ninjan

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ninjan,

It died because to make games fit on discs/media they need to be compact making it very hard to ship a limited version without shipping all content. Back in the days generally all the “try before you buy” games shipped the full content leading to cracks that simply unlocked it.

Today a company that doesn’t have a hard-on for DRM could of course run with the model and just chalk up piracy to advertisment and people that wouldn’t buy the game anyway. Kinda like any company selling on GOG.

Of course those are the minority, most companies want / need DRM in some form and the model just works against it. It might be possible to make it work with something like Denuvo but I doubt anyone would be happy about that.

ninjan,

You beat me to it… Talk about tone deaf

ninjan,

Love it!

ninjan,

You got me covered at least!

ninjan,

Ah, cool, quite expensive (I see prices in my area around $20 USD / 100 GB) but uses no electricity.

Thanks for informing me. If you have TBs of data it’s not a sustainable solution unless you’re really into indexing. But for family photos and other long term archival its pretty great actually.

ninjan, (edited )

Discs aren’t very suitable for long term storage. Really the only thing truly suited for long term storage of digital media is archival tape. Which isn’t cheap or accessible. The only accessible solution is to keep it alive in a raid and keep rebuilding as disks fail over the years.

ninjan,

While RHEL and Fedora are siblings we can’t mix em’ like that. At least I haven’t ever seen a server with Fedora pre-installed, or anyone offering support on a Fedora server…

ninjan,

Huh, at least it’s Linux I guess? I’ve seen plenty Windows XP hanging around controlling expensive medical equipment and one time even a system were the control part was Windows 3.1. Air gapped not for security but because the server didn’t have a NIC.

ninjan,

There is a (non-meme) reason why Prompt Engineer is a real title these days. It takes a measure of skill to get the model to focus on and attempt to solve the right question. This becomes even more apparent if you try to generate a product description where a newb will get something filled with superlative lies and a pro will get something better than most human writers in the field can muster for a much lower cost per text (compared to professional writers, often on par or more expensive than content farms). AI is a great tool, but it’s neither the only tool (don’t hammer in screws) nor is it perfect. The best approach is to let the AI do the easy boiler plate 80% then add that human touch to the hard 20% and at most have the AI prepare the structure / stubs.

ninjan,

We’re not talking small organizations here, nor small projects. In those cases it’s true that you can’t “only” do prompt engineering but where I see it is in larger orgs where you bring into the team the know how about how to prompt efficiently, how to do refinement, where to do variable substitution and how, etc etc. The closest analogy is specific tech skills, like say DBs, for a small firm its just something one backend dude knows decently, at a large firm there are several DBAs and they help teams tackle complex DB questions. Same with say Search, first Solr and nowadays Elastic. Or for that matter Networks, in many cases there might be absolutely no one at the whole firm that knows anything more than the basics because you have another company doing it for you.

ninjan,

Quick search for a product that satisfies your use case that is available in my region:

www.westerndigital.com/…/sandisk-clip-sport-plus?…

There’s bound to be a plethora of cheaper and more expensive alternatives. And probably a lot on the used market as well.

ninjan,

I think you’re over thinking this a lot. Why not buy a cheap MP3 player with Bluetooth? It’s bound to be infinitely more usable and stable for an older person. Physical buttons is king for the elderly.

ninjan,

So flat it’s not even NSFW

ninjan,

Yeah, shitposting has turned out to be something Lemmy does exceptionally well, the low total amount of content means even the shittiest content gets seen, which means the real shitposts get to the top and not high effort content disguised as shitposts which is the norm elsewhere.

ninjan,

I have a Nihilist joke, but I don’t care

ninjan,

Replicated between two sites I hope? Not much of a backup if it’s in one location.

ninjan,

I run Dropbox, since they’re only in cloud storage they can’t really run around and sell data, if found out there would be no reason to stay for their customers. Unlike say Google and Microsoft.

ninjan, (edited )

Kids even I’d say. One of my kids collects them. He has a pile in the barn of hundreds of sticks that no one is to touch.

ninjan,

Think you replied in the wrong post here bud.

ninjan,

Casualty is both dead and injured as an FYI. So not one casualty in this instance.

I agree this isn’t a good example of the IDF acting in the same vein as Hamas, but I also understand the frustration of OP, watching an organized military bomb civilians indiscriminately for a month while the majority of western world governments cheer them on while saying “please reduce the civilian slaughter, it’s getting uncomfortable to defend” in about the mildest way you can say something like that, is demoralizing at best. That we still can’t agree that unilaterally, no matter the circumstances, killing civilians in indiscriminate bombings simply can’t be accepted and needs to be condemmed in the strongest terms possible makes me disappointed in humanity and democracy.

ninjan,

Ok, sure. But how come then the Palestinian dead number in the thousands? Were they all Hamas? Even the kids?

ninjan,

Some perspective on the conflict since 2008 (which isn’t the whole timeline of course but shows how skewed it is):

statista.com/…/israeli-palestinian-casualties-by-…

Add in the 1300 dead Israeli civilians (and 3000 or so more injured) in the heinous Oct 7 attack and we’re still extremely skewed without even mentioning the thousands dead since Oct 7th.

I’m absolutely not supporting Hamas here. But I’m also vehemently opposed to Israel, as in the government, not the civilians. I understand there is no quick fix. But acting like Israel is the only victim in this is blood boiling.

ninjan, (edited )

Elaborate on “following the restoration of page” I’m unfamiliar with the term “page” in this context?

As for my position it’s only that I hate how violence is somehow “justified” as if anything can give you the right to end someone else’s life. It might be considered naive, utopian or simplistic by some but it really isn’t. Almost every human subscribe to some level of sacredness of human life. Some extend it only to their family, some to all humans irregardless but we pretty much all agree that at least some life can’t be ended morally, be it kids or whatever. Just about everyone has at sometime been a sacred life in the eyes of the majority of humans, and that the reason they stopped being seen such is almost never grounded in factual, indisputable truth but opinion, prejudice, lies, circumstances and assumptions. If we, as most agree, see humans as fallible then we shouldn’t be able to declare someone’s life as no longer sacred and worth protecting. And from that simple position we can extrapolate that any active attempts to end someone’s life is amoral, the only moral kill is one in (proportional) self-defense. Which is of course what both Israel and Hamas argue they’re doing, to varying extent. It’s their main justification for why they’re (morally) in the right.

Up to there I think I have a good majority on board. Then people put vastly different things into what constitutes proportional self-defense. Which is what I assume you’re alluding to. Am I then right to think that your position as such is that it’s still self-defense and still proportional and the two bullet points are examples of when it stops being proportional?

EDIT:

I see you’ve edited to “restoration of peace”. What does that mean in a place that hasn’t seen peace for over 80 years? What “peace” are you referring too? The pre Oct 7 status quo? If so isn’t restoration of peace hinging on Israel leaving Gaza more so than anything else?

ninjan,

They don’t. But if you get big and along the way in a throwaway comment on Patreon mentioned you use the Adobe Suite and other tools they’ll look into that and if you don’t pay they’ll send a very stern letter demanding payment.

Generally for Joe Schmo if they’re found out it stops at a letter demanding payment, and if you don’t pay it likely won’t escalate, especially if you deny the accusation. But for someone making a profit they’ll get their money and it’s a major headache and just not worth it considering you are making money far exceeding the rather small cost.

ninjan,

Obscenely true

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