VeganCheesecake
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps 1 week ago:
“I have helped pay for something good. More people could benefit from it, at no additional cost to me. But I’d rather they not.”
- Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps 1 week ago:
See my replay to the other comment.
I really do believe that the most sensible way to formalise it is just requiring publically funded code to be open source. Requires less complexity than co-op, and works out the same if enough countries opt-in.
See this as an example:
- Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps 1 week ago:
And the UK taxpayer might save money by using open source projects funded by other municipality in different countries. This is already the standard for some EU projects.
Could some countries ‘freeload’? Sure. But what’s the actual cost for that? The people in those places getting better software, while the original users are no worse off?
Could also help with less wealthy countries having access to software they couldn’t otherwise afford to develop.
- Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps 2 weeks ago:
That might not be practical. But everything else done with public money should be open source. A lot of these software projects are more or less necessary for every city globally. Collaborating on a few apps and programmes is a lot more sensible then everyone having an app custom build by a contractor.
- Comment on Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes 1 month ago:
Yes. Strip searches suck. This is about publically sexualising people against their will. That also sucks.
And some people seem to be hell-bent to put much more scrutiny on the person being sexualised than on the person sexualising them.
- Comment on Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes 1 month ago:
The way the many societies treat nudity as a problem, but that is a wholly separate issue from people getting ‘undressed’ against their will.
- Comment on PortMaster: Talking Ports, Handhelds, and Community with the Developers (my article!) 2 months ago:
I was thinking of the Firewall, and was a bit surprised - seemed outside your normal wheelhouse. This makes a lot more sense, lol.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 3 months ago:
I don’t take nudes often, but when I do, I put some effort into it. Proper lighting, proper posing, interesting scene composition.
Also, I generally agree that if there aren’t any nudes of you, it’s often a good idea to not start making them (because society sucks, not because nudes are inherently a problem), but knowing that nude pictures of you are available online already is pretty freeing in that regard.
I don’t know what exactly my point is, except for that you might need to date people with higher nudes standards.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 4 months ago:
I do get it, and I could have phrased it differently. My point mostly is, it is often painted as an insurmountable problem for adoption, and while that might be true for a lot of users, there’s also a large number of user for who it isn’t.
Also, for me personally, I’d rather switch banks than use a phone with a stock rom, but I know most people don’t view things that way.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 4 months ago:
I know several banks who’s apps don’t need Google Attestation. I would also not use a bank that forces an app as the main point of contact as my main one. A lot of banks around here offer a tan-device as an alternative. There’s also a lot of transport associations that offer nationally valid chip-cards.
I do see why it’s a problem, but I also don’t think that one should let such services dictate their choice of mobile device. I do know that I come from a privileged position, living in a country where I have options.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 4 months ago:
I honestly don’t get why everyone is so hung up on banking apps. I run Graphene, and my bank’s app actually does work, but I wouldn’t really have a problem if it didn’t. They have a website that is pretty usable, and I don’t need an app to use my payment cards.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 5 months ago:
Nice, might go back to it then.
- Comment on Please tell me 6 months ago:
I saw 6 bands during 2 concerts last week, three of them kinda rock/blues, three of them metal. All of them drank water from normal water bottles while on stage. No one cared.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 4 may happen eventually, but not with Larian Studios 8 months ago:
I do, but I see that it’s a preference thing. However, the whole game/story felt to me like it was a passion project. I feel like it’s a gamble at best whether or not whoever hasbro finds to do it will be able to give it the same dedication.
- Comment on I knew it 8 months ago:
I just think it’s ugly. Like, I’m honestly pretty indifferent towards Taylor Swift. Both about her music, and her as a person. Like, she isn’t great, but there are billionaires that are a lot worse than her. Who probably still live in less ugly mansions.
- Comment on I knew it 8 months ago:
That’s an ugly-ass mansion.
- Comment on WTF is this ad in my recording app 8 months ago:
Why are you using a recording app with ads/tracking when there’s free alternative that don’t do that?
Like, if you really wanna have transcripts, Google’s recording app works even if you deny it network access. Found that put because I was to lazy to look for a proper FOSS solution.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 9 months ago:
As someone guessed above - Stranded: Alien Dawn
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 9 months ago:
Yup, Stranded: Alien Dawn.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 9 months ago:
Earlier this year, I got a game I liked on steam. Pretty much 3d Rimworld. After playing for 20 hours over a few weeks, I sporadically started getting errors about me having “no hardware activations” left for the game, and how I should wait 24 hours. I have never installed it on any other machine.
It is so very silly that a pirated copy would be the more seamless experience.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 9 months ago:
There where points in time where I had a lightscribe disk, and points in time where I had a lightscribe drive. But never both at the same time. I feel like this says something, but I dunno what.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 9 months ago:
Hmh. Maybe I passed that wrong. The one I had is also mass market on the sense that they’re in quite a few supermarkets in several regions of one country.
Kerrygold is just ludicrously mass market, being available in a lot of supermarkets in over 100 countries.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 9 months ago:
Well, I’ve been vegan for years, but I usually had this stuff, I think.
- Comment on Prices are out of control 9 months ago:
Do people really see kerrygold as a premium option? I haven’t bought butter in a long time, but I always saw kerrygold as overpriced mass market shit.
- Comment on Excellent tip 9 months ago:
Sure, that’s why I use it. My point was more that improved battery performance, at least to that degree, is a your-specific-usecase thing, not a Graphene thing.
- Comment on Excellent tip 9 months ago:
Makes sense, but with that setup, and a different custom rom on a phone with better life would deliver even better results.
I like my pixel, I like Graphene, but I still feel that’s a weak point.
- Comment on Excellent tip 9 months ago:
Show me a Pixel with two days of battery life with heavy use. My 8a lasts about a day, sometimes less. Similar reports for a friends 8a and my brother’s 7a.
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 11 months ago:
In theory, maybe. In practice, I’ve had a lot of errors in that vein that very much wouldn’t go away, and where made much harder to diagnose by their obtuseness.
Honestly, I even dislike the mindset. Just make a big header with the generic error message and a little one below that gives some details. Having users interested in how your software works is not a bad thing.
- Comment on Homer Simpson irl 11 months ago:
I think the person might not have been qualified to make diagnoses at that point? With any MRT I’ve ever had taken, the people who actually took it told me they weren’t allowed to comment on it in any way, and I had to wait for the doctor to take a look.
- Comment on when all else fails 11 months ago:
I mean, didn’t he do that Carlson interview a few days ago? I wouldn’t put it past Trump to pardon him, as long as he keeps on message and drums up some attention.
