Blue_Morpho
@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
- Comment on 7 hours ago:
Microsoft purposely hindering the ability for competing software,
Nope. MS was declared a monopoly because of marketshare and therefore had to add support for competing software.
Offering a better service that attracted customers.
Monopoly is from marketshare. How it is obtained doesn’t matter. Once you are the biggest company you need to have restrictions placed on you so that smaller companies have a chance to compete.
- Comment on 7 hours ago:
It only applies to steam keys.
A steam key is the receipt that you paid for the game. It is ridiculous that companies get to skirt laws by saying, “It’s on a computer.”
Imagine you buy a car. Years later you go to resell it for less and the manufacture claims you can’t because the sales receipt that proves you are the legitimate owner is a “Steam Cars Inc key” and therefore all existing laws do not apply.
- Comment on 7 hours ago:
monopoly laws they violate
A monopoly is holding a large marketshare. It is a label determined by courts. That the marketshare is from consumers picking the product is irrelevant to being declared a monopoly.
In the late 90’s Windows was the overwhelming market leader for OS’s because the alternatives weren’t good. Linux didn’t have good consumer focused distros and was therefore used on servers. MacOS at the time was still cooperatively multitasked like Windows 1.0 from almost 20 years earlier. So Microsoft was declared a monopoly and had restrictions placed on what it could do despite all other competitors already doing what Microsoft did (like including a web browser). That’s why years later Apple was able to make Safari the ONLY web browser (all “alternatives” were just reskins of Safari) whereas Microsoft was forced to include support so that you could switch the default web browser.
- Comment on 7 hours ago:
Now I really want to know what it said without digging through the html.
- Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first. 4 days ago:
if there was not as much scare of nuclear power.
I was pro nuclear until solar became cheaper than nuclear but I think if there was less scare about nuclear, there would have been more Chernobyls. That happened because of thinking it’s completely safe.
- Comment on Trump in 2029 after removing the 22nd Amendment, watching Obama run again 6 days ago:
Trump then issues an executive order that only Trump brand voting machines will be allowed.
Supreme Court response: “I’ll allow it.”
- Comment on Live image of Trump negotiations with Iran 1 week ago:
It’s Donnie’s prize.
- Comment on The Chicken of Hormuz 1 week ago:
I still feel the biggest clowns are those that didn’t vote to “send a message” because “Kamala needed to earn my vote.”
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 1 week ago:
The OP said the Intel to Apple Silicon transition. That was after OS X. Nor was the earlier Mac OS a rewrite but adding a different GUI to Next step and calling it Mac OS X.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 1 week ago:
The idea of a rewrite is a newbie mistake. It is almost always wrong. joelonsoftware.com/…/things-you-should-never-do-p…
MacOS wasn’t rewritten, it was ported. It’s now bigger than before.
Linux has grown from 170k lines of code back when I used it to handle dns for 10k customers to 40 million lines today. It has never been “completely rewritten” . Is Linux a failure?
Imo MS has a need to keep Windows convoluted so as to stay on step ahead of cloners like Wine.
- Comment on Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically? 2 weeks ago:
One of the things I did was to run mulvad in a virtual machine and use a different web browser in the vm than I used normally. This makes tracking much harder because they rely on website fingerprinting to identify you independently of your ip address.
- Comment on Berk 👺 2 weeks ago:
Is the anime worth watching? If so, which? Was the 2017 a remake or following later manga?
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 3 weeks ago:
Umatic came out in 1971. But it was too expensive for most consumers. My brother in law had one because his family business was TV repair.
- Comment on funny number 3 weeks ago:
anal sex
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 3 weeks ago:
One piece is a designed story in the same way Dragonball is a designed story.
- Comment on funny number 3 weeks ago:
66 has connotation too. That’s why I listed the numbers for which I didn’t know the connotation.
- Comment on funny number 3 weeks ago:
68? 70? 71?
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 4 weeks ago:
That doesn’t exist anymore. Can’t even play Nintendo without it asking for updates to the system and MarioKart.
- Comment on big facts 4 weeks ago:
You forgot the Lorenz factor. The Falcon flies FTL. That’s where the midichlorians fit in.
- Comment on Administrative task management 5 weeks ago:
I had that sweatshirt, desk, bookshelf, PC case, and ceiling light. I didn’t have the gun or I’d be freaking out.
- Comment on Duval holding cue card for Brando who can't remember his lines. 1 month ago:
He didn’t treat acting seriously because he knew it was people playing pretend and he was in it for the money, not the fame.
In real life he got a Native American Activist to accept his Oscar for him and make a speech abput Wounded Knee.
- Comment on We live in the future! 1 month ago:
Disney has for gatekeeping media,
Disney hired real artists. Their artists did such amazing work that everyone copied Disney which caused the gatekeeping. Nothing stopped artist from not copying Disney to create their own works like Pixar before they were bought by Disney. AI art comes from training on existing art. So its not expanding culture to cut and paste existing art. It’s a great time saver for home users to create art that is out of their ability. But its not a substitute for real artists.
The cab company alternative was a taxi, which was a government granted monopoly known for having extortionate prices.
Which existed because to prevent congestion, accountability against criminal acts, and maintained an employee/employer relationship. Despite its drawbacks, employees have more rights than gig economy workers.
I guess what’s next is an app Airplane company that ignores all regulations and lands on parking lots because it will be cheaper than following the laws. So what if a few people die if tens of thousands save money and have more convenience.
Using a public ledger that can be tied directly to a person
Its far more easy to trace money in a bank account or made through a credit card than crypto. In most cases crypto is completely untraceable until turned into real money that’s deposited into a bank.
- Comment on SBA #31 1 month ago:
I don’t understand any of the references in this comic. It’s SpongeBob, Hank and Bobby but other than that I’m lost.
Why are SpongeBob and Hank at a convention? What’s that Stargate looking device behind Bobby?
- Comment on idk which would be worse tbh 1 month ago:
- Comment on Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News 1 month ago:
I doubt it will matter much. Like GPUs, prices during the crunch doubled. After the crunch prices went down ~20%. Everyone cheered that the shortage was over. No one seemed to notice that everyone was still paying 1.8X more.
So ram is up like 4x. After the shortage prices will drop 25%. People will be paying 3x for ram and think everything is great.
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 2 months ago:
Ada answered the question, but consider your question.
You said “leaving a spaceship with no suit”. If your idea is that something left in space becomes dangerously radioactive then any space station or space ship would itself become dangerously radioactive.
So the answer is, no, things in space don’t become dangerously radioactive. Also things in contact with radioactive substances don’t themselves become radioactive except under extremely specific circumstances. Your house didn’t become dangerously radioactive because of the radioactive americium-241 in the smoke detectors.
- Comment on I was there... 2 months ago:
I was very excited when my name, Johnson,Navin R appeared in the phone book. “Things are going to start happening to me now.”
- Comment on 7 reasons I chose Btrfs over ZFS for my home NAS 2 months ago:
doesn’t ZFS have RAIDZ expansion now
He didn’t claim it didn’t.
“Even basic tasks like adding drives and changing pool size take a bit of tinkering.”
His claim is it is harder to do.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 2 months ago:
Yeah but my mp3’s from Kazaa are all 128.
- Comment on We wouldn't listen, anyway. 2 months ago:
The argument that apes have never asked a question “is a classic example of overstatement,” said Heidi Lyn, a professor at the University of South Alabama’s Comparative Cognition and Communication Lab at the Department of Psychology and Marine Science.
“There is plenty of evidence of apes asking questions, although the structure may not look exactly like humans asking questions,” Lyn explained.