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billiam0202 ,

Yeah, I'm gonna wait a bit before bringing out the pitchforks.

A plaintiff in a civil suit can allege anything they want, but that doesn't mean they're being 100% truthful. Any lawyer will slant the facts as much as possible to make their client look as injured as they can to garner the most sympathy- that's just lawyering 101. We have his version of events but don't have Mozilla's, but the fact that he's publicly shit-talking the company (rather than let the legal process play out) doesn't cast him in a good light IMO.

billiam0202 , (edited )

Any decent lawyer will tell you to shut the fuck up once you've filed a suit, so as I see it there are three possible scenarios here:

  1. He's too stupid to listen to his lawyers.
  2. His lawyers are too stupid to advise him to shut up.
  3. They're trying a public pressure campaign against Mozilla to get Mozilla to capitulate before their case goes too far. They're hoping that the headlines of "Mozilla hates cancer patients!" will cause enough bad press that Mozilla will want to get the case over with quicker by settling sooner, especially if Teixiera doesn't have a very strong case.
billiam0202 ,

Yes, yes I did. That doesn't change anything I said. You've only repeated his claims (which his complaint can say literally anything), we don't have Mozilla's side, and he shouldn't be saying a word about this suit to the press.

billiam0202 ,

No it doesn't. Here, let me demonstrate:

I'm accusing you of showing up to my house and kissing my dog (the gay one, not the straight one.)

There. Is that the truth? According to you it must be, because

Accusation = truth

So because it's true, I demand you restore my dog's honor by gay marrying him.

And that's literally how it works in the US. You can make any allegation you want when filing a civil suit and a judge must decide the validity of your claims. Teixiera has given his side of the story when he filed suit; that's all we can say for certain at this point. He could be 100% right, he could be bending the truth a little bit, or he could be completely lying about the whole thing- we don't currently have any more information than that.

billiam0202 ,

Poe's Law is real, lol.

The worst part is I sat there reading your comment for fifteen minutes thinking, "He can't be that stupid, can he?" And then I remembered that Trump supporters exist.

Apple’s App Store breaches EU’s Digital Markets Act ( techcrunch.com )

A few months after opening a non-compliance case on Apple and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission has shared its preliminary findings with Apple. And the bottom line is that the current App Store rules are in breach of the DMA. Confirmed violations of the DMA can lead to fines of up to 10% of global annual...

billiam0202 ,

"Dissolution" is the word you're looking for.

billiam0202 ,

I would have taught Google everything they wanted to know about Reddit and Redditors for only $30 million.

billiam0202 ,

The point was to be able to send clips from your games directly to social media.

billiam0202 ,

Oh look, this asshole is trying to start shit with Apple again.

Elon Musk claims Apple has threatened to remove the Twitter app

billiam0202 ,

I wouldn't either, except there wasn't proof this was happening except Musk saying shit.

billiam0202 ,

Good news!

Perfect Dark was remastered in 2010 and is part of the Rare Replay you can buy for the XBox. Exactly the same, but with HD graphics.

billiam0202 ,

Bigots will use anything to justify their bigotry.

billiam0202 ,

*GrokAI

You know, Xitter's shittier AI.

billiam0202 ,

Wait, a system where the government provides a service subsidized by taxes, and where if the citizens don't like it they can get a private option, and the existence of the government option would force the private options to be innovative and competitive if they wanted to continue existing?

Man, what a healthy approach to industry. I wonder in what other ways we could carefully apply this method?

billiam0202 ,

Literally can literally be used metaphorically:

The use of literally in a fashion that is hyperbolic or metaphoric is not new—evidence of this use dates back to 1769.

So getting upset about the way a word has been used since before the founding of the US is literally the dumbest thing someone could be mad about. 😁

billiam0202 ,

Not bad at all.

For the first week doc said no erections- turns out not getting hard was the hardest part. After that, it was like a month or so of no unprotected sex. It's been a few years so I might not remember correctly, but I think he recommended like 15 to 20 ejaculations in that time frame. And I'm going to humble brag here- I've been blessed with a wife whose libido is way higher than mine. But that month, knowing that each orgasm was one step closer to her not having kids again- she made it her mission in life to knock those orgasms out as fast as I could get it up.

I didn't really have any swelling that I can remember- I iced my scrotum for a few hours but it didn't hurt too bad so I stopped after that. Some acetaminophen helped with the residual pain, and I think I had to take it easy for a couple of weeks- don't lift anything heavy to strain your groin muscles.

All in all, I don't regret it and highly recommend anyone who is done having children to get one.

billiam0202 ,

it’s always sad seeing such long-standing icons of the internet shut down.

A reminder of how much fun Web 1.0 was, not the walled-gardened, enshittified, corporatized, ad-riddled rage baiter it is now.

What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for? ( kbin.social )

As I've gotten older as a player, I have found myself dropping some eras of gaming that I used to be nostalgic for. One of them is the 8-bit era, the NES days. I have played some of the best that system had to offer and I will never say that system didn't have any good games....

billiam0202 ,

Star Wars Rogue Squadron?

Star Wars Episode 1 Racer?

billiam0202 ,

Speaking of innovation, the N64 was the, if not first then what I would call the first modern, console to use thumbsticks. The Dualshock was the second controller made for the PlayStation.

billiam0202 ,

Did platform fighters exist before Smash?

By "platform fighter" do you mean a game where your goal is to increase damage to your opponents in order to knock them out of the arena, as opposed to draining a health bar?

