FooBarrington
@FooBarrington@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"? 8 hours ago:
The only true man cat is Idris Elba in Cats
- Comment on Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. 15 hours ago:
It’s IMO also so much clearer regarding data types. You can’t accidentally write a boolean when you want a string.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
You can’t tell that from one text exchange. Yes, it’s possible, but it’s also possible that they’re just trying to motivate their son to try something new.
It’s only being controlling if there’s a pattern and you acquiesce. We don’t know that’s the case.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 day ago:
You could maybe describe it that way, but unfortunately that doesn’t work in collaborative projects.
But I’d also disagree - if “his ways” require him to regularly and publicly shit on the work of other people & to misrepresent issues others have with him, he’s arrogant and a dick.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
No, if you don’t go because someone set it up for you, you’re still letting yourself being controlled.
If you go because you want to go, you’re not being controlled.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
This isn’t “being controlled”. Yes, the dad should have asked first, but it’s just a date for someone who seems to want to go on dates. That’s just being helpful in the wrong way.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 2 days ago:
A guy is currently doing this with bcachefs.
He’s also making life very hard for himself by being arrogant and terrible at communication, but that’s a different story.
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 4 days ago:
Except for a couple of badly mixed voice lines, especially for Gustave. Everything else is great!
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 6 days ago:
What is Pete Davidson doing to that poor soul?
- Comment on xkcd #3125: Snake-in-the-Box Problem 1 week ago:
Also zoology
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 week ago:
For the sake of the Saiyan race, Broly has my permission to bed Princess Trunks.
- Comment on Water Snek 1 week ago:
An aquadesic line, if you will
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
The fuck you’re saying about Cunoesse? The Cuno will fuck your face up! With his maximum velocity fists!
- Comment on Be nice 1 week ago:
1 dollar children, I like that
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 2 weeks ago:
Then please explain to me one simple thing - how do you implement sanctions when they can be circumvented by setting up two companies?
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s not new or strange. It’s a normal component of sanctions, and it’s fundamentally how they’re implemented. Otherwise you could circumvent them by setting up two companies.
It becomes impossible to predict which companies and services may be suddenly impacted.
It’s pretty easy to predict. Do you do business with a sanctioned country? Then you’ll be impacted. Easy enough.
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know why you’re acting like this is such a strange thing.
Nayara supplies & operates in a sanctioned country. The EU doesn’t want companies supplying companies that do so. If Microsoft wants to keep operating in the EU, they aren’t allowed to keep supplying companies that do so.
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 2 weeks ago:
Of course there is an indication that Microsoft was legally obligated to suspend their service in this case:
In this instance, the cutoff was sought by the European Union (EU), in an attempt to pressure Russia to back off its assaults on Ukraine.
If they wish to operate in the EU, they have to follow some of the EU’s demands.
It’s like getting the power company to cut your electricity because you have unpaid parking tickets - It’s probabkly a great way to get parking offenders to pay what they owe, but it undermines trust in general, yes?
It’s more like “getting your accounts frozen because you operate in a country that has sanctions against it”. Which is a totally normal thing to do. Companies cutting off other companies that operate in countries which attack other countries doesn’t undermine my trust - companies continuing to operate in such countries undermines it.
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 2 weeks ago:
It’s the way it should work. A private company can only be compelled to enforce a government demand under due process of the applicable jurisdiction. Ensures trust through transparency.
They are compelled to enforce a government demand under due process of the applicable jurisdiction. For a multinational corporation, the applicable jurisdiction are all the jurisdictions they operate in. Since multinational corporations exist to funnel profits into their host country, that country has the ability to compel them under due process in other countries.
You might argue that it’s not good for companies to be this large, and I’d agree. You might also argue that specific sanctions aren’t good, and I’d agree. But the idea that a companies ToS should supercede jurisdictions and that they shouldn’t be curtailed by the governments under which they operate is fundamentally corrosive to the concept of statehood.
Sanctions exist to restrict trade with other countries. This can’t work if companies can just ignore sanctions, and I don’t want e.g. european companies to ignore sanctions against Russia.
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 2 weeks ago:
“Sorry government, I can’t enforce your sanctions, my ToS don’t allow me”
Do you really think this works?
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 weeks ago:
Well, the most efficient form of government is a dictatorship, which nobody want except the dictator.
I mean… some people do, but they’re weird.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 2 weeks ago:
No no, it represents the crossroads of learning
- Comment on "Wario" is a Japanese portmanteu of Mario and "warui" (bad), but in Finnish "Wario" is also a homonym of "varjo", "shadow". 2 weeks ago:
Huh, I always thought it was Wario + Luigi
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 3 weeks ago:
We can harness this to produce energy somehow!
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 3 weeks ago:
Just buy some for them too and sleep together
- Comment on well? 3 weeks ago:
All that there is came from the One Great. Then came fractures, and births, and souls. But the Greater Will made a mistake.
- Comment on The good old days 4 weeks ago:
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
- Comment on *Record scratch* freeze frame 4 weeks ago:
I literally only know that trope from “What’s with Andy?”
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
No way!
- Comment on GET BRUSHIED IDIOT 4 weeks ago:
Wait, are they using Spongebobs toothbrush?
