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- Comment on Codeberg.org Opinions? 10 months ago:
Oh, that sounds great!
- Comment on Codeberg.org Opinions? 10 months ago:
What does federation for git mean?
- Comment on What is OOP, really? Why so many different definitions? 11 months ago:
Academically, you’re right. For practical reasons, you probably don’t care how Simula, E, Lisp and Smalltalk (languages mentioned in that 20 year old article) implement it. This seemed more like a beginner question so I think the Java definition is a good starting point.
- Comment on What is OOP, really? Why so many different definitions? 11 months ago:
There aren’t really that many definitions for OOP; it’s a very consolidated paradigm. This is a short but comprehensive guide: www.baeldung.com/java-oop
- Comment on Microsoft is seeking a software architect to port Microsoft 365 to Rust 11 months ago:
Imagine being such a niche language that a single job posting makes headlines. In another 10.000 maybe I’ll be able to get a Rust job too.
- Comment on 4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever 1 year ago:
The exploit’s sophistication and the feature’s obscurity suggest the attackers had advanced technical capabilities
exploiting a vulnerability in an undocumented hardware feature that few if anyone outside of Apple and chip suppliers such as ARM Holdings knew of.
according to Russian officials also infected the iPhones of thousands of people working inside diplomatic missions and embassies in Russia
the devices were infected with full-featured spyware that, among other things, transmitted microphone recordings, photos, geolocation, and other sensitive data to attacker-controlled servers
Sounds like government espionage
puts tinfoil hat on
- Comment on OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account after it used GPT to train its own AI model. 1 year ago:
Oh the irony. Just train it on copyrighted material without a license, like OpenAI did.
- Comment on Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final 1 year ago:
It’s a full time job to answer completely, but from what I know he finances escape fantasies for the rich which they call seasteading. He calls it a libertarian ideal to create these new colonial city states, but what he means is liberty for his ilk from taxes, regulation and societal rules. Meanwhile his brainchild Palantir erodes the rights of the poor people who are left behind through surveillance, military technology and ICE funding. But this is all in line with his ideology, because apartheid “works” in South Africa according to Thiel
- Comment on Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final 1 year ago:
He’s a small time capitalist. These guys have society shaping power and wealth
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- Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight 1 year ago:
Didn’t Epic lose the fight against Apple? How is Google more of a monopoly than Apple? It is incredibly easy to sideload apps on Android compared to iPhones, and there are even dedicated unofficial stores. These verdicts are not coherent at all between them.
- Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee 1 year ago:
Sony also has an MFN, not sure about Xbox: tryhardguides.com/epic-games-ceo-says-sony-is-the…
The real reason Epic hasn’t sued Sony is because they’re an Epic shareholder
- Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee 1 year ago:
How do you compare it with other platforms if it’s exclusive to EGS? For timed exclusives, it would mean the price would have to go UP on EGS when the Steam version launches, which seems like pretty dumb marketing honestly.
I know I’m playing devil’s advocate defending Epic and publishers, but I don’t see how defending monopolies is any better.
- Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee 1 year ago:
The price is the same because of a Most Favored Nations clause in Steam’s ToS. Publishers have to sell it at the same or higher price on other platforms to keep their product on Steam, which is the lion’s share of the market. This is part of the accusation in the lawsuit: programming.dev/comment/5159579
Now you could argue that even if it were removed, publishers would still sell at the same price and keep the extra profit, but that’s just hypothetical at this point.
- Comment on From r/ecology: (game) Terra Nil | Available now on PC & Netflix 1 year ago:
I love the theme for it, but was expecting an actual city builder, as advertised in the description. Instead, it’s a pretty boring puzzle game with pretty graphics, very unrelated to something like Cities Skylines. I am hoping something like this with more in depth management comes up in the future.
