TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 1 week ago:
I’m so sorry that they called you that
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 2 weeks ago:
What do you think the word boffin means? Do you mean buffoon? You should probably double-check your phrasing before quoting anime protagonists from memory
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 2 weeks ago:
“an actual, real, specific person in the system”
What system is that?
“Sends an email to the security team”
I can’t tell if you’re my father trying to understand Facebook or my nephew trying to understand a mouse.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 2 weeks ago:
No, I talked about putting this energy into convincing others to vote with their wallets, not just “doing nothing”. A boycott is an active campaign. It doesnt just mean not buying a product. It means not buying any associated product. Not even tolerating them in conversation.
I’m basing my opinion on how the commission has responded to similar successfully raised initiatives: “that’s already covered by legislation and up to EU states to manage”, “no that’s something we cant support, but feel free to appeal endlessly”, and in the most effective one, “committing to making a legislative proposal by 2023 but actually if thats ok we’ll make it 2026 and I suppose then if legislation is agreed it may be in place within a decade” (end cage farming, which polls at 86% approval already in the EU).
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 2 weeks ago:
No you cannot
(16 words later)
Like, ok, I guess you could
lol
OK buddy, cybercrime never happens and interpol will come arrest your python script if it did because you messed with an EU “government” form that might have resulted in them having to get a 60 year old Greek politican to ask what a EULA was
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 2 weeks ago:
What on earth makes you think an online petition, which has never led to any of the consumer friendly regulation you mention, has the ‘highest’ chance? Or that the alternative to a petition is doing nothing?
All of that regulation came primarily from legal cases.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 2 weeks ago:
You need to input a number matching a regex, the format for which is helpfully provided on the page.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 2 weeks ago:
Answering doesn’t mean doing anything, and all they have to do is generally wave in the direction of the overwhelming popularity and profitability of the products compared to the online petition that 0.2% of the EU’s adult population will have signed.
If the general public does not care, legislation will not follow. Filling out and promotinh a glorified change.org form is energy wasted on actually popularising your viewpoint instead of trying uselessly to get it in unpopularly.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 2 weeks ago:
You know you can just fill in what you want right? And the number goes up? They even put the format right there.
Ask ChatGPT to make you a script to fill in that form with Beautiful Soup. Takes 30 seconds, if you haven’t already.
It’s cool that you led with Estonia, the one that was botted to 100% signatures a couple of days ago.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 2 weeks ago:
You’re claiming mutual exclusivity…
No, I’m not. I’m saying this is a waste of time. Like, writing six paragraphs that say nothing new level of wasting time.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 2 weeks ago:
Nobody said anything about AI or LLMs.
Flooding online petitions with bots isn’t even a this-century thing let alone anything to do with AI hype.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 2 weeks ago:
There is zero scrutiny possible for the form which is 100% based on trust that the signer is who they say they are adults where they say they are. If you want to be John Smith in UK, Paddy Murphy in Ireland and Jurgen Schmidt in Germany, you can be. There’s a reason none of these initiatives have done anything except keep people who care about something busy with dopamine graphing instead of doing something like boycotting relevant games and publishers.
And no, like to the EU, Youtuber noise is not relevant to me. Millions of views is literally nothing. You see the general state of the world, yes?
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 2 weeks ago:
You guys need to make your bots a little less obvious
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Crimes are (ostensibly) supposed to be proven beyond doubt, so yes, it can be (and often is, I work for a telecom) used evidence, for both prosecution and defence.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 3 weeks ago:
Yes but
- it doesn’t let me charge and play at the same time
- I could hot swap in and out batteries, but it doesn’t report battery percentage
- It also doesn’t auto-pause when the battery dies, like other systems do
- It runs through them quickly
- it acts finicky/unpredictable when the battery is very low, rather than reaching a consistent threshold and stopping working
- In combination with a bug/anti-feature I’ve posted about previously, my Steam Deck sees it as a new controller every time the batteries are replaced, despite the Bluetooth MAC/BDA not changing.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 3 weeks ago:
For me, I want one with internal rechargeable (and replaceable) batteries, more reliable Bluetooth, and multi-device targeting (ie those 1,2,3 toggles you see on stuff like mouse/keyboards - I use mine on my Steam Deck and also on my desktop - dont want to mess with pairing each time. Plus if I end up with with a Switch 2, the trackpad would be interesting for mouse mode if those could connect (no idea)).
- Comment on The grass is happy to see you 5 weeks ago:
Grass, famously, does not die when it’s cut. In fact to some degree, grass benefits from being grazed on, as grazers in a meadow will eat everything - leaving grass that is ready to grow back quickly, and severely harmed weeds and shrubs that will either die or be significantly set back while the grass quickly overshadows it.
- Comment on What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
Bizarre questions like this make me more confident my blocklist is working
- Comment on what is north? 1 month ago:
Where else would you succinctly say the Weddell sea is?
- Comment on what is north? 1 month ago:
Are kids today so Vine-brained they don’t understand headline syntax? The Weddell Sea just north of Antarctica.
- Comment on women are the devil 2 months ago:
Given that she began as Christian Evangelical pop, then rose to fame with a song fetishising performative homoeroticism as “not what good girls do”, no. Quite far off.
- Comment on ‘Snow White’ Banned in Lebanon Due to Gal Gadot Being on Country’s ‘Israel Boycott List’ 2 months ago:
I think they quite literally mean former IDF soldier, Gal Godot.
- Comment on Anon's gf has unfinished business 2 months ago:
OK boys you’ve had your fun with the sectioning, there’ll be no more sectioning today.
- Comment on Anon's gf has unfinished business 2 months ago:
Well that just means you’ve got 8 seasons of Peep Show to watch.
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 3 months ago:
Lemmy 24/7: “if its free, you’re the product”
Lemmy on Nintendo: “Why should I pay for online play?! It needs to be free, moderated, and exist indefinitely even after the obsolescence of the product. Otherwise, I’m entirely justified in pirating everything.”
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 3 months ago:
A controller that is useful only when you have that online subscription to play the back catalogue, yes.
- Comment on What are people from Moscow and Versailles called? 3 months ago:
People are answering your headline but not understanding your question; the two aren’t as linked as they would be in French.
All of these are valid:
- I went to a Moscow school
- I went to a school in Moscow
- I went to a Versaille cafe
- I went to a cafe in Versaille.
- I dated a London girl
- I dated a girl from London
These sound more natural than the following: *I went to a Muscovite school *I went to a Versaillian cafe (People have been giving you the direct French for Versaillais, but English wouldn’t use fhat)
- I dated a Londoner girl.
At least for Muscovite, it retains the implication that the school is for people from Moscow, rather than the school being in Moscow. You can see this a lot more often in religion, eg. I went to a Presbyterian school - I went to a school for Presbyterians.
- Comment on Paradox date Stellaris 4.0, a "phoenix update" to attract new players and improve performance 3 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they mean The Company Formerly Known As Electronic Arts.
Because Paradox have a track record of buying studios and monetising their games in a similar way that EA monetised Maxis’s The Sims.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
This is just replacing one unsupported OS with another?
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
Trade it in.
In other words, someone may be willing to pay you for parts, rather than you just getting nothing for it (recycling).
They are not going to recommend you use an alternative OS, and probably not because they’re worried about market share, but because they then have some responsibility for every time a person fucks up a Linux install.