Cocodapuf
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- Comment on Unionized Workers At Arkane, A Microsoft-Owned Studio, Demand That Microsoft Divest From Israel’s ‘Sinister Project For Gaza’ - Aftermath 1 day ago:
Yep…
I wonder who’s gonna buy it up.
- Comment on "One man's junk is another man's treasure"... works both for garage sales and lovers. 1 week ago:
Pretty sure it works for all things, because value is subjective.
- Comment on I suspect you can understand everything about a person simply by watching how they play Duck Hunt on the NES. 1 week ago:
And people with good aim and a sense of humor always left their last shot for the dog.
- Comment on No matter how hard he tries, Elon Musk will never be as cool or as respected as Martha Stewart. 1 week ago:
Fuck Martha Stewart too
Obviously, that’s the point.
It’s like when someone says “oh Steve… that guy doesn’t have the intelligence of a toaster”
Clearly Steve’s an idiot, but you don’t have to jump in and attack toasters, nobody’s claiming toasters are geniuses here.
- Comment on Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store 2 weeks ago:
Well I would agree with that except for one thing, the Amazon tablets are still the only product on the market that actually has usable parental controls.
I’m not saying I’ll ever trust Amazon, or ever have. But the fact is they had the only usable product on the market, if I had other options I’d use them.
And before anyone says “what happened to just teaching your kids good behavioral expectations?” Let me just say that this isn’t always possible. Some kids have developmental challenges or behavioral disorders that make this an impractical expectation. Sometimes you just need parental controls.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 2 weeks ago:
You’re running off the assumption that the survivors know useful information and that theyre also able to utilize that useful information plus be able to source needed materials since they wont have travel
I think we’re assuming books will continue to exist.
I think one of the real marvels of civilization is the redundancy of information. For every college course you’ve taken there’s a text book, and there may have been dozens of physical copies of that book used in your class, but also for many other classes at other schools that taught that same subject. There may have been 10,000 copies of that book in circulation across the globe, in many different countries.
It’s not impossible to lose information forever, but we’ve put in some really strong defenses against that really happening.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 2 weeks ago:
I mean, why do you say that? I don’t know if any other species that lives in a greater variety of environments. There are humans living on every continent, including Antarctica. There are humans living with support in space and under the sea.
We have migrated, to everywhere. And we can adapt, to almost anything.
And to clarify, I don’t think we’ll all survive, but I highly doubt we’d all die.
- Comment on Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store 2 weeks ago:
Amazon apk store shuts down August 20th.
Huh… This sounds like a huge pain in my ass. What happens to Kindle fire tablets, that you know heavily rely on that functionality?
I can guess what happens to any of us that use that store on other devices (I think it’s safe to say we’re fucked).
I basically only ever used it because it gave away free apps, but man, the DRM put into those apps was so aggressive and annoying.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 2 weeks ago:
Oh man, I hate the whole git system so much, it was like the worst part of coding.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 2 weeks ago:
i’d bet any list with more than 10 entries would include metropolis, nosferatu, citizen kane and star wars,
I’d add the Shawshank Redemption to that list as well, and probably the Godfather part 2.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 2 weeks ago:
Have you been spying on me while I do tech support?
- Comment on Thingiverse uses AI to block production of ghost guns 2 weeks ago:
Now compare the gun violence rate of both of those countries with the gun violence rate of somewhere that bans guns.
Maybe we’ll see that Finland has a way to further reduce their gun violence.
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 2 weeks ago:
Well there are a lot of factors defining how much usable material we could get, and how hard it would be to do it.
Yeah, about 98% of the sun is hydrogen and helium, with other elements making up the remaining 2%.
The machine used to generate the magnetic field would likely be a ring rather than plate, with the goal being to bend the trajectory of any matter that passes through the ring just a little. In effect it would work a lot like a lens, that could focus matter passing through it into a cone of trajectories, with collection happening at the point of the cone, possibly a point at a much higher in orbit. (This does introduce some complications in the different orbital speeds for the ring and collector, but without getting into it, there is a solution for that, it’s not the hardest part of this idea)
And how much you can capture depends a lot on how close to the sun you can put your magnet field ring. If it’s stationed closer to the sun it shrinks the size of the sphere you’re trying to cover. So if your ring could survive at 0.2 AU from the sun (about half the distance of mercury’s orbit), a ring of the same diameter would cover 25 times more area of the sphere than if it was stationed at 1 AU.
So your 59.5 tons collected turns into 1487.5 tons, 2% of which is 29.75 tons of usable material (which I’ll be honest, is not great considering the magnitude of the construction project). It’s probably a better deal if you’re using the hydrogen towards fusion power, but it’s still not great.
