Alaknar
@Alaknar@lemm.ee
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 4 weeks ago:
Right. And then we see comments like the one that started this thread: “whoa, there was a Pocket integration??”
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 4 weeks ago:
For this whole spring have I clicked hundeds of times that I’m aware that my trial is ending
This is… not quite related to the topic, no? Trial ending warning is not a “hey, here’s a new feature you might want to try out”.
They also introduced a new feature that they promote on a space that takes literally half the screen
Could you elaborate? I used to use Edge as my daily driver, now it’s my secondary browser. I have no clue what you mean here.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 4 weeks ago:
In a world without dark design patterns, there would be a single pop-up when you first install the application, to ask if you want notifications and/or suggestions for new features
This is exactly how it works in things like Office or Edge.
If you click “no”, it should never bother you again unless you go into a menu and opt in
Yup. Or unless a new feature is introduced, in which case a new pop-up appears. That’s precisely how it works.
Ideally, that pop-up wouldn’t even exist. They could just have a collective “don’t bother me again” checkbox on every non-essential notification
Edge, most of the time, just opens a new tab with “Your Edge was updated” and a list of new things.
If your user has already indicated that they are not interested, any further pestering is essentially harassment.
If it was about the same feature that you already dismissed - yeah, I get the sentiment. If it’s about completely new things - it’s a really weird thing to say. How are users supposed to know that something new was introduced? Sift through thousands of lines of changelogs…?
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 4 weeks ago:
The difference is in convenience.
On the one hand, you can add a page to your bookmarks, after choosing the correct folder, of course.
On the other hand, you can click a button and a page gets automatically saved in your “read later” storage, with a description, summary, and a preview of the content.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 4 weeks ago:
On Firefox? I’ve used it for years and this is the first time I hear of Pocket
And then people get all pissy when Google or Microsoft show a pop-up of a new feature…
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
You’re talking nonsense, is what you’re talking about.
What does a genre drying up have to do with IP or copyright? Like, are you even reading your own words?
Strangling out smaller studios any way possible
Supergiant Games, CDPR, Larian, Sandfall Interactive and every single indie creator out there clearly haven’t been informed of how horrible their situation is. Maybe you should contact them and let them know that the 10/10 games they’ve been making are impossible to make due to copyright and IP protection laws?
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
Eh it’s all just stolen and borrowed code
Got proof? Go and win the easiest lawsuit of your life.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Not how that works
It’s exactly how it works. You can patent the code, the solution, the material, whatever the fuck you want. That’s what a patent IS.
You keep switching between moral and legal arguments. They are not the same.
Oh, do elaborate!
Deflection
Example of a similar thought-process.
Strawman
Huh? That wasn’t an argument, mate, that was an assumption and a question. Are you OK?
I still kinda’ hope I’d get an answer, though.
Literally mirroring your words back at you
Well, not “literally” and not quite “mirroring”. I think you need some rest, mate, you seem tired and unfocused.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Does a patent protect the concept or the specific code?
Depends on the patent.
according to your definition of theft I’m 100% certain that’s the case
It’s not “my definition of theft”, it’s “theft”. If you’re 100% certain, hit Amazon lawyers up, I’m sure they’ll love to talk to you about it - it’s literally free money for them and maybe a big payout for you, right?
Thanks to those, or in spite of? You are focusing on outliers and expecting that to be a convincing argument to describe the typical.
The hilarious thing is that you’re like so many other “revolutionaries” who come in and go: “oh no, the X rules are stifling the market/competition/free exchange of information/whatever” while being completely ignorant on how these rules came to be.
It’s like these capitalists of today saying that OSHA needs to go because they’re losing profits to it, completely oblivious to the fact that it was the capitalists of the XIX century who created them to increase profits (because having to replace skilled labourers became a high cost factor).
You strike me as someone who thinks that copyright and other IP protection laws are something that was set up in XX (maybe XIX) century as a means to protect the wealthy. Am I wrong?
Fair, I was attempting to limit scope with only discussing patents
Right. So when I refused to change the scope, you decided to call me an idiot. How very gentlemanly of you.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Microsoft did copy and paste though: Yammer, Bing and Azure respectively
So, you fully and honestly believe that Microsoft has stolen Google’s and Amazon’s code? As in: you’re 100% certain that’s the case here?
Also worth mentioning the duopoly nature of those 2 specifically.
No. It’s not worth mentioning in a topic that has nothing to do with that fact…
Rather telling that all your examples are Fortune 500 companies?
It amazes me how you see a company NOW being a Fortune 500, and going “waagh, IP protection only serves the massive corpos!!!” without realising how many of those companies became Fortune 500 thanks to those protections.
