Well yeah the source is nazi facebook, you’ll find antisemitism there, but Israel & the US being implicated because of Spain’s clear stance is kind of a given until proven otherwise (waiting for proofs the other way around is playing into their hand)

Not sure we’ll know until this kind of settles

I think you meant prescribe instead of proscribe (one means “recommend” the other means “forbid”)

Yeah but AI enables incompetent people. I feel like having to work on something would make you learn enough not to fuck up too bad, generally. But with AI you don’t need to learn or research, you can just ask chatGPT to do whatever and call it a day, if you’re careless enough

damn, I wonder what the american backed Syrian regime will do

If the code is GPL they’ll generally be scared to use it. I agree with you for non-copyleft open source though

oranges, bananas and other “Southern Fruit” were mostly a Christmas special

It was true for most of Europe afaik, unless you’re speaking about like the 80s I suppose, but oranges being a christmas thing was true for my grandparents as well (not in Germany)

Some other people said it’s in the github but obfuscated as base64

Have they? Piracy used to be extremely widespread even among people who didn’t know much about computers, and recent reports in Australia show that 85% of teens use VPNs to bypass restrictions. In countries with restricted such as China & Russia, VPNs are tools that are near universal.

Also, the current French president (along his government) is on the way out, the next elections are next year, there is no telling how long the law will remain in effect.

In a bubble, I’d agree with you on Steam vs. Sony vs. GOG.

But you can’t just analyze purely based on principles and logic, there are real life precedents for Sony removing content people purchased with no refund nor any form of customer outreach.

This has never happened on Steam, so in my view you can’t equate Sony and Steam. I would say GOG is better than Steam if GOG didn’t send nazi shit to people.

It’s nazi Facebook dude. Yes, using twitter is supporting fascism, quite literally

I think (mighty me with 0 drone or RF experience) that it would be possible to combine the fiber optic with radio, by having a control relay be physically attached with fiber optics, but then you control that relay with RF. If your fiber optics range is sufficient, then RF jamming won’t be an issue

Also it’s just a flat out lie. They had negociated with the USSR for a ground invasion, which was ready and about to launch.

They only dropped the nukes to try and shock the Japanese and get a surrender without Japan falling to communism.

Which didn’t work by the way, the japanese weren’t really shocked by the bombings, they had gone through years of civilians getting absolutely massacred by conventional bombings. They surrendered because they had exhausted all their resources, which the nukes had little to do with.

Chinese car makers aren’t really more subsidized than Europeans and US. Actually we’re only seeing the brands that survived the internal competition of the Chinese car market, where a ton of brands failed and died.

What we’re seeing are the brands that survived that competition through extreme optimization, at a level no other car manufacturer had to reach before. And they did that in a growing market of 1.5 billion people.

Why should they struggle when competing with an aging industry with aging production modes that only address ~600m people? Especially when those companies offer objectively worse products at worse prices?

One missile in Suez would cripple the international economy like never before too

Except the US economy is already dead, and only AI is keeping it “alive”. If AI companies die, the US economy enters a true recession, and rich people would lose a lot of money

No monologue, no images, no sound. Just… concepts. It’s a bit weird.

Even weirder is that I can actually conjure images while asleep (or about to sleep, or barely just woke up).

I loved books as a kid, but never understood why people preferred them to movies where you could actually picture what is happening on the page. It took me until my mid 20s to figure out my experience was different to other people’s.

I can get lost in my imagination, it’s just not visual or auditory

I tried Linux multiple times (out of curiosity / contrarianism I guess) until Windows pissed me off enough, while the Steam Deck proved I could reliably run games with minimal tinkering (frankly not any worse than what I had to do on windows).

So I made the jump, and I have not looked back

Essentially the court read the law and gave their opinion that reposting content on a site you run counts as a broadcast

Not quite, I made a comment here detailing the judgement; TLDR the law bans commercial distribution of RT content, and the court found that large sums of gifts & donations turn private individuals into commercial operators, thus banning them from distributing RT content. You can still operate a website that distributes RT content, so long as there are no monetary incentives to do so.

This seems like a nothing burger. The ban of RT is in place already, the new decision is not relating to whether it stays in place or not:

In the law, operators are forbidden from distributing content from a list of banned media, including RT. The question is not relating to the continuation of that ban, but on the word “operator” in particular; it essentially means that it’s an entity distributing the content from a commercial perspective.

The question is whether gifts & donations to a private (non-commercial) individual turn that private individual into a commercial distributor and thus an operator.

‘Must Article 2f(1) of [Regulation No 883/2014] be interpreted as meaning that operators, within the meaning of that provision, also include natural persons who, through a website operated by them, only generate income in the form of voluntary contributions from third parties (donations or gifts)?’

Cited in Judgement #16, page 6

And it follows in the conclusion:

[The law] must be interpreted as meaning that a natural person who operates a website by broadcasting on it content originating from legal persons, entities or bodies listed in Annex XV to Regulation No 833/2014, as amended, and derives from the operation of that website only income from voluntary contributions from third parties, in the form of donations or gifts, comes within the concept of ‘operator’ within the meaning of that provision

This is the conclusion on the last page of the judgement (is it me or the wording is pretty bad around “that website only income from”?)

The judgement also carefully qualifies why gifts & donations are qualified as income in #15

However, that court observes that the collection of private donations, which constitute gifts under civil law, is capable of being classified as a ‘professional activity’, where it is carried out to such an extent that the beneficiaries receive significant sums enabling them to finance, at least in part, their means of subsistence. In the present case, the appeal for donations appears to be designed to generate financial resources for the continued operation of the traugott-ickeroth website and therefore to constitute a sustainable source of income, which is characteristic of a professional activity

So essentially, the information itself can still be freely shared so long as it’s done without monetary support that can be qualified as “income”; they’re not further banning the information itself, simply closing a “loophole” around hidden commercial exploitation.

I don’t like the original law either (because the media list can be amended to practically include anything and anyone), but this is not changing much, and given the amount of the donations (60k in a year) it’s surprising that they thought it would not be considered commercial exploitation to begin with.

Honestly, if they had cut off donations early or capped them to their server costs, then the prosecution would have no recourse.

Edit: Cutoff sentence, wording