Croquette
@Croquette@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 3 days ago:
The HDMI Forum blocks open source implementations of their spec. They want to keep it closed source so they can charge whatever they want to use their standards.
Big content creators (Disney, Netflix, etc) want TV manufacturers to keep using HDMI because the standard includes a DRM protocol.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 4 days ago:
They want to make money
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 4 days ago:
76 is a fun brainless Fallout multiplayer. I’d rather have a real Fallout MP instead of 76, but I can’t lie and had over 100hrs of fun.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 5 days ago:
Having the capabilities to take on debt helps to garner investments.
You can do a joint venture, take on a bit of debt but get more money of it.
And we’ve seen many mega corpos finance their venture throught debt (see Uber business model).
So I’d say that it was true in the past, but corpos are getting bolder.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 5 days ago:
The point is that major shareholder will try to hide insider knowledge to sell their stock before a big crash.
They pump the stock value as much as possible and sell it before it crashes. They make a shit ton of money and some suckers are left holding the bag.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 5 days ago:
Because higher stock value means more collateral for debt.
You’d be surprised on how much debt is used in even small companies.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 5 days ago:
There was a meme going around a month or so ago of 5 AI companies jerking off, representing the circular financing that this article talks about.
From the moment these “investments” were announced, people were already raising flags about circular investments.
- Comment on Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: 'go play Path of Exile instead' 1 week ago:
Grim Dawn is not a live game service.
Last Epoch promised to only have MTX and pay only once to get the full experience. That’s not the case anymore.
Last Epoch studio got bought out and people were afraid they were gonna get enshittified and it is happening right now.
- Comment on FACTS 1 week ago:
Pretty fucking gay
- Comment on Zero Chull 1 week ago:
VMWare is popular for a reason. qemu is less accessible for the non-tech people of this world.
- Comment on Zero Chull 2 weeks ago:
You buy a cheap phone. No need to pay for license, setup anything except a vpn maybe and you are good to go.
Setting up lots of VM takes a decent computer, some licenses and a know how.
A phone, you just start it and it connects to a VPN and your good to go.
- Comment on Walker S1 humanoid robot starts factory work at BYD 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know man, we gotta start somewhere
- Comment on Walker S1 humanoid robot starts factory work at BYD 2 weeks ago:
To make machines that you can have sex with.
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 2 weeks ago:
They keep the lie alive to appease the stocks market happy.
And he didn’t specify how shitty the complex tasks will be done.
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 3 weeks ago:
If the apartment/house layout is good for the roomba, it is a great tool. It doesn’t replace vacuuming and floor washing, but it does reduce the dirtness on the floor.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 5 weeks ago:
You’ve been using Windows all your life. It will take time to be comfortable with Linux since it’s a different workflow, that’s normal.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 5 weeks ago:
1070 is old at this point and the driver is mature. For newer GPUs, even on windows, drivers take time to become more stable.
- Comment on Forbidden knowledge 1 month ago:
Crab men, half crab half man
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 1 month ago:
Agile was the cool new thing years back and has been abused and misused and now, pretty much every dev company force it on their team but do whatever the fuck they want.
Agile should have a lot of traditional project management but doesn’t because it became the MBA wet dream of metrics. And when metrics become the target, people will do whatever they need to do to meet the metrics instead of actually progressing the project.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 1 month ago:
My hot take : lots of projects would benefit from a traditional project management cycle instead of trying to force Agile on every projects.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 2 months ago:
Make something free for it then? The stuff is open and the license makes it so that it stays that way legally (though, in real life, it’s different but that’s another discussion) and any and all other contributions made to the project stays open source.
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 2 months ago:
Palantir could refuse to accept the mandate and the money, but they didn’t. So the governments are evil, and so is Palantir
- Comment on YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse 2 months ago:
Lemmy is a social media after all, and we have to assume that what we write is public.
Lemmy is great because many instances allow people to create accounts without an email, so you can create burner accounts if you want.
This isn’t an oversight. If you aren’t comfortable with the coversations you are participating in or the upvote/downvote you make, you either don’t participate or you create a burner account for that.
- Comment on YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse 2 months ago:
I know that already, I’m fine with what I said.
- Comment on YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse 2 months ago:
My comment was misguided because it didn’t take the US social context into account.
You can’t say it, but I can though.
Categorising Palestine Action as a terrorist group is ultra dumb.
- Comment on Proxmox or Docker? 2 months ago:
Same, and I use portainer to manage my docker compose stacks.
I can bring down a container without bringing down the whole stack of services.
- Comment on YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse 2 months ago:
No we shouldn’t. Anyone can create an instance and scrape whatever data.
Assume that all the posts and comment you make are public and linked to your real identity and don’t say things you wouldn’t say in person.
It’s a pretty simple concept.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 2 months ago:
The cat is out of the bag and long gone.
People got used to the simplicity of centralized services, and corpos made great efforts to make everything 1-click.
So when the average users need to do more than 1-click, they won’t use the software.
It would help if anti-trust laws were applied and these mega-corpos got broken in a thousand pieces. Centralized monolith services would have a harder time to thrive and give space to federation/decentralization.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 2 months ago:
Capitalism has distilled its parasitic behaviour down to a science to suck the life out of anything that dare to stand out, and leave its corpse dry, for the sake of more profits.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 months ago:
Boring is ok for 95% of the things.