Zedstrian
@Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 4 days ago:
Someone has at least archived Grey’s video here, though Grey’s actions have put me off watching any of his content.
- Comment on Copyright Is Not Enough: Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI. 4 days ago:
While I already didn’t like CGP Grey for multi-striking a reaction channel, monetizing the ability to comment on his videos, and exploiting the algorithm with clickbait title and thumbnail changes, locking old videos behind a paid membership is astounding.
- Comment on UK government drops plan to stop paying coastguard volunteers 2 weeks ago:
The Starmer government certainly has a talent for u-turns.
- Comment on [META] Overseas News - Proposal for increased enforcement of Rule 1 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on 'We decided not to limit VPNs': UK government U-turns on age-gating privacy tools 2 weeks ago:
To the uninformed, doing this makes their unprecedented invasion of user privacy seem like a level-headed compromise.
- Comment on Man dressed as fox pulls out of Clacton election because it's become a 'circus' 2 weeks ago:
33% across the UK; Clacton leans right-wing, and is unfortunately likely to re-elect Farage.
- Comment on Magical Girl ER is a Japanese horror medical sim where you triage and treat magical girls injured in kaiju attacks 2 weeks ago:
Clearly Ubisoft is missing an opportunity to do an LLM-powered Chessmaster remake. /s
- Comment on Video - Nigel Farage’s SECRET Millions: IT’S WORSE Than You Think 2 weeks ago:
Because capitalizing SECRET and IT’S WORSE, insinuating the existence of a conspiracy with “Than You Think”, and putting an eye-catching yellow “EXPO$ED” on the thumbnail are hallmarks of meaningful journalism rather than sensationalist tabloids?
- Comment on Video - Nigel Farage’s SECRET Millions: IT’S WORSE Than You Think 2 weeks ago:
Farage is corrupt, but I’m not inclined to watch channels that feel the need to use clickbait to draw viewers.
- Comment on Graham Linehan gets £25,000 compensation and an apology from Met police after arrest 2 weeks ago:
The third, on 20 April, said: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and, if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”
Linehan insisted at the time that while he may have been guilty of making a “bad joke”, he had not been aiming to encourage violence.
Great, now people on TERF island are getting paid to tell people to physically assault transgender people.
The judge found that the writer had taken Brooks’s phone because he was “angry and fed up” and had damaged it by knocking it to the ground.
The conviction for damaging their mobile phone was also overturned on appeal.
And get to damage their property without repercussions.
- Comment on Remote Attestation 3 weeks ago:
TPMs can also be used against the interests of the user in terms of anti-consumer DRM.
- Comment on A chart of how Xbox Games Studios became the largest publisher in the gaming space. 3 weeks ago:
All the money being poured into Star Citizen makes me wish Microsoft realized the demand for games in the genre and gave Freelancer a proper AAA remaster (and sequel if successful), but the fan-made Freelancer HD Edition does at least modernize the game somewhat.
- Comment on A chart of how Xbox Games Studios became the largest publisher in the gaming space. 3 weeks ago:
It’s missing Digital Anvil, the developer of the space trading game Freelancer.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 3 weeks ago:
They will still become worthless once Nintendo shuts down the Switch 2 servers, making piracy the only viable form of game preservation at that point beyond whichever means Nintendo will have to get people to buy the games a second time.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 3 weeks ago:
The $60 → $70 price increase was just Nintendo being greedy, so the metaphorical “carrot” in this context is raising the price of physical copies relative to digital copies to $80 to diminish physical sales further as an excuse to get rid of them entirely, while the “stick” is the game key cards that take any meaning away from owning physical media in the first place.
In any case, disagreement is no reason to insult the intelligence of other users.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 3 weeks ago:
They could have used the carrot, but pure greed means they’re now opting for the stick.
By raising the prices for all their games and raising them again for physical copies, Nintendo decided the carrot or stick alone just wasn’t profitable enough, and thus chose both.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft is looking to boost Xbox profitability and Nintendo has allowed developers to sell blank cartridges, so I’m sure both of them will do the same while simultaneously increasing game prices.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 4 weeks ago:
They’ve whittled down game ownership and are now ready to toss it out the window completely to increase their profits.
- Comment on Sony Signals It’s Not Prepared To Sell PlayStation 6 ‘At Significant Losses’ 4 weeks ago:
It’ll be the Chromebook model: ship devices with barebones specs with the idea that consumers must subscribe for cloud access to true computational capabilities.
