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Richard Stallman has resigned from the Free Software Foundation and MIT
17 Sep 2019 at 7:05 pm UTC Likes: 9

Quoting: tonRSometimes, it's better to keep your mouth shut than say something that will stirring up many hornet nests.
This is gold. Thank you.

Quoting: cprnWait. So paraphrasing RMS he said "how about using a less guilt implying term" when it came to accusing a deceased (i.e. not able to protect themselves) faculty member that hasn't actually been accused by the victim of the crime...
The word you are looking for is: allegedly

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Blame the Media for being Entertainment and not Genuine Journalism or News.

Blame Richard Stallman for socially being a dumbass and putting his foot in his mouth (figurateively and literally apparantly from videos
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Everyone is debating whether or not the Individual's freedom of speech superceeds the freedom of a group.

I think it's clear that when an individual suchas RMS accepts a lofty position -- say at MIT: they agree to exchange some of their freedoms to fit the required behavior of the role.

This is why CoC exist, because at places like M.I.T. trending social political science issues are not within the scope of of the institutions mission and are just noise distracting from keeping a functional and productive forum.

The institutions mission and scope is technology.

RMS on the other hand has always personally had those additional activist opinions that are inappropriate in the context of his job.

He has "foot in mouth syndrome" and based on the things he has said the institution is probably affraid someday a RMS Scandal will come to light and they want nothing to do with it.

Edit: Also, the last thing MIT wants is for someone to stir the pot on what sounds like a possible Sexual Assault Scandal at MIT, they just fucking noped out of that -- so they took away any representation power he had in relation to their name so they don't come under fire for dumb shit he says and loose millions of dollars.

Edit 2: Also noteworthy, in regards to freedom of speech -- he had the right to say it, and he did. But he didn't have the right to say it and keep his privilege of position partially representing M.I.T.

Freedom of Speech and Responsibility of Leadership are somewhat mutually exclusive, this is why Liam Dawe is held to a higher standard than the rest of us plebs and we can get away saying things he could NEVER say from his podium and come away completely unscathed. It's a shitty thing, and bless him for doing what he does, but it's the truth.

Canonical have listed what 32bit packages they will continue to support through Ubuntu 20.04
17 Sep 2019 at 4:26 pm UTC Likes: 8

Quoting: KimyrielleIn all honesty, 32 bit stuff DOES need to go at some point. I mean, for how long is Linux supposed to carry on that old baggage?
Okay. Then. Lets just obsolete 32-bit, 64-bit and switch to source only distros like Gentoo then. Because that's the only way we are going to end the cycle of obsoleting 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit 256-bit etc...

Quoting: GuestI disagree. 32bit needs to stay, yet alone for all those 32bit applications/games. How am i supposed to play/use those when they are gone?
Agree. We still have DOSBox to play DOS games and all kinds of containers to keep games working. 32-bit needs to stay -- devs literally no longer have the source code to some games and there is no difference to the average consumer, all they see is "It works" and "It doesn't work".

Steam isn't an idealistic engineer's dream of the perfect system with 0 users, it's a practical middle-ground for all developers will millions of users which delivers games & content to gamers.

GTA: San Andreas is being remade (unofficially) in Unity and it supports Linux
7 Sep 2019 at 11:26 am UTC

Quoting: Desum
Quoting: Lihis
Quoting: wvstolzingThis reminded me to check up on these guys: https://github.com/rwengine/openrw [External Link]
It's an open reimplementation of the GTA III-series engine; but they've been making *really* slow progress over the past 5-6 years.
More of active contributors are needed. Spreading word of the projects existence would probably help to gain some devs.
Nearly every from-scratch open source engine rewrite project is undermanned. I've been mentioning OpenVIII where I can since the Final Fantasy 8 Remaster turned out to be a very-very bad port technically speaking.
OpenVIII really needs a AUR PKGBUILD, but I am not sure the exact build process since their git requests building with a GUI IIUC.

Edit: Also who do I pay to work on this lol? I will be stupid giddy when they reach 1.0

The Steam Library overhaul is finally coming in Beta this month (updated)
4 Sep 2019 at 6:26 pm UTC Likes: 2

Very exciting. Looks amazing so far.

The emulation and media player front-end RetroArch just had a huge new release
27 Aug 2019 at 7:02 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: TheSHEEEP... you are aware that key can be changed in the settings? First thing I always do...
Sure, the point is having a sane default though, this is sane. The original was not.
ALL PRAISE BE SANE DEFAULTS. PRAISE!

Edit: Imagine the Nuclear Suitcase had two nearly identical buttons for [ Launch Nuke ] and [ Dont Not Launch Le Nuke ]

Looks like the Smach Z handheld gaming unit is getting an upgrade
23 Aug 2019 at 5:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

Whhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Action-adventure roguelike UnderMine now available in Early Access
20 Aug 2019 at 7:35 pm UTC

Looks awesome, so many details look really well done especially mechanics at a glance. I definitely want to buy a copy and play soon.

Google reveal more games with the latest Stadia Connect, including Cyberpunk 2077
19 Aug 2019 at 7:01 pm UTC Likes: 16

I hope Cyberpunk 2077 offers their Vulkan layer on Windows, at least then Proton could run it really well on Linux out of box.
Otherwise, I think someone should poke them with a sticksaying "Since it's already on Google Stadia (Linux) can we please have it on Steam Linux -- shouldn't be any different or require any different human resources."

The Dreamcast emulator Flycast has made some amazing progress lately
14 Aug 2019 at 1:49 pm UTC

Incredible achievement! Proud of those that put in the hard work and this community for making such cool stuff.

Facepunch Studios confirm their plan for the Linux version of Rust, to be split from Windows & Mac
10 Aug 2019 at 1:47 am UTC

So facepunch is admitting they cant hack it and suck ass. Sad.