ChairmanMeow
@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 9 hours ago:
Chargebacks are incredibly expensive, yes.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 6 days ago:
According to Krafton’s statement the remaining employees are getting their bonus though.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
That’s not specific to having a constitution. Judges in the Netherlands for example also cannot do a judicial review to determine the constitutionality of any passed laws. And that’s with a written constitution. There’s also no supreme court. The closest thing is the Raad van State (the “state council”), which evaluates all laws on proportionality, constitutionality, and executability, and then advises the government what to do with a law. It’s convention that that advice is followed, but it’s not required.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
There’s still a judicial challenge happening. And just because the UK doesn’t have written constitution doesn’t mean there’s no constitution at all. Most of it is even written down, just not in one place.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 1 week ago:
Not sure that matters too much, frogs in the US are boiling fine too. The constitution can be brushed aside just as easily.
- Comment on Trump says 'not going to stand' for Netanyahu's continued prosecution 2 weeks ago:
Trump would send fighters to force the plane to return.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
That’s a pretty fair point, though I assume a spare powerbank would solve the problem nearly as well (albeit slower and with a cable).
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
Screwdrivers are pretty entry-level tools though.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never had one of those actually work…
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
Clearly the train didn’t yield properly, time to ban trains.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 3 weeks ago:
Also, since they’ve been bombing nuclear facilities I can guarantee you that they have boat loads of very shitty (radioactive) chemicals laying around there which with these bombings now will also be spread around everywhere
So far no radiation was detected, so perhaps it was stored more securely (or somewhere else).
- Comment on PC Gaming’s Mascot Squad—who makes the cut? 4 weeks ago:
I’m tempted to say that although many of these are gaming icons, they’re not PC-exclusive so they’re not really PC-gaming specific mascot material. Most of these characters are playable on consoles too.
I guess this makes MMORPGs and RTS games prime candidates, like a character from Runescape, Starcraft or WoW. Or perhaps something that shows off modding, like the Thomas the Tank Engine dragon (even if the game isn’t PC exclusive).
The Kerbals from KSP could be mascot material too. Dwarf Fortress would be an option too. Or what about a guest from Roller Coaster Tycoon 1/2?
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 4 weeks ago:
Even sitting on a couch moves your phone more than simply laying on a table. They can use accelerometer data to determine how, if at all, it moved.
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 4 weeks ago:
They likely have the data to show it didn’t move at all. Eg it wasn’t on your person.
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
Usually articles are located by where they are written, not necessarily by where the subject of the article is.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure a technical solution is feasible, other than dns-blocking these trackers. I suppose lawmakers need to spring into action to make this shit illegal.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 5 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s Javascript that’s the issue that can just take all this data in the client and send it wherever. And that’s exactly what’s happening.
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 5 weeks ago:
tor-connected
You are unique!
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 5 weeks ago:
A lot of those things are also required to render a webpage correctly.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 5 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty simple concept. Train any kind of model on only “good” data, and it fails to distinguish between that data and bad data.
Take image recognition. Feed it hundreds of images of an orange and ask it to find the orange. After training, it will be very good at finding that orange.
Then add a picture of a Pomeranian dog in there, and watch as the model confidently marks it as an orange.
The model should have been trained on lots of images that don’t feature what you want it to output as well, so it knows to distinguish that.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 5 weeks ago:
Because the UK (and the US and Russia) agreed to protect Ukrainian sovereignty after Ukraine willingly had the Soviet nuclear arsenal dismantled after the Soviet Union dissolved.
In 1994, Ukraine agreed to transfer these weapons to Russia for dismantlement and became a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in exchange for economic compensation and assurances from Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom to respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty within its existing borders.
See en.wikipedia.org/…/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_de…
The other reason is basically the same reason why the UK got involved on the side of Poland in 1939.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 5 weeks ago:
At the time the prevalent belief initially was that the mighty British empire, together with the French, would beat back the Germans and Italians. Remember that these countries had fought a destructive war already which an at the time more powerful German empire lost. US sentiment also was against direct involvement in the war, and many in cabinet were more concerned with the rising threat to their west: Japan.
That’s not to say the US did nothing. The US supplied China via the Burma road agains the Japanese, supplied the Allies with arms and they also did the destroyers-for-bases deal. The US also held their first peacetime draft in 1940, well before it officially entered the war.
At the time, the belief was that the US would have to defend the west (against Japan) and that the UK could defeat the Germans. It’s why the US moves the fleet to Hawaii, to hopefully pressure the Japanese into backing down.
The US had both domestic and geopolitical reasons to not declare war immediately. It’s fair to criticize that, but to characterize the US as doing nothing in that time is just a falsification of history.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 5 weeks ago:
The UK could, if Russia would stop interfering with Ukraine.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Perhaps a slightly less doom-and-gloomy scenario (because not all muslims hate women): in many muslim cultures it’s expected that a relationship turns into a marriage quickly. A non-muslim colleague of mine started dating a muslim girl and her family was totally supportive of the relationship, but he did have to marry her within just a couple months of dating. They were both happy to do so but they’re a fair bit older than you are. Your girlfriend might not feel ready for such a thing.
Talk to her about it, and ask if she’s worried about her family’s reaction, what she expects and why. Don’t pressure her into introducing you to the family, but clarify that you’d just like to know why. You can express you’d like to meet them of course, but just remember that her decision should be final in all this. That will help your relationship going forward, and once she is ready for it you’ll get to meet them.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 month ago:
True, it’s not a perfect measure. But surely an instance with fewer users also tends to have fewer active communities, no?
It might be better than nothing at least.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 month ago:
I suppose we should normalize lemmy instances closing new registrations, to keep the user count at a manageable level for the admins.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 1 month ago:
On Thursday the Reform website was updated to accept cryptocurrency donations. There was a disclaimer stating that all donations were subject to Electoral Commission rules and that anonymous donations were not permissible.
They don’t accept anonymous donations. So that doesn’t appear to be a concern at least.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 1 month ago:
Gender dysphoria is a mental problem, in the sense that it causes mental distress to be in the wrong body. The treatment is not therapy, it’s surgery to correct the body to fit the mind. A therapist can help identify the cause of the distress, but if the cause is the body then that therapist will recommend surgery.
I recall seeing research suggesting that trans people’s brainwaves more closely match that of their “desired” gender than that of their sex. It reinforces the idea that being transgender isn’t a mental issue, it’s a physical issue that causes mental distress.
A trans man isn’t a woman who merely thinks she’s a man, it’s actually a man inside that skull. Only the body underneath it is wrong. It’s as if tomorrow you woke up in the body of the opposite gender. That will (after the novelty wears off) start distressing you. Trans people didn’t wake up like that, they were born with that feeling.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 1 month ago:
Why did the Guardian even bother to write this article? It isn’t really newsworthy imo.
- Comment on Dammit dad 1 month ago:
Goldilocks no?