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- Comment on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere 6 days ago:
One source said officials had discussed including a virtual private network function to make a user’s traffic appear to originate in the U.S. and added that user activity on the site will not be tracked.
Somehow I don’t believe that last part 🤔
- Comment on Axe for Linton bus service that costs £98 per passenger to run 3 weeks ago:
It’s both. If busses are cheap and reliable more people will use them. If more people use them they are cheaper to run. Which creates a positive feedback loop to a point.
You can make busses cheaper for people by other means though - like council/government substitutes or running at a loss for a bit. You need to do something to get more people, you cannot just force people to take the bus before doing anything else.
- Comment on UK lawsuit against Valve given the go-ahead, Steam owner facing up to £656 million in damages 4 weeks ago:
I get this but, for what I know (I might be wrong tho), steam doesn’t get a cut from keys sold externally so they are technically selling them at better conditions elsewhere?
It is a grey area. But I think the key point is that humble bundle at least don’t distribute the games in the same way as epic does. They typically offer steam keys which they get from steam probably with a different license or agreement with steam. Valve seems to not care that much about how the game is sold as long as you can activate it on steam. It cares more about people buying games on a competing platform cheaper then they can get a steam key for.
I know that but that’s not really steam’s fault?
Whos fault it is is irrelevant. If you have effective monopolistic power you are effectively a monopoly. If you abuse that power then that is bad. Does not really matter if you got there because you mostly do things people like or bully your way there. If you abuse the power that is still bad. And they could arguably be abusing that power against game devs by setting a fixed 30% fee with the devs not having much if any power to argue for less.
- Comment on UK lawsuit against Valve given the go-ahead, Steam owner facing up to £656 million in damages 4 weeks ago:
Not sure I’m understanding this but… how do you explain when we find in official retailers such as fanatical or humble same games at lower prices?
At least for humble store, they essentially sell steam keys. Which at least complicates that argument. So it is not really a different distribution channel and the product is available on steam for that price. Just not on the Steam store.
This I get, but couldn’t valve simply say: “Go to epic store if you want lower fees”?
Steam have an effective monopoly here. Even if they have that because all the other platforms are shit. So the argument for just going to another store doesn’t really help as that just causes a massive loss in the market share of who you can sell your game to. Plus if you consider the other requirements of if you sell on steam you cannot make your game cheaper via a different distribution method means that you have to eat that feeling and cannot pass it on to customers. Which does not give game Devs much power to negotiate for a lower fee at all.
- Comment on In the US we have Breast Cancer Awarnes month and a bunch of others. All we do is throw money at a problem and hope it goes away How come the Gov don't take care of people from starving? 3 months ago:
The US government does not like welfare programs because it gives money to the poor. They would rather give tax reliefs to the rich instead.
There is loads of evidence that welfare programs can save more money then they cost. But that does not funnel money to those in charge.
- Comment on Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors 5 months ago:
What are you talking about? Capitalists love the free market. It lets them do any underhanded tactic they want to crush competition and form monopolies. Capitalists have always been the ones pushing for a free market. The ‘free’ is free from regulations. That is not something good for consumers.
- Comment on Increase in vapes found on Britain’s coastline by beach clean volunteers 6 months ago:
Disposable/single use vapes have been illegal to sell in the UK since the first of June this year. This is the kind that the article is talking about litter everywhere as people just throw them away when done rather then refilling them. Vapes themselves are still legal to sell. It has only been a couple of months though so likely will still see people using them for a bit but I would hope to see their use start to tail off quite quickly now as you should no longer be able to buy them.
- Comment on If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do? 6 months ago:
a everyday joe would do
Go to work, work, go home. Wait for the end of the week/month for their next paycheck.
Most people already have more then a dollar and more then 24 hours to earn money. If schemes like that really worked then why would so many people do anything else?
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 6 months ago:
BREAKING NEWS: Girl gets home safely after night out. More at 11.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 7 months ago:
Don’t think any game has the same support doom has. Doom has become a benchmark of sorts so gets ported to the strangest of places. Not normally places you would bother to port any game. It is done for the challenge of the port rather than any practical reason.
There are tonnes of games that could run in the same places as doom, many could run in far more places. But doom is complex enough to be an interesting challenge while being simple enough to run on very limited hardware. And has been open sourced while being a classic icon which makes it attractive to be a benchmark for getting to run in the weirdest of places.
