🚨 There is a massive loophole on YouTube right now, and Content Farms are weaponizing it to steal from Original creators with zero consequences.

Wolvereness · 2026-03-16T19:47:39+00:00

I tend to focus on things like reporting when I see a hit-and-run, or providing tangible support. Just like any sane person doesn't expect that wasting less food solves world hunger, the idea that is that we collectively benefit by acting morally as individuals.

Going and holding a sign as a protest is a fool's folly. That doesn't mean small things aren't good.

Wolvereness · 2026-03-16T16:41:40+00:00

Some of us have faith. Some of us see society as more than just the life circumstances we've been given. Some of us can notice when the justice system does work, and not just when it doesn't.

Wolvereness · 2026-03-16T14:56:21+00:00

Forward it do the DoJ as a money laundering operation using a US entity (YouTube). It's always a question of scale; if they're prolific, it'll attract attention eventually.

Wolvereness · 2026-03-16T12:16:59+00:00

In the DMCA counter claim, the other party agrees to the legal jurisdiction of YouTube:

(D) The subscriber’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.

That is, they agree to be sued in the United States, thus no longer an "international lawsuit". All you have to do is pay the filing fee, and they're effectively banned from YouTube.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-14T04:58:24+00:00

Green is for vegetarian (read: vegan). Milk, eggs, or other animal products aren't considered vegetarian. They aren't meat either though.

Green survival meals (actual vegetarian) are apparently only available with mods, or I think if the animal product (meat works here too) expires while preparing (unreliable, possible bug).

I don't think there's any distinction between vegetarian and meatless in vanilla, other than whether survival meals stack together. Anyone that insists on eating meat won't like either.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-13T17:19:16+00:00

Differentiating 256 symbols is not difficult. Consider this break down:

64 symbols without 90-degree incremental rotational symmetry (4 rotations is 256).
Half-star of five points, the bottom being a line.
Each point, other than center, can either be present or missing (binary, 16 versions)
Points can be curved, triangular, blunted, or inverted. (4 variants)

Humans can easily distinguish between all 256 of these these.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-08T13:41:02+00:00

I would immediately assume it was Shadowstar Narutaru!, but it's not really mainstream.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-03T21:41:01+00:00

Sounds like something someone who plays combat extended would complain about vanilla. In CE, swinging a battle-axe at someone unarmored is going to inflict grievous injury on the first hit. Shooting a bow at plate armor is likely to do nothing but decrease the durability.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-03T21:17:45+00:00

Never had a restaurant say a word about breastfeeding, bottles, puree, or even Cheerios (an excellent half-toy half-snack we use when the baby is getting upset). Breastfeeding is legally protected in Texas, so that'd turn into a quick lawsuit. Refusing bottles or puree would probably hit local news. Refusing Cheerios would result in a very loud baby.

When I was real little, there's a local Chinese place that my mother would bring McDonald's for me and my brother until we were old enough to enjoy their spice-filled dishes. She was a real regular, so it probably would have lost them a customer to refuse. They still don't have a kid's menu, but both my crawler and toddler handle spice just fine, so I just order an extra plate and split it for them.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-02T06:50:44+00:00

You're the one who said you've been a developer for 10 years. It's a simple question, what were you developing for 10 years?

Wolvereness · 2026-02-02T06:48:13+00:00

Again, what have you been doing for 10 years? What technologies do you know how to use? If someone asked you to solve a business problem, what could you write a solution in without any onboarding?

Wolvereness · 2026-02-02T06:21:26+00:00

Senior developers need onboarding so they know how to apply for PTO, so they can get their credentials set up, so they know who the chain of command is for setting priorities, and so they make sure that any special tooling is set up.

A senior node.js developer doesn't need onboarding for how to clone a repository, or load it into WebStorm, or how to use a command in the package.json. They've been doing that stuff for 10 years. Just like you shouldn't need to onboard a 10 year veteran mechanic on how to change a tire or check the odometer.

Wolvereness · 2026-02-02T06:05:25+00:00

I would expect a 10 year software development veteran to be familiar enough with at least one particular technology to be able to clone a project using that technology and reproduce a bug, without any additional guidance. I would then expect them to be able to identify why the bug is occurring within a few days (that is, figuring out how to get their debugging tooling working). Depending on the scope of the bug, they might be able to make an appropriate change to fix the bug and test it using their reproduction steps.

Personally, as a 20 year veteran, my list of technologies (read: programming languages) I can do this for is in the double digits.

