For the non-Germans: The difference is which syllable is stressed.

Jemanden umfahren - to drive around someone
Jemanden umfahren - to run over someone

Mine’s a bastard too. (though no mixed origins)

“Nestri is an open-source, self-hosted Geforce Now alternative with Stadia’s social features.”

“Our goal is to develop a comprehensive self-hosted cloud gaming solution for your home server.”

https://github.com/nestrilabs/nestri

Maybe https://nestri.io/ is similar enough to what you’re looking for?

Rust was originally created by a Mozilla dev as a hobby project. Also, the Mozilla rust team was fired in 2020 during a “restructuring”.

No idea where they live but here in Germany ads for political parties are severely limited except during the months leading up to an election and advertising aimed a children is harshly regulated.

Sidenote: A similar app is https://squoosh.app/

Basically as long as a website doesn’t do shady shit with cookies no cookie banner is required.

That is actually the status quo. If a website only uses cookies that are needed to make the website function, there is no need for a banner or dialogue. These cookie banners are there deliberately to be annoying so you’ll agree to more than is necessary.

https://metager.org/ is run by a German non-profit. Since late last year it’s pay to use because their advertising partner (Yahoo) cancelled their contract without warning. But it’s cheaper than Kagi. Also the non-profit is part of the project that’s building the European OpenWebIndex ( https://ows.eu/ ) that’s releasing this year.

Yes, this is currently a problem since we were forced to discontinue the only way to use MetaGer free of charge (for now). I do hope that there will be a solution within this year. In the meantime I’ve sent you a demo key via DM.

There’s MetaGer (https://metager.org/) which is run by German non-profit NGO SUMA-EV. Instead of a subscription it is a pre-paid key that’s consumed per search, so you only ever pay for what you use. The NGO is also part of the European effort to build an OpenWebIndex. Disclaimer: I’m part of that NGO.

My not-yet-wife and I are in that situation rn. I’m on the taller side for a German and she’s average Asian height, so our size difference is bigger than in the comic. ><

Sharing isn’t the issue. The emulator was profiting from it.

I wrote about sharing but even profiting from it should be legally permissible.

If I copied your house key and sold it, would that be alright?

Of course not. There are laws against that. Laws that are not copyright laws.

but I don’t lie to myself that it’s morally defensible.

Oh, sorry, I thought this was about legality. If we want to talk about the morality of evading copyright we should also about the morality of copyright itself, how it historically came to be and whose interests it was supposed to serve (it wasn’t made to support creatives). Actually there is surprisingly little evidence that the introduction of copyright increased the incentives for creatives to publish or made them wealthier (except a select few). I think there is a better case to be made for the morality of sharing creative works unlawfully than for limiting the sharing of those works for a century after their creation.

IANAL, but from a EU-centric perspective on copyright (which is the only one I can reliably talk about) the idea of a proprietary encryption key is bogus. A creative work can be copyrighted if it has sufficient originality (or under some other very specific conditions). Smaller parts of such a work are not copyrighted if they don’t meet that criteria on their own. The encryption key (which is very probably randomly generated and definitely not a creative work) thus can’t be copyrighted on it’s own. At least in the EU, there should be no argument against sharing said key (at least in respect to copyright).

I honestly can’t talk about other jurisdictions (maybe someone else here can) but I imagine it should be similar to this in many other countries.

Had fun with Verdance at my local pre-release event. I think I will keep her and maybe try out the others too. Was originally hoping to play my old Data-Doll deck again after Rosetta now but I’m so sure anymore.

I - for one - welcome the solarpunk future where we’d meet up with friends to watch indie self-published movies because that exploitative but productive industry didn’t make it for lack of a viable business model.

Depends on which hero you want to play. Professor Teklovossen is only really playable in UPF. If you have friends to play that with, great (I don’t🥲). If you want to play the blitz format, you might want want to look into the other mechanologist heroes. I guess Maxx and Teklovossen might be the most interesting to you as the new Dash is quite hard to learn to play. If you want to buy packs, I’d say bright lights should give some playable upgrades. But overall, if you can, buying singles is cheaper.

The Levia gameplay is so fascinating. Currently not allowing myself to start a new deck but when I will she’ll be high on the list.

I have to admit, I have a bad case of wanting to play almost all heroes. Currently defaulting to Victor in CC but experimenting with Nuu, Maxx and Blaze in Blitz. As soon as all the new Heroes in Rosetta are out, I’m thinking of giving Data Doll another try; should be a better meta for her.

Nice write-up, but really not helpful since it has nothing at all to do with what is actually proposed in the initiative.