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  • None? I don't debate that Blue Sky is corporate-owned while Bitcoin and the Fediverse aren't. Rather, I'm saying the thing they all have in common is that they like to think of themselves as "decentralized" federations of independent systems and users, but in reality they are all "centralized" systems with shared weaknesses. This is the "ideological contradiction" I thought you were referring to.

  • Put simply, yeah. lemm.ee can communicate with lemmy.world, and kbin.social, and mastodon.social, as they're all "federated" with each other (like a federation of nation-states).

    In the future you might see bsky.social and bsky.io and bsky.jp etc etc, and they'll be able to talk amongst themselves, but they won't be able to talk Lemmy or kbin or Mastodon.

  • This is the same criticism that was made of cryptocurrency's claim to fame regarding decentralization, consensus, and resilience to authoritarian takeover.

    "If you take all these different parts of your identity, all the games you play, all the things you buy, all the groups you join, and stick them into one system, that's a central system. It doesn't matter how many servers that system spans, you've pooled all that data in one place."

    And ultimately we can make the same criticism of the Fediverse itself. It's nice that there are different platforms, different instances, different communities... but it's still just one entity at the end of the day. This is especially apparent with the spam wave we just saw. Misskey, Mastodon, Lemmy, even kbin was not invulnerable. You don't need to attack them individually, you can attack them all at once, and then they will naturally spread your attack to other instances for you.

  • Gonna have to dust off the ole Herman Cain Award in short order. I for one am excited for a second round of schadenfreude.

  • Locked out of hotel rooms

    How does that happen? Concierge assumes you're not the person on the booking?

  • Almost makes me nostalgic for the way clothing used to work in Cyberpunk 2077.

  • "We have Fandango at home."

    Fandango At Home at home:

  • The value-add is the comedy of a man pretending an Intel Q6600 is better than a Ryzen 3600X.

  • Yeah that's the guy. Hilarious to see he thinks his garbage biased opinion is worth any amount of money.

  • Days after Wilkinson was killed, Johnston’s lawyer told reporters that “obviously, no one expected this to happen”.

    This fucking nonce's very existence is an insult to all mankind.

  • Better yet. For the price of 2 portal recolors, you can get 1 Baldur's Gate 3.

  • Oh I'm not giving you grief, I just think it's funny.

    the article is on a CO site

    🤌

  • The irony of this being crossposted from ML.

  • I'm hardly a Sony Stan, but you can call me one if it makes you feel better when I say... I have no idea what you're talking about.

    hardware component shortages that were notably specific

    What was specific to the PS5 that wasn't shared by the XSX? The specs of are almost identical. Same AMD processor, same generation and architecture, same amount and type of memory. Any supply chain woes that affected one almost certainly affected the other.

    Except for that insane proprietary memory expansion card that Xbox uses that cost $200 per TB. It took them 3 years to come up with cheaper options. Meanwhile Sony just uses off the shelf NVME drives whose price has been slowly decreasing ever since the pandemic.

    The PS3 was underpowered

    It is well documented that the PS3's weakness was the complexity of it's design not necessarily how powerful it was.

    the PS5 enabled and enriched scalpers

    This is such a confusing statement, it's Not Even Wrong. You make it sound like Sony built scalpability into the PS5. You're angry at the inanimate object? Not what the awful people did with it? People scalped the PS5 because it was in higher demand, not because it was made of gold.

  • News to me, what's up with the hardware?

    Edit: ITT: a dude so defiantly wrong he uses edits to imply he's the only person making any sense.

  • Probably not without some tinkering, but DRM can always be defeated.