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willis936@lemmy.worldto
Nintendo@lemmy.world•The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And AssetsEnglish
91·2 years agoPalworld didn’t plagiarize them. This is what the kids call a nothingburger.
Obviously there are loads of similar designs, but in a way that indicates illegal asset stealing? That’s a different question, and so-called “lazy design” aping on other creations doesn’t qualify as actual theft unless it can be explicitly proven.
More grimly, it is a big corporation trying to squash an upstart competitor and suppress art. If they succeed then it is truly dystopian and a sign that we need more legal protections against overzealous copyright litigators.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Nintendo@lemmy.world•The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And AssetsEnglish
5·2 years agoBy Freaky Friday rules you would just be giving them another identity to send in affirming reports.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•RTX 4070 Super launch day sales are rumored to be a ‘disaster’ – what’s going on with Nvidia’s new GPU?English
6·2 years agoThey leaned their strategy pretty hard into mining when that was on the table. They for sure chase trends and alienate their base. Any way to juice near term profits and they will. It’s working out for them right now, so surely it will forever.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updatesEnglish
21·2 years agoIt depends what you mean by support. They made the Steam Link for 3 years and have not made it for 5 years.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994English
462·2 years ago>see headline
“Oh cool. What fun and inventive thing is Microsoft doing?”
>reads first line of article
“Oh it’s for AI. Gross.”
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phonesEnglish
32·2 years agoThe economics aren’t there. A cellular chip and a subscription will not pay for the private conversations of a random house.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•EV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So AnywayEnglish
16·2 years agoThat’s 50x smaller than an EV battery. Being able to drive once every two months doesn’t seem practical.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three timesEnglish
8·2 years agoThere is 1.4E21 kg of water on Earth. 0.03% of hydrogen is deuterium, a suitable fusion fuel. H2O has an atomic mass of 18 and O has an atomic mass of 16, so Earth has 4.7E16 kg of deuterium readily centrifuged out of ocean water.
D-D fusion converts about 0.1% of mass to energy (4 MeV / c^2 / 4 Daltons). E=mc^2. So we have 4.2E30 (420E28) Joules of fusion fuel ready for us on Earth. We used 2400 TWh of energy last year. If we used this amount indefinitely then we would have 485 billion years of fuel.
Bonus: deuterium depletion would have virtually no environmental effect.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto BrandEnglish
161·2 years agoThe Forbes article seems to be citing numbers that are now a few weeks out of date. They cite that Tesla drivers have 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers and Ram has 22.76. If you go to their source link you’ll see that the more recent numbers are Tesla: 31.13 and Ram: 32.90.
https://www.lendingtree.com/insurance/brand-incidents-study/
Ram in MA is 64.44 and I want these fucking things outlawed.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto BrandEnglish
13·2 years agoRolling to 75 is more relevant in MA where onramps to highways are 50 feet long, but 0 to 60 is correlated.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help:English
13·2 years agoJeez and I feel like I’m tempting fate just by using a custom domain.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when usedEnglish
1·2 years agoTrueNAS Scale has a built-in cloud backup tool that supports the common sites and protocols. Most all NAS solutions have something similar. It’s really just an rsync wrapper with authentication and storage protocol support.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when usedEnglish
2·2 years agoNAS + cloud backup is the way to go. Any NAS software worth its salt can do E2EE backup with any old cloud backup solution.
Definitely not for the faint of heart though. If you don’t actively enjoy fiddling then there aren’t many good options. Maybe icloud if you trust Apple to not de-platform you.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when usedEnglish
2·2 years agoI had good luck with B2 backblaze but recently switched to storj for E2EE backups without having encrypted filenames in the browser. Overall these solutions are slower and more expensive than typical cloud backups, but it’s well worth it to stick it to the man.
Edit: more expensive, not cheaper.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Japanese experimental nuclear fusion reactor inauguratedEnglish
41·2 years agoWe have not spent a hundred billion dollars on fusion energy research collectively as a planet in the past 70 years of working on it. We do spent 10x that every year for the US defense budget.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rolloutEnglish
4·2 years agoSure they can. Just give the $7500 credit to an EV worth its price.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCSEnglish
1·2 years agoThe prospect of one entity maybe having a backdoor is much more secure than every entity for sure having read access.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCSEnglish
12·2 years agoIf you use RCS or SMS, yeah. iMessage is E2EE.
willis936@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceledEnglish
21·2 years agoWatch me.

Were you older than 12 when you first tried to play it? Because that’d do it.
I was 12 when I played it and I loved it so much that I wrote a convincing essay on why it was the greatest game ever. I then freehand drew the logo as a cover to the essay. I attach a copy on my resume.