sparky
@sparky@lemmy.federate.cc
Lead administrator of federate.cc and its services. Please don’t DM me for support with federate.cc, make a post in /c/meta instead.
Originally from Fort Lauderdale 🇺🇸, lived many years in Vienna 🇦🇹, now living in Setúbal 🇵🇹. Software engineer specialized in Apple platforms. 🌎
- Comment on When your friend moves to Berlin to become a DJ 11 hours ago:
𝔗𝔬𝔩𝔩, 𝔡𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔢!
- Comment on When your friend moves to Berlin to become a DJ 22 hours ago:
Wie hast du in Frakturschrift geschrieben?
- Comment on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far 5 days ago:
I guess summarizing notifications is mildly useful. Other than that, it seems like they’re just embracing the current zeitgeist (or really, meme). I can’t believe the whole industry has become so head-over-heels enamored with LLMs. What a waste of talent, time and energy for so many people.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 1 week ago:
Cuba’s one-party communist state outlaws political pluralism, bans independent media, suppresses dissent, and severely restricts basic civil liberties.
Cuba lacks basic freedom of speech or freedom of the press, to say the absolute least. Typical tankie whatabout-ism. In fact, you’re proving the point of the person I originally replied to in this thread!
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 1 week ago:
Authoritarianism doesn’t necessarily require nationalism or vice versa, though they’re often linked, that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. The USA is pretty flag waving, nationalist brained but individual freedom exists. Versus a country like Saudi as you mention is not particularly nationalist, but repression is widespread.
They are quite different than Russia, but looking only at individual freedom, the two are similar in that freedom of speech is not respected and leaders are not fairly elected.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 1 week ago:
I think some aspects of freedom are to some extent objectively observable, eg, is freedom of speech or religion observed? These can exist independently of US alignment - there are many countries in the global south that can qualify as free or partially free.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 1 week ago:
IMO this is why it takes an additional axis to define a government, not just left/right but also free/authoritarian. You can find examples of all combinations. Left wing and repressive? Cuba. Left leaning and free? Sweden. Right wing and repressive? Russia, Saudi Arabia, whatever. Right leaning and free? USA.
Obviously, there’s a gradient within these axes, but it’s strange to see people cheering on a country that matches their preferred left or right wing ideology if they’re super repressive.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 1 week ago:
Just adding to this, some history if anyone is curious: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Vienna
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 1 week ago:
Austria has, with widespread high quality public housing. theguardian.com/…/the-social-housing-secret-how-v…
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- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 5 weeks ago:
Tasty burgers. Mmmm
- Comment on No meme today 5 weeks ago:
You hear that, federate.cc users? All 5 of you? 😉
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 month ago:
Thank god he’s old, then, because he’s not going to last long enough to be long time dictator. But maybe thats not the point, even if trump is gone, if hardcore republicans dismantle elections to ensure they’re perpetually in power, then who the current figurehead is will be the least of our problems
- Comment on US Democracy 1 month ago:
🫡
- Comment on US Democracy 1 month ago:
Anybody got that American political plane meme handy?
- Comment on If you need a stargate, there is one outside of Ashland, Ohio off of I-71. 1 month ago:
That’s cool, any details or link to share?
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 1 month ago:
Console manufacturers will have to adapt and liberalize self-publishing to stay relevant. AAA gaming continues to enshittify, and indie games / smaller studios are the ones releasing the good titles.
Valve knows this, and the ease for developers to release on Steam means they’re well positioned to ride out the transition. By comparison, releasing on console means signing license agreements, getting access to proprietary SDKs, submitting your game through an approval process, getting each update reviewed, etc etc. The barriers make releasing on console very unappealing for smaller developers.
So IMO if the consoles want to ride out the decline of AAA games, they will need to reinvent their image and how they interact with smaller studios and indies.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 2 months ago:
I feel like the decentralization brings some downsides in the quantity of bad actors, extremist views, and the like.
The open platform certainly has an overwhelming advantage over Reddit in other ways, but there seems to be a higher number of trolls, shitheads, wackos, etc and in some cases entire instances dedicated to them.
While these people get banned on Reddit, Lemmy hasn’t yet solved this moderation issue; user accounts are basically disposable and moderation is super distributed, so it’s easy to abuse.
- Comment on The world’s first Nintendo Museum is now open | CNN 2 months ago:
What are they exhibiting? Lawsuits?
- Comment on Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I've ever played 2 months ago:
Yes you can run windows games fairly easily on Mac and Linux these days but it’s never quite as good as a native build.
- Comment on Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I've ever played 2 months ago:
There’s CrossOver on Mac which works pretty well for most titles too. Not as good as proton but let’s say 75% there. But you might be right that the success of proton is disincentivizing developers from targeting either. Still disappointing though as a game like this is an ideal candidate for Mac and Linux, compared to some AAA title.
- Comment on Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I've ever played 2 months ago:
Makes me sad to see it’s Windows only given it’s so graphically simple and low tech. Should be a shoe-in for a Mac and Linux version.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 2 months ago:
It does go on sale from time to time. I picked it up on Xbox last year for 60% off if I recall correctly.
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 2 months ago:
Nope, you can buy an external one or something as an accessory but it’s another hundred bucks.
- Comment on Preference 2 months ago:
Came here to say the same thing, like WTF, why would you need a jar of 500
- Comment on Helldivers 2's big update, Patch 1.001.100, is finally here, bringing a bunch of highly requested buffs and changes 2 months ago:
Yeah, those started working again with the previous patch.
- Comment on How did Call of Duty get to this point? 3 months ago:
COD 1 & 2 were excellent games. Man, how far they have fallen.
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 3 months ago:
10/10 physics joke right here folks
- Comment on Could an American please prove me wrong? 3 months ago:
Good ol’ Meme-a-stan. President: R. Astley.
- Comment on If Necromancy suddenly became possible, can the undead be called as a witness during court proceedings? 3 months ago:
I call the corpse of John Smith to the stand.
Mr Smith, where were you on the night of October the fourth?
……ungh……hiss…… BRAINS….
