Man probably needed to eat. What a system we’ve got.

That’s a more recent flare up but DHH has been “ruffling feathers” for a while to put it politely. https://tomstu.art/the-dhh-problem

This. Init having a pretty important role, you would hope being simple and minimal would be a priority. I just try to stick my head in the ground and pretend like it’s all ok.

Fancy otho mechanical keyboard.

If what manxu said is true it might be both courts agree its clear cut. It sounds more like a pull request getting rejected because of quality issues. “Fix it and resubmit. We don’t want this happening again”

I’ve learned courts have a lot of jargon and procedures that don’t make sense on the surface. some things that sound bad actually are for your benefit and it’s best to get a lawyer to translate.

Simply put, modern processors aren’t just converting instructions directly into transistors, they actually have code that controls how they operate. That’s the microcode.

Big not a lawyer caveat but if it is revenue then likely not. That would be all money collected before expenses which I could see including donations collected for server expenses.

I’ve always felt like on paper hg is better than git but in practice it doesn’t feel like it to me. Kinda like arguing beta is better then vhs, etc. Also kinda wanted darcs to succeed and while it seems to still be developed it’s so niche as to not exist.

But the great thing is they do exist as alternatives.

really don’t care enough who you claim to be. You asserted pretty matter of fact who I was starting this discussion but ok.

if a group of people are using the tools that he created in a way that he doesn’t like or want, is he not entitled to make a change to stop that from happening?

In short no. At least not if you’re software is GPL, then you don’t have any say in how its used. Its the bargain we make when we choose an open license as it specifically grants the right to use software freely. So up to last year, he has no say in how its used. And honestly, If download and compile the CC version today he doesn’t get any say either. For the most part even proprietary software like Windows don’t get a lot of say in how things are used either if you pay for it.

at that point the whole community could fork the repo and do their own thing. but no, entitled shitlord users want to post ragebait shitposts and call the dude an asshole for putting his foot down and drawing a line

There are forks of the GPL code. They’re in the fork tab in github. Also a trip to google finds this version https://github.com/libretro/swanstation which appears to have been forked for 4 years now. There are also other PS emulators that seem more popular in things like retropie where it would be more widely distributed so not sure how much interest there actually is.

because he’s had enough of entitled shitlord package managers. Genuine question, what did the package managers do that’s so “shitlord”? I can guess about bug reports or complaints about licensing(guess because issues are closed) but really don’t know what he’s mad about the packaging thing. There are some community aur’s but they seem fine.

1. duckstation-git “most popular” clones the github source and compiles it locally. Its downloading the source directly so can’t be any more unmodified and allowed under the restrictive CC license.
2. duckstation-qt-bin downloads the app image from the official github and extracts
3. duckstation - Also builds from source but pinned to old gpl release. looks to patch and update some libraries for compatibility? GPL code so modifications fair game.
4. duckstation-preview-latest-bin also just downloads app image and extracts

So none of the aurs distribute anything built on arch infrastructure, its all unmodified versions exactly like his license and readme specify.

the guy didn’t do anything wrong, because as the maintainer he has the sole responsibility and vision of where he wants to take his project

Sure, he can do what ever he wants I guess. Accept what ever PR, commit what ever code. He can even delete everything tomorrow(I believe he’s done it before?) because he thinks neclimdul specifically is a jerk and was mean to him on lemmy and no other reason. That doesn’t make his decision good or reasonable or right. I mean you don’t seem to like me but I hope you get my point.

But just to really be clear why I think this was a jerk move, https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/blob/master/CMakeModules/DuckStationBuildSummary.cmake#L38

This doesn’t block packaging, it blocks compiling on any arch system. Its a poison pill because he didn’t like some people using a specific distro and doesn’t really affect me but strikes me as pretty petty.

You got me, I’m impersonating some other neclimdul guy that’s easily Googleable and matches the description I gave. I registered this account two years ago and participated in discussions all this time so I could trick you specifically Hawkeye. You really did call me out. Good one.

Petty is pretty harsh and reading this message I wish I’d paused and chosen a better word.

That said, the way the commit reads, the relicensing, the fact they seem to be upset the aur is locked to the GPL version to comply with the license but also poisoning the build scripts like it’s somehow going to affect the old GPL code. It just does not sound like someone acting in good faith with the open source community they’re clearly building on top of and that does rub me the wrong way.

Hi, I’m a subsystem maintainer for the Drupal project, a security team member, and over the years have helped maintain several of the largest projects in the ecosystem. I’ve also contributed to a number of open source projects over the years and have a lot of experience collaborating with maintainers to get fixes committed going back to early amd64 fixes coming out of testing in the gentoo project before Intel even had a real 64bit platform. I’ve got a pretty good feel for how this works and it’s safe to say FLOSS is kinda my day job.

Imagine if Linux developers building the libraries this was built on where as petty.

Imagine if Linux developers building the libraries this was built on where as petty.

Let me guess, he pinky promised Murkowski he would behave.

As someone in the US who has been in audits where we had to attest to where our data was stored, also wtf.

Oh reading the article it means non-US sovereignty. Pretty sure anybody in IT at this point should know the US privacy laws are non-existent and US companies are in this position and have been for decades.

That’s kind of outside the software development discussion but glad you’re enjoying it.

Most ides do the boring stuff with templates and code generation for like a decade so that’s not so helpful to me either but if it works for you.

Explain this too me AI. Reads back exactly what’s on the screen including comments somehow with more words but less information Ok…

Ok, this is tricky. AI, can you do this refactoring so I don’t have to keep track of everything. No… Thats all wrong… Yeah I know it’s complicated, that’s why I wanted it refactored. No you can’t do that… fuck now I can either toss all your changes and do it myself or spend the next 3 hours rewriting it.

Yeah I struggle to find how anyone finds this garbage useful.

I see no such weakness for you. Unless there’s a new pug anime I need to watch. In which case why have you been holding out?