Aceticon

@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Mate, I’m in Portugal and of all the countries and people who made statements about this attack, the only one the news TV station I was watching actually played was the one from the Israeli government.

  These fucking assholes are very purposefully feeding the very “Israel and Jewish People are the same thing” that makes people thing that the sociopathic genocidal mass murdering of chidren done by Israel is a Jewish Thing, which in turn feed the real anti-semitism.

  To support a modern day white colonialist ethno-Fascist project (and the local Fascists who support it) these people are activelly fostering an environment were innocents are killed because they’re Jewish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3179: Fishing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo momma IS the boat!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This government has arresting people for demonstrating against that governments active support of the mass murdering of children in Gaza, so morally speaking, putting bananas ahead of people (even poor Brits who might actually need those free bananas) is mild stuff.

  Sometimes I suspect that making sure people suffer is their whole point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Santa is working on those lists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This poster Romans!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Santa is working on those lists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Santa is gonna be getting a piece of coal this Christmas … and it will be worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Want to make tons of lines of code from pretty normal code?

  Just unroll your fixed size for loops (i.e. convert them into multiple copies of their contents, one after the other as many times as that loop would loop).

  You can actually automate it and in fact some compilers will do that when generating assembly for some microprocessor architectures (if the loops aren’t crazy big) because it increases performance in those (because the JMP instruction at the end of the loop is quite expensive).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And found out filmset scenarios are filled with tricks that make it seem one thing to viewers whilst being somethings, just like 3D worlds in games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, mate, Intellectual Property Laws are literally the government creating and giving somebody an artificial monopoly on something which would not naturally exist if it wasn’t for it to be forced on everybody thanks to legislation and the coercive powers of the Legal system, and this which was purposefully written in Law to do exactly that, so it’s not an unexpected side effect.

  So anywhere were Intellectual Property legislation can apply the market is not free, on purpose and by policy.

  Now, a good argument can be done about how IP law incentivises the creation of things with a high utility value which would otherwise not be created, but that doesn’t alter the fact that the whole thing is a giant legislative sledgehammer with massive destructive capability for both the Economy and people’s lives, which needs to be handled very carefully in order not to do more harm than good.

  As it so happens IP has gone completelly out of control in the US because Corruption there is incredibly high, more some when it comes to the property of ideas since holding a piece of such property can yield billions of dollars in profits - the profits from owning ideas can be far vaster than of merelly owning land - and this shit has been copied around the world by almost as corrupt politicians (for example, the thoroughly corrupt crooks in the EU commission pretty much copy every single “this will make me personally lots of money from thankful corporations” pieces of legislation from the US).

  So Copyrights now last an insanelly long period - about 1.5 times the average human lifetime - before things covered by it go into the Public Domain, whilst lots of Patent Offices (most notably the ones in the US and Japan) will just accept patents on everything no matter how obvious without even a proper search for prior art, hence things like the “round corner button” patent that Apple has as well as countless business patents for “solutions” which are obvious to any domain specialist (many such patents literaly the product of paying a domain expert for an hour of their time by a patent troll to just “think up a solution for this” as no actual implementation is needed to get a patent, just the idea of how it could be done).

  All this to say that this fucked up situation of insane government-given monopolies all over the place was created ON PURPOSE by the very politicians who claim to want a Free Market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s yet another thing to force the riff-raff to work any job for any pay.

  Can’t have people refusing to do disgusting or even life-long disabling jobs for peanuts.

  See also “housing costs”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Were I am, you just get Insulin for free with a prescription from you Family Doctor, because we have a National Health Service.

  Even without said prescription, it’s only €70.

  Americans are being thoroughly screwed, and it’s very much on purpose thanks to the way laws and regulations were designed (and at the risk attractict the crowd throwing “bothsideism” slogans around to defend “their” “tribe”, this is due to the actions of both US major parties) since in a real Free Market, Insuline over there should cost around the same as it cost over here without a prescription, not 10x more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it really depends on the game and whilst the “glitzy” is often an indirect indicator of a game which is limited in its replayabiliy - I suppose because often they’re games were there was much more investment in looks than gameplay - I should have added “highly curated” to that sentence since for me games with a story meant to be experienced in a certain way are pretty much “play once”.

