Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes 5 days ago:
They raised money to dig a hole to then fill it in ahain, for similar reasons.
- Comment on WinBoat for containerised Windows apps on Linux adds custom install path, home folder sharing and more 6 days ago:
This is about as good as one can get to a Linux Subsystem for Windows.
- Comment on Punch Time 6 days ago:
Oh yeah you are right… let me edit it
- Comment on Punch Time 6 days ago:
I will transliterate where I want to preserve the original context of words. Otherwise I generally just go for stage 3 to get the gist of what a writer or speaker means, and usually it’s a combination of the two, I don’t try to use different idioms.
So “I’ll punch your lights out” might likely become “I’ll beat you so that the lights in your eyes go out” if I were to translate to Japanese (transliterated back).
It’s a neat way to show how each person translating has their own style. (And how Japanese news and diplomatic translators have had a rough time with Trump, forced to sanewash a lot).
- Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime 1 week ago:
You won’t find me stepping foot in the US while it is ruled by stupidity.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 week ago:
One could imagine that conveniently, Microsoft’s online support pages and the support staff were designed to only handle hundreds of thousands of cancelations at a time.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 2 weeks ago:
I consider trust a network, where you are the root CA (certificate authority) or like a tree where you are the trunk, with a locus of control. You have to figure out where your ground truth comes from and re-establish if it if you can’t locate it, whether it’s your upbringing, your life experiences, your family, the books you’ve read or the shows you’ve watched, where you’ve been or the friends you have/had.
Everybody sees the world at least a little bit differently, so you have to kinda figure out where they get their beliefs from and try to connect on the common points while also respectfully figuring out where and why there are differences.
So as just a random internet person I can only recommend two things:
- Ignore most stuff coming from influencers and people that change their principles willy-nilly to suit themselves or chase every fad, there’s very little for you to gain from that.
- If you get stressed or panicked thinking about the chaos of the whole world, slow down, step back, remember the locus of control, think about the things you want to change, can change and can’t change and take the first step of action from amongst the things you have direct control over, and worry less about trying to do anything more than your best to make the situation better.
- Comment on I decided he should melt. I don't know why 2 weeks ago:
Jabba the Hump
- Comment on if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead? 4 weeks ago:
Has anyone (in Utah) asked: What was he wearing when this happened to him????????
- Comment on Too soon? 4 weeks ago:
From NYT (cw: gift link to live report with details of shooting):
“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?” a person asks. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Kirk responds right before he is shot.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 5 weeks ago:
I grant you that it’s not perfect and it doesn’t prevent the abuse in the first place, but calling it out is important. There are still plenty of drama about people DMing each other, but there’s less hearsay involved, and appropriate suspicion is cast upon any mod that’s too vague with their ban comments or any user that doesn’t want to reveal their old banned username.
In terms of what users can do about mod abuse: There have been coordinated community shifts in response. A couple examples:
!onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone was created because the !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone mods wanted to forcibly move the community to !196@lemmy.world, but most users didn’t like that because BZ has more LBGTQ+ friendly policy. So the new community got set up with new mods.
!risa@startrek.website more or less moved or splintered to !tenforward@lemmy.world after some mod beefing and people getting banned for some rules even though it was a “no real rules” community.
- Comment on That'd be helpful 5 weeks ago:
I do feel bad for making people paying hundreds to come visit, not to eat at least some local restaurants.
But for more frequent hangouts it would be nice to hangout informally.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 5 weeks ago:
The public modlog is one of the best features of Lemmy, IMO. When a Lemmy user appeals to the public of stuff mods/admins have done, we can call BS on them since we can read through stuff if they’ve been toxic, or if it’s the mods on a power-trip, or if it’s controversially borderline but reasonable discretion given the circumstances.
- Comment on YAYAYA CONGRATS!!!! 1 month ago:
A series of Taylor Series
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 month ago:
That is definitely a problem that needs to be dealt with, since AI scrapers hogging bandwidth or making sites inaccessible means it is hampering equal access to everyone. Ignoring conventions and not rate limiting itself are harmful to the open internet.
So yes, those kinds of AI scraping behaviours should be mitigated, but on the principle of AI ingesting my public data, I’m not against it, if it can access it reasonably and fairly like anyone else.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 month ago:
If I’m going to share my information and knowledge publicly on an Internet site, I’d like everyone to have fair and open access to it, not at the whims of a multinational corp to gatekeep for me. So the fact that AI can access it too doesn’t discourage me.
You have information from me because I choose to share it, not because a site has demanded I give it up without a clear benefit to me in return.
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 1 month ago:
- Comment on Ottawa intervenes in Air Canada-union dispute, sending them to binding arbitration 1 month ago:
There was a >90% strike mandate. This is not going to go over well.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors is getting an official board game 1 month ago:
I’m just imagining one person moves a character around while the others move pieces with ten fingers and ten toes.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 2 months ago:
Thanks, now my mental image of the AI bubble is now shit-coloured.
- Comment on fr Lemmy really do be like 2 months ago:
help I don’t know which upvote button to click
- Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 2 months ago:
Peacocks and hens, Grouse and Turkeys, and some Phaesants spend most of their time on the ground. Ducks and Swans spend a lot of their time floating on water surfaces. Geese do fly and flock but are often in groups nipping at the ground, rather than in trees.
If birds slithered, tunneled or other weird land behaviour, I don’t know if we’d still call them birds. Probably something like dino-saur, idk.
- Comment on Couldn't big-tech shut out non-monopoly laws by saying that it's meant to be like that on "their" product? 2 months ago:
I mean, in general, if your business model is to break the law and the government tells you not to, that is infringing on your ability to conduct business in the way you want to.
Laws, also generally, are designed to balance the tradeoffs between allowing personal freedoms with protecting a populace from expected or possible harm.
Non-compliance to a country’s laws could lead to: a ban of that product from that country, fines/taxes/expenses to the business, or in serious cases prosecution of company representatives within the country.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Everybody! Yaaaaay
- Comment on Dropbox is shutting down its password manager 2 months ago:
Lol. Up until a few months ago Dropbox was begging me to use that feature.
- Comment on In racoon we trust 2 months ago:
It saves space in landfills.
This can’t be stressed enough… a huge proportion of landfills volume is material that otherwise could have been composted.
- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
A huge group moved from ich iel subreddit (meirl but almost like 196 in practice)… most german redditors were there. The main German instance was called feddit.de but the frontend and database got very messed up. The main admin was MIA so feddit.org was made instead.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 3 months ago:
They are not universal but reasonably popular in Canada.
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 3 months ago:
To address your first point. Yes it applies to other software, this initiative applies to games because the “buying a license to allow them to remove your purchase” practices have been most prevalent in gaming.
Extending the scope too far will bring in more opponents than allies and muddy the discussion. Getting a decisive answer here will inform laws on how other industries should be regulated in separate but parallel legislative processes.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I think the state legislature and governor will be more of a hurdle to clear than council. Since in US and Canada, most municipal powers are rooted in state/provincial legislation, they have the ability to override or veto, sanction or outlaw anything the city tries to implement. Gov. Hochul is an establishment Democrat so I expect some efforts to water down the most radical policies, but aside from her characteristic flip-flopping she won’t try to put herself in the way of city politics.