stinerman

@stinerman@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam will let you sue Valve now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a lawyer so I have no clue about the legal issues, but I’m more than happy to put my name to anything that costs a corporation money. I don’t even need the money. They can take it out of Valve’s pocket and burn it for all I care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam will let you sue Valve now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because there’s effectively a class-action suit going on right now, but because the user agreement says you have to use arbitration, there were tens of thousands of people who are like “sure let’s go to arbitration”. Valve is losing tons of money having to fight all the suits.

  www.classaction.org/steam-antitrust-refund-2023

  Note: I am one of the people involved in this suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think until AI writes and debugs code better than the average programmer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The code has always been the easy part. The hard part is getting requirements that make sense. It will continue to be the case with bots doing the coding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually listen to Futurama to help me sleep. I’ve added some other shows I know just as well. They are in that genre of extraordinary media that I can watch/listen to/etc. over and over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is true. My little brother watched “The Lion King” every day after school for a few months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The concept of rewatching a movie is almost foreign to me now given that I have access to a library of tens of thousands of movies. It would have to be very good and something that whoever I’m with hasn’t seen it.

  Of course I used to watch the same movie about month or so back when I was growing up in the 90s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is bandwidth allocated on my home network?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want a really in-depth description, this article will give it to you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_control

  Your torrenting might not be using TCP, but the same basic idea is the same.

  TL;DR: the router uses some math and so forth to tell both computers to slow down to the point that it’s not overloaded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it disrespectful to call someone instead of answering their email?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is because people believe that faxes are “unhackable” because it’s just scanning a piece of paper and transmitting it to another machine that prints it out. They never think that you can photoshop a thing and then print it out and then fax it.