It equally amazes me how you see the law being used by said companies most of the time (because, you know, they’re larger) and go “we can do without these laws” without blinking an eye, or a single neuron firing towards the thought that… these laws ALSO serve the smaller companies.
We’re not talking copyright laws, we’re talking patent laws
Mate, are you lost or something?
This is what my reply was to:
Copyright and patent laws need to die.
Do I need to put “copyright” in bold here?
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Do you know why there doesn’t exist automated fencepost painters?
I’m just impressed that you managed to miss the point by so much.
Yes, because you just described what businesses throughout the Western world do to your mythical small business and projected it onto some mythical far east.
Correct. Which is precisely why copyright law was established in the first place and why companies like Facebook, Google or Amazon were able to become what they were without Microsoft or Apple just copy-pasting what they did.
The copyright laws are not perfect, far from it. But they give smaller companies SOME form of defence against the corps.
You do realize that is the point of IP right? To allow legalized theft in this exact manner?
Do you also believe that the Earth is flat?
In the exact article this comment chain is discussing palworld did their due diligence to verify they weren’t violating any of Nintendo’s IP and then Nintendo modified their patent filing so that they were with the express goal of stealing their product.
Yes, like I said: the copyright laws are not perfect. But saying that it would better WITHOUT ANY COPYRIGHT LAWS is insanity.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
If it’s a perfect 1:1 copy why does it matter? Can you explain how this isn’t just a stance rooted in xenophobia?
First of all: very often it’s literally a 1:1 copy.
Secondly: imagine you make an innovative product. I don’t know, automatic fence painter, whatever. It sells well, but you don’t have the money to start a large-scale production, you’re doing OK with sales and are looking for investors, but things are fairly slow. In comes a Chinese dude, buys one auto-painter from you, brings it home, dismantles the thing, copies everything (potentially making some changes), and starts a massive-scale production in his factory. Due to the mass-production, worse materials, and lower labour costs, he sells the product at 20% the price of yours. The market is saturated with his knock-off, you’re left with zero money.
Is this xenophobia to you? Or someone stealing your product and killing your business?
The goal of the vast majority is to be acquired
Yeah, I’m not talking about them being acquired. What gave you that idea? I specifically used the words “steals their idea”.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
I just wanna know which amazing video game innovations We are protecting here in America
First, I’m not talking specifically about America. Second, I’m not talking about “amazing innovations”. Copyright is also for trademarks, very characteristic gameplay mechanics, etc. For example, Playrix made “Fishdom” which was copy-paste Worms. Team17 won the case and protected their IP.
Are we talking about the failing franchises that have been milking their customers for 15 years?
Umm… No? What does that have to do with copyright or IP protection…?
Have we done anything really innovative recently?
Have you tried looking at titles from other publishers than Ubisoft, EA or Activition?
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
I don’t care where the company making the claim is from, as long as it acquired the IP legally and has a valid claim for protecting it.
The way the patent system works is bad in many, many, MANY ways, but saying “copyright and patent laws need to die” is just idiotic. As it is, we at least have a semblance of rules. Without it, it’s just “whoever can reproduce and mass produce a promising product faster”. And that means: China because they already make everything.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
They favour the big guy, not the little guy
That’s the US law system, not the IP system in general.
There are examples of smaller companies managing to protect their IP (Finjan vs Symantec, Unwired Planet vs. Huawei, Neo Wireless vs. Sony, etc., etc - that’s just from a quick search).
I’m not saying that the copyright system in place is perfect, but saying “copyright and patent laws need to die” is just delusional.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
WTF are you talking about??
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Grow up and learn to read.
I’m not defending Nintendo, I’m saying that “copyright and patent laws need to die” stance is naive.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Chinese companies famously ignore patent law and do make copies and try to flood the western market with them.
But western companies at least have a tool to fight back or limit the flood.
Most startups don’t have the time and/or money to patent their ideas and big corps do squash them/steal their ideas routinely once they become noticeable.
Ah, the usual “if the solution is not absolutely 100% perfect, let’s throw out the solution”. Come on…
If anything, startups can’t develop their ideas because some company will hold a generic patent like “clicking a button does something” (or “glide with a pet”) from 30 years ago.
Yeah, this happens all of once every billion times. Clearly the system is stupid and needs to be killed so that nobody who isn’t extremely rich can actually develop anything new without being immediately put out to pasture.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Copyright and patent laws need to die.
This is such an extremely naive thing to say.
Do you enjoy having every good, innovative US or EU product die immediately due to China/India making a 1:1 copy and flooding the markets with it?