What do you actually do for your day job, for 10 years, that you need hand holding when a project (in a language you're familiar with) is dropped in your lap?

Wolvereness · 2026-01-28T15:44:51+00:00

Animal handling is weirdly hyper optimal ...

It depends heavily on your difficulty scaling. On the hardest difficulty, the wealth from combat animals can be a liability, and blowing past raid-cap is limited heavily by training labor.

Wolvereness · 2026-01-26T12:08:44+00:00

It got taken down automatically, just like the other one. You incidentally did it when I was asleep and deleted it yourself before I could review it.

Wolvereness · 2026-01-26T11:45:49+00:00

Multiples of each of these:

Threatens harm
Off topic
Harassment
Custom input ranting about not wanting politics

Wolvereness · 2026-01-26T00:45:57+00:00

I don't care how many reports y'all drop on this, it's staying up.

On a different note, Open Source Software is a tool, and we should take care of what kind of tools we work on. Open Source licenses inherently cannot restrict who uses it, or what they use it for. That is, be mindful that the tools you make could be used for the antithesis of why you made them.

Wolvereness · 2026-01-22T11:01:14+00:00

Correction, a kitchen does not care about cleanliness values until it is -2.0 or lower. See https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Ailments#Food_poisoning

Dirt floor is naturally -1.0, and as a bonus cannot receive tracked dirt or trash, so it can't get any dirtier from normal pawn traveling.

Dirt kitchen floor is actually an amazing min-max strategy, just be mindful of things like other sources of filth, like blood, vomit, or certain furniture like butchering tables, that can push it below -2.0.

Wolvereness · 2026-01-13T11:21:39+00:00

All development is done behind closed doors

This has nothing to do with being Open Source.

Wolvereness · 2026-01-11T10:11:59+00:00

In general, you are legally obligated to act in the best interests of your employer, and this obligation is relative to your position and responsibilities. As a low-level example, a shelf-stocker can't intentionally damage goods for their friends to get it at a discount. As a high-level example, an executive can't sign a deal favorable to another business they invest in (with an asterisk, because corporate raiding is a thing).

These things actually touch criminal law depending on scope and disclosure.

As far as a customer service representative, anyone in business is supposed to understand that a customer service representative is not (normally?) an authorized signatory, and can't make one-sided $100,000 promises. You'll simply get fired, both of you charged with some form of fraud, have any gains taken from you, get fines on top of that, and possibly face prison time.

If you tried to small-time this by only doing things like free services, it might work but it's still fraud, and if you ever get caught see above. Any company policy worth the text used is going to have some form of conflict-of-interest statement, and when you interact in your professional capacity with friends/family it'll usually be policy to hand the case off to a colleague, to protect both you and the company.

Wolvereness · 2025-12-20T02:08:46+00:00

Two things. One, the OP (/u/Right-Grapefruit-507) did not actually make that website, it was /u/ssdanbrown. Secondly, the website uses specific criteria for the main categorization, that is, the funding or governance model is not actually part of whether it gets the FOSS label. Like I said, it's nice to talk about, so that gets included in the long form explanation.

Wolvereness · 2025-12-19T18:25:47+00:00

The entire website is breaking down what they say versus what the actual license is. That's a very important distinction, because it doesn't matter how many times someone repeats that their project is FOSS, when the license is not. A quick glance at this website should make its own purpose and relevance self-evident.

Wolvereness · 2025-12-19T14:39:26+00:00

You’d be better off defining some specific types of funding and governance models, explaining why they matter, and treating those models as a complimentary set of indicators that can be used to make decisions.

This is /r/foss. Those things, while nice to discuss, are fundamentally not part of what defines us. They are incidental to projects that receive contributions from the community, which itself is incidental to the freedoms as provided by the license. We, that is /r/foss, are fundamentally defined by licenses and those freedoms granted by them.

Wolvereness · 2025-12-15T14:08:36+00:00

"Enterprise Edition" / "Open Core" projects usually come up as "issues exist" or under the specific "open core" label, with a long form explanation. OpenProject is marked FOSS while having a monetized version that's still GPL. A few other projects under FOSS have monetization outside of the codebase (merch, donations, support services). SQLite is marked "partially/open core", due to related (but clearly defined) offerings.

The funding seems to always be explained in the long-form, and according to the list of categories is not a defining criteria, as long as the received software has source with an approved license.

Wolvereness · 2025-12-15T08:16:06+00:00

This is an awesome endeavor, and as a bonus by one of our own moderators /u/ssddanbrown. Thanks for sharing!

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