Ooooo, look at mr. “I’m sane” over here!

I am sane. I SWEAR I AM SANE! /me grabs the kitchen knife CAN’T YOU SEE IT? I’M SANER THAN EVERYONE ELSE HERE!!!

[I couldn’t help but play along with the joke, sorry.]

Relevant detail: this potential removal of the driver does NOT affect normal CD-R / DVD-R functionality. It’ll only prevent you from using them as if they were rewritable media.

Interconnect those baby steps, by having the governments

1. coordinate and phase out deprecated/Microsoft/obsolete software in synchronised waves.
2. share their solutions for problems that might pop up.
3. collaborate with governments outside the EU doing the same shift.

That IMO would increase the odds of success. And once the first steps are done, further steps will be easier.

If the technical boundary collapsed, put a human-made boundary in its place. You have the right to have some peace of mind and quiet; make yourself unavailable for at least a good chunk of the day, and make sure your folks know you’re unavailable. And why.

That’s how I remain sane.

From what I remember*, there was always some rough corner. Such as the wi-fi, or the graphics card. Sure, Stable was rock solid, but you always needed something from Testing; and Testing in general was overall less stable than Ubuntu or Mint.

*This was years ago, so it might be inaccurate as of 2025.

Mint is Ubuntu minus everything that makes Ubuntu annoying. That’s why I like it.

I considered to go back to Debian but… eh, I’m too old and impatient for that. Nowadays I mostly want things that work out of the box.

Pretty much - they’re lying it would introduce huge production costs, because most people who’d repeat this argument wouldn’t know they’re being lied to.

Not surprised with the lobbying group.

Ross did an amazing job addressing the babble in the statement. Specially because he’s being extra careful on saying things to the best of his knowledge - note how he doesn’t say “it’s false”, or “it’s a lie”, but rather “a German lawyer thinks this is false” and “this sounds like a lie”; gotta respect that.

Some additional comments:

The first paragraph of the lobbying group’s statement might sound like an introduction, but it’s already a straw man - it’s clearly misleading the reader on what Stop Killing Games is about.

as the protections we put in place

Excuse me?

1. Sod off with this “THINK ON PROTEKSHUN!” idiotic argument;
2. let us not forget the main concern when it comes to data protection are companies harvesting data so they can sell it to their “affiliate partners” (i.e. data vultures eager who’ll use it for targetted spam).

Note #1 is a cancer way more widespread than just the gaming industry. Every fucking bloody time some megacorpo wants to fight against some sane customer protection law, they babble shite like this. And it always sounds like “a user/customer is not a rational human being, it’s irrational trash, and if you let it do what it wants it’ll cause itself harm, so We need to protect those filthy things. And how convenient, the way to protect this filth against itself magically aligns with our financial interests!”

these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.

This is not even a fallacy. Not even bullshit. It’s simply to be a lying bastard, and to call the readers bloody muppets by proxy.

1M+ sign European Citizen’s Initiative “Stop Destroying Videogames”: Help us protect gamers’ consumer rights!

I think it would be sensible if the word “gamer” was replaced with “citizen” here. Because it’s what politicians care about.

If my analysis is correct, the people in the Ukrainian government do know that Putin and Trump are on the same team. And they’re trying to break it, by exploiting the fact Trump has a huge ego and a small brain. That’s why Podolyak is framing the attacks as humiliating Trump.

After Zelenskyy was humiliated in the White House no less, he must know these people are Demons right?

When fighting a devil, sometimes you need to make a deal with another.

You could warn the players that the game is best played blind, and the source code will have spoilers. Beyond that it’s up to them, I guess. (Or us. …I’m genuinely curious about your game.)

This may not be the most wholesome but I’m looking to make an indie rpg that tackles the non-choice of being born. T

This reminds me a bit Deltarune: it goes all the length to let you choose the head, torso, and legs you prefer… then its (referring to the body, aka “your creation”) favourite food, blood type, colour… a gift… then a name. Then it says: “your wonderful creation will now be discarded. No one can choose who they are in this world.”

It’s the same general “vibe” I get from your idea - we don’t choose certain things.

I don’t blame the orcas - have you seen a human? Those things are, like, 1/3 of the size of an orca; they’re clearly malnourished, some good ol’ seal meat will fix’em up real good!

Serious now. I think it’s interesting how they’re interacting cooperatively, with an animal of a different species. And it isn’t like either side domesticated the other (unlike, say, humans vs. dogs and cats); they don’t even live in the same environments, at most you have some humans doing short trips into the sea and that’s it.

“What I think in a sense is more impressive is that humans basically give no credit to any other creature for having a mind,” Safina said. Yet many other creatures, including orcas, understand implicitly that humans have minds. “So they understand us, and give us more credit there, they seem to comprehend the world better than we do, in our self-imposed estrangement.”

I feel like this is a step beyond theory of mind already.

I do recommend giving them a shot. Worst hypothesis (you hate it) they’re easy to pick out.

One hint I can give you, if making it at home, is to soft-boil them (8min). You want the yolk firm enough to slice, but not too cooked - to compensate for the baking.

enjoy yours tomorrow

Thanks!

The sliced eggs go alongside other toppings; none of the toppings requires a lot of cooking time, so the eggs won’t get overcooked.

This is a twist on a common local (Brazil) pizza flavour, pizza à portuguesa (lit. “pizza alla Portuguese”):

Except I’m subbing tomatoes for mushrooms.

From the questions you often ask here, it seems you really enjoy movies - I hope you two have fun!

Thanks!

Tuesday I’m going to bake myself a pizza. I’m planning olives, ham, bell peppers, boiled eggs, mushrooms, onion, basil for toppings.

It isn’t just for me (my mum asked pizza Saturday, but a bit too late for dinner), but I feel like treating myself. Ah, I’m almost certainly buying some wine to drink alongside it.

Agreed. It’s the best of both worlds: retro-inspired games can pick what the retro games did right, and still add modern improvements.

I hope so, too. Their current situation isn’t currently the best (a lot of them went away in the late 10s, simply because people were using them less); I’m kind of hoping to see a revival, but that’s at the mercy of the STF, so I can’t completely rule out that the situation will evolve exactly like in the UK. It’s “let’s wait and see”, you know?

I’m also wondering the impact of that on chatrooms, that used to be extremely popular here.

When something similar happened in the UK, it was pretty much exclusively smaller/niche forums, run by volunteers and donations, that went offline.

[Warning, IANAL] I am really not sure if the experience is transposable for two reasons:

1. UK follows Saxon tribal law, while Brazil follows Roman civil law. I am not sure but I believe the former requires both sides to dig up precedents, and that puts a heavier burden on the smaller side of a legal litigation. While in the later, if you show “ackshyually in that older case the defendant was deemed guilty”, all the judge will say is “so? What is written is what matters; if the defendant violated the law or not.”.
2. The Americas in general are notorious for sloppy law enforcement. Specially Brazil. Doubly so when both parties are random nobodies.

So there’s still a huge room for smaller forums to survive, or even thrive. It all depends on how the STF enforces it. For example it might take into account that a team of volunteers has less liability because their ability to remove random junk from the internet is lower than some megacorpo from the middle of nowhere.

Additionally, it might be possible the legislative screeches at the judiciary, and releases some additional law that does practically the same as that article 19, except it doesn’t leave room for the judiciary to claim it’s unconstitutional. Because, like, as I said the judiciary is a bit too powerful, but the other powers still can fight back, specially the legislative.