  Most of the games which I keep coming back to again and again in quite short cycles have emergent gameplay elements and even the entire game area is different from play to play - not just Indie Games like Factorio, Don’t Starve, The Lone Dark in Survival mode and Project Zomboid but also something like The Sims - whilst of “story” games, there are very few I go back to (as I mentioned Oblivion but also Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 3) and when I do it’s after much more time, I suppose because I have to forget most of the story for it to be fun again.

  My impression that in the last decade AAA has focused mostly on just two kinds of games - “Glitzy AAA open-world-ish” RPGs and multiplayer battle games - and for me the first have limited replayability unless they’re a world with A LOT of depth were the story is but a small part of the game, whilst I can’t be arsed to play the latter ever since online battlefields were swamped by kids in consoles as I really don’t have the patience to babysit somebody else’s ill behaved kids (still waiting for game makers to figure out that Adult Only servers would be immensely popular).

  It’s not that AAA can’t do games with massive replayability, it’s that the AAA part of the industry seems to have gone down the route of games being either “curated experiences” or massive multiplayer were the emergent gameplay comes the actions of other players, whilst many Indies - having way smaller budgets - have gone down routes were the gameplay is “self-assembling” emergent, often with the game area being procedurally generated, which adds up to something less predictable were two runs of the game whilst sharing some similarities are in practice sufficiently different not to feel repetitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost all of the “Top 10 most replayable games” I have are Indie games, especially in the last 10 years.

  They’re games like Factorio or Project Zomboid which I keep getting back to a year or two after I last played so much of it that I got fed up.

  Glitzy AAA open-world-ish games have beautiful visuals but their replayability is near zero, worse so for games which seem open-world but are in fact linear.

  Mind you, some older AAA jewels in that style (such as Oblivion) do get me to come back eventually, but it takes something like 5+ or more as I basically have to forget most of the story before it’s interesting to play such a game again.

  If price matched “hours of fun”, the AAA stuff would be way cheaper whilst many Indie games would be far more expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up in a country which is weird: it’s a mix of people from the old generation who mainly have basic education and then the next generation over has a high proportion of University educated (this, by the way, applies to my extended family).

  The latter simply have a higher tendency for thinking before reacting (even though they’re older) which is much rarer in the former. Doesn’t mean the latter don’t have emotion, it means they’re less prone to unthinkingly react on emotion alone.

  I’ve also seen a similar effect in other countries I lived in.

  In my experience and as you say, Education doesn’t negate emotion, what it does is make people more prone to first think (which might mean they stop themselves) rather than immediatelly react on emotion alone.

  In addition to that it also gives people a larger based of information to, when they think, judge things in a more informed way.

  So, repeating myself, the more highly Educated are not immune to being scammed, they’re just more resilent to simpler scams because there’s they have a higher tendency to think rather than just blindly react. If you want to scam people who tend to think and have a broader base of information, you have to be more subtle (hence, as I pointed out, using techniques like a lot of the “progressive” Press like The Guardian or the New York Times uses in their Gaza coverage such as subtly portraying Israel and Israelis as more important and trustworthy - they “are killed” and their authorities “say” - and Palestinians as less so - they “die” and their authorities “claim” - the kind of subtle manipulation anchored on modern psychology technique which you don’t see in less highbrow media.

  By the way, life experience (emphasys on “experience” - merelly being old doesn’t count) confers the same effect of tending to stop and think before plunging into things.

  That said, I’ve seen plenty of highly educated people react in stupid ways driven by emotion, it’s just less likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People who have a higher level of Education and have to think for a living are less prone to fall for pure lies + strong displays of emotion and instead tend to fall for context/information-control scams + pushing of subconscious buttons, and as it so happens the Republicans tend to use more the former kind of scam whilst the Democrats the latter (none of which “my” “team” as I’m not even American).

  As it so happens, outright lies and emotional raging are far more accessible for foreign scammers than the more subtle kinds of manipulation (which are more common in the Press: for example how in most of the Press in the Israeli Gaza Genocide, Israelis are “killed” whilst Palestinians merely “die”).

