taanegl
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- Comment on 'Inside Out 2' Topped September Disc Sales; 'Dune: Part Two' Remains 2024's Top Seller - Media Play News 4 weeks ago:
…“disc sales”? Wtf.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 4 weeks ago:
Damn, the incantation failed.
Time to bring out the billy goat.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour 4 weeks ago:
At that point, people were curious and decided to go deeper into the engine. Low and behold, it’s a game engine, based entirely on telemetry technology.
- Comment on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Xitter & Co.:Tenet Media posts still online, despite US claims of Russian influence campaign 2 months ago:
Well of course it is… you gotta render the service paid for lol let the Russian oligarchs get their money’s worth.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece 2 months ago:
It’s a crapsterpiece that execs wanted all along.
- Comment on Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, hires former employee of U.S. Republican's 'Project 2025' 2 months ago:
What’s Meta need a bunch of fascist Christian nationalists for? It’s not like they have an overlapping demograph-oh yeah, ofc.
Mark Zuckerbot sure is a shrew bastard. Elon Musk wishes he had his computational brain.
- Comment on Indonesia introduced measures to fight cheap online imports from China as Chinese e-commerce platforms hurt local firms 2 months ago:
This, and Bangladesh. All places that rely on wage slavery, child labour and unethical working conditions, because that which is unethical is also very cheap.
You can’t really compete with slavery, because again: it’s very cheap, and the way the Chinese state leads Chinese farmers and villagers into social lock-ins, whereby they legally become stuck in an area where there’s only grueling, deadly, soul crushing and back breaking labour that leads to a life of poverty becomes a problem for the rest of the world if it’s used to manipulate the markets.
I do of course realise this article is about “too big to fail” companies that corner every market, but I also think that the west and the east needs to think about what it means to partake in a race to the bottom where wage slavery is part and parcel of the market. It creates conditions whereby competition involves who can make the most horrible living conditions in the world, and do you really want that?
There are Chinese labourer families who have been trying to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” for generations now, and it’s all thanks to other nations enabling the Chinese regime - especially the west.
- Comment on Why are Texas interchanges so tall? 2 months ago:
…because everything is bigger in Texas?
- Comment on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable 2 months ago:
Not even with the child labour? These venture capitalists are just the worse. They don’t make any money, they just lose it over longer periods of time. Smh.
- Comment on Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American 2 months ago:
Your first reply was a whataboutism that tried to deflect the very obvious problem of US companies not taking security seriously, which has now devolved into you calling me a communist…?
E everything you don’t like is a communist, isn’t it?
Take your whataboutisms, ad hominems and the rest of your logical fallacies for a long walk off a short pier, because at this point I’m just blocking you.
- Comment on Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American 2 months ago:
No, you’re saying irrelevant things because you’re being defensive, and then replying with an ad hominem, because you want to see your enemies defeated and driven before you - because you obviously lack raising. But I digress.
Other places, like the EU, or say China, there are regulations about data security, whereas in the US, it’s the wild west, where companies can cut as much costs as they want and leak data like it’s a sport. The news every year is awash with leak news, and in most cases it comes from the US. So, yeah…
Cope, yankie. Cope.
- Comment on Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American 2 months ago:
…but we’re talking about leaks, and nobody leaks user and consumer data like US companies.
What was your point? “Everyone gets hacked, so might as well leak”?
- Comment on Show HN: I've open sourced DD Poker 2 months ago:
Open Engines! And GPLv3 too. Bold day, aren’t we sir?
- Comment on Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American 2 months ago:
May have? Son, I’m in the midst of convincing my countrymen to get the hell away from US vendors, because the words “conflict”, “of” and “interests” means nothing to US officials or businesses when put together.
No, you don’t let the people who handle data also share in the spoils of data brokerage - albeit through stock ownership or shared assets.
At the end of the day, yes, the US will leak data, because security is a cost and data is of value. Money printer go brrr.
- Comment on Verso – web browser built on top of the Servo web engine 2 months ago:
And of course it’s on NixOS already.
- Comment on AMD records its highest server market share in decades 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s kind of expected, when one of their only competitors is having a PR shitstorm raining on them night and day.
- Comment on No More Room In Hell: How Tech & Games Are Desperately Rotting (The Jimquisition) 2 months ago:
This is why Godot is so important and that source available can be something the EU has to consider for all newly designed games. Sorry, small, mid and big time game studios, and screw you publishers, what we need is to make sure that the barrier to entry for game developers is significantly lowered. What, you think I’m taking about video game conservation? Leave that to CursedFarms.
What I’m saying is that you can more easily pitch games to publishers, using assets and engines that are already “standardised”, like Bethesda’s several Rube Goldberg machines, if they are available. I’m looking at Fallout London as saying to myself: why isn’t this on Steam, Switch, and every other platform Fallout 4 can run on, being sold by Bethesda?
