swordgeek
@swordgeek@lemmy.ca
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 3 weeks ago:
Interesting points, but you’re missing an important point: This isn’t necessarily about the definition of what SHOULD be or MUST be preserved, but whether studios should be allowed to PREVENT it from being preserved by those who want to.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 3 weeks ago:
Hang Loose (both gesture and phrase) goes back to at LEAST the early '70s.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 4 weeks ago:
First cousin, once removed.
For the record, ‘once removed’ refers to the generation. Your cousin’s grandkid would be your first cousin twice removed.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
I get what you’re saying, but it never works like that.
You said it yourself: “I hope reddit exists to…be a breeding ground…” And it will. The worst of humanity will collect and fester and grow in numbers. And what’s going to happen then? Some will spill over to here, and other ‘safe’ communities.
There’s no way we can thrive and simultaneously isolate ourselves from assholery; and by encouraging it to thrive elsewhere, we’re only expanding its power and reach; and at the same time, enriching and empowering asshole billionaires like spez, Zuck, Musk, etc.
No, we need to fight them. We need to wade hip-deep in the shit to shovel it down the drain, rather than hoping it’ll just go away on its own.
Look at it another way: If you have a garden, what happens if you designate one corner as “the weed corner?” It grows, spreads, and takes over the rest of the garden.
- Comment on Meta won't say whether it trains AI on smart glasses photos 1 month ago:
Let’s be honest. The company won’t admit to it, but of COURSE they are.
Remember, Facebool was founded on the premise of invading your privacy, and have gotten worse ever since. They’re not suddenly going to stop fir any reason.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
Yep, agreed. The biggest problem there is that Meta is generally not making life worse for its users than they’re used to. Facebook and Instagram are giving you almost the same shitty experience you got a decade ago.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
Nope.
If you encourage it, it will continue to fester and rot, and the entire internet will lower their expectations.
We need to destroy these companies. We need to smash them to pieces, and hey guess what - it’s going to hurt a bit! We need to be prepared to stand up against evil, corrupt, racist, bigoted robber barons. We need to make some sacrifices to fix the internet.
Burn the fuckers to the ground, and let spez rot in a hole.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 1 month ago:
It’s true that Qobuz pays more per stream, although I’ve heard that they pay an amalgamated sum to the label instead of direct payment by artist.
Furthermore, while MQA was a bit of a bait-and-switch (basically lossy versions of much higher quality), Tidal always offered pure lossless as well.
Qobuz apparently has a better classical catalog, but worse customer support.
Basically, I’ve found Tidal to be - at this point - a bit ahead of Qobuz. Not a real complaint, just a “if I had to choose…” opinion.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 1 month ago:
Short summary: Tidal is the best overall.
Balancing the content, quality, and amount paid to artists, I put it on top.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
There’s still one protest possible.
LEAVE REDDIT!!! GET THE FUCK OFF OF IT! LET IT DIE. MAKE IT DIE!
Same with twitter.
- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 1 month ago:
Little boutique place near us has an “Apple Cheddar Pie” ice cream in the fall. It’s never quite as good as you expect. Gotta try it again this year, to see how they’ve changed it.
(On the other hand, their Lemon Curd Blueberry is one of the greatest things ever served in a cone in the history of humankind.)
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 month ago:
I guess I shouldn’t be expected to pay for games until my total is over a hundred bucks then?
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- Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days? 1 month ago:
Capitalism, fucking everything up, same as everywhere.
- Comment on Does the GOP Stick Together so tightly to hide the fact that a large majority of them are involved in Pedophilia? 1 month ago:
You’re not here to ask a good-faith question, you’re here to state an opinion or theory.
- Comment on Are we ever going to see a remake of any Bethesda game? 2 months ago:
Have you played Morrowind? Best Elder Scrolls game by far, in my opinion.
And so hard to play, so yeah.
Not gonna happen. It’s a lot of work, and they’d rather spend it making new games (for legitimate reasons).
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
She is female.
She is black.
She is strong.
She is not a puppet.She is EVERYTHING that the power structure fears, because she will be hard to control, and likely cost them a lot of money and power.
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 2 months ago:
Open revolution is about the only avenue left.
- Comment on Telegram CEO's arrest sparks flurry of questions over motivation, privacy impact. 2 months ago:
You do NOT need to post this to every technology group on every Lemmy instance.
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 2 months ago:
Yeah yeah, Linux is our saviour.
I call bullshit. Charge Microsoft criminally. Sue them into the ground! We will never get enough people to truly harm them just by leaving, so we need to FUCKING DESTROY ANY COMPANY THAT PULLS THIS BULLSHIT!
- Comment on Should you have to pay for online privacy? 2 months ago:
Sorry, there are no remaining questions.
It is as unethical as it can get. It’s evil late-stage capitalism, and the people perpetrating it should be strung up.
- Comment on Out of curiosity if a woman is in control of her own body. If the SCOTUS did not reverse Roe than why can't a woman in control become a prostitue? 2 months ago:
In the US…
shooting a gun is legal. Going to the bank is legal. Shooting a gun in a bank is illegal.
- Comment on Out of curiosity if a woman is in control of her own body. If the SCOTUS did not reverse Roe than why can't a woman in control become a prostitue? 2 months ago:
So many incorrect assumptions in this single question.
First off, Roe v. Wade didn’t establish absolute autonomy over the body, only protected the right to legal abortion.
Secondly, how about men? One could argue that they’ve had all the bodily autonomy that they could hope for, but prostitution in the US is still illegal. Except that that’s not entirely true - because Nevada.
The government has the authority to govern and establish laws. If they decree that prostitution is illegal, than it’s not really a question of bodily autonomy as much as it is about business law.
You can’t legally sell heroin on the street. You can’t take someone else’s car. And you can’t sell your body for sex.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
Youtube is waging a war against their customers. If they win, they lose; and if they lose they win.
- Comment on GM cuts 1,000 software jobs as it prioritizes quality and AI 2 months ago:
So they want to improve their shitty software.
And they want to explore AI.
And so they fire their developers.
Typical fucking corporate doublespeak. Companies cut as they grow, because they’re robber barons who are addicted to MORE.
- Comment on What were your (now retro, but not at the time) gaming wow moments 2 months ago:
So many…
- loading (from ¥) and playing Adventure on a PET 4004. It was breathtaking!
- Wolf 3D on my first x86 machine.
- DOOM! I spent all bloody day trying to download the shareware levels on the University campus, and ultimately, it was worth it.
- Crying at the end of Grim Fandango
- Mass Effect. All of it"
- Comment on A Harris-Walz Administration Would Be A Nightmare for Free Speech 2 months ago:
Even conservatives on that site are calling out the article as garbage.
- Comment on AI could be the breakthrough that allows humanoid robots to jump from science fiction to reality. 3 months ago:
Sure. But we’re nowhere near AI yet.
- Comment on Americans Are Sharing The "Normal, Everyday" Aspects About The US That Are Actually Dystopian, And I Can't Believe We Tolerate Some Of These 3 months ago:
I’m in Canada, but much of the cost of adoption is the same.
- Legal fees to change the parentage (and sometimes the name) of anchild.
- Counselling for the birth parents.
- Travel costs for the birth parents.
- Background checks for the adoptive parents (legal, medical, and financial).
- Counselling/social work for the adoptive parents.
- Payment to the adoption agency for facilitating the whole process.
The only significant difference I know of in the US is that some ahencies are for-profit, and medical costs aren’t covered by unicersal healthcare, so have to be added on.
- Comment on Kids and their computers these days. 3 months ago:
And by “forgot” you mean "couldn’t affotrd,’ right?