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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaign asking EU to stop publishers "destroying" online games hit by anonymous transparency complaint⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  People taking bad-faith legal action will always be able to make up something to complain about. If you’re claiming something that you know is provably false, extra evidence proving it false isn’t an obstacle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sovol SV08 or Prusa MK4S⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My enclosure is made from £4 of plywood, £8 of filament and £35 of laser-cut acrylic, and unlike the official SV08 aluminium enclosure, doesn’t have massive holes in it. I left out the SV08 enclosure price because the Sovol enclosure is expensive and dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sovol SV08 or Prusa MK4S⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  An SV08 is $600 and a Formbot 350mm kit is $800 plus $65 for the printed parts if you don’t already have a printer that can do ABS, so it’s 44% more for the Voron, which isn’t that close to the same amount. It’s a big enough difference to make the SV08 the better choice for some people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do British elites get their news? Publishers, social media and AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably way less depressing than the equivalent list from eighteen months ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sovol SV08 or Prusa MK4S⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got an SV08. It’s not a perfect printer, but making a printer without the problems it has (e.g. the bed takes nearly an hour to settle after it’s reached temperature, so it needs a long preheat for all but the shortest prints) would require making it much more expensive (e.g. a thick aluminium or graphite bed that wouldn’t warp would add another 20% of the cost of the printer). That specific problem is sidestepped with the MK4S by simply having a much smaller build volume rather than because it’s higher-end and more expensive. I’ve not needed support from Sovol (yet?), so can’t comment on whether they’re still super slow like they supposedly were right after the SV08 launched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since we're doing magic eyes now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of people can really easily go cross-eyed and look at these with no practice whatsoever. Fewer people can do the parallel kind with no practice or with the amount of practice they’ve already done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So for a developer to release a game on the Game Boy without Nintendo knowing, they would have to commit copyright infringement.

  That’d be trademark infringement, not copyright infringement.

  They used this same tactic on the Switch. They claim the prod keys, which are needed for Switch emulators, are copyrighted.

  That’s not quite the same thing, and still isn’t because the keys are copyrighted. There’s Digital Rights Management software running on the Switch, and part of what it does is decrypt encrypted parts of games with the keys. Originally, Nintendo managed to keep the keys secret, but eventually people managed to extract them. The next line of defence is that under the DMCA (or equivalent law in countries with a trade deal with the US), it’s illegal to attempt to circumvent DRM, and as the keys are capable of doing that, they themselves might count as a DRM circumvention device, which would be illegal to own or share. It’s a legal grey area whether or not they’d really count - lots of companies claim that it’s illegal to have these so-called illegal numbers, but Wikipedia are confident enough that that’s not what the law really says that their Illegal Number page lists a bunch of them.

  This gets even more complicated when it’s specifically about emulators, as the DMCA (or equivalent) have a specific carve-out for interoperability, saying you’re allowed to ignore parts of the DMCA if it’s specifically for the goal of making computer software work with computer hardware it wasn’t originally intended to. For the relevant parts of the DMCA that aren’t related to DRM, there’s case law confirming that it’s okay. However, no emulator developers have ever actually been sued for making an emulator for a system with any DRM (e.g. the thing with Switch emulators several months ago was settled out of court, and the threat was to sue them for things like illegally sharing games between developers, when they could have each bought their own copy, so weren’t protected by the carve-out). That means that this is a grey area, too.

