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  • Gaming on Linux hasn't been great so far... | JayzTwoCents [27:59]

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  • His install is broken because Windows breaks the dual booting, and Microsoft has refused to fix it for a decade already..

  • AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

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  • Anybody can use copyrighted works under fair use for research, more so if your LLM model is open source (I would say this fair use should only actually apply if your model is open source...). You are wrong.

    We don't need to break copyright rights that protect us from corporations in this case, or also incidentally protect open source and libre software.

  • Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

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  • That assumes though that the definition of web browser and its needed stack stays static.

    What happens if we all browse the net primarily via VR then? The line is blurry, so is Mozilla org.

  • US to withdraw from NATO under Republican bill

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  • They do have active protection; education. Under attack since the dawn of time.

  • Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

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  • If you think big tech doesnt cut corners and offloads the work to the users you are in a bubble; there's software that is secure, performant, pretty, doesn't break on its own, and doesn't have an obsolescency clock ticking inside. Oh, and doesn't spy on you dismantling society by the minute.

  • ‘We will block the canals’: Venice divided as young protesters target Bezos wedding

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  • Artists are on a gift-based economy. They gain status by giving away works. If you are the best artist in the world but don't make an effort to share your works, you are irrelevant. The more they give away the more they are recognised. Even if they give them away via pirated works. See: movies, songs that everybody knows and resonates with. Status is their currency, not money.

    The status then allows them to obtain more money than other people, incidentally.

    CEOs are on a market-based economy, they sell goods and services for money. They don't sell their status. The goods and services they sell are not theirs, but created with the stolen sweat, blood and lives of the people that work for them, which get a minuscule share of the profit for the amount of life they put onto it.

    In gift-based economies such as the ones of artists, open source developers, fashion, cultures without scarcities of the specific resource that makes the economy (such as small plentiful tropical tribes, communes, etc), the status is the currency.

  • Spain orders Airbnb to block nearly 66,000 holiday rental listings over rule violations

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  • Thanks for sharing! This is an incredible comparison.

  • Spain orders Airbnb to block nearly 66,000 holiday rental listings over rule violations

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  • Exactly. All of that things that Germany has, meanwhile Spain is not even a federation. Yet it has the same level or more of autonomy on its regions than a federation.

  • Spain orders Airbnb to block nearly 66,000 holiday rental listings over rule violations

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  • By name it is not a federation (define federation..) Yet Spanish autonomies enjoy more autonomy than some federal states.

  • Spain orders Airbnb to block nearly 66,000 holiday rental listings over rule violations

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  • Spanish regions have their own police. These police forces are autonomous from the central ones. https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polic%C3%ADa_auton%C3%B3mica Some even have a specific name: Mossos, Ertzaintza, policia foral, etc..

    The Spanish regions have autonomy on both collecting taxes, and assigning their own budgets. They are autonomous in the case of emergencies, healthcare, education (which allows them to set their culture), cultural ministeries,, with their own regional bodies that make their own decisions.

    All this is more federal than the federal states of Germany.

  • Spain orders Airbnb to block nearly 66,000 holiday rental listings over rule violations

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  • Being a consitutional monarchy or republic doesn't have anything to do with federation.

    Being a constitutional monarchy instead of a republic just means that they have a predesignated figurehead that represents the country, instead of electing that figurehead. The person is just a figurehead that rubberstamps things, but doesn't take decisions at all. Be it the king (in a constitutional monarchy like Spain, Norway, UK, Denmark, Sweden, etc) or however you want to call it (in a republic like France, Germany, etc).

    The government gets elected.

  • Spain orders Airbnb to block nearly 66,000 holiday rental listings over rule violations

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  • Spain's government is more federal than federal governments like the German one. Spain's Autonomous regions have way more leeway and freedom than regions in federal governments.

  • Removal of Deepin Desktop from openSUSE due to Packaging Policy Violation

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  • that is orthogonal with packaging standards, packaging security, and packaging policy violations..

    Compare this: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

    With this single page: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines

    In case you think "but those policies are not needed, they are superfluous" (like some Arch devs). They are not. Packagers send their fixes upstream, and then, other distros, with lower standards, consume the already fixed upstream releases, and sometimes pretend that this work was not needed nor present, not realizing that all distros benefit from it even if your policies are more relaxed.

    There's a reason why the Deepin Desktop Environment was never part of Debian, and only available via their own ppa repositories, even if the Deepin distro is based in Debian.

  • Removal of Deepin Desktop from openSUSE due to Packaging Policy Violation

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  • Barring Arch, and boutique distros, other distros normally have even better packaging standards than opensuse. By far.

  • Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down

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  • Element. If you are missing something, talk to all those motivated people doing Discord bots or whatever, they can contribute to Element/Matrix. And it's actually open source, they keep their contributions, contrary to all the work they have done for Discord for free.

  • Russia has depleted its tank stocks: the industry is not covering combat losses

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  • It's about search engine squatting, if you now search "Russia meatgrinder" you get that, instead of articles about losing the war.

  • Era of close ties with US 'is over': Canada PM Carney

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  • It's not only being comfortable. Arguably western democracies are even more comfortable with healthcare, job security and more social climbing.

    Is the mix of hyper individualism, zero civic culture, and crab bucket job economy.

  • Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way"

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  • Guess whose doing an IPO and will sell all its data plus get advertisements everywhere? Yep, Discord..

  • Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way"

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  • and then wiki.gg gets bought, as other wikis got. No thanks.

    Write content in a community mediawiki maintained by the community instead.

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    A Russian state media reporter invited to Oval Office for Trump-Zelensky sit-down, Reuters and AP excluded

    edition.cnn.com /2025/02/28/media/tass-russian-state-media-oval-office
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    ‘United Healthcare’ Using DMCA Against Luigi Mangione Images Which Is Bizarre & Wildly Inappropriate

    abovethelaw.com /2024/12/united-healthcare-using-dmca-against-luigi-mangione-images-which-is-bizarre-wildly-inappropriate/