Jajcus

@Jajcus@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Otherwise they should be forced to state the game is a rental not purchased if it requires a server that may shut down.

  But that is what they already do. Currently this might be hidden in the EULA, that no one reads, but even making this plainly visible during purchase wouldn't change much. I is not like the players have much choice when they want to play that specific game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that is the problem with this idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Subscription to a software is not mutually exclusive with self-hosting. Developers deserve to earn money, especially those who do not rely on collecting data, showing ads and enshittification of their cloud platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prison Architect 2 transitioning game to a different studio⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like what happened to Kerbal Space Program 2… it didn't end well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a mobster kind of favor. They took advantage of studio weakness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you know if you have a Habit?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is were habit stops and addiction starts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some languages use gendered nouns?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably seems extra complexity for you, if your language does not use it. For native speakers it is just natural and not using it would be at least weird.

  We could ask the same question about articles . Those 'the' and 'a', why use them? It only makes English language harder to use! 'Apple is apple' why add another meaningless word?

  Of course after learning and using English for years I see the meaning of 'a' and 'the' and thy feel quite natural for me to (though sometimes they still make little sense to me – all the fights whether 'The' can be used with some proper name or not). The point is: a lot of features of a foreign language will fill alien and unnecessary.

  Maybe more on topic, that is how/why gendered words work in Polish: noun gender is usually linked to how it ends (but do not confuse that with suffixes of grammatical cases). Virtually all Polish women names end with 'a', so any other noun ending in 'a' sounds feminine and would be used in similar way. And sometimes it just 'rhymes' – like in 'to jabkło' ('this apple' – neuter), 'ta gruszka' ('this pear' – feminine), 'ten banan' ('this banana' – masculine). Of course thing get much more complicated than that (like in every language, just in different parts of the language).

  People were just talking in the way that it was convenient for them. And thousands years later scholars called this feature of particular set of languages 'gender' because words used seem to be related to genders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve is the company responsible for unlocking my PC for gaming. Most games can now be played without using Windows and Valve is mostly responsible for that. Because most game developers do not care and would rather force you to use proprietary OS than let you use what you prefer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is HTTPS a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If your browser or your OS insist on only trusting $1000 certificate, blocking access to most of the internet, then change the browser or OS. There is no grand authority telling which root certificates can be trusted. Yes, Google or Apple could scam their users this way if they wish to, but it would not make much sense for them. People would use something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do new sites embed tweets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  'doctoring' can go both ways. Embedding gives more 'doctoring power' to original poster and X.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Finally Puts a Price on Privacy: It’s $10 a Month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This paymemt does not even stop their crappy 'recommended for you' suggested content on user's wall, which is even more annoying than the ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Norway — the poster child for electric cars — is having second thoughts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But is it a clickbait in this case? The title is exactly the question the article thoroughly answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube ads finally got me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You say content creators should not be paid for their work? And Google should provide all those servers and bandwidth for free?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube ads finally got me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The old business model could not last forever… and even if it could it was not good for anyone.

  Think about it

  Hosting videos is expensive, someone has to pay for it. It was mostly paid by ads. Ads which many (most people) would block and many people would not ever click even when not blocked. But it still made money… The money come only from ads which 1) where not blocked 2) where at least clicked. The business relied on that.

  So YT relied on ads targeting people who did not know how to block ads and people easy to manipulate by the ads (eager to buy whatever they are trying to sell). Probably not the brightest. Or just easy to be taken advantage of. So the incentive would be to promote content for those people. Not good content, not true content, just content that makes ads viewed and clicked.

  People using ad-blocks were still affected by those who do not. And whole site was optimized for advertises not viewers or content creators. And that is bad.

  I am all in favour of any direct form of payments instead of ads powering the internet. Sites get very little money for each view anyway – so the prices for users should also be quite small.

  Unfortunately as long as ads are supposed to be normal part of internet, they may get forced even onto paying customers. We need regulations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Raspberry Pi 5⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that easily and cheaply as they used to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Raspberry Pi 5⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn't sound like the 'cheap small computer you can run your hobby electronics project on' that the original Pi used to be. It is not as cheap and a power hungry beast, still small, though. More and more like a PC and less and less a small cheap embedded platform. For some people it is a plus (I guess for most people here), for some not so much.

  I tend to build my projects on Raspberry Pi Pico now, but sometimes I would need something more powerful and Raspberry Pi 5 will be too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨0.30000000000000004⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If working with currency use types and formating functions appropriate for currency. Not float.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In Poland: decimeters are sometimes used (I have been ordering cut sheet metal priced by square decimeters) , I have not seen decameters in use. Hectopascales are often used in weather reports. Decagrams are often used when buying food where these amounts make most sense (meat, candy).

  The 'more exotic' prefixes are usually only used with some specific SI units and in very specific contexts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern corporate management model is just broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are these floating on the surface⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the kettle has some kind of non-sticking internal surface?

  Yes, that sounds like limescale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Community contributions to Element Web (Matrix client) are often not welcomed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Matrix is open protocol, everybody is free to build their own clients. Maintainers of any one implementation are free to choose code to include in their project. And people can fork Element if they don't like the way it is going.

  Maybe Element developers are not great in including external contribution… but still nothing else seems to implement Matrix that well.

  No other client seems feature-complete. I wish I could use NeoChat instead of Matrix, but it still cannot even handle encrypted conversations properly. Are they rejecting contributions too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don't hate JIRA, you hate your manager - Derek Jarvis' Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Jira was ok until they dropped self-hosting option. Why should I keep internal development data at third party server?

  Other Atlassuan software, though... oh, what a mess. And it only was getting worse with any new release. I am glad we have dumped it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is this "Jenkins" and what now has broken him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And a lot of users' frustration, especially on more niche platforms (Linux, ARM, etc.) - things look much better on release when the code have been regularly compiled and, hopefully tested, on all platforms, not just the one the lead developer uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of the attestation is to show that given browser won't do some things. If the browser is open source on open source operating system the user can modify it in any way he wants, so not such attestation can be given to such browser.

  Even if we are ok with attested browser being official builds never modified by users, then user could still fake it if they have full control of their operating system. So the operating system must also be attested, so it cannot be freely modified. And what is a point of open source then? You can see, but you cannot touch?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But the problem they try to solve is: user's device is not under full control of the service provider. The only solution to that problem is to take away the control from the device owner. You cannot have both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Will you change your bank when it refuses to work with Firefox? What if most other banks do the same?

  This is how things are in Android now – online banking, online games and even subscription media services are mostly unavailable to those who would like to use non-official OS.

  website authors will want to limit their own audience for the benefit of some company?

  Many websites already refuse to work with anything not-chrome-based – so website authors often don't care.

  Banks see that as 'security', so they are ok with 'losing' a small percentage of customers who want 'insecure' devices. In fact they would hardly lose anything, as their customers usually depend more on the bank, than the bank on any particular customer.

  For media providers, that is another 'anti-piracy' measure (DRM) – they will also happily sacrifice Linux users, as insignificant fraction of users, probably less then 'actual pirates' on Windows or Mac. Netflix already won't stream in high quality to Firefox on Linux.

  For online game providers this will be easy anti-cheat measure – they will also not care about that insignificant fraction of user.

  Each of those service providers would loose maybe 5% of their user base (probably less… as most users would eventually accommodate), but the affected users would use major number of services they care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I do about cracks in the foundation/crawl space?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Editing photo on the phone (just resize or crop a bit) before upload usually helps.