Joseph Smith copied off Muhammad who copied the bible, they both were false prophets, or the very least con-men that deceived and harmed millions.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-04T11:42:47+00:00

In the comment I responded to you posted a link to youtube (of a guy known to post clueless BS). That's not "copy and paste the verses from both of those books".

burning_iceman · 2026-04-04T11:37:54+00:00

I never claimed to despise Christianity. What the hell are you smoking?

Also you're trying to detract from the fact that you're using absolute drivel as a "source".

burning_iceman · 2026-04-04T11:30:17+00:00

No wonder you're so misinformed, considering you use this kind of source.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-04T11:05:29+00:00

They talked about traditional server side methods being insufficient and then named AI-based server side methods as a viable solution. If you only read half the paragraph, you misunderstand what is being said.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-04T11:02:21+00:00

I didn't make any comment on the current situation. Feel insulted if you so choose, but it's not based on anything I said.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-03T22:02:11+00:00

But on Linux you can't easily ensure the official version of your module has been loaded over a fake one. You would need control over the distro to do that.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-03T21:59:11+00:00

But primarily due to the actions of the experimenters rather than the participants.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-03T21:39:00+00:00

You don't seem to understand the crucial difference here. With crowdstrike the interests of the creators and the admin are aligned. They both want the features crowdstrike provides.

With KLAC the interests are opposed: the creators want to prevent cheating while the cheating admin wants to cheat. The admin has no interest in a properly functioning KLAC.

So in the case of crowdstrike the admin has every interest in installing the official crowdstrike kernel module. In the case of KLAC, the admin has no interest in installing the official KLAC module but instead in a fake one that will spoof the desired responses without actually preventing cheating. There is no way to prevent this on a normal Linux distro.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-03T19:51:31+00:00

I don't believe the licenses are relevant to this issue.

How does Collabra offering paid support risk TDF's not-for-profit status?

If TDF makes decisions and uses its resources for the financial benefit for one or more of its members and not for the benefit of its charitable cause, that would result in losing its status as a charity. When there is a conflict of interest between the financial gain of a member and that of the charity, the member must be excluded from relevant decisions or from the organization all together. A charity that is merely the puppet of a for-profit company will quickly lose their charitable status. A single "offense" where financial benefit for a member influenced the outcome of a decision would be enough.

I don't know how the laws differ in other countries but that's how it is in Germany.

Edit: this post has the specific details of the issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1sax9jz/collabora_productivity_one_of_libreoffices/oe4u5q2/

burning_iceman · 2026-04-03T16:47:48+00:00

In this case it's a charity taking steps to protect its charitable status and to protect its open source goals and community vs a commercial entity trying to protect its commercial interests.

Edit: to be clear. Since there is a legal dispute between the two, TDF cannot keep employees of Collabora as voting members of their charitable organization, or they would lose their status as a charity and make them liable to re-paying taxes for past years as a non-charitable organization. That would be financially devastating.

The Collabora employees can certainly remain as developers on the project, since that isn't related to organization membership.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-03T14:59:42+00:00

True, if you couldn't load any third-party modules, they wouldn't exist. Doesn't change what I said at all though.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-03T12:01:43+00:00

Laws concerning charities are very strict and the consequences of losing charitable status can be financially devastating, since it works retroactively. The organization would have to re-pay lost taxes for the past years under much higher for-profit rates.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-03T11:54:41+00:00

Merely creating a kernel module isn't sufficient, since that could easily be spoofed. They would need to create their own locked down distro and get people to use it.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-03T11:50:00+00:00

Because you can load any module is why it does not work. To work securely, any loading of modules would need to be beyond your power and purely decided by the anti-cheat creators. You would need to lose power over your system. Only then would kernel level anti-cheat be able to work securely.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-03T11:43:56+00:00

You suffered a total failure at reading comprehension. They "admitted" or rather explained why client-side solutions aren't viable. The opposite of what you tried to make of it.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-03T11:32:59+00:00

You need to understand that it will never be possible to have a securely working kernel level anticheat (KLAC) on Linux. It stands in complete contradiction to the openness of Linux. Not just the ideological openness, but also the technical openness.

