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- Comment on Houthi rebels shoot down 7 US military Reaper drones worth $334m, in recent weeks 4 days ago:
They are not that cheap compared to just a jet (F-16@70m, F-35@100m) but pilots cost a lot and not just money.
They also must have a much smaller mission cost due to fuel efficiency. Provided they do not get shot down.
It certainly wasn’t designed to survive against serious opposition and I doubt mere countermeasures would change that. It would probably increase costs more and would be useless in most missions.
- Comment on Houthi rebels shoot down 7 US military Reaper drones worth $334m, in recent weeks 4 days ago:
If you can shoot any aircraft at a given attitude you can shoot this type of drone. It’s not fast, has no stealthy design and its not even small like some other drones.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 2 weeks ago:
Yes but the spirit of FOSS is clearly anti-copyright and a non copyright world would be preferable.
You don’t get to just do whatever you please with someones work.
The FOSS positions is that you should if you are not preventing that someone doing what he wants as well (or anybody else), which is the case with IP unlike real property.
It’s also how the world has worked for millennia, copyright and other IP law is relatively new phenomenon and even in the time it has existed it has not been as well enforced or accepted by society as say the concept of physical property.
AI is a great chance for commercial interests to push pro-copyright positions with a narrative of big bad tech corpos (absolutely true) vs little artist guy (bullshit, it’s big bad media corpos). I remember they tried to portray copyright and associated enforcement tooling (DMCA etc) as a solution to revenge porn, to rehabilitate it’s image.
- Comment on On Evils in Software Licensing 4 weeks ago:
And then somehow: Open source = Siding against Palestine.
This is the most ridiculous part, if they ever try to enforce the license against someone the definition of evil is going to be decided by a court. In that context a humanitarian organization using your software to help Palestinians is more likely to be condemned than a military contractor that kills Palestinians.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 4 weeks ago:
We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account.
Any windows fanboy cares to explain how this supposedly enhances a user’s security?
The spin on requiring an internet connection being phrased as ‘ensures all users exit setup with internet connectivity’ is amazing too.
- Comment on Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine 5 weeks ago:
Certainly not in Congress.
- Comment on Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine 5 weeks ago:
In this case it’s not mere spinelessness, they were pushing for this before Trump to server the interests of their corporate masters (copyright lobby mostly, though big tech would also benefit).
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 1 month ago:
Its an action game with RPG like stst systems.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 1 month ago:
So non RPGs are better RPGs? You don’t have to like RPGs.
- Comment on Or Xitter! Or Facebook! Or Instagram! They're private businesses who can do what they want! If they ban us it's CEnSorShiP 1sT AmENdMENt!1!!1! 1 month ago:
Companies should not have rights, they are not people.
When they become big enough to have power over significant amounts of public discourse they should be regulated to protect public discourse from censorship.
Private entities can engage in censorship, that the US 1st amendment doesn’t offer protection against doesn’t change that.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 5 months ago:
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 5 months ago:
Probably a fan if those fancy newfangled bash or fish shells.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 5 months ago:
It’s disappointing behavior by Linus. It’s understandable that sanctions could force the removal of people just for being Russia.
His reply however shows he personally is in favor of removing people just for being Russian.
I wonder if any of the people who pressured him to take some time off for being a “jerk” will give a shit for this response.
- Comment on Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen’s Suicide 5 months ago:
She is a 40 yo lawyer. I doubt that she couldn’t afford something more. I find it plausible that she couldn’t devote more time to the kid.
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 5 months ago:
Is this like when Americans blamed Pakistani coders for B737/MCAS debacle only to be proven they implemented Boeing’s (fatally flawed) specifications to the letter?