randamumaki
@randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 days ago:
If the maintainers are open about their use of it and attribute the code made in this fashion properly, there’s far less of a problem. If people don’t like it they can stop using the project and/or fork it to only have human-made code in their version. That’s their choice in FOSS. The jerk reaction and obfuscation makes it far bigger of a problem than this should have been. I don’t trust people when they react to criticism in this fashion. They would have done better just stating the topic was off limits before they lost their cool.
- Comment on More than 400 people dispersed from illegal rave 6 days ago:
The popo doesn’t like fun.
- Comment on People who grew up with Vietnam and the Cold War, is Iran going to be the new vietnam or just a semi cool war? 1 week ago:
My two cents; Cuba is going to be Trump’s Vietnam. He believes it is easy pickings after Venezuela and Iran, but it will more likely break him if he goes there next. Iran might end up being similar to the Korean war; takes too long, war exhaustion sets in, country gets cut in half.
- Comment on Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now. 1 month ago:
For those looking for alternatives: Fossify is making a decent enough launcher as well. github.com/FossifyOrg/Launcher
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 5 months ago:
Have you tried using the BIMP plugin for GIMP? It might be an option? thegimptutorials.com/how-to-do-batch-processing/
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Right, because UEFI is open sourced and can be checked by anyone. Oh, wait, no, that’s why Libreboot is a thing: libreboot.org I will agree that TrustedComputingGroup and the way they use TPM have a more open standard, but I still don’t trust some of the companies behind it. Especially Microsoft, who have completely lost the plot with recent Windows versions. There is definitely a reason to be wary of it, as cryptographer Ross Anderson is quoted here on wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing#Criticism Software Piracy is a direct answer to greedy publishers who burn out developers and force them to make crapware which they then force DRM on so people can’t play it even if they own the original release. Better people than me have written about how awful DRM is in games. See gog.com/…/what-exactly-is-drm-in-video-games-and-… or expertbeacon.com/why-is-drm-bad-for-gaming/ for exaples. DRM is bad for game preservation purposes or simply to allow someone to install and reinstall the game they own several times. Better people than me have written out about the various issues which DRM caused in the past, most notably safedisc and securom which were well-reported upon. It does not belong in gaming. I can explain a lot, and can attribute a lot to stupidity and greed on either side of the argument. It’s not FUD when it’s a slow crawl to further enshittification and overzealous identification and exclusion of individual users and systems while giving false reasons for why we should put up with it.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Ask yourself why TrustedComputing became a thing, why UEFI and TPM are required for newer Windows versions and what they actually do. And each new step they add something more restrictive to prevent your system running unidentified code. Ask why kernel-level DRM is employed as an anticheat measure. What other kernel-level DRM is on your system? Do you know? Do you care enough to stop using the products pushing it onto your system in the first place? We’re slowly but surely letting the dystopian futures we were warned about happen by not protesting every single time they lock some part of your life down “for reasons”.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 9 months ago:
Don’t worry, more people are on it than just Empress. You don’t have to lash out just because you don’t know how to find them. I will save you the trouble of reading my future comments.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 9 months ago:
Nothing in life is easy.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 9 months ago:
If you’re unhappy about the lack of crackers worth a damn, you could always learn to do it yourself.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 9 months ago:
No DRM exists which can’t be circumvented one way or another.
- Comment on Everyone loves some good food; 9 months ago:
Sir and/or madam, you broke the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment with these images. Go stand in the corner and think about what you’ve done!
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 9 months ago:
It’s absolutely fine to put your pirate hat on when they do this kind of thing.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 10 months ago:
Are you discriminating because lil’ tree is lil’? /s