cecilkorik

@cecilkorik@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is always okay to punch Nazis. You don’t need a reason. (serious answer though: I have no idea what kicked it off, my comment still stands though, it’s always okay to punch Nazis.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the actual TL:DW (it’s not that long, and I did watch it)

  Steve describes what’s happened (Micron shuts down Crucial their consumer-facing “store brand"), mocks their stupid press release, and discusses the nuances involved, will they still be selling to all the rebadged memory resellers who use Micron as a supplier? Unclear, their reps and defenders say yes, their PR and the context implies not really, unless those resellers want to get into a bidding war with AI datacenters that they’re not going to win. Steve not-so-subtly implies that this seems awfully sort of kind of like more price fixing from a small group of oligopolist companies who have in fact been convicted in the past of price fixing, while explictly stating that he is, of course, for legal reasons, definitely NOT implying that in any way shape or form. Some much deserved ranting about how shitty and frustrating this situation is is mixed in throughout and he goes over details about exactly how much prices have risen already, pointing out all the different devices that require some form of high speed memory that are going to be affected by this. Some further discussion suggests the possibility this might just be a shot across the bow to let the other memory companies who are totally not colluding with Micron and never would consider doing that to let them know it’s absolutely time to not collude about anything like that because of course they’re all paying very close attention right now. So we’ll have to see what else develops, but basically he’s letting everyone know he’s on it, and he’s paying very close attention too.

  I might’ve read between the lines a bit in a few places, I have some of my own strong feelings about what’s going on here, so I apologise if I inadvertently mixed in any of my own interpretation by accident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are still some factors providing weight on the other end of that lever. Valve is doing good things with Steam Deck and the popularity of it is keeping developers supporting lower spec hardware. Remote play codecs (both Steam’s own and Moonlight/Sunshine) reduce the need to have more than one capable gaming computer as you can just stream from the one you do have to any others. Raspberry Pi is a great way to access non-gaming computing cheaply. Arduino, even though the company itself is kind of doing some shit, still has an ecosystem big enough to survive even if the company itself completely sabotages it. And of course the used/surplus PC market is thriving, even more than ever before with Windows 11 forcing millions of PCs into early retirement for no good reason. They’re still perfectly capable machines that will run Linux without an issue and you get them cheap as a song or even free if you play your cards right.

  I’m not saying any of this to dispute anything you’re saying, I’m just pointing out these resources we still have so that we can take advantage of them while we still can and protect our continued access to them. It’s clear the claws are coming out to start locking down consumer computing, but people need to know there is a resistance to it and there are ways to resist. And we should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Move the USC capitol to Milwaukee or Minneapolis/St. Paul. Both nice and central. Despite seeming landlocked, both have ocean access, Milwaukee through the Great Lakes and Minneapolis through the Mississippi. Plenty of industrial capacity and open land in the area if they need to expand. Midwestern culture is pretty resilient and underappreciated frankly. Minnesotans are basically honorary defacto Canadians already. Milwaukee featured prominently in Wayne’s World, starring Canadian Mike Myers (who started the recent Canadian “Elbows Up” movement) so we’ve already got that significant cultural connection there too. They’d be good choices I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too late I already starved to death long ago. I am just a ghost in the machine, still screaming at the injustice of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how it should be. That demonstrates why the working class must maintain control of the means of production. Contrary to popular belief, that’s not actually communism, rather it is the difference between feudalism and freedom.

  When the feudal lords own the thing(s) you use to make your living, you’re not really free and disempowerment and disenfranchisement becomes endemic and cumulative. Plantation slaves and tenant farmers had an awful lot in common, they were not free, did not have any form of mobility, physical, social or otherwise. The lord owned the land and pretty close to everything in it. They controlled the job, controlled the housing, controlled the costs, controlled the compensation and ultimately controlled the tenants lives. There is some difference in the degree of control, but mostly only in degree.

  Tenant employees are not much different today, except that it’s all been dressed up to look more free. Most of it’s an illusion though, and that shows when you start actually trying to exercise any freedom. If you don’t own any of the things that are earning your paychecks, you’ll be a slave to the people who do. That’s not something capitalism requires or even expects. A free labor market is part of the free market that capitalism requires to function effectively. Entrepreneurship is one of the pillars of capitalism and growth but it cannot exist if people or even small organizations cannot afford to own anything productive enough to be competitive or successful.

  Like it or hate it, capitalism itself is not quite the problem. What we’re doing now is not functioning effectively because it’s not actually capitalism anymore, it’s feudalism. Whatever you want to call it, late-stage-capitalism, neo-liberalism, techno-feudalism, neo-feudalism, what is happening today is not what capitalism used to mean, and it’s not just because we just didn’t “properly understand” capitalism until now, and it’s not because this was actually an inevitable outcome.

