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- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 12 hours ago:
Both sides are pro-corporate trash that put the interests of lobbyists over their own constituents.
But, only one of those sides empowers mysognists and entertains the idea that trans people shouldn’t have the right to exist. Democrats can be considered fascists by their own definition, and it still wouldn’t change the fact that the MAGA club is full of toxicity.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 12 hours ago:
also admitted to liking them well done with ketchup
Oh. Oh god. What the fuck. And rural Americans voted for that?
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 12 hours ago:
Yep. And a classic case of someone dishing it out without being able to take it. If someone wants to be an antagonistic jerk, they don’t get to shocked Pikachu and pretend to have the moral high ground when met with a similar response.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 15 hours ago:
They’re going to Make America Healthy Again, huh? Now, where did I put my giant “press X to doubt” button…
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 1 day ago:
You know what, you’re totally right. There’s plenty of other accurate single-word descriptions that could be used to add some more variety:
Shortsighted, dogmatist, sociopath, mysognist, bootlicker, Neanderthal, degenerate, cultist, egotistical, simpleton, supremacist, etc.
- Comment on I'm honestly curious what the Spiderman Elsa youtube reboots will be like when Hollywood starts selling gen alpha their childhood. 3 days ago:
Skibidibackrooms?
I think. I’m probably too old to understand what gen alpha will consider childhood nostalgia.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 3 days ago:
Doesn’t that just create an echo chamber of idiots? Assuming they stay instead of leaving after their fe-fes get hurt, of course.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 3 days ago:
I would say quitting twitter to join bluesky is more like quitting
mentholsPCP to smoke regular cigarettesFixed that for you.
For those who are unfamiliar,
PCP may cause hallucinations, distorted perceptions of sounds, and violent behavior.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 4 days ago:
You’re barking up the wrong tree here, buddy. I’m not the person who said “it’s a few buttons.”
I was merely pointing out that from a conceptual standpoint, deep links don’t need a team of dedicated researchers to figure out. The difficulty—as you pointed out—comes in knowing how to work with the various different platforms and integrating the feature into existing codebases.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 5 days ago:
That’s not really the best example to prove a lot of work. Call links are actually pretty easy from a conceptual standpoint:
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Make a small website to accept
https://join.my.website/?callid=…&password=… -
Have the website redirect to:
myapp:join/:callid/?password=… -
Have your app register as a
myappprotocol handler. -
When a
myapp:join/:callid/URL is visited, open the same window that would be used normally for joining a call by ID.
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- Comment on ATTN: GEOLOGISTS 2 weeks ago:
Compatibility with existing worlds
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 weeks ago:
Well friend, it’s a good thing you don’t use a Mac, then.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 weeks ago:
Even Gentoo? 👉☺️👈
- Comment on Trumpism is just Scientology done as politics instead of religion. 2 weeks ago:
Credit where credit is due, at least scientologists are the better educated of the bunch. Fuck them both, though.
- Comment on YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people 4 weeks ago:
I need to try with my user agent set to a Chromebook. Maybe I’ll even get a discount.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
No, yeah. We both agree here. Zero obligation for a company to help it’s competition, and the likely reason they would ever do it is either to profit or avoid regulatory scrutiny.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
like Microsoft with Apple in 1997
wccftech.com/microsoft-invested-150-million-in-ap…
Google with Mozilla today
That’s funny because this is the opposite of what you seem to be suggesting. This is not helping their competition, this is paying another company hundreds of million dollars to be anticompetitive against their competition. They paid Mozilla (and dozens of others) to be the default search engine. Its the exact anticompetitive behavior that caused them to be legally classified as a monopoly.
Google has multiple ventures: advertising, search engine, email, web browser, cloud storage, cloud infrastructure, etc.
I’m not saying they don’t get any other benefit from paying Mozilla. I’m saying that one of the reasons Google shovels money in their direction is to stop regulators from having a reason to take a closer look at Chrome’s dominance.
