Anarch157a

@Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Brazil. Our population density map is not that different from the US, only it’s over one long shore, instead of three (four if you count the great lakes as a shore). Still, even deep into the Amazon region, like the city of Manaus, you can have 600 Mbps fibre for less than US$20.

  Size of the country of population density is not the reason internet access is expensive in the US. Greed and corruption are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My country is as big as the US and we can get 500 Mbs fibre for $23, less than half what AT&T charges.

  Is not the size of the country that make fibre costs to be so high in US, it’s unchecked, exploitative capitalism allowed by a corrupt plutocratic government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Silicon Valley Needs Immigration⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Because theyŕe greedy fucks”.

  There, saved a click.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also known as “light”, as used in Lasers, which also works to knock down drones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SteamDB gives you a valuation based on full price. The article describes an entry on Steam’s Help page that gives you an accurate number of how much money you paid to Valve, including micro-transactions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sims Competitor inZOI Sells 1 Million in a Week, Krafton Declares It a ‘Long-Term Franchise IP’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention it would be a buggy mess, geared towards on-line only content and predatory gacha mechanics. Remember that abortion that was the last SimCity ? It pretty much gave Cities: Skylines a permission to print money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IEEE Recognizes Itaipu Dam’s Engineering Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The project had a massive ecological and social impact on the region. People who lost their homes and farms to the lake, were still not re-settled or compensated almost 20 years after it was formed, displacement of native peoples from their ancesttal lands, it drowned old growth forests which caused them to rot and release CO2 and methane, disrupted the reproductive cycle of several species of fish, towns that were far from the river and then were close to the expanded lake were inundated by mosquitos, I could go on.

  But hey, progress right ?

  Fucking dictatorship.

  Itaipu was completelly unneccessary, A chain of smaller dams would have provided the same capacity, but with lower and more distributed impact, but the fucking dictators had to show how Brazil was capable of tackling huge engineering projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 248 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reasons why Ubisoft is in the shitter, facing hostility from both gamers and shareholders alike. It seems the Guillemot familly is hellbent into destroid every last shred of good will left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New U.S. DJI drone alternative just hit the market, it’s only 6X the cost of equivalent DJI drone⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the true cost of decades of protectionist demagoguery disguised as “national security”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see more and more people moving to Bluesky, which means Xitter is becoming less and less relevant by the day. Except for nazi shitheads, that is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China to launch antitrust probe into Google⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a political move. By harassing one of USs largest corporations, the CCP hopes Sundar Pichai will call the morons in charge to complain and ask for concessions.