  I totally agree with the rest of your post. Widespread scamming is a natural thing in Capitalism.

  The whole emergent property element is how, due to in the modern age external scammers that aren’t even directly involved in US politics and thus don’t gain from side A or side B being able to still make money from view alone, as a group they have had a systemic impact in the use politics - those individual actions of individuals who aren’t actually organized (as they’re not even in those political parties) combined to do (or at least accelerate) a systemic change in the politics of the US.

  Maybe (probably?) scams around politics in Capitalism also do combine in an emergent way from bottom up to shape each nations’ politics as a whole, but this is the first time a large fraction of the actors in that don’t directly gain from being in politics or receiving political patronage, and instead merely gain from using rage to get attention (more specifically, clicks), and I believe that has caused something else to emerge from it at a systemic level than what there was before since these people care even less about the possible destruction that their actions might cause since they themselves will never suffer from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Por qué no los dos?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fucking foreign grifters, because in the present day you can make money from being an “influencer”: all that fucking shit in the US has attracted every Techology savy, English-speaking scammer in the World because every fucking asshole with a computer and an Internet connection in his mother’s basement in bumfuck shitty-shit town in frigging Romenia can make more money in a day as an “influencer” feeding prejudiced, socially inept, delusions-of-grandeur-holding Americans with outrage that they can in a month working whatever job is available for them in shitty-shit nowehere-ville.

  (Ditty for American grifters, by the way)

  It’s targetting mainly the MAGAs because they’re the less intellectually capable population segment in the US, hence make for much easier marks.

  Populism-dominated America together with the ability for “remote work” on the Internet and how one can make money from views has led to a fucking freeding frenzy for every tech-abled scammer with an internet connection and decent English-speaking skills in the World.

  I bet this whole phenomenon is mainly a “emergent property” of the rewards and access structures in place in Social Media and that the top-down organised ops from state actors are but a tiny fraction of this shit show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I work long hour and make little money⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Foreigners are just the “others” used by the elites to point the tribalist weak minded morons towards somebody else whilst the very much local elites pillage the place.

  And this is not just done to the MAGA muppets: notice the whole bitching and moaning about “foreign interference” from the rest - guess what, the influence of the likes of Russia and even China have in countries like the US is fucking nothing next to that of the local traditional fatcats owning the Press and Tech-bros owning social media or even in relative terms that cultivated by the kind of Propaganda ops we see in action here in the most popular Lemmy.world forums.

  Fuck, if you want to worry about Foreign Actors, look at how Israel got most of the West, especially the US, to basically destroy in non-aligned countries at least half a fucking century of cultivate image of being Rule Of Law abiding and Freedom Promoting, which amongst other things resulted in some of those now turning towards Russia or China - all this shit to protected the fucking modern day Nazis whilst they get off from murdering little brow children.

  The supposed Leftwing of the US (but not really: in World terms the Democrats are a hard Right party, just ultra Capitalist Neolibs rather than Fascists) are just as much doing the whole “it’s those scary foreigners” smoke and mirrors show to turn the mob eyes away from their sponsors as the Fascists, it’s just that in their propaganda the cartoonish bad guys are “state actors” rather than “immigrants”.

  And all the fucking shit in the US (not just the propaganda but its use to distract the crowd from the pillaging by the likes of the Finance Industry, “realestate investors” and other parasites) is leaking to the rest of the World and accelerating the shitstorm elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahead of her time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me be more precise: the Defrauding Of Investors for which she was convicted in Court was that her company was getting people’s blood samples and claiming to be analyzing them on their own special machines, whilst in reality they were sending those samples to labs to be analyzed in the traditional way and their machines never worked.

  Maybe amongst her various claims she made one as you said (frankly, I don’t remember anymore), but that was not what landed her in jail.

  I supposed one could say both things were part of her con.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahead of her time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Her con was that her company had machines that could do all the analyzing automatically in seconds, it wasn’t than blood analysis had predictive value for at least some diseases.

  I don’t think that even back then anybody disputed that at the very least doing DNA sequencing of the cells found in blood could predict the likelihood of certain diseases for a person, as the concept of some people having a genetic predisposition for certain diseases was already accepted at the time.

