Which is a hilarious Freudian slip on their part. Who is it that they think don't want to teach about the Civil War? Could it be the ones who instead refer to it as the "war of northern aggression" and try to erase the context of slavery by saying it was about "states rights"?

The Superintenant of OK apparently stated plainly that he believes Trump's appointment to the SC were specifically done to protect states doing this.

I set up a bazzite HTPC specifically because of its immutability and smoother user experience. The steam deck also locks down the package manager because this yields a more predictable environment.

I think people are more afraid that this will function as successful brainwashing than they should be. As someone who went to grade school in OK, there is not a doubt in my mind that the kids won't stand for this. I fully expect those per-classroom bibles to be systematically stolen and destroyed on a daily basis. I'm honestly a little envious that this didn't happen while I was in school. It will be interesting to see the outcome, for sure. Don't underestimate a high-schooler's penchance for civil disobedience.

You're right, they weren't a "household name" yet. But they were probably more than a little worried about surviving at the time. Turns out they picked the winning strategy.

Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all

That describes the business model of basically every internet company that survived the dotcom bubble.

Google was the first example I thought of, because they were founded in 1998, solidly before the dotcom crash. They survived because they hoarded data.

My point was that every company going into the bubble thought they had a product they could monetize, but virtually all of them failed in favor of just hoarding everyone's data. Amazon and eBay were competing for ecomerce supremacy, but now even they are just privacy violators for various reasons (amazon via AWS and Alexa, eBay in the interest of detecting malicious account behaviour).

MySpace is an example of another unsustainable social media model in the vein of many dotcom era services. They died out as soon as Facebook realized they could hoard everyone's data.

All roads lead to privacy nightmares. It's the fossil fuel of the internet, and enshitification is the climate change.

No, this just the best strategy in a first pass the post voting system.

He also keeps explaining to me why Fedora better than my “nerd OS”

lol he's already a true linux user.

But probably best to have a talk about gatekeeping linux though. There's no wrong way to run linux.

Phew, good to know that if this ever happens to me as a customer, I just need to go viral on HN. What a relief.

https://everynoise.com/

It plots every genre of music on a 2D spectrum ("The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.")

You can click on any genre and get band recommendations.

Or you can search for a specific band and find other bands plotted similarly.

This post missed the most important part people should know: someone is footing the bill for you to use this service. If you're not paying, they will make their money in whatever what they choose. Potential resulting in you becoming the product. Yes, even on lemmy. So if your instance mod needs funding, kick em a few bucks, be their customer.

Honestly, I feel like you're being bizarrely calm about the situation. This is so far beyond unacceptable that one or both of them should be immediately fired for this offense, lest you have an open-and-shut hostile work environment lawsuit on your hands.

I would make sure to keep the text as evidence and let HR know about it. If the guys are somehow not fired, and ever approach you again or try to retaliate in any way, go consult a lawyer.

Man, talk about milking a niche topic for clicks.

"The children yearn for the mines!"

I assumed from your title that you, like myself, are more concerned about the fact that EVs all seem to be "smart", and cloud connected, and effectively hardware as a service to spy on you, and prevent repairs, and have software lockouts of features.

Like TVs, I think there's no incentive for the companies with the ability to make dumb devices to actually make them. Adding all this functionality is unfortunately what people expect.

I wouldn't say that past generations wanted to be marketed to, it's just that before the internet, marketing was the closest a customer could get to being spoken to by a brand.

And at some point in the history of marketing, I think companies used to see it that way too, marketing was a means of communicating with potential customers what your product offered. But as capitalism progressed, and media outlets expanded (print, radio, film, TV, etc.), honesty was optimized out in favor of "bamboozleism".

It's now easier than ever for a brand to have a direct, two-way conversation with their customers at any time, but marketers are still stuck in that 20th century mindset of "we just say whatever we want, and you just accept it". The internet is in the process of popping that bubble.

Honestly, that seems like the nicest way to solve the problem. Afaik Valve would be fully within their rights to C&D them from unofficially rehosting their binaries. In any other situation, that would be a blatant security risk.

Everyone acts like nvidia support on linux is completely broken. I game with nvidia on mine regularly and have never had a driver bug.

It's called the honeymoon effect. The sooner we recognize this, the sooner we can acknowledge that lemmy is vulnerable to all the same failings as reddit, and the sooner we can take steps to safeguard against those failings.

If we instead say "no no, lemmy is different, look at how much better things inherently are over here", then we're doomed to go down the same path.

CMV: if No Man's Sky's gameplay was identical to Starfield in 2016, people would have been even more disappointed than they were. The only reason people gave Starfield a pass in 2023 is because we're so conditioned to being disappointed by Bethesda that fanboys shrugged it off, and everyone else just looked at them weird. I legitimately believe NMS when it first released was a better game than Starfield.

