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ono,

I’ve seen an argument that defederation would just hurt the fediverse, and that even an exploitative giant like Meta should therefore be welcomed.

I think that’s like arguing that we should get rid of antitrust laws, which we have for good reason.

ono,

*taking the piss

Didn’t Steam give out stickers (or some other small reward) for submitting nominations, and allow people to nominate games they had never played? I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the Starfield nominations were blind and/or shill votes.

ono,

Gold? Looks more like the color of baby poop. It’s both ugly and difficult to read the text upon it.

Sigh… Here’s hoping darkly gets a better highlight color.

ono, (edited )

It’s simple: My SSD can only fit so many 100-300 GB games, while I already have hard drives with plenty of free space.

(Also, running Linux means that an SSD doesn’t help game performance much anyway, outside of initial loading time.)

You can get a 2TB M.2 for around $100.

More like $150-200 if you want a good one.

If you’ve got the specs for new games, there’s no excuse.

What a very privileged perspective. I don’t have much money, but most new games are playable on my existing hardware if I tune the graphics settings. I would rather spend what money have on things like food and heat. (Or if the basics are covered, then maybe a newish game.)

ono,

Do services count? Because in that case, ride-hailing. A replacement for services like Uber and Lyft.

ono,

Signal gets some things right, but others wrong, such as phone numbers and centralized architecture. As such, it doesn’t fit the “everybody wants to use” part.

ono, (edited )

Off the top of my head, taxi services lack:

  • Convenient hailing. A phone call works okay if you’re home, where there isn’t much noise and you speak the local language, but a web form is often much easier and less error-prone in other situations.
  • Efficient coverage. Many areas either have sparse taxi coverage, or multiple taxi companies competing in an area, and if the one you call doesn’t have enough drivers available and nearby, you’re stuck waiting unreasonably long even if there are other ride options with better availability.
  • Up-front journey-specific prices. We now have the technology to see what the total cost will be before we commit to a ride. We should be using it.
  • A single point of hailing, where I can submit my location and destination, and be presented with my ride options from all the available providers.
  • Accurate pick-up and drop-off time estimates. Even better with real-time taxi location.
  • Quick arrival.
  • Automated ride-sharing coordination among strangers.
  • Fuel efficiency incentives. Most taxis I’ve taken have been heavy vehicles that guzzle petrol, passing the expense on to the environment and the customer.

I think most (maybe all) of this could be solved by something like a clearinghouse for taxi rides, effectively federating the various taxi services in an area, with a web app available for hailing.

ono,

“some people use” ≠ “everybody wants to use”

(And are you sincerely suggesting WhatsApp, which is run by one of the largest and most aggressive privacy invaders the world has ever known, as a privacy friendly application? I would suggest re-thinking that position if you want to be taken seriously.)

ono,

is exactly like saying “why don’t you just buy a house?” to someone complaining about their landlord.

What an idiotic comparison.

Buying a house costs so much money and time that most people cannot afford to, and those who can generally must go into debt for most of their remaining lives in order to do so. Suggesting FOSS to replace “whatever commercial software they use” is the polar opposite, in that it’s literally free (usually in both senses of the word). It’s more like suggesting that someone consider a new route to commute from home to work.

Also, this opening…

Okay, all you open source evangelist people: your knee-jerk reaction to come at people

…is incredibly reductive and combative. The world needs less of that, not more.

ono, (edited )

The difference here is mountains vs. molehills.

And in most cases, they obviously do have sufficient ability to learn how, because they were able to learn the commercial software they’re currently using.

As for time, yes, learning always takes time. (Thus my comparison to learning a new commute.) But suggesting that someone learn something new is not stupid or unreasonable, especially if the thing they currently use is not serving them well.

  • In response to that paragraph you added after I replied:

I don’t know why you would think that cherry-picked and extremely specific scenario is somehow representative of the general subject we’re discussing. Of course situations exist where learning alternative software isn’t the best answer. That doesn’t make it wrong for people to suggest the alternatives. Quite often, they’re perfectly viable, and it’s perfectly reasonable to try to help by making someone aware of them.

ono,

You should just learn Chinese.

That’s disingenuous. I wasn’t complaining about English not serving me well, now was I?

Also, once again, mountains vs. molehills.

ono, (edited )

Be the change, homie.

When someone claims two obviously different things are exactly the same, pointing out that the comparison is idiotic is not combative, homie.

Edit: More to the point, defending one’s community by pointing out the idiocy of an attack is not combative.

You might not be paying for software in money but you’re going to pay for it, one way or another.

Indeed. As I hinted in my comment, and stated more clearly in another one.

ono,

Did your wife go on social media to pick a fight by stereotyping and publicly scolding a large community of people, and justify it with an obviously false claim? I hope not, but if so, then I wish you the best of luck working through that together.

ono, (edited )

It’s not just Protonmail.

Blacklists like these aggressively and unapologetically collect all privacy-focused email domains they find, including simple forwarding and tagging services. With more and more sites using these lists to reject or black-hole email addresses, it has become difficult to protect one’s self from spam and cross-site account tracking.

Dear web developers, please don’t use these lists. Well-intended or not, they are privacy and user-hostile.

ono,

Ironically, when I tried setting a ProtonMail account recovery email address, they rejected it because it was on a list like this one. I hope Proton gets off this blacklist, but I also think they should practice what they preach.

ono,

Devs can use them to block DISPOSABLE mails, not PRIVACY legitimate emails.

