axtualdave

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In finding Comer liable to Bungie for those costs—as well as over $80,000 in legal fees and $25,000 in statutory damages—the court also laid out the basis for "a new common law tort" that paves the way for other companies to do the same. As Tewson describes it in her Twitter thread, "the Court has created a path for those with the resources to identify stochastic terrorists and hold them accountable to do exactly that and recover their costs in court."

I am rarely on the corporation's side, but in this case, the outcome is the right one. While there's still a bar in that you need to be able to identify the person and have the resources to sue, this case sets a precedent that the behavior isn't okay.

Here's to hoping it stands on appeal, presuming the defendant bothers to appeal.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's a skill those of us from the IRC days cultivated.

I'm glad I'm not good at it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disco stick, as in

"Let's have some fun, this beat is sick / I wanna take a ride on your disco stick."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

We tried separating the food and water.

The cat just went to where the water was and howled. We'd show her the new spot, shed drink, and do the same thing in 20 minutes.

Just moved it back, less howling and she still drinks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's good to see that insane old people being shitty to one another is not isolated to one side of the political aisle. All of god's children are terrible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Cool, I'll continue to get my life-saving medications shipped overnight and eat primarily a vegetarian-based diet and not feel bad about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm hoping that as the platform matures and we start seeing various apps and even more web-based interfaces like ~wefwef~ Voyager, the signup process will be handled by those apps themselves. Like, a bunch of instances agree to be listed or something, and the app randomly selects one to present the new user on signup as a default, which both distributes the "load" across instances, but also provides a simple default.

I know the above proposal has problems; it's a 30-second spitball idea, not anything I'm spending more time thinking about seriously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Let's put the edit history on the blockchain!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first one I played was Zelda, on a gold cartridge, on the original NES.

The oldest system I played on was an Atari.

The oldest system I played games on was an Appie IIe, and it was Sticky Bear Basket Bounce. That game is like, my youth.

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