their methods are indeed significantly more sophisticated than that. explaining them accurately, however is beyond my knowledge… and i’m a principal engineer that deals with security quite regularly

energy independence aka more AMERICAN companies drilling for oil all over the world so they can make more money and assert their influence

but it’s never energy independence through renewables

woke

yknow how hipsters are woke? yeah? well do you know a hipster that DOESNT have a beard?!?

what this requires from developers: possibly documenting protocols in an open way when they choose to shut down games so that people can re-implement FOSS servers

“playable” is open to interpretation, and does not include trademarks, copyright, etc… nobody is asking for to allow assets to be traded (ie piracy), or open sourcing any code

but if you have purchased a game, and the servers for that game go away, someone else should be able to re-implement a method for allowing those games to continue being played

… also if DRM servers go away, you should disable the DRM somehow: you don’t get to just say that the DRM and therefor the game isn’t available any more

all of this is not at all knee-jerk, and very realistic

baby steps… patch hole after hole. the alternative is do nothing, and that’s a pretty crap outcome

they can make whatever laws they like really - the EU punishes corporate infringement with percentage of global revenue for example

whether they can enforce them or not is questionable in most cases, but unless apple wants to pull out of europe, the EU can kinda do whatever it likes

and here lies the issue with asking about crypto in non-crypto circles… everyone thinks they completely understand blockchain in its entirely. what they actually have is a rudimentary understanding of a single blockchain as it was literally 15 years ago

of course the problem with asking in crypto circles is that they’re all trying to sell you their new big thing which is probably total trash

so really there’s no good way to ask and get reasonable answers about crypto

you can get oral chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and hpv

so yeahhhh it’s basically everything

however implying because this fictional character has sex and has a good job means your depression is somehow “less” is problematic; fictional or not

i have a well paid job and have plenty of sex, but my depression is very much real… to someone in my situation struggling with working out their mental health, the kind of sentiment on display might make me reconsider whether my problems are “big enough” or whether i should “just get over it” or that “other people have it worse so my feelings are invalid”

fictional or not, the situation has parallels to real life, and real people are in similar positions. the damage is in reinforcing that their problems aren’t worthy of mental health support, and i can absolutely tell you that in this situation, acknowledging that you’re worth the support exactly because your problems seem trivial is a huge issue

.local exists for a very specific reason and it’s not meant to be used by regular DNS… people use it for alternate things, but it’s reserved for mDNS

if .internal were to be added, we could start using that instead of overloading!

huh interesting… in australia there’s an upper limit on the amount you can pay with low denomination coins

5c coins are legal tender for amounts not exceeding $5 for any payment of a debt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_five-cent_coin#cite_note-4

i mean, “unless” tends to be the usual term for an “if not” keyword in languages that implement such a thing