“Wine Is No Emulator” works ;)

i think the swiss too, at least when it comes to driving fines? not sure…

no, no, no, biiig NO:

pseudo-code is an actual, useful tool in software development!

don’t misappropriate that one!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocode

just long press a username --> edit tag

percentages cannot represent absolute changes: by definition it’s always a relative change.

that implies the rate at which CTs kill occupants is even higher than that when compared to modern cars, right?

i think the big problem for the open source/FOSS communities isn’t that their code is being used via LLMs for other open source projects, which I’m pretty sure is fine, but for closed source commercial projects, which is NOT fine and a clear licensing violation.

it’s the free–>commercial “loophole” (really outright theft, but here we are) part that’s problematic

oh, that wasn’t really the point; i just pointed out that a ban isn’t the only way to undermine a culture or language!

it was in addition to what you wrote, not meant as a counterpoint.

overall good points, but I’d like to expand on the one about forbidding languages at educational institutions:

a ban isn’t even necessary to expediate the decline of a language; it’s often enough to simply defund it.

teachers need funding, and simply not giving any to other languages or other cultural curriculum is effectively the same as a ban.

few schools and administrations would shoulder the costs of “extra” curriculum, because few have the funds to do so, particularly when it comes to minorities…

source: am part of such a minority (in central europe though) and our state actually sponsors extra language classes, courses, and cultural clubs, activities, and events in order to preserve our unique identity and culture.

it’s still trending towards extinction though, as such minorities tend to do…

tl;dr: no need for a ban, just withhold a bit of funding and it will die out within a few generations…

instead of hamachi, may i suggest zerotier for your gaming needs?

runs on linux, CLI only though, but i found it ptetty intuitive to use. documentation is pretty good too!

the advantage over hamachi (don’t know about tailscale) is peer-2-peer connection, meaning it’s great for gaming with friends for the way lower latency!

the servers only negotiate the pathways between peers, everything else is directly between peers ;)

i mean, seems you’re also conveniently skipping over the part that says:

as long as we can counter them by rational argument

it’s right there in the text:

popper states outright, that there are some ideologies and by extension people, that straight-up cannot be argued with. these, therefore, must be excluded from the community, and thereby form the limit to tolerance that must be enforced.

people really love to misinterpret popper…

what goes along nicely with the tolerance of paradox is the quote about anti-semites being entirely aware of how absurd their position truly are:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

take both popper and sartre together into consideration of a larger context and it becomes abundantly obvious that a certain minimum of intolerance is strictly necessary for a functional society.

what happens when all checks on speech are removed can be clearly seen in the rotting corpses of facebook and twitter… it’s disastrous.

probably because “talent” is more specific:

that would be like “why not call them dogs?” when talking about poodles…yes, it’s technically correct, but not really representative, is it?

autocorrect/spellcheck tripped you up friend: it’s serf (as in serfdom) ;)

.:|:;

oh, it does work…

…if you’re bigoted enough.

afaik the client does collect a bunch if data, most (all, i think? but not a 100% on that) of which is opt-in.

they do need stuff like IPs for internet related features.

telemetry wise there’s the steam hardware survey, which is opt-in, and it asks every single time it attempts to collect your systems hardware and OS information. this could technically be identifying information, but since it’s opt-in it’s not a privacy violation and it’s entirely optional. (plus it’s super useful for all involved: users, devs, and steam. it’s kind of a win-win and straight up necessary info for devs to know which hardware they should optimize for)

they might be putting it at the top because steam has native support for DRM?

but that’s also weird, because DRM isn’t a privacy violation. it’s a shitty practice, barely does anything, barely works, and keeps breaking or hobbling otherwise perfectly good games, all of which is shitty, but it’s little to do with privacy. and the dev has to specifically opt-in and integrate it as a feature…unless they’re thinking of 3rd party DRM that can be waaay more intrusive, like Vanguard… THAT’S a privacy and security nightmare just waiting to blow up in people’s faces.

otherwise…i haven’t really heard anything bad about steam privacy wise?

doesn’t mean that there’s nothing to be concerned about, but i feel like there’d been some news about it if there was…