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dejected_warp_core ,

Possibly? Or maybe people will think twice about deadnaming you.

dejected_warp_core ,

Real question here: has anyone else had luck side-stepping the Live365 signup during/after install? I've done this, and I'm very confused that more people haven't.

dejected_warp_core ,

Just automatically started uploading everything on my hard drive to an account I didn’t set up

Wait, what?

dejected_warp_core ,

I think the punchline goes multiple ways at once: "the protesters were stupid thinking this would help", "the protesters were stupid in how they tried to protest", and "everyone back then was stupid because it's Waterworld now."

dejected_warp_core ,

Is that MIT (munch it today) or GPL (generally pleasing w/lettuce) licensed?

dejected_warp_core ,

The two licenses have distinct use cases, and only overlap for some definitions of "free" software. I also think both the comic artist and OP set up a fallacious argument. I'll add that in no way do I support Intel's shenanigans here.

The comic author takes one specific case of an MIT licensed product being used in a commercial product, and pits it against another GPL product. This ignores situations where MIT is the right answer, where GPL is the wrong one, situations where legal action on GPL violations has failed, and all cases where the author's intent is considered (Tanenbaum doesn't mind). From that I conclude that this falls under The Cherry Picking Fallacy. While humorous, it's a really bad argument.

But don't take it from me, learn from the master of logic himself.

commonly referred to as “cuck licenses”

This sentiment makes the enclosing sentence an Ad-hominem fallacy, by attacking the would-be MIT license party as having poor morals and/or low social standing. Permissive licenses absolutely do allow others to modify code without limit, but that is suggested to be a bad thing on moral grounds alone. That said, I'd love to see a citation here because that's the first I've heard of this pejorative used to describe software licensing.

dejected_warp_core ,

I've been in situations where I wanted to retain credit/ownership of ideas and code, but wanted to be able to use them in the workplace. So building a MIT/BSD licensed library on the weekend and then importing it on Monday was the only game in town. I get the portfolio piece and my job is easier as a result. But I stick to non-novel and non-patentable stuff - "small" work really, as Stallman is quoted here..

In some work environments, GPL or "GPL with an exception" would never get the kind of traction it should. Lots of places I've worked lack the legal and logistical framework for wrangling licenses and exceptions. It's hard to handle such cases if there's literally nobody to talk to about it, while you have automated systems that flag GPL license landmines anyway. The framing is a kind of security problem, not a license problem, so you never really get to start.

dejected_warp_core ,

I think what burns people the most is that after Photoshop 5 or so, GIMP stopped keeping up with all the improvements in the later Photoshop versions. People making the jump from 2024 Photoshop to 1996 Photoshop UI/UX are gonna have a bad time.

Edit: as a software developer I can say that I've never seen a user more frustrated, sometimes even irrationally so, when they are forced to re-learn muscle memory to perform a familiar task. I've also seen people practically riot at the mere suggestion that this will happen. If you wish to curry favor with your userbase, never ever, remove keyboard accelerators, move toolbars around, break workflow, etc.

dejected_warp_core ,

While not the same, I bet lobster tacos are pretty tasty.

dejected_warp_core ,

Thanks for the Champions of Krynn flashback. 12-year-old me used to love exploiting the item duplication save glitch; the game was practically over once I found a wand of fireball. Character classes were irrelevant after that.

Kobolds? Fireball. Zombies? Fireball. Draconians? Absolutely use fireball. Paladin death knight lich? Believe it or not, fireball.

dejected_warp_core ,

Hate that my government is apparently dead set on all of us driving massive trucks and SUVs spending thousands to money lenders, auto manufacturers, and dealerships over realist vehicles.

Doubly so if those parties are campaign contributors. Always follow the money.

dejected_warp_core ,

I'll preface this by saying this shady shit gets all my hate.

It’s tempting to opt for telematics/black box insurance because of the initial cheaper prices but the privacy violations and potential downsides make it not worth it.

