Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Trump’s FCC chair is Brendan Carr, who wants to regulate everyone except ISPs 2 days ago:
All of Trump’s cabinet members’ goals are to do everything except for what the agency is tasked to do.
- Comment on David Zaslav says Trump will fuel big media mergers 1 week ago:
Yep. Big corps are going to have their payday. Fixing Trumpism and the whole, “I got mine, fuck y’all else” American attitude is a problem I have no solution for.
Rampant capitalism and corporate feudalism, there are many different solutions to resist it. Some are violent, but the ones I would prefer are starting more collectivism in the local community. Just like how in the Fediverse and FOSS communities, like-minded individuals share thoughts, knowledge, crafts, media. This can be expanded to all fields, some easier than others. There are obviously pain points (moderation, doomscrolling, poor default filtering, clashing ideas and just straight up trolling, limited features, reliance on tons of unpaid volunteer work and so on), but what we’ve got here is impressive despite all that.
Community gardens with shared harvests, municipal and community-owned broadband networks, employee-owned grocers and retail, slowly and broadly expanding outward with a federated and negotiated supply chain model between interested parties.
It’s difficult, will encounter lots of problems as it grows and would cost more time, effort, and money, but this would bring power back to the people rather than those at the top.
- Comment on Blizzard promise "something for everyone" in Warcraft's 30th Anniversary Direct next month 3 weeks ago:
A new in-game plague? /s
- Comment on Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem 5 weeks ago:
How about, a company offering a feature that is OPT-OUT would be responsible for the contents of that feature. That will convince companies to actually require user consent.
- Comment on Linux malware “perfctl” behind years-long cryptomining campaign 1 month ago:
What I love about Linux software vulnerability and exploit news articles are these hilarious “evil penguin” illustrations. Windows’ bug ones are not nearly as interesting with usually like a skull on a monitor.
- Comment on Mazda's $10 Subscription For Remote Start Sparks Backlash After Killing Open Source Option 1 month ago:
“Zoom zoom” is the sound of chasing profits above all else.
- Comment on Major flaw found in CUPS - time to run Linux system updates 1 month ago:
Oooh is this the 9.9 severity vulnerability teased earlier? If it’s printers, that would make total sense, those machines are the spawn of hell.
- Comment on The ghost of StarCraft: Ghost endures as a new shooter set in the RTS universe is in the works at Blizzard 1 month ago:
Don’t give me hope…
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers 1 month ago:
Note you may want to check your versions and avoid updating in case they parch out debug or bypass functionalities. I vaguely remember concerns about that on some models.
- Comment on Disney blocks ESPN, ABC, and other channels for millions of DirecTV subscribers 2 months ago:
To add to my own comment, at least they own the rights to this now…
- Comment on Disney blocks ESPN, ABC, and other channels for millions of DirecTV subscribers 2 months ago:
Disney is also accused of including a last-minute demand to waive all claims that its behavior is anti-competitive, according to DirecTV.
If they express interest in those terms then the Disney rep will add “and hold Disney harmless if we happen to kill any DirecTV staff or subscribers or their respective family members. All claims shall be referred to aribtration court in Disneyland Orlando, FL”, to the agreement.
- Comment on Tribes 3: Rivals already in trouble as developers shift focus elsewhere 4 months ago:
Oof. I’d gotten this game, hoping to avoid a repeat of Ascend but maybe those hopes are going to be dashed.
- Comment on Verizon screwup caused 911 outage in 6 states—carrier agrees to $1M fine 4 months ago:
That’s comparable to about a $12.75 fine for someone with a $60k net income.
- Comment on Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers 4 months ago:
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Will Launch Day One On Game Pass 5 months ago:
Already calling it… a zombies mode for CoD Black Ops 6 will not be able to top Lasagna Party 2 in terms of gameplay.
- Comment on Hugging Face is sharing $10 million worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies 5 months ago:
🤗 (Hugging face) also hosts a large repository including demos of AI models so they have been a helpful resource for open source computing.
- Comment on Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook 6 months ago:
Professor Zuckerman vs. Zuckerbot. Who will win?
- Comment on League of Legends’ anti-cheat won't brick your PC, Riot insist, after adding Valorant’s controversial system to the MOBA 6 months ago:
I know what can fix their launcher problems! A new launcher to launch the Riot Launcher to launch the League of Legends Launcher to launch League of Legends.
- Comment on CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239 6 months ago:
Yeah telecoms are garbage, common story.
Neat thing is I wonder if Century Link supports Pulse Dialing for rotary phones still? Where the connection was intermittently connected and disconnected, it might have randomly been calling 411 and 911 because of that.
- Comment on A bot in Tekken 8 is demolishing players by only pressing one button over and over 6 months ago:
Eddy is the first of four DLC characters for Season 1 of Tekken 8. And… what’s this? The next character was just announced this morning. I don’t want to have to make a whole separate news post for that. So look:
Lidia is Tekken 8’s next DLC fighter. She’s coming this summer, say the developers on Twitter.
Honest lazy journalism, hahaha.
- Comment on NHTSA opens investigation into Ford’s BlueCruise after software linked to fatal crash 6 months ago:
BlueCruise ran into an error and has been disabled. Falling back to BoozeCruise mode.
- Comment on The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC 6 months ago:
Culprit 1: Stupid TV that has no business connecting to the internet, but if it must, definitely not like that.
Culprit 2: Windows’ behaving stupidly where so many things break because of how it handles other devices on the network.
- Comment on StarCraft 2’s former lead multiplayer designer teases a new RTS he feels is a “paradigm shift” for the genre 6 months ago:
"Players will enjoy more moment-to-moment strategic decision-making in each game, instead of waiting for that next fun action moment.”
You’re saying that constantly watching over Zerg hatcheries commanding Queens to keep puking into them isn’t thought of as a fun action moment?
- Comment on Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers 7 months ago:
Fedetwitter.com = mastodon?
- Comment on More security issues in X.Org and Xwayland revealed and new releases live 7 months ago:
I betcha developers that have any amount of time to audit crucial parts of the security of their software are going through it now, in light of the xz backdoor story.
- Comment on Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment 7 months ago:
I can’t buy into Smart Devices unless paying for the smartness lets me actually use it how I see fit.
So often there is little benefit except companies extract data from you, or to enforce some licensing or rent-seeking scheme. You’re just paying to get screwed over.
- Comment on Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing 7 months ago:
Every step forward should be celebrated! Good job Oregon!
- Comment on Bethesda Gives A Small Update On The Elder Scrolls 6 7 months ago:
I thought they’d already released Starfield.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 APC video surfaces, showing Joel personally delivering the unreleased vehicle 7 months ago:
SPOILERS, ZippyBot!
- Comment on General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers 7 months ago:
Don’t worry, they will later find new stalkers that will buy the data.
