dandi8

@dandi8@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The History and Future of Digital Ownership⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well then let me actually download the movie like it was a game, then! And how exactly does it take less bandwidth? It's still tens or hundreds of gigabytes to download every time someone wants to install a game, most people only use the offline installers as backups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The History and Future of Digital Ownership⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you use for automating the backups?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The History and Future of Digital Ownership⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet, somehow, GOG and Itch still exist, allowing you to download games completely DRM-free, as often as you like. If they ever go out of business, you can still use your local copies forever.

  How do they do it? A mystery...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s your favorite project you’ve worked on and why?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A while ago I wrote an extensible dummy data generator for Java.

  I needed to fake some scientific data for a project at work and wasn't satisfied with how closed for modification existing data generation solutions were, so I decided to tackle writing a library on my own.

  It was my first major contribution to open source and had some architectural challenges which were fun to solve, not to mention the learning experience :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You're not "supposed to" upgrade every year, that's the point. You should be able to use a 5 year old phone if you want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zoom Conversations vs In-Person: Brain Activity Tells a Different Tale - Neuroscience News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So online meetings are less taxing on the brain than in-person. How is that a bad thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Verge Takes on Self-Hosting for the Masses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So something like a Synology NAS, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Retro Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's nice to see other people worried about this, as well. I really don't like the big cliff unto which game preservation seems to be heading.

  I feel like there's some sort of a PR issue with the DRM-Free crowd where we're seen as 'weird' by others, who seem to be missing the forest for the trees thinking that we just "don't like DRM" as a personal preference, and not (among other things) a giant roadblock to being able to play games we legally bought in the future.

  I wish I knew how to get other gamers interested in true, not-time-limited ownership of their software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tony Hawk's Pro Skater™ 1 + 2 is coming to Steam on October 3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When will it release on GOG?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attention Office Resisters: The Boss Is Counting Badge Swipes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely ridiculous and serves nothing but to make the CEOs feel better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo that Tracks Terms of Service Changes and Updated Its License - GamerBraves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They only "don't have enough to pay us" insofar as they don't have enough to pay us without sacrificing record high profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement from Linus Tech Tips about Madison's accusations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's not owning up of you've been caught red-handed, denied any wrongdoing, and only made an apology video once your subs started tanking. At this point it just feels like damage control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zachary Levi Says ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ Critics Rating Was “Oddly and Perplexingly Low”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you follow an account like that, being a public figure, if you disagree with its contents?