leftzero
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- Comment on Why can computers, like even very old laptops can seemingly get OS updates forever, while mobile devices hardly get a few years of updates before getting stuck out of date? 1 day ago:
Because IBM built the PC as a side project out of mainly off-the-shelf parts, except for the BIOS, never intending it to be more than one of many personal computers in the market… and then Compaq and Columbia Data Products reverse engineered said BIOS making PC-compatible clones a possibility.
Open BIOSes and a personal computer made of essentially off-the-shelf parts led to everyone and their aunt making PC-compatible machines, and the personal computer boom, and most personal computers being able to run mostly the same software.
IBM tried to lock it back down with the PS/2, and Microsoft also later tried to lock it down to Windows with some shady schemes like ACPI, but all attempts ultimately failed because by that point the PC ecosystem was so large that any attempts at lockdown were sidestepped by other vendors, or eventually reverse engineered or bypassed.
Sadly the same never happened with phones. The PC thing was a serendipitous fluke to start with, phones aren’t made of off-the-shelf parts, and manufacturers were wise to the “risk” and made sure to keep as much control as possible.
- Comment on Radio transmissions 2 days ago:
Rocky from Hail Mary is sort of crab-like, and I think they’re making a film adaptation…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
No, you’re not overreacting.
But, if you’re in north America, you’re probably fucked.
(If you’re in the USA, though, good news is you’d be fucked anyway, so the car thing is mostly irrelevant, except as a means to get out, fast.)
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 3 days ago:
Doesn’t really show the friggin’ massive wingspan of the damn things, though…
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 3 days ago:
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 week ago:
The obvious example of lemmy-like federation is email.
There’s lots of email servers, but all of them can send emails to each other (unless blacklisted, which would be the equivalent of defederation), and their users can read emails regardless of which server the sender has their account on.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 week ago:
Not using Lemmy
I think if you’re looking at a piefed or mbin/kbin community (magazine?) from lemmy you might be able to see replies from mastodon users through the magic of federation (mastodon —> piefed or mbin/kbin —> lemmy), and the other way around, even if mastodon and lemmy can’t directly federate with each other…
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 week ago:
Some greedy little pigboy decided to lock down the API and kill third party apps.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Thanks, seems extremely irritating for a franchise that — except for the protomolecule (and related sufficiently advanced alien shenanigans) and the Epstein drive — prides itself on its realistic physics, you’ve convinced me to blacklist both the game and the publisher on Steam.
- Comment on thicc 🌈 1 week ago:
Or he ate them.
- Comment on Anon is an automaton 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 2 weeks ago:
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
and with strange aeons even death may die. - Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough, yet unless I’m mistaken most planes don’t rely on people throwing bricks at them (which would be quite risky anyway, for unless they throw them faster than escape velocity they’re bound to come back down eventually).
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 3 weeks ago:
In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld the wizards of the Unseen University built a possibly sentient supercomputer out of an ant farm (much faster and more powerful than previous druid-built computers based on standing stones, which were mostly limited to calendar calculations and required regular human sacrifices).
The Agathean Empire at the edge of the disc has little boxes with little imps inside which can paint a picture of what you point the box at in mere seconds.
Later, some Ankh-Morpork entrepreneurs trained imps to paint even faster on highly flammable nitrocellulose reels and, moving them very fast and lighting them from behind with excited salamanders, invented moving pictures (and promptly accidentally almost let the Things from the Dungeon Dimensions enter the disc).
Even later, some other Ankh-Morpork entrepreneurs created a continent-spanning network of semaphore telegraphs, even managing to send pictures through it.
All while some Dwarves in Ankh-Morpork invented movable type, while getting in trouble with the wizards, who’re well aware that you can’t use that to print magic books, for the type will remember…
And, all along, deep under their mountains, the Überwaldian dwarves have been digging up and using ancient Devices to power whole cities…
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 3 weeks ago:
You don’t want guns in a spaceship. Don’t want to poke a hole in a wall and open it to space.
Swords make a lot more sense when fighting inside a spaceship. (Granted, short swords, probably, due to the limited space, but still.)
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 3 weeks ago:
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. — Pratchett, maybe…?
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 3 weeks ago:
Flaps. (As in, the hinged bits at the back edge of the wings, that essentially change the shape of the wing as required, not by flapping the wings; that’d be an ornithopter, as in Dune, not a plane.)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
2000, XP, and Vista are NT too.
- Comment on Anon isn't fooled by planes 3 weeks ago:
It’s not pressure under the wings, it’s fucking Bernoulli sucking on top of them.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 3 weeks ago:
Because capitalism!
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 4 weeks ago:
That’s Sony telling the customers they kicked to the curb that it wasn’t because of the PSN thing.
It was personal.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 4 weeks ago:
Denuvo
… is expensive. And a subscription service.
Which means there’s an incentive for studios to remove it as soon as new sales aren’t bringing enough money for its cost to be worth it.
That’s when you want to pirate (or buy, if you’re into that kind of shit) the game. With the added benefit that it’s unlikely that the studio will come up with more updates or DLC, and if the game is at all moddable it’ll probably have a mature community patch that’ll fix everything the studio was unwilling or unable to patch. (Also, I’m not sure how denuvo cracking works, but I doubt it removes all of that shit, so a game with it properly removed will probably run better than a cracked one, even if the cracked one still ran better than the original infected version.)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
No, the point is to prevent real democracy by being “democratic enough”.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
All the constitutional monarchies started as just monarchies.
Nope.
Spain, for instance, started as a dictatorship.
Then the bastard died of being an old piece of shit, hopefully extremely painfully, and the corrupt fratricidal parasite he’d named as a successor, a descendant of some dude who had been king long before the dictatorship (which started as a coup against a democratic republican government) he’d been grooming for years, was named king.
There was a sham “democratic transition” that defecated a “democratic construction” with the military threatening the elected politicians to make sure the new constitution wasn’t too democratic, and a referendum where the people voted for that thing because at least it wasn’t as bad as going back to the dictatorship.
Then a few years later the parasite (secretly) staged a coup, and then publicly diplomatically dismantled it, enshrining himself as a saviour of democracy and making sure the citizenship wouldn’t push for radical change, lest the next coup succeed.
As the bastard Franco said before he died, he left everything “tied up and well tied up”.
- Comment on Anon describes past 5 weeks ago:
Bone spurs.
- Comment on ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why 5 weeks ago:
Photocopy of a photocopy.
It’s always been obvious that this was the inevitable result of them poisoning the Internet (their own source of information for training) with their garbage.
- Comment on it's making the frickin frogs gay 1 month ago:
Oxidane, hydric acid, hydroxylic acid, hydrohydroxic acid, hydroxic acid, hydroxoic acid, hydrol, μ-Oxidodihydrogen, oxygen dihydride, hydrogen hydroxide, aqua, neutral liquid… 🤷♂️
- Comment on telecommunications dish 3 months ago:
Does the cone of shame do anything in this case?
Looks like the nozzle would still be able to reach everything it’d reach normally…
- Comment on I watched Arrival (2016), there was a lot more to it than I was expecting 3 months ago:
A screenplay is part of the (process of making) a film. It’s not an independent work.