The good news is that it scales well, the larger you make the ring, the better your ratio of materials gathered vs materials needed to build the ring, which makes the optimal size of a ring one that basically circles the sun. So… yeah, this is not a project in our immediate future.
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 2 weeks ago:
we don’t even need mining, just gather up some hydrogen/helium from space and transmute it into whatever you need. food, fuel, structures, etc.
Believe it or not, this can actually be done without fusion alchemy.
It’s been explored in science fiction and I believe there are some actual theories and papers on the subject, but here’s the quick version:
The sun contains all the same elements found on earth in remarkably similar proportions (The exception being that all of earth’s hydrogen and helium were blown away long ago). But unlike earth, in the sun the heavy elements don’t separate and sink down to the core, everything just mixes together in one big suspension. Magnetic fields in the sun constantly eject charged particles out as solar wind and while these particles are mostly hydrogen, they actually contain every element found in the solar system. Because the particles are charged this wind could be harvested using magnetic fields, it could be redirected and focused into a stream of matter for collection.
And it’s a lot of matter that could be collected this way… The sun loses 130 billion tons of matter in solar wind every day. For comparison, Mars’s moon Deimos masses about 1.5 trillion tons, so the sun loses a full Deimos worth of matter every 12 days.
And my apologies for the long reply, someone mentioned space and I couldn’t help myself. 🤓
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, petitioning steam doesn’t help, their hands are tied. It’s the behavior of the payment processors that needs to change. If they wimp out over every complaint, then we all live at the whims of the whiniest prudes in the world.
- Comment on Commit culinary crimes in management sim The Diner At The End Of The Galaxy 2 weeks ago:
I read the whole article. Did you like the game? Was it good?
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 2 weeks ago:
Perfect response. This gets the message across, “governments of the world, the Internet doesn’t need you, you need the Internet”.
- Comment on Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia 2 weeks ago:
Oh man, Noctua fans fit perfectly with this ironic high performance/vintage garbage dynamic! Good call.
- Comment on Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia 2 weeks ago:
Well that is hilarious. The fake 5.25 floppy drive bay covers are an especially nice touch.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 2 weeks ago:
I mean you can use it as currency, and I do sometimes. I have bought plenty of steam games with Bitcoin. I’ve also bought a bunch of stuff on Newegg, and other places online.
It has exactly as much protection from scans and fraud as cash does, that’s essentially what it is.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 2 weeks ago:
They do accept Bitcoin, so that’s something.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 2 weeks ago:
In theory, crypto could be good for this, but crypto is used (and designed) more as an investment than a transaction tool.
I would argue that while crypto is as investment now, it was initially designed and intended to be used for transactions.
Out of curiosity though, why do you think this situation would be any different if it were government controlled? Especially considering that you sometimes have administrations like Trump’s, which would do anything no matter how corrupt.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 2 weeks ago:
They make money hand over first for doing practically nothing… They’re perfectly happy with their current situation and the most important thing to them right now is not rocking the boat.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 2 weeks ago:
Not even… They have the power because you gave it to them. States can take it away, but that’s worse, you don’t want that.
But it doesn’t really matter, it’s all connected. The payment processors control how money can be used and the state controls how they’re allowed to let you use it. And you let it all happen by voluntarily using a credit card.
- Comment on Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service 3 weeks ago:
I mean, no it’s not.
Kessler syndrome is about a chain reaction that destroys everything in orbit and keeps us from accessing space for years.
Ruining your view is not “nearly as bad”. That makes you sound like one of those folks on Martha’s Vineyard, opposing offshore wind turbines that local communities desperately need, because they’ll “ruin the view”.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure that works, like on a purely game theory level. If gamers start to apply pressure, threaten to stop buying games, the stores need to make a choice:
A. Risk facing the wrath of the games, sales are likely to drop. Possibly by a lot, perhaps 15-20%. That could keep up for months before stabilizing.
B. Risk facing the wrath of the payment processors, credit card sales will stop immediately, only alternative payment types get through. Sales drop by 80% and that will continue indefinitely.
While both of those options are bad, one of them is totally fatal to their business.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 3 weeks ago:
This will never go away. Payment processors make life easy for most consumers, people like them. And as long as we have them, they hold all the power around how money can be used. And they will always be limited by governments and local laws.
If you don’t like the situation, use cash. If that’s too inconvenient Bitcoin is essentially your only other option.
- Comment on Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests 3 weeks ago:
There are ways to be sure of authenticity, ways that can’t be faked.
- Comment on Watermarks offer no defense against deepfakes, study suggests 3 weeks ago:
Oh come on, you’re gonna do that in two years anyway.
