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come from different root words

That page lists two definitions for meal and the second one is literally "the edible part of ground grain". So it likely refers to grinding (as in with your teeth while eating). Also makes more sense because otherwise "mealtime" would mean "timetime".

There are rights and responsibilities associated with a proprietary model… and IMO you (and your permissive government) should not be overriding those rights for your own short-sighted benefit.

Kind of sounds like you misunderstood the initiative to be honest. This only affects games which have been abandoned by the developer, the proprietary model stays perfectly intact as long as you actually keep selling your games.

Ross is just doing PR basically, you can see the legal organisers of the petition here: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

Ceded by treaty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_1818

Not familiar enough with this particular project to know, but a quick glance at the commit log shows some overlap in commit authors, so I guess there is at least some level of sharing happening, probably just not through merges.

But being familiar with this kind of project in general, the branches will probably never be fully merged even in the future, just doesn't make much sense because they are server software targeting very different versions of a game client. There are also two other branches, but they "only" diverged by like one or two thousand commits so far.

Es ist jetzt aber gleichzeitig nicht wirklich einzusehen, dass der Steuerzahler irgendwelchen Kindern, jenseits von irgendeiner Sozialauswahl, eine Ferienbespaßung bezahlt nur auf Basis von ihrem Wohnort.

Na soweit kann ich die Argumentation ja nachvollziehen, wenn auch nicht teilen. Das es da überhaupt eine Beschränkung nach dem Wohnort gibt ist halt auch schon wieder typisch Deutscher Kontrollwahn, aber das sei mal dahingestellt.

Wir reden hier ja nicht davon, dass armen Kindern nichts gegönnt wird, sondern auch Kinder reicher Eltern können weiter von der Schule entfernt wohnen und Kinder ärmerer Eltern können näher an der Schule wohnen.

Aber hier kann ich so nicht mitgehen. Betroffen sind ja gerade durch die Wohnortbeschränkung eben die Kinder welche weiter weg wohnen, was man ja an sich schon als soziale Schwäche ansehen kann. Und dann werden in dieser Gruppe gerade die Kinder der ärmeren Eltern eher betroffen, weil die können nicht mal eben 58-116€ für ein Ersatzdeutschlandticket hergeben.

Also technisch gesehen hast du Recht, das betrifft arme wie reiche Kinder, aber praktische gesehen hat es halt quasi nur Auswirkungen für arme Kinder.

Meh, essentially it's just writing "Telecommunicationsourcesurveillance" as a single word without the spaces to indicate it's a singular thing being referred to (in this case the concept of directly listening on the source device before encryption happens). Might seem weird I guess, but you get used to it pretty quickly.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telekommunikations%C3%BCberwachung#Quellen-Telekommunikations%C3%BCberwachung

It means "telecommunication source surveillance".

Well I for one (not GP) am actually quite glad that it is literally illegal to publicly display here in Germany, especially with the current political climate going on here and elsewhere. You want to just out yourself as a Nazi? Okay, off to prison you go. That's good. AFAIK there are exemptions for temples and such, e.g. for artistic uses like Games, some Wolfenstein games replaced swastikas in the German release because nobody was sure if that's legal.

I don't think it is actually illegal to display in any country that has a lot of people using it religiously, but yeah it's a sad fact that it still has to be illegal in so many places such a long time later.

I guess he means cruel as opposed to "accidental". He's trying to make clear that it happens deliberately.