Want to put some economic incentive to pirating? Make it a shared / solidarity pool. Or get in touch with a state / nation that has more active interest on digital sovereignty and preservation so that it can be set up as some sort of UBI.

cracking the games

to put some DRM on them

to sell them

Fam, half the point of pirating is getting harmful middlemans out of the way. If I wanted a game and it was available on the Cracked Store for, say, $10 plus $15 for the DRM unlock, I’d just go to 1337x or somesuch to get the normal pirated version.

I feel so silly that I wouldn’t even know how to describe it.

I know! I’ll pirate hundreds of books from well-known authors so that I can easily find a useful metaphor.

If Meta can pirate stuff, then the Internet Archive can pirate stuff and I can also pirate stuff. Fair is fair.

Where do you find such downloads? Most torrent sites I’ve seen barely give you anythng under 720p that is not 480p (or 144p 3gp for the lulz value, I guess?) these days.

Huh, didn’t know the 3DSXL could do 480p well, I always thought its limits were at about 360p (or 400p if such a profile existed). Can I ask how do you perform such encoding? Like, what encoder and options are you using. Oh and the battery usage. It’s for a book.

Dealing out the harsh truths I see!

So that means, since I’m paying it whether I pirate or not, I might as well pirate, right?

Public funding, public access!

A sad day, but nothing that can’t be fixed by reuploading the files.

They won’t merge my code unless I change my code to be GPL.

If you are the author of the code you want to merge, you can double-license it you know. Hand them a GPL license, they’ll be able to use your copy under the same terms, while you and everyone else use your current license.

ATM I’m using Quad9 and OpenNIC but I’m not sure how much of everything do they cover. I’m also not well aware of any other good “flat DNS” alternative (aka: one you can put right into your /etc/resolv.conf / Windows LAN config, without need of extra internal service).

Never question the bravery of the French. They discovered snails are edible.

As for their intelligence on the other hand…

We need to use other methods than voting.

Funnily enough the French are from Europe and they put forth some handy tools!

I can only hope programming.dev of all instances doesn’t have this problem!

(Also, I’m really wondering where does this error come from. It can’t be, in theory, from lemmy itself, right? One would think user input in posts is sanitized so that it’s not used as code, either raw or processed).

/etc/passw[nothing]d blocked here at lemm.ee.

As an extra layer of security, always run wine / proton as a separate user, for example via sudo, or even better via schroot, which won’t let the “Z:/” drive see your entire filesystem.

.bat

Nice try, fed. :p

I mean, if you are already know you’re using GCC, knowing to browse the manpage for info is easier.

The problem with manpages is, in my experience, they are vastly ill-suited for the “modern” / desktop-like workflow of the distros. They’re point is they’re not the tool for that, they are reference manuals focused on the tool, not training pamphlets focused on the use. Like, what is the manpage for “my desktop icons disappeared”? Even assuming there’s one. Or for “my desktop is in Italian but my start menu is in Swahili”? Or for “after video driver update and reboot my screen is monochrome”? Heck, for most of those even figuring out a proper info page (the “competitor” of man page) would be next to impossible.

So, there is of course merit to reading the documentation. But for that someone has to first isolate the workflow and write that documentation. I’m not interested in the man page for “steel” or for “lacrimals”; I need the usage pamphlet for “Slicing onions with a kitchen knife”.

How about a guillotine? Those don’t seem to require a religious belief, only a modicum of trust in the well-studied force of gravity.

“Don O’Evil”