stephan262

stephan262 , 1 month ago to steam in Sony does not remove purchase restrictions from Helldivers 2 on steam and also adds them to Ghost of Tsushima

I’m pretty sure internet means internetwork, as in between networks. There’s also intranets, which are limited access web networks.

You are right that geoblocking really shouldn’t be a thing, it’s existence is thanks to varying laws and regulations, and most annoyingly, IP distribution contracts.

stephan262 , 2 months ago to world in Israeli troops shoot and kill a Palestinian shepherd reading the Quran on his land

None of that relates to this murder as based on the description of settler concerns, which are more of an issue in the West Bank rather than Gaza, I’m guessing that this happened in the West Bank. (Where Hamas is not the government.)

Whether the murderers are IDF or settler militants is immaterial to the point of this being an unjustified killing of a Palestinian shepherd living in the West Bank, who is rather unlikely to be a Hamas fighter or involved in the 7th October attack.

stephan262 , 3 months ago to world in Israeli troops shoot and kill a Palestinian shepherd reading the Quran on his land

How does the atrocities of Hamas relate to the murder of a Palestinian shepherd?

stephan262 , 3 months ago to worldnews in Israeli forces surrounded and opened fire at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital

Actually Hammas is spread by contact. If you touched someone who lived next door to someone who’s family dog was given to them by someone who had a family member join Hamas, then you become Hamas too.

The only way to innoculate yourself against this pathogen is by loudly and vigorously condemning Hamas for at least two minutes a day.

It should however be noted that condemning Hamas, and having absolutely no affiliation with any of their members provides no protection against Israeli forces mistaking you for a Hamas fighter and subsequently shooting/bombing/starving you to death.

stephan262 , 4 months ago to lemmyshitpost in at least half of you need to double check this switch

But it comes with your choice of meme.

stephan262 , 5 months ago to news in Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates

Well if you want to execute billionaires then I’m not going to stand in your way. But I absolutely oppose having civil courts ordering death sentences.

stephan262 , 5 months ago to news in The FAA is formally investigating Boeing over Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max incident

Well the door fell off in this case… But I’m sure Boeing would like to make the point that this is not typical.

stephan262 , 6 months ago to world in Britain’s Home Secretary apologizes for joke about spiking his wife’s drink with date-rape drug

If the government has even the smallest modicum of dignity, he’ll resign or be sacked. It’s one thing to enjoy crass and offensive jokes, I certainly do, but there’s a time and a place for such humour. I mean he’s the Home Secretary for fucks sake! How in the world did he think that that kind of joke would go down well?

I’ve seen first hand the aftermath of someone’s drink being spiked… It’s not something I ever want to deal with again. Though I’ll bet it was far worse for the unfortunate victim of it.

stephan262 , 6 months ago to news in Teen GTA VI hacker sentenced to life in a secure hospital

I guess we’ll have to just lock him up while we figure out some way of stopping him committing cybercrime. If only there were some way of preventing him from committing this crime that requires access to a computer to commit. I guess he’ll just have to stay trapped in a phyche ward until society can figure this one out.

Sorry for being snarky and sarcastic, I know what you mean and agree with you. My sarcasm is directed more at the judges ruling and your comment is just what sparked me to write it.

stephan262 , 7 months ago to technology in Twitch to shut down in Korea over 'prohibitively expensive' network fees

So do you think that shipping companies should charge fees to both sender and recipient? Because that’s the physical equivalent of this situation.

I pay my ISP to deliver data to me at an agreed rate. The data being streamed from the bandwidth heavy sources has been paid for… By me. It would be wrong for my ISP to then go and charge them for the bandwidth that I’m using, much in the same way it would be wrong for a company to both charge the sender and receiver of a package just because that package is heavier than normal.

And many of the CDN agreements that bandwidth heavy content providers sign with ISPs have favourable terms specifically because those ISPs recognise that having good access to that content is exactly what their customers are paying for… At least the ones not completely blinded by greed do.

stephan262 , 7 months ago to world in No ‘unusual’ virus behind rising Pneumonia cases China has clarified, reveals WHO

The WHO are just relaying information from the Chinese government. So I wouldn’t trust it.

stephan262 , 8 months ago to news in Alabama Woman Gave Birth in Jail Shower After Begging to Go to a Hospital

So much of this is fucked up beyond belief.

Being to told to “sleep off” her water breaking is just horrific. I’d expect anyone with even the most rudimentary understanding of pregnancy to know that her water breaking means that birth is only hours away at the most, she can’t just hold it in for two days.

stephan262 , 9 months ago to internetfuneral in together

It’s a terrible thing when the phant falls off.

stephan262 , 10 months ago to world in Britain says it intercepted two Russian bomber aircraft north of Scotland

The only thing eyebrow raising about this is that they were bombers (assuming they actually were). Normally this sort of thing is done with recon aircraft.

stephan262 , 11 months ago to futurama in Such beauty

Hail king Posfrydon.