Barbarian
@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on WTF is wrong with Killing Floor 2? 1 day ago:
You can always refund it
- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
Should be an option to allow/disallow non-instance users to vote. That’d be really useful here in sh.itjust.works for the Agora.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
It depends. There’s 2 different methods that I don’t think they’re doing that would make it legal:
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Explicitly tell the user what data the anti-cheat collects when you install it, and what other companies have access to it.
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Anonymize the data. Crop the screenshots in storage media to just the game screen, and have a list of which games need what sections of the screen blurred to remove usernames.
The first is far more useful for them than the second, but it also undermines it’s functionality ad an anti-cheat because you’re telling the cheat creators what to guard against.
Of course, the real answer here is stop doing user-side anti-cheat at all, do it server-side, and trust nothing the client says. That’s more difficult than user-side, but it also has the benefit of working, while also respecting the user’s privacy.
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- Comment on The big hit medieval strategy game Manor Lords works well on Linux 2 weeks ago:
Yup! The performance gets pretty terrible towards the lategame, but as far as I understand it, that’s a general issue atm, not Linux specific.
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
Primer is one of my favourite movies ever. It was made on a budget of 3 peanuts and pocket lint, and it shows, but damn it’s an interesting premise.
- Comment on Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility 5 weeks ago:
Actually, that’s not the real reason patents are public. The reason is to allow everyone to freely use the patent after the expiry.
The tradeoff is supposed to be the inventor gets exclusive use for a decade in exchange for detailing exactly how the thing works for everyone else.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
play better games
I’d heavily recommend people who want to play DnD but better and without Hasbro look at Pathfinder 2e. Fixes all the major issues with DnD (boring combat where melee gets glued to each other due to attacks of opportunity, no variety in actions outside of magic, broken balance, mandatory healer, etc) while also being produced by the only unionized TTRPG company.
- Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing 2 months ago:
For the families who can afford it, daycare is the replacement.
- Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing 2 months ago:
“It takes a village to raise a child” is an old expression for a reason. Historically, parents wouldn’t take care of their kids 24/7. They would have grandparents, aunts, neighbours and friends to help share the load.
The modern idea that parents and parents alone do 100% of everything to raise a child is a very modern western thing.
- Comment on Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. 2 months ago:
I don’t know the details of this app, but if it’s specifically US streets and notes on households there, then GDPR does not apply, as they’re not mapping EU households. GDPR is only invoked if the personal information of Europeans is at risk.
- Comment on These aren't "feel good" stories, they're "we live in hell" stories. 4 months ago:
They actually do. They’ll show up for Mastodon users subscribed to the Lemmy community.
- Comment on Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data 4 months ago:
I hate the term intellectual property. It’s a word used to describe vastly different concepts with vastly different legal backgrounds and problems.
Copyright is theoretically a good thing, giving an artist or writer the time to profit from their work before the work becomes public domain, incentivizing the work. The current international agreements around it are absolutely bonkers thanks to Disney. The fact that the copyright persists after death, let alone for a century, is complete madness. The artist obviously can’t profit from their work after they’re dead. It’s an absolute shameless cash grab that destroys culture.
Patents are also theoretically a good thing, basically copyright for industrial machines, and the duration is pretty ok, but they need to be much more heavily restricted in what you can put patents on. Patenting a specific machine design is fine, patenting molecules or math breaks the entire system. Software patents are blatantly absurd and broken.
Trade secrets, the protection of specific recipes, client lists and strategies, can be abused to protect companies against disclosing information that may be very pertinent to their customers and governments. The Coca-Cola recipe or lists of clients as a trade secret is fine imho, but they can also abuse trade secret law to hide systems that lie about your car’s emissions.
Trademarks help protect consumers against knockoff brands that pretend to be what they’re not. This is the least abused type of “IP”. This doesn’t mean there aren’t bad actors out there registering tons of different trademarks to squat on those designs & names, hoping to force a new company to pay up to use the name. Trademark squatting could theoretically be solved by annulling the trademark if the company isn’t actively using it. Trademarks are currently much too easy to maintain.
All of this to say, lumping all of these different laws into “IP” is not useful at all when talking about the goals of the different legislations, what they’re trying to do, and how they fail.
- Comment on With the creation and use of ChatGPT and Bard, I bet ELI5 community and subreddit have had less posts, because people can just ask them instead. 4 months ago:
It’s not lying. It has no concept of context or truth. Auto complete on steroids.
- Comment on Garak's time off 5 months ago:
He didn’t say he wanted to kill someone at random, he just said he hadn’t decided yet. Reads to me more like he has a shortlist of enemies and he wants to take some time off to kill one of them
- Comment on I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change? 5 months ago:
What’s a “real” accent? Plenty of people have multiple accents that they code-switch between depending on who they’re talking to.
An Englishman from Newcastle might talk to his childhood friends in Geordie, talk to his colleagues in RPI, and meet some family from Leeds and talk to them in a Yorkshire accent.
Accents aren’t this big static monolith.
- Comment on Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox 5 months ago:
Is it surprising that a userbase for an open-source online forum with no ads are advocates for an open-source browser that can remove ads?
- Comment on Weird 🤔 6 months ago:
I do get that for some situations and regions, cars are immensely valuable. I also could not agree more about the difference in environmental impact between dense, populous cities where everyone has a car and small rural towns where everyone has a car. That should be pretty self-evident.
All I was trying to say is that here in Bucharest you have some idiots that talk about cars and their necessity as if we’re in the Australian outback, where no alternative could ever be possible.
- Comment on Weird 🤔 6 months ago:
Sure. I get that. Where I get kinda confused by some people (not blaming you for this!) is when the extrapolation comes out. “We need cars to cross this massive gap between cities, and that’s why we shouldn’t build this tram line in the middle of this densely populated city”. Similarly, just because I think we should (talking about the EU here) make big investments into rail and ban short-haul flights, that doesn’t mean I don’t see the value in transatlantic flights.
- Comment on Weird 🤔 6 months ago:
The sane ones make a decent point about infrastructure (I’m definitely anti-car).
Blaming the individual for the lack of options provided by the government is pretty nuts.
- Comment on Trick or Treat! 6 months ago:
Fun fact: it’s a common misconception that the seeds are the spiciest part. That’s actually the second hottest after the placenta (the white part that connects the seeds to the pepper).
- Comment on youtube getting more agressive 6 months ago:
Haven’t seen this in Romania either. Must be a country by country rollout.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge could use a win 7 months ago:
A lot of EAC games work just fine on proton now. For any game released and/or updated this year, enabling EAC on proton for the devs is as easy as ticking a checkbox.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge could use a win 7 months ago:
That’s an usual way to write
snap install firefox
- Comment on Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks 7 months ago:
An amendment has changed the rules on that. They need to be as easy to reject as to accept. Lots of websites atm are breaking the law on this still.
- Comment on Is America Really That Bad? 8 months ago:
I feel this in my bones. Different laws, different stupid shit, equally stupid politicians.
- Comment on Linux Best Practices 9 months ago:
Fun fact, RM -rf /* does not need --no-preserve-root. It will happily start as technically, according to the preserve root check, /* is not root as the target is not /