Star wars is not sci-fi, it's fantasy. People usually make that mistake because most fantasy is medieval and most sci-fi is futuristic, but Star Wars is an example of a futuristic fantasy story. Medieval sci-fi is harder to find, but some Stargate episodes from the point of view of the native of the planet would qualify and I'm sure there's some 40k or Star Trek examples as well.
In short the answer is this: you have two companies selling you boxes, one that it's literally impossible to look inside, and another one that's very easy and encouraged to do so. Even if you know nothing about bombs, if both those boxes claim to not explode, which one do you trust more?
It's sorta the same thing, it doesn't necessarily means that the closed box is inherently less safe, but even if you personally haven't verified that the open box doesn't contain anything dangerous you can be somewhat safer in the knowledge that people COULD have verified it.
The solution you're looking for is to have a group that all those users belong to, and make the files have RW for that group.
The solution you should do instead is to run things inside docker, so each one gets an extra isolation layer, but all can write to the same files easily.
Installers are just fancy zipped folder. And AFAIK, all games that are DRM free on GoG are also DRM free on Steam. So you can download the game, zip the game data folder, copy it elsewhere, unzip it and play it there. I've done that with several games, in fact when I was trying to convince some friends to buy a game I did that so we could play it in lan with a single copy so they would try it and buy it so we could play it online later.
So, yeah, you can absolutely do that in Steam, which is why I never get the "oh, but GoG has DRM free games" appeal.
It absolutely is the shape that matters. A blue circle with an arrow indicates you MUST follow it, a blue square with an arrow indicates you CAN follow it. A blue circle with an arrow pointing forward can be replaced with a red circle with arrows pointing in every other direction, because it indicates a mandatory, I.e. you must eat the banana.
There's one piece of advice I got from a Mickey mouse comic of all places. When I was a kid I read this Mickey mouse comic where he gets kidnapped and has to escape, but it's cold outside and he doesn't have any clothes, so he wears a mattress for warmth. Everyone laughs at him, but he keeps thinking something like "as long as I'm warm, they may laugh at me", and for some reason that piece of advice stuck with me forever.
I'm glad they're doing it, but I'll believe it when I see it. This seems like a marketing thing more than anything else, like most things GoG does. Which brings me to:
Plus, if you disconsider the whole "having to use Steam to download binaries is a form of DRM", AFAIK the same games that are DRM free on GoG are DRM free on Steam.
I'm all in favor of no DRM in games, but being able to play the games on my OS of choice is miles more important than them being DRM-free, because I honestly don't care about the DRM status of a binary I can't use. So I'd rather keep giving money to the company that's investing in making me able to play games. I used to buy games from GoG back before Proton and DXVK, but those projects made Steam so much more attractive for Linux users that it is not even a contest.
Amazing, it only took them about a decade from it being the most voted for feature of all time until they started working on it. That gives me great confidence that they'll treat us Linux users like first class citizens /s
On the other side of the coin, first time I went to Russia I was talking to someone and said "it's just that this is my first time in Europe" and he got offended and said "You're not in Europe, this is Russia".
It's because of several factors. In no particular order, crime statistics are skewed, they only account for crimes that have been discovered and considered solved, if a certain demographics were better at hiding or getting away with crimes it would be underrepresented. Even if we could trust the statistics, some crimes are less severe than others, and it's hard to judge all crimes in the same bag, even all murders are not equal so statistics can get skewed by a demographic committing more of the crimes you're analyzing even if they commit less if you were to look at specifics. Even if we could trust that, and have crimes organized neatly into completely independent and equally severe categories there's the social factors. Most societies around the world tend to educate men more violently than women. Finally, even if you were to have a society with humans educated equally, and have a 100% crime rate solved with 100% accuracy and analyze crimes in a completely unbiased way, there's still the biological differences, and men have more testosterone than women, and testosterone is responsible for aggressive behavior, so even in such a society there would still be some tendency for men to commit more crimes, although I imagine it would be a lot less skewed than today.
I'm not a law expert, but I think even in Germany you would need to prove a pattern not a one off banned a black/trans person to accuse of discrimination. Otherwise any negative repercussion to a black/trans person would generate a discrimination lawsuit, and that just seems absurd.
I assume that if codeberg forces this it will do so with the most egregious offenders, because like you have pointed out it's impossible to differentiate good code written with AI tools from good code written without them, but bad code written with AI tools is sometimes very differentiable from bad code written without them. And at the end of the day they're trying to safe-guard against lawsuits over it (as the person uploading the code is not the owner) and becoming a slop repository.
But also, here's the thing, they're not making money of you hosting your code there, so it's much harder to force them to take someone's data. You could force Google to host your photos if you were unjustly banned, you can't force me to do so if you found a loophole to use my server for that.
This reads like someone asking whether it's safe to leave your front door unlocked again because he read about a bunch of people using open front doors to rob them.
It never was safe, it never will be safe, you're trading convenience for safety, you're supposed to review the PKGBUILDS to ensure they're safe, if you can't do that you shouldn't risk it.
This is why I hate when Arch (yes, even Cachy or whatever is the current "easy" Arch) is recommended for new users. Arch assumes you know what you're doing, it expects you to read the manual, and it doesn't have kid gloves. You will get hit in the face by this and many other similar things, and will be told "it was in the manual".
Agree with everything except one thing.
Star wars is not sci-fi, it's fantasy. People usually make that mistake because most fantasy is medieval and most sci-fi is futuristic, but Star Wars is an example of a futuristic fantasy story. Medieval sci-fi is harder to find, but some Stargate episodes from the point of view of the native of the planet would qualify and I'm sure there's some 40k or Star Trek examples as well.
