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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  i was on mobile so i was keeping it terse. let’s see if i can expand a bit now that i’m at a keyboard.

  the right to repair movement is fighting companies that deliberately make it harder to fix things, so that customers will have to use company services to repair their stuff, or buy new stuff. john deere and apple are two big players here, with cryptographical signatures built into parts that void the warranty if they don’t match. this is actively adversarial behavior and should plainly be illegal. skg, on the other hand, is fighting companies that just leave their stuff to rot. they’re just neglecting their product once there is no profit in it, which you can’t really say about e.g. john deere; they are obligated by law to provide parts for the things they sell for x amount of years after they no longer sell the product itself.

  so, the two are in different legal frameworks: right to repair is trying to stop capture of the spare parts market, while skg is fighting for there to even be a spare parts market. and that’s where my previous point comes in: while machines are inherently understood to be repairable (because they used to be) and the fact that companies are trying to clamp down on that is plainly obvious, software has never been generally understood to be changeable by the end user. it has always been an enthusiast/professional-only thing.

  so, equating the two may harm either
  a) rtr, because of the assumption that only people with the correct credentials should have access to repair parts,
  b) skg, because of the assumption that they want companies to provide support for things for up to several years like in the parts market, or
  c) both, because of the assumption that they want the same thing, which, if implemented, would make neither side happy.

  i’m not 100% sure i’m making sense here, because on some level i do think they share similarities. of course they do. but how do you present that to a group of amateurs (legislators) in a coherent way? i don’t think you can without harming either cause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms]⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  because to most people software is not a thing that can be repaired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms]⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s an assumption. for all we know they would have connected the two, or seen one as harmless and implemented it, or lobbied against both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms]⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  and that’s what the regulation is for. to get them to plan ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arts & STEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  i think macos inserts those automatically if you do three dashes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  But most of the key points he raised were sensationalized but not actually wrong if you look at things from a developer perspective.

  they were also not really relevant to the campaign, which was the biggest problem with his comments. there was no expectation that studios do extra work to keep servers up, or make offline clients. the expected legislation was to have publishers allow external use of the relevant source code of the product when the publisher deems the work no longer profitable, to spare people the effort of reverse-engineering protocols and building their own servers. a knock-on effect of that would be that future services would have to be built with eventual shutdown procedures in mind, which, let’s face it, they should already have been doing.

  thor was saying “this isn’t feasible because it’s a bunch of extra work for the developers”, completely missing the point that this is not on the developers. it’s on the company sitting on the IP. they can publish source trees no problem, no developer involvement necessary. and the legislation would have made sure of that fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  that was sort of the point though. a big case with a narrow focus can later be used as a fulcrum for a wider scope, given that the original case has the right spin. it’s also easier than going after the anti-repair people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the seven deadly companies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  linkedin is like designed for envy but only used for pride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  thor is a tech youtuber. it’s just his actual name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah my opinion on piratesoftware was really cemented by his inability to do a charitable reading of the petition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crosspost if you agree!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  nah, he’s live and reloaded

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

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  he’s bad

  he rides across the nation
  a thoroughbred of sin
  he got the application
  that you just sent in

  we’re focusing our business
  and hiring from within
  there’s currently no vacancies
  within our evil agency

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  the evil league of evil
  is downsizing you see
  although we are still interested
  in your CV

  so please keep it updated
  and keep your schedule free

  you’ll be the first
  to know of course
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  signed bad horse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  funnily enough there was also a car brand named Nikola. they turned out to be a huge scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aging is fun⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  god i feel this so much. like trying to push through mud to get thoughts to complete sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  a large part of finland is a province of russia. Karelia belongs the the finns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D-printed drill press can drill through metal — costs around $45 to create your own drill press⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i really like concrete guy’s version as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The duality of mothman⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if you want to make a new conspiracy, be sure to involve mothman’s ass again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3105: Interoperability⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  when can we expect breitscpuhrbahn coasters?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dino-sore⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i hate you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The duality of mothman⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s pre-internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dino-sore⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …you just unlocked something it my brain. if it’s the video i’m thinking of, the costumes were all this shit-brown color of latex paint that wrinkled uncomfortably as people mowed in them. like, full-body pterodactyl costumes with dick holes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only app I need⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  sony still do them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only app I need⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  no. my first smartphone ran android 1.6 and had a flashlight. may have been a htc-specific thing back then though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just curious⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s got a trigger, don’t it? yeet that meat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cube rule is Spaceballs. Salad theory is Meet the Spartans.

  oh god it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok smartass⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  not the same image, but op’s image is an ai upscale of the one you linked. the tells are

  1. the background is red instead of white
  2. the pattern on the sleeves is similar, but different.
  3. the original is flipped horizontally, and the upscale doesn’t know that, so it tries to “fix” the numbers of the pocketwatch, turning the flipped “IX” into… “N”
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  how do we know no money was involved? both the new owners apparently work at the same company, which was recently created and is a subsidiary of a vc firm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  depends. wood stoves put out a metric shitton of heat, no matter how hot their surroundings. the more of it you capture, the less wood you need. we have a massive old stone oven that takes a week to heat up but then keeps above ambient for like two-three. it’s several m^3^ in size, the house is built around it. it also keeps the house cool in summer by absorbing heat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  this is an interesting idea if building a home as well. the resistive heating element could easily be swapped for something like a wood stove.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tunic is awesome and I wish more people talked about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah but i’m no longer interested. the mismatch between the world and the combat made me feel like the game was built as a trap, the cute visuals luring people in to punish them. it left a bad taste in my mouth.