The overall problem here is that human psychology tends to frame this difference as a loss not a gain. Given the choice, people will see the cheaper option as the baseline, and then ask "can I afford to pay more for privacy?" instead of affirming "my privacy is not worth this discount."

Also, those of us that have paid for insurance without such a "discount", are likely keenly aware of the difference. For new drivers, from now to here on out, the lack of past experience presents a new baseline where this awfulness is normalized. Competition between insurance providers won't help us here since the "privacy free" option is still profitable and is enticing for new customers (read: younger, poorer). So it'll take some kind of law, collective action, or government intervention to make this go away.

Have fun fighting with your insurance to get them to remove anything from your record. [...] If I had spyware insurance they would’ve dinged me for it.

I think this is the bigger problem. If someone has the data an insurance company wants, you probably agreed to an EULA or signed something that makes their ownership, and its sale, legal. With the "yeah go ahead and use my data" option on the table, the machinery to do this without your knowledge is already in place. All the insurance provider has to do is buy the data from someone else. When the price is right, 1st party spyware isn't required at all.

dejected_warp_core , (edited )

Never understood the appeal honestly.

Same here. I spent about 30 minutes trying to play one (DoTA I think?) and figured out:

  • Each hero has a zillion upgrades and abilities
  • Each hero is basically on their own roguelite style upgrade path
  • The game has a dozen or more such heroes
  • icons and text too small to play on livingroom TV, controller play out of the question
  • at mercy of online match-making algorithm if I'm not in a league/clan/whatever


From this I could deduce:

  • There's no way in hell this is perfectly balanced - too many variables, it may as well be MttG
  • Going to take 20 or more hours to dial in a personal play style
  • Going to take probably 50-100 to develop a play style that can adapt to most situations
  • League play will probably kick my ass, requiring another 50-100 hours of practice/training
  • Causal play is out; likely can't pick up and play immediately due to lobby, variable match times


I'm not knocking the genre as a whole, but this is not for me. It's too far outside my typical mode of gaming and is likely to just frustrate me more than anything else. I'm familiar with hard to play online games like Quake, TF2, and even Soldat. But those have small power systems that, even with gross imbalances, were still playable because there were usually only one or two scenarios you couldn't overcome. Adding more on every axis just sounds like a wildly unbalanced system where the skill curve isn't steep enough, costing a lot of time invested in bad strategies before you figure it all out.

dejected_warp_core ,

Doesn't matter. 30 minutes on the monkey-bars is the best upper-body workout you didn't have to pay for.

Bonus: use your adult muscles to spin the merry-go-round while those kids hang on for everything they're worth. Be a hero.

dejected_warp_core ,

That and is there enough "other stuff" going on in the game to ignore the plot completely and just go do that instead for 100 hours?

dejected_warp_core ,

This is alarmingly close to my every attempt at an Assassin's Creed mission:

  1. Listen carefully to briefing
  2. Go full stealth, infiltrating without incident
  3. Make a stupid mistake; get discovered
  4. Killdozer

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    dejected_warp_core ,

    Absolutely. On the flipside: you can now scratch itches you didn't even know you had.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    If it's open, looks don't matter. Also doesn't matter if the drivers are trash, or if it runs zero games. It's all fixable trash - that's the point.

    (Also, that's not a GPU, but it's the thought that counts)

    dejected_warp_core ,

    I'm in the middle of a re-watch of Northern Exposure. Maurice, in his prime, more or less embodied this sentiment.

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/db796a5f-9f0c-4c17-accf-321867e2d1fb.jpeg

    dejected_warp_core ,

    In that case, it's 8% too many.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    I have an old lightweight laptop that I use for youtube videos from time to time.

    Page loads take 3-10 seconds. Video decoding, once it gets going, is great due to dedicated MPEG hardware. But the site itself - well, old man gets there eventually.

