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- Comment on Alec Baldwin charged for shooting; 9 months ago:
Legal Eagle? Let’s french this up a bit and call him L’Eagle.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
I would definitely want my door locked for that.
- Comment on What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy? 10 months ago:
But that’s a good thing. If everyone considers the status quo as final, no one would research anything. It’s fine to question stuff, if you at least follow scientific methodologies. Just saying “nah, I don’t buy it” and then leaning back doing nothing is just lazy, and not critical thinking.
- Comment on What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy? 10 months ago:
If we only ever act on things we think we got 100% nailed down, we will either be as ignorant as these fools who locked Semmelweis away or we will stop doing anything at all, because realistically there is always a chance we got some seemingly basic understanding wrong.
The only intelligent thing is to work with a good mix of “what you know” paired with a sane amount of “critical thinking” and an assessment of potentially involved risks.
Covid was also an example (at least here in Germany). People fought against the invonvenience of having to wear masks or stay inside (or get vaccinated) because (as they said) we don’t know for certain how dangerous the illness really is and/or how effectice these measures are.
For me the calculation was simple: doing these measures and being wrong has far far less fatal consequences than being wrong and not doing these measures.
- Comment on What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy? 10 months ago:
IMO the common sense part isn’t “oh right of course those are germs”, but following the observation that points to some correlation. They don’t have to know or understand the root cause to at least consider (or accept) that something is wrong.
- Comment on My children will refer to me as father. 11 months ago:
But daddy…
- Comment on Bob and the bobcat 11 months ago:
Motion denied.
- Comment on Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" 11 months ago:
Tell me which so I can develop a competing service and steal your userbase!
- Comment on Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive 11 months ago:
One problem is that they need to put a price tag and therefore a timeline on such a project. Due to the complexity and the many unknown unknowns in theses decades worth of accumulated technical debts, no one can properly estimate that. And so these projects never get off and typically die during planning/evaluation when both numbers (cost and time) climb higher and higher the longer people think about it.
IMO a solution would be to do it iteratively with a small team and just finish whenever. Upside: you have people who know the system inside-out at hand all the time should something come up. Downside of course is that you have effectively no meaningful reporting on when this thing is finished.
- Comment on Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive 11 months ago:
It only needs to work long enough for the current management to cash in on their savings. Then it’s their successors problem.
- Comment on Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam 11 months ago:
If a significant amount of people “misunderstood” you, it’s not their fault, but yours for not clearly communicating or not tailoring your communication for the target audience.
Same here: if people play the game “wrong”, you didn’t design it properly and/or marketed it completely wrong.
Sure, there will always be “dumb” (or too clever) individuals who you simply can’t properly address and satisfy, but if the group is large enough to be loud, you failed your job.
- Comment on First look at the new Tribes game from Prophecy Games 11 months ago:
It’s Midair 2 already: store.steampowered.com/app/1231210/Midair_2/
- Comment on First look at the new Tribes game from Prophecy Games 11 months ago:
The guys who develop Midair will be pissed. Especially now that they open up their beta tests more and more 😐️
- Comment on When you think things are going your way... 11 months ago:
The stacking I know means if player 1 puts down a +4 and player 2 happens to have a +4 he can evade his penalty by stacking. If player 1 doesn’t have another +4 now he needs to draw the stacked 8 cards. If he had a +4, player 2 might now have to draw 12 instead, and so on.
- Comment on Non-native english speaker here. Need help with my work emails 11 months ago:
Unless they are given. But typically in these constellations they aren’t.
- Comment on Lemmy disproves the stereotype that Germans lack a sense of humor 11 months ago:
*gelachst
- Comment on Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices 1 year ago:
That’s not easier than not needing a VPN in the first place.
- Comment on Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices 1 year ago:
Piracy has never been easier or safer or faster than it is now
What?! It was way easier and safer in the era of Napster, edonkey and emule. Easy discoverability and companies didn’t pay any attention yet. Since then it’s a cat and mouse game.
- Comment on YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) 1 year ago:
My point was: they likely have to pay for licensed music to the content mafia, so they cannot really offer anything without including music in the pricing.
- Comment on YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) 1 year ago:
Music might really be their main problem. Basically every video has some music in it. If not in the foreground, then in the background. Even game soundtracks in Let’s Plays are often under license. So the moment someone plays any such video, the content mafia comes around the corner with their baseball bats in hand collecting their tolls.
So I assume if they have to pay for music any way, they figured they might as well include a tailored music listening experience with Premium.
- Comment on YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) 1 year ago:
I don’t want cloud storage. I want ad-free YouTube. And the price is not fit for what they offer (they are a damn content hoster and not motherfucking Netflix).
- Comment on Gamedev and linux 1 year ago:
It’s a double edged sword. If the actual devs are exposed too much, they get bombarded with shit from so many people who have no clue and/or just want to vent, that they would not be able to do their actual work or would even burn out from all the toxicity.
Unfortunately people with actual helpful input are so rare that it’s likely not worth the hassle.
Would be cool though if the people triaging reports would have the knowledge to sort the wheat from the chaff. But same problem there: it’s likely so rare to encounter these reports that it’s not worth training people for it.
- Comment on Gamedev and linux 1 year ago:
They also have different processes. Each report would start as a support request that goes through some customer care department or even call center first, that will triage the issue with some knowledge base or decision tree. So before a meaningful report makes it way to a department that can actually deal with it, a dozen other people are involved first.
- Comment on YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world 1 year ago:
For the service they offer (the hosting basically) I am actually willing to pay quite a bit. But what they typically ask for (about €15 for a single account) that’s just not worth it, given that YouTube isn’t the producer of the content they serve. Music might be a bit more complicated thanks to the fucking idiotic way how licensing around that works. Anyway: nothing of that excuses the excessive use of ads they serve nowadays.
- Comment on YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world 1 year ago:
As others said: VPN. Ukraine seems to work good currently, since the Credit Card address isn’t validated. Cheaper countries like India or Turkey now check if the CC you use is from that country. That is a bit more complicated to pull off, so that wasn’t worth it for me.
- Comment on Simple but modern website 1 year ago:
But why? If you don’t need moving parts, don’t use moving parts. Simplicity is king.
- Comment on YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world 1 year ago:
I got fed up with this shit and invested a bit of time into getting a working Premium Family plan through a cheap country (Ukraine is about $4 per month). I invited my whole family (parents included) so essentially 6 people have an ad-free YouTube now for less than $1 each (per month). I assume that’s still less than what they have gotten by serving us a shit ton of ads. And I am rid of that cat and mouse game for a while.
- Comment on Remedy Provides Update On Control 2, Says Max Payne Remakes Are In 'Production Readiness Stage' 1 year ago:
If only they would get out of Epic’s bed and open up to competing stores (again). Fuck Epic.
- Comment on Control Ultimate Edition on Steam | 75% off - 9,99€ 1 year ago:
What should I expect then?
- Comment on ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google 1 year ago:
You do your name justice and all and I know (well, hope) you are exaggerating, but I wouldn’t wish any physical harm (especially sickness) on others.
That aside: I hope both fail horribly, lose their jobs and enough money to sink into a meaningless life where they are forgotten.