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Comment Re: What about the open source contributions to da (Score 1) 26

If they want to use it, they kind of have to. AGPL infects all of your products source code for every project that uses it. You either need to relicense it under a more restrictive license or basically release all of your source code for every product you own. Siemens is a for profit company, they will do that vs what Stalin... er, I mean Stallman wants.

I really have no skin in this game right now, but I've seen what highly infectious licenses can do when you're putting in thousands of hours coding a commercial product on top (basically, the GPL2 rebranded GPL3 DLL code all had to be removed). Yeah, if it was all paid for by someone, great, but it wasn't. The FOSS model is actually built on top of OS companies footing the bill for software products to be built on top of them, not what people think, which is people developing software in their free time. I do the latter, for FOSS, but it doesn't pay my bills.

Comment Walmart doesn't do tips (Score 1) 80

I don't know if HEB includes a tip, but I know that Walmart doesn't do tips. When I worked in the front end of a Walmart Supercenter six years ago, associates were trained to refuse tips, and if someone insists, to ring it up as a donation to whatever charity Walmart is collecting for at the time. Often that ends up being the nearest Children's Miracle Network hospital.

Comment Re:super (Score 1) 260

You mean super AMERICA intelligence, because everything with AMERICA in it is 100 zilliongoogleplexTRUMPISNUMBERONE!!!! more better that duper. Duper is for pussies in the lunch line getting beaten for their change. Dupers pee their beds.

Actually, having narcisstic personality disorder and a superiority complex is kind of fun. I need some better made up putdowns, but still fun.

Comment Re:OH Look! (Score 1) 82

True enough - Comcast for years paid a monopoly fee on fiber and coax and passed it on to consumers, for a while it was even listed as a monopoly fee, then they changed it to a local service fee or something like that. It was basically a $5-7 a month tax for Comcast to maintain a monopoly. That all disintegrated during 5g offering competition, thankfully, but Comcast still gouges hard for business service.

Comment Diverse double-compiling (Score 1) 136

Do you have the code for the compiler, and compile that yourself too?

If you have three different compilers for a language, and you bootstrap a compiler using all three of them, the first generation (e.g. GCC compiled with QuestionableCC, ShadyCC, or SlopCC) should be functionally identical, and the second generation (GCC compiled with GCC, which was compiled with the other compiler) should be bit-identical. See "Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling" by David A. Wheeler. Some people have trouble trusting Rust because only the latest stable rustc can compile the latest stable rustc.

Comment Re:Integral layer of the Trusted-Computing/DRM sta (Score 1) 34

In the long term, the goal is for ISPs to use NAC/TNC to interrogate your computer for Trusted Computing compliance, and deny you any internet access whatsoever if your machine isn't compliant.

You said home ISPs sought to deploy Trusted Network Connect about 20 years ago. It hasn't happened. What's holding it up? The rise of mobile devices, smart TVs, and other devices incompatible with the remediation means available in quarantine?

Comment $5 to $20 games exist now; IARC self-rating (Score 1) 102

Digital games themselves did not lower prices, despite them being marketed as doing so without the cost of materials/packaging/handling/shipping

From the summary: "Current prices are tied to retail. Without physical discs holding digital hostage we'll see a larger spectrum of pricing." As I understand this, paid downloads did not lower prices of AAA games because of retail price parity contracts. Paid downloads did, however, make the $5 to $20 tier for indie game pricing viable.

One thing not mentioned in the summary is that publishers of games distributed in physical copies owe a royalty to the age rating agency of each region in which a game is published. Publishers of downloadable games do not, instead relying on self-certification through the IARC form. The age rating agencies allow this because it's a lot more practical to update a game once it is found to have been misclassified.

Comment Re: They are all garbage is the problem (Score 1) 76

Easy for me to find lots of interesting things on Mastodon. I think, despite what people say, they love the rage bait on the bigger networks. Mastodon is just normal people discussing normal topics.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who ever posts in the tag for a particular toy line. Either I guessed the wrong tag, or I'm the only person on fedi interested in that topic. Which is more likely?

Comment Re:I don't understand why this is considered... (Score 1) 187

What exactly do they owe you?

The summary states that Reddit owes the OP a reason why the user was banned, as well as a complete, untruncated copy of the user's posting history.

Can you cite the law that says so?

The summary states that the relevant law is Article 17 of the EU's Digital Services Act.

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