Laser
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- Comment on Hammer time 1 week ago:
Mephisto is the least scary part of the dungeon, it’s the dolls that can really fuck you up, and blinking into an unlucky stunlock
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
The equivalent to Plex is Jellyfin I think, Plex can be used as a media server for Kodi.
- Comment on Which game is it? 2 weeks ago:
That’s more hours per week than I have to work.
But you can always do more. I have a childhood friend who, when some leagues were released, averaged about 14 hours per day for Path of Exile for two weeks straight. Like 180 hours playtime in two weeks.
Another friend of mine should be at about 8000 hours of Rocket League by now on his main account only. That’s over the game’s full lifespan though.
- Comment on “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
The CD wasn’t really suited to be played Mobile (though I did have a portable CD player). It should rather be compared to vinyl in that regard.
I think tapes are great because no portable audio player ever came close to the Walkman regarding its cultural impact. The fact that anyone could record tapes opened up a lot of creative options.
For properly mastered music to be enjoyed at home on a potentially expensive setup, the CD was very close to perfect.
- Comment on Merry weekend yall 5 weeks ago:
Got a giggle out of me
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 1 month ago:
This is what people always seen to ignore about YouTube. It’s not just another database frontend to use generated content. That is definitely part of it, but behind that is probably the largest public facing content library on the Internet with a full video recoding infrastructure attached. YouTube is the platform for which I understand that they need to monetize.
Sure, nowadays there’s also tiktok as another big video service. But I like to think that YouTube is way bigger in most metrics.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
But think about the 5 MB they saved!
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
I think SW Republic Commando sounds were stored in Vorbis. Back then.
Unreal Tournament also used Vorbis starting from either 2003 or 2004.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 1 month ago:
You’re not addicted to cocaine until you’re poor, until then it’s a habit.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 1 month ago:
Your commitment to science is commendable
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 1 month ago:
Psychedelics just chilling at the bottom. I’m not even sure there’s a proper LD50 for these as there are no recorded deaths where overdose was the cause. It’s so funny yet sad that these are super illegal while booze and tobacco are perfectly legal.
- Comment on Elon shuts down USAID after Trump agrees 60-year-old foreign aid agency is 'beyond repair' as 10,000 employees face the chop 1 month ago:
I’m not certain USAID sends financial aid or rather if they provide services paid by their budget. And yes, the US does receive foreign aid in emergency cases. You have probably forgotten already, but there were some pretty bad fires lately that Canada helped fight with their CL-415s. Because, you know, money doesn’t usually solve any issue but debt. It won’t take out a fire or end a pandemic.
No country does foreign aid out of goodness. It puts your own companies into these countries.
I’m not saying the US has any obligation to provide foreign aid. But don’t portray them as a country that gets explored by other nations. The only ones exploring the US are the rich. The US is wealthy enough, possibly even the wealthiest large nation on earth. It wouldn’t be if they just gave all money or whatever away. It’s just a lie to keep you distracted.
- Comment on Netherlands | Bacteria and pesticides found in cannabis sold in Dutch coffee shops 2 months ago:
Yes, but their suppliers aren’t, and I’d guess that the issues did not originally arise in the coffeeshops
- Comment on KaraDAV release 0.6.0 [webdav] 2 months ago:
Very cool. Thanks
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking 3 months ago:
Isn’t fitgirl a repacker?
Also, did recent denuvo games get cracked?
- Comment on lewd noodles 3 months ago:
What about the aspects of a fish
- Comment on Key Trump pick calls for end to escalation in Ukraine 4 months ago:
Not getting my hopes up, but at least seemingly not another Russian puppet
- Comment on Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money * TorrentFreak 4 months ago:
The problem I have with this is that there’s no definition of what “owning” means. Never have individuals bought a game and then owned all rights associated with it. It was always a license that included personal use and nothing much else.
However, due to how media distribution worked, this license was generally valid forever and could be transferred to another party, and these two factors - especially the first one - make a good point: why would I enter such a license if the other side can factually nullify it at any point, while I lose that option after a certain time?
Apart from that, media piracy was never stealing in the first place. It’s about unlicensed usage and distribution of media. And rightholders can’t be surprised if people don’t license it if the construct is so stacked to their disadvantage.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 4 months ago:
I think if LetsEncrypt went away, so would ZeroSSL’s free offer.
However, I do think not having limitations on the API is good; automation is good practice and I guess this is a concession to customers /users who have no automation in place (though this is a sad state by now). LE doesn’t offer anything comparable AFAIK.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 4 months ago:
Never used them, but they state at zerossl.com/features/acme/ that their free acme certs include wildcards.
- Comment on It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still 4 months ago:
By itself nothing. It was more along the lines of “why doesn’t the Finnish game support the Finnish kennel”.
Noita doesn’t even need proton, it’s using OpenGL so plain wine is perfectly fine.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 4 months ago:
Maybe ZeroSSL
- Comment on It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still 4 months ago:
Dang I haven’t played Noita in like a week
Thinking about it, it’s weird that it has no native Linux version
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 4 months ago:
Right? It’s like their not even trying. Everyone knows you need at least a hundred machines
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 5 months ago:
What would be the utility for someone, who cares about privacy and currently uses Signal and email for communication?
Your organization can’t host a federated Signal server, and email isn’t private.
Is Matrix anything good already, or is it something with potential that’s still fully in development?
My previous organization has used it for over 4 years without issues, however mostly limited to text.
How tech savvy does one need to be to use Matrix?
Simply using? Not very much, basically like Lemmy.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 5 months ago:
Believe it or not, even the thugs beating down protests enjoy western luxuries… Or not having 20% inflation.
Plus, enforcing your government’s policies becomes a whole lot less attractive if all your neighbors dislike your employer. It all trickles down eventually.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 5 months ago:
And I don’t know if you noticed or not, unfortunately, the sanctions aren’t working that well… Maybe the answer is more sanctions? idk
I’m in favor of more of them, but I don’t think the current ones aren’t working. It was clear from the beginning that they’d be escalating so that Russia has a way out. They’re not using it so sanctions get worse.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 5 months ago:
Sure… Their anger will be directed at Putin, not at who actually imposed those sanctions.
I am worried that these sanctions will make them band together and support Putin even more.
And then what? They’ll go to war even harder? And if Putin is such a good leader, why doesn’t he just have Russia produce alternatives to the goods and services under sanctions?
The old status quo without sanctions got the world into the current situation. Why would keeping it the same fix it?
One could also make the opposite case for your logic: I am worried that without sanctions, people will see Putin as a strong leader, and as such hand together and support him even more.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 5 months ago:
We are entering the era of cyber-warfare, nation-state counter hacking, software and hardware sabotage, underground black and grey markets for both hardware and software.
We have entered that territory at least 10 years ago.
The rest I agree with. But I also think this is in fact the right move: you need to create pressure that hurts both the leadership and the people.
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 5 months ago:
Qualcomm paying as much as other licensees should be preferable to Qualcomm than bankruptcy.
Not saying this is wrong, but where do you get it from? The article just states that ARM considers Qualcomm’s acquisition of Nuvia a breach of license. Both companies held ARM licenses before. What’s the issue with such a purchase?