Paradoxvoid 1mo ago • 82%
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 2mo ago • 100%
This is useful for updates so you're not bottlenecked as much (if you don't have automatic background updates set up).
Paradoxvoid 2mo ago • 92%
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 2mo ago • 100%
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 3mo ago • 100%
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 3mo ago • 90%
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 4mo ago • 100%
I thought you were poking fun since it's David Tennant, not Tenet... I feel like I've been whooshed now.
Paradoxvoid 4mo ago • 100%
You've got to give Microsoft credit for their dedication to backwards compatibility.
Paradoxvoid 5mo ago • 100%
I expect people have moved onto other and better games, and never bothered to update their review from years ago - I definitely fall into that category.
Paradoxvoid 5mo ago • 100%
Yeah I hopped back over from Edge when the manifest v3 stuff came out, and the two main things I miss are proper profile management and vertical tabs - I've been using https://codeberg.org/ranmaru22/firefox-vertical-tabs to get around it currently, but having a native implementation to both issues will be a massive (and recently rare) Firefox W.
Paradoxvoid 5mo ago • 100%
It's funny how when this was released, people were massively up in arms since it was 'only cosmetic' - then we saw what these companies would do with PvP games and P2W microtransactions, so people had to turn around and beg for them to return to being purely cosmetic additions...
Paradoxvoid 5mo ago • 100%
I highly doubt the economists in Treasury were advocating for this. It's 100% a political decision.
Paradoxvoid 5mo ago • 100%
Too bad, you get a battlepass instead!
Paradoxvoid 6mo ago • 100%
Arkham Knight is decent except for the batmobile sections - as others have already mentioned.
I'd still argue it's better than Origins though. From memory, memorising all the different toolbelt skills isn't really necessary - you can definitely get through the game by just abusing jumps, cloak and counters - some special enemies might need a specific ability to make vulnerable, but the game normally warns you the first time you fight them, so I don't think it ever feels too overwhelming - it just feels like a lot if you run through it very quickly.
Paradoxvoid 6mo ago • 100%
To be honest, I still rate Youtube Premium - the bundle that includes Music and ad-free Youtube is just too good a deal, even with the price hike. Some of the alternatives may be a bit cheaper, but you end up paying more if you still want to hang onto ad-free YT.
Given you said budget isn't an issue, I'd personally still stick with YTM, but I haven't personally had any issues with its radio function, and while I don't listen to much Aussie stuff, I do have pretty esoteric tastes and it's generally pretty decent.
Paradoxvoid 6mo ago • 100%
This is why I absolutely refuse to install Valorant (and now LoL) - I could somewhat understand if an anticheat refused to boot up the game in question if something triggered it, but it going massively outside of its scope and wantonly disabling or killing other processes is just nuts to me.
Paradoxvoid 6mo ago • 87%
If I really hate front end, but still want a lot of the responsiveness of a SPA, I'd have to give ASP.NET Blazor a serious thought.
It's largely all back end driven, with the dynamic elements driven via webassembly that pretty much works like black magic.
Paradoxvoid 6mo ago • 100%
Is there any reason to use the Bitwarden Firefox extension rather than the app?
Paradoxvoid 6mo ago • 100%
Have to disagree with you on echoes - I loved the game, but IMO it was much easier than Prime 1 - the most difficult boss was the probably the boost guardian midway through rather than any of the endgame bosses. The ammo system made the standard power beam too centralising which was boring, and the dark world damage just served to slow the player down, since the light fields regenerated your health.
Paradoxvoid 6mo ago • 100%
Yeah I'm not a constitutional expert but I'm 90% sure this won't work. Like professor Twomey said, we elect individuals, not parties (which is what this basically is) - and what happens if they have a falling out, or disagree on a policy position?
I was wondering whether there's any appetite to host alternative frontends? I've been using Alexandrite a bit recently, and really liking it (though would be more comfortable sending my login credentials directly to aussie.zone instead of hoping everything's legit), and some other servers are hosting that or something like Voyager for a mobile-first iOS-styled interface. e.g. - Voyager - [https://m.lemmy.world](https://m.lemmy.world) - Alexandrite - [https://a.lemmy.world](https://a.lemmy.world)
The ACT Government can celebrate another light rail milestone today after the National Capital Authority gave the green light to the 1.7-kilometre extension to Commonwealth Park via City West.
Can this guy be any more of a grub?