it’s Stupid Man’s Maginot Line and in case of real attack will be broken effortlessly
The Maginot Line was not broken, it was avoided. The nazis were essentially forced to take a different route to reach France, through Belgium. The issue was that it gave the defenders a false sense of security and the alternate route was not well protected (they thought the rough terrain would be a deterrent). It was an error in strategy, but the line itself held.
Do we know if the idea is to really have only mines?
The article gives as example some razor wire reinforced fence area through the forest that's likely gonna be targeted (the picture does not show what's on the floor, but you can see the area has surveillance cameras too). I wouldn't be surprised if the idea is to have some multi-layered protection, Surovikin-like, but of course the mines is what will break the news, since they could affect civilians the most.
alias lt='ls -t | less'
Good idea! I'll steal that but I would rather be able to give a directory path as parameter (and show in colors, and don't pause if less than 1 page of content, and support the scrolwheel), also piping ls forces it to be 1 single column so might as well show more details, personally I'm gonna use this instead:
lt() { ls -t --color=always -Fgoh "$@" | less -RF --mouse; }
Also, printf '\a' will output an alert bell character which should make the terminal beep/blink and be highlighted for attention by your wm/compositor if it's unfocused.
I have that aliased to a to get notified whenever a long running command finishes just by adding ;a at the end.
I would assume that the actual infrastructure of the asset store is also open source
The only repo I've found about the godot store is a sad readme.md used for issues, like many proprietary projects do when they want to make use of github as issue tracker without actually releasing code.
Also it's a web service that's privately hosted, so they can use that as a loophole to not release any changes in the code. The only way to ensure freedom there would be with AGPL license (lemmy for example is AGPL).
For their website homepage they do release the code as MIT, but not the store.
They aren’t going to stop you or anyone from making your own store and making it all free = freedom. You can also make your own steam.
We agree there. I never said otherwise. But just because people can make an alternative to Steam, Google, Facebook or whatever doesn't mean that Steam/Google/Facebook/whatever can't be shitty/closed. You missed the point.
I already wrote a lengthy explanation, I don't think writing more would help clarifying. If you don't see my point, or at least talk about something I actually said, then I think that's not on me.
This is a way to make it MORE popular
I'm not looking for popular, I'm looking for free. You know what's popular? Unity. Or even Unreal Engine.
Of course popular is nice.. but with approaches like this you put enshittification on the other side of the balance. You can get some popularity while compromising freedom (and it's ok to admit that), but don't be surprised when people who value freedom complain.
the license allows it.
Can you link to the license and source code of the store? I obviously wasn't talking about the engine, that one already has forks (redot, blazium ...I'm also eyeing bevy, though it's something else entirely).
The only repo I've found about the godot store is a sad readme.md used for issues, like many proprietary projects do when they want to make use of github as issue tracker without actually releasing code.
Also note that even if there would be free alternatives, that doesn't make proprietary software immune to being called out. Linux existing does not make Windows immune to critics.
free as in freedom != free as in 'free beer'
I feel the issue is not so much that you can buy/sell software, but that the Godot Asset store is proprietary, and being advertised alongside a project that was attractive for being "free and open source".
This also potentially could cause a conflict of interests when it comes to making improvements / promoting the previously existing Godot Asset Library (which was FOSS).
Maybe the game should be free too right?
Well, the more of it you make it FLOSS the further away from enshittification you get.
I've purchased every free and open source game on Steam that has been put there with a price tag precisely because I do prefer when they are open.. in the same way that I prefer Godot over Unity because of being open, in the same way I would prefer an open source Steam alternative if it truly existed (and I don't mean a repo to download games.. that's not what steam is.. I mean a store with support for purchases too, one that can be navigated from the couch, with controller support, with cloud saves, with input API and controller remaps per game, with friend group integration and chat, etc etc).
It's also a matter of perspective.. you'll see complains when something gets shittier and you'll see praise when something gets less shitty.. but just because there are complains in one place and praise in another does not necessarily mean the one getting praised is in a better position. I may complain about an additive added to my juice, and I may praise if the flour used in highly-processed mcnuggets is organic, but that does not mean the juice is worse than the mcnugget.. it just means that the juice is getting shittier and the mcnugget is getting less shitty.
Aren't all motivations emotional?
I mean... what would be the "logical" reason to use FOSS? I feel you can't just use pure logic as a form of motivation, ever. Something that only uses logic and not emotions cannot take any action like a computer algorithm made of pure logic with no hard-coded instincts that simply operates mathematically, in reality there's no logical reason to act in one direction or another.. morals/goals are always emotionally grounded.
I feel the problem has more to do with social reasons, and pragmatic reasons.
What determines a behavior being "extreme" often has more to do with what is the average behavior of the people you surround yourself with. It's a relative term.
In a world where everyone used free software and saw that as the norm, with things being designed around software being free, someone going the extra mile just to use proprietary software would be seen as "extreme" too.
Also, I'm not convinced that the numeric balance of who killed the most from the other side in a war is what should determine who is in the wrong.
Looks like it's split in library and binary, the binary itself is smaller, but if you add the size of the library it would be about 10% bigger. At least judging by the package sizes.
From https://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/r/rust-sudo-rs/
From http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/sudo/
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP): The first implementation of a set of methods used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, emails and files that ultimately became a standard called "OpenPGP" (RFC 4880), the program itself was commercial/proprietary. Sometimes "PGP" is also used to call the standard itself for short.
GNU Privacy Guard (GPG): A popular Free and Open Source program from the GNU project that uses/implements the OpenPGP standards
Even if you did block it, the fact that you blocked it is also trackable.. so it might actually single you out even more, and it'll still allow them to fingerprint your browser (you can test your fingerprint here).
It might make more sense to randomize / spoof the data so that it becomes inconsistent and useless so that you aren't identifiable.