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- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 6 days ago:
Look I get it. The planet is dying, income inequality, it seems everything is unfair and going to shit. People yearn at an opportunity to help make things better. But yelling for simple solutions is the opposite of helpful. Because there are no simple solutions.
Saying to “just open source it” does not make sense.
What do you do about:
- proprietary codecs
- proprietary software that just does not exist as open source
- the fact you need a copy of the game engine to actually build the game from sources
- assets that have been bought on asset stores. Do the people who make those for a living not have a right to continue to make a living?
Making single player games without always online DRM: yes totally doable
Running game servers of online games forever: not really doable, as soon as all the libraries etc. they depend on are unsupported they will shut down one way or another. You need staff basically forever. Not even mentioning the maintenance headache that every legacy system always turns into.
Letting people run their own dedicated servers: sometimes doable, depends on the game though. Some games do not have “a server” but a whole infrastructure of stuff, look at foxhole. Some “servers” are a house of cards barely held together by duct tape.
This initiative all comes down to the definition of “reasonable”. What is reasonable, actually? Running an infrastructure at a loss until bankruptcy? Or just keeping it online until it starts making a loss.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 6 days ago:
There is a reason it’s included though. Stuff like fmod, bink video etc. does complicated things that you otherwise need to implement yourself.
- Comment on Injured dog walkers could be costing NHS £23m a year 2 weeks ago:
I btlet they are saving the NHS multiple times that amount due to having an enforced consistent sleep rhythm and going for walks twice a day.
- Comment on Looking for an html-based secure message service 3 weeks ago:
I mean that’s pretty easy to build yourself. You can write a super simple web app and on get it displays a message then deletes it from database.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 3 weeks ago:
The earth is only 6001 years old [1]!
- Comment on Docker is not available in RHEL10 3 weeks ago:
So containers have been standardized for a while now (OCI), and even if you install “docker” it’s actually just installing containerd with docker-cli. For years kubernetes is not even supporting docker-shim anymore. So there should be no issue. What is even the problem you are running into?
- Comment on An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications 5 weeks ago:
If you were an alien sensing radio waves a city for you would be the same as a bright day for us: we are used to lots of visible light being scattered around, and the aliens would be used to radio doing the same.
- Comment on An alien who sees in the radio part of the light spectrum would probably be blinded by all our wireless communications 5 weeks ago:
We see in the visible part, yet we are not blinded by all the light.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 5 weeks ago:
What the fuck.
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 5 weeks ago:
TrueNAS will remove VMs the next release. It still supports containers directly.
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 1 month ago:
It’s not feasible. A project can have 10s or 100s of thousand lines of code and it takes months to really understand what’s going on. Sometimes you need domain specific knowledge.
I read through those installers that do a
curl gitbub… | bash. Otherwise I do what amounts to a “vibe check”. How many forks and stars does it have? How many contributors? What is the release cycle like? - Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 1 month ago:
The Nordics are far ahead in this. Torx everywhere.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 month ago:
What’s up with that. Why would you walk through piles of corpses barefoot.
- Comment on Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains 1 month ago:
The capacitors have a limited lifetime.
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 1 month ago:
PCI bus bar on top.
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 1 month ago:
3600W is the maximum a power socket is rated for and the fuse triggers at 3800W. So, cutting it pretty close.
- Comment on Economcial, Billionaires are the biggest threat to the free market 1 month ago:
I’m not a fan of billionaires but you are fundamentally incorrect. And it is very unhelpful to be incorrect in this case because people will be able to dismiss your argument easily.
They don’t have a billion on their bank account. They own companies worth that much.
Every warehouse, truck, robot and server that Amazon owns counts towards Bezos wealth. You cannot “reinvest” all of that because the company requires it to function.
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 2 months ago:
The sad thing is that the bar is so low. If it was a once in a century charismatic leader you could say “I get how people fell for this!”. But the fact it’s Trump and Musk just exposes how utterly flawed human society is, and how easy it is to slide backwards.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 months ago:
Its above the critical point, so water will be a supercritical fluid. 370 C already requires 217 atm of pressure.
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 2 months ago:
That would require us, the users, to donate more.
- Comment on HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war 2 months ago:
You need none. They release free content together with every DLC too. Also you can get the subscription for a month and cancel immediately if you want to try all of them.
- Comment on China now faces 245% Trump tariff 2 months ago:
Just checked wikipedia and it says 30%.
- Comment on HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war 2 months ago:
Maybe Hearts of Iron or Stellaris?
- Comment on Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy 2 months ago:
Not just that. Try manufacturing anything without Chinese parts… They make everything switched, resistors, motors, just everything.
- Comment on Will Trump tariffs and implied trade war have a significant effect on the global emissions of greenhouse gases? 2 months ago:
Depressing thought of the day: if we had no emissions for a year, it would buy us a year.
- Comment on help with generating ssl for freedns in nginx 2 months ago:
What is in the debug log?
- Comment on Thank you Gary ❤️ 2 months ago:
And Gary knows one of the healthiest things is to feel companionship so he came to cuddle. 🤗
- Comment on Teardown Of A Scam Ultrasonic Cleaner 3 months ago:
I got one a while ago and they are great for cleaning small objects, and glasses. Basically ultrasonic sound waves get send through water, small cavitation bubbles form and rip off the dirt.
- Comment on Found money. What do? 3 months ago:
Very simple: if you lost $200, what would you like the person who found it to do?
- Comment on On email privacy: can I store my own email and relay them through an email provider? 3 months ago:
Yes it exists, but these services are aimed at companies.