    Edit: already stripped overhead to the bone by running Bodhi Linux. I may try FF over Chromium in case there's more performance to be had. But the 2GB RAM footprint is really pushing it these days.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    Nice! Mine developed a boot loop error of some kind years ago and never came back. Otherwise, those original Aluminum unibody systems are tanks.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    Possibly. I'll give that shot, thanks.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    It's basically the same process. The ideal tenant is someone that can't afford a mortgage by the slimmest of margins.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    Wait, Oreos are actually bad?

    dejected_warp_core ,

    It's clearly a conspiracy to sell charts.

    dejected_warp_core , (edited )

    Yes, and the only safe (and often time-saving) answer is to just turn right and then make U-turn later. Fortunately we have "right on red" as a legal maneuver here, so that softens the blow a bit. And yes, a civilized response to this nonsense would be a roundabout but we're mostly allergic to those (they are gaining traction in places though).

    Often, these intersections rely on traffic lights to be navigable during anything resembling normal traffic. Without it, it's also kind of miserable for everyone waiting for oncoming traffic to clear in order to turn.

    The only time I've witnessed this "wave someone out" technique as a good thing was where two-lane road traffic was too dense for local traffic to join. But that's a regional thing in the US (around Massachusetts by my reckoning). At the same time I've also seen folks there blindly apply that grace to situations where it does not belong, like highway on-ramps.

    Also, while we're talking about safety, don't forget the 45mph delta between the stopped lane turning left and the traffic whizzing by mere inches from the stopped cars. Some places have a wide raised curb between these two lanes, but most do not.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    thinking Stop Sign will make people stop lmao

    This is America. The only valid traffic control structure is one that is predicated on mutually assured destruction. Anything less is namby-pamby socialist propaganda.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    Same vibe: HHGregg is Havaving a Summummer Sale

    dejected_warp_core ,

    I am not a lawyer.

    I think an argument can be made that a moving vehicle is no different than a lethal weapon, and the autopilot, nothing more than a safety mechanism on said weapon. Which is to say the person in the driver's seat is responsible for the safe operation of that device at all times, in all but the most compromised of circumstances (e.g. unconscious, heart attack, taken hostage, etc.).

    Ruling otherwise would open up a transportation hellscape where violent acts are simply passed off to insurance and manufacturer as a bill. No doubt those parties would rush to close that window, but it would be open for a time.

    Cynically, a corrupt government in bed with big monied interests would never allow the common man to have this much power to commit violence. Especially at their expense, fiscal or otherwise.

    So just or unjust, I think we can expect the gavel to swing in favor of pushing all liability to the driver.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    It's worse than that. When you look at the status quo through the lens of capitalism, we're all very strongly aligned with maximum extraction of personal wealth. Everyone is at peak personal inefficiency by everyone having/owning one of everything, as we constantly bleed income to other parties. In other words: we'd all be richer if we shared more stuff and were less territorial about things that don't matter.

    TL;DR: everything we should be doing is stuff we learned in the sandbox as kids.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    Get this weaksauce, lame, half-assed attempt at building divisive speech outta my house. Troll harder or go home.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    but revisionism happened

    The spotless translation of countless scrolls, tablets, and old books make this clear. They were all just roommates. Nothing to see here.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    This was my immediate thought. For all we know he multitasks by sitting in the lotus pose on that chair.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    I can only think of two plausible interpretations of this concept.

    1. Mage is broke as hell and cobbled together his own grimoire by hand-copying spells from the college library, friends, and the occasional dungeon find. Yeah, a few occult incantations slipped in there, but you'd hardly notice for all the doodles and random "todo" lists from years ago.

    2. Death note.

    Either way

    dejected_warp_core ,

    My electric mower has some noise generating nonsense grafted to it; my ears would love a stealth mower. It would be infuriating, if not for all the advantages. Eight years and I have yet to drop everything to run to the gas station, gap a spark plug, or change oil.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    I take advantage of not having an HOA and have curtailed lawn mowing to 3-4 "harvests" a year in order to comply with county ordinances. Clearly this is helping the local ecology as we have a robust population of lighting bugs every summer, unlike the neighbor's yards.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    Ah yes, the h-drop. Wikipedia says it best:

    Although common in most regions of England and in some other English-speaking countries, and linguistically speaking a neutral evolution in languages, H-dropping is often stigmatized as a sign of careless or uneducated speech.

