Notices by Amikke (amikke@qoto.org), page 4

@coolboymew oh shit I didn’t know it has a second season, just a couple of days ago I finished rewatching it with a friend and was sad that there’s not more.

@arek @m0bi13 na tym to polega, ficzer dostępny przez parę nakładek na mastodona od dawna

@m0bi13 @arek a to Gargon jak zwykle, sto lat za afroafrykaninami xD Za rok usłyszę że dodaje też quote tooty ale też tylko wyświetlanie…

@hj @coolboymew @lebronjames75 @Moon @why are you legit proposing we let a single company (Valve) have the final authority over how sharing items and the marketplace works? I know Valve has been pretty chill, but Gaben is gonna die or retire at some point and it’s near certain that over time some asshole is gonna get their hands on Valve and ruin everything for everyone. It would be twice as bad if it was any other company.

The biggest issue with such APIs is precisely that they are owned by an authority that therefore has way, waaay too much power. This, and Valve’s already hefty fees on Steam Marketplace is why Steam’s API isn’t used by many games and in fact it’s in gamers’ interest to keep it that way lest we usher in another gigantic near-monopoly that’s impossible to get out of due to the network effect.

The whole point of blockchain technologies is that they are neutral. Upon creating NFTs, contracts, cryptocurrencies or whatever, the creator releases their direct control over them, without a way to change the rules whenever and however they feel like. It’s a direct upgrade over “traditional” DRM.

@coolboymew @Moon honestly that depends. There’s people who only share nudes they’d be proud of if leaked and don’t care about taking public positions, so the only way a leak could harm them was if some loser thought it funny to send them to their family. Depending on the family and the scale of nudes that might not be a big problem, at least not big enough to prevent them from having some fun.

People who post nudes they would hate to be leaked thinking they won’t be though… lol

@Moon low effort shitposts with barely modified faces of famous politicians were already fooling actual boomers for a decade or so before deepfakes arrived lol

@coolboymew @alex I was only talking about how unnecessary and therefore unlikely a conspiracy/intentional push is, the license flame war is a whole another can of worms.

But if I am to touch that topic I’m of the opinion that MIT-like licenses are the main contributor to the open source boom we witnessed in the past decade. You may not like it but day-job developers are the biggest workforce. Without GPL companies are actually willing to use open source projects and since maintaining a fork is more effort they do contribute back. In fact the claim that we get no contributions back is silly when for example the entire front-end ecosystem is driven by corp developers. (Which might be one of the reasons it’s so shit but that’s beside the point.) If gnutards had their way it basically wouldn’t exist and every company would be cooking up its own variant of shitty in-house frameworks.

MIT popularised open source incomparably better than a bunch of neckbeards unsuccessfully whining about freedom for decades at that point, and redirected a significant part of employed developers’ effort from in-house to open source and collaboration. That’s a huge win in my book.

A license that is trying to grab companies by the throat and force them to contribute is pointless without the means to actually grab them by the throat and force them to even accept it. Linux did it because it’s so huge and complex that developing an alternative in-house isn’t feasible. It’s an exception, not the rule.

@coolboymew @alex gnutards will find conspiracy theories everywhere. If you coded in C or C++ and any modern language you are probably all too well aware of the insane gap of QoL and bug surface between them. People wanted to toss out C++ 20 years ago and this only increased with time; there’s no conspiracy or corpo push needed for most of developers to jump onto a sensible replacement once it finally appeared. Many of those developers work at corps so corps jump on it too, no surprises there.

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@coolboymew ok, what pool?

@coolboymew fun fact: “pupa” in Polish means “butt”.

@coolboymew they predicted Pokemon Scarlet & Violet. Truly ahead of their time.

@coolboymew yet another argument in favour of rejecting console bullshit and embracing the PC master race light that Valve brings to that godforsaken market via the Steam Deck.

@bronze @coolboymew doubt it. There’s enough will to do something about the war, even if post memes, to create something like NAFO without influence of “the feds”. I doubt it even came out of the US, although the cringe level seems to fit.

@coolboymew mipmapping issue :v