Even split prices, one for people who already owned Fallout 4, one for who recently purchased Fallout 4 if they don’t have Fallout 4 - if you wanna be pedantic. But the point remains the same: these lovely modder devs, though they shouldn’t be forced, could have pitched this game to Bethesda, even as an “off-universe” game. Whatever.
But then we remember the Fallout 76 Store. Oh my god, no. And DMCA takedowns, claims of copyright infringement - even though “modified works” doesn’t exclude software - and what about actual live services and competitive games? Like could the community make the server instead? Can it be something even the Olympic Committee has a hand in, so the game can be vetted for the Olympics?
Like update your EULA. “May be used, modified and deployed for free if it’s used for education and development purposes”. I’m not a lawyer, so take them scribblings with a grain of salt, but something like that would really just add an extra level in participation in schools, clubs, organisations, etc, even as an easy way to recruit and receive games and new worlds, for free.
Free the engine! Free all of the engines! NOW!!! “The secret sauce” fallacy has been stupid, is stupid right now, and will continue to be stupid into the future - unless we do something about it.
Free the engines!
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 3 months ago:
“You’re not fooling anyone, r/TigTooty - banned.”
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 3 months ago:
r/BigBooty is going to be bone dry…
Unless Reddit actually monetizes the process for content creators, in which case, we need them to open up their books - because then they’ll be running a marketplace.
- Comment on Never underestimate the surveillance power of Babushkas! 3 months ago:
Just all of Europe, really. Like in my country, along the coast, you’ll find these small mirrors mounted on houses, facing a certain direction.
These mirrors are called snitch mirrors.
- Comment on Intel is laying off over 10k employees 3 months ago:
I guess they couldn’t RYZE to the occassion, or ARM them selves with new technology…
They surely pissed off Apple… no pun, I just wonder if Apple hates Intel or NVIDIA more.
- Comment on How great was the Great Oxidation Event? 3 months ago:
Pretty great.
- Comment on Ngtop – Request analytics from the Nginx access logs 3 months ago:
Just in case you needed more anxiety fodder. Thanks, dev. I hate it.
- Comment on Zuckerberg bets on personalized AI models for all • The Register 3 months ago:
They spent a lot of GPU time trying to get it just right.
- Comment on Devs need system design tools, not diagramming tools 3 months ago:
“Microservice death star”…
Are you okay, Netflix?
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel's crashing 13th/14th Gen CPUs – damage is permanent 3 months ago:
Soooo basically, anyone who suggests Intel nowadays will be seen as someone unserious, which was the other way around with AMD like 10 years ago.
How the turn tables. From Bulldozer to Ryzen bulldozing Intel’s market share. Smh.
- Comment on When ChatGPT summarises, it does nothing of the kind 3 months ago:
Shout outs to the internet for failing lit and confusing the hell out of these LLM’s. Gotta be one of my favourite genders.
- Comment on Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say 3 months ago:
Y’know, unless the EU comes out with that digital currency that doesn’t require a network. It’s like value papers, but in form of cryptographic hashes - and I refuse to call it “crypto”, because of the obvious connotations.
But you could call it off-grid crypto, though it is easier to track than actual physical cash. But money can pass a lot of hands from point A to point Z, and if it doesn’t need to touch any network between these points, than it becomes quite possible to misuse that digital cash, unless it’s somehow ear marked for each transfer.
I await specifications before it can actually be considered viable, but if successful, it could become the new standard…
And maybe us northern Europeans could stop having to print value papers in France, because that makes me feel much more dirty than using crypto.
- Comment on NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules 3 months ago:
And the haters doubted me. I said it, and I say it again: you can’t fuck with datacentre money, and as far as getting your hardware in the hands of developers, untainting that kernel will go a long way towards deeper development and testing.
Just the development going into the interoperability between CPU and GPU is a massive step towards a convergence in compiling. I say that as someone who’s currently frying an egg on my laptop trying to compile a huge Rust project while my GPU languishes. Feh.
It was only a matter of time before we get all that bare metal code out in the open, which means I can hope that my GTX 1060 will receive premium support on Linux, mere months before I switch to an AMD APU lol
Was the wait with it? No. Was it fun? …no.
- Comment on For advertising: Firefox now collects user data by default 3 months ago:
You’ve got Librewolf, Floorp, Iceweasel, etc.
The Floorp Devs have said they’re going for a more modern build soon, and they’ll probably turn off the PPA.
Additionally, the Servo project needs contributors. They are now under the OSI umbrella and are working towards making the Rust Servo engine fully functional as a standalone web rendering engine.