SculptusPoe
@SculptusPoe@lemmy.world
I’m just this guy. You know?
- Comment on GOG's new owner says Steam is winning due to ease of use, not quality, while criticizing the platform for releasing hundreds of games daily that are "not super high quality" 8 hours ago:
Yeah, I’ve enjoyed some games that wouldn’t have made the cut if cuts were to be made. I don’t want steam curating what is on there. Sounds like GoG does, which is another reason not to use it I suppose.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
If they reprinted those scanned books and sold them or even gave them away, they would be in more trouble than you would by sharing on limewire by dent of numbers. That isn’t what they are doing with these books.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
When a bookstore goes out of business or just can’t sell a book, they don’t return it to the printers, they tear off the cover, return that and by law have to throw the rest of the book in the trash and destroy it. So books are already destroyed by the millions. If they were destroying ancient texts or valuable copies, that would be more something to get excited about. I doubt that they were doing that though.
- Comment on TRIMUI Brick Hammer, a weirdly named but beautiful handheld 6 days ago:
The brick hammer is great for everything up to Snes and GBA. It is my most used device of 7 or 8 that I own. It isn’t good for n64 and up, not because it won’t play them, but because it has no joystick. Even so, for Snes, nes and GBA I really believe that there is no better platform to play them on.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 1 week ago:
SNES was peak and most evergreen due to the games being peak pixel art before everything went 3D. Nearly every SNES game is still beauitful. I tried playing some N64 games, and they are so ugly that they are nigh unplayable.
- Comment on Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users 1 week ago:
I mean, really, you probably have $0 worth of damages to worry about. If something in particular happens, like corporate espianage hurting your business that causes real damage, then you have the freedom to sue for that particular thing (supposing you aren’t locked out by the settlement I suppose.)
- Comment on Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users 1 week ago:
Well, they can’t in the case of a criminal case. These are civil cases, buying your way out is all that happens in the best of circumstances in a civil case. It is just a matter of how much you have to pay to buy out. Punitive damages might do some extra justice, but what would that be? In the end you have to imagine that some radom person has sued you unjustly and decide how you want an innocent person to be treated, or perhaps they sued you with some small real point to their lawsuit, do you want the default to be that you are ruined. Maybe you didn’t intend harm, but want to either make ammends or at least get past the lawsuit so you can get on with your life, do you want no recourse possible?
In the end, if Google was forced out of business, many(most) of us would be way worse off. That is not the ideal outcome. Ideally, the case brings enough money to the plaintiff to right any hardship caused and, in the case of punitive damages, does just enough hardship to the defendant that they are dissuaded from pursuing that course of action, but you aren’t trying to kill them.
- Comment on Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms 1 week ago:
Good gravy. 1984 wasn’t a guidebook.
- Comment on Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users 1 week ago:
Settlements only happen with the consent of both parties. I don’t see that as a problem. If you really don’t want a settlement, then opt out of the class action and bring your own case.
- Comment on Polish president vetoes "Orwellian" law allowing blocking of online content 3 weeks ago:
People cheer every time something they don’t like gets censored, and then scoff and tell you you are just pro whatever-that-thing-was when you tell them why that is dangerous. People want 1984 to come true with all their heart.
- Comment on Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers 4 weeks ago:
I’m not anti-AI at all, but their LLM definitely isn’t ready for the top of a google search as if it is real information. Of course, posting promoted search results at the top of the searches as if it was a real result already devalued them.
- Comment on Notepad++ updater installed malware 1 month ago:
I just updated through Ninite and it went to 8.8.9.
- Comment on At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus... 2 months ago:
I would legitimately watch robot boxing.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
dagnabbit
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
I offered to leave my senior design group and find another when they were going to build a system for the military as their project. They were nice enough to change it to an automated feeder.
- Comment on whoopsie 2 months ago:
Thank you. We need to be aware of climate change, but crying wolf and false interpretation of the science isn’t the way to get people on board.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 months ago:
8k is a little high. I feel like 4k is a significant change, especially if you use your screen as a computer monitor.
- Comment on US | Miami Is Testing a Self-Driving Police Car That Can Launch Drones 3 months ago:
In before they designate these obedience bots as people and make violence against them punishable by extrajudicial execution.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are falling to Earth at an alarming rate 3 months ago:
They are in low orbit and meant to de-orbit at eol. It is better they do that than stay up there really. The article throws out a lot of fear mongering language then at least it follows up with the reasons it isn’t a problem mostly. Except they make it sound like these sattelites are hitting the ground , but really just some kind of space debree hits the ground. These are made to burn up and only one piece has ever been proven to hit the ground. That does mean it’s possible, but still unlikely.
- Comment on Harsh 3 months ago:
The moon takes up only around 0.00077% of the visible area of the sky. That’s a pretty small target.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 5 months ago:
Yeah, I wouldn’t watch it. I also don’t watch boxing or football. They probably should have shut them down if they are policing their streams at all.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 5 months ago:
Okay. Fine. Who do you want control of what you can see, hear and read?
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 5 months ago:
Not a straw man. An actual point.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 5 months ago:
Well. Devil’s advocate, they are holding the streaming service responsible because they didn’t block the stream, which presumably would presumably disrupt the streamer’s actions. I don’t personally think Kick should be responsible at all.
- Comment on Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics 6 months ago:
More random anti-ai fear mongering. I stopped looking at r/technology posts in reddit because that sub is getting flooded with anti-ai propoganda posts with rediculous headlines like this…
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 6 months ago:
Back in the 90s and early 00s when I was in HS and college, going to the video store and finding gems like this and watching them at midnight so I could return the tape the next day made movie watching much more of an adventure. I enjoy my streaming services, but might suffer a bit from too much choice. The closest I get now is when I watch some movie I never heard of because it is on Netflix’s removal list.
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 6 months ago:
Time was when you would be in a forum and think “This is the second post in a row where nobody referenced Douglas Adams.”
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 6 months ago:
We wouldn’t even know if He had to turn it off and back on again a couple times.
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 6 months ago:
Thank you, I’ll give it a look.
Unfortunately change is difficult. If it was just me and my controls team we would probably do something like that, but my boss is a little older and I had hard enough time getting him to work on the cloud as it is, and he works in 2 cities, so he isn’t always in reach to help him. If it doesn’t behave exactly like windows folders, it might be a lost case.
The other people in the office I could train easier. It’s a small office with less than a dozen people on the system at any one time. I am “head of IT” but that isn’t my main job. Having something that installs and sets up quickly is a boon. Not that the sharepoint folders update all that quickly, it takes almost a full day for all the files to show up properly, especially if it is a new user. And if onedrive chokes on any one file it completely stops updating file changes until you fix that. Not a problem for anybody with some savvy, but half the people don’t even notice until their files have diverged and somebody calls them and asks why they don’t see some change or another.
All that being said, if I can save a few hundred dollars a month I could probably eventually talk them into moving over to something cheaper like I did with the Wondershare PDF editor. That was an easy move because it works exactly like Adobe but doesn’t crash on large files nearly as often. It is sort of a shame that Adobe is worse at handling their own file format than nearly any other PDF editor.
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 6 months ago:
It seems like they are doing this to push back on mono-culture. Probably just to save money really. Using 365 saved our small office a lot of time, but it is pretty expensive since it is a constant subscription. I already switched away from Adobe at to Wondershare for PDF editing since we can get a single purchase from Wondershare and have to pay a subscription to Adobe. I would be tempted to do the same thing with 365 but we do a lot of traveling and the integrated sharepoint files is pretty useful.