When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation. ...
Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...
I'll say that this reaction does nothing to make me think you are approaching this with any objectivity.
The argument, to me, seems to be that it's impossible in the modern world as things stand to actually totally avoid animal products. That would seem like an issue that Veganism should be concerned with.
I see your point, I think, about it being an individual choice. But though I have heard of things like vegan shoes, I can see how saying those are vegan when you may not control all the inputs seems problematic.
Regardless, your response was so unpleasant that I don't think I'm much interested in continuing.
Personally I feel your view is too constrained to your own timeline and experiences and is discounting the spread of technology in music for at least a century.
We need to trust such a country to be judicious in their use of force, to not engage in any unnecessary conflict that puts both they and their allies at risk, and we want that country to be stable and share our values.
Israel is not demonstrating these qualities, at least not now.
Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag from a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses nationwide. The school promised they would face expulsion....
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Cubana de Aviacion flights to Buenos Aires were canceled because fuel suppliers in Argentina refused to serve the airline....
I am not here arguing for or against sanctions. I am saying that there is a specific historical incident which is the current justification for the status quo.
Isn't that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
It's not being publicly traded, it's taking money from investors that leads down this road.
unless you can bootstrap or find a purely benevolent investor willing to cash out at some multiple and leave you alone, you're going to end up with enshittification as your investors try to hit their targets.
oh, and if you're a successful private company that has a good relationship with your customers? guess what, you've demonstrated there is a market that investors can target.
This post was inspired by a dream misadventure I had last night where I was just minding my own business getting gophers out of the rice field, then suddenly on the intercom/announcements (which I did not expect to have in my dream, since I was outside, not in a building), a voice said "attention, this is a representative of the...
I don't entirely subscribe to the first paragraph – I've never worked at a place so dear to me that spurred me to spend time thinking about its architecture (beyond the usual rants). Other than that, spot on
We have an almost total lack of real discipline and responsibility in software engineering.
"Good enough" is the current gold standard, so you get what we have.
If we were more serious there wouldn't be 100 various different languages to choose from, just a handful based on the requirements and those would become truly time worn, tested and reliable.
Instead, we have no apprenticeships, no unions, very little institutional knowledge older than a few years. We are pretending at being an actual discipline.
New Yorkers who said they couldn’t approach the case fairly were excused during jury selection. But one of the women with the harshest assessments of him will be among those who will determine his fate on 34 counts of falsifying business records....
+1 for Pulaski being a good chief medical officer. Personally, I would prefer her to Crusher, were I staffing a ship. (Nothing wrong with Crusher, I just like the cut of Pulaski's jib a little more.)
Edit: note that in real life McFadden strikes me as an absolute badass in a way they never let her character be.
My conrade in Starfleet, this woman gonna bring spirits onto your ship if she can't get the Captain's attention.. She is a liability on any space vessel.
FWIW headlines like this are targeted at people who don't believe in climate change but do worry about the economy. In other words: exactly the people who need to see more and think more about this topic.
You are clearly already informed. No need to disparage this kind of communication - every argument we can make helps.
No, I think that for instance when you have the power to save a civilization, probably without them even knowing, and you fail to act you have acted immorally. Having a blanket rule is the immoral part.
I agree.However I will take a handful of unnecessary wars if it means the universe.doesnt lose the potential of entire species because.someone.at starfleet has a god complex.
Using rootkit anti-cheat is a shortcut that reduces cost for both dev time and hosting time at the expense of your customers' security and CPU. You also have to lay your cards on the table for those who are attacking you. It is not the right solution for this problem.
Authoritative servers.
Never trust the client, especially with information the player shouldn't have right now.
Look at behaviors and group players based on if you think they cheat or not - let the cheaters play together, no need to spoil their fun and let them realize you know they cheat.
People do some or all of this on the server now, but root kitting all machines to try to solve this problem to play video games is one of the dumbest approaches ever and we will realize it one day when a state level actor pops their zero day against a big install base.
You don't necessarily need to detect the cheat itself, you can look at things like players having suddenly higher kill rates and put them into a queue for observation by either more advanced (more expensive) automation to look for cheating or eventually involve a human in the loop.
Even on consoles after a while it becomes obvious that you cannot control the hardware, let alone the software on the client side. Those are the very best argument for this kind of approach and they get cracked eventually.
I think by the end of your message you were starting to arc around a little bit to the right way you need to think about clients: as outside your security envelope. (TPM is a joke in my mind, just like client side anti-cheat.)
There are many ways to try to identify and stop cheating on the server side that have not been explored because executives have directed use of off-the-shelf anti-cheat because they do not understand why it is snake oil.
I recently saw 'Don't Look Now' (1973). Good picture, a little slow perhaps by today's standards but worthy of any movie enjoyer's time! So this movie was shot in Venice. Venice itself being an already beautiful spot to film even today. The way we get to look in a time capsule of Venice in the 70s makes the movie that much...
