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interolivary , 18 days ago

So because VPN works for you, it's impossible for it to not work for literally anybody else?

interolivary , 21 days ago

Well, for many publishers the choice is either ads or paywalls. The fact that people feel entitled to get everything for free is a part of why things are going to shit, because ads bring with them a whole slew of perverse incentives (eg. optimizing for ad views instead of content quality)

interolivary , 21 days ago

Well, whatever the solution to this problem is, I'm fairly sure "put a blockchain on it" isn't going to be it. Distributed ledgers do potentially have some uses, but using them to carry "proof of humanity" information doesn't make much sense

interolivary , 21 days ago

no one ever tactfully includes ads

This is pretty patently hyperbole; I've run into many sites, including news, with non-intrusive ads.

Whether it's class-based gatekeeping is another matter entirely. For-profit media employees have to eat too, and in the current economic system most can't just give people access to content for free without any sort of monetization mechanism and with a voluntary subscription, because that'll very often lead to income dropping off a cliff. Unfortunately people are very loath to pay for online services except for some more niche cases like the Fediverse where instances run on voluntary donations – although I've seen a couple of moderately popular instances struggling with upkeep being higher than what people are willing to donate (and it's not just services either; open source developers face similar issues.) In some countries we at least have public broadcasting companies, although eg. here in Finland the current extremist right-wing government is looking to reduce its funding by quite a bit and possibly even entirely dismantle it if they get their way.

While I definitely agree that news should be available for free, railing against a for-profit publisher's paywall is, frankly, myopic; like it or not, in the current system even content producers have to make a living. None of us really has a choice in whether we want to live in this system or not

interolivary , 19 days ago (edited 18 days ago)

How do you propose these "open source journalists" make a living? Corporate grants or straight-up corporate jobs just like a huge chunk of Linux development, landing us right back at square one, if not even somewhat behind it? At least independent media exists nowadays, but if the assumption is that all news has to be freely available, like acastcandream said that'd just lead to journalism being very effectively locked out as a career path for anyone who's not independently wealthy or somehow able to make people actually donate or pay for a subscription despite the content being available for free – and that hasn't worked out too well for most publishers so far.

interolivary , 25 days ago

Well, they're totally different platforms . The rationale behind the TikTok ban (and I'm not saying I'm in favor of it or opposed to it) is that they can do spooky spooky things with your personal data and your attention – your opinions can be nudged once there's enough data on you and your eyeballs are on the app half the day. And just to repeat, I'm not saying I agree with the ban (well, not with banning just TikTok anyhow…)

Temu and AliExpress have their own problems (like the absolutely mind boggling waste of finite resources) but nobody's worried Temu is radicalizing boys or collecting tons of your personal data. And yes even Temu does collect data just like everyone else nowadays, but it's a shopping site; compared to a social network there's not all that much you can get out of your users or too many ways to really influence them outside of making them spend more money

interolivary , 22 days ago

Oh yeah it absolutely is bullshit, I'm not saying that. Or, well, it is true they're likely collecting tons of data but it's not like US companies don't do it too and for reasons that are probably just as bad. This is why I tend to think that if you're going to ban TikTok for collecting data, you can't ignore Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple et al

interolivary , 1 month ago

You're just throwing a tantrum at this point

interolivary , 3 months ago

I live in an apartment building that was constructed in '22 and a landline wasn't even an option anymore, it's all just gigabit ethernet.

interolivary , 2 months ago

Sure, but it's not a landline anymore

interolivary , 3 months ago

But don't you see, everybody needs to know exactly their opinion

interolivary , 3 months ago

Even though I occasionally toy with the idea of learning eg. COBOL so I could rake in the $$$ from consulting jobs to add features to some 60 year old codebase for a bank or something like that, I'm not sure that amount of stress would ever be worth it

interolivary , 3 months ago

Reddit surfed through the years of cheap vc money but going public could kill it.

Wonder which fascist tech billionaire will buy it when it finally implodes

interolivary , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Yeah I remember the "waaaa it went woke, Abby is trans" insanity

Edit: no brain, it wasn't Ellie

interolivary , 3 months ago

Oh yes doi of course, that was just a brain fart. But yes exactly this, it was such a spectacularly gAmEr moment.

interolivary , 3 months ago

They take any presence of minorities as part of an agenda to, uh, I don't know what exactly. They always screech about an agenda but I don't think even they know what the agenda is supposed to be about.

interolivary , 4 months ago

The v2.0 changes were actually pretty good, made me want to start another playthrough. I really like the new metro system even though it's such a small thing considering everything else they changed, but it's fun to be able to hop onto a metro to get somewhere. The game is already pretty immersive and that small detail just adds to it

interolivary , 4 months ago

users can modify their useragent string, and sometimes they have to because some webdevs are morons.

The minority of users do this or even know about UA strings.

some browsers actually default to using chrome instead of its own.

