barryamelton

@barryamelton@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a reason Digital Rights Management techonologies are loved by corpofascists; control over the full communication channel, from file source, to OS kernel (TPM modules, trusted computing, signed OS images via UEFI), to transmission protocol, to physical channel (hdmi) to screen de rendering in the final device.

  Once the tooling is laid out and people are forced into not owning their devices, nor being able to copy, nor consume media that hasn’t been cryptographically signed and approved, then it’s all fair game.

  There’s ways to ensure digital rights and reduce privacy that doesn’t need forcing people to not own any part of the communication channel whatsoever (privacy is a UX problem, give people an easy way to consume media and they will pay for it).

  It’s also why they are also scared of the “analog hole” (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole) that they try for people to self-censor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  USB sticks will lose the data after a couple of years of not being powered

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Element. If you are missing something, talk to all those motivated people doing Discord bots or whatever, they can contribute to Element/Matrix. And it’s actually open source, they keep their contributions, contrary to all the work they have done for Discord for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sims are a captive market: all enthusiasts just buy it once, and there’s limited number of enthusiasts. Companies either have finite money and resell the same sim again and again, or over promise and under deliver.

  To break a captive market you either increase customers (not gonna happen, in fact simmers and interest in aviation is trending down compared with the 80s and 90s), or remove the market part altogether.

  Removing the market is the solution: be need an open source sim for the community by the community. Sims and libs that can aglutinate all work done in academia, gaming, and different styles of sims under one umbrella, bringing a symbiosis work that is way better than the separate parts. We need to pull a Blender.

  We are in 2024. Sims suck. They barely are multi threaded. They need to reimplement all planes again and again, losing all info in what they falsely call themselves “a sim museum”.

  We can do better.