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- Comment on Surge Engine, the open source Sonic-like game engine (and game) gets upgraded 1 month ago:
Yep, that feels exactly like Sonic 2. I’m not a fan of putting a water level as the very first level in the game, though.
- Comment on There Is No Good Reason To Just Let Unsupported Video Games Die 1 month ago:
Failing to code the game in such a way that users can keep running it without publisher support is theft from the Public Domain.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 month ago:
Or better yet, Libreboot.
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 1 month ago:
Sony is customer-hostile shit too, though. I’ve been boycotting them for literally decades now.
- Comment on ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say 2 months ago:
portion left for net neutrality
I think it’s worth pointing out that the concept you’re describing doesn’t make any sense to begin with because the act of partitioning is already a violation of net neutrality in and of itself. If any part of the spectrum is prioritized, the neutrality is gone and there’s nothing left to be whittled. There’s no such thing as “half-neutral” or “partially neutral” or “neutral with exceptions” – anything less than completely 100% neutral is simply “not neutral.”
- Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 2 months ago:
I like the part of the quote you omitted:
“We have to maintain programmers who are experts in the programming languages of the '90s in order to keep running our current system, so we have a technical debt that stretches back many decades,” Tumlin told San Francisco’s KQED in February 2023.
They say that as if most of the most popular languages in the '90s aren’t still in common use today. I guess what he really means is that they managed to pick something that was obscure proprietary garbage even back then, and should’ve known better.
- Comment on "The problem with TikTok is not whether it is based in China or the US. The problem with TikTok is TikTok." - (Tuta blog) 3 months ago:
I mean, American data collection is a security issue and propaganda platform too (I say as an American, BTW).
- Comment on "The problem with TikTok is not whether it is based in China or the US. The problem with TikTok is TikTok." - (Tuta blog) 3 months ago:
You’re right. I hope you’re not saying that in order to defend TikTok but rather to support banning Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram too.
- Comment on "The problem with TikTok is not whether it is based in China or the US. The problem with TikTok is TikTok." - (Tuta blog) 3 months ago:
No. The only solution is to ban it to stop the idiots from using it, too. The problem cannot be solved individually, only collectively.
- Comment on Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update That You Must Agree To or You Can't Use Your Roku | Cord Cutters News 3 months ago:
The EULA is for the OS, not the physical hardware.
That’s pure sophistry*, because…
Unless you flash a new OS to your TV you’re stuck using their software and following the rules of that software.
…they don’t let you do that either!
When the hardware is DRM’d to only allow the use of an OS cryptographically signed by the manufacturer, denying the user use of the OS due to a poison-pill EULA is absolutely equivalent to denying them use of the hardware.
Hmmm… Maybe legally all devices must be flashable easily without removing or modifying physical bits of the device? That way if an OS Update goes a way you don’t like then you can flash an old version or DIFFERENT OS entirely onto the device you own, regardless of if it’s a TV, phone, microwave, whatever
Exactly: the DMCA needs to be repealed and it needs to become illegal to DRM the device to prevent the user from loading a third-party OS on it.
(* on the part of the shysters trying to push that argument, not you explaining their position)
- Comment on Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update That You Must Agree To or You Can't Use Your Roku | Cord Cutters News 3 months ago:
Ah, right. Sorry!
- Comment on Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update That You Must Agree To or You Can't Use Your Roku | Cord Cutters News 3 months ago:
The argument is they’re selling you a service.
So what? Their argument is wrong.
- Comment on Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update That You Must Agree To or You Can't Use Your Roku | Cord Cutters News 3 months ago:
What I’m saying is that even if it were 100% open source, IT STILL WOULDN’T BE ENOUGH because the hardware would refuse to run anything that wasn’t cryptographically signed by Roku, Inc.
- Comment on Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update That You Must Agree To or You Can't Use Your Roku | Cord Cutters News 3 months ago:
EULAs should just be prohibited entirely. A sale is a sale is a sale: you execute a contract with the retailer to exchange money for a good, and then you own that good no matter what some bullshit adhesion-contract EULA claims when the manufacturer tries to spring it on you after the fact. The manufacturer was never a party to the sale; they don’t get to have a say in its terms!
