Post B83sCedxNu5Bdu64cC by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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(DIR) Post #B83fSjmQktlynqOntA by chjara@akko.tuxcrafting.xyz
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CoD MW2 90% off on Steam? How- It's 100$ normally??
(DIR) Post #B83hdSp4LK5dIusMBk by chjara@akko.tuxcrafting.xyz
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Huh
(DIR) Post #B83hfDldI16hBp6eSu by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@chjara CoD is stinky!!
(DIR) Post #B83hwyIdXL6kQj0Xcu by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@lanodan @chjara everything not foss is stinky
(DIR) Post #B83hwyZIXOR3GOnqb2 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@allison @chjara Do you count Quake then? (non-libre assets but libre code)Or only the games derived from it?
(DIR) Post #B83i0WDxrW5gVwVut6 by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@lanodan @chjara that's why I'm ride or die with https://mycophobia.org/tromi/
(DIR) Post #B83i1tfu9twhXDEvjs by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@lanodan @chjara quake counts imho, assets are almost always all over the place, but it's the codebase that ultimately matters
(DIR) Post #B83iA21H18VTjR771E by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@allison @chjara Yeah for me it counts too, specially as it doesn't seems to put limits on platforms.(Quake is Year of gaming on Plan9 approved :D)
(DIR) Post #B83iEVODlIS1yoyqkC by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@lanodan @chjara for the same reason I also consider emulators licit, the assets are nonfree but the program running them is free
(DIR) Post #B83ibUCoKX2Ay5bMIa by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@allison @chjara emulators… I consider them entirely legal, at least as long as they don't bundle in non-free code and quite few times you need stuff like boot roms, which are typically proprietary with little to no libre reimplementations.But I'd still wish you could have libre licensing of what runs in emulators, if only to make stuff like mods legal.
(DIR) Post #B83jEhkXuJTcGh57tA by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@lanodan @chjara legality is entirely not a concern to me, but from a practical perspective I prefer libre software because of the guarantees it offers
(DIR) Post #B83jEi0qvgWL5Gi9J2 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@allison @chjara I take legality as the only difference between libre and not. Otherwise it's just random kinds of source code access or even just binary edits where if you do anything with it either it's kept personal or it's stuck to pirate-lands with little to no cooperation possibilities.
(DIR) Post #B83juY5qCTouTuzlDc by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@lanodan @chjara There's a qualitative difference between source code which is designed and maintained to be edited by third parties in a general public and binary artifacts which don't have said guarantees and were never intended to.
(DIR) Post #B83juYOz3J8HRHx33Y by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@allison @chjara True, and to be clear, I'm not on the side of "everything needs to be libre software".There's few things where I think they need to be (like for gov/bank/… stuff I so wish it would be open protocols), but not everything.And I appreciate when something is libre, but like for example I'm not going on a jihad against the demoscene for typically only sharing carefully made binary builds.
(DIR) Post #B83kGgK8HQTENYEXya by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@lanodan @chjara there are gradations to this stuff and it's mainly the last 20 odd years of enclosure which have been catastrophically harmful to the world at large, as opposed to just being a minor annoyance
(DIR) Post #B83mTuDa8GXF90bRyK by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@SuperDicq @lanodan @chjara it's collateral damage from their perspective, mindshare, a nice side effect really (not that it matters since all the nsa puppygirls got purged circa early last year for spurious reasons)
(DIR) Post #B83mrlob1fwI26IOVE by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@SuperDicq @lanodan @chjara https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/nsa-chat-messages-intelligence-officers-gabbard.html this bullshit
(DIR) Post #B83mrmBde0N3BZ4nQ0 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@allison @chjara @SuperDicq Gah I hate the modern web.Gonna build a time-machine with a 40" CRT to prevent SERN from building the web.