  If Nintendo wanted to shut down an emulator based on its use of their keys, they’d not only have to set a precedent that the keys really did count as a DRM circumvention device, but also that the interoperability carve-out didn’t apply to DRM circumvention devices. It would be a big, expensive case, and as there are well-funded organisations that rely on the precedent not being set against them in both directions, both sides would get interested third parties funding their legal fees. No one wants that, so Nintendo stick to claiming emulators are illegal on their website, not in court documents, and only go after emulator developers who’ve provably done a second illegal thing they can be punished for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  100% a trademark violation, and there’s nothing like an interoperability carveout for trademarks that could be used to defend it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A quick search says steel, tungsten and bismuth or composites including those metals are the typical replacements. Steel is cheap, and the other two are dense but more expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t really the same kind of bug. Those bugs made instructions emit the wrong answer, which is obviously really bad, and they’re really rare. The bugs in the article make instructions take different amounts of time depending on what else the CPU has done recently, which isn’t something anyone would notice except that by asking the kernel to do something and measuring the time to execute affected instructions, an attacker that only had usermode access could learn secrets that should only be available to the kernel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thread’s about the law being akin to the law of a police state. A state is a police state if it enforces unjust laws that criminalise reasonable acts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine getting a notification on their phone reminding them if they’ve not brushed their teeth by a set time might help forgetful people to remember to brush their teeth, and if it’s via Home Assistant, which is self-hosted, entirely local, and open-source, there’s no downside other than having to set it up in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, just why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The tories cut funding from the department that decides whether asylum seekers have their claims granted or denied, so there’s a big backlog of people who can’t legally get a job to support themselves and can’t legally be deported, and feeding and housing them is expensive. The right wing press blames this not on the fact that they’re all in legal limbo until the backlog is dealt with, and not on the fact that decades of foreign policy mean that there are lots of people in danger unless they flee who have English as their only extra language, so would only be able to get a job after asylum was granted if they were in the UK, but instead on the myth that the government is required by things like the Human Rights Act to provide people a life of luxury if they come here and people are coming from safe places for a free multi-year holiday. Because humans are not rational, people believe the myth, and if the myth were true, it would obviously be a good idea to stop providing luxury hotel accommodation at great expense to the taxpayer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips for TPU?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a textured PEI bed and when I’ve printed TPU, the adhesion has been perfect, i.e. good enough that the part wasn’t going to go anywhere unless I wanted it to, but still easy enough to remove when the print was done and the bed had cooled. I guess it could vary from filament brand to brand, so it’s possibly worth trying the same brand as I used, which was cheap Geeetech stuff. It’s £8 a roll, and I’ve used their cheap PLA for ages. I wouldn’t recommend their ABS+, though, as it seems to break down at the lowest temperature that gives reasonable layer adhesion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder that you do not own digital games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on the era of the game, you might well own a copy of a game on a disk, just like you own a copy of a book when you buy a book. Weaselling out of first-sale-doctrine stuff came a long time after people started buying video games. A century ago, publishers were trying exactly the same thing with books, and depending on the country, either legislation was introduced that made it explicitly illegal, or the courts determined that putting a licence agreement in a book just meant that the customer got a copy of a licence agreement with their book, not that they were bound by its terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a sandwich is defined as any food item between two pieces of bread, then a layer cake is a type of sandwich.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sandwich cake is already a term that means the same thing as layer cake. The classic combination of two layers of Victoria sponge with strawberry jam and whipped cream in between is called a Victoria Sandwich. Anyone arguing that a layer cake isn’t a sandwich is just illiterate, not a defender of semantic specificity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Matrix cooked?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AGPL is a full-on FOSS licence with strong copyleft requirements, not a measly open-source licence like Apache, which could be pivoted to proprietary at a moment’s notice. We’re communicating through an AGPL-licensed system right now as it’s what Lemmy’s licensed as. If they were going for a corporate-friendly licence, AGPL is the last thing they’d choose as it forces you to share source code with even more people than the regular GPL does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have my consent to kill me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well is your writing your way of expressing how you felt when you found out your uncle was Welsh? That’s the real key to Lovecraft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative to PrusaSlicer on Linux/ARM64⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You might find that your hardware exposes 3.2 features via Vulkan and that if you configure your machine to use Zink rather than native GL, you can get a 3.2 context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia management shouldn’t be under that pressure. There’s no profit motive to enshittify or replace human contributions. They’re funded by donations from users, so their top priority should be giving users what they want, not attracting bubble-chasing venture capital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemm.we actually shutting down?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t necessarily want to just ask for volunteers as that’s a great way to summon exactly the kind of people you don’t want to put in charge of online communities. The best way is usually to notice people who are already part of the community and consistently make positive contributions, then ask for their help. If none of those people want to, though, you’re stuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, I’m not the right kind of software engineer to answer in more detail than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think for something like this, you’d rent cloud servers as you’d expect the number of concurrent users to change over time and ideally would be able to spin up more capacity when you need it without having to have those machines available all the time. You still need some kind of system that decides when to order more capacity with enough warning that it’s actually available (you can tell AWS you want a VM immediately, but it still takes a couple of minutes to transfer your data onto it and boot it up, which is longer than people want to sit in a loading screen) and decides which servers to assign to which users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a strong argument that the server architecture needed to be better at launch, but then the game sold more than an order of magnitude better than it was expected to, so no one would have noticed that it scaled badly had the player count been in line with their design and testing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At least there's no ads...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of the criticism of the .ml admins isn’t for being communists, it’s for promoting fascism as long as it wears a red hat. Some of the strongest critics are out and proud communists, but who have the sensible opinion that doing what Stalin did and what Putin is doing are not ethical or effective ways to build communism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Olympics have allowed trans women to compete against cis women since the 90s, and yet there’s never been a trans medalist. If there was a genuine advantage to being trans in sport, at least one country in the past three decades would have loaded their team with trans women and cleaned house. However, taking enough hormones to make a masculine body into a feminine one after it’s already grown means you’ve got way less testosterone than a cis woman, so that counters out any initial advantage. Claiming otherwise is misinformation. Spreading misinformation to the detriment of trans people is transphobic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion Remastered troubleshooting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone else said, installing things outside of Program Files is generally only necessary if they were made for XP or older, and the developers didn’t test on Vista or newer or read the bit of the Windows documentation that said not to write to an application’s installation directory because it might not work on future versions that was there since the early nineties. Regular Oblivion works fine in Program Files (although it makes it more of a pain to mod) and the Remaster was obviously made post-Vista.

  All that said, none of this is relevant because you’ve got the Windows App version, which uses a completely different system and works in a partial sandbox so doesn’t interact with the rest of the computer like a traditional program would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Partially restore it. At best, you put about 60% of the water into the starch crystals that the bread had when it was fresh. It’s a massive improvement, but it’s not hard to tell which is which in a side-by-side comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was meaning that the blade count and detachability was the difference in definition between turboprop and propfan/open turbofan, not that it was necessarily the thing making the engine more efficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen turboprops in museums and on the internet with around six or eight blades. When I looked on the Wikipedia page for propfan engines, which seems to be another name for an open turbofan, the distinction seemed to be mainly how the blades were shaped (like propellor blades or turbine blades) and how tightly-integrated everything is (you can swap the propeller out on a turboprop).