madez · HackerTrans

It's not like they are bad people who set out in the morning to make the world a worse place. If you want change, you must question what makes people behave that way. The extreme focus on economic success of individuals combined with a lack of solid social security is what my intuition tells me drives people to do things at work that damage other people. Is there research about this?

madez

7 年前discuss

I cannot get the game to play correctly. I'm using Debian with AMD open graphics, and about everything works fine, but this game is horribly broken with it. I'd love to play it.

madez

7 年前discuss

It seems you are inutitively always converting everything to the decimal system and taking that as "the way" to think about numbers. That wouldn't be surprising, because we are brought up this way and even our language focusses on the decimal system. Not having good words to speak about the binary number 1101001 makes it difficult to think about it without converting it first. Two (I'm decimal again!) isn't a good base for human communication because there is a lot of repitition of simple symbols. Maybe a new way to pronounce hex numbers like a17c03 would be able to replace the decimal system.

madez

7 年前discuss

I have seen a lot of very good indie games in some genres, but not in all. Can you point to some good indie realtime strategy games?

madez

8 年前discuss

ubiyubix, your comment is dead.

To answer your question, I don't remember which documentaries were good, but searching on YouTube with subsets of the relevant keyword set {abmahnung, abzocke, Waldorf frommer, doku} will give you multiple results.

Just to give one example, I'll name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7t4znx8DA

madez

8 年前discuss

You are misinformed on many levels.

You can still copy copyrighted data and send it to a friend over the internet, just like you can copy a book cover to cover and give the copy to a friend. The focus is on friend, however. When you torrent and connect to strangers, then it is public distribution and not anymore sharing between friends.

Also, the law § 104a UhrG clearly states that copyright infringement has to be brought to the local court of the defendant, when the defendant is a natural person. This is the case since the 9th October 2013.

Please don't spread wrong information.

madez

8 年前discuss

To put things into perspective, the plaintiffs lawyers, Waldorf Frommer, are known for shady tactics. They have built an industry of putting immense pressure on private people. They don't shy away from lawsuits because they are cheap for them and menacing for the people. They don't always win, but under the line it is a very profitable business for them; they employ about 60 lawyers.

The public broadcast made documentaries about their cease-and-desist-industry against private people. Even the German Bundestag changed multiple times the law to stop that madness, but it took many years because the christian party opposed effective changes. Now, even though the law has changed on the 13th October 2017, they continue to pressure people into paying.

Some courts are heavily in favour of them, most notably the Amtsgericht München. This makes the situation even worse for people who cannot afford to appeal a judgement even though they are convinced they are not guilty, because the financial risk is too high. I would not be surprised if the judgement in this case gets overthrown in a higher court.

The defendants german lawyers, WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKE, are known for legal defense against Waldorf Frommer. Personally, I don't trust them completely because they offer an all-inclusive legal defense package that is conveniently priced at 2/3 of the value Waldorf Frommer asks for. This industry is a huge employment scheme for lawyers.

madez

9 年前discuss

The responsibility to document the quirks and necessary workarounds lie with the manufacturer of the hardware. If the manufacturer doesn't provide the necessary documentation, then that's exactly that: insufficient documentation to use the device.

There are hardware manufacturers that are better than others at being open and providing documentation. My minimal level of required support and documentation right now is mainline linux support.

Can you document your work publicly, or is there something I can read about it? I'm very interested in alternative kernels beside Linux.

madez

9 年前discuss

Why is it an issue to need a different kernel image for each device? I don't see a problem as long as there is a simple mechanism to specify your device to generate the right image. It's already like that with coreboot/libreboot/librecore, and it worked just fine for me.

madez

9 年前discuss

Everybody has the right to expect a fair and reasonable treatment and punishment. If that can't be guaranteed it might be imperative to not share the identity, because sharing it would imply another injustice without righting any other.

madez

11 年前discuss

A typo in the introduction:

    "We do not require customers that customers have a domain registration (...)"

There is a "customers" too much.

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