cmhe

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing gets burned or otherwise destroyed when receiving EM radiation via a dish and converted it into electricity via a receiver.

  Sure, the amplification stage of the process likely works only one way, and should be replaced in order to send something.

  The one way process of burning oil to generate heat seems much more primitive than the energy conversion offered by a diode, TBH.

  You can push or tow an electric car and charge their batteries. Because electric motors are also generators.

  Even with your simplistic fossil fuel car in your example the alternator within can also be used as a motor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no such big differences between a light emitting (LED) and a light receiving diode (photodiode), they are just the reverse of each other. In fact photodiodes can even emit light, but very inefficiently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These radio telescopes don’t transmit anything at all, they listen to radio waves coming from the cosmos. Much like a normal telescope doesn’t transmit light.

  If you invert the flow of the electrons, a receiver becomes a transmitter.

  Speakers can become bad microphones and vice versa. Pretty sure that a radio telescope is a very bad transmitter for songs, but it could be possible with some changes…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also called bikeshedding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You where talking about “system wide AdGuard”, which is not the browser addon, but an app that uses DNS blocking, be it by either letting people set DNS servers manually, or automatically through VPN. Their VPN does not break TLS connection by inserting custom certificates and MITM proxies, so they cannot read/modifiy content.

  It might be possible to use TLS breaking proxies for systemwide ad blocking, but even that wouldn’t help, because nowadays a lot of content and ads are loaded dynamically via javascript. So a browser is required to filter ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  DNS ad blockers are not sufficient to block all ads and often overly broad. So they have much higher rate of false positives and negatives compared to in-browser ad blockers. Differentiating between ads and useful content based on domain names will become more and more difficult. Both might use some url from the same cloud provider, and blocking those breaks a lot of stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dislike the narrative that something is “unfixable”, everything is fixable if there is a will to do so.

  I don’t know why game developers seem to have inhibitions of changing the game too much after release. For instance reworking and extending the main story in a game seems to be a big red line for them.

  For instance I would have wished in Cyberpunk 2077 to actually play Vs introduction into Night City and the individual fixers myself, instead of just watching a cut scene. A DLC could have extended the start of the game a bit.

  The same for Starfield, they could extend and improve the main story, characters and locations in an update, but seem hesitant to do so. Something like directors cut, that adds cut content as well as tons of side quests into the game.

  If people still want to play the original game, they can make the extended story optional, like sleecting what version you want to play at the game start.

  For bugs, they could work together with the community and the “unofficial patch” and engine fixer modders, instead just ignoring them. In Skyrim SSE for instance they still had many of the same bugs that Oldrim had and where fixed by thr community.

  Bethesda could improve, and even fix their games, if they would decide to do so. Their DLC just doesn’t seem to be worth what they ask for, it could have been just part of a free update, so that some more people buy the base game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  BTW, thank you for this discussion!

  The crux of the matter for me is the question wherever “the selection process” alone is enough to create art or not, and depending on my mood I fall to one side or another on that question. Not specifically if it is under copyright or not, because that sort of follows from that.

  Artists often use randomness in various parts of their creation process, what is really required is the human element. Is a picture of a cloud, that speaks to the photographer in some way art or just a picture of a random cloud?

  I guess this has to be decided on a case by case basis, therefore I cannot completely exclude it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and you have copyright on the photo - not the layout of the plants and trees in it, nor even the angle of the subject. Someone else can go with a camera and take their own photo without touching your copyright.

  A work is original if it is independently created and is sufficiently creative. Creativity in photography can be found in a variety of ways and reflect the photographer’s artistic choices like the angle and position of subject(s) in the photograph, lighting, and timing. As a copyright owner, you have the right to make, sell or otherwise distribute copies, adapt the work, and publicly display your work.

  www.copyright.gov/engage/photographers/

  So if someone intentionally reproduces a picture, they violate copyright, IIUC.

  In the case of minecraft, I think a case can be made, where the “picture” is the minecraft world, and the creativity is the selection process by the artist. The artist chooses their angle, position, lighting, etc, in this case they choose properties of the world, maybe by visiting thousands of them, using seed search machines, or other reverse engineering tools etc.

  I all depends on if the artist can raise their work above just the random noise they get as an input in a creative way. I am not saying that all minecraft worlds (or save games for that matter) are subject to copyright, but since we are dealing with blurry lines of copyright, it is possible.

  You are correct it isn’t about the numbers, it is about the artistic and creative product that is copyrightable, which, in case of digital art, is represented as numbers, and distribution of those might be punished by law.

  I am just saying that digital art can be more that just still or moving pictures and sound. It can be a world space the artist prepared for you where you can move around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nature is often random and unpredictable, but the process of selecting a interesting POV and taking a picture of it is still copyrightable.

  I wouldn’t be so sure that if you discover a seed, that can be transformed using minecraft into a world with very interesting and specific properties, could not be under copyright protection.

  In fact movies and pictures are specific numbers as well, that are transformed using a codec. That isn’t something that can be easily replicated without that codec.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I said “minecraft world file” which stores the chunks the player explored and potentially modified. And I said “could” not “must”, it depends on if hits a certain creative threshold.

