SpaceScotsman

joined 1 year ago

I find it immensely infuriating that the article's byline shows they are reporting from 'London' when in fact this happened not just in a different city, Edinburgh, but in a completely different country, Scotland.

Sad about the pandas, there are far too many people that simply can't be trusted with fireworks. Limiting it to a single night in dedicated display venues run by licensed organisations wouldn't remove the noise entirely, but it would reduce the frequency and would probably help all animals.

That 2012 one looks like I've focused it as a UI component. I need to get out and touch some grass.

According to the 3 criteria mentioned in the article, YouTube wouldn't need to be banned, logging in to YouTube would be banned. YouTube is still functional (mostly) when logged out, and wouldn't violate those 3 criteria. The other services mentioned, like gaming, would be banned.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I thought elvish meant someone who likes rock and roll music

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 45 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You can't misgender a brand. You can't deadname a brand. You can't befriend a brand.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

I misread that as prefix and, honestly, forthwhence doesn't sound half bad.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

Women are a better person to be in the past than a good quality piece of wood

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 32 points 7 months ago

100% online games in the past were perfectly playable even after developers / publishers ended support. Online only games dying is a relatively recent invention. This petition is asking for consumer protection to return to the norm where a purchaser of an online game always has the choice of being able to play it in some fashion.

A game developer could do this by releasing a server application. They could even do this at the barest minimum by releasing documentation describing how the server ought to work, to allow for reverse engineering.

The Stop Killing Games campaign as a whole isn't asking for perpetual server access, just to ensure that games stay in some sort of playable state.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Instead of arguing about 0Mg vs 0mg - use the best of both and upset everyone: 0ᴍg

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

If you use Organic Maps you may be interested in https://streetcomplete.app to help fill out the map

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does matter. It's safer for everyone if cyclists travel side by side in one lane because then the car driver has to spend less time in the oncoming lane to complete the overtake. A long string of bikes takes more time to safely pass.

[–] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

At this point the web is about as complex as an operating system in terms of complexity. That needs really strong specific standards in order for it to work, and in turn projects like web browsers are huge and complex.

If someone wanted to build a web browser that only followed the simpler parts of the specifications, it wouldn't work for many websites* and people would not use that browser.

*Whether or not sites need to be so complex is another question entirely, but the reality right now is that they are

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