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- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
I mean sure, that is how some (mostly strategy) games do it, but for an FPS, figuring out where the buffer should be would be a programmers nightmare. I guess you would have to try to calculate all possible line of sights a player could have within some buffer time and then all players that could in theory enter them… Add physics and it is practically impossible.
Also, corner hack is useful enough and it does not address aimbot. IMO the answer is some combination of human moderation and ability to play with “friends” instead of randos. E.g. you could ask people to like or dislike a player at the end of a match and try to pair players that liked each other in the past.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
That does not detect things like wall hack and aim-bots that don’t modify the game state directly.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 2 weeks ago:
In XMPP, e2e encryption (just like everything else) is an optional extension. So in practice half the clients don’t support e2ee, half support different version of e2ee (can’t talk to each other) and pretty much all e2ee are likely full of holes since there are too many implementations.
In Matrix, e2ee is in a library that all clients can use.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
I strongly prefer GOG to the point where I often don’t buy games that are not on GOG.
That being said, one reason to buy from Steam is steam workshop. So if I want a lot of mods, I may buy from Steam even when available on GOG.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Netherlands? Switzerland? Norway?
Like sure, there always is some corruption but relatively insignificant amount.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
I immediately dislike calling it commerce for 3 reasons:
- Most people will not know what I mean so I will have to explain every time
- Commerce is an existing word that means something different so it will still be confusing in a different direction
- I, on principle, don’t like abandoning words because some dumb group(s) appropriates them and tries to change their meaning
I think I will try saying “regulated capitalism” from now on and see if it is better.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Yeah, the terminology around this kinda sucks. I always have an issue with whether I should call it capitalism or not when I mean a heavily regulated version of it, including some social policies.
I just don’t know a better word for it and it is difficult to concisely express what I mean without saying capitalism and hoping people figure out what I mean from context.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Sorry if it is unclear, I am saying CGB Gray explains how corruption happens in leadership structures.
The opinion that this is why capitalism can work better than communism is entirely my own logical conclusion. I am not trying to claim CGP Gray said so.
Again sorry for the confusion.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
CGP gray very specifically refers to democracies as well and explains how things like farm subsidies are used to buy votes. Maybe re-watch the video.
And yes, CGP gray also indirectly explains why Marxists kept pumping resources into the government, police and bureaucracy. It is inevitable in a system where you concentrate power in a limited group of people.
That is why distributing power between large number of independent capitalists and voters is the system that so far worked best so far, although still very far from perfect.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
It is the opposite. In capitalism, there is at least a chance a good person has power because of how power is distributed. There are multiple examples in the main post.
In communism, the way power is distributed ensures corrupt people raise to the top. See an amazing video “rule for rulers” by CGP gray for a simplified explanation how that corruption works.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
In all leadership positions, period. Capitalist or communist. Democratic or autocratic. Does not matter, those that are not held back by their morals will have an advantage.
- Comment on CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | Some of the people said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled 3 months ago:
I feel like CrowdStrike did some much groundbreakingly stupid shit that this term will be ambiguous?
- Comment on Eat it 4 months ago:
I think switching to a frequency that a different region uses could be dangerous, since then the airplanes near do border would receive the signal but the airport wouldn’t. This could lead to misscommunications.
Also, the airline pays for the jets.
- Comment on Eat it 4 months ago:
They don’t command them, but they call them in like you call the police.
- Comment on Eat the rich? 4 months ago:
In the first place, looking at wealth is pointless. I could make a thousand dollars a day and as long as I spend them immediately on stupid shit, (e.g. permanently living in an expensive hotel, gambling) I could have net worth of $0. Wealth is not a good indicator of anything.
- Comment on Eat the rich? 4 months ago:
Hmm, that is actually an interesting point. If it is negative, does it bring down the sum in this? If so, how much of the world is my net worth greater than? A billion? Two?
- Comment on Eat the rich? 4 months ago:
Yes, that is a much better way to make the same point :)
- Comment on Eat the rich? 4 months ago:
Not lives on, but net worth.
- Comment on Eat the rich? 4 months ago:
The 8 richest people in the world according to investopedia have a combined net worth about 1,369 billion. Divide that by 3.6 billion and it is about $380 per person. Idk what the average net worth of the poorest half of the worldspopulation is, but I doubt it is below $380.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 6 months ago:
That being said, it apparently does not affect Mullvad on any platform other than iOS (Apple does not allow fixing it on iOS). I suspect other serious VPNs are also not vulnerable outside iOS.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 6 months ago:
No, it works at any point and the local network needs to be compromised (untrusted), the host can be secure.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 6 months ago:
Yeah, point was I did not know that. How many companies on the internet don’t rely on AWS? Would you even be able to tell which ones they are?
- Comment on The Palestine experience 6 months ago:
Still need to be careful. I once needed redundancy for simple web service for a hobby project. Set up 3 free websites on different hosting providers. Turns out all 3 were owned by the same company, running on the same servers so my service went down anyway.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 6 months ago:
Archive.org may be soon loosing a copyright lawsuit that will put them out of business. Better not rely on one third party for something this important.
