Paradoxvoid

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[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 24 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is useful for updates so you're not bottlenecked as much (if you don't have automatic background updates set up).

[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

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@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

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@aussie.zone 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

I thought you were poking fun since it's David Tennant, not Tenet... I feel like I've been whooshed now.

[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You've got to give Microsoft credit for their dedication to backwards compatibility.

[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 6 points 4 months ago

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@aussie.zone 11 points 5 months ago

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@aussie.zone 7 points 5 months ago

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@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago

I highly doubt the economists in Treasury were advocating for this. It's 100% a political decision.

 

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.

 

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.

 

The classic tradition of pulling up the ladder behind them continues.

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