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- Comment on LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in 2 weeks ago:
It still has idiosyncrasies that create friction. Looking like it’s from early 2000s is much less of a problem imo than confusing buttons and unintuitive workflows
- Comment on Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system 2 weeks ago:
This is true and I’ve said so in my original comment. Notice how the boss isn’t winning because they happened to win first in a series of dice rolls
- Comment on Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system 2 weeks ago:
It is not an opinion that people don’t earn money by randomly trading with others, wtf are talking about??
I’m actually triggered about this
- Comment on Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system 2 weeks ago:
Scientific American isn’t an academic journal and there’s no paper about this published in 2017. There’s a Scientific American article about it written in 2019 though. I think you’re referring to the part in the article that says it matched real world data remarkably after they modified it in 2017.
I don’t think this model is an x-ray that reveals the bones of the system, as its premise about how it works is plainly inaccurate. Maybe scientists can gain actual insight by studying it further but I don’t think drawing conclusions such as the title on social media is healthy.
At best the model teaches why gambling is a bad idea even if the chances are perfectly even. At worst someone looks at this and decides all anti capitalist evidence must be flimsy
- Comment on Extreme wealth inequality is baked in to the system 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think this is as good a model as you or the oop seem to think it is. Nobody is under the impression that you can make even by buying and selling random things. And gambling your money against other people isn’t something people can afford to do unless the already have money to live comfortably. Real people have fixed needs they have to buy and usually a fixed value they can create to make money.
I don’t a model that doesn’t share any similarities with the system can be used to prove that inequality is baked into the system. I don’t mean that it isn’t, but I couldn’t in good conscience claim so based on this alone. Please keep your standards for evidence high yall.
Also the article completely misses the reason why wealth accumulates in the model. It has nothing to do with compound ratios being confusing or the amount one can afford to wager. This is simply a normal distribution with flipped axes and a bottom cap of 0. Inequality arises even if you change the game so that richer people give more when they lose and receive less when they win.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Reanimal? 3 weeks ago:
This reads like an ad
- Comment on Everything was indeed brown. 5 weeks ago:
Lasagna couch
- Comment on Vanessa pls 5 weeks ago:
Her ex is the actor?
- Comment on purely basedbon vibes 1 month ago:
How much scratch? It’s hard to believe they wrote device drivers, ip stack, codecs etc from scratch
- Comment on Microsoft is injecting more AI into File Explorer in Windows 11 1 month ago:
recent Windows 11 preview builds have a seemingly random invisible button placed next to the Details pane button in the top-right corner of the screen
They vibecoded hiding the button 🤦♀️
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I have no idea what oop could’ve done to deserve this. And I can’t fathom how yall relate to this. Does everyone on the internet have terrible relationships?
This just feels like the millennial version of “I hate my wife”.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 months ago:
decrption is when cryptography
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 months ago:
But if Samsung’s firmware keys or whatever leaked, wouldn’t that apply to all of them? It’s not like they reinvent all their infrastructure for each phone.
Actually, I take it back. These things do happen in the mobile world, they’re just not released publicly. Celebrite etc just gobble them up
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 months ago:
Skeptical that kids would read thecybersecguru.com
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 months ago:
Strong ai slop vibes emanating from the article. It’s full of contradictions and listicles. The information density feels way too high for something ai written, but at the very least they must’ve used an ai to fuck up the sentences
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 months ago:
Why is it always game consoles that get these leaks and not like, phone firmware or gpu vbios
- Comment on Why is sharpedo blocked in image searches on DuckDuckGo and Bing, but not Google? 2 months ago:
Thought Bing had stopped selling api to other companies?
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 2 months ago:
Time to make Pokémon Give Money To Nintendo
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- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 2 months ago:
What made you think I was proposing a scheme compliant with the bill? I repeatedly said that this would be to prevent such a bill from passing. And explained my reasoning why it would do so.
To make it doubly clear: I don’t support what they’re trying to do. I just think it could do us good to address any legitimate concerns they use as excuses to implement surveillance ourselves so it’s harder to use them as excuses.
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 2 months ago:
As far as I know self regulation by media industries implementing age labels prevented these kinds of “think of the children” bills before. No idea where you got the corporations having private information from, the entire idea is that it would be open source so we can know that it’s not doing anything shady.
Politicians pushing for these bills don’t care about the excuse they present, but the reason they can repeatedly use the same excuse is because it is a legitimate concern for people. I don’t think digging our heels in to refuse a solution even if it were to align with our stated principle of preserving privacy helps us in the public consciousness.
even worse invasions of privacy
“worse” isn’t accurate as the entire point is that it would be designed to be non-invasive (for people who don’t have csam anyways). Of course they’ll keep trying to invade our privacy but with the example of a solution that doesn’t use mass surveillance for something they tried to push surveillance for, they’ll have less leg to stand on.
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 2 months ago:
Can we take an ‘industry regulates itself’ approach to this? Make a foss csam hash scanner and include it in aosp. When they try to pass these show them that it already exists. That way we at least have some transparency to what it does
- Comment on Music aficionado 2 months ago:
Wow
- Comment on life hack 2 months ago:
I think this is guaranteed hell for some religions
- Comment on Orange man good 2 months ago:
Is this bait? Am I being had here? Is this going in a screenshot?
Just in case you’re serious, I’m not the person who complained about politics being present. I’m just baffled that they were getting piled on because people either think or pretend to think that Luigi isn’t a political figure from the US.
It is an insane statement to say excluding US events feeds into hyper nationalism. The daily domestic news cycle of the US has no effect on the lives of most people in the world. This has nothing to do with nationalism, it’s just geography. And Americans aren’t some oppressed minority that need media exposure. Not to forget that this is a meme about something everyone already heard about, not a news story about a new thing. Being reminded of US politics in random memes simply has no benefit to anyone.
It’s fine if you like seeing memes featuring US politics. You can argue that. You don’t have to launder an opinion into a objective fact to do so.
- Comment on Orange man good 2 months ago:
Are we seriously arguing if American politics count as American politics or world politics??
- Comment on Orange man good 2 months ago:
It’s an American guy who is being tried in America for killing an American health insurance ceo, which is a thing that’s a problem particularly in America
- Comment on Orange man good 2 months ago:
In news for what? He didn’t win a song contest. The only reason anyone recognizes him is because he briefly became the face of class warfare. You know, completely apolitical stuff
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 3 months ago:
I’m stealing this
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 3 months ago:
I think it’d be better to have assist modes than difficulty options. As difficulty is traditionally associated with changing things like health and damage (or worse, opaquely disabling mechanics) that are fundamental to game balance I think it is too easy to be abused as a cop out from having to balance the game.
Things like slowing the pace of the game, adding aim assist, visual indicators for audio cues, more lenient hit boxes, more frequent saves would be way more useful imo. Optional mechanics or modifiers can exist, but they shouldn’t be bundled with other random stuff.