Tinidril
@Tinidril@midwest.social
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 days ago:
I may let him.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 days ago:
Newton had massive social adjustment issues and deep religious convictions. I’m not so sure he would react well to the modern world.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 1 week ago:
Anything as complex as an atom will be disintegrated too.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 week ago:
What payment terminals? They could go years just being an online credit card. Hell, initially it wouldn’t be very different from any company that bills their customers. Start it as a Steam only thing, then add select partners one at a time. It doesn’t have to be in your grocery store on day one, or ever really. Fraud detection is easy when you can just yank the game back. Sears couldn’t do that when you bought a washing machine. I worked in banking infosec and I have no idea what “digital compliance” means in this context. The hardest compliance standards in this space are PCI, and those are defined and enforced on clients by the payment card industry itself.
Valves internal structure wouldn’t scale to that size either
Which is why I specifically said it would be run as a subsidiary.
and they have no experience running a company of the size that would be required in a different structure.
Gosh, where on Earth could they find people with experience running a company that would look like 99% of the companies in existence?
You’re just throwing shit on the wall and hoping something sticks. You could neigh say anything, and nothing in the world would ever be accomplished.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 week ago:
they had hundreds of thousands of employees, and they didn’t need to deal with all the digital shit we gotta deal with now.
They needed hundreds of thousands of employees because they didn’t have “digital shit”. Today, the entirety of Discover Financial Services is around 21k, and probably falling.
If Valve did it, it wouldn’t be under the Valve organization anyways. It would be a subsidiary, and Valve has plenty of cash-flow to build it out.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 week ago:
I think the point is that Valve has the reach to start their own credit card network. It might be far fetched, but I’m old enough to remember when Sears launched the Discover card. It’s totally doable for a company that already has the technical capabilities of Valve.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 4 weeks ago:
Get over yourself. All I did was state a fact that was contradictory to the previous comment. I didn’t even say anything about whether it was good or bad. Trump is trying to cut VoA.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 4 weeks ago:
The word “propaganda” is tricky. It has connotations of being lies, but that isn’t always or even usually the case. Objectively true information can literally be propaganda. The mission of the VoA is to spread American propaganda. That’s why it’s funded. That can be truths that foreign governments want to suppress, it can be spin, or it can be lies. VoA is generally pretty truthful, especially compared to the privately run domestic versions like cable news outlets.
Government officials don’t need to dictate content. As you pointed out, content can be controlled by who is appointed to manage the content. They know the mission.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 4 weeks ago:
He literally has control over it though.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 4 weeks ago:
True
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 4 weeks ago:
Be that as it may, Trump is trying to dismantle it.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 4 weeks ago:
Except that Trump is currently trying to dismantle Voice of America" and other propaganda machines around the globe.
- Comment on Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire 4 weeks ago:
What’s Jesus have to do with Christianity? Christianity has always been Paul’s religion, not Jesus’.
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 1 month ago:
Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is a legitimate implementation of such a system. It will absolutely be intentionally flawed in ways that allow the disenfranchisement of millions of Americans citizens. That’s 100% what always happens with Republican initiatives to “protect” elections. It will be made trivial to “accidentally” remove legitimate voter registrations, and a labyrinthian bureaucratic process to correct them.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 2 months ago:
Sounds more like “we got us” to me. It’s our system and our philosophies that made those pennies so precious.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 2 months ago:
Shit, Oracle was down in the low $400B range in May. Apparently being evil pays well in the current administration.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 2 months ago:
A little searching finds only on company that really fits the bill. Costco has a market cap of $433B and had a reported $14.8B cash on hand as of May 11. That’s an interesting possibility that I wouldn’t have guessed. Costco is less evil than most big corporations, so that’s a little hopeful if I got it right.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 2 months ago:
That is indeed a problem but, speaking strictly about competitiveness, it does have it’s advantages. For example, the US really needs more strategically important goods to be manufactured at home, but that is really hard to do if market conditions favor offshoring. China can just dictate the sourcing - even in the (so called) private sector.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 2 months ago:
Movies, fast food chains, clothing chains, etc. The American brand and lifestyle that goes with it. Not exactly the greatest cultural achievements of all time, but they brought in cash.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 2 months ago:
What makes the US the most powerful country in the world? It’s our cultural exports, our educational institutions, and our technology. We spent decades handing all our technology over to China, and undermining education. Now Trump has poisoned the American brand for at least a generation.
China is way ahead on building a science and technology culture, and promoting education. The dividends from those investments are already paying off, and they are going to start compounding.
A lot of Americans still think of China as the place to make cheap goods, but their manufacturing sector has benefited from decades of stolen expertise. It turns out there are benefits from having engineers and factory workers in the same location. Faster feedback means faster development. Now the US is falling behind.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 2 months ago:
Exactly. There is no such thing as a labor shortage, only activities that people don’t think are worth the cost.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 2 months ago:
It took a long time for nature to figure out how to process wood, but it eventually happened. My wooden furniture is still standing though.
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 2 months ago:
Those are IPv6 addresses that work a bit differently than IPv4. Most customers only get assigned a single IPv4 address, and even a lot of big data centers only have one or two blocks of 256 addresses. The smallest allocation of IPv6 for a single residential customer is typically a contiguous block of the 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses mentioned.
If Google’s security team is even marginally competent, they will recognize those contiguous blocks and treat them as they would a single IPv4 address. Every address in that block has the same prefix, and it’s actually easier to track on those prefixes than on the entire address.
- Comment on Amazon launches first Starlink-rival internet satellites 3 months ago:
At least where these satellites go it’s not something that would be a real long term problem. They are low enough that the time for the orbits to clear would be measured in years, not decades or centuries.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 3 months ago:
Awe, c’mon please educate me.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 3 months ago:
LOL, more ad hominems and zero content. You guys are a hoot.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 3 months ago:
I see half a dozen ad hominems there, but nothing saying I’m wrong, nevermind refuting it. Yeah, that’s about right for hexbear.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 3 months ago:
Yeah, because an occupation of Ukraine by Russia wouldn’t turn the whole country into an even bloodier warzone. /s
Appeasement just leads to bigger wars. Aggression can’t be rewarded or tolerated away.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 3 months ago:
I guess that means Europe is free to deploy troops to the front lines in Ukraine then. Only seems fair.
- Comment on Wifi networks and home automation systems are expected to last 50+ years. 4 months ago:
Depends on how it is used. If the home automation is on a separate network from everything else with a secure gateway and no direct Internet access, security vulnerabilities are likely irrelevant.