TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 2 days ago:
Anything to shorten it sounds good to me.
So say we all.
In the U.S., recently, GOP Senator Josh Hawley, one of the speakers who helped incite the January 6th insurrection, introduced a bill to make the term of Copyright 28 years with optionally one renewal for an additional 28 years.
And, it’s so weird to me that I could agree with him on anything really.
Mind you, he introduced that bill in an effort to punish Disney for being too “woke”, but I’d let the MAGA nuts use such a bill as an opportunity to crow for a few minutes about their victory over strong woman protagonists or whatever if it got us more reasonable copyright terms. (And honestly that’s too long, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the bullshit we have now.)
Also, fuck Sonny Bono.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 2 days ago:
Not in the U.S… For work-for-hire, It’s 95 years after publication. For works owned originally by a lump of flesh, blood, and bone, it’s 70 years after the author’s death.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 2 days ago:
I’m glad I noticed what community this was posted in before I responded.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I’m being trolled and I ain’t even mad.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Be serious, please
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 3 days ago:
My graphics card sounds like a wind tunnel when I play vanilla Morrowind.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears 3 days ago:
Well that news article surprises me more than Cookie Monster switching to fruits and vegetables.
- Comment on Sterilised Toilet ☢️ 4 days ago:
Literal shitposts are the best kind of shitposts.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 1 week ago:
Not like 'murca where you have to register your photo ID in order to fap.
- Comment on Um... I'm not even using a VPN... Fuck you reddit. 1 week ago:
I just got this too. Using old Reddit (the realest Reddit (which still isn’t saying much)) got rid of the banner and allowed loading all the content.
- Comment on Vibe check! 2 weeks ago:
DBDA
- Comment on Deep dish thought 2 weeks ago:
“Lasagnagna”
- Comment on Anon goes on a diet 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm. Eating healthy helps a lot. The first time I tried to lose weight, didn’t change what I ate, just how much I ate. So I was still eating crappy, completely non-nutritious food. Just less of it. I plateaued well before reaching my target weight, was desperate to eat all the time, felt like shit, got frustrated, gave up, and gained all my weight back.
The second time, I did better. Ate healthier, but still not as well as I could. But I got down to my target weight and kept it off for a good long time.
Now, I keep my weight at my target weight mostly without thinking about it. I eat healthy, but not specifically for the purpose of keeping my weight at a good level per se. More because… well I want to be healthy.
Moral of the story, try not to fixate on your weight. Eat healthy for your health. Health is about more than just your weight. And being healthy will help you meet your weight goals more than losing weight will help you reach your health goals.
- Comment on Anon is dehydrated 3 weeks ago:
Me 5 minutes ago: Oh god. No, I should not click that link. I’m definitely going to regret clicking that link if I do. I for sure am not going to… dammit I clicked the link.
Me now: Ok, that’s pretty smart, actually.
- Comment on Evolution of the k'chain che'malle, pretty much 3 weeks ago:
2050s - Time traveling paleontologist team returns from a trip to the cretaceous only to establish a religion dedicated solely to the worship of spinosaurus in whose imaginations we are only figments.
- Comment on Anon makes decisions 3 weeks ago:
OP what the hell is wrong with you
That’s never a question you have to ask of a 4channer.
- Comment on Anon makes decisions 3 weeks ago:
everybody walk the dinosaur
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, a policy of “no free-of-charge software installed on workstations except FOSS” might improve security a bit and probably without doing all that much damage to the day-to-day workings of the company.
For that matter, if my employer instituted a policy of “no software except FOSS”, my own particular job probably would be a surprisingly small adjustment. As long as they were willing to do the work to set up infrastructure and/or let us switch to FOSS alternatives that require third-party server providers as necessary. About all I can think of that’s installed on my work machine that’s proprietary is:
- Zoom
- A paid corporate VPN client
- A random program that I use to authenticate to Kubernetes clusters in use where I work (so I can use Kubectl)
- Chrome
- The Client Management software my company uses (the software they use to remotely administrate the company-provided machines – force install shit without telling you, spy on you, nag people who have computers that aren’t actually used to return them, wipe your computer if you report it stolen, etc)
- And, of course, bios, proprietary firmware blobs, etc
Beyond that, I honestly can’t think specifically of anything else proprietary installed on my work machine. My personal computers have far less proprietary software installed than the above list.
- Comment on Get out of my head 4 weeks ago:
Well, my experience was that at first, I didn’t see the forks at all. (That is to say I didn’t recognize them as “forks”. Or even as “things”.) The forks looked like some blurry, nondescript background and the “pepper shapes” looked like foreground items hanging from something unseen off the top. The shapes didn’t look really like anything I could identify. That lasted for a good 30 seconds before, very (very) suddenly, it crystalized and I could only see the forks on a purple background. Really uncanny how rapidly and entirely it shifted. After a good amount of effort, I was able to shift back to the first perception, but it took considerable effort along with looking away and back a couple of times. And once I achieved it, it felt hard to maintain. Very strange experience. Far more so than most “bistable” sort of optical illusions I’ve seen.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 4 weeks ago:
Probably Breakout as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
[There are 1,121,817 living people with Wikipedia pages]. There are more than 8 billion people alive today. That means about 0.014% of people have Wikipedia pages.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Won’t last long, but it satisfies the requirements.
