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- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 10 hours ago:
I don’t normally victim-blame, but streaming an unreleased game is really asking for it.
It’s one thing to pirate a game for yourself. That’s just called being poor or being someone who doesn’t believe in copyright. The only party who can argue they’re being harmed is the developer, who may or may not have received a sale otherwise.
It’s another thing to pirate an unreleased game and stream it for others. If you do that and receive ad revenue or donations, you’re profiting off of someone else’s work. Not only that, but you’re also harming the console modding community by incentivizing the developer to go after homebrew developers and emulator developers. It wasn’t a coincidence that shortly after some asshat streamed an unreleased Zelda game, Nintendo came down on Yuzu with an iron fist.
In conclusion, between pirating a game to enjoy yourself and pirating a game to play on a for-profit streaming platform, one of those two things is morally gray and the other is someone being a selfish fuck.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 3 days ago:
It’s pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives.
Equally disheartening is knowing that both of those have a shelf-life. Old USB flash drives are more durable than the TLC/QLC cells we use today, but 15 years sitting unpowered in a box doesn’t have very good prospects.
- Comment on Mad about a senator flying to El Salvador to investigate the condition of the father of his constitutes. Doesn't give to shits about the millions we spent to put him there. This is conservatism? 6 days ago:
After conservatives get to be on top, it’s conservative men on top. And then, white conservative men. Next, rich white conservative men.
It’s going to be one hell of a lemon party by the end.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant 1 week ago:
When it comes to compliance and regulations, anything with the literal blast radius of a nuclear reactor should not be trusted to LLM unless double or triple checked by another party familiar with said regulations. Regulations were written in blood, and an LLM hallucinating a safety procedure or operating protocol is a disaster waiting to happen.
I have less qualms about using it for menial paperwork, but if the LLM adds an extra round-trip to a form, it’s not just wasting the submitter’s time, but other people’s as well.
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 1 week ago:
"If you feel like your government is not representing your needs as a citizen, your best course of action would be to vote for a different political party."I should vote for Democrats?
I'm sorry, I misunderstood your question. If your government is not representing your needs as a citizen, you should contact your local representative. Here is the email address: representative@localhost - Comment on Trump-backed bill to stop 'rogue' judges passes House 1 week ago:
They might consider doing it eventually. I suspect the heat death of the universe will come first, though.
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t put it past them to pull a move out of the authoritarian playbook and hire people to act as violent protesters just in case.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 2 weeks ago:
More importantly, with what money? Mega corporations can afford to draw out lawsuits until the end of time (or until the judge gets annoyed), but individuals can’t.
- Comment on The left went too far - time to move things right 2 weeks ago:
It really should use a vertical line from 0 to 5 as a way to represent the welfare cliff, too.
- Comment on THE DeMOcrAps just don't understand!1 Line going up is just DEI!11! 2 weeks ago:
We did it America! The red wave is here and the Dems are no more!
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Wait… what?
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That’s not a map of the United States?
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What do you mean that’s the stock market?
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Well, I don’t care. I don’t own any sto—
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Of course I have a 401(k).
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What?!
- Comment on Trump unveils 10% tariff on all imports, plus reciprocal tariffs on dozens of nations 2 weeks ago:
The Democrats, they don’t like my tariffs. They think it’s too big. “Too much Mr. President, we can’t handle it.” The only thing they can’t handle is America winning. My huge tariffs, they’re going to make America great again. Strong tariffs, strong America. Democrats don’t like it, Canada doesn’t like it, too bad for them. They’re don’t want it because they’re scared of how big and successful my tariffs are. They say it will break them and tear them apart, but we all know better. We know better. They took advantage of us. Biden let it happen. Obama let it happen. And I won against Obama, you know. Numbers never seen before that, except last time, of course. They’re asking us to stop. We don’t stop. You don’t get where I am by being bad at business. We’re making the greatest deal in all of American history today. It’s time we took back what we deserve and “say no to no.” No paying the tariffs? No more military support. No keeping drugs from getting into our borders? No more handouts. We won’t accept no for an answer!
- Comment on 4chan's DOGE-inspired April Fools' prank leaves posters seething: ‘This board has been closed by order of the Department of 4chan Efficiency.’ 2 weeks ago:
They’re affionados of /pol/itically incorrect views. I chose that specific board for a reason :)
- Comment on 4chan's DOGE-inspired April Fools' prank leaves posters seething: ‘This board has been closed by order of the Department of 4chan Efficiency.’ 2 weeks ago:
They do have a sense of taste… it’s just overwhelmingly rancid.