In terms of browser engines, we have: Blink (Chromium), WebKit2 (Safari), and Gecko (Firefox). WebKit2 is exclusive to Apple devices, which leaves Blink and Gecko as the only two browser engines available on Windows and Linux. If Mozilla went bankrupt and stopped developing Gecko, Google’s Blink engine would have no competition on non-Apple platforms, which would invite some regulatory scrutiny.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
While I disagree with the other commenter’s approach and attitude, he/she/they are partially correct.
There is no legal obligation for a company to fund or assist its competition, even if it holds a significant marketshare. The companies that do help their competition, like Microsoft with Apple in 1997 or Google with Mozilla today, begrugingly choose to do it so their lawyers can make the argument that they are not a monopoly because they still have competition.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
Or, more likely, the publisher. But, that’s beside the point.
The average Joe Gamer doesn’t benefit from the developer paying less in sales fees.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
Lock-in != Monopoly.
The fact that you can’t transfer your purchases […] to other platforms
This is ridiculously unrealistic in a capitalist society.
It costs the platform money whenever a user downloads a game, and a user who didn’t buy from their store isn’t a user that they make money from. No other platform would voluntarily accept a recurring cost like that.
Also, it’s not like they stop publishers from doing that themselves. Ubisoft and EA use the cd-key generated by steam to associate the game with your U-Play and Origin accounts.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
At the expense of literally every single game player
How is it at the expense of the game player? Even if they paid less, the publisher and developers aren’t going to pass the savings on to the consumer. That’s wishful thinking in the same vain as hoping Starbucks would make their drinks cheaper because their rent went down.
If anything, one can argue that the 30% fee shelled out by the publisher pays for the various nice-to-haves that players get on Steam, like: a functional review system, free cloud save syncing, the workshop, game discussion forum, game streaming, Steam input (which is a godsend for accessibility), etc.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
No, they don’t. Literally every single gamer across the world pays 15% more on every single game purchase, for literally no reason except to make the 1% at Valve even richer.
Do you seriously believe that if a developer pays 15% less in platform fees to Valve, that savings will be passed on to us? Epic Games tried that. Guess what: games still cost us the same there as every other platform.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
Being cautious of a corporation is never a bad thing, but remember: Valve isn’t a public company. They don’t have the same incentives and fiduciary duties that led to the enshittification of most other companies and services.
Ultimately, everything they do is entirely for their own benefit. But, they’re also free to focus on their long-term growth and returns. As long as the leadership doesn’t get changed to a bunch of shit-for-brains golden parachute MBAs, they’re going try to keep their customers happy. It’s good for them, and it’s not terrible for us. Everybody wins.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
In reality, it’s likely a self-preservation move. Microsoft made what appeared to be a monopolistic move to control the entire Windows ecosystem when they added their own app store and the locked down S edition of Windows. If Valve hadn’t invest in Linux and Microsoft continued with that path, they would have been screwed.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
OP drank the Epic Games Kool-aid.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 1 month ago:
They have a monopoly on video game distribution.
They have a massive marketshare, but that doesn’t make them a monopoly. Developers are still free to distribute their games through any other storefront/launcher, and Valve isn’t going out of its way to engage in anticompetitive practices like exclusive publishing deals with third-party studios.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
Sounds like my bank.
- Comment on Palestinians demand answers after Israel sends truck full of decomposed bodies to Gaza 1 month ago:
Next time, Israel might be a bit more compassionate and return
smallpox-coveredblankets instead of unidentified biohazards. - Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. 1 month ago:
I dont see blocking doing much good there as there is no such thing as being able to stop your public posts being viewed, because they’re public.
My thoughts as well. Someone dedicated to harassing you isn’t going to give up when they get blocked. They’ll just make another account and do it again, but now with the knowledge of what gets under your skin.
- Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. 1 month ago:
An egotistical twat at the helm.