- Comment on There it is 6 months ago:
Its been a long time since I finished the story, I mostly played multiplayer
- Comment on There it is 6 months ago:
GTA SA is dope even today :D
- Comment on If you want communusm, you can start a commune 6 months ago:
You are literally saying we don’t need bosses to tell us what to do and don’t need competition. That we can cooperate in good fate. Yet you think taking more than your fair share is not an issue for such a system?
You seem to be delusional.
- Comment on If you want communusm, you can start a commune 6 months ago:
the goal of an economy is not to produce endlessly, as much as possible. capitalism is extremely growth oriented. that’s about all it’s good for: rapid growth, at the expense of equity and workers’ autonomy. we no longer need this growth and competition; we need to downscale and produce less. the goal of an economy should be to provide what people need, as seamlessly as possible.
The current GDP per capita is about $1,050 a month. That is without taxes, without capital investment and amortization. If you believe we don’t need growth, that is what you should strive tile off of since that is your fair share.
as always, this boils down to mistrust of your fellow man
For a good reason:
nbcnews.com/…/trans-adults-florida-blindsided-new…
politico.com/…/doctors-abortion-medical-exemption…
apnews.com/…/israel-palestinians-hamas-attack-mil…
nytimes.com/…/iran-rapper-toomaj-salehi-death-sen…
None of the above are related to Greed.
this system of incentives rewards whoever is most willing to act immorally to undercut their competitors, essentially guaranteeing that the least ethical individuals end up in charge of everything.
This happens in any political system: youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs
- Comment on If you want communusm, you can start a commune 6 months ago:
anticompetitive and anti labor practices are fundamental to capitalism - you can regulate them all you want, companies will always find ways around it. wage theft (overtime violations, unpaid or underpaid wages, off the clock violations, etc) significantly outweigh all other forms of theft (larceny, robbery, vehicle theft, etc) combined.
In my experience, these anti labor practices are not a thing where I live.
in addition, something like planned obsolescence (companies intentionally making their products less long-lived so you have to buy more of them) cannot be completely prevented with regulation, since companies can always choose not to make their product better in a particular way, or no better than the absolute minimum requirement
Funnily enough, the corp I work for is quite obsessed with making products last longer. How is that possible? Simple. We provide service contracts together with purchases, so customers pay monthly service fee and we have to keep the products functional. So it saves us money (and increases profit) to make repair costs low. You just need to think a bit outside the box.
profit measures value extracted, not value generated. providing a service to people (postal service, healthcare) produces a measurable amount of value which is not directly profit. you can always increase profit by paying workers less and charging more for your product, and these both get more effective the more you have cornered the market. a high amount of profit tends to mean a huge amount of money being extracted from communities and working individuals.
Profit is a function of the value created vs resources consumed to produce the value. As long as there are worker protections legislated, that is just efficiency.
capitalism is competitive, and competitions have winners. you can make all the regulations you want, but even when everyone “plays fair” someone will eventually emerge on top
What are you even talking about? Yes, the most efficient companies emerge on top which is exactly what we want.
competition is massively inefficient; you have no incentive to share anything, so huge amounts of redundant research and work gets done without public benefit.
That is true.
an economy which is based on and rewards collaboration rather than competition would be better able to provide for everyone’s needs and ensure nobody is left behind.
The issue is building such an economy. Most people will always pursue their selfish gains. Capitalism channels this by making “creating valuable things we can sell to people for minimal cost” result in large profits. Where the selfishness would show up in a cooperation based system you describe would be much more difficult to predict since it depends on the details of your system. But the results are likely to be worse exactly because it is hard to predict and therefore regulate.
- Comment on If you want communusm, you can start a commune 6 months ago:
co-ops get outcompeted by corporations. this is a capitalist economy we have, and so it’s very geared towards competitive profit seeking.
Remember that profit and created value go hand in hand, or at least, our legislation should make sure it does.
co-ops provide better worker protections, better working conditions, better stability and resilience, and better products. corporations are better at being single-mindedly profit driven, which is what our economic structure rewards.
True, but corporations have to generate profit for shareholders. This is the profit that should be used for improving worker conditions etc. by communes. Also, some worker protections should be legislated leveling the playing field even more.
communism is not a vague concept
At least here on Lemmy it seems to be. Kinda makes no difference to me if someone has the secrets to successful communism if I can’t see them.
it’s important to remember that under capitalism a company is very much motivated to curtail workers’ rights and anything that would threaten the status quo.
Within the company, sure. Outside, it has motivation to hinder any competition and this has to be prevented by govt. regardless of whether the competition is a co-op or a corp.
the system is rigged against it, which is why they tend to fail.
I am not accepting this without concrete examples. How is it rigged?
capitalism is not markets, nor is it free trade. capitalism is the specific system where there is an owning class that dictates how the economy is run (CEOs / shareholders), thereby holding that power away from the working class, whose lives are dictated by their decisions.
That is a misconception. Any individual CEO/shareholder have very little control of how the economy is run. And while they may cooperate in some areas and situations, they are ultimately competitors most of the time. If you make the simple assumption that they chase profit, than they have even less control. I think they are far closer to just another cog in the machine then to any dictators. That is the appeal of capitalism, as long as you align your goals with profit for corporations, they will fulfill your goals with ruthless efficiency.