My college sent warning email regarding pirated software use by students. (programming.dev)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Gotta love the use of quotes here:

it should be treated with "utmost importance."

In other words, ignore this message from our lawyers.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

This whole message reads like “we don’t actually care but we have to say that we do 😉🙂‍↕️”

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Shucks... Maybe if the college didn't rob the students blind on tuition, and the publishers not rob the students blind on books, maybe they could afford to pay for software licenses. 🤷‍♂️

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

This mail screams "please ignore this BS some lawyer forced me to write, he doesn't even agree with it either!"

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

As a french, please don't give a penny worth of licence to Dassault Systèmes. They were founded by some of the worst ennemy of the people my country made.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Dassault absolutely deserves to rot in hell right next to Adobe

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

not sure about the majority of the software but I'd recommend FreeCad as an alt to Solidworks

I've heard they're about to hit their 1.0 release sometime in the near future

[-] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

As a mechanical engineer who spent multiple thousands of hours using SolidWorks, trying to use FreeCAD felt like flying a Cessna 172 after getting used to a Citation jet.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not well versed in planes, is the cessna better or worse?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

A 172 is the plane you train to get a beginner license in. 90-120mph max.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

If it's on a students personal device, they can suck my hullabaloo

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

Then you will be barred ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Your system, your rules but their network and also their rules.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

MAC randomization to the rescue!

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

My college used to tie your account to a maximum number of MAC addresses per year and you had to request more over the limit. I think it was like 4 or 5