Are you trolling? No enterprise would ever compete with free. They will scream for an onerous legislative solution, which will make all our lives more difficult.

I wish pirate streaming operations a speedy death.

The big news/current affairs instances are characterized by autistic screeching that has only a passing relevance to the article posted. See https://iusearchlinux.fyi/post/5429432

You can take the commenter out of R*ddit…

Assume for a moment the platform providers are in a game of chicken, continually eating costs in the hope of soaking up subscribers from their (at some point) defunct competitors. Every year this competition continues, the victor needs to make increasingly outrageous changes to the service offering in order to bridge the profitability gap. Or perhaps they are betting that a chunk of savings will come from reduced spend on rights, in a market with fewer bidders for programming?

Are investors in the conglomerates even agitated yet?

Calling wokeness a buzzword is like calling pornography a buzzword. People may struggle to define it, and definitions vary a lot, but everyone knows it when they see it.

I felt the Geidi Prime stadium scene was an infra-red footage showoff first and foremost. I wondered why so much runtime went toward setting up

Granted, I haven’t read the books. Perhaps it’s key to the story later, or illustrates something about the Harkonnens…

Pixel Pirate II Hollywood Trailer https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cdK0RoO5hpY

The videos aren’t super complex from an editing standpoint. It would be cool to prompt a generator with favourite scenes…

This is an interesting response. It makes me wonder whether the real risk of piracy to game publishers isn’t so-called ‘lost’ sales, but having their control of the initial impressions window undermined by genuine critical reception*. Marketing efforts are seriously compromised unless they operate in an information void. Denuvo provides that void.

[*] Video game reporting outlets not included for reasons that should be obvious in the year 2024

I’d like to think AI is now capable of filling the void.

You explain it to normies by saying it’s a link aggregator and discussion site and microblogger, like R/T. What they are really asking for, however, isn’t a rundown of federation mechanisms but a rationale for the fed itself. ‘How does it work?’ really means ‘What are the crucial differences and why do they matter?’ So a good answer to that must talk about ownership, the profit motive, user friendliness, the perils of consolidation, etc.

I need conclusive Lemmy anecdata on a key question: is Quebecois French considered antiquated by continental (both European and African) French speakers? Are the differences subtle or not?

Cricket Australia has withdrawn.

In addition to reducing the volume of waste being created

That will amount to a cynical coercion of the public in some way. I’m being forced to work for free in the form of sorting waste at point of disposal, and worrying about fines, all so that industry’s line can continue going up. So that plastics production growth can largely continue on trend. Paper and plastic recycling are like cycling up the hill of environmental conservation in top gear. Loads of pedal revolutions that (ultimately) only slow the rate of decline back down the hill.

If the product has a high energy cost involved in new production, that’s when industry actually does the right thing. Aluminum is a great example. Generous deposit schemes are found all over the world. They’re voluntary and well managed. But paper and plastic are cheap to manufacture by comparison, and the costs can be passed through to the consumer, so industry and government conspire to do just that (the mechanisms of which are then greenwashed).

Masculinity no longer has any acceptable outlets.

Fuck scale.

You need more training in corporate risk management, grasshopper! AP/AtProto isn’t a revenue opportunity, it’s a potential front for which they’ll need to have a battle-ready product and brand. Ever heard the saying ‘engagement is containment’?

I question whether a lot of people even need sync.

Passwords in general don’t change for long periods of time. Really the only rationale for doing so is confirmed or suspected compromise (two-factor processes make this rarer still). It doesn’t strike me that an almost permanently static input merits regular synchronization.

The alternative is doing a one-off manual sync (copy and paste) between two local DBs, then locally moving one of them to the target device. Zero online connectivity has to dramatically reduce attack surface. Is five minutes’ maintenance per year an unacceptable convenience penalty to pay?