Natanael
@Natanael@infosec.pub
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
“the official license isn’t evidence, and I’m a clown”
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
Just give up already
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
The entire forum has already proved the point that you’re wrong. You’re incapable of understanding that you lost. An economics teacher might be able to get it into your head.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
“taking the train is free once you’ve paid for the ticket”
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
You’re not allowed to use it after downloading it for free unless you use it on Apple hardware that it paid for. If you don’t have Apple hardware you only have a file you’re not allowed to use. Paying for Apple hardware pays for the license permitting you to use it.
That’s like saying that using a fixed cost subscription service is free because you’re not paying at the time that you access it.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
Go take an economics class
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
If including it with a paid product has a cost for the manufacturer, then you did pay for it as a part of the price of the product which you did pay for.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
It’s paid for as a part of the hardware and not listed separately on the receipts. All those 3rd party components in the OS are not free and has to be paid for. That comes from the hardware sale.
You agree that the terms of this License will apply to any Apple-branded application software product that may be preinstalled on your Apple-branded hardware
you are granted a limited, non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at any one time.
to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of the Apple Software directly on each Apple-branded computer running macOS Sonoma, macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, or macOS High Sierra (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control
and you agree not to, install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so.
The license additionally calls out included 3rd party licensed fonts which which you can’t use unrestricted without a specific license from the market of that font
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
To be extremely pedantic, there’s licensing costs involved with a bunch of 3rd party libraries included in the OS (HDR, h265, radios, etc), but they cover those royalties / fees via hardware sales and the license to use it follows the hardware
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
It’s built on Wine, any general improvements to compatibility will generally support desktop programs using the same APIs
- Comment on Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit 4 days ago:
Best you got is recurring audits
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 days ago:
Sure, but that gives end users standing to sue, not these guys
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 days ago:
US used to call it FAANG (but then there’s been a bunch of renames)
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 days ago:
But ad blockers don’t distribute derivative materials.
It’s like saying you can’t distribute a stencil to cover up things you don’t like to see in a book.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 days ago:
Ad blockers do literally the reverse, they don’t inject anything, they sit on the outside and prevent unwanted resources from loading.
Also it’s fully legal for the end user to modify stuff on their own end. And the information in the filter about the website structure is functional, not expressive - no copyright protection of function.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 days ago:
Even that shouldn’t be illegal. It’s shitty, but it’s still too far
- Comment on Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane 1 week ago:
It’s very cool how these devices find their location, though. When you first boot the system up, it spends about 5 minutes measuring the rotation of the Earth. For this reason, you can’t reset it when in motion. Based on what it feels it can determine your exact location on the surface of the earth.
That gets you longitude but not latitude, right?
- Comment on Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane 1 week ago:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add3854
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58381-6
I’m not gonna do the math. But it seems those fiber once have a longer path relatively speaking, so higher latency
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 1 week ago:
Vad var det du sa
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 1 week ago:
That’s olidligt (as they said in their Swedish marketing campaign, lol)
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 1 week ago:
You don’t want your trailer to bounce like a hiphopper’s car?
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 1 week ago:
If you buy potato chips as shock absorbers you’ll come home with potato dust
Still tasty though
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 1 week ago:
You need a Mars rover style split tank thread solution!
Also some better shock absorbers, also like a Mars rover
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 1 week ago:
It’s probably jam
Tomato jam
- Comment on Worst part about living in Europe 1 week ago:
Throw a mentos in those bottles and you’ll no longer be bored
You’ll have to wash 3 years of laundry after, but you won’t be bored
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 1 week ago:
Every organ has their own nerves. Some have more or less their own brain cells (especially your gut). All nerves have memory to some degree - muscle memory is literally a thing
The amount of local regulatory control varies between organs, but the more complex they are the more you can assume the internal nerves control most of it and that the connection to the brain regulates it somewhat
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
The ability to block crawling is separate from the ability to delist old pages. The latter usually happens after domains change owners
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 1 week ago:
Mew and Ditto are both demigods then
- Comment on New idea 1 week ago:
Most bigger municipalities in Sweden also does hot water for central heating - some and have just recently begun adding central cooling via cold water too
- Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass 1 week ago:
Technically they’re more stabby