BlueTemplar

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by BlueTemplar 10mo ago
That's a bad analogy, more like : Printing Press <=> The Internet but Social Media <=> Some specific forms of (mostly centralized) publishing
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by BlueTemplar 10mo ago
Out of all of those, only Instagram is on the list (or I have heard has complied despite not being on it). You seem to be confusing messaging software and social media ? Do (the others than Instagram) have an algorithmic feed, or (effective
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by BlueTemplar 10mo ago
Them being platforms is most of the issue. Protocols (like Mastodon or PeerTube), not platforms.
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by BlueTemplar 10mo ago
Logging IP addresses for use by law enforcement started in like 2004. I remember ISPs and Web cafés complaining quite a lot. But I guess you mean on the client software side itself ?
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by BlueTemplar 10mo ago
Normalizing ID and ID uploading (instead of banning it) is really what makes this bad. A good law would just have completely banned these platforms from the country. (Even the Canadian Kik, because freeware, therefore closed source, therefo
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by BlueTemplar 10mo ago
Discord might not be officially included, but they still complied. «Big Tech» is a bad term to use IMHO, but if you do, why wouldn't it cover Discord(/Tencent) or even Telegram ?
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by BlueTemplar 10mo ago
No, about half of them (mostly) aren't : Reddit, YouTube, Twitch... (That's also not what «walled garden» means. You're thinking about «deep web».)
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by BlueTemplar 10mo ago
You say it's a LOT, but it's about the same cost as a much much shorter USB 4.0 cable. (Granted, it also has to be able to carry 240W.)
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by BlueTemplar 10mo ago
So should HDCP. And DMCA. And platforms. And DRM in general. But this is basically asking for the USA to give up on their soft power (Hollywood, and over the Internet). It's something to aim for, but is still going to take decades. And
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by BlueTemplar 11mo ago
Oh - were they already tradeable ?
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by BlueTemplar 11mo ago
Steam isn't always-on DRM. For instance Valve's own games don't have any. Their worst failure is allowing games with Denuvo on their store.
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by BlueTemplar 11mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean ? We have been using 3-4 controllers on the Steam Deck lately : Steam Controller, Xbox One gamepad, Switch 1 Joy Pads (together or separate). There are some quirks with the first time game setup sometimes, bu
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by BlueTemplar 11mo ago
Is that the same Battlefields that removed support for private servers ?
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by BlueTemplar 11mo ago
Your comparisons are a mess. "Casual player" is very poorly defined. You are comparing concurrent players with unique players (IIRC half a billion for Fortnite ?) "Many millions" hardly means anything when you use it to
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by BlueTemplar 11mo ago
There is more than a single kind of Steam DRM (before even mentioning all the 3rd parties they allow) : https://www.gog.com/forum/general/how_to_run_steam_games_off...
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by BlueTemplar 11mo ago
You mean compared to the PS3, one of the strong points of which was also having a Blu-Ray drive ?
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by BlueTemplar 11mo ago
Didn't Gabe Newell basically confirm 13 years ago already that they were aiming for that ? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18996377
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
It's still worse than useless : https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-my-job-transla...
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
We're talking about unsolved philosophical issues here, matters of barely stable equilibriums. Would you rather be «team Plato», ruled by enlightened 'philosopher-kings' ? Comes with its own set of issues. P.S.: Also, it&#x27
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
It's probably better to just stop using social media. (And stop tolerating people that do.) I doubt that even something as 'light' on that spectrum as Hacker News is worthwhile enough compared to the non-social-media alternat
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
If you have a better solution to the paradox of tolerance, I'm all ears. (People still using platforms : the likes of Facebook, Discord, LinkedIn, Github, or ChatGPT being amongst the ones that undermine democratic ideals and that ough
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Well, I already knew that I didn't understand quantum mechanics, but I didn't expect entanglement to violate transitivity !
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
We did get more : the return of VR couldn't have been possible without drastically improved hardware. But the way how it stayed niche shows how it's not just about new gameplay experiences. Compare with the success of the Wii Sp
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
The important bit that you left out is "with how much effort ?" Both too weak and too strong shouldn't be the default.
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Online banking can do 2FA through texts, which is probably the least bad option these days.
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
I assume you mean a password that can be saved in the browser ? Still, blame the bank, this is an issue they should have fixed even before smartphones became popular.
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
"Spectrum", by definition, covers all the range of behaviours, both those that society deems to be a disorder and those that it deems not.
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
The difference in the comments here and in this other thread are interesting : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45424888 (US infocoms, and Google in particular, aren't reputable companies any more. Ban them all.)
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
No, Super Tim had a trusted sidekick : Al Gore. (j/k)
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by BlueTemplar 1y ago
Don't keep us waiting, give us examples of better implementations, please ! ;)

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