“Take the fucking elephant!”
Response to “Reason studios demonstrates why piracy is completely justified”
Do what thou whilt shall be the whole of the law.
While I don’t think piracy is justified in general, this kind of theft of things you already bought happened to me recently with a PC game I bought on physical media; Tron Evolution. Disney revoked all the licenses of the game including legitimate pre-existing purchases of the game. I bought it brand new on physical media back when it first came out. Now I can’t play the game I legitimately bought brand new anymore for no legitimate reason. The CD key the game physically shipped with doesn’t work anymore.
Even working around the DRM it prompts you on install doesn’t help because it has a second form of DRM; Games for Windows Live. GFWL, is dead and doesn’t work anymore because it has been shutdown in favor of the Microsoft store and the Xbox services. It doesn’t let me sign in anymore and they tied saving the game into using it. (Yes I reset my password and no it did not help. I can sign into my Microsoft account just fine on my Xbox and on my Outlook. This isn’t an account issue.)
You have to authenticate the installation with one form of DRM, which is now revoked for no legitimate reason, then log into another on a now dead service, just to play a game I physically own on disc because Disney arbitrarily decided to say “screw you.” The game is already abandonware yet they screwed over legitimate purchases presumably out of arbitrary malice. They lose nothing off from me playing the game I already own ON PHYSICAL MEDIA. There’s no legitimate reason to do this to me other than just petty megalomania.
So now the only way I can play this game I paid for again would be to pirate it but I don’t even know how to do that these days and even if I did there’s no guarantee I’d even be able to save the game because that’s attached to GFWL for some absurd reason. Now, despite owning a legitimate copy of the game, I have no other option but to pirate it if I ever wanted to play it again. It’s fucked.
Love is the law, love under will.
Frustrated,
Vanessa
Out of Context Quote of the Day
“Still not over the fact that some people decided to fuck and now I have to pay bills.”
Out of Context Quote of the Day
“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.”
Out of Context Quote of the Day
“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.”
System.d and the Dreaded BSOD
Do what thou whilt shall be the whole of the law.
Before I go into the weeds with this one, let me start out by saying I’m not i one of those haters who dislike system.d as a whole. In general I find it a useful piece of kit unix philosophy be damned. I’m even in favor of the move they’re making in terms of user directories becoming portable files so long as it’s done elegantly and doesn’t break anything.
That being said, in recent news the system.d project is implementing a function to display a blue screen of death message during a boot error.
I think this is a bad move, but not for the knee jerk reasons many may have towards it. The thing is, we already had an answer to this; kernel panic. What we need is not to just ape the Windows solution but simply improve the existing solution. Have a kernel panic or boot error crash down to a terminal output and display all the debug information that way as part of the terminal output. If it’s lower level than bash, then just display a simulated one, like GRUB has. It’s more in line with how Linux behaves in general based on established norms. Since Linux users are used to getting debug information from the terminal, not via full screen messages with a blue background, keep in spirit of what we already know. If I didn’t know about this change and got hit by one of these things, I’d assume it was a virus or some sort of rootkit before I’d ever think it was a legitimate Linux output message. It just doesn’t match the way things are handled in our neck of the woods. We’re not Microsoft. We’re not Windows. We should never try to be. You can take lessons from it all day long but you should never just effectively copy and paste them like this. You should go “hmmm that’s a useful feature. How can I adapt the mechanics we already have to include that kind of feature for our system without breaking our established behavior of software and blindsiding front line techs with a sudden and uncharacteristic change of this magnitude?” Then do that.
Also ditch the QR code and just display whatever it would say along with the message.
Love is the law, love under will.
Hopefully,
Vanessa
Out of Context Quote of the Day
“I wanna see some naked dudes! That’s why I built this pool.”
Out of Context Quote of the Day
“We are not inferior knockoffs of someone else.”
A Lust for Cis
Do what thou whilt shall be the whole of the law.
I wish I could hit reset on this life and be born as a cis girl. My life would have gone in a completely different direction but I’m ok with that.While I’ve finally gotten to a place in my life where I’m mostly ok, I would still trade all this in an instant to be cis. I hate being trans. I hate everything about it. There’s no upside. There’s no silver lining. It’s just pain. Constant horrible pain. It’s horrible and I hate it so much. Nobody would ever be trans on purpose. It’s nothing good. It feels like the gods decided to betray me before I was even born. It’s awful. There can be no wholly benevolent god in a world that’s got this kind of horror inside it. It’s fucked. Seriously fucked up. It’s awful. I’m so tired of it. I’m so fucking tired.
Love is the law, love under will.
Distraught,
Vanessa
Out of Context Quote of the Day
“THAT LITERALLY MADE ME PUT ON PANTS”