- Comment on 4chan's DOGE-inspired April Fools' prank leaves posters seething: ‘This board has been closed by order of the Department of 4chan Efficiency.’ 3 weeks ago:
It’s more like a donut. Not all 4chan posters are DOGE staff, but all DOGE staff are /pol/ afficionados.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 3 weeks ago:
Someone should check the email and phone number of Adrian Dittman to see if they match Elon’s. Idiots can argue that it isn’t Elon despite speech pattern evidence, but it’s harder to argue when both of them share the same identifying info.
- Comment on FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado 3 weeks ago:
My money is on them suggesting people will get a bigger slice of the pie once the “fraud” is removed.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 3 weeks ago:
Uh… what? They only thing they have in common is following the POSIX standard. The moment you step outside of that POSIX lowest common denominator, it becomes abundantly clear just how different they are.
- Comment on Security is an illusion 3 weeks ago:
We’re a crack house? Surrrrre.
Try crack house brothel of conservatism run by a megalomanical toddler, filled to the brim with weapons of mass destruction, and looking to expand into new territories. Then you’re right.
- Comment on Harvard scientist who opposed Ukraine war faces deportation back to Russia, friends say 3 weeks ago:
The “tank” in that person’s username is probably short for “tankie”
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 4 weeks ago:
You’re putting way too much faith in the typical consumer. Enshittifying Chrome even more would piss its users off, but inertia and its market dominance would keep most of them continuing to use it while complaining about how bad it is.
Remember: It took 8 years for Chrome to drag Internet Explorer to the point where less than 10% of people actually used it. And that’s with Firefox already being a competitor to it for years.
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 4 weeks ago:
Fair enough, although that actually has worse optics IMO. It goes from “this costs us money, so pay us” to “we need money, so we’re creating an artificial reason for you to pay us”
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 4 weeks ago:
Very, apparently.
They use UPnP and NAT-PMP1 to have clients directly stream the media from users’ own self-hosted servers. It costs them almost nothing in bandwidth to do that.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 5 weeks ago:
Even if they do, protests and boycotts need to continue past it. A lot of his wealth is in Tesla stock, and he’s going to benefit from the shadows if the public moves on and TSLA recovers.
- Comment on Tesla investor calls for Elon Musk to step down as boss 5 weeks ago:
People should continue to boycott them for as long as Elon holds Tesla shares. If he steps down and the company gets a 20% boost, his wealth increases with it.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 5 weeks ago:
Regex is great, but PCRE deserves a special place in hell. You don’t know unreadable until you’ve encountered regex that uses recursive matching, backrefererences, and subroutine calls.
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 1 month ago:
Don’t give Musk a reason to
tell his orange bitch to sign an order makinglobby for the government to regulate and control internet traffic.Using devices inside the country to DoS Twitter will give them an excuse to cry domestic cyber terrorism, and using devices from outside the country will give them an opportunity to justify creating an American equivalent of China’s Great Firewall. The time it would keep Twitter down for is comparatively insignificant to the potential consequences of losing online freedom and anonymity.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 1 month ago:
Exactly! You get it.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 1 month ago:
About 20 trips to the grocery store and the associated gas prices.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 1 month ago:
You’re describing the Republican politicians. The Republican voters are a different bag entirely.
Out of the ones I have discussed politics with, their underlying motivations for supporting Trump are emotionally driven but explained through rhetoric aligning with their emotional motivations. It tends to be grouped into one of a few different feelings:
- cost of living/financial security — immigrants’ fault, taxes, foreign nations taking advantage of US generosity
- fear of change/bigotry — immigrants, “DEI”, “wokeness”, border security
- American exceptionalism/egotism — immigrants, 1st ammendment
- distrust of federal government — “DEI”, government corruption, regulatory overreach, socialism = communism
- distrust of industry — vaccines harmful, science bad
Aside from the bigotry and exceptionalism, those emotions aren’t necessarily wrong. Cost of living increases, politicians owned by lobbyists, and profit-driven privatization of essential services are actual problems. The issue with conservatives is that they have scapegoats to blame those problems on instead of acknowledging the underlying causes. All it takes is some loudmouth, ignorant jackass offering an overly-simplified, emotionally-compelling solution to a complex problem, and others will latch on to it, oversimplify and exaggerate it even more, and disseminate it until the rest of them start believing it.
People can be hateful, narcissistic pieces of shit, and it goes without saying that this repugnant rhetoric is spread intentionally. But, it’s also a direct consequence of a public education system failing among a landscape of patriotic propaganda and media controlled by a powerful few who put profit and self-gain above the health of society.
When someone grows up being told America is a flawless nation, is never educated to think critically of the government and media, and is bombarded by a neverending stream of false information that validates their fears and lulls them into feel smarter than everyone else, they end up being indoctrinated into the right-wing cult we have today.
- Comment on Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases 1 month ago:
I’ll get it back another way.
Aye, matey.