yetAnotherUser
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- Comment on YouTube won't let me watch a video unless I sign in... 13 hours ago:
It’s source available, not open source.
It severely limits what can legally be done by restricting modifications and prohibiting “commercial” distribution:
You may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.
You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.
Non-commercial purposes is extremely vague by the way. Depending on the country - or even the court in a country - nearly everything distributed on the internet is for commercial purposes.
For example, in Germany, only commercial websites have to put up a legal disclosure consisting of address, full name, phone number and email. Yet courts have ruled that every single website that is available to the public is “commercial” - only private webpages available to a handful of people are non-commercial. If anyone redistributed the software in Germany this license would be grounds for a successful lawsuit.
- Comment on Yeah, tunafan9000?? 1 week ago:
This doesn’t explain why a truck can drive at double digits mph with the trailer up.
That’s like the most basic safety mechanism the manufacturer could implement.
- Comment on “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed 1 week ago:
No, I don’t recall any audio books being there.
Audiobooks can best be found at MAM, though that site is private (albeit with a rather trivial interview for newcomers on the weekend).
- Comment on How prevalent is the topic of mental health in America compared to Germany? 1 week ago:
not having enough therapists or having too many people who seek them
Neither actually. The health insurances are allowed to decide amongst themselves how many therapists are covered. And this number hasn’t been adjusted (much) since 1999 even though demand has skyrocketed since then.
Approximately 50% of therapists in Germany cannot accept public health insurance. Yet there is enough demand from the 10% of Germans with private health insurance ( + those who pay for therapy thenselves) to keep those therapists afloat.
In other words:
12.5% of Germans have been diagnosed with depression => 9.5 million people officially diagnosed which is certainly an underreported figure.
There are ~24,000 therapists in Germany.
As a result, there are 396 people with depression per therapist - meaning if every therapist worked 40 hours per week with 1 hour per client you’d have to wait 10 weeks between sessions.
Now add all other mental illnesses which would require therapy and you’d get an even larger number.
Sure, not everyone diagnosed with depression requires therapy. But this doesn’t excuse the obvious lack of paid therapists - which is openly acknowledged by the public health insurances but they are not legally required to change anything.
- Comment on AHHHHHHHHHHH 2 weeks ago:
What are you talking about? A biologist (re-)invented calculus!
- Comment on Woke furry hijacks social media of right-wing group that published 'DEI Watch List' 2 weeks ago:
I can’t believe you out of all people would write this comment. Not only should you have known better, you didn’t even bother to think twice before posting something this abhorrent. You should be deeply ashamed of yourself for daring to post such a disgusting comment commentating on the action of someone’s cybercriminal behavior. I hope you will learn from this but not only do I not believe you will change, you will likely even double down on your wrongdoing. Still, I urge you to just read what you wrote, just once, before posting in order to mitigate this grave injustice.
Which is to say:
THE MEME GOES “WAOW,” NOT “WHOW”!!!
- Comment on Nothing a whole lotta *COPE* can't fix 2 weeks ago:
In my country (Germany)
Crossbows are legal to own and sell for adults. They are allowed to be shot at certified locations (i.e. shooting ranges) but not necessarily on your own property. You need a license for shooting them on your own property if the energy of the projectile exceeds 7.5 Joules. In comparison, a 9mm pistol shoots projectiles with 300-500 Joules.
Basically (for crossbows):
- 0 - 0.08 Joules: toy, freely available
- 0.08 - 0.5 Joules: toy, only available for children over 14
- 0.5 - 7.5 Joules: weapon, license free for adults, shooting on your own property is allowed
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7.5 Joules: weapon, shooting on your own property is only permitted with a license
For comparison: a 9mm pistol shoots with 300-500 Joules.
Why would you want a crossbow though? Keep in mind that you are not allowed to use weapons for self-defense, even if you don’t need a license for them. Furthermore, I’m not sure whether you are allowed to publicly carry the crossbow at all.
- Comment on Emojiis are hieroglyphics 2 weeks ago:
Don’t you mean 👆🤓?