- Comment on Roku Issues a Mandatory Terms of Service Update That You Must Agree To or You Can't Use Your Roku | Cord Cutters News 3 months ago:
I hate to break it to you, but Roku OS uses the Linux kernel and a bunch of other open source stuff. (The UI etc. is proprietary, but never mind that for now.)
The issue here is DRM and Tivoization, not just having access to the source code.
- Comment on Twisters 4 months ago:
I agree with you, but then I got about halfway through watching the trailer and realized they’re reusing the exact same (and completely extraneous) rivalry plot.
- Comment on Fine. Just combine your powers without me. 6 months ago:
i want to say it was mai tai and the “heart” ring that won the day
- Comment on Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! 6 months ago:
Every picture of Bernie Sanders looks like he’s fucking exasperated, and I can’t blame him!
- Comment on Roughly 31.75 meters 6 months ago:
Joke’s on you, rest of the world: your 2440mm x 1220mm x 13mm sheet goods, for example, are just 4’ x 8’ x 1/2" in disguise. Ditto for a lot of building materials, as well as standardized parts for other industries (like the pin pitch of electronics connectors etc.) that were really U.S. standards first that everybody else then got stuck with.
- Comment on They forgot the LGBTQ... 6 months ago:
Judging by the downvotes i presume your opinion is unpopular–i just don’t understand it well enough to see why.
Asked and answered. It’s incoherent borderline word salad and just comes across as really really trollish, especially with the edit demanding “discourse.”
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 6 months ago:
and can be used to clear many obstacles you’d otherwise have to go around.
I’m having trouble imagining any obstacle a Jeep could clear that a mountain bike couldn’t, but no trouble at all imagining the opposite.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 6 months ago:
LOL, imagine thinking a motorcycle or jeep would do you any damn good (especially after the gas you can siphon from abandoned cars has gone bad), when what you really need is a bicycle. Bikepackers and touring cyclists will be the kings of the apocalypse.
- Comment on The chairs of Trek 6 months ago:
The irony of using an Emeco Navy Chair for the NAZIs in ENT: “Stormfront.”
- Comment on [Technology Connections] LED Christmas lights still annoy me. Let's try some more fixes. 6 months ago:
I like cool white LEDs specifically because my outdoor lights include a bunch of icicle lights and snowflake shapes and stuff, and cool white reads as “icy” way better than warm white does.
Anyway, if I were Alec, at this point I’d be saying “fuck it” and looking for RGBWW lights that I could program to be the exact hues and brightnesses I wanted. ('Course that’s a whole 'nother rabbit hole, if you want to avoid the expensive-yet-crappy sets with built-in controllers Home Depot etc. sell and get proper ones you can use with your own standalone controller.)
- Comment on Once again, I am calling on manufacturers to improve their sealing glues 6 months ago:
The better business bureau isn’t a government agency.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 7 months ago:
In order to stop them, you’d need a large percentage of customers go out of their way to purchase policies from companies with the lowest advertising budgets.
Or we’d need to recognize incorporation as the social contract that it was supposed to be, and start demanding public benefits in exchange for the companies being granted those privileges.
Merely restricting advertising is thinking extremely small compared to what they owe us, but hey, might as well throw it on the list anyway.
- Comment on US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas 7 months ago:
Relevant article: reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate-accountability-his…
TL;DR: the way it was supposed to work is that entities that wanted limited liability were granted corporate charters in exchange for providing some large, tangible public benefit (and very much not just “shareholder value”, BTW). This post-Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. world where corporations are essentially mandated to be sociopathic is an absolute 100% perversion of what incorporation was meant to be for!
- Comment on US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas 7 months ago:
Here are some good Free Software games that cost nothing at all:
- Hedgewars
- Mindustry
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon
- Minetest (with MineClone2 mod)
- 0 A.D.
- SuperTuxKart
- Freeciv
- FlightGear
- Battle for Wesnoth
- Comment on help the exit is locked 7 months ago:
Obligatory:
- Comment on Are there any notable content creators that focus on content other than niche tech and US political on Mastodon? 7 months ago:
I hate to break it to you, but everything is politics if you care about it enough.