At least one of my smart phones had a way to do it. If it’s still there now, it’s buried much deeper.

I am not familiar with what you’re talking about. It may well could have been presented as a visual novel, but only in the sense that you click through it. My recollection was that it was a corporate training thing (which have similar layouts to visual novels lol). As far as AI generated backgrounds though, I don’t think so. Memories are not reliable, of course, but I’m fairly certain this was pre pandemic. AI images existed then, but it was mostly the dog-filled deep dream images and sketchy dall-e stuff. Maybe it used that, it’s not impossible, but it wasn’t really at the level of quality back then where you’d be tempted to use it over stock images.

I think the program had something to do with fire diamonds, those 45° offset squares with numbers in the top three corners to give a quick overview of dangerous materials are.

I could’ve sworn there was some instructional game in steam for like $10k or something. Maybe it was less and/or has since been removed.

I think they probably made some real sakes, but a lot of people got refunded because they were confused and thought it wasn’t real. It’s been ages, the details are fuzzy.

Elephant rent seeking behavior

Can’t give it away or sell it? Fine, I set it free. Didn’t say I couldn’t do that.

“He’s using you for your body.”

And I’m using him for his.

I got some really weird bottlenecks for a while. Elden Ring sticks out as only running at about 20 fps despite having a 3070.

🍾 Cheers!

I finally had to replace mine because my CPU was, I think, x64 v2, but at least two games needed the v3 instruction set.

🤤 redact this ****

The jort is the superior jean!

Ah, okay, I wasn’t familiar with Cape Verde’s location, so my brain didn’t even process that part.

20,000 nautical miles is well over half of the Earth’s circumference. Where was east and west mixed up in the post? This seems like a “three rights are a left” situation to me.

Oooooh, I love it. The haunted data center. Or maybe like Amazon warehouses too?

Yes it totally i-

I put my wifi router in a faraday cage to stop the viruses. I’ll let everyone know how it g-

AUR is something related only to Arch Linux. Bazzite is not related to Arch, so you’re good.

NPM is the Node Package Manager. Unless you’re doing something like installing Node JS stuff then you don’t need to worry about this. I feel fairly confident that this is one of those things where you’d know if you were using it.

You’re all good. This sort of became a topic that really caught my mind a few years ago. I was really confused why CC0 wasn’t considered suitable for FLOSS projects. I even found the mailing list thread where it was discussed. The next logical question becomes “okay, well, if CC0 isn’t suitable, and because some jurisdictions don’t allow someone to decide to put something in the public domain, are there any FSF/OSI approved public domain declarations with permissive fall back licenses?” And the answer is, well, just the Unlicense.

I think the EU doesn’t allow people putting things in the public domain. I forget which jurisdictions don’t, but when I looked into it last, I remember I came to the conclusion that it was enough of a problem that just making a public domain declaration alone didn’t seem enough.

It’s sort of the best of a bad situation for folks who want to put things into the public domain but still let everyone use it. I really dislike crayon licenses as a matter of principle. (I wouldn’t want lawyers making code, so I don’t want programmers making licenses.) And yet, it’s the only one that both FSF and OSI approve, which I also think is pretty important for choosing a license.

My biggest gripe with the Unlicense though is the name. It’s so close to the word “unlicensed” which is totally the opposite. I get their logic for the name, but still, using something without a license (unlicensed) is basically the entirely opposite thing. It’s a term that sounds almost the same as something illegal but means something extremely legal.

You’re getting it backwards. If you hate the idea of patents, then you should use something like Apache which protects people from patent holders, as opposed to CC0 which protects the parent holders. (Not that anyone with a patent would likely contribute to your script and sue people for using their patent.) Whether or not you philosophically agree that patents should exist, they do exist and CC0’s fall back license says:

No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document.

Compare that to Apache which says this:

Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, and otherwise transfer the Work, where such license applies only to those patent claims licensable by such Contributor that are necessarily infringed by their Contribution(s) alone or by combination of their Contribution(s) with the Work to which such Contribution(s) was submitted. If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

CC0 protect’s the creator’s patent rights. Apache protects others from patent litigation.

Also, I’d strongly avoid joke licenses. At that point, why use a license at all? Just use the default protections ensured by copyright. You don’t need to give a license your work if you don’t want people to be able to use it. If you want people to be able to use your work, you’re not actually stopping them if you don’t include a license. You’re only stopping them from doing it illegally. If you aren’t interested in pursuing legal action against people using your stuff, you don’t actually need to provide a license. The only benefit you get is encouraging more people to use it (generally more corporate minded folks).