- Comment on Roll7’s OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome delisted, remaining titles now at risk along with the future of ‘Kerbal 2’ 2 weeks ago:
To be honest, that’s what I meant with Humble. I knew they got legitimate keys from the developers and didn’t think of the correct noun.
But since the studio was shut down by 2K, they are most likely the one’s footing the bill if a chargeback occurs. For indie games or small studios, I never use these sites for that reason.
Plus I’m still in the process of setting up my pirated games infrastructure. I will first need to figure out how to properly store Windows-only games such that the WINE prefix is in the game folder and automatically applied as well as how to make “cloud” saves work.
- Comment on Roll7’s OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome delisted, remaining titles now at risk along with the future of ‘Kerbal 2’ 2 weeks ago:
It’s still available on key resellers for cheap (including all DLCs) or HumbleBundle if your prefer an official key reseller (that asks for the full price though).
I grabbed it earlier today because it too was on my wishlist.
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
I’m a cis man and closer to 140 lbs (with average height). And though I don’t regularly go out for night walks, when I do I don’t feel particularly unsafe. A little more cautious perhaps, especially around groups of drunk people but that’s about it.
If I were forced to fight the average person I meet at night I would literally have to resort to using my damn teeth or expect to be beaten up to a pulp at the very least.
Still, the risk of me ending up in such a situation is tiny. I’m far more likely to be run over by a car - which actually almost happened a couple weeks back had I not paid attention.
Honestly, I think large parts of women’s fear at night in the US is culture dependent. You don’t have walkable streets over there so children don’t have the opportunity to walk to kindergarten or school. Over here in winter children are literally walking to school at night, before sunrise.
You do have a shitton of neverending fear mongering. Like, the concept of “Amber Alerts” is absurd over here in Europe, I can’t imagine what this would’ve done to me as a child if I had been told on a daily basis that strangers are out to get me.
Tl;dr it’s probably culture dependent
- Comment on South Afruleca 3 weeks ago:
NAND = ¬(A ∧ B) = ¬A ∨ ¬B = Not A or Not B
NOR = ¬(A ∨ B) = ¬A ∧ ¬B = Not A and Not B
- Comment on I wouldn't stand for it 5 weeks ago:
Well, at least not in the same way as email with a centralized server.
Unlike email, most modern messaging services are end-to-end encrypted. If an abusive professor manages to manipulate their victim into deleting the messages (and does so as well) it’s nigh impossible to verify accusations. With email, the university’s email server keeps them stored and visible.
Unencrypted messaging poses severe privavy risks since - you know - the messaging service can read every single message.
Usually I am all for encryption, though for official communication I don’t think it’s the best idea. It does have the minor drawback that particularly sensitive information isn’t sent (such as exam scores) but you can just check them on the university’s web portal anyways.
- Comment on I wouldn't stand for it 5 weeks ago:
Modern meaning American?
All communication with professors has to be official over here to prevent abuse. Phone messages don’t leave a trail that can be investigated, emails do.
Plus I’m pretty sure you could insist on getting a phone number from your university if you didn’t want to share yours with them or if you didn’t even have one, for some reason. That would just lead to an enormous hassle for the university over here, it’s easier to just give every student an email address.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 1 month ago:
I had to look it up, it’s the technical term for a certain firefighting vehicle.
In particular, what distinguishes it from a normal crew firefighting vehicle (Löschgruppenfahrzeug) is its equipment for “Technische Hilfeleistung” (technical help-providing) which basically means it carries equipment beyond basic extinguishing agents. If you’re physically stuck in your car after a crash, a Hilfeleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug has to arrive to cut open the doors.
A Hilfeleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug
A (small) Löschgruppenfahrzeug. Note that it only contains firefighting equipment.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 1 month ago:
I can imagine little worse than doing what you just described although that is (in part) due to moderate social anxiety. I behave in the exact opposite way - ignoring people regardless of how much they stand out because I don’t want to stare.
Though I can imagine what you’ve been doing has helped others.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 1 month ago:
You would?
