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Telaneo

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Telaneo
·hace 9 horas·discuss
> Leap-hours seem to me to be moral equivalent to the "fuck it, let's just give up" option.

Sometimes, doing nothing is the right option. Sometimes, giving up is the right option. I believe this is one of those times. The alternatives seem worse to me, and the fact that it's even being considered by the curators of time would seem to indicate it's not a completely invalid option.
Telaneo
·hace 9 horas·discuss
I agree. The difference in how much we're out of sync with the sun is tiny and also completely inconsequential in the vast majority of cases, especially compared to the trouble of the alternatives. By the time the difference is relevant or noticeable, I sure hope we have a better way of tracking time.

If anything, it's probably for the better to completely disconnect the measurement from it's old standard, the same way imperial measurements are now defined using SI units as a baseline, and how 1 AD isn't actually the year of Christ's birth. It's OK that the actual measurement is off from what it was once based of, so long as we all agree how we're defining our units.
Telaneo
·hace 12 horas·discuss
I don't care about being seen as a good person. I do care about being a good person (at least to the extent I am able).

I don't see how copyright relates to my (or anyone's) character. You can be a good or bad person who copies files, and you can also be a good or bad person who doesn't.
Telaneo
·hace 17 horas·discuss
> Like imagine how much harm is caused by the luxury fashion industry manipulating people to spend $20,000 on ugly leather bags?

The EU is actually working on that, at least from the environmental angle.[1]

Beyond that, I agree, but in a 'yes, we should do that too; that doesn't mean we shouldn't do this' way.

[1] https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-stop-dest...
Telaneo
·hace 17 horas·discuss
I have very little faith that it will be very possible to rewind to that point. Not because the technology of today is different, or even the legal landscape, but simply due to the cultural landscape being different. Pandora's box has been opened, and it cannot be closed.

To me at least, there seems to have been some cut-off point where nothing but money mattered, and someone realised that consumers will just take the abuse and you won't actually be punished that much, at least not to the point where it's not worth it if money is all you care about. I'm sure there were industries that behaved like this before (tobacco comes to mind), but now it's everywhere.

The aura of 'they'll screw me over for pennies' is ever-present. Even if there were legal recourse for stuff before, you didn't need it, because the threat alone was enough to keep companies in line. Similarly, the threat of a boycott could be enough for a company to switch course. Now they've discovered that for every person willing to take a stand, there are 1000 more who'll stick around, or be swayed by ads, or whatever else.

The idea that you're doing business to provide actual goods and services which does some good in the world seems to have disappeared. Now that is nothing more than a means to an end: the money. You don't open a business because you want to get into the whatever-business. You do it to earn the most money you can. I'm sure the ever worsening socio-economic climate has something to do with it.

We can introduce more consumer and worker protection laws to bring back some breaks on all this. Make the former theoretical punishments to businesses come back as actual punishments, which will hopefully make them behave. Doing it properly is hard. The culture of loopholes isn't going away any-time soon.
Telaneo
·hace 23 horas·discuss
> I’m not sure what limiting principle you can apply to limit the ability of businesses to show users other things the user might be interested in that wouldn’t also basically ban advertising too.

That's a baby I'm happy to lose along with its bathwater.
Telaneo
·ayer·discuss
We should do something about that too, yes.
Telaneo
·anteayer·discuss
> I mean we deal with daylight saving time all the time

And I wish we didn't every year!
Telaneo
·anteayer·discuss
> As someone who also has two family names, I always dread questions for my "last name".

I feel the same about anything that doesn't ask about my middle name. I end up constantly see emails with 'Hi/Dear First-Name Middle-Name', which nobody calls me, but if you want my full name as written in my passport, it's got to be there somewhere.

It'd be much better if they instead asked for 'Legal name (what's written in your passport)' and 'Nickname (what you want us to call you)', although I suspect many would fill in an actual nickname in that second box and be mad that the service 'needs' that, or doesn't treat them with the proper respect, when you could just fill in Dr. Robert Smith there and it wouldn't matter in the slightest.

I've considered changing my name to a more simplified version with just two names, but I'm expecting it to be a hassle, and there's a social aspect to it, which I'm not sure I want to deal with. But with every day that passes, the sunk cost becomes bigger.
Telaneo
·anteayer·discuss
I want to like the EU. In many ways I do. They're making it really easy to not like them.

