Paradoxvoid

joined 1 year ago
[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 24 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Patents are (at their core) a good thing. It protects little Jimmy Inventor from putting hours and his blood, sweat and tears into coming up with a novel invention, only for some big corpo to see it, steal the idea and bully Jimmy out of the market.

Jimmy has legal recourse to sue the big corpo if he has a patent, whereas without one he has nothing.

Just because the system's been gamed (especially in the US) doesn't mean it's impossible to reform, and is currently still better than nothing.

[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is useful for updates so you're not bottlenecked as much (if you don't have automatic background updates set up).

[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All it takes is some standardized markup like schema.org

Which is the problem AI is solving here - getting every supermarket chain to agree on this (when it's actually against their interests to do so, since it increases price transparency) would be an impossible task, but AI can get around this requirement with minimal extra effort.

I'm hardly an AI evangelist, but this is actually one of the rare situations where it's a good fit.

[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Really looking forward to this once it's complete! I'm currently using ranmaru22's vertical tabs, but having something native that won't risk breaking with FF updates will be nice.

[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

That article hurt a little to read - it's not a T-Rex, it's so obviously a Utahraptor I'm a bit flabbergasted that made it to print. But I guess not everyone had my obsession with dinosaurs as a child...

[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The amount of people bootlicking a corporation's decision to cut costs rather than just moderate effectively is pretty astonishing for Lemmy,

Plenty of people got value out of the comment section - if nothing else, they were invaluable in knowing when to skip past the recap/opening theme/filler content in long-running shows like One Piece.

Most of it is pretty inane, but there was some useful stuff in there, and I always found it fun to see what other people thought of particularly crazy episodes.

[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I thought you were poking fun since it's David Tennant, not Tenet... I feel like I've been whooshed now.

[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America really is an amazing country. I've never even heard of about half of this tier list.

[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

People saying Steam doesn't have a monopoly because other stores exist, is the same as saying Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly on PC Gaming because Mac and Linux exist. Technically true, but ultimately meaningless because its their market power that determines a monopoly, not whether there are other niche players.

While Valve and Steam have generally been a good player, and currently do offer the best product, they still wield an ungodly amount of influence over the PC gaming market space.

Epic is chasing that because they really want what Valve has, though no doubt they plan to speedrun the enshittification process as soon as they think it safe.