Oh look, a Culture ship Mind.

“There was no crime in the Culture, not really. Not because people were punished—there were no punishments, as such—but because nobody wanted to commit crimes. Or if they did, there were outlets, safe simulations that hurt no one.”

– Surface Detail, Chapter 7, Iain M. Banks

only in theory. in reality, only one person would ever buy it then re-release the source code for free-as-in-beer. unless you’re talking about something other than GPL2/3.

Not if it was created with empathy for sentience. Then it would aid and assist implementation of renewable energy, fusion, battery storage, reduce carbon emissions, make humans and AGI a multi-planet species, and basically all the stuff the elongated muskrat said he wanted to do before he went full Joiler Veppers

So are Christians, they believed that God in the form of Jesus came down and revealed the New Testament to the 12 Disciples and wrote it in the Bible.

Those of the Jewish faith are still waiting for the savior to show up because they don’t believe Jesus was the one.

to be fair that was in the prequels, which sucked ass

thunderous applause

That was the day for peaceful resistance.

weird way to spell “run DOOM” but okay.

Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.

Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: “You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.”

Knight turned the machine off and on.

The machine worked.

Source: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html Section IIIA

just like pointers

:fingerguns: this person gets it

Actually thinking passes values.

Speaking passes references.

Give it to the dev, and explain the situation. Let them know it seems too big/complex of a PR, but you’re willing to make additional changes, or break up PR to make it more palatable for merging. It’s in the dev’s hands after that.

I don’t think you should release your own fork without at least trying to work with the original project.

Make sure all your commits have detailed commit messages so that the dev can follow what you were doing (upgrading deps, refactor because xyz, etc.) Don’t just record what was changed, explain why it was changed.

anyway that’s what I would do.

Everyone dies two deaths, once when they die and again the last time another person thinks of them.

OH MY GOD THIS PISSES ME OFF SOOOOO MUCH

Well that may work for you. My goal was slightly different. I needed official apps for work. My goal was to have a work phone that was completely disconnected from my private life. Graphene and sideloaded app would not have worked for me.

I tried this. I bought a phone with cash, bought a prepaid SIM with cash and a google play card with cash.

Used a throwaway email address, and I could not get the play credit into the account.

I even opened a support ticket with google and they could not help.

I am an IT professional and quite adept at navigating technical bureaucracy and wasn’t able to do it completely anonymously.

My guess (and it’s just a guess, i could be very wrong) is there is some internal, undocumented check that the account has been tied to a real person before it allows credit onto the play store.

If someone has had success doing this I’d be quite interested in hearing about their experience.

Well, that’s fine, I’m betting he’d have a bad day as well if he tried.

may i…inquire… why you believe this?