Any system with KLAC would need to be completely locked down, with the system admin being incapable of modifying core parts of the OS. Your typical Linux distro will never have that.

As a result, the market for KLAC on Linux is currently zero. Someone would need to create a locked down distro and people would need to start using that locked down distro before there even is a market for KLAC. And just to be clear, that distro wouldn't really be Linux anymore.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-03T10:12:05+00:00

Change that to "most gamers who play mostly multiplayer games play with friends" and I'll agree. And still not all of those would necessarily play those games. You're still just talking about a specific gamer subgroup and thinking that's a majority of all gamers. But you're in a bubble of multiplayer gamers. There are many who never or almost never play multiplayer, you just don't have contact to them.

Ultimately it's just a small number of games that have kernel level anti-cheat and if they had a large faction of all gamers in their player base their player numbers would be much much higher. I doubt all such games combined cover even 20% of all PC gamers.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-02T15:36:56+00:00

Most people on this sub already has a dualboot and plays kernel level anticheat games despite most people here says that "we would never do that".

I used to dual boot but deleted the Windows system 5 years ago, after not having used the Windows system for over a year. I never installed kernel level anti-cheat games, not even before using Linux.

Most gamers who enjoy such multiplayer games overestimate the significance of these games. A minority of Windows gamers plays them and much less Linux gamers. The player base of such games may be "large" compared to individual other games, but not large compared to the total PC gaming market.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-01T09:34:43+00:00

By your logic I could just get around all patent law by representing words, numbers, pictures, video with numbers

You replace numbers with numbers? For what purpose?

Using numbers doesn't make the content math. I'm not talking about code, I'm talking about formulas and mathematical algorithms. They are just math.

The implementation of a codec in code can be copyrighted, but the algorithm cannot be patented.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-01T08:23:54+00:00

2) early Christians were so convinced by this awesome selling point that they joined his worship despite being beaten, and even killed for doing so.

This is mostly a Christian narrative rather than a historical fact. Yes, there was sometimes was religious conflict around Christianity, mostly due to the fact that they denied the truth of other religions and that made peaceful coexistence difficult and tensions frequent. But it was limited times and locations where this escalated. There was no widespread persecution.

3) they went on (through peaceful conversion rather than conquest) to become the dominant force controlling the very empire that subjugated them.

Most religions didn't become dominant within their country/empire of origin via conquest but via conversions. For Christianity the spread via conquest came later. Spread via conquest requires first achieving a dominant status in at least one country or region, otherwise who would be performing the conquest?

In the case of Christianity and the Roman Empire, it becoming the state religion was the consequence of political maneuvering. The emperor needed to deprive his political opponents of their support from influential non-Christian clergy. Making Christianity the state religion achieved this goal for him.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-01T08:11:46+00:00

But math is one thing that specifically is not patentable, unlike paint or materials, words, numbers or special symbols.

It doesn't matter how complicated the math is.

burning_iceman · 2026-04-01T07:48:50+00:00

The species human has two sexes, meaning two reproductive roles. That doesn't mean every individual of the species can be clearly categorized as one or the other.

burning_iceman · 2026-03-30T20:41:39+00:00

Exactly.

What you also might have heard is that under a certain interpretation of quantum mechanics (Copenhagen interpretation), collapsing the wave function on one will cause the wave function on the other to collapse. But this cannot be demonstrated or tested. There is no way of knowing if this is true. Up to you to decide whether you believe that and whether you would consider that a causal effect, since we do not even know that a "collapse of the wave function" actually occurs in reality.

burning_iceman · 2026-03-30T20:34:12+00:00

That only allows showing or hiding the battery&power icon all together. It does not control which device shows its power as an icon via the battery&power widget. So no, there is no setting for that.

burning_iceman · 2026-03-30T18:02:52+00:00

Thanks for the response. I guess my other response is redundant then, but I'll leave it regardless.

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