SpaceScotsman

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[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"The two models, the 30TB ... and the 32TB ..., each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk". Well, yes, I would hope something advertised as being 30TB would offer at least 3TB. Am I misreading this sentence somehow?

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To all the people saying they should release server source code: You don't even need to do that (as nice as it would be). At the very basic level all that is needed is:

  • remove DRM (which probably cost more effort to add in the first place)
  • a description of the API for any online components (which any decent dev team will already have internally documented)
[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

magic databases containing the location of every flower shop cross referenced by geolocation and joined to the magic database of endangered beetle habitat

Open Street Map has entered the chat

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In fairness, cheese from france is probably safer raw because they don't have as many superfarms that are as prone to spreading diseases like bird flu

I find it immensely infuriating that the article's byline shows they are reporting from 'London' when in fact this happened not just in a different city, Edinburgh, but in a completely different country, Scotland.

Sad about the pandas, there are far too many people that simply can't be trusted with fireworks. Limiting it to a single night in dedicated display venues run by licensed organisations wouldn't remove the noise entirely, but it would reduce the frequency and would probably help all animals.

According to the 3 criteria mentioned in the article, YouTube wouldn't need to be banned, logging in to YouTube would be banned. YouTube is still functional (mostly) when logged out, and wouldn't violate those 3 criteria. The other services mentioned, like gaming, would be banned.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 45 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You can't misgender a brand. You can't deadname a brand. You can't befriend a brand.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago

I misread that as prefix and, honestly, forthwhence doesn't sound half bad.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

Women are a better person to be in the past than a good quality piece of wood

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 31 points 8 months ago

100% online games in the past were perfectly playable even after developers / publishers ended support. Online only games dying is a relatively recent invention. This petition is asking for consumer protection to return to the norm where a purchaser of an online game always has the choice of being able to play it in some fashion.

A game developer could do this by releasing a server application. They could even do this at the barest minimum by releasing documentation describing how the server ought to work, to allow for reverse engineering.

The Stop Killing Games campaign as a whole isn't asking for perpetual server access, just to ensure that games stay in some sort of playable state.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 18 points 11 months ago (4 children)

If you use Organic Maps you may be interested in https://streetcomplete.app to help fill out the map

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

At this point the web is about as complex as an operating system in terms of complexity. That needs really strong specific standards in order for it to work, and in turn projects like web browsers are huge and complex.

If someone wanted to build a web browser that only followed the simpler parts of the specifications, it wouldn't work for many websites* and people would not use that browser.

*Whether or not sites need to be so complex is another question entirely, but the reality right now is that they are

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