Good luck to him

When you’re in control of the software you can decided what it does: what data should be sent back (if any). Here a server hoster may refuse you if you do not collect data but that’s a much harder sell when all users are in control.

[Even harder when the server code is also freed, and anyone can host it]

Another reason games need to be open source! 🫤

It’s a great feature - a necessary feature even. Tired using doas Linux port and that feature isn’t supported - it was depressing.

Being able to build it yourself is a must: otherwise you can’t make/share changes (and use changes from others).

I lean towards a “pay want you want” models (including 0) as DRM is pointless. But no, I do not believe binaries or code must cost nothing for it to still be free software.

I still care about video games very much but the industry suffers from growing bad incentives. Stop Killing Games is merely the start for me - I want games to catch up with other software and start respecting user’s software freedoms.

I think people say FOSS and FLOSS interchangeably and come to say FLOSS due to floss being as established word (dental floss). If you know of “libre” then that you probably know the free software vs open source distintion too and would just choose to say one.

You can charge for free software, for the binary and/or source code - bandwidth/storage ain’t free.

Not to take away from the point but the F in FOSS stands for “Free as in freedom” and not free as in price.

Surveillance by a government used to mean they had a random police officer follow you because it was worth the time. Now it’s on mass surveillence which is automated and fed into faulty AI systems flagging. A random dude with a camera doesn’t compare.

Sudo can/usually does ask for password - but if you’re feeling lucky you can use sudo without a password.

(Currently doing that after repeatedly failing to install an OS and have not yet felt compelled to change it back).

On my computer

Microsoft: that’s where you’re wrong kiddo

How do you propose to enforce such an idea? Some sort of… birthday testimony? Some sort of… oneness corroboration?

A software respository containing user identifying information - what could go wrong. Let’s install them on all our phones! /s

Looks like unemployment is in my future, fucking fantastic 🙃

I don’t care how good someone thinks they are - eventually they will fall to temptation and fail to resist the bad incentives placed on them by a system.

If a government is elected under a winner-take-all (first-past-the-post) voting system then there is no incentive to change that system to solve gerrymandering (also the spoiler effect and misrepresentation error). I hope it is possible for an newly elected party to quickly implement a representative voting system after winning on an unrepresentative one.

From their perspective voting 3rd party has the same result as not voting at all - that’s an issue which main parties do not offer to solve.

Only a tiny portion of people are actually psychopaths who would knowingly choose the worst option for everyone.

If the voting system trends towards two bad options which both get worse every year, how much does their vote reflect what they really want?

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