Windows itself already splits those up in security and feature updates…

for gaming it’s easiest to go with bazzite:

it’s based on fedora atomic and works really well out of the box!

also comes pre-installed with a few nice to have gaming utilities.

highly customizable and FOSS applies to all popular distros, afaik.

check it out here

it’s intensely funny to me that space genocide simulator 3000 (stellaris, a paradox game), which offers myriad ways to abuse and torture alien races, has a player base that mostly plays as pacifist xenophiles and the bio-compatibility ascension!

(bio-comp means interspecies breeding, so that falls under horny i guess)

this information is from a devblog some years ago, no idea wether that’s still the case, but I’d assume it is, since at the time this playstyle dominated at somewhere around 2-3 times the percentage of the next highest playstyle… I’m pretty sure it’s still the case, because some major patches ago the devs reworked bio-comp to be less of a lag generator, i assume because a significant number of players still use it (despite the insane lag it added, and pretty sure still does)

no it’s more like saying “desalinated water is fine, it’s the brine that’s problematic.”

which is true.

and the same goes for teflon:

the PFAS are toxic, not teflon itself.

glossing over that distinction is disingenuous…

yes, you can’t make one without the other, true, but the end product is not toxic. that’s an important difference you can’t just ignore in order to say teflon is toxic, because a requisite material in (cheap) production is toxic.

because that’s like saying desalinated water is toxic, just because brine is toxic…which is obviously ridiculous.

are you dumb?

none of the links you posted talk about restrictions on certain materials within libraries, e.g. all of them allow you access any information at any time.

ALL of the links you posted talk about restrictions on the membership registration process, not what you can and can’t borrow from the library.

this isn’t about censorship, it’s just about establishing who you call when a kid misbehaves on library grounds or damages something the library owns.

that’s why a guardian is required to co-sign memberships: kids break shit. like, all the time!

so first of all: fair points.

but also to consider:

• the Vatican is the only not-country with a permanent seat at the UN (this in itself is somewhat insane)
• the Pope’s direct influence might be limited, but the cultural influence the catholic church holds should not be underestimated. if the pope gets killed or injured or simply stubs his toe in gaza, europe will, absolutely, go berserk. it’s pretty dumb, as you’ve pointed out, but it will happen.
• beyond religious influence, the cultural influence of the catholic church is actually incredible! (consider: every settlement, from village with population 5, all the way to metropolitan cities has at least one church in all of europe! every single one!)
• the pope is held in high esteem, even among other religions and their leadership. killing a pope is, effectively, a declaration of war to the entire world. that’s the kind of shit that makes north korea go “wait, that’s insanity, wtf?!” (and this isn’t pure admiration, it’s simple survival instinct: the leadership of all major religions is smart enough to realize “if it can happen to the pope, it can definitely happen to us”, and that includes jewish leadership)
• even most people that feel contemptuous about the church as an institution (which i definitely am one of) would be extremely upset by such a blatantly hostile action against a major foreign dignitary. even just harming a pope is unthinkable to most europeans raised in christian households. even if we’ve become firmly atheist later…
• imagine the president of germany, france, italy, poland, spain, or really any other european country being assassinated in gaza. all of europe would revolt. it would cause absolute mayhem in geopolitics and most likely result in immediate International intervention, i.e. severe sanctions. (because israel has nukes, although they would most likely be forced to relinquish or severely reduce their capabilities and they would definitely be subjected to international oversight.)
• the US cannot, i repeat, can not ignore hostilities against the church. there will be riots, and it will unite people like basically nothing else could, because even conservatives would get severe whiplash from those news. trump claims to be christian, and even the nutty american christians would be upset enough to force a reaction out of the white house. yes, even this white house. because, as someone else has pointed out, not ever in history was a pope killed in a military conflict. never.

or to some it up:

✅: fuck the catholic church and fuck the pope!

🚫: but never, EVER, fuck with the pope!

Madonna really, truly, has a point here: the pope could probably end this genocide!

because as you’ve pointed out; having fans in gaza isn’t really important!

