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I joined Lemmy back in 2020 and have been using it as @qaz@lemmy.ml until somewhere in 2023 when I switched to lemmy.world. I'm interested in systemd/Linux, FOSS, and Selfhosting.

  • Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU?

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  • Has anyone verified what this article says?

    Here's the directive in question: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/53/oj/eng It doesn't seem to imply what the article implies.

    Also, here are some things from the discussion on HN

    As is usual, there seems to be a massive misunderstanding what the directive is and means. The TLDR is that the directive contains no clauses that compels phone makers to keep the Android bootloader locked or that forbids EU users from unlocking it.

    Samsung's public reasoning might be that disabling unlocking the bootloader because of the directive, but there is nothing in the directive that forces them to lock the bootloader. It does sound like a convenient scapegoat if they don't want to talk about the real reasons though.

    The phone makes who end up disabling the unlocking of bootloaders are all doing so on their own accord, not because some regulation is forcing them to.

    Finally, the EU’s broader right-to-repair policies makes it kind of impossible that an outright prohibition of unlocking the bootloader could happen. But of course, nuance doesn't make people click article titles on the web...

  • Cutting Out the Middleman (by Jen Sorensen)

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  • I’m going to take a risk and say you write faster than you type and reaching for a pencil is quicker than launching a program.

    Maybe for you, but opening KWrite takes only 5-6 key presses and I type much faster than I write

  • Cutting Out the Middleman (by Jen Sorensen)

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  • We don't need to go back to handwritten mail, FOSS is the way to go.

  • Teaching

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  • Yes, often the course is just hard or the students are lazy, but not always. I've had several teachers who were strangely proud of the low succes rates.

  • Not my problem

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  • Yes. Vibe coding tools and AI companies

  • We don't talk about IPv5

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  • Thanks, might have to try that sometime.

  • We don't talk about IPv5

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  • Could you link the privacy extension in question I haven't heard of it

  • We don't talk about IPv5

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  • I do like how I can easily remember IPv4 addresses while I struggle to remember a single IPv6 address

  • Not my problem

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  • AI / Vibe coding software (companies)

  • Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship

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  • I'm wondering how long it's going to take to revert this policy

  • Slapping on a .expect is also error handling!

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  • I don't think that's a valid comparison. The behavior does differ when it comes to cleanly releasing resources. Rust's panic performs the drop actions for the current values on the stack, a SIGILL or SIGSEGV crash doesn't.

     rs
        
#[derive(Debug)]
struct MyStruct {}

impl Drop for MyStruct {
	fn drop(&mut self) {
		println!("{:?}", "imagine cleanup here"); // this is called
	}
}

fn main() {
	let a = MyStruct {};
	panic!("panic!");
        println!("{a:?}");
}

    Try it yourself

  • Slapping on a .expect is also error handling!

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  • Bird

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  • This reminds me of an old family story. My grandpa used to have an uncle who had flamingo's. Imagine walking through a Dutch village somewhere in the 60's and seeing a bunch of flamingo's standing in some muddy ditch. I have have no clue how he they ended up there, but it apparently wasn't the first time he ended up with some tropical animal. My grandpa had to take care of them for a while, but didn't really know what to feed them. He also had some parrots and would buy food for them from the miller. Considering these were also birds, just larger, he went to the miller and asked for food for flamingo's. The miller did not know what flamingo's were. He therefore explained that they were large pink birds. The miller was not convinced, thinking he was pulling his leg and sent him away with a few bags of chicken feed.

  • Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship

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  • It might be because of child abuse themes and the portrayal of robot sex workers. It has been criticized before.

    We knew right from the start that Detroit: Become Human was going to be heavy going. The 2016 and 2017 trailers both featured children in peril: first a child dangled from a rooftop, then a young girl being beaten by her father, but David Cage defended the dark subject matter with the promise that “there’s a context in the story, there’s a reason for that”, and we gave the game the benefit of the doubt. The problem is that having now seen the game in full it is clear that Cage’s child abuse narrative isn’t content with just one scene, and definitely isn’t used with care, context, and solid reasoning.

    ‘Detroit: Become Human’: Exploitative and Tasteless

    I'm not sure if I agree with this sentiment. I feel like it was mostly focused on the way Kara goes out of her way to protect Alice, but I can kind of understand how someone else could see this differently.

  • Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship

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  • I've never bought a porn game nor ever played one, but I just think it's stupid that such large companies fold to a lobby organization and start moderating the sale of products. Christian fundamentalist activists are persistent and organized, and it's effective. I think it's bad how a small minority is able to dictate the lives of other people and I like how people get riled up because I hope it will remind the people in charge of those large corporations that catering to extremists is a bad decision.

    TLDR: Idgaf about the games, I just hate it when religious zealots dictate the lives of others.

    EDIT: I might have been wrong about "Collective Shout" and didn't look into it enough before forming an opinion.

    EDIT 2: Yeah, I don't think "Incest Daughters BDSM" deserves saving. They seem to be primarily targeting rape and incest games, and I can definitely understand that you want to see rape games gone from if you're an organisation like this. Article However, I still don't know how accurate their own article is, I might check out more sources/perspectives when I have time.

    EDIT 3: My initial assessment seems to be correct, a large amount of games are affected and the “policies” seem to be enforced with a disregard for accuracy. The organization also seems to be more extreme.

  • Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship

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  • I think the limiting factor would be getting your number blocked. Maybe someone could get a bunch of VoIP numbers?

  • Antidepressant of the masses

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  • Okay? Stay safe, I guess

  • Thoughts on codecademy site?

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  • I've used it and Sololearn back when I first started to learn programming (about 7-9 years ago) and I remember it being fine. However, I used it on a tablet and it has been almost a decade ago so there's a good chance my opinion doesn't hold weight anymore.

    I saw a new educational tool by JetBrains some time ago and maybe that's something you could take a look at https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/product-educational-tools.html

  • Then they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cards

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  • Mostly yeah, but AFAIK it did have additional privacy advantages