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 7 months ago:
Cannot remember if the study was stupid or if peoples interpretations of it where. But when covered up else where you will lose a lot of heat through your head. More so then if just an arm or just a leg was exposed as with your arms and legs your body will slow down blood flow through them to try and converse your core temperature - it cannot do that with your head.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 7 months ago:
once a developer enacts an end of life plan, their legal culpability is removed What legal culpability? If you are not hosting anything then you wont be liable for anything. It is not like if you create a painting and someone defaces it with something that you become liable for that… That would be insane.
- Comment on Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027 7 months ago:
Only 40%? Would have thought it would be much higher. Don’t more projects generally fail then that without being in a bubble?
- Comment on Ubuntu 25.10 Switches to Rust-based Sudo 8 months ago:
Of course it is. But rust devs have more time to think about other security issues as they don’t have to worry anywhere near as much about the memory safety ones.
- Comment on Any way to prevent letters being "crushed" on first layer 8 months ago:
I never thought shaking the bed would cause adhesion issues 🤔 always thought it was far more the head crashing/clipping or scraping the surface of the part while printing.
- Comment on Bambu Lab’s Controversial ‘Authorization Control’ Hits Budget 3D Printers 8 months ago:
Restrictive tech never works when you apply it from the start. You need to capture the market first before you can start to apply that. And that is the road Bamboo labs looks to be heading down. It is the classic playbook:
- has some true innovation in some product that people will actually want to use your products for ✅
- mass market your product and get loads of people singing parse about how innovate it is ✅
- slowly start to lock down your product, typically behind the guise of safety and security ✅
- start to squeeze your customers for as much money as you can with DRM or subscriptions You wont succeed if you skip straight to step 4. But Bamboo have been slowly working their way up to it. It might take a few more years but I can see them eventually wanting DRM filament.
- Comment on Bambu Lab’s Controversial ‘Authorization Control’ Hits Budget 3D Printers 8 months ago:
One step closer to DRM filament spools. Just like the overpriced ink cartridges of 2d printers. The safety and security arguments are always bullshit. This is only about control over what you can do. No other printer has ever had an issue with safety or security with vastly more open designs.
- Comment on [Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed? 8 months ago:
The company you work for will likely not like that. Needs a special case license to be drawn up would probably need to involve lawyers and cost far more then is worth the hassle. Vastly easier just to give it a MIT license.
- Comment on [Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed? 8 months ago:
There is good reason to think it is not just rust.
- Comment on [Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed? 8 months ago:
People seem to forget that most of the open source language library code out there is written by people working for companies, being sponsored by companies or writing it so they can use it where they work. Some might start out as hobbiest projects but if it survives and grows it eventually will be sponsored in some form. Even if indirectly by some guy that wants to use it where he works.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
But there are more numbers between 0 and 1 then there are whole numbers. So are the countable many angles or uncountably many?
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 9 months ago:
‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party. - Adrian Bott
- Comment on FTC pushes the enforcement of its 'click-to-cancel' rule back to July 9 months ago:
That is just double speak for it will adversely affect our bottom line so we don’t want to do it.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 9 months ago:
Yen also pointed out how such a court decision could help cut inflation in the US, too, “by dropping the price of a significant chunk of digital purchases by 30% overnight”.
I bet most companies will just take that extra 30% as profit rather than giving it back to their users like proton has.
- Comment on Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon? 9 months ago:
Lizards are not dinosaurs.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 9 months ago:
I never argued that. Only pointing out its decent into fascism. All bets are off at that point as to what will happen to its industries.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 9 months ago:
They were a beneficial strategy. They made Trump and his buddies massive amounts of money from manipulating the stock market. They were even bragging about it after the fact.
Oh, you meant for the country and its people… Nah, that was never the point. If they were thought out at all it was only how it benefits Trump and his buddies.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 9 months ago:
Trump is supposed to be in office for only 4 years, at best,
That assumes America is still a democracy in 4 years. We are only a few months in and it is already not looking great.
- Comment on Microsoft starts final Windows Recall testing before rollout 10 months ago:
Of course it is opt in. Why would it not be? Microsoft have opted in automatically on your behalf. Soon you will only be able to opt in, for your convenience, as too many people were accidentally opting out. /s
- Comment on Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US) 10 months ago:
That’s what happens when you make it expensive to import anything and don’t have any domestic manufacturing for computer components.