Pro tip: You can hit space tab space tab... to quickly cycle through them all.

I will say though, it is mighty refreshing to go through a Linux installer now.

I use steam + proton (on arch btw). I'd say 70% of the time, the game just works without issue. 25% of the time, you can get it working with a bit of tinkering, or it works fine but has annoying performance issues. And 5% of the time it just refuses to work.

Pain points usually involve anti-cheat and/or 3rd party launchers.

It's not perfect, but it's totally viable.

I consider it the Linux version of "How can you tell someone is vegan? They'll tell you."

(I use arch, btw)

I agree that it's all original code and art, I would even say that he's well within his right to post his clone since there doesn't seem to be any copyright-able IP he could be infringing on.

But I wholly disagree with the notion that "if the game was copied that quickly there wasn't much substance there to begin with". There are limitless examples of world changing inventions that were trivial to build, but no one had thought to do it, and the same goes for art. The difficulty of making something isn't what makes it genius, in fact it's usually the simplicity of a genius idea that makes people go "damn, why didn't I think of that, it's so genius!"

It sounds like this guy accomplished little more than burning the few bridges he had, and dragging his own name through the mud. Just...not a smart move.

Microsoft is as ubiquitous as it is specifically because of decades long efforts to be the default in government offices around the world. So the Indian government using Linux definitely counts as a win.

I work 95% remote, and I'll be the first to admit, there is value in working physically close to your teammates. Discussion and camaraderie can happen organically, which allows people to better understand each others' strengths. There are also fewer things to distract you, and the reality is that many people these days are experiencing a sort of internet-induced ADHD, so being in an office can make it easier to concentrate. All of this allows you to be and feel more productive.

That's the best argument I've got, but I wouldn't mandate it on anyone. The only people mandating working from office are people who are insecure with their workforce and hiring methodologies. They don't trust their workers to do the job, so they feel the need to micromanage their workers like children. If you're a manager, and you don't feel like you can trust your employees, you've already lost.

They're called NIMBYs, "Not In my BackYard". Everyone wants all the social programs, affordable housing, etc, until it affects their property value/tax, or perceived safety. They want all the issues to be solved...somewhere else that doesn't affect them.

There was actually a decent video on this topic a couple of years ago: Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality

IMO there should be something like Omegle offered in public school to students for free around the world. You'd have a student account that's tied to a verified school account, and you could be randomly paired with other students your age around the world. Omegle, when users are responsible, and moderation is manageable, seems like it has a very high value-for-society to complexity ratio.

I wish someone had taught my friends and me how to play D&D when I was 10, but my parents were part of the "satanic panic" generation, and had zero interest in anything to do with fantasy or improv. Once you get out of highschool, finding a night that everyone can meet up for D&D gets exponentially harder, let alone finding someone who wants to put in the time to DM.

I for one am all for instances being forcibly taken down by police if they can't moderate CSAM appropriately.

Moderation is a very real challenge. The internet at large aimed to solved it by centralizing everything to a few mega corps with AI moderation. The fediverse aims to solve it by keeping instances small and holding both mods and users accountable.

Or more accurately, it's a clear illustration of how overvalued they are right now.

But as the saying goes, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Marketing already does this. You always see sizes measured in songs, or battery life measured in movies.

Looks like GoL has a plot over time. Linux adoption is starting to hockey stick, definitely above linear growth, this is getting exciting! I would guess, if it hits somewhere around 5-10% and keeps this hockey stick shape, we'll really start to see the game industry justify giving it more attention.

This will come with both good and bad, I expect it's only a matter of time before some game tries a native kernel level anti-cheat, aka root kit, on Linux.

This should be a legal requirement, imo. It's unreasonable for them to sell a game to people, and then make it impossible to play because they weren't making enough anymore. That's like making a movie unwatchable because dvd sales dropped

Do they know being frustrated by mice makes them boomers?

Savor the moment. In 15 years you'll be sick of all the GTA6 re-releases 😂.

I feel like browsers should flag urls with unicode in their domains as suspicious by default. Maybe they already do, not sure. It's honestly surprising to me in 2023 if they don't.

I wouldn't mind if FF popped up and said "hey, take another look at that URL" and very clearly drew attention to the weird k character. Of course it would have a "I'm absolutely sure this isn't a scam, I own this domain or know who owns it and you don't need to warn me about it in the future" button, but better safe than sorry.

You would have to calculate it assuming that msft wouldn't deliberately make the process more difficult and impractical, which they have demonstrated they are willing to do.

(Refer to the section labeled "The Microsoft Playbook": https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html)