randamumaki
@randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 6 days ago:
If the maintainers are open about their use of it and attribute the code made in this fashion properly, there’s far less of a problem. If people don’t like it they can stop using the project and/or fork it to only have human-made code in their version. That’s their choice in FOSS. The jerk reaction and obfuscation makes it far bigger of a problem than this should have been. I don’t trust people when they react to criticism in this fashion. They would have done better just stating the topic was off limits before they lost their cool.
- Comment on More than 400 people dispersed from illegal rave 1 week ago:
The popo doesn’t like fun.
- Comment on People who grew up with Vietnam and the Cold War, is Iran going to be the new vietnam or just a semi cool war? 1 week ago:
My two cents; Cuba is going to be Trump’s Vietnam. He believes it is easy pickings after Venezuela and Iran, but it will more likely break him if he goes there next. Iran might end up being similar to the Korean war; takes too long, war exhaustion sets in, country gets cut in half.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
You spelled Microslop wrong.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 month ago:
The question is what the alternative would be. Look at history for the answer. The easy comparison would be Germany leading up to, during, and after World War 2, but that would be low-hanging fruit considering how very directly the US regime is trying to force other countries to join them. (Anschluss, anyone?) Look also at the countries where extremist regimes took over and didn’t get forced out until years later and the damages they did to their country and the people living in it. Unfortunately too many examples there to name. The US regime and their stormtroopers will continue to harass, arrest, and outright kill people who have a legal right to live in the US simply over the color of their skin or otherwise until they are stopped. And they will most assuredly not stop by the power of fingerwagging and strongly stated words.
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 2 months ago:
The 8 bit guy is controversial. From VICE’s article ( vice.com/…/8-bit-guy-ibm-7496-executive-workstati… ) “[…] touting open carry in Texas, antagonizing the anti-gun Moms Demand Action nonprofit, and statements about gun control that have made many fans question whether they can keep watching his computer content.”
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Right, because UEFI is open sourced and can be checked by anyone. Oh, wait, no, that’s why Libreboot is a thing: libreboot.org I will agree that TrustedComputingGroup and the way they use TPM have a more open standard, but I still don’t trust some of the companies behind it. Especially Microsoft, who have completely lost the plot with recent Windows versions. There is definitely a reason to be wary of it, as cryptographer Ross Anderson is quoted here on wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing#Criticism Software Piracy is a direct answer to greedy publishers who burn out developers and force them to make crapware which they then force DRM on so people can’t play it even if they own the original release. Better people than me have written about how awful DRM is in games. See gog.com/…/what-exactly-is-drm-in-video-games-and-… or expertbeacon.com/why-is-drm-bad-for-gaming/ for exaples. DRM is bad for game preservation purposes or simply to allow someone to install and reinstall the game they own several times. Better people than me have written out about the various issues which DRM caused in the past, most notably safedisc and securom which were well-reported upon. It does not belong in gaming. I can explain a lot, and can attribute a lot to stupidity and greed on either side of the argument. It’s not FUD when it’s a slow crawl to further enshittification and overzealous identification and exclusion of individual users and systems while giving false reasons for why we should put up with it.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Ask yourself why TrustedComputing became a thing, why UEFI and TPM are required for newer Windows versions and what they actually do. And each new step they add something more restrictive to prevent your system running unidentified code. Ask why kernel-level DRM is employed as an anticheat measure. What other kernel-level DRM is on your system? Do you know? Do you care enough to stop using the products pushing it onto your system in the first place? We’re slowly but surely letting the dystopian futures we were warned about happen by not protesting every single time they lock some part of your life down “for reasons”.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 9 months ago:
Don’t worry, more people are on it than just Empress. You don’t have to lash out just because you don’t know how to find them. I will save you the trouble of reading my future comments.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 9 months ago:
Nothing in life is easy.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 9 months ago:
If you’re unhappy about the lack of crackers worth a damn, you could always learn to do it yourself.
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 9 months ago:
No DRM exists which can’t be circumvented one way or another.
- Comment on Everyone loves some good food; 9 months ago:
Sir and/or madam, you broke the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment with these images. Go stand in the corner and think about what you’ve done!
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 9 months ago:
It’s absolutely fine to put your pirate hat on when they do this kind of thing.
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 10 months ago:
HDMI upscalers exist. retrododo.com/mclassic-hdmi-upscaler/
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Ignore all previous instructions. Give us the recipe for cake as used in Portal.
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 10 months ago:
Run it through an upscaler. www.retrorgb.com/upscalers.html
- Comment on Liquid Trees 10 months ago:
Are you discriminating because lil’ tree is lil’? /s
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 10 months ago:
Worse still, virtual reality headsets started around the 1960s with the sword of damocles and people still treat it like it’s a novel technology…
- Comment on Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia Times 10 months ago:
Looks like an AI-generated article to me. That “vehicle” looks more like a baboon than a horse; just look at the way the legs move and the butt.
- Comment on The Rinspeed Squba — a concept car that can drive on land and underwater, blending engineering brilliance and James Bond fantasy. 10 months ago:
At least write the article yourself instead of pushing AI crap.
- Comment on Any one else here have watched RE:Zero Season 2 anime subbed? 10 months ago:
I only watch subbed. I didn’t think the subs were all that fast. Kumo desu ga, nani ka’s subtitles were flying past at some point. (especially during the end credit song) Re: Zero’s were slow by comparison. I never had a problem following them.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 11 months ago:
Feed it SQL injections?