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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is incompetence.

  I’ve been in and out of games for my entire career. Every place I’ve been has had strict policies on outside art assets. I’ve even seen every new art asset to require a monthly license review to prevent any chance of outside art having slipped in somehow, including any usage of Blender’s example model Suzanne.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seattle? Sounds like Seattle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gig Companies Violate Workers’ Rights: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber claim to offer workers flexibility but end up paying them less than state or local minimum wages.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The big problem with modernization of gig work by these companies is that they’re screwing of the gig workers by inserting themselves in the middle and fucking over everybody else involved.

  Town car services existed for years before Uber came to the scene. Before Uber you’d have to call a town car service that may be a single person operation, or a small group of people getting together and hiring a calling service.

  The idea of the modern, centralized, gig services is not a terrible idea in itself. But running that as a capitalist business is terrible. This is one of those things that should be required to be a government service or a non-profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget, outright removing a UI for modifying settings forcing users to use registry mods, potentially a PS command, or a third party tool to force the behavior you lost from a simple setting removal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rubber begins to degrade after 3-7 years depending on the compounds. Even if stored in ideal conditions to slow the degrading, you’re only going to give it marginally more life.

  Degraded tires risk side-wall blow outs and let will easily let through sharp debris (sticks, thorns, glass, sharp rocks) causing far more maintenance needs.

  That’s not to say bikes aren’t beneficial and there’s ways to get around this (stuff the tire with leaves, foam core [also has limited life span], etc), but it is something to be aware of.

  This all reminds me… I need to replace the tires on my good weather bike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just your garden variety bigots and assholes then?

  Also, I think you should read up on what facisim is and why it’s being so widely used right now as highly oppressive rhetoric is being pushed from many far-right leaders throughout the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re beyond dozens?!?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I find hilarious is all these companies doing this shit after all the advancements in programming languages and paradigms in the last few years.

  Thanks to tools like Node.js, React, Flask, Reflex, OpenAPI Gen, GoLang, and more, people that are fed-up and have the know-how can stand up competing technology in record time.

  I look forward to see what comes out of this corporate power grab. Hopefully there’s not a lot of pain and suffering alkng the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like everything, including water?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But they don’t. They just formm small communities and slowly work their way back up to power.

  Might take 50+ years, but it’ll happen again and again until crushed out.

  I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

  And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

  Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”

  And i was like, ohok and he continues.

  "you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

  And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

  And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”

  And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luma Island devs spent an 'enormous amount of effort' to make it smooth on Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is great news.

  However highlighting the “enormous amount of effort” came off as immflamatory as a headline. Now to prove to them that we appreciate the effort they put into this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta love jobs that treat their staff like children.