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UnderpantsWeevil rails against shitty headlines, blasts brg for bad writing
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 1 week ago:
I appreciate your message at the end :) One of the things I appreciate about lemmy is the conversations are not assumed adversarial like they are on most socials.
I see what you’re saying, and I agree microtransactions deserve to burn in hell. I also realize that people have an issue with realizing an addiction, even their own, and even when they’re “aware” of it. I don’t want to point the finger at other larger societal issues as a default strategy, but we do have hard evidence from other countries where these issues get caught earlier because of public campaigns combating the stigma around such problems in tandem with the social safety net required to truly fix them.
I don’t think gambling is good, I’m not even fully convinced that the csgo cases should persist, and my intent is not to convince you they should. My stance is purely philosophical/logical in the sense that limitations should not be placed on the public with the sole justification of protecting a subset, especially children, since it is the parents’ entire role as guardian to protect them from the hardships in life. I’m sure I’m ignoring the nuance in my stance by saying that, but the general idea is there; something being bad for some people should not be the only reason nobody can have it, and that goes for drugs, art, communication, bed times, expression, etc. I know they’re problems worth protecting the affected subsets from, but legislative blanket bans are not the correct tool.
Glad to hear all is well, by the way. Addiction is a hell of a disease and gambling especially can have quite the blast radius. I hope you don’t see me as an enemy
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 1 week ago:
It’s good you’re consistent in your beliefs.
I don’t believe things should be illegal only because a subset of the population cannot handle themselves. I’m sorry to hear about what happened to your brother, that really sucks and I’ve seen it first hand; I know it’s devastating and I’ve felt the anger towards the beneficiary of such products. It’s a thin line to walk, though, because what happens to the rest of the population that has no issue with it? I’ve found myself addicted to weed before, and it’s had a meaningful impact on my life going so far as to dropping out of school because I wouldn’t allow myself to drive to class while high and I had bad priorities. That, though, is not grounds for everyone else that can handle themselves responsibly to be prohibited from that. With Pokemon cards I see the same problem, I don’t think irresponsible parents are sufficient grounds for regulating what the rest of the public can and cannot do. It is the exact rationale used to require age verifications online, in the OS, and a growing number of other places. In my other comment on this thread I talk about it a bit more.
TL;DR, I empathize with you and your brother. Having said that, the weaknesses of a few should not dictate the liberties of the whole. A much better and proven effective method would be social measures like public, free, and well-researched rehab and safety nets to prevent the effects of gambling addictions from ravaging the lives of those affected and their loved ones.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 1 week ago:
Yeah I’m getting pretty tired of the “everyone must pay the price to protect kids”
Why are kids able to access adult sites without ID? Everyone must prove they’re an adult online to read books with adult themes. Why are kids able to use installed applications that could have some forbidden social features? Everyone must prove their age to their operating system to use an electronic device. Why are kids able to access alcohol at their homes? Adults should have to keep their legally purchased alcohol at government approved holding facilities, where they may take a drink after proving their age. Why are kids allowed to stay out after curfew? Everyone must wear a shirt with their name, address, and birthdate printed after 11pm on week nights.
This is a new trend in law and we need to stop getting tricked into allowing it. It is the parent’s responsibility to be aware of what their child is doing and either allow or prevent it. I don’t want parents spying on their kids and think there’s an element of trust for sure, but I’d much rather have the parents spying on kids than the government and their contractors spying on EVERYONE. It’s ridiculous and infringes on rights established through rigid SCOTUS precedent including Stanley V. Georgia, and NAACP V. Alabama.
We’re a bunch of pansies now that lick the boot with ID verifications online in red states and OS-level requirements in the blue ones. The internet and all of its offspring are not meant for children’s unsupervised use, but it isn’t the public’s responsibility to bear the burden.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 1 week ago:
You drew a really strong link between what EA did and what Valve does, and that gives me the idea that you build your stance on that. EA lootboxes gave you nothing of monetary value, whereas that’s objectively untrue with valve.
You can say that the items are virtual so they’re not really valuable, but you can say the same thing about baseball cards in a sense; they provide no tangible value, only monetary value from sentiment, which is either real and applies to virtual items equally, or it isn’t in which collectable cards are in the same camp as weapon skins.
EA’s lootboxes gave items that could not be transferred, that’s also different from csgo boxes.
EA’s lootboxes locked core gameplay content behind them, and went so far as to reduce the playtime of people without them because the contents of the boxes were so overpowered making them a must have. I don’t recall ever having a noticeably worse experience playing CS because I didn’t have a skin, and I’m not already $60 in on the game y’know?
I agree that kids should not be able to buy cases unsupervised, and parents should be aware that this exists. But I also think that about pokemon and baseball and MTG cards as well, for the exact same reason.
I know I’ve done a lot of writing, so to summarize I’m not convinced by your logic. I believe CS cases are much closer to opening a pack of cards than you’re giving them credit for, and I think they’re an entirely different product than EA’s infamous lootboxes for a number of reasons.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 1 week ago:
I saw this and sound “holy shit” aloud. If this sketchy source is legit, this is probably pretty big. The stock market has been wobbly the last few days.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 1 week ago:
Part of their next gen release, so probably 1 year after their most recent refresh cycle
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 month ago:
Yeah cause when I instinctively click the Microsoft learn link below the Azure error it takes me to copilot instead of documentation.