  Capitalism is just a tool, it’s one tool in a toolbox that we can use, it was never supposed to be the only tool, but even if it was the only tool, what we’re using it for now is not what it was supposed to be used for. What we understand about capitalism’s intended function is not matching what we see happening in the world because it’s been changed, it’s been corrupted. Important pieces of the framework that we used to call capitalism have been lost. On purpose. It has been stripped down from a tool to a weapon.

  Capitalism is not the problem, we can get rid of it if we want, but it won’t solve the problem. The lords claiming ownership of everything are the problem, and even if we did throw it all away to switch to communism or something else, they would still be there, they would put themselves in the same places of power, and they would cause exactly the same problem, just like they did in communist Russia, maybe even some of the names and faces of the lords changed, but the problem certainly didn’t! Corruption and greed and exploitation and rent-seeking don’t care what economic system you’re using, they will find ways to corrupt, hoard, exploit and seek rent from the less fortunate, because that’s what the humans desiring those things want. And they will use any system at all to get it. The system is only at fault in that it was not protected from this kind of abuse. Any system will have to be or it will end up the same way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps I was laying it on a little thick for you, but sometimes you’ve really got to sledgehammer the point home, to ensure the people in the back can hear. My point has been made, nobody is obligated to take it personally, you are welcome to ignore it or do with it whatever you please. That said, if your instinct is to take it as a personal attack directed at you, maybe the point actually is directed at you after all. I tend to trust people’s own judgements on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only buying things that are the lowest price has many consequences and not all of them are beneficial to you. Sometimes it’s just that the thing you are buying for the lowest price is crappy and poor quality. But now we are coming to realize that one of those consequences might be the destruction of the world. Figure out how to price that consequence into your economic model, and choose accordingly.

  Apparently not destroying the world is more valuable to some people than others. Personally, I would pay at least 1000% more to not destroy the world, because not destroying the world is really important to me. Maybe it’s not as important to other people, I don’t know. The wonderful thing about the world we are destroying is that everyone gets to make their own decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is some very black or white, us or them, red team vs blue team thinking. It’s very interesting that you immediately jump to that conclusion when I am not even from the US at all. The answer to your question is absolutely not, and the fact that it’s a “world economy” doesn’t and shouldn’t mean any people are obligated to do business with and accept the controlling interest of literal monsters fueled by oil and oil money. Ethics must also be allowed to control the economy, not just money. The world’s financial systems have consequences beyond just the economy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely not new, but it’s time to start thinking about how strange it is, and start pulling these assholes off their money-merry-go-round.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  PVP? Strictly yes, strictly no, or opt-in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have epilepsy, but I do get migraines, and what you described is a perfect trigger for me.

  Best way to avoid it is don’t drive when the sun is low in the sky or on roads lined with very tall trees. If for some reason I was trapped in such a situation, which is not really likely since it’s very predictable if it’s something you’re interested in avoiding, I would probably slow down, find somewhere to pull over, and just wait it out. But yeah, it is bad. I don’t do it if I can at all help it, because I avoid getting into that situation like the plague.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beta Starbound was the shit. Release was just shit, with no “the”. They took a great game of endless discovery and procedural generation with a gameplay loop that just worked out of beta and filled it with completely predictable set pieces and juvenile hard-coded nonsense. They literally added a poop emoji monster FFS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Microsoft ended Windows 10 support, why is it still getting updates like every other day?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You think you can turn them off. Temporarily. They mysteriously turn back on. For no obvious reason. I have literally never in my life been successful at actually permanently disabling Windows Updates. And god knows I have tried. The setting re-enables itself. The disabled service re-enables itself. Some installer quietly turns them back on. You change some unrelated setting and suddenly, there’s Windows Update again! There’s no escape.

  Windows: “Oh, I know you already told me you didn’t want important updates, but I just assumed you still wanted critical updates? Okay, okay, I get it, you don’t want critical updates either, I hear you…” <3 weeks later> “I’ve been trying to warn you about this for the last 2 weeks but you’ve had your notifications turned off, but now I really have to because Microsoft told me this next update is SOOO important that I really need to install it just this once, okay! But really, you should have at least critical updates too. I mean, installing this update requires them anyway, and all the important updates too, so I’ll just turn those back on for you to make this whole process easier next time Microsoft has a super-critical-urgent-mega-feature-emergency-update for you, sorry for all this inconvenience!” <reboots in the middle of your work>

