VortexDream (u/VortexDream)

VortexDream commented on Evergrande has defaulted on its debt, Fitch Ratings says cnn.com/2021/12/09/invest... · Posted by u/Pigalowda

thedudeabides5 · 4 years ago

My hot take on this.

Yes it matters Yes there will be contagion No it won’t stop until the government (Xi and PBoC) agree on how bad it will get before they start bailing others out.

Now that too big to fail is dead in China, expect more failures, basically.

https://t.co/TXNfUdoVi5

VortexDream · 4 years ago

You realize that they've already repeatedly said they'd "bail out" people and groups affected by this? They just weren't willing to reward Evergrande's reckless behavior by giving them more money. Something the US should've done (so much for free market capitalism as a principle).

VortexDream commented on Italy fines Amazon record $1.3B for abuse of market dominance reuters.com/technology/it... · Posted by u/ausudhz

config_yml · 4 years ago

This has happened since 2000, cost of doing shady business I guess:

- BP: 35.5

- Volkswagen: 25.6

- Deutsche Bank: 18.3

- UBS: 16.8

- BNP: 12.1

- Nat West: 13.4

- Glaxo Smith Kline: 7.8

- Credit Suisse: 10.4

(in billions)

edit: formatting

VortexDream · 4 years ago

Confused. Shouldn't we be fining companies that break the law? We should be expanding it, instead of complaining when another country happens to fine a company that happens to be from the same country as us.

As German, fine the fuck out of the corrupt people in Deutsche.

VortexDream commented on Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory cnn.com/2021/12/02/europe... · Posted by u/Tomte

nzk · 4 years ago

What we're seeing here is one of the wealthiest countries in the world with a population of > 80M people crumbling over a few thousand ICU patients because of long-standing issues that were never addressed.

The staffing problems in hospitals (and nursing homes) have existed much longer than Covid. I heard a lot about them myself when I did my FSJ (volunteer work) back in 2004, and it's only gotten worse since then. Our government is in full CYA mode, and doing everything they can to blame a scapegoat for problems they themselves have willingly created over decades. It's despicable, and nobody should support it.

FSJ is a year-long volunteer program for young people typically organized and funded by NGOs like the Red Cross and similar. I worked with small children, plenty of the other volunteers I met regularly worked in hospitals and nursing homes. They all talked at length about how atrocious the working conditions were and how they were asked to do things they weren't legally allowed to (e.g. taking blood, handing out medication) because the staff shortages were severe enough that people didn't have enough time to adhere to very reasonable safety rules anymore. That was 17 years ago.

This is a well known, widely publicized[0] and not at all new problem, and the unvaccinated are not to blame for it. Let me repeat, we're talking about one of the wealthiest countries in the world with a population of 83M people crumbling over a few thousand ICU patients.

[0]Some random articles from 2018/19 (German):

https://gesundheit-soziales.verdi.de/themen/mehr-personal/++...

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/wenn-aus-notstand-panik-...

https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2018-05/pflegenotsta...

https://www.rbb-online.de/kontraste/ueber_den_tag_hinaus/bil...

VortexDream · 4 years ago

I'm terrified by the fact that there are so many antivaxxers in Germany that they're showing up here too, as supposedly educated and intelligent peers. It is absolutely the fault of unvaccinated that they're unvaccinated and putting society at risk. It doesn't matter how many ICU beds and staff you have, an unvaccinated population would quickly overwhelm it simply by virtue of how incredibly long it takes to recover and how quickly new strains would develop.

VortexDream commented on Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online old.reddit.com/r/legaladv... · Posted by u/po1nter

VortexDream · 4 years ago

I'm sick of people, so I'm not going to read the inevitable comments that are going to come. Look, face it, some people like taking nude photos of themselves and they like sharing them with their partners. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. It's not their fault if something like this happens. People should be able to feel secure in the tech that they use, in the companies that they entrust their information with. It's a fuckload of bullshit victim blaming and I see it every time the topic comes up. I'm sick of it.

