Olap
@Olap@lemmy.world
Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
- Comment on Call of Duty's massive development budgets revealed: $700 million for Black Ops Cold War 3 weeks ago:
$700m to market the same game year in year out
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 3 weeks ago:
Finishing Mass Effect 3. Multiple times :)
Smashing and being smashed with my mates at worms with couch-coop
Multiplayer halo 2 across the LAN in my house
LAN party instagib ctf 1 hour 0-0 and winning it in overtime
Rocking a battlefield 2/3/4 server online with a squad of mates all using voice comms, and nobody playing a sniper
I love gaming
- Comment on How are you dealing with the UK's Online Safety Act, that comes into effect this March? 3 weeks ago:
So with british law, the intent of the law is as important as the written texts. Listen to the debates which can and are used by judges from the commons and the lords to decide upon intent. It’s not for tiny forums, but I’m also not a lawyer. Significant most likely relates to not just user count, but also other reporting from other media, it’s significance of significant users, anonymity, and ability to break bigger stories. Try codifying any of that (and more!) in a law
- Comment on How are you dealing with the UK's Online Safety Act, that comes into effect this March? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t believe it would target any of the fediverse currently. No instances have significant volumes of users or target markets. This is designed to target facebooks, tik-toks, and twitters. Services that do influence populations. Essentially, making these services actually responsible for their algorithmic output and akin to publishers in the UK
- Comment on How are you dealing with the UK's Online Safety Act, that comes into effect this March? 3 weeks ago:
Simple. Don’t be a company. Companies exist to sell stuff: the fediverse doesn’t. There are a few other structures in the UK alone to circumvent this potential law, which is designed to combat large social media companies. And it won’t affect outside the UK either, and with brexit - will anyone else bother enforcibg?
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
Not my title, as I already said. But anecdata backs this up ime. Go ask your parents for a giggle, see what they say
- I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphonesimonwillison.net ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 159 comments
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 2 months ago:
Installation the trouble. Roofing is expensive. Next time you have to redo the roof: then it’s time
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 3 months ago:
This is clearly a tender fail. Byte code can be emulated for a fraction on that price. And it’s a two or three man job with a rota
- Comment on On the importance of F-Droid 3 months ago:
F-Droid is the single biggest reason that Android is actually usable. And the only real reason Google aren’t getting sued for monopoly practices. If only ReplicantOS was more viable
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 3 months ago:
DRM infected files mean that you as a consumer don’t own anything. As someome else can destroy it.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 3 months ago:
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it
DRM violates this principle. Atreides forever
- Comment on Is Lemmy Dead ☠️ 4 months ago:
Found it’s niche may be a better way to put it. Technology is very active, programming is full of good content. A good few meme communities. And the daily comics are great too. Plenty more examples. But plenty of communities pale in comparison to reddit, and this is likely due to the normie effect.
Techologists lead normies by 2 to 3 years, so give it another year yet before people migrate in bigger numbers
- Comment on A Gamble: What will be the plot of *Lower Decks*'s Finale? 4 months ago:
That’s so evil, and given Enterprise’s cancellation mid season also: perfect
- Comment on Mingyang’s 20 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Stands Complete 4 months ago:
Wow, what’s the size limit going to actually be? 20MW is phenomenal from a single turbine, but what could we hit?
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- Comment on Doom and Doom II get a ‘definitive’ rerelease that’s packed with upgrades 5 months ago:
It isn’t. GZDoom has been doing this for years and years
- Comment on The ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Movie Sees A “Misfit” Crew Balancing Special Ops Mission And Starfleet Morality 5 months ago:
Same thing was said about DS9. And Discovery. And Lower Decks. Star Trek has proven itself to be very adaptable from comedy, to horror, through action and drama - and that’s the films alone.
I suspect we may well see S31 shown for what all intelligence organisations are: corrupt, inept, and deeply hypocritical to civil society. Doesn’t that sound like Star Trek to you?
- Comment on Google’s shortened links will stop working next year 6 months ago:
Archive.org offering to step in and help if google will hand over the domain and db
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 6 months ago:
Yarr harr harr
- Comment on Now The EU Council Should Finally Understand: No One Wants “Chat Control” 6 months ago:
Only a few steps from your telly listening to you…
- Comment on New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega 6 months ago:
Some fuckwit VP needs fired over this decision. It was a simple game: pickup fairs, earn extra time, unlock stuff as you progress. If a publisher want extra cash, do more levels, or different jobs (delivery driver addon anyone?). And a fun soundtrack
Should have been able to bang it out for a million quid, and then reap the rewards. But nooo, now we have a game nobody wants to play, costing 20mil and will have servers shut down 2 years after launch
Everything that is wrong with gaming in 2024
- Comment on Thought's on this Raspberry Pi Rival? board handled 20 open Chrome tabs and 4K video playback smoothly ,board has Rockchip 8-core ARM processor, 32 GB of RAM, Mali G610 GPU, competing with top OOPS. 6 months ago:
More than double the price. Not sure what it’s xompeting with, but not a pi
- Comment on UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales 7 months ago:
Me too Shyfer, I buy 2nd hand a lot
- Comment on UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales 7 months ago:
Noy hugely surprising given next gen consoles to all be without disc trays even
- Comment on Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over? 7 months ago:
Surely the absence of nine indicates our model of gravity is off. Combined with lack of Dark Matter, is Einstein wrong?
- Comment on Surge Engine, the open source Sonic-like game engine (and game) gets upgraded 8 months ago:
Now of f-droid too!
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 8 months ago:
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it
- Paul Muad’Dib - Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 8 months ago:
Am I taking crazy pills? Discord and Slack suck just as much imo. They are all a shitty web app repackaged for the desktop. And they are all fine, barely anything to chose betweem them. Teams is probably the best as the calendar integration with outlook and hosting ad-hoc drop in meetings in a room is good, no really, the virtual office is fantastic for pairing and team work.
IM peaked with IRC though, the simplicity was excellent, Matrix the closest thing to it imo. I do wish more stuff integrated with it to offer the same business experience as teams
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 8 months ago:
Beyond all Reason in a similar space