I try to add something to the understand.

Especially in old games, the program code (what happens if you press a button, what happen if your health bar goes to zero…) is often handled in the same memory structure as the game data (sprites, your entered player name, you inventory…) If you glitch a function that should edit a memory block of game data (e.g. reduce the players money or rename a Pokémon) to do it’s operation on a program code block instead, you can reprogram the game while you are playing it and even make it a different game.

A different famous example is Super Mario Land. If you glitch trough the level borders the game is displaying all kind of data (game data and program code) as level blocks that you can walk on. Some of those level blocks are distructable, which is setting this memory block to a different value. By carefully destructing the correct blocks, you can change things like how many life’s you have. But if you hit a wrong block, the game will potentially crash because you changed the program code to something that doesn’t make sense.

Apparently, there is even a movie about this joke… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/404_(film)

ok so it’s the classic compfort vs. security… kind of.

Oh boy… now I discovered that Sarah Connor once fall in love with a Kilrathi. The 80s/90s where a interesting time.

Why the heck do we have such a technology in CPUs?

Wouldn’t be so sure about that Heisenberg principle. This Schrödinger’s Cat thing must come from somewhere…

Exactly my stand is, that cat’s don’t differentiate much between play and hunt.

It’s a joyful experience for them (most times), not a stress situation.

Don’t worry she probably not thought about killing you, but was just happy you signalized to play “kill this thing” with her.

I have to ruin the joke but this is not really accurate.

Cat’s are not thinking about “killing” when they have this look. It’s the “play & snack mode” a very positive feeling for the cat. They don’t have the idea that they might hurt or kill another living being in the process.

The real “kill mode” is when having a dispute with other cats (or cat like animals) that they identity not as a snack but as a cat like thing. And this look is much closer to the left picture.

Logan’s Run …

Agreed, do not use Ubuntu.

But it’s still miles away from Window… and technically you can get closer with a Linux System… e.g. Google Android.

So I just tested it in my system (with Blender 5.1.1) and I can See and open symlinks with the Blender file open Dialog.

I would still assume it’s a problem of how you setup your symlink or a permission issue and not a problem of blender.

So as a user you should actually be more concerned about what regulations exist in the region you’re living, not of the region the server is histed. Because that’s the law you have to abide by.

Worst thing regarding the law of the server position is, that your post will be deleted / account will be banned.

And in the context of Online behavior I would argue, that in general all American/European laws are the same.

If we want to talk about details: In germany a very serious crime that is activly enfored, is to downplay crimes of the nazis. Even something like saying “trivial thing x is as bad as what the nazis did” could be interpreted as such a crime.

I would expect, that this is nothing that blender handles and it’s all handled by the OS… so naming your OS version would perhaps be more helpful.

Are you sure this problem only occurs in Blender?

Edit: if the link can be seen and opened from file browser or other applications can see and open the link, check if blender is installed as a flatpak or something similar. Flatpaks etc sometimes have different permission on file access. If the symlink is pointing to a restricted path that could be a problem.

This is perfect for people planing to get pulled over and have to explain sone things, on an airport …

No one can exit vim. It’s simply not possible.

There are even legends that the devil himself was onced tricked into opening vim and is stuck there since.

How can it be, that the Iranian terror regime appears more simpatic than the current US Government?

Windows …

Because I don’t want an OS that just works.

A good opportunity to remind, that the US was the only country ever to invoke article 5 and Europeans (even Ukraine) came to help…

You mean Blobby Volley?