a curse upon these distros

It’s not the distros, it’s Flathub who provides those warnings.

And they specifically logged and delivered data about freedom fighters and environmentalists, so there’s some bias on Proton’s hand there.

Think about it, do you really want to have X11 going forward the next decades?

If the alternative is a new system that literally does nothing? Sure!

Want to present a menu for windows? Wayland: “lol, do it yourself”.

Want to position a window? Wayland: “lol, do it yourself”.

Want to remember that a window has a position? Wayland: “lol, do it yourself”.

Want to add a global keyboard shortcut? Wayland: “AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

X11 may be old and whatever you want, but it works and it’s battle-tested. Wayland can’t even launch a full desktop session in my machine, which is even less than the failure Pulseaudio was back in its day and that’s saying something. And even if it did somehow launch, I probably would not be able to use anything serious like a media player or multiple workspaces on it.

February this year, and the iGPU of my machine (Intel 915 driver).

I mean yes, how exactly would you want the web to work?

Text and images and hyperlinks; maybe audio and video if you’re lucky and you can prove you can be trusted. No such thing as scripting, or if it’s allowed, only in a limited manner with no such thing as “eval” and obfuscation and no ability to add or delete nodes from the DOM (or if it’s allowed, those nodes must reflect under View Source / CTRL+U). No such things as loading a javascript audioplayer that tries to mix 123456 weird sources, just link me the .m3u direct to the audio stream’s .mp3 file, or even better an .opus.

Definitively no DRM.

If any such thing as GPU access is provided it should be to deposit data, not to run code.

It’s not dead there either, although I’d make the argument that X11 as a project is “mature” or “finalized”, it doesn’t really need hyperactive development like the tiktok children are used to.

(There are very good arguments that a new software stack was needed, but I’d expect the result to at least do something; ATM Wayland is little more than literally a “everyone else do my work for me” project)

I ask for some method that prevents the file to even be copied through a disk clone

Oh that’s quite simple! Just don’t have the files on the first disk in the first place. Make them a remote mount from a server, for example via sshfs, webdav, etc. Heck, even ftp if it comes down to it. That way, even though you can clone the disks, you can not get to the files if you don’t also have the full authentication requirements for the remote server (such as a password).

At a conceptual level, you can’t do anything via root to prevent someone who clones the disk from… well, cloning the disk. Having physical access to a disk is a much higher level of access than even root, so if what you are looking for is for your content to not be cloned, you need to fortify physical access to the device.

alias run0=sudo

(not really; I’d rather not introduce an alias or any sort of symbolic behaviour that would teach me to expect that systemd crap is available on a system. The less you rely on it, the better)

lol, Wayland can’t even start a desktop session on my machine, whereas X11 has worked without issues since 2009 (the last time I ever had to edit xorg.conf).

Sure sounds like X11 is the one who’s “dead” around here!

To be fair, the fact that browsers are allowed to do so much that this warning has to be shown is more an indictment on the current state of browsers (which at this point are almost like installing VMWare and a virtual machine on your computer!) than on something something Firefox or something something Flatpak.

crypto based

well, there goes my interest.

Forget federated stackoverflow, give me federated Gardening.StackExchange!

implying with Google Maps you’d know

renaming the Earth, or the Moon

I’d be totally up with renaming out Tierra and Luna to something that is not eurocentric. Would be a nice change of pace against how much of immediate astronomy is caught up in remixes of Greek and Latin.

Escusé moi your angloparlance, we call it Luna.

I mean, it’s not just “politics” (inb4 everything is); there’s been weird sanitization and cultural collonialism attempts in Emoji and in Unicode since a good while. Consider this weirdness: there’s an emoji for Mount Fuji, but not for any other volcano that can (and is) as well-known or important, like Villarrica, Pinatubo or Vesuvius. Why? Other than “nippon icchi namba one”, I dunno. Or the fact that there’s specifically a section dedicated to japanese food, with rice balls, ramen and such stuff, but not a section for Chilean (or at least Latin American) food like empanadas, cazuela and stuff.

Monster Hunter (I tink it was 4U).

The first time I just didn’t Get It™ and kept dying to uuuuh I think some scaly raptor doggos. But the damn good music and the monster designs lured me again and I gave it a try and among other things, I learned that the first time I tried I had been wandering into the Hard Mode section of the game, into which you can head at T=0 without warning. I guess that’s why I kept dying. Oh well.

That defo taught me to READ THE TEXT of the NPC dialogues and the item and quest descriptions and such. And the game is much better with that.

Here’s two things:

1. You can not steal an idea. (aka “just because you had an idea doesn’t mean it’s yours”)
2. You can not steal profits that were never had or intended to be had in the first place (aka: piracy vs “abandonware”)

Considering that:

It’s open source, but you can’t redistribute binaries of it you can only compile it for your own personal needs and you can’t commercially use it for free

Then it’s not Open Source. So, which is it?

OK, in that case, let’s say I reimplement Fraunhoffer’s FDK-AAC. It’s open source, but you can’t redistribute binaries of it, you can only compile it for your own personal needs and you can’t commercially use it for free.

The only midly-relevant question here becomes: did you use their source code to implement yours, or did you use public knowledge of the algorith etc (up to and including “white boarding”) to reimplement it? If the former, if the software is actually Open Source at best I could see a case for misrepresentation, but not for theft, because the source code is made available openly, you are not breaking that (that’s what “steal” is).

Second, if your implementation is better than theirs, including eg.: because of having a better license, then the rules of the market apply: the better product wins (that’s the same argument corps would use to try and break you if the case went the other way around, so it’s only fair you can also use that; at least, law’s supposed to be blind to order-of-parties). You are also not stealing profits because, besides the fact that potential profits by definition can not be stolen, you are also aiming at a different market eg.: people who wouldn’t have bought Fraunhoffer’s in the first place because of the license etc. If you are selling cheese sandwiches, you can not sue “stolen profits” from someone who is selling bacon sandwiches just because their clients asked you for bacon sandwiches and you said no.

Congratulations, you made me fight against myself for 25 seconds to decide if to upvote or to downvote this comment!

, many times people get the wrong message, but with an emoji you’ll get an idea of the face I’m making, so less chance of misunderstanding

[citation needed]

Several emojis are quite ambiguous in meaning or interpretation, including because of intercultural factors (eg.: U+1F626 FROWNING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH , or any of the praying / reverence / salute emojis). You, or rather your readers, also have no guarantees that the emoji they are seeing unambiguolsy matches the one you wanted to send and has not been misrepresented in transit or because of the provider (eg.: U+1F52B GUN which was rebranded into WATER PISTOL at different points by different providers).

In comparison, a classic Unicode / ANSI / JIS smiley is basically unambiguous and has two to four extra decades of context.

A simple text, even an acronym, is even better, for example rather than trying to express extreme displeasure at someplace else’s lack of good gun control laws with a “prohibition sign” and “gun water pistol”, you can use the even simpler text message of “your gun laws are bad”.