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- Comment on Fediverse Report – #128 - this week's fediverse news 6 hours ago:
Ummm… What is that logo?
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 6 hours ago:
That may be a good idea. However, people have had around two or more decades of familiarity with all things centralised and the conveniences associated with it.
It will take a great amount of time and effort to build a equivalently convenient decentralised alternative and to overcome the inertia to migrate to it.
The latter I believe is only possible when something enormously drastic happens. We had a good number of drastic events happen in the last decade (Twitter poisoning, Meta privacy breaches, Reddit shenanigans), but none enough to convince people to move to alternatives.
Another possibility is for regulations and/or governments to support the alternatives, but that may have unintended side effects of its own.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 7 hours ago:
Call it the network effect, or the momentum of becoming a staple in the tech community, or whatever; GitHub is here to stay for a while, and the leaders in charge of it are well aware of this.
GitHub has gained enough attention that it is almost impossible to ignore. Projects on GitHub tend to attract a level of engagement (code contributions, issue reports, and feedback) that other code forges do not enjoy.
One unfortunate consequence of this, which I have experienced firsthand very recently, is when recruiters ask for links to my past work or open-source contributions but refuse to accept links to relevant repositories on GitLab. The number of companies where this occurred was significant enough for me to set up mirror repositories on GitHub.
Another frustrating but silly consequence was when I was questioned during one of the interviews why my activity graph on GitHub was empty. I had simply not enabled it.
- Comment on selfh.st: improper etiquette by 2010 standards? (trackers, no RSS) Thoughts? 17 hours ago:
I just pulled the feed for the first time after reading your post, and the content is like you describe. A pity as I liked what I saw on the website.
I may try the workaround and see if it helps.
- Comment on I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena 3 days ago:
I used to think of it as bacteria on top of my eyeballs. Then my sibling put in the fear that the bacteria is inside the eyeballs, which made sense since washing my eyes didn’t really remove it. I eventually stopped giving it any thought.
Thank you for resolving it.
- Comment on "A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing. 6 days ago:
Thank you for the book recommendation. I have added it to my reading list.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
approaching it as a game is more likely to hurt your experience of it than help it
That is well put. Thinking of it as a game with objectives to compete and making progress towards the end, is somewhat detrimental to the experience. Akin to watching a movie to complete it rather than experience it.
post about whatever I’m playing pretty much weekly both here on !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works and on !gaming@beehaw.org in the weekly threads
Noted. Thank you.
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 1 week ago:
Thank you. I did read some of the news. Just wanted to know if I missed something.
Unfortunately, I can already see the term “NSFW” being abused to fit whatever narrative the governments.
Moreover, it is setting a dangerous precedent for rest of the world, especially countries already leaning towards fascism.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Disco Elysium is my favourite game from the last decade (maybe even beyond, but I have soft spot for old games).
To me, it is a case study of how well games work as a storytelling medium if done with the right mindset and people. Everything including the art style, music, game mechanics worked for the story, and it was a joy to experience that.
It is a shame what took place behind the scenes, and I wish there is a better way to show my support to the original developers.
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 1 week ago:
OOTL here. What brings this realisation?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I wasn’t aware about the similarities with Dark Souls, and about the designer’s previous interests.
I guess what I needed was a strong recommendation. Just purchased the game on Steam after checking for its compatibility on ProtonDB (it is platinum).
Thank you for the recommending the game, and for taking away the chore of deciding what to play this weekend.
Again, I am really glad we had this conversation.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Thanks again for the recommendations. Blue Prince looks refreshingly good and different. I did hear quite a bit about Clair Obscur, but turn based gameplay never appealed to me. I did not play Baldur’s Gate 3 for the same reasons, in spite of it being so well received.
I agree with your criticisms about Ghosts of Tsushima, and have made similar observations as well. However, Ghost of Tsushima and Spider-Man are my comfort games where I just soak in their music and atmosphere while I do something else like talk with someone.
- Comment on Tesla Reports Drop in Self-Driving Safety After Introducing “End-to-End Neural Networks” 1 week ago:
This is taking “testing in production” to a whole new level. How did this get past the regulations?
On second thoughts, does any country have concrete regulations for self driving vehicles? I am curious what they would be, and how they would quantify the thresholds since no self driving solution would be 100% accident-free.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I also have felt that in my older age I’m gravitating more towards medium-length games with a proper story that you can finish and put away, as opposed to the endless MMOs and grindy ARPGs I enjoyed in my youth.