I use public transit daily and hardly ever interact with anyone. Maybe there is one interaction every 100 days? I don’t frequently see two strangers interacting either, it’s unheard of except maybe for retirees with effectively infinite time.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 1 month ago:
I can’t really answer/reply to most of your comment but there is something about the last paragraph that I can respond to:
What about bi-/pansexual men? They exist [1][2] and there will be many that are attracted to people in between gender( expression)s.
[1] en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality
[2] en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality - Comment on Anon goes out of bounds 1 month ago:
That’s zero intentional attacks, a couple of human-mistaken-for-seal attacks and a few attacks in captiviy, where animals are known to behave much differently than in the wild because they are imprisoned and treated like shit.
Provided the orca identifies you correctly as not-food, there seems to be a low risk from interacting with one in the wild.
- Comment on FearNoPeer open for signups for the next 1-5 days! 1 month ago:
The UI is just the UNIT3D UI though. It’s fancy, but nothing special imo.
The site is decent though, very easy to build ratio. I often snatch my x265 releases from them with Radarr despite having Usenet and TL at a higher priority.
- Comment on tickling ur spidey senses 2 months ago:
And the bugs are always in the last lines of code you check. It’s so infuriating! Why can’t they be in the first?
- Comment on One more try maybe? 2 months ago:
Turret3857 is not in the sudoers file.
This incident will be reported.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 2 months ago:
There is significant proof of benefits:
Positive outcomes were decreased suicidality in adulthood, improved affect and psychological functioning, and improved social life. Adverse factors associated with use were changes in body composition, slow growth, decreased height velocity, decreased bone turnover, cost of drugs, and lack of insurance coverage.
I can’t vouch for the quality of this literature review (because I don’t care about taking an hour or more to read a paper for a Lemmy comment), but usually literarture reviews show a fuller picture than individual studies.
Also, this sentence is in the conclusion:
Although large long-term studies with diverse and multicultural populations have not been done, the evidence to date supports the finding of few serious adverse outcomes and several potential positive outcomes.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 2 months ago:
Vaccines can have devastating permanent side effects. Should parents no longer vaccinate their children?
The answer for both is:
Whichever option does less harm should be taken. A delayed puberty, despite potential long-term risks does less harm than a trans child going through the “wrong” puberty.
Besides, due to the start of puberty having a pretty large range there should in theory be little harm until the age of 14 or so. And at that age children are much more capable of deciding on medical treatments than as preteens.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 - Update 2.2 is live! 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t that be akin to adding new features? Adding support for previously unsupported (due to their lack of existance) hardware is a feature imo.
Besides, while a program may eventually be bug-free, no modern computer has flawless hardware so creating a large program without bugs will always remain a thought experiment.
The only possible reason to do it would be if an alien civilization were to demand producing such a program or else they’d destroy Earth (similar to Erdős’s thought experiment with finding Ramsey numbers). Perhaps with all of humanity’s resources and a few decades this could be done.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 - Update 2.2 is live! 2 months ago:
Absolutely, I was thinking more along the lines of focusing solely on bug-fixing.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 - Update 2.2 is live! 2 months ago:
Eventually: Yes.
There are a finite number of bugs (or bug types rather, you could have infinitely many bugs from the same few lines of code) and it will take finite time to fix them all. You cannot know when you have fixed all of them though. But some games have gone above and beyond with fixing bus, like Factorio where you will not encounter bugs without explicitly looking for them.
- Comment on Interesting. It's a constant reminder 2 months ago:
Assuming the bathroom is in a hallway, having the door open into the hallway would cause the flight path to be narrowed which would be against (some) fire code(s).
After all, significantly more people would want to flee through the hallway than out of a room adjacent to the hallway.
- Comment on Interesting. It's a constant reminder 2 months ago:
That might not be up to fire standards demanding doors in the hallway to be opened to the inside of the room.
- Comment on Log by bolb 2 months ago:
By the way, I believe the second string of question marks is meant to be a verb. Liberals are doing stuff with their gender that cannot even be put into words.
