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  1. Comment on "PS5 has no games" in ~games

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    I think the problem as well is it's not just the PS4, but the Series S that is going to continue to constrain game design. The Baldur's Gate 3 local co-op showdown was one case where a developer...

    I think the problem as well is it's not just the PS4, but the Series S that is going to continue to constrain game design. The Baldur's Gate 3 local co-op showdown was one case where a developer squared off with "look, we just can't have feature parity on the series S to the series X/PS5/PC", but most developers aren't going to risk their xbox revenue. A lot of devs would just constrain local co-op to keep players on the same screen, or drop the feature for consoles altogether.

    4 votes
  2. Comment on Redis adopts dual source-available licensing in ~tech

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    It's the companies switching to shared source licenses that started to paint it in terms of obligations. Like a lot of their messaging is "people don't support open source like they should so...

    It's the companies switching to shared source licenses that started to paint it in terms of obligations. Like a lot of their messaging is "people don't support open source like they should so we're forced into switching to this kind of license".

    That's why the distance between how they treat the products they build on and how they expect people building on them to treat them bothers me.

    2 votes
  3. Comment on Redis adopts dual source-available licensing in ~tech

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    The thing that burns me about this move, is that these software companies are building on the real open source ecosystem and not contributing to that as they feel people should contribute to them....

    The thing that burns me about this move, is that these software companies are building on the real open source ecosystem and not contributing to that as they feel people should contribute to them.

    To put it another way: Where's redis' funding of Lua and GCC? If they took the approach redis did, would redis have been built? Or the Linux kernel that their hosted service runs on?

    5 votes
  4. Comment on Reddit pops as much as 70% in NYSE debut after selling shares at top of range in ~tech

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    Meanwhile their CEO said during the API kerfuffle that they were unprofitable. Which is it?

    82% margin

    Meanwhile their CEO said during the API kerfuffle that they were unprofitable. Which is it?

    1 vote
  5. Comment on Does anyone else have posting anxiety? in ~tech

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    On some sites, especially HN, I've found this to be less and less true as time goes on. A lot of the cause of rewriting/deleting drafts is the burden of making pedant proof posts on sites like...

    Everyone who responds usually means well.

    On some sites, especially HN, I've found this to be less and less true as time goes on. A lot of the cause of rewriting/deleting drafts is the burden of making pedant proof posts on sites like that.

    The other part is when topics approach on the political and then you get people from either extreme trying to have a go at you because you're seen as both too much in favour of a point and insufficiently in favour of a point at the same time.

    My "favourite" example of this was discussing IMAP. I remember thinking while writing a post, that I can't just say email providers should support IMAP because IMAP in the spec doesn't support TLS and I knew in context I'd get yelled at for that. So I put IMAPS in my post, but as predicted, someone yelled at me there because there's no spec for IMAP over TLS officially so officially IMAPS isn't a thing despite approximately every email provider supporting it. I suppose they wanted me to include that whole aside in my post about data portability as much as explaining all that would derail from the point I was trying to make.

    I remember this clearly because it was a point where I realised just how unpleasant the site culture had become even outside the politics-adjacent topics. But Reddit and twitter had gone through similar transformations. I think it's a point scoring mentality egged on by things like the upvote or retweet counts.

    11 votes
  6. Comment on What do you use to manage your music library? in ~music

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    I store and manage music with Jellyfin, and purchase it mostly with Qobuz and Bandcamp.

    I store and manage music with Jellyfin, and purchase it mostly with Qobuz and Bandcamp.

  7. Comment on How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit in ~tech

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    Yeah, I replaced some of my Reddit time with Tildes, seperate forums etc., but much of the time I used to spend there has gone into learning Japanese, which is going pretty well.

    Yeah, I replaced some of my Reddit time with Tildes, seperate forums etc., but much of the time I used to spend there has gone into learning Japanese, which is going pretty well.

    6 votes
  8. Comment on Your theme for 2024 in ~talk

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    It's maybe a bit at risk of turning into a goal, but my so far my planned theme is Nihongo Jouzu. The actual phrase is a bit of a meme in the Japanese learning community. Literally it's just...

    It's maybe a bit at risk of turning into a goal, but my so far my planned theme is Nihongo Jouzu. The actual phrase is a bit of a meme in the Japanese learning community. Literally it's just "good/skilled at Japanese". But the reason it's become a meme is that if someone is actually really good at a language, you probably don't start complimenting them on their language skills. So the actual stage where someone says "your English is very good" or "日本語上手" is usually a stage where you're functional but clearly not an expert at the language.

    And really being functional in Japanese is sort of the target. It's another skill to bring up and some of the recent going ons in the world have convinced me that it's probably good to diversify a bit rather than just picking up another tech stack, and I've been learning this for 1.5 years now and am at the stage where I can handle material that's specifically aimed at beginners or kids, so the idea is to expand that into a broader range.

    I have thoughts about what it means in terms of examinations or specific material I'd like to be able to manage it, but listing them would really turn them it into a goal.

