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  • Steam owner Valve accused of ripping off 14m UK gamers

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  • I also have a soft spot for Steam and have likely bankrolled a few employees there on my own, but it's been pretty funny seeing the usual anti-corporate sentiments set aside for Steam. This case looks pretty flimsy, but watching people defend Gabe's billion dollar yacht collection with "everyone needs a hobby" gave me such cultural whiplash here on Lemmy that I might need to go to the hospital. That guy has a true "get out of jail free" card with gamers.

  • Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85

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  • It's 2050. Every computer scientist is named Conway. ChatGPT releases its new version of Conway4, which scrapes every ounce of private medical data we have.

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    Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle

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  • False dichotomy, no? Moving away from gender segregation doesn't mean one giant pool. There are non-discriminatory ways to create fairness, possibly even more so. Weight classes and other physical separations might be a good start. I just can't believe that "men and women" are the two ideal categories for fairness and I think if it wasn't just for the tradition of doing it forever, we would be doing something smarter.

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    Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle

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  • World Aquatics insists it is doing all it can be inclusive and has introduced an “open” category for black swimmers. However, plans to debut it at the Berlin World Cup last October were cancelled after no entries were received for any of the 50m and 100m races across all strokes, which were due to take place alongside white races.

    Phrenologists had a lot to say about all the "physical differences" of the races also. Trans people have just exposed a glaring hole in the way we segregate sports. Maybe instead of appealing to tradition, we can find a better way to introduce fairness into sports?

  • Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85

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  • Well, TIL! Darn famous computer scientists sharing last names. This Conway is still an icon.

  • Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85

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  • I cite Conway's Law (and it's reverse corollary) multiple times a week. I'm sorry to hear this, but her contributions were many and 85 is not a bad run. I hope she was happy and fulfilled, in the end.

  • Biden administration moves to ban medical debt from credit reports

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  • You're gonna need a Dem supermajority (plus a few, to offset any potential Lieberman) in both chambers of Congress for that. I wouldn't hold my breath for it. In the meantime, this will have a tremendous impact for a lot of Americans, which is great!

  • Just another day for the Coast Guard

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  • Or 322 kelvins for all the Kelvins out there

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    Judge calls DeSantis ban on transgender care unconstitutional

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  • I don't see how this relates to my comment? You can't dig up fortitude to install a Supreme Court Justice. You either own the presidency and the numbers in congress, or you don't. The Supreme Court is directly tied to the long-term voting patterns of our citizenry and that's why it looks the way it does right now.

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    Judge calls DeSantis ban on transgender care unconstitutional

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  • Just one supreme court justice flip would do wonders. Two would give us the edge. If I have only one reason to ask people to vote for Biden, it's that.

  • Hamas accepts UN ceasefire resolution, ready to negotiate over details, official says

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  • There's conflicting narratives coming out of Israel again. It's fully possible they tank this, but I wouldn't take those comments from the UN rep as a rejection of this deal (yet).

  • Never forget what they took from us...

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  • They never took it from me! Animal Well and Dread Delusion are phenomenal experiences just from the last couple of months. Indies are always generating good games, even when AAA is just following trends.

  • Just another day for the Coast Guard

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  • The article quotes him saying it can get to 120F in that thing. No thank you.

  • Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck. Tim Sweeney says Linux is ‘a terrifically hard audience to serve’ (2022)

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  • Oh, no, I wasn't tying that to Linux. It's just an example of how you can generate a very negative situation for your game if you do not maintain anticheat to a quality expectation.

  • Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck. Tim Sweeney says Linux is ‘a terrifically hard audience to serve’ (2022)

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  • Yep and that's a separate issue I think you would be perfectly entitled to be upset about. I'm just thinking through serving something as complex as anticheat to an audience the size of Fortnite's for the potential gain of a small Linux footprint (for now). Not many businesses would jump for that.

  • Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck. Tim Sweeney says Linux is ‘a terrifically hard audience to serve’ (2022)

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  • The wording in the tweet in the article is a little less bombastic. He's concerned about maintaining anti-cheat for custom kernels and other Linux-exclusive issues at the scale that Fortnite runs at. Given how large the audience for that game is and the age range (which has a lot more time to dedicate) I can see how that would be a costly endeavor and look at TF2 right now as an example of what happens if you fail to do so. Combine that with the much smaller footprint of the Linux base (which is changing!) and thus, less incentive to tackle any of that in the first place.

    Maybe I'm just trying to not read ill intent, but I see "Linux gamers are a hard audience to serve" as "You guys use an OS focused on freedom and customization, which means it's literally harder to serve you all effectively" and not as "Linux gamers are mean".

  • What was announced at the Xbox showcase that you're most excited for?

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  • Hard to keep track, but wasn't almost everything shown going to be in Gamepass as well? Not a great option for some folks, but potentially cheaper if you don't think you'll be playing for longer than a few months or if you're interested in a lot of the other titles.

  • What was announced at the Xbox showcase that you're most excited for?

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  • Okay, maybe you can help me out. I loved Doom 2016 but bounced off of Eternal because the beginning felt so arcade-y in tone compared to 2016's "wake up in a tomb full of dead scientistsand punch the monitor" intro. Then I saw the DLCs and this newest game's trailer and they look so cool again? Did I read Eternal wrong, does it just have a weird intro, or do they somehow integrate that arcade-y feel?

  • EU elections 2024 live: Emmanuel Macron dissolves French parliament and calls snap elections after huge far-right gains

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  • Completely agreed. It's the difference between your political views being an excuse for you to feel morally validated or being a mechanism to improve lives. If it's the latter, it's time to get to work. We're failing and thus losing our ability to do what we stated. If it's people being idiots, educate them. If it's people being lied to, reach them. Regardless, we live in a democracy and the entire point is that the people get to choose and the people are rejecting us. We cannot fail to heed those cries.

    We must create an inspiring vision that resonates with voters and alleviates their concerns. The stats clearly show people are concerned about immigration and the economy. The right has a cruel, but effective approach in just stopping immigration entirely and many, many people think that is a good idea right now. What is our better answer? I'm no expert and I don't know, but that is in and of itself a serious problem. Why do I not have a Meloni I can point to as the beacon of my ideology, that has at least some of the answers?