ViatorOmnium
@ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 15 hours ago:
What QA? Microsoft’s QA was always the CEO demoing the latest repository head on stage.
- Comment on Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025 2 days ago:
Because despite all the LLM slopaganda the laws of supply and demand give software engineers some leverage over prospective employers.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 3 days ago:
And that’s why we have adblockers
- Comment on Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025 3 days ago:
100k is not enough to pay even a single full time dev, so I wouldn’t call this the success threshold.
- Comment on One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing 3 days ago:
It’s more because of imbecilic investors. You can’t get 5 euros to do something useful, but you can easily get 10 if you commit to throwing 5 down the AI drain.
- Comment on spoopy figs 4 days ago:
Most commercially and home grown produced figs are self-pollinating, only a few wild fig species require wasps to pollinate them. So most people will only ever see wasp-free figs.
- Comment on X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties 4 days ago:
Keeping food in the supermarkets and having working infrastructure will definitely generate ad revenue… I mean “engagement” than threatening to kill all foreigners and LGBT people.
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 2 weeks ago:
And XMPP before it, even if for e2ee messaging. At least this is a slightly different use case.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 2 weeks ago:
The main goal is probably to have documentation proving it was checked, but the technician is also responsible to fix any issues. I already had one smoke detector replaced because the noise level was a bit below what it should be.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 2 weeks ago:
In Germany they are mandatory for new buildings for a while now. And at least my landlord sends a company to check if they still work every year, so I assume that’s mandatory too.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347808687_Analysis_of_the_effectiveness_of_the_smoke_alarm_obligation_-_Experiences_from_practice has an overview of the regulations and an analysis of the impact in Germany.
- Comment on Russian missile strikes Oreo factory in Ukraine, foreign minister says 3 weeks ago:
Clearly an important strategic military target. They are not like Ukrainians that only attack irrelevant infrastructure like the Iskander missile factory. /s
- Comment on Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda! 3 weeks ago:
The fuck it is, 1986 was 20 years ago, and I will not argue about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You lost all those rights when “moderates” accepted that only American citizens have rights. Good luck proving your rights were infringed from a concentration camp in El Salvador.
- Comment on How I imagine those crying "i tHouGHT StAr Trek WAs suPPosEd tO bE a UtOPia" 4 weeks ago:
I think the writers screwed up the Borg when they added the queen.
They would be a much better antagonist if they they remained just a collective as they would be a dark mirror of the federation, by having unity and collectivism without diversity and freedom, and could complement the Ferengi, which could have been the federation’s dark mirror with superficial level freedom marred by hyper-indivualism.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Monaco, Lichtenstein, and Vatican.
- Comment on TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe 5 weeks ago:
But the algorithm isn’t extremely personalized or optimized towards “engagement”. In fact the only fediverse platform that comes close is Loops, and even that is light-years away from the psychological manipulation that goes into Tiktok algorithms.
- Comment on People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions. 5 weeks ago:
These things are subject to cycles. Things are shit, people unionize, things become a bit less shitty, people stop unionizing, things start getting shitty again, rinse and repeat. Most of Europe is ending the part of the cycle where people thought they didn’t a union anymore.
- Comment on How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ? 1 month ago:
You are joking, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the first people to use any form of body piercing did to look tough to impress women.
- Comment on How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ? 1 month ago:
There are archeological objects that are most likely piercings or earrings that are over 10 thousand years old. By the time writing was invented they were already very old news.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 1 month ago:
They don’t even disguise it, praxeology is effectively theology without the metaphysics.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 1 month ago:
Yeah, geese are terrifying and already come with “teeth”.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 1 month ago:
Ok, imagine a pack of very fast small cassowaries with very sharp teeth.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 1 month ago:
Everyone that disagrees should have a little face to face time with and enraged Cassowary and then visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.
- Comment on The Bork Boundary 1 month ago:
And Laika wasn’t a Laika
Both in breed and name.
- Comment on What if male elves are just female tall elves with a flat chest that just accepted being called male while the male ones stay at home and do the household or something and look like orcs 1 month ago:
The male elf’s look like garden gnomes. That’s why Tolkien said the Noldor were also called gnomes in the first edition of The Hobbit.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 1 month ago:
English is easy to get started but insanely hard to master. There are tons of irregular verbs, orthography is all over the place, plurals have more than a few pitfalls.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 1 month ago:
Spanish is easier in the sense it’s more regular. Genders don’t had that much complexity if they are applied consistently, especially when you stack them against all the irregularities in English. That being said, and without claiming to be an expert, I think the consensus is that language acquisition time is similar across languages, but the time to master the language is related to how predictable/regular it’s grammar and vocabulary formation is.
- 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:
menial tasks that are important such as unit test coverage
This is one of the cases where AI is worse. LLMs will generate the tests based on how the code works and not how it is supposed to work. Granted lots of mediocre engineers also use the “freeze the results” method for meaningless test coverage, but at least human beings have ability to reflect on what the hell they are doing at some point.
- 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:
What does Capitalism™ say about “innovations” that can’t deliver results? Filtering out crap that only works on some bullshit paper is the one thing capitalism is supposed to be good at.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 1 month ago:
There’s no way to compel them to sell them.
On paper no. In practice, when you consider how much economy at that level is driven by quid pro quo, that statement sounds almost silly. It’s not a matter of whether governments can trigger a mass disinvestment, it’s a matter of the cost.
