aleats

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[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Sunshine is still very much in active development for the server side of things, and the client app is also still active. Both seem to still work flawlessly in Windows and Linux on Nvidia cards for me, and as far as I know there's very solid support for AMD cards as well.

[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 3 months ago

Government-sponsored facial recognition aside, I was gonna celebrate this as a rare event of a government doing something right, but then

The measures don’t apply to researchers or to what machine translation of the rules describes as “algorithm training activities” – suggesting images of citizens’ faces are fair game when used to train AI models.

and I feel like that undermines the entire idea, since you can easily hide behind that excuse and not give a shit. And given previous circumstances, I feel like a lot of companies are gonna get away with it.

[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Both jus soli (citizenship by birth) and jus sanguinis (citizenship by blood) exist more for historical reasons than because one is better than the other. Both are simply a way to try and make citizenship a more clear-cut thing, because it's as close to being a made-up thing as you can get, especially in cases such as parents having a different nationality to the child (which is even more confusing when both parents are of different nationalities).

Jus soli is more common in the Americas due to various factors, including an incentive towards immigration from richer countries during colonial times and the various movements towards emancipation of the enslaved peoples a few centuries later, but the fact remains that neither system is any more arbitrary than the other. Jus soli is often favored because it simplifies things like immigration and asylum seeking and reduces statelessness, which is still a significant issue that affects millions of people worldwide, mostly around war-torn areas.

As mentioned in another response, enfranchisement is also a very important issue that jus soli resolves, although a significant part of it is also due to other, unrelated citizenship laws that may not necessarily conflict with jus sanguinis.

[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I feel like it'd be wise to wait for further developments. Valve is notorious for being horrible at communication, but even then it's rare that they do something like this without some sort of reason. It still sucks that Valve shut this down after 8 years, but it's hard to know anything for certain until either side comes out with more information, especially with how stupid Valve's legal team can be sometimes. Could be that they just backpedal and say it's alright in a few days, who knows.

Of course, trusting Valve is always as risky as trusting any other corporation, given they have a bit of a track record with tolerating and even outright allowing gambling with skins, but this could easily be their legal team being overzealous yet again as well.

[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Seems a bit early to tell if this will have much of a lasting effect. So-called economic "shock therapies" have a long history of working for a year or so, and then unraveling later. And especially for Argentina, the cycle of decades of growth followed by decades of recession has been going on for a while now. I'll be genuinely impressed if he manages to actually fix the economy long-term, but that still remains to be seen.

[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago

I don't know of any graphical tools that let you do this, but generally, if you want to search for specific terms/times/commands or anything of that sort, piping journalctl into grep (and optionally grep into less) is pretty effective at finding stuff.

[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 7 months ago

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The whole capitalization of pronouns thing was pretty much entirely made up around the 19th century anyway (as well as the capitalizing the word "Lord", which the King James version invented outright), so you can argue that protestant churches are following a woke plot to change the pronouns of the christian god as well.

[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

~/src/

Simple, effective, doesn't make my home folder any more of a mess than I already left it as.

[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 8 months ago

You'd be entirely correct, and that's exactly why there's an ongoing debate in physics and cosmology as to why there's so much matter, and so little antimatter in the universe.

[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 268 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Sometimes you really have to stop and ask yourself what the fuck is going on at Mozilla's HQ. It's insane how they manage to shoot themselves in the foot at least once a week.

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