Recovering skooma addict.
Well, he’s not wrong that it’s “super hard” to see any benefit of Denuvo for anyone other than the beneficial owners of Denuvo Software Solutions. Gamers might have a better than average ability to suspend disbelief, but that “new study” was pushing it a bit far.
This airport tried to be cutesy and put up a sign limiting “hug time” instead of a more generic time limit. Have you ever heard of a “full English breakfast”? We’ll tell you all about it. There’s a café in Tokyo which discourages socializing. Find out why! People in China have pets. Isn’t that cute! Here’s a great tourist attraction in Turkey! Not into that? How about a video game museum in Kyoto instead? Or a theme park in Orlando? But why stop there? Here are some other links to random news tidbits.
It’s like one of those daytime TV talk shows in text form.
Pleroma and Misskey users literally off the chart
Did this highly scientific study contemplate the possibility that this is in part the result of people feeling like they’re more justified in turning to piracy if a game is burdened with Denuvo?
Spoiler: It does not, so far as I can tell at first glance. It appears that the model is constructed entirely from DRM-crippled games that got cracked, and then then the estimate of how much revenue would be lost by going DRM-free from the start is extrapolated from that based on the assumption that it makes no difference. Maybe it’s true, but the acknowledgement that it “can and often does cause problems, and some developers have chosen to avoid Denuvo altogether because it had such a negative impact on how well their game would run” sort of suggests otherwise.
https://abs.freemyip.com:84/share/_5WuM4QF — be careful following strange links you found on lemmy, but this appears to be the pdf.
It appears to be @[email protected] for those who want to follow it.
To have it post to lemmy I believe you’d just need to address things to e.g. @[email protected]
People have to understand the concept of the fediverse
That’s the argument. Do they, though? I sure didn’t when I first signed up.
Okay I watched the few seconds of video at the end of a three-hour long video apparently about Facebook where he mentions “federated social media using open decentralized technologies such as activitypub” as it is known. The ratio of time and effort he’s inclined to devote to each topic speaks for itself. My understanding of what he says: “Sounds complicated. I’m not touching it until all my friends are already there.”
I’m not saying you’re a nazi, but if you think the main problem with social media is that everyone calls you a nazi you should consider the possibility that you might be.
If most pirates are the kind who sail around drinking rum and chasing booty, patent trolls are the kind of pirates who blow a big hole in the side of a supertanker to steal a few barrels of oil and let the rest drain into the ocean.
It is a fair position in the sense that it’s technically within their legal rights to do whatever the fuck they want, but it is a feeble sham compared to the full and well-behaved fedi interoperability they should’ve had from the start since that was how it was sold from to their users from the beginning.
If they some day get there, I would still be open to considering federating with it. For now “it’s an ongoing process” as they carefully tweak things to find out how far they can go with the strictly limited access to the outside world they allow, while still keeping all their users captive.
If you were a threads user, you’d be unable to reply to this even if you did somehow see it. I welcome any of them to do so and prove me wrong.
37% of them went so far as to get a mastodon account and mention it in their twitter profile, and then maybe one third of those put some substantial effort into making it work. That’s ~90% who didn’t bother. In the one small-ish academic field where I followed some of the new arrivals on mastodon when they got there, it very much appeared to me that the failure had nothing to do with the decentralized nature of the platform. It was simply that the small number who made the transition did not add up to enough to form a critical mass and get the discussion going. Some few of them did give it a good try.
sign in to websites using your personal web address, without having to use your e-mail address.
What is the point of that? For convenience, email addresses are much easier to come by than is web hosting. For being securely anonymous it’s also much easier to do through email — but not by so much that requiring a website rules it out, if that’s the intention.
To be fair, Mozilla does have a lot of problems. It’s just that starting out with an unsupportable premise like “Firefox is just a puppet for Google” is not the way to do a good job of describing them accurately or in a way that’s going to convince anyone.
Your opinions are bad, you should feel bad, and you posted this to the wrong community.
Piracy will end when copyright ends.
I wonder which word would fit better than “assisted” there if we knew all the details. Bribed, or blackmailed?
Z-Library. Despite reports of its demise I’ve seen no interruption of service. And of course if there’s one I want to pay for I’ll buy a printed copy.
Disappointing, Germany. How can we trust you to find the best pirate sites when not even thepiratebay.org is on the list?
Having apps that do what users want but try to hide it from reviewers really highlights the absurdity of letting Apple decide what software you’re allowed to run.