Why yes, our bodies, and our brains, are designed to be as dense as possible to be more efficient! This is why our brains’ gray matter has a lot of crevices so it can fold onto itself.

You can prevent piracy using a stronger keygen algorithm and online activation.

Valve sells product keys all the time, you don’t hear about them having a keygen problem. People just bypass the authentication altogether and simply torrent the software, which is something people still do with Windows 11.

What’s your point? Is it now somehow no longer physically possible to sell product keys in store due to some higher decree?

Porn. So much porn.

And, unfortunately, illegal stuff. Which we had to report.

Man, I wish I could hand them cold, hard cash. Instead, I gotta pay Ticketmaster to skim off the top first before giving the artist and their team peanuts.

Streisand effect

Well, yes, but triage is work.

I don’t disagree that this could be handled better, but it’s his decision if he no longer feels like Linux is worth supporting.

I don’t know if he gets harassed for ignoring reports from downstream builds or what, but I know this was a problem for Bottles and OBS where users became very irate and rude in the bug reports because the downstream version was broken.

Then I don’t know why you’re here in the first place.

I suggest you delete your comments if you’re going to attack people ad hominem by calling them a “cry baby” instead of clearly stating your opinion and refuse to have a conversation about it. You won’t have people replying to you about a conversation you don’t want to have.

As you said, it’s a waste of your time, and a waste of everyone else’s time.

You’ve dodged my question. Please explain how what I’ve stated is wrong.

Oh, 100% troll, I’m just enjoying watching them dig their own hole and run out of responses.

Please explain how it is wrong.

No, I understand exactly what you’re saying, you’re stating that people doing free work owe you things, and I’m stating that the licence absolves them of all obligations you claim they have.

Besides, you have not stated on what basis the developer “owes” you support besides attacking them and other commenters in this thread on an ad hominem basis.

If you wanted guaranteed support, you could ask the original author if you can get a maintenance and support contract for their application, where the limits and costs of that support are outlined in the contract.

There’s zero responsibility or liability on open source work. Specifically, this is licensed as CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, which has the following clauses:

Section 5 – Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability.

a. Unless otherwise separately undertaken by the Licensor, to the extent possible, the Licensor offers the Licensed Material as-is and as-available, and makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning the Licensed Material, whether express, implied, statutory, or other. This includes, without limitation, warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, absence of latent or other defects, accuracy, or the presence or absence of errors, whether or not known or discoverable. Where disclaimers of warranties are not allowed in full or in part, this disclaimer may not apply to You

b. To the extent possible, in no event will the Licensor be liable to You on any legal theory (including, without limitation, negligence) or otherwise for any direct, special, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, exemplary, or other losses, costs, expenses, or damages arising out of this Public License or use of the Licensed Material, even if the Licensor has been advised of the possibility of such losses, costs, expenses, or damages. Where a limitation of liability is not allowed in full or in part, this limitation may not apply to You.

c. The disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability provided above shall be interpreted in a manner that, to the extent possible, most closely approximates an absolute disclaimer and waiver of all liability.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

Bref, the developer doesn’t owe anyone anything beyond what is stated in the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, the GitHub TOS and the local laws where the developer lives.

Lmao yeah, big projection energy coming from that user.

Oh yeah, this guy works for free and doesn’t like getting reports for things that are beyond his control, this guy is a huge baby, fuck him for working for free!

You’re not paying his salary, he doesn’t owe you shit. No liability and all that.

People like you are why open source developers quit. They don’t get paid for this, and when it’s no longer pleasant, they stop doing work.

Some people struggle to make the split between religious people and religious extremists.

Not all Muslims are part of ISIS, not all Jews are Zionists. I don’t know what’s so difficult.

404 media doesn’t make you create an account, they just send you a link to your email, but having to create a throwaway email every time so they can’t track what I read is a hassle I just don’t care enough for. I’ll either skip the article or use a proxy.

Teeeeeeeeeeechnically, the term is correct, the Nazi regime did offer socialist benefits… Only for those they considered “nationals”, hence NatSoc.

Socialism alone does not guarantee democracy nor freedom of speech, it is strictly a financial system where the means of production are owned by society. The prefix “national” then defines who that society is.

I want to run my own voice processing service, ideally. Something that runs off of my home assistant server, would be cool if it made use of a Coral AI or similar.

My understanding is the software is the problem, I don’t understand why though.

Is it easy to set up a smart speaker with Home Assistant? Last I heard, it was kind of a PITA.