(DIR) Post #B83n8cO9KKhligxWrY by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@SuperDicq @lanodan @chjara to be frank I'm not interested in any government secrets, I've got enough on my plate not trying to die from my numerous chronic health conditions to care about much of anything else
(DIR) Post #B83nAVi3898taIAZcm by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@allison @chjara @SuperDicq Plus probably a lot of horrors, although maybe some can be truly fun.
(DIR) Post #B83nGlSBVUzk9RjNlQ by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@lanodan @chjara @SuperDicq you don't need to see secrets to see horrors, the post office in and of itself keeps me up at night sometimes
(DIR) Post #B83nQmVsQFw4KjEbEe by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@lanodan @SuperDicq @chjara the true redpill about "oh the government is so fucked up x y z" is that it's all out in the open and literally nobody cares
(DIR) Post #B83nQmjhaqzj1bhdmi by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@allison @chjara @SuperDicq True…Or the ones who would care are just so fucking tired about it, or they already knew back when it happened.
(DIR) Post #B83nXq7DQaSdX545bc by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@lanodan @chjara @SuperDicq trying to convince the rabble of things that really happened is a fools errand, and there's no compelling reason to believe a complete release of information would change this.
(DIR) Post #B83ngda7OiPTGXmMoy by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@allison @chjara @SuperDicq Yeah.Case in point, the Snowden leaks mostly just served as proof to the ones who already cared while not slowing any of the ongoing crap of putting nearly everything cloud at the hands of the USA.
(DIR) Post #B83qjbi17GAcBna6im by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@SuperDicq @allison @KaiserKitty @chjara Yeah, it's like people who've been watching way too much TV. Although the kind you've described seems even worse.To me it just cooks the brain, like some sort of psychological abuse.
(DIR) Post #B83qp5IaWrqrPOIbI0 by KaiserKitty@clubcyberia.co
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@SuperDicq @lanodan @allison @chjara I just gave up after that. Sadly I think this sort of nihilism is just super common now. People forget there is a difference between being skeptical and being skeptical for skepticals sake. It’s like how a specific journal or researcher will be exposed for fraud so you get hoards of retards swarming “of course scientists and doctors always Lie!!” Then seemingly don’t care that the fraud was exposed by another scientist.
(DIR) Post #B83rS0FVEo972aPhzM by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@SuperDicq @allison @KaiserKitty @chjara That plus filter bubbles, so if you try the long obsolete* technique of mixing sources, you risk having fringe shit seen as consensus.*Obsolete because of very few upstream sources, thanks to news agencies + medias copying each others, plus journalists being at multiple ones sometimes even with sockpuppets. And investigative journalism being of course way more expensive to produce.
(DIR) Post #B83sCdtABseVImChg8 by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@SuperDicq @lanodan @chjara That's where new development of FOSS games comes in, should anyone be daring enough to take up the task at hand
(DIR) Post #B83sCe4VVhj5rxVlMO by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@SuperDicq @chjara @lanodan http://daifukkat.su/hacks/ketarr/ also at least in the US binary patches have been ruled to be entirely legal and there are many, *many* people who take advantage of this status quo to their own ends
(DIR) Post #B83sCeGCoD5GSEz6au by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
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@allison @chjara @SuperDicq @lanodan As far as I am aware, only binary-patches at runtime, in memory (that is lost on a power cycle) has been ruled legal - running a patch that modifies a file in a way that requires copyright permission and then stores to a storage medium, is still prohibited modification and is therefore illegal.
(DIR) Post #B83sCeSG5Oj13ccjNg by allison@hidamari.apartments
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@Suiseiseki @chjara @SuperDicq @lanodan https://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html djb, at least, has claimed otherwise
(DIR) Post #B83sCedxNu5Bdu64cC by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@allison @chjara @Suiseiseki @SuperDicq Yeah but djb has decades of basically everyone disagreeing with him on his weird copyright takes.In fact here he's doing his old shit of entirely mixing up local modifications (which I'd take as legal, at least when no DRM is present but that's also something a bit unclear in some jurisdictions), and *sharing* those modifications (not legal without permission).