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  • i think the last decade of developments in US politics have provided everyone with an example of where that goes, though. not passing the “sword” policy because you fear your opponents using it doesn’t actually matter; your opponents, when they come into power, may just immediately enact it themselves. and if they can’t, there’s a good chance they’ll first enact a policy that broadswords aren’t swords, technically, probably, maybe, totally, according to this one precedent from the year 1835, and then enact a broadsword policy.

    bad-faith actors, authoritarians, fascists, etc., are more than happy to watch everyone else pull their punches based on some assumption they’ll do the same. they won’t.

    that being said, i can’t imagine the veto rule ever accomplishing anything good on anyone’s side, really. it favors obstructionism by its very nature, which is inherently anti-democratic.







  • putting aside the ethics of DRM in general (ew) and that this developer has already made a fortune on a mod virtually unequaled… my biggest problem with this kind of thing is that bugs happen. “mines” implies that the goal will be to do something malicious to pirates. so what happens when there’s a bug in the detection code, or in the auth server, or when you didn’t test it on some specific quirky hardware-software combo, or when a cosmic ray strikes the RAM stick and flips the wrong bit?

    a paying customer gets fucked – or a lot of them do. all for the petty greed of someone who can’t envision the obvious fact that the actual pirates will just fuzz your bomb logic and patch it out within two days.




  • “hey guys, I’m having a problem with my Linux install that doesn’t seem very common–”

    “YOU’RE STUPID AND I HATE YOU”

    this is EXACTLY why Linux gurus have a bad rep. remember the human, for goodness’ sake. don’t act like you’ve never run into a strange problem in your entire computing life that required digging deep into some 2003 forum post to solve.