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  • 9bananas@lemmy.worldtoFediverse memes@feddit.uk•There is definitely valid criticism to be made, but it can be a bit much at times.English
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    1 year ago

    …okay? that wasn’t the question being asked. did you get confused at some point?

    like, i agree with what you said, just…what does it have to do with the current state of affairs?

    the entire comment chain talks about the past and how capitalism has (supposedly) improved conditions. (since that “improvement” is implied to have already happened by the past tense, we’re talking about the current system. without specifying anything about exactly “who” those conditions have improved for…conveniently)

    so i fail to see the connection to (largely) theoretical improvements to capitalism…

  • 9bananas@lemmy.worldtoFediverse memes@feddit.uk•Welcome ex-Redditors!English
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    1 year ago

    i mean…yeah? kinda? on a technicality?

    Developers that use our General Public Licenses protect your rights with two steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software.

    you assert the first part as fact and then kinda skip over the second part…at least that’s how i read your comment.

    yes, the copyright owner (the creator) “owns” the work…but then immediately uses said ownership to explicitly allow everyone else to do just about anything with it, short of claiming it as one’s own creation.

    you are the best kind of correct, but only that kind.

  • 9bananas@lemmy.worldtoFediverse memes@feddit.uk•Welcome ex-Redditors!English
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    1 year ago

    there’s no contradiction, because the developer does not matter. that’s the entire point of FOSS.

    it could be written by a literal nazi (not that there’s a big difference between brown and red fascists) and it wouldn’t matter one bit.

    that’s the entire beauty of FOSS!

    we ALL own the code.

    if Dessalines ever stops developing it, anyone can take over.

    if Dessalines implements code the community at large doesn’t like, anyone can create a fork and change that specific part and continue from there.

    we can see exactly what the code does, and can create new versions at any point.

    that was always the reason behind decentralized, open source networks:

    nobody can own it.

  • 9bananas@lemmy.worldtoGames@sh.itjust.works•‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Is Doing 70,000 Steam Players A Night, Four Years LaterEnglish
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    1 year ago

    so, the point about shitty journalism stands, and is actually a good point.

    the point about calling CP2077 basically a scam and deceptive is not that good of a point.

    afaik, the major problem player in the botched release wasn’t CDPR themselves, although they do deserve some of the blame, but Sony:

    Cyberpunk was supposed to be one of the flagship/tech-demo titles of PC (Nvidia), PS4 (later PS5), and XBOX (whatever stupid ass designation it had at the time…xXxBoXOnExXx or some shit? …whatever).

    development started on the PS4, then it was decided that PC release should happen at the same time as console release, so the PS4 version got ported to PC.

    then the PS5 released, so development moved to PS5, which came with a bunch of upgrades and updates to the engine and other components. as one would expect.

    same thing happened with PC hardware: new specs, new features, better performance, etc.

    then, about 2-ish years (?) before release, along comes Sony and notices that “hey! the original contract said you’d release on PS4!” and CDPR obviously said “well… that’s kinda not possible anymore. the game can’t run on outdated hardware due to its performance requirements.” and Sony threatened with lawsuits and insisted on a last-gen release.

    and THAT’S where all the (major) problems started: CDPR was forced (by Sony!) to backport the MUCH more advanced version that was expected to run on MUCH more powerful hardware, which proved borderline impossible.

    this proved to be such an enormous undertaking that development on the actual game basically stopped, as they pretty much had to develop an entirely new game for the old console.

    given the recent news about Sony, is it really any surprise they made a completely ridiculous decision regarding software they obviously don’t understand the ramifications of?

    like i said, CDPR definitely deserves some of the blame here, but most of the blame lies with Sony for enforcing such a ridiculous, and technologically unfeasible, requirement without any understanding (or rather, wilfull ignorance) of the scope of said requirement.

    Sony literally would have rather not sold ANY game than adjust their contract. they were being completely unreasonable, yet CDPR commonly gets ALL of the blame, which again, they only deserve a small part of.

  • 9bananas@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting taken into custody after being recognized at McDonald’s
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    1 year ago

    no, but:

      1. those were off the top of my head, there’s definitely been more.
      1. these events tend to happen in bursts. it starts with one dead tyrant. then there’s another. then there’s general mayhem for a short while. then order sets in again.

    it’s a cycle as old as civilization itself.

    (not to be confused with that bullshit cyclical history theory… it’s “a” cycle, not “the” cycle and it’s neither guaranteed, nor predictable, necessary, nor regular. just to preempt any confusion about that)

    another example:

    The Defenestrations of Prague (Czech: Pražské defenestrace, German: Prager Fenstersturz, Latin: Defenestratio Pragensis) were three incidents in the history of Bohemia in which people were defenestrated (thrown out of a window). Though already existing in Middle French, the word defenestrate is believed to have first been used in English in reference to the episodes in Prague in 1618 when the disgruntled Protestant estates threw two royal governors and their secretary out of a window of the Hradčany Castle and wrote an extensive apologia explaining their action. In the Middle Ages and early modern times, defenestration was not uncommon