Enjoy innovative products that startups create? How about not having any of that because as soon as a startup makes something, a big corp comes in with their money, steals the idea, and floods the market?
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 1 month ago:
My favourite is that you cannot wear clothes made from more than one kind of thread.
Which means, in essence, that in the XXI c., literally everybody, including priests, is a sinner, and goes to hell, because everything is a blend these days.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 1 month ago:
How about this - I configured Kate to have full Markdown support, with preview.
There was an update today. The Document Preview plugin got disabled and once I enabled it, it’s no longer able to display Markdown preview.
That’s what I call “unstable”. Shit randomly breaking for no reason at all. And I know it’s probably SOME dependency SOMEWHERE that got updated which broke a DIFFERENT dependency, but that’s kind of my point - things like this just don’t happen on Windows (since around Win10).
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 1 month ago:
Do you get a window?
I run games in full screen mode, so maybe it would work. Seems like Wayland has
Ctrl+Meta+Escas the equivalent ofxkill. I’ll try this if it happens again. - Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 1 month ago:
To me “stable” means: “fire and forget”. Maybe a reboot needed every couple of months because something broke, or having to kill a hung process. That’s my experience with Windows nowadays.
I’m on Garuda Linux, which is based on Arch Zen, and every now and again something random breaks. Network connection doesn’t stand up after sleep. Steam randomly breaks. Signal refuses to connect. One monitor’s brightness doesn’t go back to default value after the OS dimmed it due to inactivity. Uninstalled application still shows up in Application Launcher’s search results, even though I deleted it from the KDE Menu Editor.
Lots and lots of little things like that.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 1 month ago:
Steam does something weird when running a Windows game via Proton. I haven’t figured out which task to kill to kill a game it’s running.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 1 month ago:
More stable
Wellllll, I wouldn’t go that far.
I just had to reboot because clicking anything in the browser randomly started sending the CPU utilisation to higher 70s, which was triggering the fans to spin at full power.
Then I ran a game on Steam and Steam said it’s running, but it was nowhere to be found. Had to reboot again.
Both of these happened completely randomly after I changed nothing, just browsing the web.
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 1 month ago:
I mean, he always calls trade deficit a “subsidy”, and has since 2016. I honestly don’t think he understand what that concept means, he’s not that subtle with manipulation.
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 1 month ago:
He doesn’t understand what “trade deficit” means.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 month ago:
Oh look “orcs” the dehumanising Banderite fascist scumbag lingo
Umm… You do realise that they used it themselves? And not just during the war, but in The Last Reingbearer too?
Sure you’re not some filthy ukronazi
It’s so uplifting to see how you shy away from dehumanising, fascist, scumbag lingo, and talk about all other humans with respect! :*
USSR (…) quit living in the past and bringing that up.
I’m talking about 2005.
I mean, I’m at least assuming this bit was about me mentioning Putin’s dream of restoring “russia to greatness”. But I’m not sure, because you started spitting on your keyboard and wrote some bullshit.
You can volunteer, wear your swastika and wolfsangel
You first. Oh look! And they’re actually working on making it legal!
Now piss off and go cry somewhere else or do I need to block you?
Mate, 50% of the two of us are crying, and it’s not me. I’m just laughing at you gulping down the propaganda so hard you’d put Sasha Grey to shame! :D
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 month ago:
And stop crying about the USSR, that doesn’t exist anymore
So, you’re saying that on top of being clueless about history, you also have no idea about current affairs in USSRussia? About how putin feels “the dissolution of the USSR was the greatest catastrophe of the XX c” and how “it’s time to rebuild” it? Or how the orcs rode into Ukraine with USSR flags on their tanks?
Good riddance, and may the next generations follow.
Careful now! You’re veering dangerously close to a bannable offence. :)
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 month ago:
oh wait, they weren’t elected since it was a coup and the US decided who would be in their government. Or have you something to deny the Nuland-Pyatt call also in your propaganda folder?
I do. The fact that Ukraine had a legal (and observed by international - russia included - parties) immediately after, or the fact that Yanukovych was stripped of power by his own party. Unless you’re suggesting that the US bought LITERALLY EVERY Ukrainian in and out of their parliament? :D
Here’s another relevant call exposing the fascists: Original :
Nothing says “I did my research” like saying “original” and posting an English translation which, by definition, is not the original words of Yatseniuk.
The translator fucked up, as proven by looking at the actual original.
Just look at what that nazi pig Timoshenko said in 2014:
I’m absolutely certain that no person in Belgium has ever said anything derogatory or unpleasant towards Germans when the Nazi tanks rolled in. ;)
You people disgust me.
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Good thing you have support in the good and compassionate USSRussia. :) They never did ANYTHING wrong! :)