calcopiritus

@calcopiritus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is a problem⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Simplicity is easy to pirate though.

  If the product is a program that executes 100% of its functionality on your computer, it is impossible to make it pirate-proof. Even if all the functionality is client-side and the server is used only for authentication, it can be pirated.

  The only way to make a program pirate-proof is if it runs on the server with a thin client.

  That being said, some products execute on the client. Therefore if they want to prevent piracy, the only thing they can do is security through obscurity. That is, make it as complex as possible so the pirates take as much time as possible to reverse-engineer it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Traffic circles are not real roundabouts. They are just a road that have a circle shape. For example traffic circles often have traffic lights.

  Roundabouts are traffic circles. But they have to be just a circle with “give way” at the entrance. No stop signs, no traffic lights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is affected by gravity. But does it have gravitational pull? The thing about black holes is that they have a lot gravitational pull.

  I’m asking because I honestly don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your Airbnb was someone’s home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spain ruling party bars members from hiring sex workers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To anyone unfamiliar with Spain politics, it might not be even noticed.

  But it is incredible that the party with most scandals and corruption (PP) claims that they’ll party will do less corruption than them. Why don’t the media give attention to other parties that have less corruption than PSOE instead of the masters of corruption PP?

  We no longer live in a 2-party country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe someday 😌⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can block .ml communities in my GUI. But I can’t block its users, unless I go 1 by 1. Blocking the communities is big, but not enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not talking about the technical possibility. Of course you can have multiple video stream, one per participant.

  I’m saying that without multicast, it can be more resource intensive than having intermediate servers that can multicast on the application layer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is a connection between 3+ people still p2p? Or is there another term for it?

  I don’t know how this would work over the internet though.

  On a LAN you could use multicast, but I don’t think ISPs support multicast, it seems like it would be an easy way to DoS. But I honestly don’t know.

  So, if you can’t multicast, the way to have serverless multi-user video calls would be to have a separate video feed for each receiver, which I can see using more resources than through a server that would replicate the stream to all the receivers. Of course this is dependant on distance, even without multicast it consumes more resources if everyone is in the same LAN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was nice to learn of all this bullshit. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So tell me. What are those hidden taxes?

  What type of corporate parasitism are you referring to that hurts Americans more than Europeans?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair. Although I need to point out that the title literally says “more than 1 in 4” which makes it kinda funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignoring all the taxation is theft bullshit, my original question is how is america so expensive that living wages are considered 8x of the highest minimum wages of europe (Less than 20k).

  America has lower taxes than any European country. So that cannot be the answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Europeans also buy little glasses for Timmy and such. I don’t think the price of those kind of things is much different. Same for utilities, phone and TV. The one I’m most uncertain about is utilities, but I believe electricity at least is usually cheaper in america.

  The car one is fair. Although it’s true that in Europe there’s also tons of people on cars, public transit is at least a valid option, unlike in much of the US.

  Taxes is not though. Taxes in america are usually way lower than in Europe.

  So transportation+healthcare are the only expenses that are clearly more expensive in america. Housing being highly dependant on location is hard to compare nation-based. And it’s also the biggest component. I’d be curious to see the actual “living wage” difference between two places, one Europeans and another American with similar housing prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is the cost of living so incredibly high in the US?

  It cannot be because of consumer goods. Because both Europe and the US have similar prices for those since they are made by international companies.

  It cannot be food, the US is a big exporter of food. And those exports go to countries with lower costs of living.

  It cannot be vacations. You could “just” fly to Europe and have european vacation prices.

  Is it just housing and healthcare?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised they at least know they have a problem. I would think these companies would just say “look how the sales numbers haven’t changed, that means that we were correct in doing the AI thing. Without it, sales would be sinking into the ocean!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And how are women pushed out of “man jobs”?

  And how are we fixing that?

  Is it bosses that aim to have male coworkers turning down women? How is that different than bosses wanting artificially 50/50 turning down men?