- Comment on Ammo Counters. 4 weeks ago:
Could tell it would be an Ahoy video just by the title format before clicking on the post.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
Space-themed strategy puzzle game.
- Comment on Grandma's Garden - Quest 1 4 weeks ago:
Spoiler
Reading it over a bit better now, I guess if one doesn’t get the Crown, gets the cigarette, and uses the cigarette to get access to the ladder, the need to go past the troll is effectively bypassed. One could then trade the fishbowl for the lightbowl, get the earth nugget, and bypass the need to visit the troll via Ω3 instead (using the taser), bringing the end item count to 9.
- Comment on Grandma's Garden - Quest 1 4 weeks ago:
Spoiler
Interesting puzzle. Starting out by looking at the portals, Ω1 is needed to unlock ¿9, Ω2 for Ÿ6, Ω4 for Ÿ9 and ¿13, Ω5 for ¿7, Ÿ8, ¿8, and Ω7, and Ω7 for the end, while Ω3 and Ω6 do nothing. Because of one-way paths and death markers, □3 and Ÿ7 are not accessible on a valid path. Because Ÿ9 effectively serves as a one-way path (with the alternative Ω6 being a death trap), Ω4 is also effectively useless and ¿13 (Ladder) is inaccessible. A starting route should pass Ÿ1 (Fish), retrieve ¿3 (Crown) and ¿12 (Key) from Ÿ3 (Delivery Boy), and use the Key on □4 to proceed past Ÿ2 (Bridge Troll). As returning past the Bridge Troll is effectively a one-way path, the Lightbowl and ¿9 (Earth Nugget) via Ω1 are inaccessible on a valid path. At this point (and before further teleports), there is direct access to Ω5, ¿2, Ÿ5, □2 (flavor text), ¿10, Ω2, □5 (flavor text), Ÿ4, and Ω4. Counting Ω2, Ω4, and Ω5, there is also access to Ÿ6, ¿7, Ÿ8, ¿8, and Ω7 (and by extension, the end). Before accounting for further creatures, the inventory has ¿2 (Paradox), ¿3 (Crown), ¿7 (Fire Nugget), ¿8 (Water Nugget), and ¿10 (Wind Nugget). In terms of further creatures, there is access to Ÿ4, Ÿ5, Ÿ7, and Ÿ8. Ÿ4 (High Priestess) gives ¿1 (Fishbowl), while Ÿ8 (Crazy One) gives ¿11 (Taser), bringing the inventory item count to 7 items. If the Crown is left behind, one could get ¿5 (Cigarette) from Ÿ6 (Emperor) and exchange it for ¿6 (Egg) from Ÿ5 (Mute Boy and Chicken), but the item count would still be 7. With 7 items, one should be able to leave the maze via Ω7 optimally.
- Comment on Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers 1 month ago:
Ars asked Fractic if community forums would also be blocked. In response, he said that old school bulletin board systems are permitted, but Reddit is not.
More importantly, how about Lemmy?
- Comment on General Sir Nick Carter, former head of the armed forces warns that Britain risks becoming ‘Belgium with nuclear weapons’ 1 month ago:
As we all know, the first duty of any government is to protect the nation.
The first duty of any government should be to represent its people. “Protecting the nation” should never come at the expense of its people.
The excuse of funding shortfalls is disingenuous; funds are there but are being spent on lower priorities such as net zero and welfare.
The author’s priorities clearly do not lie with the welfare of the people or the environment that they live in.
- Comment on Club Penguin still gets regular updates. 2 months ago:
Unofficial updates; somewhat of a misleading title.
- Comment on I investigated BBC capture by trans activists. It was worse than I thought 2 months ago:
Unfortunately in many cases there isn’t a viable alternative that bypasses paywalls, but just something to keep in mind. The best compromise is to use something like uBlock Origin that blocks the DDOS script.
- Comment on I investigated BBC capture by trans activists. It was worse than I thought 2 months ago:
Archive.is attempted to DDOS the blog of someone who was looking into the identity of its operator, while also modifying certain pages to include the username of the blog’s owner.
- Comment on I investigated BBC capture by trans activists. It was worse than I thought 2 months ago:
The problematic nature of archive.is aside, there’s not much value to be had in preserving articles propagating transphobia.
- Comment on Hollywood Secures Broad "Omnibus" Pirate Site Blocking Order in UK High Court 2 months ago:
While fully autonomous “agentic AI” systems are not yet known to be widely used in the piracy ecosystem
Adding generative AI to a piracy site would needlessly increase hosting costs; they’re just using AI as a boogie man to get the order they want.