  The scam was the “magic” machine that could do it fast and cheaply, not the concept that it can be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely the “capital investment” mixed in with the supplies should be accounted via depreciation rather than directly as an expense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Love the detail of how the driver of one of the car that stops, comes over and after seemingly hearing what’s going on starts kicking the thief.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck, maybe they went down in quality again 😬

  In my own experience, the original QCs were great tech for the time, the QC 2.5 (or maybe I had a QC 2?) had issues and lasted much less and then the QC 3.5 were again great (the battery lasts way longer, build quality is nice and that the user interface is decent).

  The QC 3.5 was launched almost a decade ago, so plenty of time for later models to have been enshittified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is totally different from my experience.

  I use headphones, which cover the full ear so I don’t get any “tired ears” from those. Maybe you’re using a totally different model (no idea if they have earphones and if they’re any good).

  If you’re using headphones, maybe you have the QC 3 (which are widelly seen as shit)?!

  I have had over the years the original QC, QC 2.5 and QC 3.5 and still use the QC and QC 3.5 with none of those problems (funnilly enough, the oldest, an original QC, uses a single removable AAA battery, and I use rechargeable ones and even that will last around 3 - 4 days, whilst the built-in LiPo in the QC 3.5 lasts even more than that when using bluetooth, and even more when using an audio wire).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using Bose Quiet Comfort noise reduction headphones for almost 2 decades now, ever since I had to do software development in a large open space office alongside the noisy business-side types (this was in Investment Banking - so whilst not a heavy-machinery-noisy environment, certain the top range of office noisy) and those they were very good already back then (I’m still using at home the first model I got, after replacing the ear-pads which is what gets damaged over time).

  The QC 3.5 and onwards have bluetooth AND also a wired connection as fallback (which I have had to use with devices without bluetooth).

  Of course, you pay for it (last ones I got were €250 if I remember it correctly), but then again they last a long time (as I said, the first ones, now almost 2 decades old, are still work fine even if the outside is all scratched up and they’re now on the 5th or 6th pair or earpads).

  I very much doubt Sony one’s are anywhere close to that, especially given that the quality of Sony devices took a massive dive in the late 90s when top level management which until then was dominated by the Engineering side was taken over by the Media side took over (before they used to be known for the high quality of their electronics).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once in a while Sony reconfirms my choice to boycott them since the rootkit CD scandal in the 00s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. Any online store can go under or enshittify.

  If you want to stay safe with GOG, download the offline installers for your games and archive them. If you don’t you’re running the risk of losing some or all of it.

  Fortunatelly GOG has that possibility as standard, Steam does not make that option available - at best you can copy and zip existing installations of Steam games and hope for the best, a which is not official supported.

  The point being that Steam could make something like that available, at least for games whose developers/publishers are willing and mark that as a feature in the game page in their store, but they have chosen not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea that being a “slut” is a character flaw is seriously backwards prudish moralistic shit that’s so long in the tooth that it’s the kind of shit you would hear in 50s.

  Her husband is dead, so if she’s fucking other people, there isn’t even the ethical and moral consideration of by doing so she might (unless they were open with each other about it) be betraying a person she had commited to be faithful to, because that person is no more and is not going to get hurt by it.

  So the whole thing is some fucked up regressive crap for moralist types with the social age of a child, even before one looks into the sexism of such last century moralism being mainly applied to women and seldom to men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Billionaire fanboyism has got to be the stupidest most sheepish behaviour imaginable, possibly even worse than looking up to celebrities who are famous for being famous because billionaires are literally hoarding money which could be way more useful to billions of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  however 20 years are more than enough time to catch up

  I suggest you read about the Network Effect in business.

  It’s not at all easy to reverse the market share of a business which benefits from a dominant market position in a market were such effects are strong, even when they turn complet shit (example: Twitter), which Valve hasn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, well, somebody is going to inherit his share of ownership, and even if he goes out of his way and sets up a Foundation for the purpose of preserving the founder’s vision that will inherit his share, such Foundations tend to over time end up subverted and doing the very opposite of what the founder would’ve wanted.

  Best avoid situations were your shit is hostage to the whims of a big company for whom you as and individual consumer are irrelevant.