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- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 2 days ago:
Yep, we are what make these sites important.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 2 days ago:
That’s why I’m always interested in self-hosting. I have my own Plex and Jellyfin seedbox server for the private trackers I’m in, with a VPS hosting an OpenVPN to make it look like I’m in a different country, just to make it that much safer. It works damn well.
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 3 days ago:
They can just mandate RTO without actually calling it a layoff and know many workers will outright quit, and the business won’t have to comply with whatever local regulations are in place around layoffs.
It depends on where you live. In some countries, if they mandate RTO but your employment contract does not specify that you must work in an office, then that’s a constructive dismissal and you can go on employment benefits like unemployment insurance.
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 3 days ago:
You’re not wrong and I’m shocked this hasn’t been shut down yet. Not to mention, the Nintendo 64 has been discontinued for years, but I have a feeling that won’t stop Nintendo.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 4 days ago:
But it’s just the playtest that is free, not the actual game itself? If they are giving the playtest AND the actual game for free then yeah that makes more sense, but otherwise I think it would likely be considered unconscionable for playtest access to mean they can’t criticize the game they paid for, and thus it would likely be unenforceable.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
I think it depends on where you live. Hiring didn’t go crazy where I live, but the layoffs afterwards sure did.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
First a nearly unprecedented world-wide pandemic followed almost immediately by AI taking over the world, man it is really not a good time to start out as a newer developer. I feel so fortunate that I started working full-time as a developer nearly a decade ago.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
The question isn’t “are they safer than the average human driver?”
How is that not the question? That absolutely is the question. Just because someone is accountable for your death doesn’t mean you aren’t already dead, it doesn’t bring you back to life. If the death rate for self-driving vehicles is really that much lower, you are risking your life that much more by trusting in human drivers.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
But if a human driver is dangerous, and gets put in jail or get taken off the roads, there are another 3 or more dangerous human drivers already taking their place. If the rate of accidents and rate of fatal accidents with self-driving vehicles is way down versus human drivers, you are actually risking your life more by trusting in human drivers and taking way more risks that way.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
I think people are just trying to hate on Tesla because it’s Elon (and fair enough) rather than self-driving itself. Although there’s also the side of things that self-driving vehicles are already safer than human-driven ones, have lower rates of accidents, etc but people expect there to be zero accidents whatsoever with self-driving which is why I think self-driving may never actually take off and become mainstream.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 weeks ago:
Twitter does the same thing and it’s horrible lmao
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 4 weeks ago:
What a wonderful future we are entering.
- Comment on Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract 4 weeks ago:
Well yeah, Google likes money.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 4 weeks ago:
does not suffer from desyncs
Not entirely true. IRC can have network splits (I believe they were referred to as netsplits if I remember correctly) where one network can drop out. You can notice this when you see like 50+ people leave a channel at the exact same time because the network they were on disconnected, it’s kind of interesting imo lol but also I’m a nerd so maybe that’s why I find it interesting.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 4 weeks ago:
What would it be called?
- Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 5 weeks ago:
Well, that makes the tech debt at my company look like nothing lol
I mean, we even support ES8 and newer!
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 1 month ago:
Yep, this is why I have multiple Lemmy accounts. That’s even one of the biggest strengths of Lemmy.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
Don’t forget private games, it’s a win-win because customers can buy games they don’t want to show to their friends and Valve get more money because they get more people buying those
embarrassingawesomegames. - Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used modder's work without credit 1 month ago:
Modern hardware is wasted on modern devs. Can we send them back in time to learn how to optimize, and bring back the ones that knew how to properly utilize hardware?
I think a lot of the blame is erroneously placed on devs, or it’s used as a colloquialism. Anyone who has worked in a corporate environment as a developer knows that the developers are not the ones making the decisions. You really think that developers want to create a game that is bad, to have their name attached to something that is bad and to also know that they created something that is bad? No, developers want to make a good game, but time constraints and horrible management prioritizing the wrong things (mostly, microtransactions, monetizing the hell out of games, etc) results in bad games being created. Also, game development is more complex, hardware is more complex, and developers are expected to produce results in less time than ever before - it’s not exactly easy, either.
It’s a pet peeve of mine and I’m sure you meant no harm by it, but as a developer (and as someone who has done game development on the side and knows a lot about the game development industry), it’s something that bothers me when people blame bad games solely on devs, and not on the management who made decisions which ended up with games in a bad state.
With that said, I agree with your sentiments about modern hardware not being able to take advantage of long-forgotten cool features like four-screen splitscreen, offline modes (mostly in online games), arcade modes, etc. I really wish these features were prioritized.
- Comment on When Vice Shuts Down, Where Will its Articles Go? 2 months ago:
I’m afraid of the answer to this question tbh.
- Comment on Activision/Blizzard QA workers form the largest US video game union yet 2 months ago:
This is great news. This is probably one of the companies that most desperately needed a union. Sure, I was laid off due to (bragged about) nepotism at my last dev job, and maybe a union would have helped, but according to my lawyer they didn’t break any laws firing me. I’m just glad I was able to bounce back and land on my feet in a higher paying job.
Even considering all of that, I find it hard to think of a company most desperately needing of a union than Activision/Blizzard.
- Comment on I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace. 2 months ago:
That’s why people usually say Half past 5, in my experience anyway.
- Comment on Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right 2 months ago:
Is there a word for the opposite of enshitification?
- Comment on More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities 2 months ago:
How expensive are they, $100,000 or maybe more?
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 2 months ago:
They absolutely were, yeah.
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 2 months ago:
That’s assuming they update their backups, or that if they do update their backups they don’t keep historical versions.
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 2 months ago:
I’d bet a year of my salary that it only deletes it from public view so people can no longer get helped from Reddit’s Google search results, but a copy (or more than one copy) is still retained on their internal servers.
- Comment on Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services 2 months ago:
The enshitification is very, very real. This is why the Fediverse is so important.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 2 months ago:
Well I guess it’s a good thing they didn’t accept any of my 3 applications last year.
- Comment on Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game 2 months ago:
I mean Diablo is pretty addicting too lol, one of my friends dropped out of school for Diablo. Then again, one of my friends almost dropped out of school for Modern Warfare 2 - not that it wasn’t fun of course (most fun CoD imo).