  If the player decides to teleport around while creating a dickbud or whatever by just the explored chunks, that could meet it.

  If someone selectivly openes quests to use the open quest markers on a map in an RPG to create a dickbud, that cloud meet it as well.

  The save game could tell your individual story through the game, that cloud meet the threshold as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I think both are human creation, you are using the machine and the game to create something new. In that sense, a save game file could also be under the players copyright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When the current copyright comes from books, wouldn’t plugins or transient changes/cheats be like taking side notes with a pencil on their individual copy?

  Are side notes copyright infringements?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who was that developer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If a game offers multiplayer, they should also offer a dedicated server that people can setup for themselves.

  For MMOs, they can make the servers optionally federated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is UI design backsliding?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes they are, UX designers are not asked to make more efficient or usable designs, they are asked to make designs that “look good” in marketing, support ad integration, hook people into others services provided by that same company, make it more difficult to incorporate with workflows that include third-party applications, etc.

  This is deliberate UX design, which is part of the enshittification process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is UI design backsliding?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People spend lots of money to buy big screens, only for apps/websites to use a fraction of it.

  I cannot control how every application or website I have to use looks, but where I can, I try to find solutions.

  When I am occasionally on reddit, I use old.reddit. I use addons for youtube, to remove unecessary stuff, or open videos directly in mpv.

  Mastodon and Lemmy have a much better design than Twitter or new Reddit.

  On the one windows machine I still have, I use the classic shell, to replace the start menu with something more usable.

  I use Libreoffice, and many other Software with sane functional UI.

  I don’t want to use old software, because the older software gets, the more hostile the environment becomes for it.

  A lot of UI decisions on the Internet seem driven by the need to create empty spaces to put advertising into, and with adblocker it looks just bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venom vs Poison⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I put poison on my teeth, bite someone and they die?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Were I buy bread it is on a rack, and you use thongs to put it into a paper bag. You can also put it into a slicer first and then in the bad, but I rather slice it myself at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t throw away the plastic bag, because I don’t have the plastic bag. Because the bread I bought was in a paper bag.

  I you live in a country where you don’t get bread in paper bags and you want to avoid plastic waste, you can put the bread in a cotton bag, which you can reuse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do lesbians like boobs as much as straight guys?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody? That was a general statement, sorry if that was misunderstood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you can always bring your own cotton bag…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do lesbians like boobs as much as straight guys?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and labels suck. Don’t limit your yourself involuntarily just to fit into one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t all of it evil, because they bought bread in a plastic bag? Use a paper bag. And if the bread gets hard, steam it, bake it, and its fresh again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Modding is pretty big" says Baldur's Gate 3 director as over 1m mods are installed in less than 24 hours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The achievement enabling is part of the script extender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Modding is pretty big" says Baldur's Gate 3 director as over 1m mods are installed in less than 24 hours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but not with a unmodified toolkit, there is a patch for the toolkit on nexus which unlocks the toolkit and makes the map editor and other stuff available. If you know what you are doing, you should be able to edit the main campaign or make your own.

  I played around with it a bit, and all I can say, its complicated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  E2E is just one part of the puzzle, you got to have a open source P2P or federated architecture as well, otherwise you have to trust nebulous company or person intrinsically. People change and companies can be bought, but you will be stuck with their platform in order to contact your acquaintances, and changing that means loosing your contacts.

  That is why the DSA is important. But you will be even better off just directly choosing a chat platform, where the users are in control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See-Through Windows Make Clean Electricity From Raindrops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the whole article is a bit fishy:

  In addition to generating clean electricity, the new ITO-silver window coating creates a cooling effect by allowing only the visible part of the light spectrum to pass inside. Other parts of the spectrum are reflected outside.

  So how would a room actively cool down, when you let only the visible light spectrum inside? Sure it might not get as hot as if you let all light inside, but it will also not get colder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Features for Dragon Age: The Veilguard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing about mod support or releasing the toolkit, like they did in DA:O.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Fedora Atomic (CoreOS, IOT) as server OS - Experiences?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I started using Fedora Silverblue on a tablet, seems to work fine so far, but requiring a reboot in order to install new system packages is a bit cumbersome and the process itself takes a while, but ordinary Fedora also doesn’t win any races when asked to install a new package

  I think switching to FCOS or Flatcar on servers that just use containers makes sense. Since it lessens the burden of administrating the base system itself. Using butan/ignition might be unusual at first, but it also allows to put the base system configuration into a git repo, and makes initial provisioning using ansible or similar unnecessary. The rest of the system and services can be managed via portainer or similar software.

  I also do not have long term experience with FCOS, but the advertised features of auto-update, rolling-release, focus on security and stability makes it a good fit for container servers, IMO.

  An alternative to Debian on servers might also be Apline Linux. Which also has more a focus on network devices, but some people use it on a desktop as well.

  If you have many different systems, and just want to learn to operate them all, maybe NixOS might be interesting. Using flakes, you can configure multiple machines from just one repo, and share configurations between them. But getting up to speed on NixOS might not be so easy, it has a steep learning curve.