Blackmist

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on Autism proof · c/noncredibledefense · 1 pts · 43m

My niece has been diagnosed with autism and ADHD. My brother in law doesn't really get it because all the things she does are perfectly normal things he does...

on Jackpot · c/memes · 10 pts · 2d

I much prefer a show that comes in, does it's thing, and fucks off again. Respect my time.

Stretching it out to a million seasons with a million episodes each just for archaic syndication purposes is a big no from me, dawg.

on Welp · c/programmer_humor · 12 pts · 5d

I threw together a slop project to test something. It put in some JSON for something that didn't use that. I told it it was just some plain text. It took the JSON library out again. Then I added in something that does use JSON and it tried to make a basic JSON parsing library from scratch.

It's like a very junior programmer at times, with amnesia.

It does make some menial tasks simpler, but if people think it will actually replace us then they're in for a shock.

The one thing giving me hope is that all these vile people hate each other almost as much as we hate them.

Even Jeffrey Epstein was only running his paedo club to get as much as he could in return as a broker. None of these people were friends in the way that regular people think of them. I don't think they even have any concept of what that word means.

on Hell yeah. · c/lemmyshitpost · 6 pts · 8d

I'd really like to see the capitalist Fire Brigade, if only to see Terry Pratchett proven right once again.

Ankh-Morpork no longer had a fire brigade. The citizens had a rather disturbingly direct way of thinking at times, and it did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires they put out. The penny really dropped shortly after Charcoal Tuesday.

― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

Push for laws that force digital stores to provide full ownership of digital rights.

The ability to pass purchased licenses from one account to another would be a real game changer.

They're trying to kill ownership completely, and this would blow it wide open.

And that could just be step one. We need assurances about what happens when a store closes (can we download everything and archive it and play offline? will it be moved to another provider?) We need the ability to move purchases between stores. Hell, even between platforms. We need to make sure accounts that have paid for goods cannot be completely revoked under any circumstances. Locked out of online play or prevented from making further purchases, sure, but never just blocked.

Law makers have sat idly by for too long as our rights were taken from us. It's high time to take them back.