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backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•European countries deny claims Trump could cripple air force with F-35 ‘kill switch’English1·2 months agoSAAB Gripen: Am I a joke to you?
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Zelenskyy rebuffs Trump’s proposal for rapid peace deal in Ukraine war English31·6 months agoUkraine don’t want to give up territory. Russia demands territory to end the war. Trump has offered to resolve this in 24h. The conclusion seems clear: Trump has to offer Russia some parts of the US in exchange for releasing the occupied regions in Ukraine?
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Ukraine's Zelenskiy urges allies to stop watching, start acting on North KoreaEnglish101·6 months agoDoesn’t North Koreans fighting in Ukraine mean that North Korea now is at war with Ukraine? Wouldn’t that legitimize a Ukrainian invasion of North Korea? Could we ship some Ukrainians to North Korea and have them do a lot of damage there; including offer asylums to anyone who wants to get out?
I made this the other day.
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•You're not you when you're dooming.18·7 months agoAnyone want to team up to build a time machine and travel the future until the perfect utopia is achieved?
How about we team up and try to make this world better instead?
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttonsEnglish6·1 year agoThis whole rapey lingo needs to fucking die already.
Maybe widely name-calling this practice for what it is could help steer companies away from this disgusting pattern.
Should we start refering to pop-ups that give no option to say “no” as something like “rape-ups”?
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI’s GPT Is a Recruiter’s Dream Tool. Tests Show There’s Racial BiasEnglish17·1 year ago“I’ve created this amazing program that more or less precisely mimics the response of a human to any question!”
“What if I ask it a question where humans are well known to apply all kinds of biases? Will it give a completely unbiased answer, like some kind of paragon of virtue?”
“No”
<Surprised Pikachu face>
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[SOLVED] Podman won't start Pihole with an error saying that it can't bind to port 53, as it is already in use, but nothing is using port 53.English2·1 year agoAfter checking that you can open port 53 udp yourself with, say, nc (which you tried), strace the binary that tries to open port 53 and fails, and find the system call that fails. You can compare it with an strace on nc to see how it differs.
If this doesn’t clue you in (e.g., you see two attempts to listen to the same port…) Next step would be to find in the source code where it fails (look for the error message printout) and start adding diagnostic printouts before the failing system call and compile and run your edited version.
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.English11·2 years agoWhat are you talking about? Amazon’s digital video purchases don’t require any monthly access fee. He paid £5.99 with the idea that he’ll get to keep it indefinitely, just like a physical DVD. I don’t get why you think it is ok for a seller to revert the sale of a digital item at any time for just the purchase price + £5 but (I presume?) not other sales?
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.English9·2 years agoNowhere do they use terms like “rent” or “lease”. They explicitly use terms like “buy” and it’s not until the fine print that the term license even comes up.
This! It really should be illegal to present something with the phrasing “buy” unless it is provided to you via a license that prevent it from being withdrawn. To “sell” cloud hosted media without having the licensing paperwork in place for it to be a sale is fraud.
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.English11·2 years agoAre you fine with me taking anything from your home as long as I pay you the purchase price + £5? Some of us assign a greater value to some of the things we own than the purchase price.
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.English2·2 years agoPeople losing media this way should sue, with the argument that it was presented to end users as a “sale”, and it is not sufficient to merely compensate someone with the purchase price to undo a sale. Companies “selling” digital products should be forced to write agreements that allow them to redistribute content indefinitely.
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.English1·2 years agoIt’s because the licence holder of the movie decided Amazon can’t show it anymore. Perhaps they were asking Amazon to pay a high fee and it wants worth it.
I get that this is what the license holder wants. But, why can’t we just put into law that a license is not needed for a company to host, retransmit and play copyrighted media on behalf of a user once the license holder has been compensated as agreed for a sale?
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Unity backtracks, no runtime fee for sub $1mil or for games on current/old versionsEnglish913·2 years agoThere’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.
A few things:
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Unity is still bleeding money. They have a product that could be the basis for a reasonably profitable company, but spending billions on a microtransaction company means it is not sufficient for their current leadership. It doesn’t seem wise to build your bussniess on the product of a company whose bussniess plan you fundamentally disagree with.
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It would be the best for the long term health of bussniess-to-bussnies services if we as a community manages to send the message that it doesn’t matter what any contract says - just trying to introduce retroactive fees is unforgivable and a death sentence to the company that tries it.
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backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•ULTRARAM may be a silly name but it's the holy grail for memory tech and means your PC could hibernate for over 1,000 yearsEnglish51·2 years agoAutoNomous Ultra inStinct ram
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11English991·2 years agoCortana is/was by far the best name of the digital assistants - probably because it was created by sci-fi story writers rather than a marketing department. They should just have upgraded her with the latest AI tech and trained her to show the same kind of sassy personality as in the games and it would have been perfect.
Who in their right mind thinks “Bing copilot” is a better name? It makes me picture something like the blow-up autopilot from Airplane!
backgroundcow@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•X, formerly Twitter, commandeers '@music' handle from user with half a million followersEnglish2·2 years agoI like calling it “x-twitter”, as it is short and makes sense when reading it out.
For GNU Make, yes they are. These are fully comparable tools for writing sophisticated dynamic build systems. “Plain make”, not so much.
This is absolutely incorrect. I assume (although I have never witnessed it) that a true master of cmake could use it to create a robust, maintainable, transferable build system. Very much like there are people who are able to make delicate ice sculptures using a chainsaw. But in no way does these properties follow from the choice of cmake as a build system (as insinuated in your post), rather, the word we are looking for here is: despite using cmake.
I apologize for my inflammatory language. I may just have a bit of PTSD from having to build a lot of other people’s software through multiple layers of meta build systems. And cmake comes back, time and time again, as introducing loads of obstacles.