hamsterkill

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[–] hamsterkill 2 points 8 months ago

Industry growth. Turns out it's a lot easier to "think of the children" when the industry is small and niche than it is when it's making investors billions of dollars a year. Turns out capitalism makes problems harder to solve once the problem itself makes money (see also: tax preparation)

That's also why the moral panic people switched from trying to censor games through government to trying to do it via finance (e.g. Collective Shout lobbying banks, credit cards, and payment processors).

Though if your question is about why the contrast between moral panic over game content and the lack of moral panic over actual victimization — I think that's always been the case, unfortunately. People seem more fearful of their children losing their morals than they are of people with no morals harming their children.

[–] hamsterkill 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Methane is just the primary compound in natural gas.

[–] hamsterkill 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Some, as prepping the carbon and hydrogen will take energy. But it wouldn't be hard to be way better than the emissions associated with dairy farming for butter. Cost could still be higher, though depending on how much material is needed for the process.

[–] hamsterkill 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is TwinAphex still involved in Libretro? Can't seem to find evidence of them from the last few years.

[–] hamsterkill 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The founder is a well-known Christian "pro-life feminist" from Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist

[–] hamsterkill 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's easy enough to fork the code as it existed under GPL3. Violentmonkey did that when they forked from Tampermonkey.

This dev also doesn't sound like he wants to put much effort into enforcing his license in the first place.

[–] hamsterkill 12 points 9 months ago

High likelihood this just some AI bot with no oversight fucking up than something malicious. Outlook.com's support system is atrocious and devoid of humans at this point unless you're an enterprise.

I tried to go through their support to tell them their junk filter was fucking up (bank alerts being marked as junk with no way to override) and got nowhere after like two months. Had to change the email I use for banking.

[–] hamsterkill 8 points 9 months ago

Very little gaming still requires Windows since the development of Proton. The main compatibility problems that remain seem to involve kernel-invasive anti-cheat systems.

[–] hamsterkill 9 points 9 months ago

They know. The PKGBUILD they provided is exactly the kind of thing that's in the AUR. The dev's PKGBUILD wasn't in the AUR because they didn't want it to be — instead hoping arch users would go to the repository and use their maintained one. Arch users continued to try to use AUR instead, leading to the dev's frustration.

I don't expect this will help anything. If the AUR maintainer is active, they will probably just patch that restriction out.

[–] hamsterkill 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

With how expensive AI seems to be, it's baffling to me how companies expect to turn a profit on it. 30B a year sounds more like the budget for an entire government scientific agency. And if that's just for the data services...

[–] hamsterkill 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The act itself still appears to include the language excluding wifi spectrum.

Certain frequencies used primarily by the Department of Defense and unlicensed devices, including Wi-Fi, are excluded from auction eligibility

EDIT: Unless that only protected sub-6 wifi frequencies...

[–] hamsterkill 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wifi6e/7 6ghz spectrum that was reserved for wifi got approved to get auctioned off

I don't think that's exactly right. Spectrum that's already reserved for unlicensed use (wifi) was explicitly excluded from the auction directive.

There may be some spectrum in that band that's not already reserved for wifi yet that will end up auctioned, though.

 

Rant incoming:

This was spurred by having just read https://www.androidpolice.com/google-tv-streamer-questions-answered/ , particularly this bit:

When I asked directly, a Google representative told me they couldn't confirm which chipset powers the Google TV Streamer — essentially, Google declined to answer.

I've been noticing an increasing trend by device makers to not disclose the SoC their devices run on. I've been seeing it with e-readers, network routers, media streamers, etc.

It's incredibly frustrating to have devices actively exclude important information from their spec sheet and even dodge direct questions from tech news reporters. Reporters shouldn't have to theorize about what chip is in a released device. It's nuts.

If you're wondering why this infomation is important, it can be for several reasons. SoC vendor can have significant impact on the real world performance and security of a device. It also carries major implications for how open a device is as SoC vendors can have dramatically different open source support and firmware practices.

I've had to resort to inspecting the circuit board photos of FCC filings way too much lately to identify the processors being used in devices. And that's not a great workaroud in the first place as those photos are generally kept confidential by the FCC until months after the device releases (case in point the Google Streamer).

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