redwall_hp

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by redwall_hp 4d ago
As someone who cashiered in college, I vastly preferred monitoring self checkouts over being monetarily forced to interact with an endless line of the kind of people who don't use self checkouts. As a shopper, I don't want to be o
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by redwall_hp 4d ago
The GDPR does. Consent to data processing must be unambiguous, accessible, informed in plain language with no legal or technical jargon, and not have any preselected boxes. https://gdpr.eu/gdpr-consent-requirements/ Th
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by redwall_hp 6d ago
The corporate espionage ring targeting Apple also isn't a good look. A company that does that is a company that will lie to you about harvesting internal materials from your company.
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by redwall_hp 7d ago
Automatic braking alone is a huge deal: if you're a bit late in braking, you get a warning. If you go past that, brakes auto apply. When configured correctly, I don't even notice it's there 99.9% of the time...and the times I
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by redwall_hp 13d ago
They patched CS:GO away, a game I paid retail price for, with "Counter-Strike 2" and overnight dropped support for my platform (MacOS). Sony has never stolen a game from me, unlike Valve. The closest incident was that movie thing,
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by redwall_hp 13d ago
Valve killed the previously thriving boxed game industry two decades ago and people can't get over how much they love everything about Valve. Sony follows 20 years later (in a world where internet is faster than installing from BluRay
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by redwall_hp 16d ago
This is a consequence of browser monopolies, established by Microsoft in the 90s: everyone should have to pay for a browser and make a deliberate choice in vendor. The fact that they're free and subsidized by large businesses in other
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by redwall_hp 19d ago
"Good" is subjective. Quite a large number of people think they're "good," in a time where it's hard to get people into theaters in the first place.
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by redwall_hp 20d ago
Some of the best selling movies in the past couple of years were video game ones: Mario, Minecraft, Mario Galaxy were all huge. All close to or over a billion dollars at the box office. The Sonic films were popular, and Detective Pikachu wa
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by redwall_hp 26d ago
It should be a criminal act to attempt to build a mass surveillance apparatus, whether it's for law enforcement or private use.
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by redwall_hp 27d ago
Authorship is also required in the Constitution's section on copyright, and is likely entangled in international treaties. Any change that foundational would probably require a constitutional amendment.
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by redwall_hp 27d ago
This has already also been implied in the US. Courts upheld the Copyright Office's stance on human creation in the context of AI image generation. There's no reason to expect something that fundamental to copyright to be any diffe
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by redwall_hp 28d ago
There's also SteerMouse, which I use to configure my MX Master settings. One of the benefits is it's not something that needs to run continuously in your menu bar: you can set options and close it. In the end, it's just a bas
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by redwall_hp 1mo ago
I think this year is actually the final nails in the argument that people are desperate for "original" films. The top ones this year are Spider-Man and an adaptation of a literal ancient story. Followed by a fifth Toy Story, a Mic
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by redwall_hp 1mo ago
Baldur's Gate 3 is already there. It's over 120GB and IIRC PS5 games only use up to triple layer. There was no disc release. The current Gran Turismo is around 140GB. I think it has a disc, but it'll only have like half the g
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
They already have Slim versions of the PS5 without the optical reader by default. The PS5 Pro also lacks one. This is all data-driven. There's a reason GameStop has more space devoted to Funko Pops and shirts than games, and why Walmar
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
That's relevant to why it historically had bizarre UX issues, like ctrl+s being the shortcut to erase the scene and start a new one: it predated most of those conventions, and has its own UI tooling. It's also always been designed
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
I'm disappointed that the USBC is starting to certify tethered pin setups, though it is fortunately a separate category of competition. The pin action is wildly different.
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
It's the other way around now. Walmart has more games than GameStop, and you're lucky to get $10 off, ever. The PlayStation store is never more than MSRP and frequently has sales. They have a Summer Sale going on right now. Ghost
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
> Fatalities happen basically from: product stacking combination medicines people don't realize contain acetaminophen and/or multi-day accumulation exceeding max daily limit over multiple days. I find it obnoxious that NyQuil h
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
It's just loud Internet people. The Switch 2 is the second fastest selling game system of all time, and is keeping up with the trajectory of the first Switch, which shipped the most units of any gaming system. It'll probably get f
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
Someone putting performance exhaust on their cool car isn't likely to disturb me in my home. You know what is? The doings of obnoxious adtech people.
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
> Imagine an AI lab steals your voice, and uses it to scam call folks all day. One needn't imagine, because they're already stealing peoples' voices. e.g. the recent HN thread about a professional voice actor that keeps ha
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
As an addendum: Japanese isn't as all-in on pitch having semantics as Chinese, but pitch is very important. Words have "pitch accent" rather than "stress" the way English has, and overall pitch is strongly politenes
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
Similarly, I have a 2026 Civic: the driver attention doesn't have a camera and ships disabled. Lane departure warnings are toggleable in settings, and it sticks between starts. This is different from lane keeping assist, which is part
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
> I've heard plenty of stories of victims of theft and crime literally leading police to the door of their assailant and they can't get any action because this "privacy" movement has made their efforts pretty meaningl
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
If someone steals my car, I can open an app and find its precise geolocation better than some cameras, and deliver that information to the police of my own choice. (Ideally, the car company would be legally prohibited from sharing that info
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by redwall_hp 2mo ago
Exactly. I don't want to mess with anything, I want an appliance that plays games. I don't want it to do anything other than that either. It must work every time, with every supported game, and have no manual maintenance. Consoles
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by redwall_hp 3mo ago
Arguably someone who is faster is more likely to just be recalling memorized things faster, while someone who's slower may have a deeper understanding but needs time to actually think it through. Memorization is already hacking the rul
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by redwall_hp 3mo ago
It's news to me that they weren't already. My exams were all in person and on paper in the early 2020s, and even my physics homework was a "do it on engineering paper and drop it in a mail slot" affair. The professors

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