Croquette
@Croquette@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 1 hour ago:
It’s a mega corpo. Laws don’t apply to them silly you.
- Comment on Rent is theft 3 days ago:
Cities would rather pollute a new parcel of land than fix the contamined ones.
There is a city nearby that has an abandoned industrial district and they plan on building a new industrial district instead of razing the old one and decontaminate it.
And shocker, they want to make the new district on farm land.
- Comment on Rent is theft 3 days ago:
This is mental that we sell arable land to build expensive, low quality condos or big buildings like a data center.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 4 days ago:
The typical customer service is 45 mins ++ of waiting on the line, to be greeted by an agent with a heavy Indian accent that will go through the script before having any chances to have a shot at maybe fixing your issue.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 1 week ago:
It’s a holdover from retail where had to physically hold your product and had limited space.
Now, the shareholders demand even more money and Apple has complete control on the OS and they are signaling that you can’t do shit and they will take whatever they want.
They can fight anyone in courts, and as long as the laws have no teeth, they will get away with it.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 1 week ago:
No worries, no offense taken.
Hopefully people will see discussions like ours and learn a little something about how things work.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 1 week ago:
I understand that. Just like Lemmy where all the instances that are federated have a copy of the posts and comments you make.
However, you have the option to create your own instance and federate or not with any community you want.
If there is one mega instance, deferating from it effectively kills the social media. Thus my train of thoughts.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 2 weeks ago:
More and more people are moving away from tech giants because of their shitty behaviour. So I think it is important to note how the data is used and stored, thus my follow-up question.
Thanks for the detailed response.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 2 weeks ago:
More and more people are moving away from tech giants because of their shitty behaviour. So I think it is important to note how the data is used and stored, thus my follow-up question.
Thanks for the detailed response.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t know that.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for taking the time to explain.
Follow-up question : doesn’t ATProto run into the same issue as Bluesky for example, where even though the protocol allows for decentralization, the vast majority of users are on the same servers, thus negating the pros of decentralization?
I feel like this would be the case here where one server will contain all the modules.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 2 weeks ago:
For non-believers in that format of social media, is ATProto good or bad?
- Comment on If it fits... 4 weeks ago:
I would bet that a lot of trucks are larger than the Smart is long.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 5 weeks ago:
What about the other side?
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 5 weeks ago:
Loot box are still a thing, in a big way. Look at CS2 or the yearly soccer games.
And gacha games on mobile are a plague.
Lootbox is the first step, battlepass close second.
- Comment on Port-a-potty company files for bankruptcy to wipe away $2.4bn in debt 5 weeks ago:
Or they used the company to dump debt and erase it.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 1 month ago:
Capitalism has carcinisation for rent. If something stay solvent long enough, it will turn into a rent seeking subscription.
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 1 month ago:
The terms are used because of the narritive forms of a story.
1st person is from the point of view of the character, thus the view from the eyes of the playable character.
3rd person is he/she perspective. You follow the character from the narration of an external narrator. You see the playable character do actions from a perspective that isn’t their own or someone’s else.
2nd person would be from the point of view of a person involved with the character but isn’t it. So you would see the actions of the character through the eyes of an NPC. There was a demo floating around YouTube where a player was shooting zombies, and the camera was from the POV of thr zombies. It made it look pretty weird.
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 1 month ago:
I fucking hate this phrase. You have the choice to not participate and be a normal human instead of a sociopath.
Hate the players because they perpetuate the game.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 1 month ago:
It’s because there is no such thing as optimisation anymore. Websites are bloated to the gills with terrible animations and tracking scripts.
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 2 months 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. 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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' 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Pretty fucking gay
- Comment on Zero Chull 2 months ago:
VMWare is popular for a reason. qemu is less accessible for the non-tech people of this world.