BlackXanthus

@BlackXanthus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Couldn't See Anymore:' Bored Ape Conference Attendees Wake Up With Searing Eye Pain, Vision Loss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, screwed twice by the same Ape…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please check you kids' Halloween candy, everyone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be very interested in the list of banned books, and how it would be curated.

  For 64gb, you might have to extend the years to be: banned books ever, and then break down that list by reason. Just to fill space you’d end up including dubious books, and you’d need to be clear on where/who/why a book got banned.

  A book being ‘banned’ from a pre-school for being ‘not age appropriate’ by some pointless helicopter parent wouldn’t count unless the book was actually age appropriate.

  Then you would need a category of ‘banned by author banned’(or similar). Books that were considered age appropriate at the time, but now definitely aren’t. I’m thinking here of the recent removal/editing of Dr Seuss books to remove problematic racial stereotype. Not necessarily banned in their original form, perhaps, but still censored (perhaps, rightly so for the target age).

  64GB is a lot of books. You would end up even including ‘The tale of (Darth) Pelagius’

  (Pelagius was considered a heretic in the early years of the church, and his writings were banned)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman | Long Read Review⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  An incredibly well-written piece. Even if the subject matter and conclusion are chilling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there something better than SQL?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if there is, but it feels like the email protocol problem.

  Like, while the protocol sucks in many, many ways, it would take something revolutionary to replace it because it’s everywhere.

  It’s been around so long that everything talks the protocol, the binaries that handle it are mature and stable.

  Then you have to ask: what would you replace it with? It does the job it’s designed to do very well. There’s nothing the matter with the protocol, and it’s still fit-for-purpose.

  That doesn’t mean there aren’t problems - spam, bad actors, and so on, but ultimately that’s not the fault of the protocol (though, maybe, for email, people have been arguing about protocol-level ways of dealing with spam for years).

  I don’t have an answer, but I feel like there should be one, but I doubt the is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So, Game Pass would have to pay per installation huh?

  Which is going to mean a lot fewer Unity-based games showing up, because no company is going to suddenly be okay with fees out of nowhere. Especially something that allows you, the user, by design to install something, try it, then delete it if you didn’t like it. Not only that, but gamepass is from pc and console. You find a game, love it, install it on console. Then discover you can mod it, so you install it on pc. Gamepass is now on the hook twice.

  Yeah, unity did not think this through. Even if that is unity working as intended, that’s still a stupid policy. Either games will now have to be more expensive, just in case, or have install licences, requiring even more dial-home to monitor.

  Add to that unity not saying whether or not it’s going to use dial-home as a counter, and that works for games written years ago. Indy developers are now going to have to think long and hard about advertising old games, or discounting them. I would imagine a few of them will be pulled from stores, just in case.

  There’s a lot of lack of detail here: like, how do you as a developer know how many installs there are?

  The free 200k limit, does that mean profit you made, or is that 200k sales? These two things are not the same.

  Time to revisit Goddot.