Dark Arc

I’ll be honest … maybe you’re right but it’s not really my concern. I’ve got a billion other things to care about that are more important; you probably do too.

Seems to me like the video author is just trying to make more drama …

This sort of thing always happens anyways, some new thing comes along (systemd), some people want to use the old thing (sysvinit). Some people are like … “god why would you use that, you’re so dumb” ignoring any valid use case. Some other people fought very hard to convince people the new thing is great, so they’ve got a personal stake. (etc… etc…)

It’s not sinister, it’s at worst just people being annoyed that others are trying to hold onto the flame when we have light bulbs; my two cents.

It doesn’t matter. That’s not what I brought this up to talk about. Honestly this whole sub thread is just derailing.

Screw the media, how normal is this? Has this happened before? Does anyone know?

Like yeah, Hawley sucks but are we being hypocritical or is this genuinely like an “OMG this is bad and something that is really really out of the ordinary behavior.” It’s honestly hard to tell with this stuff because EVERYTHING is the end of the world.

I care much less about the protest or the particular organization and a lot more about the novelty of a United States senator pressuring an organization of any kind as retaliation for its “vague support.”

You’re completely missing my point regardless and making it something that it isn’t.

I couldn’t possibly care less about “the media.”

How far are we from normal? What’s the precedent for this?

That stuff matters. But according to some random other person in this thread “I’m an idiot for asking because I’m brainwashed by the media.”

NO. I want to know HOW NORMAL IS THIS and instead we’re having this other honestly very annoying conversation debating whether or not any violence occurred or if it was “enough” violence or the “right kind” of violence.

So yeah, thank you very not much for derailing my question.

Wayland is plenty mature and for most main stream use cases works better than X at this point.

There’s nothing sinister, the people working on X11 didn’t want to work on it anymore because it has a lot of issues in a modern stack.

I mean I don’t think it’s fair to call this a “media narrative” … https://youtu.be/WW2JLfUwTjI

I have read the accounts that it’s only immediately around a particular building that things are a mess, it’s not some wide spread apocalypse and I get that … but there’s definitely a certain level of violence and destruction.

What I’d like to know is how normal is it for such a letter to be written?

I don’t like Josh Hawley and I agree with Newsom that Trump made things worse.

However, these specific protests are violent; I can’t look at a picture of a flaming police or Waymo car and say that’s not violent. So if organizations are genuinely related to that activity … is that something that they’d normally be immune to? Is there precedent?

Like, flipping the script, if the Proud Boys collected money and then showed up in a town and trashed the place, would Proud Boys leadership be held accountable (under normal circumstances)? That’s kind of what happened with Jan 6th until Trump pardoned them (which I also don’t agree with).

On the one hand I agree.

On the other hand, we’ve moved to a world where digital purchases make sense and games are rarely shipped without patches or later content. We need a better way to manage them. It’s silly I have a steam library that I can’t resell virtually any part of.

Nintendo’s system seems to let users at least do these sorts of license transfers, no? That seems like a win over the digital status quo even if the physical cards aren’t what they once were.

Yeah that’s a good grounding point; there are too many things out there that seek to sow division with “hot takes” and a lot of them are highly ignorable.

I’m not either, I’ve never even ran a BSD desktop… But I support the BSD desktop existing and wish it well.

Yeah, I generally agree; I’m a big fan of systemd on Linux.

However, on BSD this does sound unfortunately likely to be painful.

This is disappointing, but I can’t say I’m surprised.

For those not familiar, Jagex has been going downhill since about 2010 (basically when the founders sold the game to venture capital). The company changes owners every couple of years as the next round of venture capital takes control promises big changes (for the better) only to squeeze more money out of an increasingly small player base. They then sell the company for a price hike.

Jagex is in the for sale stage right now, so they’re presumably tying to avoid scrutiny for what they hope will be probably a billion dollar sale.

There’s a new game by the founders, Brighter Shores. It improves a lot of things over RuneScape in principle, but it still needs a ton of work to make it more broadly appealing (effectively it’s still just a bit beyond an – extremely stable --tech demo; no bosses or minigames yet).