If so, I don't recall any before Smash, though my interest in pre-Smash fighters ended with the SNES.

billiam0202 ,

Someone should remind the angry mobs that they should be angry mobs.

billiam0202 , (edited )

Lots of people hate on Ubuntu for Snaps, but that's your own preference. Any of the Ubuntu-based derivatives should work just as well. I would recommend Zorin or Mint, and probably throw PopOS! in for good measure.

billiam0202 ,

From the article:

they don’t just think they’re the smartest people in the world, they think that everyone else is stupid.

And that sums up techbros in one sentence.

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads ( www.techradar.com )

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

billiam0202 ,

Actually, that's probably the one excuse that wouldn't fly. The only company that cancels more stuff randomly and with no reason than Netflix is Google.

billiam0202 ,

Yes, but they had the veneer of "low ratings" to hide behind. Netflix cancels their content with no warning and no explanation.

billiam0202 , (edited )

Makes more sense than the time Indiana tried to define pi as 3.2. The only reason it didn't was because a professor from Purdue was in Indianapolis on unrelated business and convinced Indiana's senate to table the bill.

Of course, we know today that such a thing couldn't happen since Indiana's legislature would laugh at the woke lib and pass it just to trigger him.

billiam0202 ,

It's not; you're just looking at the beginning of automating creativity when labor automation has been going on for over a hundred years. The introduction of new tech is always more disruptive than refining established tech. Besides which, VA is particularly sensitive to disruption because every VA does essentially the same job- one AI can be programmed to speak in thousands (millions?) of different voices, whereas one manual labor job doesn't necessarily require the same actions as another.

Also it's funny you complain about laundry, given how much doing laundry has been automated.

billiam0202 ,

No no no, it was the color they had a problem with, it just wasn't the suit.

billiam0202 ,

At least you aren't locked into a contract and can cancel whenever you want.

For now.

billiam0202 ,

From what I could see, the releases are specifically for Majora's Mask, and not the tool used to recompile N64 games in general.

billiam0202 ,

Geralt's flowing locks caused Nvidia cards to crash comes to mind.

billiam0202 ,

So uh...

For someone who loves N64 games but has literally never used git, how would one go about compiling this?

Russia Victory Day parade: Only one tank on display as Vladimir Putin says country is going through 'difficult period' ( news.sky.com )

On 9 May every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, putting on a large parade in honour of the country's victory over Nazi Germany 79 years ago - in what remains an important symbol of the country's national identity....

billiam0202 ,

Again.

Putin’s ‘one-tank’ military parade was an embarrassment for Russia, analysts say (May 10, 2023)

Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape ( www.gamespot.com )

I don't think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I'm letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I...

billiam0202 ,

60hours of content

That's a weird way to spell "microtransacted live service".

billiam0202 ,

Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle… If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.

billiam0202 ,

Also Dude, Ameriga isn't the preferred nomenclature. Traitor-American, please.

billiam0202 ,

This guy is a chump and I wish someone would have called him out on his BS.

It's no wonder. He's a Republican, so that automatically makes him a assbag. Also, Toyota has a Camry manufacturing plant in Georgetown, Ford assembles Escapes in Louisville, and of course GM makes Corvettes in Bowling Green, so it's no surprise that he'd be regressive towards automotive tech (even though Ford and SK are spending like $4 billion to build two battery manufactuing plants outside Louisville).

billiam0202 ,

This is so infuriating, especially when it’s so easy to show that voting against progressive initiatives also hurts their own constituents…

"I don't care how much it hurts me, as long as the people I hate are also getting hurt!"

billiam0202 ,

what State’s have battery fabs? not KY, obviously - but, others, presumably?

Set to start production next year:

https://www.blueovalsk.com/kentucky

billiam0202 ,

  1. Nobody is locked out. Nothing has as yet changed.

  2. The Steam page has said "PSN account required" since day one. Anyone opposed to creating a PSN account on moral grounds and bought HD2 has no one to blame but themselves.

billiam0202 ,

And I'm sure the reason you're mad about this now, and not three months ago, is because of ethics in gaming journalism, right?

billiam0202 , (edited )

They wouldn't abandon a child.

They would use the child as much as possible to save themselves. Noisemaker for a search party, small hands to reach into tight spaces, easy bear escape mechanism, etc.

billiam0202 ,

However, because of the widespread press coverage of the previous "suicide", it makes sense that if additional whistleblowers were being killed, that the methods would grow increasingly complex and obfuscated.

This only matters if 1) you don't want anyone to know it was you, or 2) you want people to know it was you to send a message, and you're not afraid of any repercussions.

billiam0202 ,

A surprising amount of people want to watch the world burn, as long as they can do it from a balcony.

"I never thought the leopards would eat my face fire would spread to my building!"

billiam0202 ,

My own theory seems dumb to me, how could they be so shortsighted?

There are countless events in human history where that question could be asked. Thinking long-term about the health of the environment and the species just doesn't seem to be within human capability.

billiam0202 ,

throttle growth

You don't want line to go up? That smells like commie talk!

billiam0202 ,

Hey man, nuke-the-world requests take time to propagate you know.

billiam0202 ,

… But you’re right that it is often considered the cause of many of their problems: Valve’s unusual corporate structure causes its problems, report suggests

If you look at the list of games developed by Valve it kinda becomes apparent that the only reason Valve is still around (or operates in such a free-flow manner) is because Steam is so profitable. Their release of notable titles is spotty, at best:

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