mindbleach

@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

mindbleach,

How the hell did you pick lemmy.ml?

mindbleach,

It’s mutual. I don’t necessarily extend my expectations of a machine doing what I tell it to, out into geopolitics.

There’s a lot of overlap in useful terminology and philosophy. There’s a bit of overlap in organizational problem-solving (and problem-having). But you can be aggressively capitalist, and still recognize the benefits of stone-soup development. Even in hardware - RISC-V is going to undercut low-end ARM in embedded applications, and hard-drive manufacturers are not exactly Spanish republicans.

mindbleach,

One is obviously made-up by ancient peoples who knew fuck-all about the world, but insists it’s eternal truth beyond debate. Even the parts that contradict the other parts.

The other is an openly hypothetical idea based on what we expect is just beyond our current capabilities… and it relies on that we’re-just-atoms materialism.

mindbleach,

At that point, surely we’d use the International Phonetic Alphabet instead.

mindbleach,

English is an endless deluge of that experience, because our orthography is bullshit. People have tried to fix it. Their clever rules were partly adopted and became even more exceptions and special cases.

mindbleach,

“Oops.”

mindbleach,

I want to make a Wazowski / Wachowski joke but I’m not sure if that implies “Mike” is a deadname.

mindbleach,

The efficacy of advertising is sold primarily by advertisers. It’s possibly worth a vanishing fraction of what these ghouls say it’s worth. But so long as buying it and acting like a greedy invasive bastard is more profitable than ignoring it, even by a tiny margin, corporate giants will keep doing it, since the cost to them is a rounding error.

The industry enabling this is large because they get to sell the same garbage to so many bastards.

mindbleach,

When you see the entire world agree to one standard about anything, leave it the fuck alone.

mindbleach,

“The trinity makes as much sense as Javascript” is a vulgar condemnation of Christian dogma.

mindbleach,

Copyright should be irrelevant immediately, for most of that.

Someone modifying software you sold them is not a pirate. Licenses mean nothing.

Someone sharing a game you stopped selling is a pirate, but if you don’t want money, who cares?

Someone sharing clips of old sports games is not competing with your live broadcast business.

Intellectual property laws don’t need to be brief, to be sane. Most things that rights-cartels freak out over are downright stupid. We can give them what they need without tolerating their every paranoid want. These laws only exist to benefit us.

Simplicity is useful here. I’m willing to spot people a nice round number for ample opportunity to sell their thing. Especially if it means the date on the cover is a guarantee.

mindbleach,

Thirty years from publication.

No exceptions.

Copyright is only an incentive to create new works for the public. For us. Once you’ve sold it, it’s ours. That’s what the money is for. If thirty years isn’t enough then it’s just not gonna happen.

People have a right to culture. Anything you grew up with is yours to build on.

rivoluzioneurbanamobilita, to fuck_cars Italian
@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita@mastodon.uno avatar

"Big Clearance! 12 in place of 1!"

"Grande offerta! 12 per 1!"

ENFB cyclists' union, Woerden, 1993; poster by Theo van den Boogaard

@fuck_cars

mindbleach,

That guy wasn’t at a car in the first photo. It’s implied he had one, like everyone else in the photo.

mindbleach,

And the guy with the full cart is going to… juggle?

Either that or the cart’s going home with him.

Pirated video games SOURCE CODE

So there are multiple sites&groups that pirate video games especially on PC. I was wondering if there are places on the internet where you find source code for games especially the highly modifiable ones like Half Life 2/Portal and Skyrim. Or groups that crack into the source code of games (or even software in general), not only...

mindbleach,

Machine code tells you what it’s doing. Source code tells you why.

mindbleach, (edited )

Vulcans take improv classes to act “normal.” They’re a surprise onstage because they never play the straight man. Being that one degree off from their sincere personality is confusing, difficult, and psychologically troublesome. But they can take a pratfall with comedic timing analyzed to the millisecond.

… actually, improv comedy is a great way to demonstrate understanding of a culture. Vulcans would make analytic connections between subjects in a heartbeat, and with some training they’d be excellent lateral thinkers. The gap between that and comedy is understanding expectations and violating them in a way that safely builds and releases tension.

Vulcans could tell brick jokes separated by months. You would never get them with a shaggy-dog story. They might have absurd reaction times for comebacks, but it would be limited, because I don’t think they’d handle wordplay. You’d never hear a Vulcan mutter “that’s what she said” in a timely fashion.

mindbleach,

Layer two of ‘nuh uh, no u.’

Dull.

mindbleach,

Layer three.

mindbleach,

You don’t know what any of those words mean.

And I’m including “a.”

mindbleach,

That’s compressed cholesterol.

Compressterol.

mindbleach,

Hey, wait, she’s got a new complaint.

mindbleach,

Edibles are a spell with a verbal component.

mindbleach,

Every community without sufficient moderation becomes /r/Funny with different CSS.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • localhost
  • All magazines
  • Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #