zarkony

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[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think it's 2 thing mainly.

  1. Israel has bribed or blackmailed most major politicians. Look up campaign donations from AIPAC and their related PACs.
  2. A large portion of American Evangelicals genuinely believe that by supporting Israel they are helping to bring about armageddon. You know, gog and magog type shit.
[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yep. Almost all of his compensation is in shares. Important both for his total wealth, and also voting power. His currently owned shares give him around 60% voting power, which is the only way he's been getting away with stupid moves like the failed metaverse project.

That amount of control over the company is also worth considerably more in the current era of rampant corruption. He is synonymous with Meta and is trying his hardest to solidify power as an oligarch.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That would bring the price of gas down here.

I'm doubtful of that. Oil is a globalized commodity, and international prices will still affect local sales, even if none of our oil actually comes through the strait of Hormuz.

I'm convinced the strait being closed is the whole point of this mess. It's just an excuse to charge more despite local production costs not changing. If export were banned, I think they'd just lower production to keep their margins high.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

Elections are run by each state, including registration. That means when they want to fuck with the registry they have to do it in a state by state basis, making specific lawsuits that target that state's system. They want to make it federal so they can just drop whoever they want from the registry without having to go through state officials.

Besides being a blatant attempt to enable widespread disenfranchisement, it is also highly unconstitutional. The states run elections, following regulations set by Congress. The executive branch should have no power here, and the executive order should be struck down immediately, but who fucking knows at this point.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Good idea, but I 100% expect the bios to be locked down and force secure boot. Hopefully there would at least be a work around to enroll new keys, but don't count on it.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like we go through this every time Bethesda releases a game. Yes, every other engine is just as old. I'm sure there's some ut99 code still in unreal, and maybe some quake code in source 2. The difference is those other engines already work pretty well, and have improved over time. The creation engine is still somehow just as janky every time, and somehow still has bugs dating back to skyrim or oblivion. I want to believe they can fix it, but their track record does not inspire confidence.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago

The GBA was region free, but Nintendo was region locking their consoles from the start. For example, the n64 is capable of playing games from any region, but the Japanese games had different tabs, and wouldn't fit in a US console without modding the slot.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago

Well good news, you can still do bluetooth on a phone that has a headphone jack.

And it wasn’t made to be repairable.

And wireless earbuds are? How many earbud batteries crap out after less than a year? I really don't think jamming tiny lithium batteries into everything is the more sustainable option here.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It started as minetest, an open source minecraft clone. It has since developed into a full voxel engine, supporting community made game modes and modpacks.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It can't, but I'm sure that wouldn't stop Spotify from raising a stink if they see it being bulk imported. I'd imagine this would be similar to OpenStreetMaps and Google Maps; they probably could scrape and bulk import missing info, but they restrict it to licensed sources and user edits to limit liability and enforce quality.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

That's exactly what they're doing on the steam frame. I guess we'll see how it works out there.

[–] zarkony@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 months ago

At this point I genuinely believe OpenAI knows they're doomed. They are putting all their effort into these massive deals, trying to tie themselves to as many other companies as they can until they are "too big to fail". Then when they go bankrupt, trump won't allow the stock market to crash, so the government will step in and pay everyone out. Maybe these other companies are just trying to get in on the grift while they can.

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