Also a good solution but you will end up in a container anyway once the requirements will become too old to be satisfied on a current OS.

That might be - but depending on the platform, that container is trivial or not necessary at all (e.g. wine on Linux still runs 16 bit executables with just a config file). Also, until then, I can continue to run the game without worry. E.g. Unreal Tournament 99 still worked out of the box (last I tested) on Debian 12 - haven’t tried it yet on Debian 13.

Why ? Any technical reason beside your dislike for containers, in this specific scenario ?

Because jailing a container is even harder than jailing an application. “But a container is already jailed” you’ll say - I don’t trust any jail that I can’t choose & configure myself.

If the publisher only give you the server binary (and all the dependencies) there is way to be sure that the next OS update does not break something, assuming you are able to run it in the first place.

The source code you say ? Fine, when the copyright end, after 70 years, they will release it in the public domain, until then… good luck, laws are on their side.

How about: document the requirements for the execution environment (in industry this is called an interface definition document), based on which the gaming community can then generate their own container configs if they like, but no one has to run stuff in a container.

I firmly disagree that this would be a good use case. Allowing this kind of container shenanigans would introduce more incompatibilities than it solves.

Pardon my French but would you please kindly fuck off with “container solutions”? Cheers.

idiots…

This meme might be referring to the RedSun zero-day, currently unpatched in Win10 & Win11, where detected malicious SW gets installed to the system folder for you by defender.

The rule should be “if you get caught using LLMs or caling them ‘AI’, you’re a dipshit and will never ever be let near the Kernel again.”

About fucking time.

I am pretty sure this account is managed by Stephen Miller

Haha. Great summary.

This just keeps happening with npm, from the news I’ve read. Almost like npm devs are not qualified to maintain code.

That sounds like written by some dumbass vibe-coder who actually believes their LLM is “smart”.

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as an outsider, reading the forum discussion, the split is not the crisis, the crisis is already ongoing, and the split from the company is actually a step towards a good solution. Also, the discussion tone seems to be very constructive.

I just occasionally load up a whole folder of my mp3 collection and shuffle :D

Whatever floats your boat, but I think algorithmic music recommendations are utterly useless. If I want to broaden my musical horizon, I absolutely want chance to be an element in that. Be it radio music, film music, some kind of background music in a restaurant or while shopping - whatever. I don’t need a stinking algorithm for everything :p

Sorry, I meant books 2&3, merging them into a single, bad, season :(

If you think rejecting hate speech is overblown, you might be part of the problem. It’s not a “slight disagreement” when people question the fundamental right to live of another group.

it’s been at least 15 years that I’ve known better than to buy any HP products. Still - fuck their CEO(s) with a rusty rebar.

I’ll take that as a “yes, likely it’ll work fine on wine” g Try wine yourself, it usually runs old games better than Microslop :)