All for a safe and secure society.
Telaneo
·hace 3 días·discuss
I'm so happy I managed to transfer everything important over to my own domain before anything like that happened. I still have my old Hotmail and Gmail, and while nothing important shows up there, there's still a trickle of non-spam email coming in there, even after 5 and 10 years since I transferred everything I could remember at the time.
Telaneo
·hace 4 días·discuss
GTA IV: Ballad of Gay Tony is listed as silver on protondb, meaning 'works with tweaks', so that sounds about right. Things obviously aren't perfect. That last 10% of games is a massive pain, since every game is different (all the ones that are well behaved are in the first 90% that already work).
Telaneo
·hace 4 días·discuss
I can't see this happening without either Windows getting in the way, negating much of the advantage of a console (have a look at the Windows handhelds and how they're not selling and how they're not a great experience), or Microsoft swallowing a massive part of their pride. Valve started directing work towards Linux literally because of Microsoft trying to close down the Windows ecosystem,[1] and Valve wanted an escape route if Microsoft decided to actually do that.

MS crawling on their knees to Valve to get them to cooporate on something (and Valve saying yes!), or MS figuratively doing the same by undoing all the problems MS have made for themselves with Windows and making a decent 10-foot UI so you'd actually want to use Steam on your Xbox, both seem incredibly unlikely.

Not to mention that this is more or less just admitting defeat for MS, leaving every single penny of profit in PC and Xbox gaming to Valve, other than what's directly tied to the hardware, which isn't where any of the profit actually lies.

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-i-think-windows-8-is-a-c...
Telaneo
·hace 5 días·discuss
> Xbox is the value proposition for people that want to play on Console + {PC/Handheld}

Okay. Then who is that? Most of the people who play games who I know are either A.) Console gamers who only use PCs for work, 2.) PC gamers who don't see the point in a console, or III.) The top 1% who just go where the games are and are willing to spend to get there, and that group isn't generally a fan of not actually owning their games, nor are they very price conscious (they don't like higher prices, but they'll drop 400 USD to buy a PS4 and Bloodborne, since that's the only way to play that game).

I'm yet to see someone using Game Pass on a handheld.

So if that's the intended market, no wonder it isn't doing too hot.
Telaneo
·hace 5 días·discuss
A part of me wants to be generous in interpreting that and say, OK, maybe it's the first time she's playing games semi-seriously in order to understand the capital G Gamer. Surely she's played games before, like say, the Sims, Bejeweled, Mario Kart, or picked up a Nintendo DS or Switch in her lifetime. Heck, even Wii Sports should count here in some capacity. Most people have played games casually in their lifetime by this point.

The other part of me though says that, no, it is in fact pretty possible that she hasn't played any video games of note, other than Wii Sports that one time. And even if she has played games casually, is it really too much to ask to have the person leading the Xbox brand be someone who can press the X button on their controller and not be confused by that?
Telaneo
·hace 5 días·discuss
Can't say I'm surprised. I can't see a reasonable path for Xbox to do anything but just stay alive other than as MS's overarching gaming brand.

Xbox is on the losing side of the consoles, with no distinguishing features to speak of. You buy a console to play games and for it to be convenient. Xbox is no more or less convenient than a Playstation, and what few exclusives there are left are on Sony's side of the fence. Game Pass, while good, isn't really making money. What more is there to Xbox then (beyond the studios and such, which aren't Xbox themselves)?
Telaneo
·hace 5 días·discuss
Heck, even 60 years ago, you could still buy that arcade cabinet! Sure, it costs a fortune, but it was at least possible.
Telaneo
·hace 5 días·discuss
Heck, I'd pay to explicitly not get the new features and only get the security and bug fixes in several cases. The "new" features is in some cases just a reshuffling of the UI and removal of features I actually do use.
Telaneo
·hace 5 días·discuss
Correct, but I don't expect Sony to keep those servers up for long when people can't even buy anything there. It's nothing but a cost centre for Sony at this point.
Telaneo
·hace 5 días·discuss
People agree to fraud all the time. That doesn't mean people shouldn't get their money back.