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- Comment on Bumble 2 months ago:
As someone who’s not used these things, what’s wrong with a basic handshake to establish the comms channel?
“Hey, are you listening?” “Yes, go ahead.” …
Isn’t that all this really is?
Seems a weird thing for people to be uptight about.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 6 months ago:
Yes, just wanted to contrast the reception they got. Bethesda games don’t generally attract as much ire for the bugs. People expect them and tolerate them (to an extent). Cyberpunk 2077 was a totally broken mess according to the internet, while the Elder Scrolls are the greatest thing ever.
I had crashes to the desktop about every 4th area transition in Oblivion and it still didn’t bother me too much, since it had just saved and took less than a minute to get back into the game.
Some bugs - even total crashes - can still be put up with just fine.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 6 months ago:
In my experience it was much less buggy at launch than for example Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. I didn’t experience any game-breaking bugs, just ones that harmed immersion. There was a bit of T-posing, the occasional floating prop/animation bug, and once I got launched into the desert when climbing through a window. No crashes to desktop, no broken progression. It probably helped that I was happy with the game they delivered rather than getting hung up on what may have been promised.
- Comment on Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text 8 months ago:
Copyright has little to say in regards to training models - it’s the published output that matters.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 9 months ago:
The UNIX philosophy isn’t about having only one way to do things - it’s about being able to use tools together. The deliberately simple interface is what makes it so powerful - almost any existing too can become part of a pipeline. It’s adaptable.
- Comment on Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. 10 months ago:
I thought the point of the LGPL was to allow this sort of usage without requiring the release of source code. It’s an extension of the GPL to remove those requirements isn’t it?
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 10 months ago:
Why does the prompting matter? If I “prompt” a band to play copyrighted music does that mean they get a free pass?
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 10 months ago:
Braking does not increase range. Regenerative braking reduces the losses involved, it doesn’t eliminate them. Your last sentence makes it sounds like not braking enough will lower your range - that isn’t the case.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
And then trying to hold the card issuer liable rather than your cousin…
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
I don’t think so. Those users had opted in to share information within a certain group. They’ve already accepted the risk of sharing info with someone who might be untrustworthy.
Plenty of other systems do the same thing. I can share the list of games on my Steam account with my friends - the fact that a hacker might break into one of their accounts and access my data doesn’t mean that this sharing of information is broken by design.
If you choose to share your secrets with someone, you accept the risk that they may not protect them as well as you do.
There may be other reasons to criticise 23andMe’s security, but this isn’t a broken design.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
If you sign up to use Steam to distribute your game then one of the things you agree to is to make it available on Steam at the same price you offer anywhere else. This protects Steam’s business and ensures that Steam customers aren’t disadvantaged.
However, it also applies even if the alternative channels don’t make use of Steam directly (e.g selling on Epic). This is where the Wolfire Games lawsuit comes in. Will be interesting to see how it goes.
- Comment on Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand 11 months ago:
Exactly, so the use of “crash” would generally be far better for these sorts of articles.
“Accident” starts addressing intentions or expectations.
We could just add easily refer to them as “vehicular violence” but then we’d end up distorting things in another direction.
- Comment on Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies 11 months ago:
About 87% of the population in my country live in an urban environment, many of them will just have no idea how it is even just a few miles out of a city. There’s just no alternative to personal transportation, and bikes don’t cut it.
I’m still pretty much on board with the fuck cars crowd though - it’s bizarre to me that despite so many people living in our cities that our transit seems even worse than what the US has. It’s just so much nicer being in places with fewer cars around.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Plagiarism involves an extra act of deceit. You’re passing off someone else’s work as your own. It appears most people find this immoral.