ThirdConsul
@ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 2 days ago:
I wouldn’t really know, I live in Poland and whenever I go West I’m surprised how backward technologically it is (France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland; only Portugal seems to be modern).
Maybe not backward but lacking internet-related improvements, like being able to take care of government thingies online (I think Denmark is the best in that regard), pay using your national pay processors, get cheap internet, update your opening hours online, not take a 4h break midday… you know, common convenances.
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 3 days ago:
Islam and Middle Eastern religions have been around FAR longer than any country in the west has existed.
I want to say no, because there are sheds in Scotland (~100 BC) older than Islam (~600 AD), and 600 AD in Europe we had shitton of Kingdoms etc, but maybe I didn’t understand your point? Could you explain what did you mean?
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 3 days ago:
I wonder if you know that both Christianity and Islam are just splinter sects of Judaism? And if you’re against Judaism, or think it’s evil or smthing, you should consider being against its spin-offs.
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 3 days ago:
We dont; we need USA pay processors alternatives, and of those in EU we have plenty (but I don’t know your specific country, so maybe not in your country).
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 3 days ago:
The Middle East was one of the most progressive places in the world. Islam is still the most tolerant religion
Either you’re trolling, or have never studied history of Islam, it’s birth and spread. Or were taught those by your local priest.
- Comment on Hope his set doesn't bomb 5 days ago:
Are you making a point that slaves in USA are treated better than slaves in Saudi Arabia?
theguardian.com/…/us-prison-workers-low-wages-exp…
800.000 legal slaves in the USA make more than $11 000 000 000 (11 billion) of goods and services annually.
- Comment on Hope his set doesn't bomb 6 days ago:
USians have slaves, I don’t see anyone screaming about boosting an oppressive regime?
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 1 week ago:
Dicckius Biggus I guess
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 1 week ago:
Thanks. I keep forgetting how utterly rubbish the Mercator map really is. Greenland real size is what, 1/3 of Europe?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 1 week ago:
What’s that landmass in A?
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 2 weeks ago:
Wonderlands
Interesting. To me that game was just the worst:
Unskippable, long, very very very long, boring dialogues.
Shitty weapons, but fantasy. E.g. no oomph feeling when you hit the enemy with a large ice explosions. It just scraps a little of their health.
Boring, unchallenging fights.
- Comment on Just one…more..update 1 month ago:
I’m honestly curious what is Stardew competition, as I had fun playing SV?
- Comment on Just one…more..update 1 month ago:
I just hope for better quests in LNF. The ones in NMS are just… Boring.
Maybe it’s because they are procedurally generated from like a template of 10.
- Comment on THIS is always the correct response 1 month ago:
Disclaimer: Am not an USian but European.
shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-20…
This is French journal about fear in women and how it affects their mobility. Whenever someone says
the risk of a fragile, shallow, unhinged, emotionally unstable man going berserk and MURDERING her.
it pops in my mind. The data they gathered suggests that women fear of violence is unrelated to actual rates of said violence happening, but is correlated to past smaller transgressions (“anticipated violence”). Long story short, if you were ever catcalled, or given a [clumsy] compliment, you’re likely to imagine (“anticipate”) out-of-proportion violence in multiple contexts.
The actual crime rate and crime gender proportion (in the US) - counciloncj.org/womens-justice-by-the-numbers/ - violence victims rate is 60-70% down since 1984 and since 2009 men and women are as likely to be the victim [before that men were most likely]; and the number of women perpetrators grown up. Oh, and the homicide rate by spouse is also closing the gap (although some studies suggest that the increase in women killing their husbands should be attributed to them not being dismissed as potential perpetrators by the police force)
I’m not dismissing your feelings OP, and your strategy seems very prudent, but I want to add to this discussion that it’s much much safer than you or the social media will try to paint, despite the fear you feel.
And that you’re not more likely to be a victim of a violent crime than a man (counciloncj.org/womens-justice-by-the-numbers/).
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 month ago:
The very first internet connection occurred on 30 October 1969
No. Earliest cross node connection was early 1969: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPL_network
researchgate.net/…/237130669_How_the_Internet_cam…
This is the book be Vincent Cerf where he explains that ARPANET isn’t the Internet. Good to know that the people who created the Internet are wrong.
I get it. You were taught in school that US government created the internet. It’s a good explanation to the 4th grader. It’s also simplistic and incorrect, but that’s how elementary schools teach. It’s like that with a lot of knowledge, it becomes more nuanced the more you know about it.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 month ago:
That is an interesting point of view. Very USA exceptional. It’s also dumbed down a lot. ARPANET is a computer network, but it’s not internet, nor it was the first. It kickstarted popularity of computer networks in the USA and provided first FTP and (I think) first remote login.
Popularity of computer networks in USA definitely was a formative quality over the 20 years of international development of the Internet.
But saying ARPANET was the internet is like saying black and white TV was Netflix.