- Comment on Study shows AI coding assistants actually slow down experienced developers 5 weeks ago:
>surprisedpikachu.png - Comment on What is the range or how does one calculate the maximum number of 2 intersecting circles (like Venn diagram type) 1 month ago:
Can you define your terms a bit? What do you mean by “range” and “angle-range?” Also, if you’re taking about angles, angles relative to what in particular? (Maybe relative to the line segment connecting the centers of the two circles? Relative to a tangent of one of the circles at the point of intersection?) Are you looking to solve this only for the case where the two circles have equal radii, or for the more general case where their radii may be unequal?
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 1 month ago:
Why isn’t that common to cover with a blanket other parts of our body when we feel cold, like the belly or lower back?
It… is?
- Comment on Lighting choices 1 month ago:
What are the chances of two separate gender reveal parties happening simultaneously using the same exact means of displaying blue/pink in the same apartment building exactly one apartment directly above the other?
Also, it bothers me way more than it should that on the middle one, the arrow goes from the movie frame to the window and the other two are the other way around.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 month ago:
Roughly in order of how much I enjoy them from most to least. (Not that the later ones are bad. Just that they’re more low-key.)
Mindustry is amazing, but as I mentioned above, really really addictive. (The commercial game it’s most often compared to is Factorio.)
Then there’s Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Amazing dungeon crawler.
Endless Sky is a great space mercantile sim.
Luanti is a Minecraft clone.
Unciv is a turn-based civilization development game.
And if you’re wanting to do emulation, there’s Lemuroid. Also, EasyRPG, an engine for playing RPG Maker games like Yume Nikki. Oh, FreeDoom is a great implementation of Doom for Android.
Those are the ones that’ll keep your attention for a good long time. There are tons of much simpler games that are still fun like Frozen Bubble and Hyper Rogue. And plenty of games that I haven’t really gotten into very much but that people really seem to like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Man. There are a lot now that I’m listing them out. Lol.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 month ago:
Jesus. People get big mad about this stuff.
The problem isn’t mobile games, and it’s not console games, and it’s not PC games. It’s the profit motive and corporations and enshittification. And there’s plenty of that going on in games for mobile, console, and PC. (And, for that matter, TTRPGs. And it’s not like the 300 different collectors editions of Monopoly released every year aren’t enshittification at play.)
Addictive gotcha mechanics are shitty when they’re tied to microtransactions. Even when not tied to microtransactions, I think they can still be shitty depending on the specific circumstances, and it’s definitely wise to responsibly manage your (and/or your children’s) engagement to not cause other problems in your(/their) life. But is addictiveness in a video game inherently a bad thing? I don’t think so. All games cause dopamine squirts whether it’s Pong or a slot machine. That’s kinda the point of games. There are plenty of Open Source games out there that cause big addictive dopamine squirts. (Mindustry, anyone?) And such games aren’t made to milk whales. They’re made because someone wanted to create and play such a game.
Don’t be talking too much smack about shovelware! Low-quality games create their own vibes. Some are accidental masterpieces. Both of my favorite two YouTube gaming content creators do a lot of their content on really low-quality games. This series got me to buy Radiation Island and I had a great time playing it. And here is a great video on all the shitty official games based on the movie Avatar.
“Gaming is as much about socializing as playing” is an awesome outlook to have on gaming! Addictiveness in games can be… concerning. But sometimes particular games are the key by which your kid can be involved in peer group. I’m not saying that automatically trumps any downsides and you should let your kid spend $∞ on Fortnight skins or whatever. But I think probably in most cases a balancing act is superior to a hard “yes” or “no”.
I should probably specify that I’m admittedly an old fart who doesn’t know shit about mobile gaming. (The only mobile games I play are Open Source ones on F-Droid.) And the only modern console I have is a Switch, and I don’t have any plans to get one soon. I’ve played a lot of Breath of the Wild, though. And a fair amount of Tears of the Kingdom.
Some final thoughts:
- Open Source gaming is awesome.
- The way they’re doing anti-cheat on PC is fucked-up.
- But so is the way they lock down consoles and phones.
- Hack your games. Hack your consoles. (If you don’t hack it, you don’t own it.) Get your kids interested in hacking stuff.
- …responsibly, of course.
- Play games with your kids! (And not just the ones you want to play.)
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 1 month ago:
Who’s going to tell them about prions?
- Comment on Vinegar Syndrome will be releasing "Mac & Me" on 4K Ultra HD in Q3 2025. (No, this is not a joke.) 1 month ago:
The MST3K is really good too.
