zaphod
@zaphod@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 3 days ago:
It’s not really static. It’s digital, the transmission scheme has structure. It’s only the transmitted data that is encrypted, but you’d have to first unpack the transmission to get to the data.
- Comment on we need more users 5 days ago:
Hacker News is currently drowning in “I did something with AI” posts.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 6 days ago:
Have you tried using it?
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 6 days ago:
Of course you can elect kings. It’s called elective monarchy, there have been a few of those throughout history.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
When I look at some generic instance’s unfiltered feed all I see is posts about USA/Trump. I can see how this might deter a lot of Europeans who are looking for alternatives to Reddit.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
Should be most of the Lemmy instances, but it’s missing the 2k monthly active users on PieFed.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
that quality seems to keep getting better and better
It doesn’t. It’s the same people who keep posting the same lame memes as always.
- Comment on we need more users 6 days ago:
I’m presented the same shit over and over again.
Do you sort by active? Use hot or scaled instead.
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 1 week ago:
It’s fine, without people like you and me it’d be very quiet around here. Just people
screamingposting into the void. - Comment on Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off? 1 week ago:
It doesn’t have to be different, but if it isn’t why would Paramount be interested in making it? TNG and DS9 overlapped and were different, same with DS9 and VOY. But TNG and VOY were also very different. I suppose if someone would come up with a cool idea for a Una spin-off that is not just a direct continuation of SNW there might be a chance. Personally I’d be more interested in something set after TNG/Lower Decks to get away from the TOS era, and also stay away from the DIS 32nd century stuff.
- Comment on Is there desire for Capt. Una spin-off? 1 week ago:
How would a Captain Una spin-off differ from SNW?
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On His Star Trek Future: “I’m Hopeful” 1 week ago:
I don’t have high hopes for Academy, it’s basically a Discovery spin-off.
- Comment on Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox 1 week ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on New Life is Strange Game Spotted, And Yes, This One Will Finally Bring Back Chloe 1 week ago:
Be worried, it is made by Deck Nine.
- Comment on New Life is Strange Game Spotted, And Yes, This One Will Finally Bring Back Chloe 1 week ago:
No, haven’t read them, but I know that both decisions are canon. Life is Strange 2 already dealt with it. But I think including Chloe as a character in a game in some meaningful way that will make fans happy while respecting that both options are canon is harder than whatever the comics did. I doubt Deck Nine is capable of properly handling this.
spoiler
My theory what they will do: They will retcon the two timelines from Double Exposure into one timeline in which Chloe is dead and one in which Chloe is alive, just like with Safi. As the timelines are merged into one at the end of Double Exposure Chloe is alive again even if you chose the ending in which she died. That probably also means Arcadia Bay is no longer destroyed, there are rumors that Max might return there.
- Comment on New Life is Strange Game Spotted, And Yes, This One Will Finally Bring Back Chloe 1 week ago:
Oh, looks like the rumors were true. I’m not sure I want Chloe back. It could’ve been handled a little better in Double Exposure, but she couldn’t ever really be an integral part of the game, not unless the developers decided which decision in the original Life is Strange is canon. I doubt that the fans that only care about Max + Chloe are ever going to be satisfied with whatever decision the developers take. Also fuck Deck Nine.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
The Dutch centuries ago called their language Diets/Duuts/Duits which means something like Germanic.
No, it means something like “people” or “of the people”.
- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 1 week ago:
Florence comes from the Latin name of the city Florentia.
- Comment on The information density on a vinyl can be higher earlier in the record than later... 1 week ago:
It’s an 11% increase, that’s huge. Floppies weren’t just used to store programs, also to store files.
- Comment on Are you telling me a shrimp fried this rice? 1 week ago:
It’s as shrimple as that.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
You think Israel has no influence in Europe? TARGET or SWIFT doesn’t make a difference.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 1 week ago:
Moving HQ to murica is usually done because of venture capitalists having it as a requirement for funding. If EU based startups want to be successful without it they require either funding from european VCs or figure out how to do compete without VC money.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
SWIFT is also european.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 weeks ago:
No, they just have their human assisstants as a filter to use the entshittified search.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really see that happen. It would mean developers (or crappy AI code generators) would have to write efficient code for the low-powered client devices. The web is basically already other people’s computers and look how memory hungry browsers are, or maybe more specifically the websites/apps that run in the browsers.
- Comment on Ashmelissaleigh 3 weeks ago:
It’s the name of the twin you absorbed in the womb.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
In that case wouldn’t German have to use something like Fußfinger instead of Zeh?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Not quite. Green countries are germanic or uralic (finnish, estonian, hungarian). I assume each country is only represented by a single language on the map, and Ireland is probably assumed to be speaking English according to this map.
- Comment on The upvotes have been removed for your safety 3 weeks ago:
Just touch the unexposed wires, all your worries will disappear.
- Comment on This AI summary is certainly shit 3 weeks ago:
It’s spot on, it just doesn’t understand that the video and book are satire.