First computer network to send packets to another computer was British NPL network. Then US government founded ARPANET, built upon that. Except that DARPA besides having own researchers outsourced to Stanford, BBN and University College of London (“How the Internet Came to Be”, quoting I forgot whom from DARPA).
Then French Cyclades computer network built upon ARPANET and proposed that multiple networks should be able to communicate with each other.
Then USA non-profit IEEE looked at all that proposed TCP/IP for cross-network communication, and that is the thing that (after many iterations over a decade) led to the Internet not being separate networks like AOL or Computerverse or whatever.
Now we’re getting closer to the internet and it’s time for en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_data_network
First was Spain with RETD , then France, then USA with Telenet. Then Canada. Then in 1978 we started connecting those separate networks. I think the first properly working project was …wikipedia.org/…/International_Packet_Switched_Se… between British post office and USA post office.
On those public data networks the Internet’s physical layer was built.
In USA U.S. National Science Foundation was founding more and more computer networks, including CSNET. That’s still not internet. It’s 1980 and it will take a decade of new inventions (Ethernet, LAN, DNS) and improvements & implementations (like to TCP/IP) before we will get the internet.
Here’s a nifty source for that decade, because I spent 50 minutes writing this post before I noticed I’m arguing with a guy over the internet about the internet.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet (there is a nice timeline list there).
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 month ago:
It is so complicated that you’re both correct and incorrect. US government added to it, yes. I’d argue the fundamental work was independent researchers from multiple countries (UK, USA, France). I’d argue the critical infrastructure was multiple non-profits.
Also the question is “what exactly is the beginning of the internet”. Is it usenet? Telnet? Arpanet?
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 2 months ago:
Same document, section about Shareholders.
There’s no such thing. There COULD be something like shareholders voting on smthing and those votes are binding, but the agenda is declared by the company and can be only shiet like dividends rate, certain acquisitions, etc. Not the company strategy itself.
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 2 months ago:
Technically they don’t - it’s a lie told often by CEO. But its a lie. law.stanford.edu/…/Fiduciary-Duties-of-the-Board-…
- Comment on Meta touts 'superintelligence' for all as it splurges on AI 2 months ago:
What is wrong with you?
þink ðat’s
The fuck is that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah… No
I’m not sure what you disagree with? Me blocking the thread to not see it on my page as per what previous commenter suggest? Or that I should’ve participated without reading the rules like you did?
I’m also not sure why are you calling people whiny dweebs or whom.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Just block the community or ask to be banned
Yup, that’s what I did. It leaves… bad taste in my mouth when it goes to my main page, the topic is interesting, I go to read it, and then I see someone silencing the participants with a very smug “You’re not a woman, so please kindly fuck off from here, flowers and smiles”.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 months ago:
- Comment on Makes sense to me 2 months ago:
imagine they controlled
I’ve read the study. They didn’t. N=183, all anonymous. In the study they played Halo 3, recorded voice over and measured the reactions (if any), and then correlated the few reactions they got with skill level.
Nothing is know about participants. The gamers gender was determined based on institute of my ass, out of 183 games there were no responses in almost half, and in the Introduction they admit what they’ll manipulate their result to prove.
Oh, and the data collected contains also female negative responses, they were removed from further processing because women good men bad.
Interestingly the female-negative raw data (examples picked by study authors in appendix 2)
“Yeah, stop stealing my kills, you little piece of shit.”
“Shut up, you removed. She’s a removed though.”
“Should’ve made me a sandwich, removed.
Vs male-negative:
“Freaking removed.”
“I liked your lag trick, jackass.”
“You suck dick.”
Could be my bias, but male-negative from data set sounds significantly less sexists than female-negative. Female negative more often is aggression related to gender, male negative is less personal.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 months ago:
Well, semantically yes, not all telemetry is spyware. However regarding Windows telemetry it’s indistinguishable from spyware - you have no idea nor control over the data gathered, measured and processed.
The crux is that Windows telemetry is opt out, opting out can’t be done during installation, and historically opting out wasn’t sticky. Additionally some Windows telemetry is still being sent despite opting out.
That makes Windows telemetry fulfill all spyware criteria.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 months ago:
Gets up to 700 degs
That’s a furnace. Aluminium melts at 700 degrees. Gold at 1000.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 months ago:
I’m an IT guy, if my printer made a noise I don’t recognise I’d shoot it.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 2 months ago:
Ever heard of Churchill and what he (and other British people) did in India? He starved millions to death. Look up Bengali famine.
- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 2 months ago:
Please don’t upvote this person, I think their a bot. The libs use AWS SDK internally and claim 90% performance boost, and the person explains it as faster development.
- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 2 months ago:
The point is not a few less milliseconds, it’s many hours of reduced development for people implementing DynamoDB
So you’re comparing claimed performance (execution) gains to development time? Yeah, that makes sense.
I think you’re a bot.