    For comparison, while it wasn't a theme in the Cortex sense, 2022 was effectively a year of Health for me as I got from overweight to healthy weight and took up some more activities, and 2023 was more a year of "taking things seriously" as there was a lot of stuff in my life I'd been just kind of bumbling along in that I wanted to sort out.

  9. Comment on Book recommendation request: An introduction to the Israeli-Arab conflict for non-academics in ~books

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    I am curious why you think a European perspective is biased but e.g. an American or Australian one is not.

    I am curious why you think a European perspective is biased but e.g. an American or Australian one is not.

    9 votes
  10. Comment on US stores increasingly reverse course on self checkout in ~tech

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    The German supermarket chains here are known as the fastest checkouts and they provide seats for their staff, as a counterpoint.

    The German supermarket chains here are known as the fastest checkouts and they provide seats for their staff, as a counterpoint.

    5 votes
  11. Comment on Can someone please recommend me a no BS printer I can use like half a dozen times a year in ~tech

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    Brother laser printers are the answer. The inkjets have started rejecting unofficial cartridges, but if you print a few times a year, then pretty much any ink based product is going to dry up long...

    Brother laser printers are the answer. The inkjets have started rejecting unofficial cartridges, but if you print a few times a year, then pretty much any ink based product is going to dry up long before you've dented the capacity. Whereas at that usage, a laser toner might last you the life of the printer.

    104 votes
  12. Comment on What 2023 Black Friday deals are you looking into? in ~talk

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    Not really an equivalent product with 4 fewer programmable buttons and no dpi adjustment buttons (which you could reprogram as 2 more programmable buttons if you wanted a fixed DPI).

    Not really an equivalent product with 4 fewer programmable buttons and no dpi adjustment buttons (which you could reprogram as 2 more programmable buttons if you wanted a fixed DPI).

  13. Comment on What 2023 Black Friday deals are you looking into? in ~talk

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    My mouse I used, the logitech g604 seems to have been discontinued without replacement unfortunately, so not sure what my next mouse will be. The rubber cover is peeling and splitting so it's due...

    My mouse I used, the logitech g604 seems to have been discontinued without replacement unfortunately, so not sure what my next mouse will be. The rubber cover is peeling and splitting so it's due replacement though

    1 vote
  14. Comment on No more phone number swaps: Signal messaging app now testing usernames in ~tech

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    Discord replaced msn, skype etc. imo

    Discord replaced msn, skype etc. imo

    7 votes
  15. Comment on Xbox's Phil Spencer considers PS5 and Nintendo Switch players part of the Xbox community in ~games

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    Yeah, I think as time goes on more developers are going to push on the "if you insist parity for the series S, then we just won't release on it", especially as Xbox's market share remains low....

    Yeah, I think as time goes on more developers are going to push on the "if you insist parity for the series S, then we just won't release on it", especially as Xbox's market share remains low. Which means Microsoft will be pushed into relenting on it more, and eventually breaking the value prop of the series S.

    6 votes
  16. Comment on Computer savvy people of Tildes, do you have any advice re setting up a new MS Windows personal computer? in ~tech

  17. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~news

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    If this had happened a few years ago, it would have enabled the EU to exert a lot more pressure on Orban, but I think the recent Slovakian election means Slovakia is just going to take Poland's...

    If this had happened a few years ago, it would have enabled the EU to exert a lot more pressure on Orban, but I think the recent Slovakian election means Slovakia is just going to take Poland's place as the mutual veto against consequences.

    6 votes
  18. Comment on Computer savvy people of Tildes, do you have any advice re setting up a new MS Windows personal computer? in ~tech

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    Traditional bitlocker as an alternative to the new encryption which sends a copy of your keys to Microsoft Windows 10 Pro is less of a pain to use local accounts (sadly Windows 11 Pro also tries...
    • Traditional bitlocker as an alternative to the new encryption which sends a copy of your keys to Microsoft
    • Windows 10 Pro is less of a pain to use local accounts (sadly Windows 11 Pro also tries to force Microsoft account login on you)
    1 vote
  19. Comment on Computer savvy people of Tildes, do you have any advice re setting up a new MS Windows personal computer? in ~tech

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    Depends on your region, I guess. It's usually €100 extra if bundled with your computer, or €200 to upgrade after the fact in my region. That's a lot of extra expense for a non-techy user as...

    Depends on your region, I guess. It's usually €100 extra if bundled with your computer, or €200 to upgrade after the fact in my region. That's a lot of extra expense for a non-techy user as described in the topic.

    1 vote
  20. Comment on Computer savvy people of Tildes, do you have any advice re setting up a new MS Windows personal computer? in ~tech

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    A better reason is that Privacy Badger no longer does the thing it was known for (local tracker learning) as it was found that that itself could be used as a vector for fingerprinting. So these...

    A better reason is that Privacy Badger no longer does the thing it was known for (local tracker learning) as it was found that that itself could be used as a vector for fingerprinting. So these days it's basically an inferior, redundant version of uBlock Origin.

    3 votes