FarceOfWill
@FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
- Comment on Tempest Rising review (PC Gamer: 85/100) 6 days ago:
He had a career spanning dozens of stone cold classic movies, incredible performances all.
And I will always first remember him corpsing over SPAAACE!!!
- Comment on UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s 1 week ago:
By age checking everybody connecting to social media
- Comment on Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow 1 week ago:
It’s not fictions job to sell your latest rentier extraction tool. The news media already does it by reprinting PR releases just be grateful for that.
If you want a positive view of the future any startup has the power to make one at any time. Then when you don’t get funding you’ll see where the real problem lies.
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. 2 weeks ago:
Typically working with a junior on a project is slower than not working with them. It’s a little odd you see this as like that and that it’s also faster.
- Comment on The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War: How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost. 2 weeks ago:
It could also spell the end of today’s open Internet, as Europeans look to build alternative platforms to those of the giant U.S. tech firms.
I think you mean “closed internet”!
- Comment on Ubisoft Leamington UK, responsible for development of Star Wars Outlaws and Skull & Bones, officially closed. 2 weeks ago:
Shadows is great tbh. Can’t speak about sales figures but it’s the most fun I’ve had with AC in ages. The jumps being ninja roll jumps is perfect.
Valhalla was far too serious, a schlocky Japanese revenge flick is much more on target.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 weeks ago:
What are they going to do? blacklist me and stop serving me ads?
Oh no
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 3 weeks ago:
As a curved blade I think they’re all already banned, so this law does nothing to you
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 3 weeks ago:
Collecting them isn’t much of a reason to be carrying them around.
I don’t think the police would let you off if you claimed to have just bought it. I’d expect them to demand some kind of proof.
The law is so when they raid a gang members home and find five swords they can do something other than compliment them on their awesome ninja sword collection.
- Comment on Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes 3 weeks ago:
But network rail don’t run any trains
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 4 weeks ago:
It peaked at 4 with the fall from heaven 2 mid
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 1 month ago:
Aside from the unacceptable violence, the story here is far more complicated than that.
They were just impossible to work with.I think PeopleMakeGames did a good YouTube video on it if you’ve not seen it.
- Comment on Do not stand at my grave and weep 1 month ago:
The flickering of them in the atmosphere is her so it’s just justified enough for a poem
- Comment on Github scam investigation: Thousands of "mods" and "cracks" stealing your data 1 month ago:
There have been cases of crypto miners embedded but once discovered they’re nuked so quick it’s hard to get more than rumours.
C# modding is the most likely vector (rimworld, cities skylines, unity stuff) but Skyrim skse mods are raw code too. All can be misused.
Usually lua mods have a sandbox so they’re safe. Eg.factorio. and, um, more but my mind has gone blank.
- Comment on The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers 1 month ago:
Subsidise orchards like we do open farm land?
(I am not good enough at this law to know if orchards get the farming subsidies, happy to be informed by Lemmy people)
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 month ago:
Despite my drive-by shitposts in the rest of this thread I want to make a serious point here.
There’s a large part of software engineering that thinks languages are chosen based on the problem, as a tool for a job.
They aren’t. They’re chosen based on the team, on how well the team knows and can use the tool. On how many people can be hired with the knowledge of the tool to work immediately.
Sometimes, even if the team knows C well, there can be a problem so different it’s worth using another tool. say python for some testing scripts on a C project.
But rust and C are too similar for this to apply. If you want rust to be used for the kernel you have to push for it to be more well known and used, so more Devs come into teams already knowing it well. Anyone agreeing to work on a team using rust is making a career decision that will be stay on their CV forver and you need them to feel good about this, that it will give them more opportunity in future.
It’ll take 20+ years because that’s how long legacy code is often maintained for and we already have 20+ years of future legacy code for C teams to deal with. We’re all making more future legacy C code than future legacy rust code too.
I’m trapped in C++ so I’m doomed but good luck C and Rust coders.
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 month ago:
C++ is a semi automatic shotgun with 200 barrels point in all directions.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 2 months ago:
Junior Dev’s could never code, yes including us
- Comment on US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit 2 months ago:
In a brief statement, the UK government said it had not been able to add its name to it because of concerns about national security and “global governance.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8edn0n58gwo
No idea if thats a real reason or not.
- Comment on Microplastics in tea bags 3 months ago:
Not clicking but if this is the one from a while ago its specifically about plastic glteabags. And, like, obviously.
If you stir with a plastic spoon you’ll have even more
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 months ago:
The comments here show the real problem, adverts dont have to say why they’ve been selected.
All online ads should have to say which filters they matched to advertise to you. The advertising in most cases now is centralised into Google or Facebook, this is absolutely technically possible.
- Comment on Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped 3 months ago:
Our stalwart guardians of the land right there, we make them work so hard for their tax free inheritance
- Comment on Study finds young people more likely to spend Christmas alone 3 months ago:
Alone with a mobile and 4 separate communications apps with dozens of chats
- Comment on AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans” 4 months ago:
This doesn’t sound like a great company.
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 4 months ago:
No I agree, it’s mostly useful to fertilize the plants elsewhere in the garden.
But it seems everyone here is thinking of lawns and I realise late my concept of a garden is utterly alien to what most people actually do. No lawns for me!
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 4 months ago:
I don’t have my books handy, but while they take a lot back this varies by species and the fallen leaves can have a lot of N and P in some cases.
Though I’ve always seen them shredded and used for making compost anyway rather than leaving them on the ground. Too easy to get rot that way. And you really want to spread them around the rest of the garden if you’ve planted trees that do drop N in the leaves
- Comment on rollin' deep 4 months ago:
Ankles and knees are a complete con. I want my money back evolution.
- Comment on Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes 4 months ago:
Pissing off farmers is more likely to gainn support in rural communities than lose it.
- Comment on How a post on Reddit accidentally kickstarted the revival of Angus Steakhouse 5 months ago:
The customers they have are getting absolutely rinsed
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 5 months ago:
If you don’t get jokes it can’t be helped but try not to interrupt the rest of us.