You could not have captured it better.
I am glad we had this conversation. Please do recommend me some more games. if you do not mind.
I was on a long break from gaming (almost a year) due to life, and plan to resume weekend gaming soon. For the same reason, I have been scouting these communities and threads for recommendations.
As of now, I zeroed down on the Mass Effect trilogy on the Steam Deck but I am also considering a second play through of Ghosts of Tsushima. I would prefer a light(er) game which is easy to get into and allow me to take breaks as I don’t think I will be able to pull off hour long sessions initially.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I like when a game isn’t deliberately wasting your time.
Well said.
Also, PoE is a game that I have not visited in almost a decade. How is it now? When I played it last, it felt like Diablo 2 but with very little explicit story to experience (it had lore that one could discover). I gave up on the game after a few days since without a proper story, the grind got boring very quickly.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I agree with all of your points about Blasphemous, good and bad. I knew the games (both Blasphemous 1 and 2) received mediocre reviews, but I still purchased both together during a sale because I really liked its art and setting.
However, when I played Blasphemous early last year, I had just got back into the platformers genre after around a long break. I had just finished Hollow Knight (just the first ending or two, I didn’t have the time or the patience to finish the other endings).
The wonderful art and interesting story did not alleviate the pains of the gameplay. Its contrast with Hollow Knight only made it worse. It was clunky, and the game seemed to (unintentionally) work against the player.
I did complete the first ending, as well as the first ending for the sequel. The mechanics of the sequel are a bit more forgiving, thankfully.
I still would not recommend the games, unless one really likes the art and setting of the games.
Also, thank you for introducing me to Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree. I have bookmarked it, and hope to play it soon.
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- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 2 weeks ago:
Having read the entire thread, I can only assume this to be sarcasm.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Fascinating. But isn’t this akin to stripes on a tiger or zebra, just visibly in a different electromagnetic spectrum?
Whereas bioluminescence involves producing/emitting of light like fireflies.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 3 weeks ago:
Pardon my denseness, but is this sarcasm? Since that is a TeX snippet.
Why would a RegEx start with a
$? - Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for discovering this, and creating awareness around it.
Seems like a genuine miss, contrary to what the comments here would have one believe, given that the compose file (and rest of the docs) were mostly derived from whatever worked for the developers themselves.
- Comment on I am working on a turn-based wargame, influenced by the old Win3.x era WinWar 2 game 3 weeks ago:
I had to read more than once to realise it is not a game about WinRar.
Having said that, all the best with the development, and may the game find love and success. :-)
- Comment on Prepare yourselves! 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps they aren’t crying over their mistake, and don’t like children in general?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know how you arrived at this based on what @TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca was saying.
Connection strength is a network/infrastructure problem while what was being said in the original comment is an application/usage one.
The other part of your statement can be solved using a search engine which restricts itself to just searches and not distract itself with ads and AI. But evidently such a product is hard to build in today’s world.
- Comment on poor jeremy 3 weeks ago:
A perfect origin story of a villain.
Jeremy then goes on a crime spree, but he was caught early on because he is a snail… with a left-coiled shell. The shell prints at the crime scenes helped narrow it down to him instantly.
- Comment on Employees at Amazon headquarters were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery 4 weeks ago:
I had not thought of this serving as an entry ora trial for new customers. It makes a lot of sense. Thank you.
- Comment on Employees at Amazon headquarters were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery 4 weeks ago:
I can rationalise holding off on buying a new phone or furniture until a sale. But for groceries?
One either needs groceries or they do not.
Perhaps, there are some categories of groceries that one may not buy unless there is a good occasion but might buy them if there is a good deal on it?
Or maybe, one may buy the pricier variety like “organic” groceries during such sales?
- Comment on Employees at Amazon headquarters were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery 4 weeks ago:
The article indicates this was for their Prime Day event.
Are people really waiting for an annual event to buy their groceries? Or are the Fresh delivery personnel reassigned to other verticals for the event’s duration?
Former is shocking and borderline dystopian. Latter is just poor planning and resourcing.
- Comment on Man, I hate it when this happens! 4 weeks ago:
Oh. I only feel enlightened about anus.
I am clueless as to what it is doing in a medieval combat manual.
The most I can rationalise is that the author had a bout of frustration, and the manual was the only outlet for their thoughts.
- Comment on Man, I hate it when this happens! 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for enlightening me.