  Is it not being represented in advertising? How is that different than what happens now. Where most advertising displays just women? Or if there is both a man and a woman, the woman is usually centered in the picture or doing a more important/powerful role.

  By “encouraging” women in the workplace, what you see is things being done to men that you complain was done to women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the viking one for free. Didn’t make it much farther than the initial area, which is hours long.

  I’d say they are worse than mediocre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the meantime. This is a valid business model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The exponential function has a single horizontal asymptote at y=0. Asymptotes at x=1 and x=-4 would be vertical. Exponential functions have no vertical asymptotes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do millionaires pay more taxes than minimum-wage workers?

  Whatever answer you come up to my question can probably answer yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The alternative is banks hoarding real state without any need to rent it out or sell it soon. They can just wait until prices get higher.

  That’s why in most countries people pay way less property taxes in the house they live in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox is not chromium based. You can install unlock origin and have no ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a reason just in time manufacturing took over the world. Storage is expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because then you can’t change your password. Since you would have to decrypt all the hard drives that use windows with that account, and then encrypt them again with the new one.

  This also means that if you forget your password you are fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s whataboutism.

  There are many factors for the housing crisis.

  That doesn’t mean that you can only solve one of the factors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well. In that case we have to either move on to argue why I believe that a stateless society is bad and you believe it is good. Or just call it here and agree to disagree. Whatever you prefer. Since I don’t think I can change your mind (on the basis of past experience about this topic, not something personal about you) or that you can change mine about that topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No I won’t. Just like arguing a murder is not illegal grafitti, doesn’t make you pro-murder. Arguing that a specific genocide is not xenophobia does not make me pro-genocide. I absolutely hate what Israel is doing to the Palestinians and I believe that someone should assassinate Netanyahu and all of his pro-genocide people on power of the Israeli government. Or imprison them for life.

  But you can miss my point all you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This specific technicality is important for your point though.

  I’m gonna explain my reasoning so you can choose whatever you want have a conversation about.

  Your claim was that putting citizens above non-citizens is xenophobic.

  My point is that putting citizens above non-citizens is a natural consequence of a state. And furthermore, that it is a good thing.

  Xenophobia is widely regarded to be a bad thing and that we should avoid it.

  If both of our statements are true. The natural conclusion is that we should have a stateless society. I don’t think that a stateless society is a good thing. Therefore I’m trying to find a flaw in the argument. I think that the flaw is that you are wrong. So I have to have a conversation with you about why I think you are wrong.

  If you are wrong, it must mean one of these statements are wrong:

  • Putting citizens above non-citizens is xenophobic.
  • Putting citizens above non-citizens is a natural consequence of the state.
  • Xenophobia is widely regarded to be a bad thing and we should avoid it.

  Since 2/3 statements are made by me, of course I think they are true. So I’m going to argue about why the first one is wrong.

  The only way to proof your statement to be wrong is by first defining what xenophobia is. Which you might call a technicality, but I don’t think it’s possible to have a conversation if we don’t first agree what the meaning of the words we use is.

  After defining what xenophobia is, we have to figure out if the “equation” is true: “putting citizens above non-citizens” = “xenophobia”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, cornfields consume resources other than solar energy. Like CO2. However the benefits of consuming CO2 goes away if you’re just gonna burn the corn, which releases CO2 again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The results of an action being done for a reason being discriminatory does not make the reason invalid.

  Almost any policy is discriminatory.

  Taxing the rich more is discriminatory against the rich. Helping women out is discriminatory against the men. Ending segregation is discriminatory against people that don’t want be near people different to them. The list is endless.

  I assume you agree with all 3 of those policies. Yet they are discriminatory. Those 3 policies are done because of very valid reasons.

  There are very few policies that I’d say are not desceiminatory. Like universal basic income or universal healthcare. And even then, by your definition of discriminatory, those would be discriminatory. Since they would still discriminate against non-citizens.

  There is no world where a person born in X country that has never left X country to receive income from a UBI policy of Y country. Unless X and Y countries have some sort of deal where that happens.