita-Akkus auf Bosch,... geht mittels Adapter alles, nur eben schaftige Ryobi-Akkus auf den Rest wird schwer.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Wenn einfach alle nacheinander vorher aufs Klo gehen, gibt's auch keine Diskussion. Kinder haben primär dann keinen Bock, wenn ihnen der Eindruck gemacht wird, dass sie von Pflichten alleine betroffen sind.

Als ich früher mal Sitter war, wurde mir von den Eltern gesagt, dass das Kind sich anstellt, wenn es Zähne putzen soll. Ab dem nächsten Mal hatte ich meine Zahnbürste dabei und es war einfach nie wieder Diskussionsthema, weil wir zusammen Zähne putzten.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Let this be a lesson and next time just spend 5 to 10 minutes browsing alternativeto.net or Wikipedia's list of image editors yourself.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Wikipedia then. Lazy people asking stupid questions instead of googling on their own are even more annoying.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

maybe they want to gauge different opinions and reasoning.

If those people cared to google first, they'd stumble onto existing answers to the same question. Such questions get asked over and over again. Those people would know that if they cared to google first.

if u dont want to answer, ignore the post.

Same applies to answers you don't like: Ignore them, don't whine how toxic people are.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

krita ai paint is pretty dope

Oh wow, wasn't aware of that plugin. Looks nifty.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

technology and the opinions around it change, so some new discussions should be started regularly, if just to prevent information from stagnating.

Not that often, no. This is among the questions that get asked all the time. It amounts to spamming. We're not talking here about a question that was last asked 10 years ago and is now massively out of date.

People make regularly updated lists of possible alternatives to various applications. Finding them is a matter of firing up the search engine of choice and just entering the search terms.

Also: That question literally gave no context at all. Something along the lines of "My circumstances are XY and Gimp is not suitable because of YZ" is missing completely. I got a proper answer by asking Microsoft Copilot "What are alternatives to GIMP? I'm looking for an option that I can use with Debian 12. An open source application is preferred but not mandatory." and got a proper list of open source and web-based solutions that includes Krita, Photopea, Pixlr, and Pinta.

My mom is approaching 80 years old and can do better web searches than the person from the screenshot.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Is Palestine a splinter state though?

Technically yes because formally there are two autonomous regions (Gaza and West Bank) on Israeli soil.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

They never acknowledged any borders partitioning Palestine and Israel, so technically they claimed it with agreeing to various peace agreements like not settling in Gaza strip.

Edit: And they vehemently oppose Palestinian statehood. They had the US veto a UN vote on that a decade or so ago.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Tagebau: "Da ist noch Luft nach oben!"

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Meta's defense: "Nobody under 50 uses Facebook, nobody under 25 uses Instagram!"

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Yah but we can manage Nuclear waste.

Really? How?

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository

Will the Polish waste be stored there? If not, it's not managed.

But the important part is that we can not manage CO2, the existential threat.

Yes, we can. It called renaturalization. Has countless other benefits.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

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

Unless it's a reprocessing plant, the waste is not managed.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Poland and other countries can build similar projects.

They don't. Therefore it's not managed.

Are you being intentionally obtuse?

Your need to lash out with personal attacks shows that you know that your argument holds no water.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

That facility shows that we CAN.

Nobody has ever successfully managed nuclear waste for 100,000 years. All you CAN do is make baseless claims and lash out with insults.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

This all being said the larger issue is that we CANNOT manage CO2.

A) Baseless claim.

B) Alternative to fossil enegery is regnerative, not nuclear power where the entire feasibility study of locking away waste is "trust me bro".

woelkchen , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

I would argue that the alternative to fossil fuels is “both and”.

You argue a lot of things, as long as nuclear waste comes out as totally fine.

The Finnish model exists and is well regarded.

Well regarded by nuclear fans, of course. Nobody is denying that. Totally unproven to work because nobody tried it, yet. That thing's construction isn't even finished. Check back in 100000 years until making further claims. I'll revoke my misgivings once it's proven to work. Until then don't pile up new waste.

woelkchen , vor einem Monat

Just tar, no arguments. Does nothing, still a valid command, no?

woelkchen OP , vor einem Monat

I get that Gnome is RedHat’s main thing, but like at least make a button that says “See other excellent DEs”.

SUSE only supports Gnome on SLED but the big DEs are treated equally on openSUSE.