SloanTheServal

SloanTheServal, 1 month ago

Question is, are they running the 9x branch or the NT branch?

SloanTheServal, 1 month ago

But what about forcing the computer to do something via bootable ASM?

SloanTheServal, 2 months ago

Doesn’t hurt that Microsoft’s official answer to “what if my computer doesn’t meet the required specs to run Windows 11 or later” is literally “switch to Linux”.

SloanTheServal, 2 months ago

A motion sensor would get tripped by anything that passes by, but even so, a basic image processing algorithm designed just to detect whether that thing is a human or not would be more than sufficient, there’s no need to identify specific people by face.

SloanTheServal, 2 months ago

It’s always big data, isn’t it?

SloanTheServal, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’m opposed to #4 on principle. ANY action taken against an account should ALWAYS be done by a person after direct review. It doesn’t matter if it can be fixed afterwards or not, you’re still potentially subjecting people to unfair treatment and profiling. You can have it notify moderators but the moderators should be the ones actually making the decision whether to limit an account for further investigation, not the auto-mod bot.

If you implement #4 as-is, I’m just flat-out not going to stick around.

EDIT: Also, I ran into an infinite loading bug when submitting this post.

SloanTheServal, 4 months ago

To be fair, if Metaverse did integrate something like this they would definitely record telemetry data “for development purposes”.

SloanTheServal, 4 months ago

If you have a non-invasive, rapid DNA sequencing system like this, chances are you’re going to have very advanced genetics research in general, because that kind of tech is going to be used in research fields first before anything else. As a result, gene editing using a retrovirus to propagate a harmless change to one’s DNA would actually be a potentially available technology at least to some degree, although it would be tricky and expensive unless further developments are made.

The risk for security wouldn’t necessarily be falsification or spoofing so much as making someone impossible to identify or allowing them to forge a new fake identity. A career criminal could use this to escape justice, a spy could use this to hide their real identity, and it could also be used as a sort of bio-cyber attack by using an airborne pathogen to lock people out of any services, areas or technologies that require ID.

It’s still definitely a technically superior option to physical ID media on its own, it just comes with its own vulnerabilities.

SloanTheServal, 4 months ago

The point was that not every game was confirmed to work. For a PC game to work on the Steamdeck, it needs to meet two criteria:

1. Work on Linux, either natively or through Proton.
2. Have controller support and/or be playable with a touchscreen.

Not every PC game meets this criteria. Some games still don’t play well in a cross-OS runtime environment like Proton or WINE. Others are designed specifically for mouse and keyboard, or keyboard alone.

One game I can definitely say is not Steamdeck compatible is SimCity 4. The UI doesn’t really work with touch screens well, the game has no native controller support, and it originally released with SecuROM so a physical copy won’t even work on modern Windows, let alone Linux.

SloanTheServal, 4 months ago

Again, you’re missing the point. Yes, they are PC games. No, not all PC games work on the Steam Deck.

SloanTheServal, 4 months ago

Well, if you’re not trying to say something along the lines of “the Steamdeck plays PC games” then what are you trying to say?

SloanTheServal, 4 months ago

Fair, but at that point you’re arguing a technicality that most people don’t really care about.

And if you want to argue technicalities, then I CAN give you a game that was released for the Steam Deck by YOUR definition. Aperture Desk Job. Yes, it can be played by PCs as well, but it was developed with the intent of it being a showcase of the Steam Deck’s controls. You can’t argue it “wasn’t a Steam Deck” game if your definition of whether a game was for a certain platform is based on whether it was intended for that platform.

Not going to downvote you this time because you actually explained your position. Though your tone VERY much tempted me to do so anyway.

SloanTheServal, 4 months ago

This comes off as one of those “we asked if we could, but never asked if we should” kinds of things…

SloanTheServal, 4 months ago

In my fursona’s world, Santa’s a polar bear and the elves are, paradoxically, emperor penguins.

In actuality, that world’s equivalent of the Coca-Cola company had more influence on the modern concept of Santa Claus. Or really Santa Claws as he’s called. Like IRL, in my fursona’s world Santa is a traditional legend.

