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- Comment on Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini 12 hours ago:
Which is worse: Bixby or Gemini?
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 12 hours ago:
Yeah, he claims to understand 4Chan culture, but then post such a clickbait article that focuses 4Chan as the “violent, seething underbelly of the internet”. Oooo… spooky!
- Comment on Meta could take a $7 billion hit this year because of Trump's tough China tariffs 12 hours ago:
It’s a pretty high gamble here, one that risk-adverse corpos normally don’t take. I don’t understand why they are going along with it.
- Comment on Bluesky rolls out blue check verifications 23 hours ago:
Narrator: They could.
- Comment on Hayden Christensen Teases Return To ‘Star Wars’ Universe In Darth Vader Role: “There’s A Lot Of Rich Stories We Could Still Tell” 23 hours ago:
Translation: “There’s A Lot Of Stories We Could Still Tell That Would Make Me Rich”
- Comment on Morpheus Actor Laurence Fishburne Reveals He Was Turned Down for The Matrix Resurrections — So He Might Not Be Back for Matrix 5 Either - IGN 1 day ago:
- Comment on ‘Clean Slate’ Canceled By Prime Video 4 days ago:
Why bother reporting the news when you can get the creators of the show to write their own biased review for you?
- Comment on Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers 6 days ago:
It’s a common problem. People writing bot scrapers for public data, which costs a lot of bandwidth, when they could have easily just downloaded the entire dataset from a dedicated link. Finding better ways to tell them “Hey, morons, go download the goddamn link!” saves on that bandwidth and web server CPU.
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 1 week ago:
Wow, this “journalist” had no idea what games programming was like back then. Yars Revenge even used its own code to display the neutral zone. There were a lot of creative tricks like that to save on memory and CPU.
- Comment on Atari 2600: The Atlantis of Game Consoles 1 week ago:
Tanks!
Had a ton of fun with that one when I was a kid.
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- Comment on Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I think you forget just how much money was dumped into Quibi.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 week ago:
This is just wrong. If you write a book, you own that book. Many people sell art.
If you want to publish a book, you have to contact a publisher, and they will acquire the rights to publish your book. If you want to publish an album, you have to give up your rights to the music publisher. You don’t really “own” your media at that point.
Also, compared to the number of artists out there, many people don’t sell art. A select few sell art, and the rest are broke.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 week ago:
Copyrights aren’t for you, or for that artist that writes a song, or paints a picture. They exists to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.
As such, I would like to extend this to ‘delete all copyright law’.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 week ago:
I’m not trying to frame this in the context of the lawsuit, even though that’s the point of the original article. The Crew’s nonfunctionality is just a consequence of our lack of ownership.
Perhaps this article would explain things better than I could.
- Comment on Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China 1 week ago:
I’m sure he dangled it, and then handed it over, like the traitor he is.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 week ago:
How are the two related?
A user obtains the game through legitimate means by “buying” the game. However, they do not own the game, and are in fact, just renting something. This is despite decades and decades of game buying, especially pre-Internet, equating to owning the game and being able to play the game forever, even 100 years from now.
By pirating the game, a user has clawed back the implied social construct that existed for decades past: Acquiring a game through piracy means that you own the game. You have it in a static form that cannot be taken away from you. There’s still the case of server shutdowns, like this legal case is arguing. But, unlike the “buyer”, the game cannot suddenly disappear from a game’s store or be forcefully uninstalled from your PC. You own it. You have the files. They cannot take that away from you.
The phrase essentially means: You have removed my means of owning software, therefore piracy is the only choice I have to own this game. It’s not stealing because it’s the only way to hold on to it forever.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 1 week ago:
You can be anything. Any company. Any person. Any organization. Anything.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 1 week ago:
It’s federated in name only.
I blame ActivityPub. W3C didn’t get their shit together when they invented the standard and now we are paying the price.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 week ago:
I would relish a lawsuit against EULAs where the defendant somehow sends the prosecutor a EULA in a software package that declares that they automatically lose the lawsuit by clicking Agree.
It would really hammer in the point that fucking NOBODY reads this shit.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 week ago:
Goddammit… get the quote right:
If buying ain’t owning, piracy ain’t stealing.
- Comment on Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters? 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s a hack-and-slash Diablo clone. The whole point is quantity of enemies.
If you want Dark Souls, go make another game and call it something else. You can’t just make Starcraft, and then say that Starcraft 2 is going to be an FPS.
- Comment on Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, because getting so lost in the skill tree that you can easily gimp your character by clicking on the wrong node is exactly the direction they need to be push more towards.
- Comment on Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr 2 weeks ago:
Also, Bluesky doesn’t use the ActivityPub standard, so it sounds like bullshit.
- Comment on Social Security Website Crashes as DOGE-Linked Disruption at the Agency Continues 2 weeks ago:
This has been the plan since Reagan. Fuck up the government, run on a platform that the government sucks (because they fucked it up), allow Democrats to only fix half of the shit, GOP wins, repeat.
- Comment on I don't know who needs to hear this, but DO NOT EVER expose Jellyfin to the internet 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. I’m a bit disappointed that it’s being touted as such. If you need a local LAN option, use VLC Player.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on There is no Vibe Engineering 3 weeks ago:
I’m already sick of this phrase. The tech hallucinates too much, and understands security about as much as a whale understands astrophysics.
- Comment on Honey has now lost 4 million Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed 3 weeks ago:
Can’t see the contents of the post, because I assume it’s available to members only.
- Comment on Jacksepticeye Reveals He Was Working on an Unannounced Soma Animated Show but It Fell Apart 'Out of Nowhere' 3 weeks ago:
Look up Soma Transmissions. There was also a bunch of short stories about the game. The one about climbing the big orbital gun to the top really stuck with me.
And there was more characters than just the scary proxy things.
