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darkevilmac , 5 days ago

Yeah Telus in Canada has been doing this recently as well. We're just back to cable packages except now you have like 4 different apps to worry about.

darkevilmac , 5 days ago

Yeah but I have a hot dog and you don't

darkevilmac , 11 days ago

The difference from the perspective of the US is that it's spyware from a potentially malicious foreign state. China bans US tech companies as well, TikTok took advantage of the US having a much more open market and the state decided that they were acting in bad faith.

darkevilmac , 14 days ago

It's frustrating for sure, I was even more annoyed when we had a referendum in BC and people opted to keep things the same.

darkevilmac , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

I could be wrong but I remember voting and they actually had it split into two questions. The first was whether you wanted to keep the current system, and the second was if no what system would you prefer. Unfortunately people just decided to stick to what they were familiar with even if it's a flawed system.

EDIT: Double checked and yeah, it was two questions the first of which was whether the system should change or not. 61% of voters opted to keep the existing system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_British_Columbia_electoral_reform_referendum

darkevilmac , 16 days ago

Or just let the developer decide what they think fits their game best? Not every product is for every person, and that's fine really. Trying to broaden appeal is good, but you don't want to spread resources so thin that you end up with a mess.

darkevilmac , 19 days ago

Tesla owns over 50% of the electric car chargers in the US. It makes more sense for other companies to be compatible with the largest network than for the largest network to make itself work with everything else.

Whether you like Musk or Tesla or not, this just made more sense for the sake of adoption.

darkevilmac , 23 days ago

https://youtu.be/SBs455jwb8w

darkevilmac , 25 days ago

Pretty sure last time around there were potential buyers. I think Walmart was one of them, and so was Oracle.

I imagine we'll see the same names pop up again.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

I believe part of the DMA means that they're allowed to use their own engines. Whether they have that ready right now I'm not sure, but I'm sure it's in the works.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

I don't need any sins, my knees buckle under the weight of my own body just fine.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

If a society is to function people need to be doing the work that isn't enjoyable as well as the work that's enjoyable.

There's likely not enough people that get genuine enjoyment out of being a garbage man or sewer maintenance worker for a world with everyone doing what they want to work.

You have to add incentives for the less desirable labour or else the system collapses under its own weight.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

In my home town a sanitation worker makes double the provincial minimum wage and gets benefits. That's an incentive for a job that has a low barrier to entry but undesirable labour.

The benefit of this system is that you can in fact choose this role instead of being assigned it based on the requirements of society. If the compensation isn't tempting enough then the employer will increase the compensation until it makes sense. That's how it's supposed to work at the very least.

If the current implementation isn't working then you address the issues with the implementation, you don't tear it all down and try something completely different.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

Depending on the desirability of the work compared to the compensation yes it seems to be working pretty well

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

If you're incapable of working then you take advantage of the social safety nets that your government or community provides.

I never said I was against having supports in place for those who are unable to work?

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

Okay - you're just arguing something completely different at this point.

My point was just that this post proposes a solution that doesn't actually solve anything and just makes new problems.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

What exactly makes you think that communism is going to remove people having power over other people? That seems to just be intrinsic to humans in general, your economic system isn't going to change that.

And you can absolutely have social support systems in place if the populous pushes for them. Homeless shelters and welfare aren't impossible ideas, they're actively implemented across the world. The same goes for basic needs like healthcare.

Just because your government or community hasn't implemented it doesn't mean it's not possible to do so. It means you need to convince those around you that it's a good idea.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

Depends what we're substituting those templated values for.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

It's silly, all the legal precedence we have for emulators were for commercial offerings. If Nintendo wants to hit you with so many invalid lawsuits that you're forced to fold then this certainly won't stop them.

It's just bullying and it's going to keep happening until there's laws in place protecting it.

Some of the best inventions in history came from people reverse engineering the work of others. If we want to keep moving forward then we can't let companies bully people out of innovating. It's shooting ourselves in the foot.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

Docker desktop has a license that restricts commercial use depending on the size of your company/employer.

Use Colima to be on the safe side.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

Someone forgot a case in their test suite.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

"please come to the office so you can experience the time crunch without the comfort of your own home"

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

Probably a good idea, plenty of languages out there that can give good performance while being memory safe nowadays.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

Zig and Rust come to mind, at least for replacements for low level languages.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

My bad, I was thinking of Nim but wrote Zig for some reason. Long day yesterday 🙃

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

I guess they were getting tired of doing well in the polls and wanted to shoot themselves in the foot a bit just to remember how it feels.

darkevilmac , 2 months ago

This is about Canada...

darkevilmac , 3 months ago

If you have to run power to it, you might as well run some data as well. Never really the best idea to have mission critical equipment at the mercy of a congested wifi network.

darkevilmac , 3 months ago

They didn't really need to specify the bf is a top when they ended the post with a keyboard smash

darkevilmac , 3 months ago

Windows 11 is weird to me, I feel like I've only heard negative things about it but actually using it on a daily basis has been fine with a few tweaks. Using nilesoft shell and ear trumpet was basically all I needed to be satisfied.

That's not really unique to 11 though, I've had to tweak things on basically every windows version. Whether that was classic shell with 8, or clover for tabs in file explorer for 7.

At the very least Windows 11 seems to have a more consistent design language across the OS. It feels a lot less half baked than the style changes they did on 8 and 10.

darkevilmac , 3 months ago

I kind of wonder how a company with such an iron grip on SSO can't manage to be profitable. That and I literally saw a job listing from Okta last weekend, so they're probably just trying to replace their tenured high cost employees with cheaper workers.

darkevilmac , 3 months ago

Yes because they want to be compatible with what people learn on. So if they want improvements that benefit them they have to put those improvements into upstream.

This is how open source is supposed to work.

darkevilmac , 3 months ago

Because the app store and all of its marketing is a huge source of revenue for them. Giving up even the smallest portion of that market goes against their company goal of: number go up.

darkevilmac , 3 months ago

You probably have some parisitic power draw somewhere, my old Ford focus had the same issue. Was just a bad relay causing a fan to run when the car was off.

darkevilmac , 4 months ago

The fun part is that for some industries this will "work".

Not because the AI actually functions as a replacement for workers, but because a lot of companies have become bloated from aggressive hiring over the past few years.

So when things continue to function with the reduced staff they'll say how great the AI is. When in reality all that's going to happen is the employees that stay around will just be picking up more of the work again.

Hurray for out of touch CEOs!

darkevilmac , 4 months ago

There are other options on the market from what I understand, Apple just really liked how one company did it. Not enough to just license it like a normal company though, they opted to gut the company that made it.