…but the leader of THE most influential religion in the entire world?

hell yeah, that guy has influence! and hell yeah they could definitely throw their weight behind this cause!

and Madonna drawing attention to that fact is actually solid strategy to get the church to respond:

no response means complicity, but virtually any response other than a resounding renunciation will be seen as weakness.

she is putting them on the spot, forcing a reaction. that’s how politics works, and this is a political move, and an honestly pretty great one at that!

edit; forgot this bit:

this is why Madonna pointing at the pope is more than just a rich person that could do more being cheap; nobody in the world has the sheer support of the pope and the catholic church. she’s acting as a force amplifier. that’s something that goes beyond mere monetary influence, although you are absolutely right that she could do more.

it is ;)

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

check your email addresses, then check for malware on your system.

that’s definitely not normal…

workaround: zip the folder?

i know it’s a little annoying, but it does make it into “one file” ;)

what a ridiculous idea. that’s not how anything works:

copyright applies to the intellectual property, not the exact file.

so the code itself is the copyrighted thing, not the file you download.

it doesn’t matter whether you download the gpl version, you type out the gpl version by hand, or delete all new code until only gpl code is left.

all you would need to proof is that the code is identical to the gpl code. how you got to that code is completely irrelevant.

you have some fundamental misunderstandings about copyrighted material, intellectual property, and fair use.

most importantly: copyright applies to intellectual property. the idea of a thing, not the physical thing.

so in the case of this emulator, the file and where you got it from is completely irrelevant; only the content of the file, the code, has any meaning. which means any files that contain the same code are identical in the eyes of the law, regardless of how you got them.

copyright is not a contract, but a license. and a license is a manual that explains how intellectual property (the idea of a thing, not the physical thing) is allowed to be used by someone. it’s not specific to an individual, which is why contracts have to be signed by both parties. so no, you don’t have a contract and no obligation to adhere to the new one at all. you can choose to use the old license, as long as you don’t use any of the new code.

unless you want to modify and/or distribute the new code, the license (CC-BY-NC-ND) is irrelevant for the user.

and you can modify your own private copy as much as you want, you just can’t distribute it, or modify and use it in a way that is illegal in some other way. but that’s about it.

and all of this applies to both US and german law.

and none of this is remotely relevant, because the gpl version is still available for download!

nothing got replaced, so the gpl license is very much still applicable to that version of the software!

“new” does not mean that the old version went anywhere; it’s still around. and you can still use, modify, and distribute it under the gpl.

for “this dude” to have any meaning to anyone, there needs to be a name attached at the very least.

that alone is personal information.

personal information is any information that can be used to uniquely identify a natural person.

this app was nothing but personal information being deliberately spread without the persons consent.

man am i glad this sort of bullshit isn’t even up for discussion in the EU…what an absolute nightmare for privacy…

… you DO realize Jesus literally “vandalized” a market, right?

like, Jesus actually did use property damage to make his point, when he trashed merchants property they had set up for sale in a temple.

soooo…maybe fuck off with this houlier-than-thou bullshit?

yes, correct, assuming a solo project!

thank you for the correction.

yes and no:

the copyright owner can do whatever they want, but they can’t really revoke a GPL license. that’s not really a thing.

and the part about

If you obtained your copy under the old license you can use it under the old license when you obtain a new copy you have a new license agreement.

seems to me like you are implying that “use under the old license” means “run the program on my own machine”, but that’s not true, since GPL explicitly allows redistribution and modification.

under a GPL license, you effectively give up control over your software voluntarily:

The GNU General Public Licenses are a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft licenses, that guarantee end users the freedom to run, study, share, or modify the software.

(highlighted the relevant portion for your convenience)

this makes revoking the license effectively impossible.

you could continue development under a different license, but that gets legally tricky very quickly.

for example: all the code previously under GPL, stays under GPL. so if someone where to modify those parts of the code and redistribute it as a patch, you couldn’t legally do anything about that.

which seems to be what the OOP claims the change to a CC-BY-NC-ND forbids, apparently misunderstanding, that this new license only applies to code added to the repo since the license change, not the code from before the license change.

yes you can!