- Comment on Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch 1 year ago:
“Wow, personalized ads? That’s brilliant!” said an Activision exec who had been in cryogenic sleep since 1995
- Comment on First look at the new Tribes game from Prophecy Games 1 year ago:
Yeah, I’m going to reserve my excitement for when I see gameplay footage or actually play it. Quake Champions looked really good in the beginning and then it ran like an internal alpha. Tribes Ascend had so many OP hitscan weapons on release you thought you were playing Call of Duty. Waning general interest in “boomer shooters” and disastrous releases make these games more nostalgic memories than interesting future games in my mind.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 1 year ago:
Thanks. So TLDR:
- PMFN (Platform Most-Favored-Nations clause): Valve forces publishers to price games on other platforms at the same price or higher than Steam. This is an anticompetitive monopoly because publishers can’t sell the game at lower prices on platforms with a lower cut than 30%, which would improve competitiveness. Very valid point
- Keys that publishers can sell on other storefronts are limited. This point is moot. The fact that Steam allows you to activate a product that was purchased elsewhere and then use their infrastructure to download the game is way more than they have to do. They can completely make the rules here as this is basically a free service that you get from Valve.
- Some murky points about Valve policing review bombing that isn’t explained properly.
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 1 year ago:
I’m also curious what the allegations are. The only ones I ever heard were from Epic, which was basically making a big fuss to promote their own competitive platform (which was so shit it just didn’t gain any traction apart from the free games).
I’ve tried all the online stores ever since the cloudification (remember Impulse?) but none have ever been able to compete with Steam in terms of features and value to the customer. Steam didn’t get to the top by being anti competitive, it got there by being competitive and offering a better product to all stakeholders, not just to shareholders.
And as you mentioned, there is plenty of competition for Steam. Don’t like the monoply? Get it on GOG or Itch instead.
- Comment on Software Engineer vs Software Developer 1 year ago:
“Engineer” means you’re supposed to be licensed and you have a responsibility for the public good above your responsibility to your employer.
Good point. We definitely don’t, and it’s what’s causing huge amounts of trouble in the world, rather than using software for the greater good.
But engineer sounds better by some definitions, and it strokes the ego of employees, so companies like to use it to give more prestige to the role.
- Comment on Programming As a Career Isn’t Right for Me 1 year ago:
All problems mentioned are societal issues
Exactly. This follows Marx’s theory of alienation closely. I found 3 out of 4 features described by Marx in the original article.
- Comment on Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for. 1 year ago:
Sounds a lot like the French Revolutionary Calendar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar#…
- Comment on Second SpaceX Starship launch ends with explosion. What happens next? 1 year ago:
I would say the rocket is ready for billionaires who want to beta test it.
- Comment on Merge then review 1 year ago:
I really wish LinkedIn would add an anonymous cringe emoji. I would use it on like 90% of the content on that site.
- Comment on Unity warns of likely layoffs following runtime fee decision 1 year ago:
We are committed to creating value for our
customers andshareholders.Fixed a typo in the report
- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 1 year ago:
They should make a discount for every person the self driving software hits. That shit would be basically free.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 1 year ago:
And shorter games should naturally command a lower price This is exactly the thing that doesn’t make any sense. Should The Last of Us be priced at a fraction of The Witcher 3 because it is shorter?
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 1 year ago:
I’ve often come across this sentiment in Steam reviews and it’s very reductive to judge games based mainly on this metric. Getting older I have less time for videogames and I value shorter games more. There are games that are extremely valuable because of their high quality even if very short, like the first Portal.
This is why we have companies like Ubisoft trying to game the system constantly with low quality content to pad the game to 100 hours or whatever is fashionable in open world these days. I will take 6 hours of quality single player anytime over 100 hours of AssCreed grinding and ridiculous ‘story’
- Comment on Inshellisense: IDE style autocomplete for shells 1 year ago:
Pretty cool when I need autocompletion, but it really messes with my zsh config so I won’t be using it all the time
- Comment on Inshellisense: IDE style autocomplete for shells 1 year ago:
Fig looks really cool, but it’s Mac only