The server fedia.io had been running on started developing stability problems overnight from Thursday April 4 to Friday April 5. By Saturday (today), the system was completely unbootable. After attempting to resolve the hardware issue with Hetzner (the ISP) for about 6 hours, I gave up and moved the site to a new server. All...
And yet what a actually happened is that Catholics ended up generally more liberal and Protestants ended up becoming evangelicals and causing a lot of the problems currently faced in, for example, the US.
Edit' Catholicism continues to try to bleed any kind of support by protecting pedophiles in case you feel like I am being too lenient toward Catholicism.
No one cares about Trump's threats because he is a fuckin dope. We all know the only threat posed is stochastic terrorism from his indoctrinated followers.
If we didn't have first past the post and the electoral college we could all safely be laughing at how fucking moronic that dude is.
Instead, we have to have a slim chance he gets a second term of fucking the country up.
It's fucking embarrassing as a "world power." No one should trust us because our electoral system is this fucking dumb.
Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing. ...
History is littered with companies that decided they should "milk" their customers instead of providing new and innovative products. They usually don't last all that long, but you're right that the current board members might not gaf about any kind of longer term existence.
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
Transgender activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to block bathroom law enforcement ( apnews.com )
Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports in an effort to shield trans residents and their allies from any legitimate complaints that could lead to an investigation. ...
[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?
Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...
Was music really better "back in the days"?
Tell me all the trash music/artists you know from around the 50s to 70s.
'Shark Tank' star Kevin O'Leary says pro-Palestinian student protesters are 'screwed' because employers can identify them through AI ( www.businessinsider.com )
Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel?
That’s the question.
What's the most fucked up movie you ever watched?
Martin Myers tried and failed to steal a cigarette. Why has he spent 18 years in prison for it? ( www.theguardian.com )
If you or somebody you know ever fell for a romance scam, how did you or the person fall for it?
And when did you / the person you know realize he was scammed?...
Columbia University threatens to expel student protesters who occupied administration building ( apnews.com )
Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag from a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses nationwide. The school promised they would face expulsion....
Argentina Refuses to Supply Fuel to Cuban Planes ( www.telesurenglish.net )
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Cubana de Aviacion flights to Buenos Aires were canceled because fuel suppliers in Argentina refused to serve the airline....
Man convicted of involuntary manslaughter in father's drowning, told police he was baptizing him ( abcnews.go.com )
Net neutrality rules restored by US agency, reversing Trump ( www.reuters.com )
Wait, what? They're only just now doing this?
Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded?
Isn't that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
What was your most recent dream?
This post was inspired by a dream misadventure I had last night where I was just minding my own business getting gophers out of the rice field, then suddenly on the intercom/announcements (which I did not expect to have in my dream, since I was outside, not in a building), a voice said "attention, this is a representative of the...
I love programming but I hate the programming industry ( www.deathbyabstraction.com )
I don't entirely subscribe to the first paragraph – I've never worked at a place so dear to me that spurred me to spend time thinking about its architecture (beyond the usual rants). Other than that, spot on
Trump was forced to listen silently as potential jurors offered their unvarnished assessments of him ( apnews.com )
New Yorkers who said they couldn’t approach the case fairly were excused during jury selection. But one of the women with the harshest assessments of him will be among those who will determine his fate on 34 counts of falsifying business records....
Battle of the Doctors ( lemmy.world )
Elon Musk is making millions from verified neo-Nazi X accounts ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Disneyland performers file petition to form labor union ( apnews.com )
Climate Change Will Cost Global Economy $38 Trillion Every Year Within 25 Years, Scientists Warn ( www.forbes.com )
Nine Google employees arrested after eight-hour sit-in protest ( www.theverge.com )
BBC News - Sydney: Bishop stabbed during sermon - reports ( www.bbc.co.uk )
Seems to be Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel who has clips of his sermons go viral online
Let's just set this as a semi-weekly meeting. ( lemmy.world )
Riot official response about League of Legends on Linux for Vanguard anti cheat ( lemmy.ml )
https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-vanguard-x-lol/
Which movies have aged like fine wine? (either in their message or cinematography)
I recently saw 'Don't Look Now' (1973). Good picture, a little slow perhaps by today's standards but worthy of any movie enjoyer's time! So this movie was shot in Venice. Venice itself being an already beautiful spot to film even today. The way we get to look in a time capsule of Venice in the 70s makes the movie that much...
Apologies for the recent downtime
The server fedia.io had been running on started developing stability problems overnight from Thursday April 4 to Friday April 5. By Saturday (today), the system was completely unbootable. After attempting to resolve the hardware issue with Hetzner (the ISP) for about 6 hours, I gave up and moved the site to a new server. All...
Why do people say "Catholics and Christians" in (USA) when Catholics are also Christians, as if they refer to it as a different religion.
Is this some sort of remnant of evangelical puritan protestant ideology?...
A dangerous return to denial: Trump's threats against Biden met by familiar media shrug ( www.salon.com )
Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads ( www.lowpass.cc )
Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing. ...