Cocodapuf
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- Comment on Mazda false DMCA takedown notice Home Assistant App 2 hours ago:
Claiming that some open source code is really proprietary is pretty bold. I suppose they could prove that by releasing their code, but to me it smells like they’ve been using open source code without attributing it for a while. And now they’re trying to solve this problem by taking down the original.
Honestly, an assertion that open source code is really stolen seems pretty easy to prove wrong.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 5 days ago:
Capitalism is the woooooorst…
- Comment on Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options 5 days ago:
Sure, he wasn’t an engineer, so no Jobs never personally “invented” anything. But Jobs at least knew what was good and what was shit when he saw it. Under Tim Cook, Apple just keeps putting out shitty unimaginative products, Cook is allowing Apple to stagnate, a dangerous thing to do when they have under 10% market share.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 6 days ago:
I mean… Cyberpunk needs to be on a card. Otherwise how would you slot it into your neck?
- Comment on The FBI launched a special task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ 6 days ago:
Wow, I have so much more context now. And honestly, it’s actually a lot funnier than I thought it was, thanks.
- Comment on The FBI launched a special task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ 6 days ago:
I guess a few agents get to slack off for a while rather than actually work. I know if I were in their position, I’d just be “following up on possible leads” for a while.
Honestly, for an FBI agent, it’s insulting to be asked to do special monitoring for an unelected official’s private business. They have more important things to do.
- Comment on Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options 6 days ago:
I wouldn’t know, I wasn’t forced to go ARM when I built that machine.
- Comment on Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options 6 days ago:
Officially, it didn’t, but actually it did. Officially it was the OS updates that made everything incompatible (and it did make more than half of my steam library incompatible) but it was those OS updates that were needed to support the new arm hardware.
So look at it however you want I guess, but there are a bunch of 5-15 year old games that run just fine on my windows PC, but no longer launch on my iMac. That’s not impressive backwards compatibility.
- Comment on Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, render most of their already small software library incompatible for a 50% performance boost. It’s a sizable boost for sure, but not exactly looking at the big picture…
- Comment on Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options 1 week ago:
Die apple. All your innovation and vision died with Steve Jobs, now you’re a shambling corpse infecting everything you touch. Just die, it’s time…
- Comment on “This is a huge moment for creators and their businesses,” - Patreon will update its iPhone app to sidestep Apple’s payment system. Patreon was forced to pay 30% fees 1 week ago:
Fuck closed off mobile stores, it’s all a scam.
Why are we ceding control over our personal computers to organizations who would limit our use of them?
If we have platforms capable of running arbitrary code then we should be able to do it.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
OK, but being very massive is not the same as what was being discussed.
Are you sure? I mean the word “heavy” was what I was going on, but there is a distinction I suppose.
You can also “lift” a finitely massive black hole with anything else massive.
Yeah, that’s true… But again, I do have to stress that there is no alternative to “finitely massive” you really can’t have an object of infinite mass in our universe.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
Well I don’t know about any objects more massive than black holes. I think a black hole is really the only viable form a body can take once there’s enough matter in one place, like there’s an upper limit for the size of stars and after that anything larger collapses into a black hole.
An object of infinite mass is a contradiction, a universe can’t exist with a single object of infinite mass, it would consume everything instantly.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
Ok, I think we’re on the same page here. But I’m still not sure about one of your previous comments, you suggested that this “heaviest object” can’t move because it would be the logical reference to which any other body is measured.
But I want to think about that a bit. Let’s say this heaviest object (HO) has something orbiting it and we’re looking at it from earth with a telescope. As the smaller body orbits, we would probably see this HO wobble, right? Meaning that even if it’s the most massive thing around, it’s still affected by other objects, it can be moved.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
You need to be thinking about n-body physics though, everything affects everything. If the earth moves, that moves the sun a little, if the sun moves, that moves the local cluster a little, etc. Why wouldn’t that affect this heaviest object?
I mean, are you suggesting that this heaviest object is simply the center of the universe and that all coordinates are defined around it? Because while that seems practical, I don’t think it’s how matter and space interact.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s called facebook. Have you ever added suggested contacts?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 week ago:
Is that so? Will the chatbots help me pack a van when I need to move? Will they stand next to me at my wedding? I’m thrilled to hear that bots can finally replace friends! (Something the people have been clamoring for)
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
When you jump you are pushing the earth away from yourself a little bit, and then some of your gravity pulls the earth back toward you. For a brief moment your jump has in fact altered Earth’s orbit.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
I think if God creates a rock so heavy he can’t lift it, it’s probably a black hole. By definition we can’t know what happens inside a black hole, because no information escapes the event horizon. As it’s consistent with known physics that we can’t know many aspects of this interaction between God and the black hole, I think this paradox is basically solved. We don’t know any more about the interaction, but it’s no longer a paradox, it’s consistent with physics.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
I mean we have these in the universe, one example of an unstoppable force is neutrinos. These tiny particles certainly seem to contain a whole lot of energy, moving close to the speed of light. But just try to stop one.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
Gross
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
Quickly now, make jellyfin better!
- Comment on Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to 2 weeks ago:
Who services the poop drones I ask you…
Some unlucky roboticist is stuck cleaning poop off treads, testing sensors and resoldering connections while wearing gloves.
- Comment on MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible 2 weeks ago:
We can start farming these computers to feed our ever growing population. We just need to build a simulation they can live in, so they don’t get stale.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 3 weeks ago:
Yes well done, thanks for spreading the good news, I’ve been saved.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 3 weeks ago:
Jesus Christ this community never fucking misses a chance change a discussion to Linux. It’s tiresome.
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 3 weeks ago:
Alright, that’s a good use case, I like that.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying both aren’t possible. And I’m not saying both don’t apply here.
But in general, if you make it a practice to remember Hanlon’s razor, you will be both correct more often and generally happier. I’m just suggesting, do it for your own sake. Assume the best of intentions in people, because usually people do mean well. And also expect them to let you down by making genuinely stupid choices, because then you won’t be surprised when they do.
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 3 weeks ago:
If I were to read a book on my computer, I would use one screen. That’s kinda my point. A second monitor does nothing for me in that scenario.
But it folds like a book, and i see it being held like a book. If that means text populates in two columns like a book, and you read one column at a time, I really don’t see the point of the second side. You can just turn the page.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 3 weeks ago:
So you think the main difference between Elon and other rich people is that other rich people keep a low profile?
So does that mean you think that other ultra wealthy people are just as influential (and damaging to the world) as Elon? Because I don’t doubt that the ultra wealthy are problematic in general, but I think Elon is worse, like in a big way. And he’s been changing a lot in the world for the last 20 years, like a lot more than literally anyone I can think of.