wjrii

@ wjrii @lemmy.world

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3w ago

Indie developer who got blocked on Steam for “potential infringement” of his own work finally gets green light after issuing license declaration to himself
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wjrii @lemmy.world 3w ago
Yeah, if it starts happening a lot they should consider some sort of enhancement to their internal customer database and/or front end, but this just seems like some annoying bureaucracy in the name of scalability that was bypassed with a fairly silly but simple workaround.

3w ago

What's all this other stuff?

Now I want to know which of Two Princes or Little Miss Can't Be Wrong you haven't heard yet. The two-hit-wonder disrespect here is staggering, I say. Staggering!

3w ago

Just how much has Canadian travel to the U.S. declined? Researchers suggest it’s more than we thought

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wjrii @lemmy.world 3w ago

3w ago

What’s all the hubbub about this Marks guy he seems pretty chill

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wjrii @lemmy.world 3w ago

Bloemfontein, I think.

3w ago

I don't know if they still do, but for a long while IKEA was selling tabletops and shelves that were a honeycomb of cardboard with a very thin frame of some softwood or manufactured wood product, and then a synthetic woodgrain veneer. Super light, and pretty strong... for their weight.

3w ago

Did they ever define what "woke" is?

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wjrii @lemmy.world 3w ago

3w ago

Life comes at you fast

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wjrii @lemmy.world 3w ago

And the need for "progressives" for the nerds who already had their distance vision murdered by genetics and books.

For the Z'ers, "books" are stacks of paper, typically glued together on one side, with a single audiobook or podcast transcribed onto them and displayed in a fixed font.

3w ago

Fintech startup Parker files for bankruptcy

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wjrii @lemmy.world 3w ago

LOL, fair enough.

3w ago

Fintech startup Parker files for bankruptcy

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wjrii @lemmy.world 3w ago

I use a fintech for my little glorified garage sale ecommerce site (literally hundreds of dollars of sales so far!). I have no idea how you burn through all that runway to do a slightly better banking app for some random regional bank, plus some agreements with the Credit Card companies and a crypto wallet.

3w ago

Jucika substitutes

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wjrii @lemmy.world 3w ago

Excellent. Thank you!

4w ago

Jucika substitutes

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wjrii @lemmy.world 4w ago

I also saw "deputy," but the common tie seems to be replacing or substituting. I wonder if it was then-current Hungarian jargon for the switchboard operator having to constantly plug and unplug the patch cables.

And Alexander the Great would be proud of her solution at the end of the workday.

4w ago

It can't be coincidence they're so perfectly placed.

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wjrii @lemmy.world 4w ago

The Eternals was a documentary.

4w ago

We have to go back

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wjrii @lemmy.world 4w ago

That might be even cooler than the brown tie-dye Duel of the Fates shirt I was rocking.

TPM has its charms, but good lord the delusion I invested in trying to convince myself it was better than it was...

Never get involved in a land war in Asia, and never give George Lucas unrestrained creative control.

4w ago

What are your BEST tech purchases?

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wjrii @lemmy.world 4w ago

A few years ago, I used my meager seniority award at work ($100 for ten years! Yay...?) to get a Monoprice Select Mini 3D printer. That set off a journey that has been a lot of fun. I'm using a Sovol SV08 now, but the Mini was a great gateway printer at that time.

4w ago

John Roberts insists supreme court not ‘political’ after Trump-friendly rulings

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wjrii @lemmy.world 4w ago

This is one of those silly little games. When your entire framework for analysis depends on certain political principals, you can then be coy and pretend that the results that follow are not political, because after all they simply follow with impeccable legal reasoning from a closely held judicial philosophy. Of course, where do those closely held judicial philosophies come from? Why, the judge's instincts about policy priorities, their reaction to the flow of Constitutional Law as they studied it or, in the case of Thomas, what Harlan Crow pays him to think. In the case of someone like Roberts, you're playing the long game so being disciplined about how you apply your framework means Trump only get 90% of what he wants and therefore you can say shit like "we're not political" with a straight face.

To be fair, all sides have agendas that inform their thinking. Some agendas are just way more evil than others.

4w ago

If the US got to the point of rewriting or coming up with a new constitution, which minds would be the equivalent of the minds today? To rewrite the whole thing?

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wjrii @lemmy.world 4w ago

In fairness, one of the issues is that there's an absurdly high bar to amend it, and the downright scientific polarization of our political parties in the last 50 years or so has meant that they're constantly fighting over the middle, meaning there is unlikely to be consensus without something deeply traumatic happening first. The ERA was our canary in the coalmine there, I think. Of course, this makes it even more absurd that SCOTUS has leaned hard into textualist analysis that is completely unsuited to running a complex modern nation-state with a creaky old constitution. We need to take a page or two from papa UK and enshrine certain norms and principals as constitutional matters without obsessing over fucking commas like we do now. The irony of course is that doing so would take a constitutional amendment.

4w ago

James Cameron and Walt Disney Company Sued Over Unauthorized Use of Actress’ Likeness in ‘Avatar’

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wjrii @lemmy.world 4w ago

This feels like the sort of blurry case that litigation is actually well suited for. It's clear there was something beyond an inspiration board, yet the end result is also a blue alien. Evaluate the law, establish a value for the design, and make your case. In typical James Cameron fashion, there's a sense of "I mean well, so I can't possibly be an insufferable jackass!"

4w ago

If the US got to the point of rewriting or coming up with a new constitution, which minds would be the equivalent of the minds today? To rewrite the whole thing?

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wjrii @lemmy.world 4w ago

As a one-time student of Con Law, I will respectfully disagree. It's clunky, vague, out of touch with the settlement patterns of the country in the last 230+ years, and willfully ignores that political parties and bad actors are a thing. I have come to resent the lionization of the document and its drafters. The basic outline of a democratic republic is laudable and has somehow more or less endured, but it is what it is: a good start from clever provincial lawyers whose ideals outstripped their personal behaviors and helped make it work better than many would have thought, but who were still absolutely dealing with the issues and expectations of elites in the 1780s.

For goodness sake, judicial review isn't even in there. John Marshall basically made it up. So much with the US Constitution depends on norms and assumptions, yet we worship it like a holy text (e.g. "our own inadequacy to follow its teachings"). This makes it a HUGE problem when some smarmy asshole decides norms don't matter and the Supreme Court has (rather hypocritically) decided that only the text matters. At a minimum, we need some serious "patch" amendments to lock down things that no one thought anybody would be a big enough asshole to test.

4w ago

Sovereign Of The Highland.

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wjrii @lemmy.world 4w ago

nowlookhereaintnoneogothicpeninknonsenseahtellyoowhut justsumdangoletexashillbilliessippindangolecocktailsknowhudimean andwearinbowlerhatsandtiesandwatchindeadtreesandguesswhat well... dang.

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4w ago

This will never stop being funny to me

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wjrii @lemmy.world 4w ago

Theorizing about and then venting about Ocean Gate is one of my formative Fediverse memories. God what an ass Stockton Rush was.