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 2 months ago:
I am not your lawyer and this is not legal advice for you or anyone who reads this.
Nextcloud encrypts data e2e, so your point there is misguided and not really relevant. You can’t be compelled to provide a password/decryption key as long as it doesn’t exist as physical evidence. This is why lawyers advise clients to use a PIN instead of face ID or fingerprints; biometrics, like all physical evidence, can be subpoenad.
Self hosting services like matrix or email is a bad idea if you don’t really understand what you’re doing, like many other things. If you keep you stuff updated and are intelligent in how you structure your network there’s not really anymore risk here than paying someone else to host it. If you keep you stack simple and follow best practices, code and configurations written by industry experts do most of the heavy lifting.
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 2 months ago:
I’ve cut down on that by only giving it tasks that are reviewed automatically.
“Spit this into a json”
It gives me the code, I continue with my program knowing exactly what is where in the json and if I get a parsing error or something I know exactly where to look. TBH, though, for things like that I must have an error rate lower than 5%
Ask it to configure a reverse proxy for a cors sensitive application, though, and I think I’d rather die
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 2 months ago:
Yeah. AI 100% makes me more productive and by a good bit. I used it to write a section of code today to export all the information my program gathers about a system to a json file. Woulda taken me 20 minutes but chatgpt did it in seconds.
It also, in the same snippet, introduced a breaking change I didn’t ask for in the original code. I only copied the json part; I just happened to notice the change in the code it wrong. It added a fork bomb lol
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 2 months ago:
Do you write code?
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months ago:
So usually you’d shoot the dog as it’s coming to attack you. A benefit of a gun is that it’s a ranged weapon.
How would pepper spray be more useful than a gun? As someone that’s been charged by an animal on a hike, the noise (which doesn’t require effective aim like pepper spray) is enough by itself.
Wild dogs don’t simply show up out of nowhere and start attacking
They do, actually, that’s how pack animals hunt from the perspective of prey.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months ago:
Fair enough, honestly.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months ago:
So you’re saying in the middle of being mauled by wild dogs that not once would it occur to you there’s a tool which could prevent it, nor would you want it?
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months ago:
One of those things that’s true until it isn’t, IMO.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 2 months ago:
Part of science is reproducible events, no?
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 3 months ago:
Kernel modules can be installed, loaded, and run without a reboot in Linux. TPM support would just ensure that the firmware/kernel and modules loaded at boot are expected.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 4 months ago:
Louisiana baby. 2100 sqft 0.3 acre 4 bed 2 bath recently renovated for 130k
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 5 months ago:
So, reading that study, I have a few concerns about how it was conducted and my concerns generally aligns with their findings. Primarily, their source for information is the payroll system of the companies studied, which in my experience is nothing more than an HR drone entering into the system what they’re told to enter. If the prescribed reason is AI even when it was really business performance, then that kind of aligns with the study in the OP.
Their graphs of roles most and least exposed to AI disruption is dandy, but if you think about it (with the exception of customer service roles) the jobs that are threatened are typically not production roles for the company, and are moreso ancillary positions for most companies. I’m a software engineer for a company that doesn’t sell software, which means I’m more of a luxury than a necessity; this is true for the majority of software engineers.
The roles least exposed to AI, according to the study, are production roles that play a core role in the product delivery of the company. Things like construction workers, nurses, cooks, etc. are only in businesses where they are the core of the business model. I’ve never seen a movie theater chain employ nurses or cooks in droves, but they have employed secret shoppers (auditors), accountants, software engineers, etc. and are likely to trim that fat when times get tough. I think this is more of an economic health indicator than anything, IMO.
- Comment on 2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions 5 months ago:
Eh fair enough
- Comment on 2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions 5 months ago:
No
- Comment on 2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions 5 months ago:
It asks this regardless of whether you say you use orchestration or not. I would say that docker compose, used as intended, is not a container orchestration platform as it provides no automated scaling or resiliency across nodes
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 5 months ago:
As someone whose job runs several FOSS projects, I think you’re making up the fact that it adds meaningful workload.
I think that, for all intents and purposes, protecting IP is equivalent to stifling competition.
I think giving away code benefits the entire Android ecosystem, which might be the largest data mining operating Google has. I fully believe that’s of nonzero benefit.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 5 months ago:
What do you think the benefit of closing sourcing their software is if not to stifle competition?
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 5 months ago:
I’m talking about MS Authenticator
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 5 months ago:
Why do you think they’re making this arbitrary change?
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 5 months ago:
Lots of jobs require BYOD today (like, most F500 companies) and they limit to non-rooted OSs. I use Aegis for personal apps but I cannot escape microsoft as long as I want to keep paying my mortgage.
- Comment on UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker 5 months ago:
Thanks. Apparently I didn’t even read the headline
- Comment on UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker 5 months ago:
USA Jr.