turmacar

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[–] turmacar 5 points 6 months ago

Technique yes, technology I would question.

[–] turmacar 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

It is, but this isn't. The DMCA doesn't mention Trademark. That's a separate section of law because copyright and trademark are different things.

Crowdstrike submitting a DMCA takedown for alleged Trademark infringement isn't how it's supposed to work at all. Likely because they know this isn't actually a Trademark infringement case.

Cloudflare's automated system not being smart enough to see that is fine. Their abuse/counterclaim process being broken isn't. ( Not that that's new or unique )

[–] turmacar 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Did she want some features that weren't part of Google/Apple maps / Yelp / etc?

If she's frustrated with user reviews being about nonsense I get it but that's a human problem, or at least not a system problem anyone's been able to solve yet.

[–] turmacar 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It just seems like it's dug it's own grave so effectively that there's no way to climb out.

In theory I love their aim of player retention, but they focused on it so exclusively that it became a challenge to start playing, or to come back. The new player experience isn't just bad or non-existent, it's basically actively hostile. Most of the story content isn't accessible anymore, so you're depending on dozens of hours of Youtube videos to catch up on a decade of in-jokes that you can't experience. It's like Eve, but worse because it was written, not just player interaction lore. Even as someone who played D1 and the first few years of D2, looking at current screenshots and trailers is alienating. They've revamped and juggled currencies and what power levels are so much that basically nothing is the same.

The pivot to seasons/microtransactions while ignoring recruitment of new players was a wild choice.

[–] turmacar 3 points 6 months ago

Put the child in a foster home that preaches that this was all for the best. They are only fit caregivers if they share this belief. In 10 years use the child for propaganda about God working in mysterious ways.

[–] turmacar 4 points 6 months ago

[European utilities] have failsafes implemented to prevent back feeding electricity in the grid

Yeah but imagine if you could save money by not doing that? What are the odds that there's going to be cheap(er) personal mass power generation in the next few decades.

[–] turmacar 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is partly because there is no such thing as a non-POS point of sale system.

[–] turmacar 7 points 6 months ago

I mean every work laptop is (/should be) encrypted. It's about as suspicious as having 2 factor authentication.

[–] turmacar 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You're right, they're fundamental changes across multiple institutions.

"I can't think of examples" is a pretty lazy justification for "the only way out is violence".

[–] turmacar 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Suffrage didn't require violent overthrow of the entire system, neither did the New Deal, neither did the Civil Rights movement, neither did Medicare, neither did Gay Rights. No nothing is "solved", but everything is better than it was in 1900.

"IDK, maybe War will fix it" is far more unhelpful than working to make positive changes.

[–] turmacar 63 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Perfect should not be the enemy of Good. Reforming the entire system is not something that just happens. It takes several steps in the right direction and you have to start somewhere.

[–] turmacar 5 points 6 months ago

Which means it should have been a movie. So many of these feel like they're stretching one of the planned "Stories" movies into 8 episodes because they panicked and cancelled all the movies after Solo/RoS. And now they're scared that people aren't engaging with the shows because nobody making them cares about or has authority over the story they're telling. They're just checking boxes on a list.

The exceptions are Andor, Mandalorian, and Asoka. But Asoka relies on the audience caring about / having seen hundreds of previous hours of TV and Mandalorian has continuously gotten watered down since the first season.

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