…for new versions. not for already released ones.

at least not with most common copyleft/open source licenses.

edit: assuming a solo project. see below.

sure, if you change absolutely everything about what i said and twisted it around into a completely different situation that has nothing to do with anything being discussed, you might have a point!

i never once said i want to be a part of it.

i never once said that their existence is a problem.

in fact i’ve said the opposite multiple times.

it’s their insistence on being public and then getting annoyed when someone wanders in on accident, assuming entirely reasonably, that is a public space, since, you know, it IS public, that i take issue with.

i don’t want to participate, and i respect their rules.

what i don’t want is posts either complaining about others missing the rules and posting by mistake, and what i also don’t want are posts like this one claiming that having communities which are clearly, by their own rules, private communities that are kept open to the public being somehow fine. which then necessitates idiotic spam like this very post.

you want a private corner for your group? fine, set it to private. that’s exactly what that is for.

if you want to reach lots of people, keep it open. and expect people to interpret said “open” sign to actually mean open, because that is what you willfully set it to.

wanting it both ways is some serious bs…

okay, put it a different way:

if someone’s car is blocking half the sidewalk, forcing every passerby to walk around…is that made any better when they hang a little sign on it saying “please mind the car”?

they’re still in the way. they could go all the way up their driveway, there’s plenty of room, they just choose to make their bad parking everyone else’s problem.

that’s what’s going on here:

they could correctly configure their community like everyone else, but they choose to make it everyone else’s problem when they show up in the all feed.

and the all feed is not owned by any one instance, which is why your analogy with the authorities doesn’t work. (the park analogy isn’t great anyway, the driveway/sidewalk one is better, i think)

their attitude of “just block it, if you don’t like it” is the very definition of making their community everybody’s else’s problem.

and i think that’s rude and inconsiderate.

and if you can’t see how it’s way worse to control how who can post is much worse than what gets posted:

it’s the difference between banning pride merch from your store, and banning queer people from your store.

both might be bad, but one is clearly much, MUCH worse!

i mean, kind of? not really?

the park is all of lemmy. WomensStuff doesn’t own all of lemmy, so that doesn’t really fit with the metaphor.

more accurate would be, if a small group marched into the park, staked off a section right in the middle, put up a little sign they made themselves, and declared this to be a competition area. all without any coordination with park authorities, without any permits, and with no prior warning to the general community.

it’s simply rude. that’s really what it boils down to.

lemmy is public by default. that’s the entire point. so declaring that this specific patch lemmy (or grass to keep with the metaphor) suddenly isn’t public anymore, is at least rude.

it’s just not how public spaces work.

i want to reiterate here, that, again, i totally understand why women want a space just for them.

it’s that using the rules instead of any number of other enforcement mechanism is really, really not how things are done around here. that’s why it is considered so rude by so many other users.

it breaks the unspoken rules of the platform.

edit: comment was made with different content in the parent comment.

no, that is very much different.

pie recipes on FuckCars get deleted because of their content, not because of who posted them.

rules are supposed to be for content.

this constitutes a misuse of the rule system.

the point I’m making is:

the software doesn’t do what they want right now.

future development doesn’t mean anything in this context, but by all means, open a feature request; I’m sure plenty of communities would welcome features like that!

the problem is the disregard for the design of the platform.

it doesn’t do what they want now, and they need to conform to how the platform works now.

public means public. private means private.

those settings exist for a reason.

if visibility is such a concern, make two communities:

one that is public and allows anyone to participate, and one that is private, invite only.

that last one is obviously what they have tried to recreate here, and it’s not how the platform generally works.

in a traditional forum, this isn’t really an issue, since you’d just have a designated board, clearly separate from others. only lemmy is not a traditional forum. it doesn’t have this separation.

anything that shows up on all is supposed to be fair game for everyone.

if you don’t want that, don’t make it show up in all.

i really don’t care if it’s a womens only, or mens only, or canadians only community. the public feed is not the place for that, and with the current state of the software (which is the only thing of relevance here) what this community wants is not possible.

so either:

• find a workaround (that doesn’t annoy the general userbase)
• contribute to a technical solution (it is a public repo after all)
• use software that actually has the feature you want.

annoying users is generally bad Netiquette. this bad Netiquette is the issue at hand.

not the desire for a designated womens space. i haven’t seen anyone in the thread lamenting that.

this whole thing is kind of like setting up a bbq in the middle of a public park, and getting mad at people, when they point out that there is a designated bbq area that you are supposed to use.

it’s not the people pointing out the existence of a designated bbq area that are wrong!

it’s the people ignoring the signs that say “please use the designated area for your bbqs” that are wrong.