However, to make Santa work…

1. You’d need a fat polar bear (easy to find, bears tend to be on the chonky side in my fursona’s world) dressed in a red suit. Or green, the whole red suit design was Coca-Cola’s idea, originally the jolly old elf wore green.
2. The sack is a bag of holding. In my fursona’s world, magic is surprisingly common, just not relied on due to its fickle and unreliable nature.
3. The sleigh… I guess you could put a wing enchantment on one.
4. Toon or toonified reindeer that ignore gravity during the flight. Could also help resolve the whole “white tailed deer” situation with depictions of reindeer if they’re basically a mix of the two in traits.
5. Rudolph was invented specifically for the song.

SloanTheServal, 4 months ago

At the end of the day, it’s generally impossible to prove motive beyond a reasonable doubt outside of cases where there is extensive evidence of that motive. Let me use two different hypothetical murder cases as examples:

Case 1: The culprit already legally owned a gun. Everything seems normal with them, but then they go and shoot their neighbor who apparently owed them a large sum money and never paid it back. It can be inferred that this was a premeditated murder but it could have also been spur-of-the-moment.

Case 2: The culprit has constantly complained about their neighbor not paying back a large sum of money they loaned said neighbor. Witnesses report that the culprit has been saying things like “I’m gonna kill that son of a bitch if he doesn’t give me my money”, and the culprit only recently purchased a gun. The culprit then goes and shoots their neighbor. In this case, it’s pretty clear that the culprit had every intention to kill their neighbor.

Cases like case 1 almost always get plea-bargained down from first-degree murder to second-degree murder/homicide.

SloanTheServal, 5 months ago

Pretty sure if they’re a wolf that sometimes turns into a man, they’d be a wolfwere.

SloanTheServal, 5 months ago

Yeah, it has to stay GPL. So Simple Mobile Tools selling to a for-profit company doesn’t really change all that much. Worst case scenario, the original apps get screwed over but someone releases forks of them. Best case scenario, ZipoApps doesn’t actually change anything and just acts as a host for the projects.

SloanTheServal, 5 months ago

The fact that you can fork the code and make your own clean version, either for personal use or for distribution, is part of why most companies don’t usually bother with open source licenses to begin with - it’s just too hard to make the kind of monster-profits corporations and shareholders alike expect without inevitably provoking someone into forking their code and distributing a free, unmonetized version of the product. I’d be surprised if ZipoApps goes full-on monetization if they want people to keep using their versions of the apps, but if they do, it’s going to be a short-lived inconvenience until someone inevitably distributes a fork.

SloanTheServal, 5 months ago

He who keeps the old akindle, and adds new knowledge, is fit to be a teacher an inventor.

SloanTheServal, 5 months ago

I’d honestly say that there’s IRL precedent to something like this. As for it being coercion or guilt tripping, I’d definitely say it’s guilt tripping, and on that note I think that this would inevitably sour relations between the two governments.

SloanTheServal, 5 months ago

They hacked a nuclear lab to ask for what would be genetics research… facepalm

SloanTheServal, 5 months ago

Modern times are really “people should get off of X platform but don’t because people don’t want to move”.

More like “people should get off of X platform but don’t because people they regularly interact with don’t want to move, and because herd mentality”

It’s the same reason why people tolerate YouTube’s bullshit. The audience won’t switch to a platform without content, and the content creators won’t switch to a platform without an audience.

SloanTheServal, 5 months ago

Hey, did you know that…

…Vaporeon is tired of your shit?

SloanTheServal, 5 months ago

The day the Penguin goes mainstream is the day they decide to finally bite the bullet and start making distros with WINE preinstalled. Same goes for the other UNIX-derived FOSS OSs, like FreeBSD.

SloanTheServal, 6 months ago

They’re doomed to be niche (unless they go viral like XKCD), but that’s not the fault of them being webcomics. It’s because, like any other web content that isn’t heavily commercialized, you kinda have to go out of your way to find it. Search engines favor sites owned by big companies, either because those companies are sponsors or affiliates for those search engines or because their sites generate a lot of traffic on their own (which looks good to search engines), and someone who just looks up “comics” is going to be bombarded with pages upon pages of DC and Marvel related stuff before they even see a syndicated newspaper comic, let alone a webcomic.