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tabular , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

The moral difference is the degree to which the creature can suffer and the capacity for it to flourish.

Suffering is a subjective experience, impossible to see any but your own. I experience so it’s likely humans do, other animals are similar and different to various degrees. Do you doubt the size of the animal’s brain or the configuration of their nervous systems has something to do with their capacity to experience suffering?

Flourishing considers the best potential life vs the worse potential life. Is it full-filling to be a cow just eating grass with the herd? Not in comparison to a human’s potential experiences. Could a pet cow have a fulfilling life with a loving owner as a pet dog? Not in all the same ways as it’s different, but perhaps it could have an equally high peak. As much as I know about a tuna fish, they won’t form as a meaningful bond with their owner - their peak life is not as high as a dog.

tabular , 10 months ago

Why say “in 24 hours” when it’s a ban wave. They detected the cheater long before “24h”.

tabular , 10 months ago

I’d rather the freedom of dedicated servers, playing how we want and long after they abandoned the game or disabled matchmaking.

tabular , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Long ago there was an email from an MMO saying the player “cheated” for going into a high level area as a low level character and sucessfully looted from chests.

tabular , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Firefox in the meanwhile but long term we need to move away from the unfathomably bloated web protocol standard/browsers.

tabular , 10 months ago

I’m referring to the totality of what is required to make a complete and secure web browser from scratch.

tabular , 10 months ago

I believe the rant demonstrates there cannot be more competition for browsers and therefore justifies the idea that browsers will stagnate and come to an end. I think the solution will be to move away from one application doing many things to using separate software dedicated to narrow purposes.

tabular , 10 months ago

I wish I’d said “web standards” instead.

tabular , 10 months ago

Including those but also all specifications defined by the W3C. I would post other examples here but I’m out of my depth.

tabular , 10 months ago

Adding features endlessly, heedless of danger of the inate security issue from the complexity, makes for an uncompetative and ultimatly unsustainable ecosystem.

The alternative I believe in is to use seperare apps for each segmented feature (the dedicated video player plays the video, the browser merely fetches it).

tabular , 10 months ago

When you want to use the scanner but can’t because the printer is broken.

tabular , 10 months ago

I’m looking to self host a blog but I want to use a Gemini capsule instead of a website.

tabular , 11 months ago

Twitter is a stage for attention and the “news” posted here is more about the ego than the technical aspects of the stage.

tabular , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Do you smelt bronze from bars or can you smelt directly from ores?

tabular , 11 months ago

When is rebranding ever good for users/consumers?

tabular , 11 months ago

That rebranding seems to me as just hiding past misdeeds. I’m not charitable enough to take apologies from companies at face-value, there would need to be some effort to explain and show change too.

tabular , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Could be the straw that broke the camel’s back.

I actually hate rebranding by itself too. I see a totally new name as just trying to escape their bad name, likely earned by their previous misdeeds.

tabular , 11 months ago

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tabular , 11 months ago

/s Those polygones are at it again, ruining <home country here>.

tabular , 11 months ago

GNU+UwU

tabular , 11 months ago

Where are they getting the training data from? If Twitter posts then no one will date the “AI” anyway.

The types of people I’d personally want to date probably don’t give out their data so easy.

tabular , 11 months ago

Every party should include ridicule of ridiculous Malaysian laws.

tabular , 11 months ago

For some “everyone” not talking to you is a perk.

The people I most care for use Discord. I worry I will lose constant with most of them if I stop using that too but I’ve never tried to get other to use something else.

tabular , 11 months ago

A value in faith or sacred writings is in no way more “human” than a disdain for the illogical.

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?

tabular , 11 months ago

What does South Africa get out of him visiting? Disregarding the idea of peace talks.

tabular , 11 months ago

Did they do that for money or disagreements (e.g. treatment of LGBT people)?

tabular , 11 months ago

Doesn’t that bet on Putin still being alive in the long term, or Russia’s next leader still being aan ally? Seems short sighted.

tabular , 11 months ago

Does Framework do anything regarding FOSS drivers or firmware?

tabular , 11 months ago

It’s good to know it uses drivers already there. Sadly being part of the kernal somehow doesn’t guarantee the driver are not proprietary binary blobs.

tabular , 11 months ago

I’ve not played for years but I still have a YuGiOh cards naming scheme.

tabular , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Other than the impractical task of reverse engineering then you can’t be sure what proprietary software is actually doing. Every update is more changes you’re not in control of. At best you can only say proprietary software has not been found guilty of “being a scam”, etc. When you have the source code then you (or 3rd parties) can find if it’s innocent.

tabular , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Kids being unable to trust teachers here reminds me of being unable to trust teachers to stop anti-gay bullying due to Section 28.

tabular , 11 months ago

With a universal basic income artists would be free to choose to make art for fun instead of survival. Given enough job destruction in transport a UBI-like solution may be manditory as there are not enough jobs for humans generally.

tabular , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

This add-on needs to:

• Store unlimited amount of client-side data
• Access your data for sites in the googlevideo.com domain
• Access your data for sites in the youtube.com domain
• Access your data for sponsor.ajay.app
• Access your data for dearrow-thumb.ajay.app
• Access your data for www.youtube-nocookie.com

This add-on may also ask to: **Access your data for all websites

Is there a better option than for it to need unlimited amount of client-side data? Also, why “Access your data for all websites”?-

tabular , 11 months ago

Thanks for your informative reply.

tabular , 11 months ago

Linux Mint’s criticism of snap. Mint is based on Ubuntu.

tabular , 11 months ago

Discord prevented 3rd party clients before it was cool.

If the objective is to avoid being forced to accept changes to software you use… why choose another person with the same power over you rather than free software?

tabular , 11 months ago

“Firmware” is a terrible name, it’s exactly software.

tabular , 11 months ago

This treats the software as if it were a physical chip which can’t be practically changed due to the physics of microchips. The imutability of the storage medium is just a choice of the manufacturer. Sometimes this is a good cost saving feature and sometimes this so they can include anti-features such as preventing repairing your device (e.g. OneWheel).

tabular , 11 months ago

Wish it was easier to just install stock Android on a new phone.

tabular , 11 months ago

If my review is so valuable why not pay me for it. A real “paid review”.

tabular , 11 months ago

Minimum wage might not be needed if we instead used universal basic income. Low paying jobs wouldn’t be automatically exploitative since they would still have a minimum income. Perhaps some of those low paying jobs may even bd desireable for certain people over the current minimum wage jobs (e.g. lower or very infrequent hours).

tabular , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Being able to easily switch back to Windows hindered my attempt to learn Linux. When I wasn’t in the mood to learn a new concept, or failed to get something working after a few tries, then I’d just boot right back into Windows. I was able to push on when I deleted Windows in a rage and now the alternative to getting over the Linux hill was going back down and doing the “no, no, no, no, fuck off” dance that is the Windows install process.

Websites recommending Ubuntu to noobs didn’t help me much. The panel being stuck of the left size of the monitor after my friend boasted about customization on Linux really grinds my gears. Linux Mint was much better coming from Windows, and I’m still on it years later.

tabular , 11 months ago

There are people out there selling broken cards but if the mining card works then is there really any evidence that it’s less performant or any more likely to fail than a lightly used gaming card?

I’ve almost always bought new but I’d prefer to buy used now to save money and hopefully find out if it has any coil wine. That’s if used prices were any different than new (Ebay’s UK used prices are dumb).