shit_game

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by shit_game 4d ago
"I am not <this thing>, but if I were, I'd have <this opionion> about it." isn't a terribly convincing argument. Opinions (good ones, at least) are shaped by experience - what experience is there to shape you
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by shit_game 9d ago
And what will anyone actually do when they are bound by an arbitration agreement that prevents class action lawsuits and/or will find against the user because it's an arbitration agreement (with an arbiter that will bend knee and
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by shit_game 10d ago
People could return to burning down enterprises that they find unsavory or detrimental to society, such as they did during the industrial revolution, but this is problematic in that it's violent and not something the modern person ofte
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by shit_game 10d ago
>this is going to be a massive business liability. No. this is going to go "unnoticed" or at least unactioned. These are surveilance devices - compromising their value as source of surveilance is neither in the interest of indu
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by shit_game 22d ago
I can get that being annoying. I enjoy that keybinds are a configurable thing in the linux distributions and DEs that I've used, and I've found that most tend to have sane defaults. I assume that the situation is similar in macOS,
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by shit_game 22d ago
What are your gripes with linux desktops?
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by shit_game 25d ago
> The fine ends up back in their pockets in months in the form of loans and grants and tax avoidances and so on. More importantly and less often talked about, these fines end up back in their pockets because Meta is a defense contractor
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by shit_game 1mo ago
Aunty Donna were so wise.
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by shit_game 1mo ago
This strikes me more as an art project than a commercial endeavour. It can obviously be both. I've worked with a friend on a similar boutique concept, and one of the driving factors in its possible success is scarcity economics, or the
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by shit_game 1mo ago
This was a very significant talking point through most of covid, actually. Granted, there is an orders-of-magnitude disparity between office buildings and data centers regarding both their resource consumption and their local financial retu
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by shit_game 2mo ago
> YOU have become their product LOL behind the curve, and completely missing the point.
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by shit_game 2mo ago
I'm only ~5 minutes into that first video and every single thing she has said so far rings so stupid true that its almost painful hearing it said so bluntly. Making things takes a lot of time, requires lots of fundamental skills, is ex
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by shit_game 2mo ago
Well put; the scope of usefulness of surveilance data lies well beyond what is in that data itself, but how it relates to other data. You don't necessarily need to decrypt data to distill value from it, as its metadata (location, datet
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by shit_game 2mo ago
Regardless of the computational needs to facilitate mass surveilance, there are inescapable storage needs precipitated by surveilance. Governments want to retain data because its value in the future is unknown in the present. This is the en
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by shit_game 2mo ago
The perception of what a polymath is is changing incredibly fast, as both the floor and ceiling for being passable or outstanding in any field is rising exponentially. For the last 50-oddish years, it's been the case that being profici
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by shit_game 2mo ago
The reason that you bought your watch and the reason that other people buy these hand crafted mechanical watches are very, very different. Once upon a time, utility used to be what necessitated an accurate movement, and it came at great cos
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by shit_game 3mo ago
Representation under a union is voluntary, and if an employee doesn't wish to be represented by that union, they may quit. I'm sure there are some other means of avoiding union representation in unionized workplaces in the US, but
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by shit_game 3mo ago
Any company is free to hire whoever it cares at its own discretion, and in most (49/50) US states fire them without cause; perhaps due diligence is required of companies that are unionized to ensure that they are investing wisely in th
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by shit_game 3mo ago
The rising tide lifts all boats. Denying people agency and power in their negotiation by claiming they are "not as good as someone else" is antithetical to the struggle of labor - work deserves to be compensated fairly. >When I
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by shit_game 3mo ago
Arguably, "exceptional" products are not ones that can vanish on a whim, like a great, great many of Google products have. Or they actually compete with other products in the same space, like a great, great many of Google products
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by shit_game 3mo ago
>One of my sites is image heavy and serves 10 TB of traffic per month I can't imagine this kind of traffic without acting as a CDN, advertising broker, pornographer, or part of a massive ecommerce site. I have to wonder, what are yo
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by shit_game 3mo ago
Only tangentially related, but I've found myself down a rabbit hole with some ancient BigKeys keyboards (designed/manufactured by Greystone Digital), and a small handful of them have a physical switch on their underside that switc
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by shit_game 3mo ago
lobste.rs has a pretty decent system with a global invite tree, where users can provide access for other people. it comes with the benefit of creating an association graph of accounts that allows for swift moderation, and lets the userbase
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by shit_game 3mo ago
I was just about to say that my question in regards to this was "what are web browsers doing about it?"
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by shit_game 4mo ago
Hypothetically, preemptive market recapture? This could theoretically make foss OSs non-kosher for any suitably large market (websites, games, chat platforms, etc), and serve to force foss OSs into a niche where theyre technically capable o
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by shit_game 4mo ago
If I counted things correctly, 53,836. I wanted to hook into the THREE object and explore the scene, but I wasn't able to figure out how to bring it back into scope after it's been optimized out of the js context, so instead I sea
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by shit_game 4mo ago
That first photo looks so much like a watercolor that it's uncanny. Glass is such a cool material.
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by shit_game 4mo ago
Whats to stop malicious actors (bad extensions, compromised cdn, etc.) from painting over the qr code or injecting their own? This is so incredibly terrible.
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by shit_game 4mo ago
> That psychological environment is not conducive to art and fun. It sucks. I think that two significant social conditions that very strongly affect how people socialize online now are a) there are multiple parallel well-established, inv
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by shit_game 5mo ago
Dojo is such an obvious thing, but its such an obvious thing that there are dozens of software trying to call themselves that.

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