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- Comment on This Spyro the Dragon tweet has fans thinking a new instalment is coming 10 months ago:
Not again.
Just when I was hoping to see some fan games start popping up, we’re gonna get Spyro 4: It’s about Slime or whatever. And they’ll probably lock it behind their stupid blizzard launcher and it will be console exclusive before it makes it to pc etc. etc.
I’m done. I loved Spyro, but it’s time to let a dead franchise rest in peace.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
We really need more browser engines floating around.
As of now we really only have 3, Webkit, Firefox, and Chromium.
Everything is based on these 3. And I know, technically chromium and firefox are both based on webkit, but they’re so far gone from webkit they function as their own engines.
- Comment on It's important for us to keep perspective... 10 months ago:
This is it. This is 100% it.
“I suffered, so should you.”
The American dream.
- Comment on Today on "Unsolved Mysteries"... 10 months ago:
Don’t use the isp’s router/modem, it’s terrible in general.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
Okay, next plan is to start buying non-windows keyboards.
- Comment on Followup on the vehicle "kill switch" mandated by the Infrastructure Bill 10 months ago:
This is a band-aid solution to a problem caused by a larger issue.
Since in the US driving is an implied requirement for transportation, the barrier to entry for driving a car is absurdly low.
This is a bad solution to a bad problem caused by decades of bad decisions.
- Comment on Why can't code be uncompiled? 10 months ago:
Well, actually it can be. It just takes a lot more to decompile code than compile it. Depending on the objective accuracy.
Example: the Super Mario 64 Decompilation project. This was a project that used various debug data that was left in the rom to decompile the game back to a source code that compiled a byte accurate version of the rom. This took about 3 years and a lot of skilled developers to accomplish.
Side note: Super Mario Bros wasn’t built using a compiled language, but rather Assembly. So technically that would be a Disassembly not a Decompilation.
- Comment on Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 10 months ago:
Yes, except If cake were free and accessible to anyone regardless of silverware or plates.
- Comment on Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 10 months ago:
Linux
- Comment on Happy Same Year! 10 months ago:
2020 4 give it up for 2020 4!
- Comment on This is just cruel 10 months ago:
GOTO Hell isn’t correct and will lead to a syntax error
20 GOTO 4311 is technically correct but you’re actually going to hell for writing your script this way.
- Comment on Apple to stop selling its latest smartwatches after losing patent case to rival that says 'even the world’s most powerful company must abide by the law' 10 months ago:
The cracks have been forming for a while now.
The big megacorps have been infighting. We’ve been seeing the signs of their implosion from miles away.
The question is what will emerge from the ashes?
- Comment on The hyperloop is dead for real this time 10 months ago:
Now it’s time for the xXx_Hyperloop_xXx, which will definitely, 100%, pinky promise, we swear, fix traffic congestion.
- Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow 10 months ago:
Yeah, posts are admittedly pretty samey. And While “Reposts are part of our religion” etc. etc.
Its like the 3 or 4 same articles and memes.
- Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow 10 months ago:
Communities moderated by Morals rather than Profit will always be better.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
I mean it will help Lemmy. But It certainly will result in more EEE attempts on the fediverse.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
Falling short of growth means their going to take aggressive action.
This is typical traded-company bullshit. You have to reach quarterly projections. Even if you’re in the black, if you don’t reach the projection the shareholders will react accordingly.
So, to avoid missing their next quarter, they will enshittify to meet shareholder demands. And it may work, for a while. But it will continually drain their userbase to nothing.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
This will trigger an enshittification cycle.
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- Underperformance per-quarter resulting in anti-user actions to increase profits.
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- Users leave because of anti-user actions.
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- Profits will decrease until the end of quarter.
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- Return to Step 1.
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- Comment on You understand? 10 months ago:
Santa’s Sleigh uses Warp Drive technology to form a space-time bubble around the sleigh and the reindeer.
- Comment on American automakers are losing the race to make more fuel-efficient vehicles 10 months ago:
They are, however, winning the race to make more gas guzzling profit generators that destroy this planet for the benefit of their shareholders.
- Comment on Social media platform X suffers global outages 10 months ago:
Well, for some it may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Twitter hasn’t exactly been great prior to the outage.
- Comment on Social media platform X suffers global outages 11 months ago:
Yes, but every little effort helps.
- Comment on It's canon now. And so is a certain image format. 11 months ago:
That’s dumb, It’s “Graphics Interchange Format.”
- Comment on The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be 11 months ago:
Well the issue with Usenet is the following:
- Usenet is quite old
- Usenet is not very well known.
- Usenet has many barriers to entry.
- Usenet groups have garnered an exclusionary reputation.
- Other easier options have existed for a long time for basic social media interaction.
- Comment on Social media platform X suffers global outages 11 months ago:
Except for a missed opportunity to push for users to jump ship to a Mastodon instance.
- Comment on Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times 11 months ago:
Solution:
No more Private Jets or Yachts.
Transportation Infrastructure Overhaul to transition away from cars and diversify to a set of electric or non-fuel forms of transportation (Lightrail, Train, Electric Busses, Bikes, Lamborfeeties.)
But to do the latter we’d have to go on a major guerilla marketing campaign to undo decades of car company propaganda.
And for the former we’d basically have to perform a miracle.
- Comment on DNA companies should receive the death penalty for getting hacked | TechCrunch 11 months ago:
Legit have had conversations with people where they position themselves as superior because they use “the same password” but with an @ instead of an a, or an extra 0 at the end.
Password Managers are really the best solution to using 1 password everywhere without actually putting yourself at risk. 1 password, to unlock the manager, that lets you copy/paste logins.
But nope 99% of all bullshit I experience in my friends and family is “but thats too complicated” or “thats too hard” when its 200% fucking not.
I’m calling them out. These are shit excuses for what their real issue is which is “i don’t wanna change my habits” which is just childish and ignorant.
Even if its easier, even if its safer. If its different, then they don’t want to even try it.
There are some people who will have “always used” a spoon to dig holes, and if you showed them a shovel, they’d complain that it’s too hard or too complex, and go back to using the spoon.
- Comment on Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say 11 months ago:
Republican Party: We hate you, fuck you.
Republican voters: I want those guys!
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
Social Contract.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
Their “test run” was only sending threads posts and not receiving any fediverse posts.
This is them shouting their intent, as far as i’m concerned.