SorteKanin
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- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 5 days ago:
Convincing analysis. I guess the question is, if we assume this is the case, will the industry ever heal?
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 5 days ago:
Yes that is true - although many games on Steam can play offline so because I download the game, I own it in that fashion. They can’t take that away.
But compare with GOG then. They sell games, you download them with no DRM so you own the download essentially.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 5 days ago:
rights expire for TV shows and movies far more often than they do for games
Any idea why there is this discrepancy between TV and games?
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 5 days ago:
Why is licensing so easy with games though? It really seems like there’s this arbitrary difference in how the video games and streaming industries work.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 5 days ago:
What would it take to get a “Steam but TV/movies instead of games”? I feel like if I could see reviews of movies and I could buy them and download them and have them forever and buy them on sale and all that good stuff, it wouldn’t be so bad.
How come none of the streaming services have gone for this model? Steam is swimming in money, surely this method could work?
- Comment on Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ 1 week ago:
Imagine this happens to some random personal account… It’d probably be gone for good.
- Comment on is there a search engine for the fediverse? 1 week ago:
Your favourite search engine + “site:your-instance.net” should do okay hopefully?
- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
You would just view the poll on the instance you’re curious about and it would show the result from its perspective.
- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
Lemmy and other Fediverse applications use the ActivityPub protocol under the hood. The ActivityPub protocol has something called “groups”, which Lemmy uses as communities. So groups and communities are the same thing essentially but other software (like Mastodon) calls groups something else and not necessarily communities. But I’m not an expert.
- Comment on Would lemmy benefit of implementing Polls? 1 week ago:
It would work the exact same way, i.e. every instance would have its own idea of the results, depending on what instances are (de)federated with.
- Comment on Chuck Todd: The race to build a better internet — before it's too late 1 week ago:
It’s either or, not both at the same time.
- Comment on Chuck Todd: The race to build a better internet — before it's too late 1 week ago:
I haven’t read the book but as far as I gather they aren’t proposing to restrict the internet as it is, but rather make digital rights for consumers to be able to control and own the data that is given to third parties.
So Google for instance can’t say like “we’ll give you this for free but you have to give us your data”. Instead, you’d probably need to pay directly for Gmail for instance or Google would have to pay you for access to your data. Either option might be better than what we have today.
- Comment on Chuck Todd: The race to build a better internet — before it's too late 1 week ago:
While I truly hope something is done on the US side, I am much more hopeful that the EU will be able to arrive to such a solution in a reasonable time.
- Comment on Reverse proxy 1 week ago:
Maybe look into nginxproxymanager.com it makes it quite easy to set up.
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 2 weeks ago:
But if you don’t pay directly for a good search engine, aren’t they forced to use ads to fund it? And then you end up with Google. Or is there a third option?
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
6 months? I wish they were harsher. Give them significant daily fines, they’ll get it done quick then.
- Comment on We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure it’s “good” on its own, it’s maybe more that the alternative (deflation) is worse. A steady value might be preferable but I’m not sure that’s realistic, so a small amount of inflation is probably the best you can hope for? 🤷
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
A single user instance doesn’t need nearly 100GB, so that’s fine. My own instance which is not even single user doesn’t even use 100GB yet.
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
Well this site says that the bitcoin network uses around 91 TWh annually.
According to fediverse.observer, there’s roughly 21000 Fediverse servers online.
Let’s just assume that a server on the Fediverse uses 500W. That’s quite a high estimate btw, but we can overestimate, it’s fine.
That gives roughly 0.09 TWh annually, or about 0.1% of the bitcoin network. And remember that’s an overestimate and remember that that only considers bitcoin and no other cryptocurrencies.
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
The practical suggestions sound good but the rest of the blog post makes this sound like a much bigger issue than it is, I feel.
There are simply not enough servers or activity on the Fediverse to have to worry about this at this point, if you ask me. It could for sure be better with regards to environmental concerns, but there’s a lot more pressing issues I think.
- Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
how much is the Fediverse’s energy usage compared to those of AI services or cryptocurrency farms?
Practically 0.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 3 weeks ago:
There’s so many it’s hard to think of them all.
Let’s start with the fact that Danish is practically two languages in one - the written language and the spoken language. There is very little connection between the two. You cannot look at a word’s spelling and know how it is pronounced, and often it is not pronounced how you would think it is pronounced by looking at the spelling.
The grammar is simple, but it’s so full of irregularities that you basically need to memorise a wide array of words and phrases.
The spoken language has more vowel sounds than the alphabet has vowels, even when Danish has added three extra (æ, ø and å). Each vowel can therefore be pronounced in different ways depending on the word. No, there is no system to tell you which sound is the correct one, you just have to know and memorize it.
Add to this the fact that the pronounciation is quite complicated and basically impossible for foreigners to learn without having a heavy or at least moderate accent.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 3 weeks ago:
As a dane, you have no idea how good you have it. Be happy that English became the lingua franca and not something worse.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
So everyone here is probably like “please do it” but I do wonder how the general populace would react. Would people actually miss TikTok if it just disappeared?
- Comment on "Batch cooking" how do you store meal for the second half of the week ? 3 weeks ago:
I like the cook in batches so I don’t have to I cook too often. I regularly keep cooked food for about 4 days in the fridge, taking a portion every day. I don’t think you need to worry too much even at that time frame if it’s cooked and you kept it in the fridge.
Your governments health authority probably has guidelines or you could search online for answers.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
It would definitely be better if users spread over more instances, yes.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
Every instance is run by distinct admins. You can’t say that Lemmy as a whole is run by any specific group.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
It’s really a major problem. Every time I mention how a lot of open source software suffers from bad UX, I get a lot of down votes instead of agreement and calls to improve things.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
I think admins curating the feed is… Interesting but also kind of dangerous and it sounds like it could be very manipulative. But of course you could go to instances that don’t do it but it might not be obvious.
That said, I agree the sorting could be better. The active sort still showing 2 days old posts is not ideal.
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think quantity is necessarily the most interesting metric. Quality of discussion and other users is more interesting to me and it has been quite good so far for the communities I frequent.