kautau
@kautau@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 16 hours ago:
Well, they’re doing what they already have been and absorbing it into teams. Teams video chat is littered with the bits of leftover Skype tech references, they’re just making sure it’s an enterprise product they can bill monthly for instead of a free consumer product
- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May 16 hours ago:
Well yeah “shutting down” here is more like “absorbed” into teams. They don’t make “enough” money from consumers to keep it going, but they do from their teams subscriptions. The tech is and will further be ported to teams and the branding changed.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 day ago:
Totally makes sense, considering the remaster was perfect. It was just “multiplayer works, we redid the sprites and audio and tweaked the engine to get rid of some of the bugs. Also hit space for original graphics” or whatever the button was. It was everything an OG C&C remaster needed IMO. I would love to see the same with some of these titles, but now that they’re open source it gives the opportunity for better fan made forks, so I’m all for it.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 day ago:
Im now just happy that it’s far more likely for a clean 60fps mod that’s not locked behind someone’s patreon
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 day ago:
This feels more like some o.g. Command and conquer devs who have worked at EA for a long time that are passionate about the franchise. There was no big PR release, no product tie in or announcement, no media campaign.
Recovering and restoring the source code for these titles was made possible through the combined efforts of EA technical director Brian Barnes, Respawn producer Jim Vessella, and Luke Feenan, a long-standing member of the C&C community who was involved in the development of the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection.
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 3 days ago:
lol in version 3 they’ll speak in 56k dial up
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 week ago:
Space, Elon Musk is telling me I can get a great deal on being what he calls an “interplanetary servant” and that my sacrifice will be significant for humans in space! He’s so smart, he surely has all our best interests in mind. Anyway, off I go into the shower!
- Comment on Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam 1 week ago:
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower’s deemed suicide 1 week ago:
Wow that must be pretty crazy to do this to yourself
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t change my ability to laugh at their thinking. I had these “conversations” with friends and family repeatedly about what they were actually voting for and it made no difference. There is such a thing as the last laugh and however dark it is, as the world stage gets darker and darker, like a Greek tragedy, I will laugh as I watch it play out, sad as it is
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 2 weeks ago:
Sure, agreed. But they were convinced that voting away all their rights to the oligarchy was the way forward. The corporations won, Russia won. Disinformation convinced the majority of America to sign itself up to be raped and pillaged, and I will certainly laugh at those who think otherwise and the “magical egg price droppening” “magical house cheapening” are coming by stripping corporations of any and all restrictions
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 2 weeks ago:
We voted for a better future for the working class.
- Comment on ChuggaChuggaChooChoo 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah satisfactory spent 5 years in early access. Good dev takes time
- Comment on Caveman technology 1 month ago:
Also what was the SSID? “FreeCaveWifi”?
- Comment on I'm just a 20 year old guy, AMA 1 month ago:
Bring back Dave1
- Comment on I'm just a 20 year old guy, AMA 1 month ago:
Would you rather be hunted and murdered by the xenomorph or hit by a facehugger and then die from a chestburster
- Comment on I'm just a 20 year old guy, AMA 1 month ago:
Well said. I’m 34, totally agree. I would also add to stick with something difficult and get over the initial learning curve. I learned how to longboard in college because my best friend was a natural skater, I was terrible at it starting out, but 16 years later I longboard around the neighborhood when the weather is nice. I have a couple scars from my mistakes, but years later 34 year old me doesn’t regret 18-22 year old me doing that at all.
- Comment on brains! 3 months ago:
Yeah your momma’s so big she’s not even FAT she’s exFAT and can store files up to 120 petabytes
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 3 months ago:
Ron Williams, a former Secret Service agent who is now CEO of the security and risk management firm Talon Companies
Ah life really does imitate art
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 3 months ago:
The Register has been referring to Google as The Chocolate Factory for almost 10 years. As of why, probably because of google’s confectionary named Android releases, which they stopped at Android 10
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 3 months ago:
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 3 months ago:
Not to worry, you have other fascist leaders in mech form like:
And if you want a figuring you can find one of these somewhere
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 4 months ago:
We just don’t have to listen to the hype about it anymore.
True, it’s now in most circles just been mixed in as a commodity to trade on. Though I wish everyone would get that. There’s still plenty of idiots with .eth usernames who think there’s some new boon to be made. The only “apps” built on crypto networks were and are purely for trading crypto, I’ve never seen any real tangible benefit to society come out of it. It’s still used plenty for money laundering, but regulators are (slowly) catching up. And it’s still by far the easiest way to demonstrate what happens to unregulated markets.
- Comment on Wink wink 4 months ago:
Well that’s what the safety meeting is for, planning on being safe when the family reacts badly
- Comment on No excuse 4 months ago:
“It doesn’t matter how many lanes the highway has. I’ll cut through all of them to get to my family.”
- Comment on No excuse 4 months ago:
and another, related wild take. you can miss an exit or a turn and keep going straight. it may take longer to get where you’re going, and it may be frustrating, but it’s safer and better than cutting people off
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 months ago:
Everyone has a spot on the big food pyramid of the socio-political hierarchy. Good, smart, and hardworking people of merit make their way to the top. Bad, dumb, and lazy people go to the bottom. For convenience sake, this hierarchy is color-coded. In a zero-sum world, everyone who gets to the top has to knock someone down a rung to make room.
I would argue this is how republican voters think. That they’re in the right because they are voting for the right of the individual. But on the other hand I think Republican policy makers give zero shits about a person’s self worth and actualization but rather they know that they need to feed the machine and we need the poor babies born to do so, and on the other hand they can demonstrate some form of moral high ground by deciding life and death.
There’s no death penalty for defrauding elections, molding the healthcare (or really any corporate) system to work for harm and profit, avoiding taxation through infinite shell companies and offshore bank accounts. Those things are celebrated as “beating the system”
Still to this day everyone that claims “Plandemic” is chasing some invisible elite power structure that somehow only includes democrats, without ever getting mad at the corporations that profited immensely off developing covid vaccines and charging market price for them as a portion of the world was dying.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 4 months ago:
“The components used to build the products are largely unique to the products, resulting in long lead times for ordering such component parts from suppliers,” and Twitter must give “written approval for Wiwynn to purchase the necessary components to manufacture the customer products…and expressly assumed liabilities for the procurement costs.”
So basically they were got bespoke servers that are great for Twitter, custom designed, and definitely aren’t easy to just resell elsewhere, so because Twitter isn’t paying they’re IT company is eating the loss right now
- Comment on Octopus 4 months ago:
