borari

Yeah, I can kind of understand your coworker’s thoughts of this was 25 years ago, but how have they not heard of the Sackler family by now? These people will never see justice unless the people serve it up to them.

You shouldn’t spend the money now because normalizing payment to a corporation worth $2.47 trillion for future services rendered is a terrible thing to do.

Despite their issues I put hundreds of hours into each one and enjoyed them all. I see no reason to think this won’t be the same, and have no problem betting $70 on it.

Really the issue here is that there are very few reasons to hand a company your money before they are prepared to deliver you a product. There are even fewer reasons when the product is most likely going to be purchased and delivered digitally, since there is zero chance the product will be sold out. When a game is being developed by Microsoft-owned Bethesda, they don’t need preorder money to finish the game.

There’s no corporation or company in the mix here.

I created a cybersecurity community: !cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

Whether you’re a seasoned cybersecurity professional, a student, or someone with a passing interest, feel free to join and contribute! I’ve been posting relevant news articles and research as I find them, but I would love for there to be more social/conversational posts as well.

I’m pretty sure there has been mention, either by the Lemmy devs on a post here or on the projects GitHub repo, about adding a feature analogous to the multireddit feature on that site. It’s definitely a feature I would appreciate, and would go hand in hand with what you’re describing as well.

So I just noticed this behavior while sitting at the top of the All/New feed on my instance. I noticed that the surge of “new” posts that came in were all pretty old, and all from one or two communities on another instance. I’m now wondering if maybe there’s some sort of race condition going on with the interaction between the database and the front-end, where these old posts are being considered “new” when they’re initially pulled in to the local instance db.

You can check the mod logs, they are public and there’s a link to them at the bottom of every page. I have certainly seen the mods of lemmy.ml giving out temp and permabans for rule-breaking behavior. I have even seen them hand out lengthy (4-5 day temp bans) to users who seem to post content that is much more closely aligned to the lemmy.ml admins world views than the other party in the conversation leading to the ban. I think the accusations you’re making here are pretty off base.

Hasn’t foveated rendering been a holy grail for real PC gaming headsets like the Index, HTC Vive, etc., for quite a while? As far as I know that technology is not supported in any current headset, which if it was would drastically increase performance/graphical fidelity while keeping frame times much lower, under that 8/12ms mark.

I would classify the smoothness of the gesture controls and camera feed to be quite a major breakthrough in usability as well.

This is the first time in quite a while that I am legit giddy over a new piece of technology. While Apple knocked it out of the park with Apple silicon, a lot of people were wondering why Apple initially bothered in the first place, and why they licensed ARM just to engineer their own custom ARM chip. I don’t think it’s that much of a leap to assume that Apple developing the Apple silicon chips was driven due to the Vision Pro. The M2 chips have amazing compute performance, there’s zero way that an Intel processor would meet the size, battery life, TDP, or overall heat generation requirements to match the performance Apple has touted for the Vision Pro.

Another point to mention is the focus that Apple put on text legibility during their keynote announcement of the thing. I have an OG Playstion VR headset and an Index. Text smears. In every headset I’ve used text smears. It’s decent in the Index, but playing something like Elite: Dangerous really makes it apparent thanks to the HUD elements on the edges of your vision. It’s super nice to be able to pin a web browser inside your ships cockpit for planning trade route jumps and stuff, but I would not want to use my Index for my daily desktop use for work or continual training. I can’t imagine how miserable using a terminal emulator and vim would be in an Index. If Apple’s claims about the text usability and general UI smoothness is true, which I completely believe given their obsession with UI/UX and aEstHeTic in general, that alone is game-changing.

For better or worse, certain values seem to have been ingrained into the fabric of Apple, to the point that most of Apple’s vision seems to have remained relatively unchanged after Jobs. Zuckerberg hasn’t shown any vision other than “collect data on people and extract profit”, and no one at Facebook/Meta has done anything to show any different vision from the company. At least Amazon’s focus on efficiency and scale brought us AWS. The massive differences between what is essentially the same product between both companies does a really good job of highlighting the major differences between the companies.

Reddit implemented rate limits on page loads to combat the inevitable web scraping

This whole time I was wondering how the API changes made any sense when anyone disgruntled about it could just turn to scraping, putting drastically more load on Reddit’s infrastructure. It makes me feel a bit better that they aren’t that clueless.