    As a yank, I must protest. How dare you, I resemble that remark!

    dejected_warp_core ,

    can also get a gun and blast these things before it gets out of hand

    Honestly, I get the distinct impression that everything in the hunting section at your local Walmart is going to be woefully ineffective. May I recommend a defensive position with difficult to traverse stairs?

    dejected_warp_core ,

    Honestly, that's the right way to do it if you really know your stuff.

    The slides are there as a visual aid or backdrop. The "presenter notes" is where all your bulleted items and prompts for recollection go.

    Also, and this is where a lot of people get it wrong, the slide deck is NOT a useful document for distribution. It is specific to both the subject matter and speaker; it's analogous to sheet music. A video of the presentation (e.g. TED) is far more useful as we're really talking about a performance. At worst, there should be "references" page in some appendix, with hyperlinks to actual media that folks can digest on their own time.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    Honestly, a deaf audience would overwhelmingly prefer to read the document themselves. Otherwise, you're just sitting there spending seconds reading the slide, then minutes of lip-flapping while they wait for the hearing world to catch up. For each slide.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    You had a day or two [...] none of the last 5 candidates could even send in a solution that would run.

    As harsh as this sounds, this test was doing its job. Assuming you're not hiring junior candidates, that is.

    One day is enough to research XSLT enough to get the gist, and two is enough for a polished solution. And since we're just stripping tags, we're really just selecting for all the inner text, which is weird but not hard to do with the right selector expression. The task also selects for people that understand XML processing as programmatically manipulating a DOM, which is crucial to wrapping your head around more advanced tasks.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    Sometimes, aptitude and an ability to learn and grow is more valuable than having specific technology knowledge. It suggests a more generalist take on one's career, which means they are always going to be useful. There's also something to be said for "soft skills" and a person's overall attitude. All this can make the balance for a lack of technical experience, provided they have demonstrated talent an ability to close such gaps.

    Other times, the whole hiring process is just completely broken. Your friend may have had to contend with co-workers that were utterly incapable at their jobs.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    The tragic hilarity of toxic masculinity is that it strives to define "a man" by what he isn't, in an attempt to preserve an exclusive and narrowly defined top slot of a social hierarchy. But all one has to do is claim behaviors as a different group, and the definition contracts accordingly. At the same time, the fact that said "masculine" definition is malleable to the point of sheer fiction, evades everyone in that group.

    dejected_warp_core ,

    I strongly recommend reading their (utterly fascinating) Wikipedia page. I'll just screw up the details by re-hashing it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1NN5TER

    dejected_warp_core ,

    This is interesting. The longevity of this legacy tech may be secure if they use the right channels.

    SoCal happens to have a very active retro-computing scene right now, much of which is in the bay area. If they can breathe life into an Apollo Guidance Computer, bog-standard floppy drives will be a piece of cake.

    On the other hand, the same scene has modern emulation for just about every (popular) legacy media format imaginable. Upgrading the drives to use SD cards and USB thumbdrives is something they could buy off the shelf today: Apple II, C64, Tandy, misc. So there's no reason to suffer through hardware failures when more reliable tech is available.

    There are even commercial options out there. Example: https://www.shopfloorautomations.com/hardware/floppy-connect/

    More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_hardware_emulator

    dejected_warp_core ,

    My theory: the system they purchased was based on an older and proven design for railway automation and control. Add to that however said company/contractor was set up to support their customers (e.g. OS only ships on floppy). That said, I agree that ten years without so much as a drive upgrade is a bit long in the tooth for something that can kill people or become a logistic and/or political disaster if it malfunctions.

    dejected_warp_core , (edited )

    More like: it's eventually going to break your weekend or even your whole week, but you don't get to pick which one.

    Edit: To put that in perspective, there are 260 working days in a year. Let's say that you have just one of these hardware failures in a five-year career with the MTA. That's roughly 1/1000 odds. If the lottery had chances like that, you'd play it every time.

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