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- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 6 days ago:
Industry growth. Turns out it’s a lot easier to “think of the children” when the industry is small and niche than it is when it’s making investors billions of dollars a year. Turns out capitalism makes problems harder to solve once the problem itself makes money (see also: tax preparation)
That’s also why the moral panic people switched from trying to censor games through government to trying to do it via finance (e.g. Collective Shout lobbying banks, credit cards, and payment processors).
Though if your question is about why the contrast between moral panic over game content and the lack of moral panic over actual victimization — I think that’s always been the case, unfortunately. People seem more fearful of their children losing their morals than they are of people with no morals harming their children.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 1 week ago:
Methane is just the primary compound in natural gas.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 1 week ago:
Some, as prepping the carbon and hydrogen will take energy. But it wouldn’t be hard to be way better than the emissions associated with dairy farming for butter. Cost could still be higher, though depending on how much material is needed for the process.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 3 weeks ago:
Is TwinAphex still involved in Libretro? Can’t seem to find evidence of them from the last few years.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 3 weeks ago:
The founder is a well-known Christian “pro-life feminist” from Australia.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 3 weeks ago:
It’s easy enough to fork the code as it existed under GPL3.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 3 weeks ago:
High likelihood this just some AI bot with no oversight fucking up than something malicious. Outlook.com’s support system is atrocious and devoid of humans at this point unless you’re an enterprise.
I tried to go through their support to tell them their junk filter was fucking up (bank alerts being marked as junk with no way to override) and got nowhere after like two months. Had to change the email I use for banking.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 weeks ago:
Very little gaming still requires Windows since the development of Proton. The main compatibility problems that remain seem to involve kernel-invasive anti-cheat systems.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 3 weeks ago:
They know. The PKGBUILD they provided is exactly the kind of thing that’s in the AUR. The dev’s PKGBUILD wasn’t in the AUR because they didn’t want it to be — instead hoping arch users would go to the repository and use their maintained one. Arch users continued to try to use AUR instead, leading to the dev’s frustration.
I don’t expect this will help anything. If the AUR maintainer is active, they will probably just patch that restriction out.
- Comment on OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
With how expensive AI seems to be, it’s baffling to me how companies expect to turn a profit on it. 30B as a year sounds more like the budget for an entire government scientific agency. And if that’s just for the data services…
- Comment on 6G mobile could divide the world 4 weeks ago:
The act itself still appears to include the language excluding wifi spectrum.
Certain frequencies used primarily by the Department of Defense and unlicensed devices, including Wi-Fi, are excluded from auction eligibility
- Comment on 6G mobile could divide the world 4 weeks ago:
Wifi6e/7 6ghz spectrum that was reserved for wifi got approved to get auctioned off
I don’t think that’s exactly right. Spectrum that’s already reserved for unlicensed use (wifi) was explicitly excluded from the auction directive.
There may be some spectrum in that band that’s not already reserved for wifi yet that will end up auctioned, though.
- Comment on 6G mobile could divide the world 4 weeks ago:
The main advantage of 5g was never really speed, but rather efficiency. It allows the same speed to use less spectrum.
- Comment on Apple’s plan: Stall, cheat, repeat 1 month ago:
EU is also the second largest economy after the US in the world. Vacating the region would cost way more than compliance.
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 2 months ago:
Nokia switched to Windows Phone in 2011, just before the N9 came out. They weren’t bought by MS until 2014.
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 2 months ago:
I had a similarly high opinion on Meego’s future at Nokia and then they suddenly went all-in on Windows Phone.
I also had a somewhat high opinion of Windows Phone before MS killed it.
No one wants to maintain an OS for any less than like 25% of the market — which pretty much only leaves room for Abdroid and iOS… and KaiOS I guess, though I don’t know how much effort the put into maintaining that. webOS and Tizen (resting place of Meego) are now pretty much only in TVs.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 months ago:
The pace at which a takeaway container degrades from the salty food may be more than slow enough for it to not matter for that use case — especially if the container uses a coating.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 months ago:
Colorblind person here. If we’re talking about limited visibility differentiation of front and back, the color of light is way less noticeable than whether we’re looking at headlights or not (based on intensity). There would be no issue telling whether we’re looking at a front brake light or a back brake light so long as the front brake light has headlights around it.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 2 months ago:
This was my first thought as well. Both sodium hydroxide and sodium bicarbonate seem like they could have a signficant environmental impact. We’d some good studies on that before committing to this idea, I think.
- Comment on New fuel cell could enable electric aviation 2 months ago:
The technology plans for these fuel cells aren’t “for now”. They’re for a future where we’ve hopefully already decarbonized most of the electric grid, as doing so is way more important than decarbonizing aviation. Converting fleets of airplanes to electric is a long process that will probably not be started for a while yet while there are more important carbon emission sources to tackle (aviation is only 2-3% of the emissions right now).
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 2 months ago:
Terminator 7: Robot Pirates
- Comment on Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. 3 months ago:
Thurott’s article on this implies that “big customers like DDG will be unaffected”. Though he also says information is scarce.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 3 months ago:
I think Teams has already taken over there as well.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 4 months ago:
Revolt relies on community self hosting last I looked at it, which means it would never be a “mass” solution.
Should Discord ever collapse (something I don’t see in the near future), the free alternatives that I see benefitting would be XMPP and Matrix — though there’s new contenders that could make name for themselves by then too.
- Comment on Exclusive: TSMC could face $1 billion or more fine from US probe, sources say 4 months ago:
The issue is a TSMC-made chip ended up inside a Huawei processor. They’re not allowed to make chips for Huawei or other US-sanctioned entities since they use US tech inside their foundries.
What happened here is that TSMC made chips for another Chinese company that gave them to Huawei (and is now on the sanctioned list as well as a result, but wasn’t when TSMC made the chips). The problem for TSMC is if the US determines they should have reasonably known there was a risk the company they made the chips for would give them to Huawei.
- Comment on Exclusive: TSMC could face $1 billion or more fine from US probe, sources say 4 months ago:
How is the US gonna fine a company from Taiwan?
They use US tech in their foundries, and thus are subject to export controls to make sure sanctioned entities (like Huawei) don’t benefit from it.
- Comment on Exclusive: TSMC could face $1 billion or more fine from US probe, sources say 4 months ago:
From the article, it sounds like TSMC’s part in this was just negligence as Huawei used a front company to make the order for them — like a 14-year-old getting an adult to make a booze purchase. If they get fined, it seems unlikely it would be for the maximum amount.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 4 months ago:
Why do I get the feeling that the hot new thing for CEOs to do is ask AI whenever they need to make a decision. Would explain a lot.
- Comment on Amazon wants to buy TikTok 4 months ago:
Oracle has been the most involved player for TikTok up to this point. Trump has also floated the idea of being government-owned.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 4 months ago:
The market wasn’t expecting the tariffs to be as insane as they were — which is why it crashed. They had been expecting 10% maximums, not minimums.