SparroHawc
@SparroHawc@lemmy.zip
- Comment on I heard you like pointers, so I put pointer to pointer in your pointers 1 day ago:
I love how “Three-Star Programmer” is a perjurative term in C/C++ circles.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 day ago:
they actually don’t own the game
This is a fact that has been made apparent repeatedly. We know.
However, you were replying to this:
Make us individual game owners pay license every time we download and install the game?
With this:
This is how it’s been done for decades now?
…which is patently false.
- Comment on spoopy figs 1 day ago:
You could, but bees overproduce honey. There’s literally no drawbacks to taking the surplus besides maybe preventing the colony from sending off new queens quite as often, and mildly disturbing the hive when it’s done. (A lot of honey bees are pretty chill about it, even without a smoker.)
I don’t jive with the wing clipping though.
- Comment on Plan ahead 1 day ago:
'Tis such a beautiful day that
thou wilt not wear undergarments
in case thou meetest John in the meadowBetter?
- Comment on spoopy figs 2 days ago:
The fact that some vegans think honey is exploitative really says a lot about their lack of knowledge.
They DO know that if bees don’t like a place, they’ll just … leave, right?
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 2 days ago:
Every time a company tries to restrict the number of downloads/reinstalls for a game that you buy a license for, it has backlashed so catastrophically that they’ve walked it back.
So it has happened, yes, but there is no situation currently with game distributors where you pay a license for a single download. They’re all pay once, download in perpetuity.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 2 days ago:
It may have been for something else, but it’s weirdly applicable here…
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 1 week ago:
Yup.
There are very niche situations where a free market actually works - situations where there is no hidden information and no barrier to entry, where monopolies can’t arise due to the nature of the specific market. By the nature of these restrictions, nothing of any importance will ever be supplied by these markets.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 1 week ago:
And there never will be. Not so long as it is possible to hide information from the consumer, and any sort of barrier to entry exists for market competition to spring up.
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 3 weeks ago:
If it’s something that you don’t really care about others seeing, that’s a prime candidate for cloud storage and more power to you.
This topic is about password lockers. I’m pretty sure you don’t want some schlub who happens to work at Cloud Password Lockers Inc. to be able to get at your PayPal account.
- Comment on Remember when car controls weren't complicated 3 weeks ago:
The problem is that it’s fighting against gluing a giant iPad to the dash, which just hides all the complexity behind a pane of glass so that it -looks- simple when the car is off.
With this setup, once you learn how it works, you can do just about anything with only a cursory glance away from the road to double-check your proprioception.
- Comment on Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 3 weeks ago:
The partnership will happen later on when the noise has died down, and it won’t be publicized.
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 3 weeks ago:
Don’t store your stuff in the cloud unless you don’t mind someone else accessing it.
If you store things in the cloud that you don’t want other people to access, you better be encrypting it yourself and only opening it locally.
This has been a cardinal rule since day 1.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
GDPR laws allow you to download the contents of a Discord server that you have never been on? I thought it only required access to your own data.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 4 weeks ago:
You can only get it if you install Discord.
- Comment on Cake baking sounds easy until you try it 4 weeks ago:
Everything reminds me of her…
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 5 weeks ago:
It’s not so bad in comments that don’t have a significant amount of ‘th’ in it, but this one was like hitting a speed bump every five feet.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Considering that LLM content that makes it into training content makes the trained LLMs worse… is this adversarial?
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 5 weeks ago:
That’s because they can’t intimidate Bethesda with an email.
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 1 month ago:
Well, I’m touching a shark right now. Rubbing it every which way. No direction is off limits. It’s smoother than the finest silks
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 1 month ago:
The controller integration is probably the #1 reason I prefer to keep Steam going in the background.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 1 month ago:
The trouble is that it becomes far too easy to fall into the pattern of power being used to garner more power. All power needs to be held in check to avoid that very simple flaw. The moment the people are convinced that power shouldn’t be held in check is the moment that they are doomed.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 month ago:
It’s not the query that burns through electricity like crazy, it’s training the models.
You can run a query yourself at home with a desktop computer, as long as it has enough RAM and compute cells to support the model you’re using (think a few high-end GPUs).
Training a model requires a huge pile of computer power though, and the AI companies are constantly scraping the internet to
stealfind more training material - Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 month ago:
“We have to find a compelling use case so we can keep tragedying the commons!”
- Comment on It's easy 1 month ago:
Okay, fair.
- Comment on It's easy 1 month ago:
That’s…
That’s literally middle class… - Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 months ago:
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some secret Google search engine that still has decent search results instead of the paid-for mess that us plebs get.
- Comment on steam vs gog, which game store to buy from? 3 months ago:
If you own it on GoG you don’t need a pirate copy - just save the offline installer.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Personally, I wouldn’t include Proton in the costs of the Steam Machine. The Deck already is benefiting from it immensely, and I would consider it to be a cost of expanding into Linux gaming in general - especially with the Lenovo handheld and other devices starting to jump on the bandwagon as Microsoft continues to take repeated dumps on their userbase. Its R&D costs are being won back by the market % Steam takes on any games bought and played in Linux, which means that it can benefit from that continued revenue stream rather than the one-off hardware sale.
The hardware has to break even. The software already has.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 3 months ago:
Multi-millionaires are well-off. Rich is being able to throw your money around to get what you want. That doesn’t really hit until you’re at the five-million mark, in my opinion. Any less and you’re in the ‘I have a big home and also a summer home’ level, where you own some expensive luxuries but aren’t quite at the ‘I have staff to do that for me’ level.