In short the answer is this: you have two companies selling you boxes, one that it's literally impossible to look inside, and another one that's very easy and encouraged to do so. Even if you know nothing about bombs, if both those boxes claim to not explode, which one do you trust more?
It's sorta the same thing, it doesn't necessarily means that the closed box is inherently less safe, but even if you personally haven't verified that the open box doesn't contain anything dangerous you can be somewhat safer in the knowledge that people COULD have verified it.
What sort of file manager crashes were you having?
Pacman doesn't fetch from the AUR.
The solution you're looking for is to have a group that all those users belong to, and make the files have RW for that group.
The solution you should do instead is to run things inside docker, so each one gets an extra isolation layer, but all can write to the same files easily.
Installers are just fancy zipped folder. And AFAIK, all games that are DRM free on GoG are also DRM free on Steam. So you can download the game, zip the game data folder, copy it elsewhere, unzip it and play it there. I've done that with several games, in fact when I was trying to convince some friends to buy a game I did that so we could play it in lan with a single copy so they would try it and buy it so we could play it online later.
So, yeah, you can absolutely do that in Steam, which is why I never get the "oh, but GoG has DRM free games" appeal.
Which games are DRM free on GOG but not on Steam?
Spanish is my native tongue, and the one I read that comic in.
It absolutely is the shape that matters. A blue circle with an arrow indicates you MUST follow it, a blue square with an arrow indicates you CAN follow it. A blue circle with an arrow pointing forward can be replaced with a red circle with arrows pointing in every other direction, because it indicates a mandatory, I.e. you must eat the banana.
Does it? Where in Europe is it different?
There's one piece of advice I got from a Mickey mouse comic of all places. When I was a kid I read this Mickey mouse comic where he gets kidnapped and has to escape, but it's cold outside and he doesn't have any clothes, so he wears a mattress for warmth. Everyone laughs at him, but he keeps thinking something like "as long as I'm warm, they may laugh at me", and for some reason that piece of advice stuck with me forever.
Which poster? There are 124 pages of posters talking about different DRM issues on GoG
Hahaha I have that one, and got it fair and square.
That's interesting, I might give it more credibility then, but I'll believe it when I see it.
I'm glad they're doing it, but I'll believe it when I see it. This seems like a marketing thing more than anything else, like most things GoG does. Which brings me to:
Except they don't believe that themselves: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singleplayer_games_with_drm/page1
Plus, if you disconsider the whole "having to use Steam to download binaries is a form of DRM", AFAIK the same games that are DRM free on GoG are DRM free on Steam.
I'm all in favor of no DRM in games, but being able to play the games on my OS of choice is miles more important than them being DRM-free, because I honestly don't care about the DRM status of a binary I can't use. So I'd rather keep giving money to the company that's investing in making me able to play games. I used to buy games from GoG back before Proton and DXVK, but those projects made Steam so much more attractive for Linux users that it is not even a contest.
Amazing, it only took them about a decade from it being the most voted for feature of all time until they started working on it. That gives me great confidence that they'll treat us Linux users like first class citizens /s
On the other side of the coin, first time I went to Russia I was talking to someone and said "it's just that this is my first time in Europe" and he got offended and said "You're not in Europe, this is Russia".
It's because of several factors. In no particular order, crime statistics are skewed, they only account for crimes that have been discovered and considered solved, if a certain demographics were better at hiding or getting away with crimes it would be underrepresented. Even if we could trust the statistics, some crimes are less severe than others, and it's hard to judge all crimes in the same bag, even all murders are not equal so statistics can get skewed by a demographic committing more of the crimes you're analyzing even if they commit less if you were to look at specifics. Even if we could trust that, and have crimes organized neatly into completely independent and equally severe categories there's the social factors. Most societies around the world tend to educate men more violently than women. Finally, even if you were to have a society with humans educated equally, and have a 100% crime rate solved with 100% accuracy and analyze crimes in a completely unbiased way, there's still the biological differences, and men have more testosterone than women, and testosterone is responsible for aggressive behavior, so even in such a society there would still be some tendency for men to commit more crimes, although I imagine it would be a lot less skewed than today.
I'm not a law expert, but I think even in Germany you would need to prove a pattern not a one off banned a black/trans person to accuse of discrimination. Otherwise any negative repercussion to a black/trans person would generate a discrimination lawsuit, and that just seems absurd.
I assume that if codeberg forces this it will do so with the most egregious offenders, because like you have pointed out it's impossible to differentiate good code written with AI tools from good code written without them, but bad code written with AI tools is sometimes very differentiable from bad code written without them. And at the end of the day they're trying to safe-guard against lawsuits over it (as the person uploading the code is not the owner) and becoming a slop repository.
But also, here's the thing, they're not making money of you hosting your code there, so it's much harder to force them to take someone's data. You could force Google to host your photos if you were unjustly banned, you can't force me to do so if you found a loophole to use my server for that.
This reads like someone asking whether it's safe to leave your front door unlocked again because he read about a bunch of people using open front doors to rob them.
It never was safe, it never will be safe, you're trading convenience for safety, you're supposed to review the PKGBUILDS to ensure they're safe, if you can't do that you shouldn't risk it.
This is why I hate when Arch (yes, even Cachy or whatever is the current "easy" Arch) is recommended for new users. Arch assumes you know what you're doing, it expects you to read the manual, and it doesn't have kid gloves. You will get hit in the face by this and many other similar things, and will be told "it was in the manual".