  Linux is the only solution that has worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 Publisher Asked ChatGPT For Help Dumping Founders⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best thing that could happen is to have the Subnautica founders either settle with them to take back the IP (and ideally at least the payout they are owed), or utterly wipe the floor with them in court, and then use the damages awarded to create the true successor to Subnautica that it was always going to be without the interference, meddling and sabotage from Krafton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 and inZOI publisher Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, between what’s going on with EA/Sims 4 and Inzoi, most of the life-sim community seems to be pinning their hopes on Paralives now, which does look like it’s going to be a banger, but relying on a single successor to the genre is a lot of pressure and the community is putting a lot of weight on their shoulders which is not a great or healthy situation to put them in. Especially for a genre that requires so much work to meet the community’s expectations.

  Oh well, at least if it all goes to shit, we’ll always have Sims 3 and all its mods and expansions. Still the best life-sim out there in my opinion, as long as you can withstand the instability, bugs and crashes.

  Some bearded and cutlass-wielding fellow needs to create a definitive hacked community edition of that game, ideally with all the mods and fixes already implemented and ready to roll, all the awful EA store and social media shit mercilessly excised. Or even better, some project just needs to reimplement the whole engine from scratch, OpenTTD style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 and inZOI publisher Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. The original expectation was that it could serve as an early-access placeholder until more content and functionality could be implemented (which in the case of the Sims series its competing with, often takes many years and hundreds of dollars of DLC expansions before it starts to approach a satisfying level of content). From that point of view, it doesn’t seem like it’s automatically so terrible that the game heavily relies on it, as the expectation would be that the reliance would reduce over time as the game develops, which everyone understands is realistically going to take a long time.

  Now that Krafton has revealed that they’re fully onto their villain arc, it’s pretty clear that this is not temporary and is not going to be eventually reduced by replacing it with a whole bunch of lovingly human-crafted content, if anything it seems like it will certainly expand the use of AI even further. As Krafton’s largest currently released IP Inzoi is likely going to be the poster child for Krafton’s attempt to turn “AI-slop: The Game” into a money faucet to fund their other misadventures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have heard people mispronounce it various other ways on purpose, ironically, as mockery, but I agree that depends on people knowing there's a correct pronunciation in the first place, which there is, as you've accurately described.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love it when people are surprised that for-profit businesses seek profit above all else. Like they assume there will be always be a set of strict laws to keep them in check and just assume they will strictly follow those laws because they're laws.

  Then they go ahead and vote for people who say that there are too many taxes and regulations. As if those taxes and regulations aren't exactly the same laws they're expecting to keep the for-profit businesses in check, which are often not even close to being sufficient in the first place.

  The cognitive dissonance is wild. People are fucking brainwashed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Planet Centauri is a great game (also I don't know why the link says "Alpha Centauri" it's literally never been called that, that's a different game)

  Worth checking out, it's very deep, but also a distinctly different flavor than Terraria despite the superficial similarities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New moderator for this community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your username checks out. A Rare choice, one even might say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why we can't have nice things, at least not for more than a few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pepperidge farms remembers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See, the internet is just a series of pipes, and those pipes can get clogged, and then the water can't get through...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as we've got some vestiges of free speech and free association available to us we need to do what we can to organize and sow the seeds of resistance. They're not coming for us yet, although I suspect they likely will eventually. But if you're already too afraid that they'll be coming for you to do what needs to be done, then they've already won. And I don't think they have. Resistance is the only choice that makes sense. But as you said, it's just my opinion. I'm allowed to share my thoughts and opinions though, at least for now, and I will do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Without understanding the root cause of why the immune system became misinformed in the first place, and without knowing whether that cause still exists or has even become worse, you're playing a very dangerous game telling it to forget everything it knows and just blindly hoping it will make better choices the next time around, treating it as if it were just a random outcome and gambling with people's health. Imagine trying to treat someone with arthritis and after treatment their autoimmune situation gets even worse and they become diagnosed with MS, so you treat it the same way again and it becomes a very aggressive form of MS. That violates the hippocratic oath to do no harm, which is why there really isn't much interest in such approaches unless they've been proven reliable and safe in carefully controlled studies, which your proposal hasn't been (and presumably wouldn't be able to be).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's some damn fine work, sir.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Election Truth Alliance is already investigating claims in some areas, maybe they can help or maybe your evidence can help them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's definitely a stretch goal. But at least if we can start by stopping them from killing something innocuous like games it shows that we still maybe have some power over them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I'm basically certain it will be at this point.

  The good news is they already fired all the good people, so we can hope those people find their way into creating a wonderful spiritual sequel under a different name, as is tradition.