Sure, but Firefox isn’t one of them

interolivary , 4 months ago

Doesn’t seem too likely that’d be more than a few percentage points. Which non-Chromium browsers even do this?

interolivary , 4 months ago

Wine works pretty well for a large percentage of Windows programs

interolivary , 5 months ago

Cloudpunk is nice, although it’s more of a “walking simulator” than a fully-fledged RPG. It’s a cyberpunk-ish indie game in which you’re a delivery driver, although with a flying car and a sentient dog.

interolivary , 5 months ago

Elon shouldn’t be in this chart, too easy to win

One would think, but with both Thiel and Bezos in the competition this isn’t as cut-and-dry as you’d assume. Thiel especially is fucking evil, he’s way worse than Musk

interolivary , 5 months ago

The thing is that Fallout: New Vegas used the same engine, and it proved that you can do a much more interesting and engaging story and quests with Creation Engine compared to what Bethesda is capable of. Sure, Creation is still a bit of a piece of shit when it comes to engines, but it can be used for creating complex storylines etc. and not just “go there and push a button” or “go there and kill a person”

interolivary , 5 months ago

any attempt to implement libertarianism will only bring mass amounts of misery and destroyed lives to anyone beneath the Parasite Class.

This is a feature, not a bug

interolivary , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

The only libertarian I personally know is anti-LGBT+, just not as rabidly outspoken about it as a “regular” conservative. He’s the sort who’d be happy with gay people being murdered on the streets as long as he doesn’t have to do it himself

interolivary , 5 months ago

Looks like it’s written in C of all things, huh

interolivary , 5 months ago

Rewrite in Brainfuck!

interolivary , 5 months ago

Well it collects data from you, and one use case for your data is allowing a nice 💰 exit for the venture capital -backed company building it.

Other than that, not a whole lot that’s worth yet another “powered by open web standards” Electron piece of shit

interolivary , 5 months ago

I may be an anomalous IT professional, but despite being a coder and generally a ginormous nerd, I’ve never really understood why people buy “smart” devices. This isn’t a criticism; I honestly just don’t understand why they’re popular. The amount of convenience they provide really doesn’t seem like it’s worth it at all, to me

interolivary , 5 months ago

I guess those devices make more sense if you don’t have a laptop. I only have a laptop (well, that and a Steam Deck which counts as mobile Linux I guess) so I just plonk it into the HDMI port

interolivary , 5 months ago

An old hand-me-down 1080p TV and my laptop

interolivary , 5 months ago

Generally mpv

interolivary , 5 months ago

It’s not like an average person would be unable to use their laptop and some media player, regardless of which OS they use; the fact that I use a weird-ass player doesn’t mean it’s the only option available on a laptop. It just seems pointless to get another gadget to do the same thing you can do on a gadget you own (assuming you have a laptop, of course.)

interolivary , 5 months ago

… what

interolivary , 5 months ago

🥁

interolivary , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Algorithm-free

I’m not sure you understand what an algorithm is. They’re simply a sequence of steps you apply to get some end result, comparable to eg. a recipe in baking.

Lemmy still has multiple ways for you to choose how posts are sorted; “hot”, “active”, “new” etc. Each of those is an algorithmic sorting, and there’s literally no other option except to have an algorithm that is used to determine which posts you see

edit: I think many people who think Lemmy is “algorithm-free” may mean that it has a transparent algorithm for post selection. It’s still an algorithm, but we can all go look at source code and documentation to be able to know exactly how it works – with eg. Facebook the exact workings of the post sorting algorithm is secret

interolivary , 5 months ago

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/2805f4c0-f035-4efa-8452-0e8862174075.webp

interolivary , 5 months ago

Are you trying to convince yourself or the person you’re replying to?

interolivary , 6 months ago

IBM sold machines to the original Nazis, so I guess this time around they at least want to keep up the appearance of giving a shit where their money comes from

interolivary , 6 months ago

I’ve been meaning to give F# a go but I never seem to get around to it. Seems like an interesting language

interolivary , 6 months ago

“Sufficiently powerful” is a bit of an understatement when it comes to Scala. Honestly may have a bit too many features for my taste, it’s not a small language

interolivary , 6 months ago

I think it’s the PHP, makes people doubt your soul’s status that you’d subject yourself willingly to it

interolivary , 6 months ago

That’s a good point about the synergies, something like eg. a type system that’s expressive enough to be Turing-complete is going to have some effects. You’re right that it might just feel like a “kitchen sink language” due to complexity of the features it has, but then again I suppose it’s sort of one and the same where a language’s complexity comes from.

But it’s no Swift, at least; now that language really does have everything and the kitchen sink.

interolivary , 6 months ago

Because no way could I dislike modern PHP. Maybe you just have low standards when it comes to programming languages?

interolivary , 6 months ago

I mean, wouldn’t it essentially have to be storing every possible move (well, state) for as many rounds as you want for the player to be able to play at most? And I’m not sure he can take advantage of the fact that you can end up in the same state from multiple other states, which would remove a lot of the redundant ones

interolivary , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

The guy in the blog says mb (millibits)

a) does anybody actualy use that? How many people reading this thread can say they’ve actually seen that in real use or used it?

b) I’m fairly convinced you knew what was meant because it’s not like it’s uncommon to use a minuscule m for “mega” in colloquial usage

Weird performative pedantry or a joke that flew over my head? I give about a 0.5 probability for both

interolivary , 6 months ago

It already feels like Twitter.

Still full of Nazis then, I take it?