VortexDream commented on German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9 quad9.net/news/press/germ... · Posted by u/pgl

VortexDream · 4 years ago

I am so incredibly tired of Germany being a legal and technical internet backwater. It's exhausting and depressing and I hate it so much. I wish the old people would fuck the hell off, because they simply don't belong in positions that represent our society in a modern world.

VortexDream commented on Winamp source code leak web.archive.org/web/20210... · Posted by u/svlasov

CamperBob2 · 4 years ago

Not a whole lot to it. I just add the makefile, .cpp and .h files, Windows resource script, and other sources to the .iss file that Inno Setup uses to generate the setup program. They all get dumped in the same directory at installation time, for better or worse.

In the case of one commercial application, there are also binary blobs in the form of DLLs that support custom hardware.

It's not one of those practices that scales particularly well, but it works for me...

VortexDream · 4 years ago

Seems to me like the fact it doesn't scale is why you do it. It's a decent way to avoid the responsibilities of having to lead an open source project while still giving others the benefits of having the source code available and modifiable. I wish more devs would do this.

VortexDream commented on Winamp source code leak web.archive.org/web/20210... · Posted by u/svlasov

EMIRELADERO · 4 years ago

> Also it goes both ways on the trust aspects & maybe when the likes of fb2k, aimp & musicbee go OSS I might eventually reconsider my dinosaur like approach to development but there has to be a tangible benefit for me to do it.

Forgive me for asking, but if the reason for you releasing WACUP to the public at all isn't purely personal benefit (if it was only about that might as well keep it to yourself right?) but to help people and share something that you deem useful and let others benefit from it, why would the source code be any different? Put another way: why is releasing the binaries publicly acceptable even if it doesn't benefit you directly, but doing the same thing for the source itself isn't?

VortexDream · 4 years ago

Releasing a project as open source is associated with a lot of work and responsibility. People get quite entitled over open source projects and get quite upset when developers don't do what they want. I can see why he's unwilling to undergo all that stress and pressure if he feels it doesn't benefit him.

VortexDream commented on Winamp source code leak web.archive.org/web/20210... · Posted by u/svlasov

lproven · 4 years ago

Foodbar 2000 FTW. https://www.foobar2000.org/

Tiny, fast, simple, does the job.

There's an Android version too, which is my go-to audio player, because of its simplicity.

Both FOSS.

VortexDream · 4 years ago

Yeah, but does it really whip the llama's ass?

VortexDream commented on UK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy deal reuters.com/markets/deals... · Posted by u/monkeydust

vineyardmike · 4 years ago

Which Facebook monopoly are you referencing? None of their businesses seem to be a monopoly.

Ben Thompson explained why it’s not a monopoly well:

https://stratechery.com/2021/regulators-and-reality/

VortexDream · 4 years ago

For the love of god, having a monopoly is not required to be guilty of anti-competitive behavior. Every time the topic comes up somebody says "but FB/whoever doesn't own the entire market so everything is fine", as if it absolves FB from acting like complete and utter pieces of shit socially and in business. News flash, it doesn't fucking matter. They don't need a de facto monopoly to have an adverse effect on competition or their consumers/users.

VortexDream commented on Why are German numbers backwards? german.stackexchange.com/... · Posted by u/tosh

chrizel · 4 years ago

German here... I hate how we say numbers. Even after 36 years I still have problems with it. If I have to dictate phone numbers I'm saying each digit separately because everything else is just confusing and very often leads to swapped numbers on the other end. (sadly, most Germans say phone numbers as sets of two, and not as single digits) It just makes no sense and I very much prefer English, it is much more logical.

Some people have founded the association "Zwanzigeins" (look it up, they have a web site) where they try to push for another way of saying numbers in German and teaching them at school. But even they admit that the chances are very slim we change the way we say numbers.

VortexDream · 4 years ago

Every freaking time a German dictates a number they do it in a sane way for half the number then do the backwards way for the rest which totally trips me up. I hate it.