That’s what they claim, but in practice, they seldom distinguish between the two.

ono,

They rejects them because it is an abuse prevention mechanism.

An “abuse prevention mechanism” that punishes legitimate users is a badly designed mechanism. It’s a lot like police racial profiling.

You can solve captcha and register without any additional information

Nobody said anything about registering.

ono,

That’s not what this specific list is for.

Yet it has a lot of legitimate domains, and has had them for years.

Regardless of whether the maintainer is malicious or just irresponsible, his list is doing harm.

ono, (edited )

You’re getting into very sketchy territory by saying a dev who is using a public GitHub repo to solve their problems needs to take it down

No, I don’t believe I said any such thing. Since you mention it, though, I think taking this list down and removing the false positives before bringing it back up would be the responsible thing to do.

In the interest of specifics, can you point to where this specific list has done harm?

I know from personal experience and investigation (both as a user and on the admin side) that there are now many cases of privacy-focused email addresses being rejected, or even worse, accepted and then silently black-holed, due to the domains being inappropriately added to lists like this one. I don’t know of a place where people report such cases so they can be documented in aggregate, but if I find one, I’ll be sure to bookmark it in case your question comes up again in the future.

ono, (edited )

but you have no direct connection from this resource to harm you claim it causes?

The connection is very clear, because you can see what domains are on the list.

So you’re lumping this resource into a bucket with other resources that were malicious

You’re saying a dev using this list […] needs to convert their FOSS use-case to yours?

[…] the argument I feel you’re making.

Please stop putting words in my mouth. As you seem to be arguing in bad faith, I’m done with this conversation.

ono,

Also the origin of the term booting a computer.

ono,

A spin-off of this research is the company Lumetallix that Helmbrecht and Noorduin are setting up together with Jeroen van den Bosch with the recent addition of Xander Terpstra (CCO). With AMOLF, they jointly hold an international patent on the process and development of a universal test kit. This is both affordable and easy to use for everybody who wants to know whether lead is present in the living environment. The test kits can be ordered via the website.

ono,

I have a lot of criticism for The Witcher 3, but one thing I really appreciated was making lore and character background available for reading. It really helped with this newcomer’s understanding of the world and story. (And later, with my understanding of the TV series.)

ono,

Don’t think I haven’t considered it. :)

ono, (edited )

please let the kids all of us be free of corporate abuse and greed.

ono,

I think I like the America’s Most Notorious War Criminal headline better.

ono,

The contents of the chat messages are e2e encrypted, so meta can’t see what you are sending.

Even if we assume correct e2ee is used (which we have no way of knowing), Meta can still see what you are sending and receiving, because they control the endpoints. It’s their app, after all.

ono,

Cantata is the music player I wanted for years.

Streamlink (with mpv) is great for no-nonsense video stream playback.

Filelight makes it easy to see where my disk space went.

ono, (edited )

Practically speaking, it’s a replacement for both PulseAudio and JACK, and provides multimedia plumbing for app container systems like Flatpak.

pipewire.org

ono,

Or games built with their libraries (which probably includes all games from the Epic store).

ono, (edited )

Steam’s hardware survey gathers a narrow set of hardware info, shows you what it finds, and asks permission before sending. It is completely transparent forthcoming and optional. That is not hoovering up your data.

ono, (edited )

Agreed; I would much prefer games and their storefronts to be open-source.

Of what we have today, though, most of Steam’s competitors are far worse in this area.

Special nod to GOG, which lets you download games with a web browser. (Does Itch do this, too?)

ono,

A good explanation of the different thin film transistor (LCD) panel types:

tftcentral.co.uk/articles/panel_technologies

ono,

But really destiny and overwatch complicated??? Those games are for children

Overwatch might seem that way because of the cartoon style and the low skill floor, but the skill ceiling is somewhat higher. I haven’t met many children who would be good at predicting behavior of high-level opponents and coordinating to counter it, for example.

I don’t know that I would call it complicated, either, except in the sense that there’s often a lot to keep track of all at once. I think I’d place it somewhere in the middle.

ono,

IMHO, some of the beauty of Baldur’s Gate 3 lies in the ability to start playing immediately, and discover the mechanics little by little as you go. Instead of an impenetrable wall of complexity, it gives you a world to explore while learning something new every time you play.

However, if you want to study the mechanics, you can also consult the D&D 5th edition rules. BG3 follows most of them. media.wizards.com/2018/…/DnD_BasicRules_2018.pdf

ono,

I don’t know when I’ll have time to watch this, but if someone who does were to post a synopsis or link a transcript, it would be welcome.

ono,

Friendly reminder that Klei is now owned by Tencent, in case that’s important to anyone here.

What's stopping banks from creating FOSS (or atleast open-source) banking solutions (apps)?

Let’s say, I create a bank with the caveat that all of my banking phone apps and webapps are FOSS (or if they depend on non-free components — banks probably do to communicate with each other —, then just OSS). Am I going to be behind the competition by doing this?...

ono,

I don’t know of anything stopping banks from creating FOSS apps, but since it’s not their area of expertise, I think they’re more likely to license an app from a provider, and existing providers don’t have a compelling incentive to open-source their apps.

If we want FOSS banking apps, I think the first and most important step would be legally requiring banks to provide standard APIs.

ono,

There’s a reliable way to combat scalping in general. Start selling the item at a high price or in larger quantity and then cut the price whenever sales drop off.

That alone might be effective at reducing scalping, but would also put the item beyond the reach of entire income classes.

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