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- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 3 weeks ago:
It is not fast near me. Sticker shock, poorly made food and extremely slow service makes it easy to say no.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 3 weeks ago:
Not to mention their “1080p” streams look worse than 2013 480p streams. The site is a dumpster fire.
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 4 weeks ago:
That is an insane amount of storage. How much does it grow every year and is it stable growth or accelerating?
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 4 weeks ago:
We need IA full mirrors. This is too critical to leave to this one company.
- Comment on Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement 1 month ago:
Computers work with 1s and 0s. We have decided as a society that certain combinations of those equate to being copywritable. This ruling seems to be saying the result of a calculation cannot be copywritable? Wouldn’t creative tools like movie editor or photoeditor disagree? So then is the ruling actually saying these specific values used in this instance are not copywritable, changing the health to 100 for e.g., because there is no human creativity in the result of that value?
So if a programmer used an original work of art to define the state of health in the actual code, and verified the value matches the 1s and 0s that represent that work of art (thus it only ever comes down to boolean check in the logic side, and the value of the variable is never set to something simple like 0 to 100, it was using a huge amount of RAM and a very slow comparator operator.
Yea, I went there.
- Comment on Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement 1 month ago:
I’m not explaining it properly. Imagine instead of 100 hp, there is apple bananas. That isn’t really a mathematic representation in the same way that the cheat code can change. It would be a copyrighted work of art. It wouldn’t be trivial to build an hp system to do this (in fact it would be a large undertaking), but I am not asking about practicality, just what the law would find.
- Comment on Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement 1 month ago:
I mean what if you didn’t use 20/100 for the value, you used a symbol (in the code as the value). Would it still apply?
- Comment on Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement 1 month ago:
What if the health values are human creations like special symbols or works of creative art?
- Comment on Google Serving AI-Generated Images of Mushrooms Could Have 'Devastating Consequences' 1 month ago:
Don’t get in the middle of an angry mob and their target lest ye become their target, or something.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That comm looks abandoned? Last post was 9mo ago.
- Comment on Jellyfin hardware acceleration docker issues. 1 month ago:
What is the tmpfs for?
- Comment on Starlink is increasingly interfering with astronomy, scientists say 2 months ago:
The tools “up there” could be made to rival the capacity and accommodate the man hours required to more science than we do now. The problem is it’s hard and expensive and nobody wants to try because of that fact. It’s becoming easier with cheaper launch vehicles and better communications infrastructure. Now we need folks to start identifying the best locations to send new observation satellites and then start building and launching them.
Your take is very conservative and counter to technological progress and I don’t appreciate the name calling. We can have a meaningful conversation without that crap.
- Comment on Starlink is increasingly interfering with astronomy, scientists say 2 months ago:
Yes, extraterrestrial telescopes are hard. And, we need more of them. And we need to give access to amateurs.
- Comment on Starlink is increasingly interfering with astronomy, scientists say 2 months ago:
Imagine one orbiting each planet and what we can observe.
- Comment on Starlink is increasingly interfering with astronomy, scientists say 2 months ago:
As technology advances, our ability to observe the universe from space far surpasses ground-based telescopes. While I appreciate amateur astronomy, let’s acknowledge that satellites like those in low Earth orbit can occasionally interfere with surface observations. Instead of criticizing their presence, perhaps we could focus on working together to minimize disruptions and support continued space exploration – after all, observatories like JWST are pushing the boundaries of our understanding.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Wtf is loam?
- Comment on Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says the future of AI might mean friendship and marriage with chatbots 2 months ago:
Your AI friend has suddenly died and we have automatically billed your account for your new AI friend relationship.
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
I’ve never used Boost. What sorts of things does it have that FOSS apps are lacking?
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
Me too, I mean Same.
- Comment on Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation” 3 months ago:
Probably the “but”. I agree that both are exploitive and they should all be called out on it.
- Comment on Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation” 3 months ago:
But what about…? Doesn’t excuse the first thing!
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 4 months ago:
Cell to Singularity is a great little mobile game that does have microtransactions but are easy to ignore/avoid. I played through it several times and may need to dust it off for another playthrough. Great music too.
- Comment on Great Mystery of How Ancient Egyptians Built The Pyramids Finally Appears Solved 5 months ago:
Today I learned.
- Comment on Great Mystery of How Ancient Egyptians Built The Pyramids Finally Appears Solved 5 months ago:
Spoil alert: slavery. The river was the transport, but slaves did nearly everything else.
- Comment on Do We Really Want a Food Cartel? 6 months ago:
If corporations are people then mergers are cannibalism and subsidiaries is slavery.
- Comment on Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilities 7 months ago:
It affects ranking and works decently to put the best comments near the top and the bad comments toward the bottom.
- Comment on Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilities 7 months ago:
Why do people feel the need to downvote when someone asks a question? This sucks for discourse. Assume good faith and downvote the trolls.
- Comment on Millennials and Gen Z's trendy new splurge: groceries 7 months ago:
Next up: How some Gen Zers are splurging on hot showers.
- Comment on Channel 4 presenter among more than 250 UK stars victimised by deepfake porn 7 months ago:
That’s awful! Where can these be found so I can avoid them?
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 8 months ago:
The Talos Principle 2. After spending nearly all day on it yesterday, I am hooked. It really does it justice to the first one, I just wish they would release a VR version as the original in VR made the game much more intimate for me—I never played the pancake version.