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- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 9 hours ago:
American here:
About 20% of Americans are functionally illiterate, 2nd grade or worse reading and writing skills.
The average literacy level of Americans is between 5th and 6th grade… meaning the next 30% have the reading/writing skills of someone who only did elementary school.
These are numbers for adults 18 and up, by the way, not kids.
Almost every single person I’ve met who learned English as a second language… can speak it more fluently than most native English speakers I’ve known who grew up in America. More extensive vocabularies, better grammar, better spelling.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 16 hours ago:
… Delete… all… IP law?
So… just literally make all piracy legal, switch all gaming and tv show and movie consumption… to an optional donation model?
Fuck it, why not.
I am both an avid pirate and have a degree in econ, wrote papers as an undergrad on how to potentially reform the DMCA… and uh yeah, at this point yeah no one has any fucking idea how any thing works, everyone is an idiot, sure fuck it, blow it all up, why not.
- Comment on Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan 17 hours ago:
Don’t forget they also spun up their own ‘production studio’, and… it mostly produced basically the anime equivalent of lolcows in terms of their general reception and percieved quality, always overbudget and/or massively missing deadlines, never renewed for another season.
And then that was shut down within 3 years.
Oh right, and the union busting, also very cool.
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 1 day ago:
If I were to pronounce it outloud, I would say:
D. B. Zero.
Like D. B. Cooper, lol.
the… zero, 0 swap is… basically old school l33tsp34k
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 2 days ago:
Huh.
Well, I appreciate the info and shrugging magic, but uh… hrm.
I dunno then.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 2 days ago:
¯_(:-)_/¯
I don’t know exactly how that post counter … actually, technically counts posts, but:
1:
Zip going down could have uncounted all posts anywhere made by zip accounts.
2:
There could have been some kind of… propogating post count negation effect, as various other instances reacted differently to zip users posts on their instances could not pull them anymore, on different time scales.
3: If a zip user had a … top level comment, on another instance, its possible all lower level comments responding to that comment may also have poofed out of existence, in some respect.
I may be using some terminology here, and this is just spitballing, but yeah.
Almost all of my .zip account’s posts… are not on zip itself, and its possible that that is fairly common amongst .zip users.
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 2 days ago:
Here’s the post.
Evidently, Demigodrick has since fixed the problems and successfully upgraded to 0.19.11
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 2 days ago:
It may have been lemmy.zip
It did in fact go down for about 48 hours… prompting me to make this new account on dbzer0.
Basically, the admin attempted to update to a newer lemmy version… and it failed, multiple times, and they just rolled back, restored the old version, posted an explanation and apology, and they’ll be further looking into … exactly what went wrong.
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 2 days ago:
My only quibble is: Great Depression 2.0, not Great Recession 2.0.
This will be much, much worse than 07 08 09.
Also IMO absolutely yes, Obama should have let the US auto industry collapse if they didn’t accept being completely nationalized.
Play stupid games, win stuoid prizes.
Thats how capitalism works, right, right?
Oh wait no, its actually uh, bribe politicians to subsidize your inefficient and mismanaged business, and then also fund a bunch of PR to convince people that… that isn’t happening, that isn’t your business model.
Instead we got basically this situation where US auto mfctrs are stupendously subsidized by the US gov… yet have no accountability to it in terms of high level, long term business strategy.
That lead to all of C Suite just chasing as much profit as possible by basically just saying… fuck making a reliable cheapish car, everything is now a luxury priced giganto sized pavement princess with horrendous maintenance problems.
If they’d accepted being nationalized, well then at least we would have kept actual ownership domestic, and the GAO could have just done audits on these entire companies and then everyone would know where all the mismanagement was going on. …
Same thing with Boeing. Boeing is massively subsidized, is a near text book perfect example of how to do regulatory capture, and wow what a surprise, it was run in a manner to maximize balance sheets at the loss of fundamental ability to actually deliver a reliable product.
- Comment on Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ 2 days ago:
When the news about that came out, I deleted my Facebook profile and tried to tell all my friends/family using FB that … this is pure fucking evil and they should also get off FB.
They all gaslit me and acted like I was a paranoid delusional maniac.
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 3 days ago:
Yeeeeuuup.
This is certainly going to improve the prospects of assembled in US cars getting exported…
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 3 days ago:
I mean, I can be as much of a pedant as you and post an unsourced definition of ‘ip theft’ … or maybe you could just admit you’d never heard of the term ‘ip theft’, or are unaware of its use.
Its a pretty commonly used term, especially amongst government regulatory and business organizations, as well as academics who study policy, in the US.
The term itself, its phrasing, is intentionally constructed to frame copyright infringement as a form of theft, stealing something that doesn’t belong to you.
The psychological framing of the term is meant to frame losses from someone committing copyright infringement against you as equivalent to losses from being robbed.
The entire point of the usage of this term is to mold public perception.
Here’s some examples where very prominent US institutions/organizations use some construction or variation of ‘ip theft’ an an umbrella term to refer to all kinds of copyright, trademark and/or patent infringement:
FBI
fbi.gov/…/countering-the-growing-intellectual-pro…
KPMG (huge business consulting group)
kpmg.com/us/…/theft-intellectual-property.html
DHS (Homeland Security)
www.dhs.gov/intellectual-property-rights
IPRC (Intellectual Property Rights Center)
And finally, literally IPTheft.org, which basically functions as an all-in-one training/resource hub that connects business people to all kinds of resources to report when they have suffered… IP theft.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 4 days ago:
The entire original comment chain that lead to what I replied to … was all about playing word games with slogans, progoganda, public relations.
The law may be ‘clear’, but it is clearly bullshit.
It is absurdly deferential toward the rights of megacorps and hostile to the rights of consumers.
Laws are supposed to reflect and codify morals and ethics, arise from them… not determine them.
But, as we slip more and more into a cyberpunk dystopia of hypercapitalist megacorps being able to basically just buy legislators, judges and laws, it will become more evident that the government is just entirely a facade directed by them.
This whole article is about a lawsuit in America, you know, the land of the fee, home of the early and very expensive grave?
The place with the ongoing fascist coup that’s dismantling all the government agencies that regulate corporations, after the richest man in the world just bought an election, and more recently openly tried to buy a state judge, and though he didn’t succeed, will likely face no penalty for doing that very obviously illegal thing?
Also, as far as at least acquring a pirated game?
Its not that hard.
Now hosting them? Sharing them?
Yep, you’re right, that’s a bit more difficult… but hey, be clever enough to not get caught, and thats the same as being rich enough to write your own laws.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 4 days ago:
copyright infringent is commonly also reffered to as IP theft, theft of intellectual property.
unauthorized use, sale, or distribution of ip is ip theft.
so yes, ip theft is a form of theft, and gaming companies and lawyers and other lawyers have been successfully suing other people and other companies into oblivion over this basically since the industry began.
have you just never head of the term ‘ip theft’?
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 4 days ago:
Every AAA game company’s have been for 30 years and still currently are arguing this in courts all the time.
The actual public facing employees don’t have to, but sometimes still do, though usually in an unofficial capacity these days.
AA / indie devs are more of a mixed bag. A few will openly say ‘fuck it, pirate it if you can’t afford it, idgaf’, but the majority will denounce piracy if its relevant or if prompted.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 4 days ago:
Looks like I’ll be pirating Black Flag for my next replay.