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- Comment on Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner 1 day ago:
How can one of the most ubiquitous and popular ales in the UK not be financially sustainable? What did they do to that brewery? Lump it with a bunch of debt or something and write it off?
- Comment on Eurovision 2026: Electronic artist and YouTuber Look Mum No Computer to represent UK in Vienna - BBC News 1 week ago:
I’m not disagreeing with your sentiment but just pointing out it’s highly unlikely to see the UK go against Israel - from the Balfour Declaration to the Palestine Act 1948, the UK played a critical part in forming Israel as we know it today and are ultimately the catalyst of the war.
The history of the two states are deeply intertwined and no doubt benefit both parties (e.g a British ally to strengthen access to the Suez Canal).
Unless there’s a monumental shift in the entire political landscape of the UK (even the rise of anti-immigration sentiment is actually in favour of Israel), the two states will continue their long-standing support of one another.
- Comment on A new homelessness law in Wales is being called 'world-leading' 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been immensely fortunate to grow up with such a wonderful role model.
It’s important to note rough sleeping is only one part of homelessness but it’s the most visible.
I’d recommend reading Crisis’ page on how you can help.
- Comment on A new homelessness law in Wales is being called 'world-leading' 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been supporting Crisis and Shelter every month for years now. I’d gladly pay more tax so people have a right to somewhere safe to live.
Growing up, my sister would never ignore someone who was homeless and would get to know them and support them however she should (a coffee, help with forms and letters, even just a general chat). Every day, everywhere we’d go. She drilled it into us that there’s never an excuse to ignore someone who needs help and luck could turn and we could easily be in the same situation ourselves.
As a society, we shouldn’t view a roof over our heads as an asset but a right. We spend plenty of money on nuclear reactors for submarines that can launch the apocalypse, I think we can spend some more on helping the most vulnerable not be forced onto the streets.
- Comment on Actor Noel Clarke arrested over allegation of attempted rape in 2007 2 weeks ago:
After the years of stories of how rude, unkind, smug, self absorbed, and arrogant they are, I’m not surprised ‘rapist’ is getting added to that list.
Hopefully justice prevails for the victims.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s almost as if they factored the cost of licensing a third-party IP into the price.
- Comment on YSK You can buy a @linux.com domain for email flex 3 weeks ago:
Depends how you view priorities. $10/y or one time $250. I’ve owned several domains for longer than 25 years. $250 is a pretty sweet deal.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 3 weeks ago:
There’s no place like
/home - Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 3 weeks ago:
It started with making office computers personable for home use in Windows 95 e.g. “My Computer”, “My Documents”.
This carried on into web services like My Yahoo, or terms like My Account.
Smashing it into one word was also a thing back in the late 90s / early 00s because it (a) was easy for searching in older search engines and (b) sounded like Apple’s iPod, iMac etc (MyPod, MyMac).
Continued use today is usually because of either (a) it’s been called that for a couple of decades already or (b) the product manager is themselves old and has forgotten how old the trend of trying to make those new fangled computerybobs sound welcoming and friendly.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
If Epic spent half as much money as they are suing organisations and instead funded developing their shop into a gaming community platform like Steam, they’d probably have caught up by now.
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 4 weeks ago:
I agree with you as I’m an old FOSS beard - we wouldn’t have gotten here without GPL/MIT/BSD etc.
But things aren’t working for a huge number of projects. And is it right that so many critical dependencies are maintained by so few with so little resources, if any? Just look at the xz fiasco we narrowly avoided catastrophe over.
The Linux Foundation is a good model for core infrastructure and projects that underpin the ecosystem like the kernel - LF are turning over $300M or something a year.
But for smaller projects that aren’t critical or aren’t looking to be a core dependency like xz, dual licensing seems the only obvious way forward.
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 4 weeks ago:
Most corporate owned devices are managed with some kind of tool (for restricting what users can do, pushing out software and updates, etc). These tools are called Mobile Device Management (MDM).
The developer is detecting the presence of MDM tools and using that to present a splash page to the user about the licensing requirements etc.
Some educational institutes use MDM to manage students, even so far as to require it be installed on personal owned devices. The developer has been working with edu users to except them.
- Comment on I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software 4 weeks ago:
I’m a huge FOSS advocate but I understand where this developer is coming from. It sucks to have huge orgs take your work and monetize it heavily without contributing back. The number of maintainers I know suffering from huge volumes of bug reports from corporations using AI tools yet not financially supporting the project is pretty heartbreaking.
I wonder if it’s time FOSS projects started taking the view that liberty is for individuals and not corporate use, and license accordingly.
- Comment on Opera GX Gaming Browser Confirms Native Linux Version 5 weeks ago:
I miss when Opera was Norwegian.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 5 weeks ago:
Half-Life was the same. The game doesn’t spoon feed you a narrative, the same way real life doesn’t have a narrator (at least one outside of your head).
You need to pay attention to your surroundings, listen in to NPCs talking, read posters on the wall, etc to piece together the story.
It was and is one of the cooler ways to do storytelling in my opinion. Cutscenes etc are fine but for a first person game, I love the immersion of the story happening around you rather then being loredumped on you while you’re agency is taken away from you.
- Comment on Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too 1 month ago:
Bad for Meta. They wasted a lot of time, money, manpower etc.
- Comment on Valve reveal all the Steam events scheduled for 2026 1 month ago:
Valve has been publishing them publicly for years, it’s just in the developer documentation rather than on Steam.
- Comment on GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026 1 month ago:
Exactly. Beating them up for being late has more risk of them dropping plans altogether. Celebrate their plans, they’ll want to execute on them.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 1 month ago:
Pretty sure it’s My Name Is All En.
Dr En En En.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 month ago:
It’s genital mutilation. It’s been done for religious reasons, cultural reasons, social reasons, for slavery reasons, and more.
But cutting up babies’ genitals for any reason except medical intervention for relevant pathologies is genital mutilation.
- Comment on CD PROJEKT and GOG co-founder Michał Kiciński acquires GOG from CD PROJEKT 1 month ago:
Makes a lot of sense. GOG would have been an easy thing to sell off if financials weren’t going well. This way, GOG can be protected (100% owned by the founder with no shareholders) should the worst happen.
Hopefully this could mean GOG has a daring plan ahead (I’ve long thought they might take a gamble on a Linux client that packages Proton/DOSbox like Steam.
Here’s hoping GOG continues on strong into the new year and beyond!
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 2 months ago:
Apple’s entire history as an org has been as a fast follower, not a first mover.
The Apple Newton is a fast example of why they avoid being a first mover.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 months ago:
I’m always confused why the energy isn’t just put on pressuring Firefox publicly rather than just sitting in comments being negative and suggesting forks that critically depend on Firefox and can no way continue development without upstream.
- Comment on Microsoft is pushing Copilot onto LG TVs with a recent software update 2 months ago:
I’m glad my LG TV hasn’t been connected to WiFi for years. Great display, shit software. Thankfully nothing a minipc can’t solve!
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t know
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
Like wooden knife with a wooden wood
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
We’ve got four different sized ones in our house!
Next they’re going to say they don’t own any wooden butter knives…
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Steamdb lets you filter out games with less than x reviews which I’ve made liberal use of over the years.
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 2 months ago:
I’d just take a look at the Steam Deck Verified pages as that’ll give you a good idea about a game (at least though Proton).
- Comment on Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate 2 months ago:
It was in some video interview with the project leads after the Steam hardware announcement.