Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The point of copyright is to protect creators from having their work stolen.

    If an indie artist creates a work, a larger company could copy that work and distribute it as their own, and since that larger company has deeper pockets than thy indie artist, they can flood the market before the original artist has a chance to profit from it. Or perhaps a larger org creates an expensive work (game, movie, etc), anyone could redistribute it without paying the original creator.

    Without copyright, we’d get way more paywalls, invasive DRM, etc. We get a taste of that today, but it can get way worse.

    So we definitely need copyright, it just needs to be a lot shorter (say, 10-20 years).






  • I just played it last night, and then again today with my kids watching. I explained how the hands are scored, and they seemed to get the gist of it.

    It has absolutely nothing to do with gambling. You don’t wager anything, there’s no opponents, and the terminology is all different, for example:

    • blind - in poker, it’s a forced bet based on sitting position from the dealer; in Balatro, it’s where you’re at in the “level” (and only the “boss blind” is required)
    • ante - in poker, it’s the minimum bet to participate; in Balatro, it’s the level you’re on
    • hand - in poker, it’s the cards you are dealt, and you play them all; in Balatro, it’s a scoring action, and you only play a subset of your cards in a given “hand”

    And so on. The only thing that’s actually similar is the hand scoring system, but you mess with that as well with buffs and whatnot. Balatro will make you a worse poker player, and not even teach you the rules.

    I don’t think it’s anti-gambling, it has nothing to do with gambling. It’s like saying solitaire and blackjack are similar because they both use playing cards…







  • I think he’s pretty centrist, but he does tend to defend Trump a bit (not a fanboy, but a “see what he does” position) and is against supporting Ukraine, which is why I say he’s right of center. He’s nowhere near the Republican Party though, he’s pretty independent.

    Regardless, I don’t really care where he sits on the left/right spectrum, I just appreciate an independent voice that backs statements with facts.




  • I thought it was largely federated? I don’t know how the internals work, so I don’t know what group of peers it’ll pull from.

    Regardless, the problem PeerTube has little to do with its technical foundation IMO, but the network effect. If we get people to start using it, either we’ll fix it or we’ll develop something better, but getting creators to move is the first step.


  • I thought PeerTube’s problem was largely federation (need to know which servers to use), which results in making it hard to find content to watch and probably has something to do with how load balancing works (i.e. are you mostly streaming from your instance?). I think Lemmy has a similar problem, but it’s at least pretty fast because text and images are a lot easier to manage than video.