Dark_Arc

@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framasoft have reached the first goal of 15000 € for their PeerTube Fundraiser, with 15 days to go!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like the idea of peertube, but until it finds a way to pay creators I’m not sure it will ever be able to replace YouTube.

  YouTube is as good as it is because people get paid.

  The old school YouTubers just did it for fun, but YouTube was a lot different back then … and as much as I hate how aggressively Google is monetizing YouTube these days, it’s honestly a lot higher quality than it was years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So that’s why Oscar is always hiding in the trash can grumbling!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, Social Media Might Be Making Kids Depressed: Depression symptoms jumped 35% as kids’ average social media use rose from seven to 73 minutes daily over a three-year period.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there is a certain amount of social media that is itself the problem.

  Like, trolls and rage baiters are a menace; not to mention social media is often an assault on nuance.

  Memes are still really popular but they undercut serious discussion … and often just make noise about depressing shit without even the inkling of answers to the problems they comment on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You nailed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that would be confusing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marathon vs. Arc Raiders - Discussion of the games' opposite opinions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah for me, it’s the variety of tales that you author. Every game feels a bit like a new adventure, after a while similar to ones you’ve been on before, but still new.

  ARC has those elements, but something feels off so far for me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marathon vs. Arc Raiders - Discussion of the games' opposite opinions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played Marathon, but I did get into the ARC test. This will mostly be some ramblings…

  I’m still waiting to play ARC with some friends. I only did some solo stuff.

  I’m coming from this as a big Hunt Showdown player (1,200+ hours) and someone that’s played a bit of Forever Winter (~20). I still like Hunt better; I think it’s the only extraction shooter that didn’t take a ton of influence from Tarkov.

  I wasn’t crazy about the marathon art style, but I’m not ready to pass judgement on it until I’ve been in the world.

  ARC’s art style I found beautiful but also perhaps too sparse. There were so many wide open spaces … I just don’t see that being a good thing for an extraction shooter. The world felt vast and empty … I prefer Hunt’s more cluttered and dense design.

  ARC does seem to have a lot of potential in like how it’s designed its AI, Hunt’s is very primitive in a lot of ways and kind of secondary. I think the AI is going to be a bigger deal in ARC.

  Third person also feels worse to me than first person. I hope they add a first person mode to ARC, but I kind of doubt they will.

  I definitely agree that ARC felt like it was being set up to tell a story and felt very cinematic at times.

  The UI also felt like the best extraction shooter UI I’ve ever encountered.

  I’m concerned about the long term health of ARC. The progression system seems like it will certainly lead to established players dominating newer players. The lack of a primary objective that’s shared by all the teams on the map … I’m not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, it may lead to a more relaxed experience, on the other hand, it doesn’t curate players towards each other like Hunt does; it seems looting and crafting are the primary motivators instead.

  The flights that I did get into, they lacked the complex environment and buildings in Hunt so I didn’t find them nearly as engaging, they were much more straight forward gunfights than leveraging the map to my it my opponents advantage. I think that aspect will ultimately hurt the game as it makes it feel like a bit of a generic shooter.

  Overall ARC felt very middle of the road from what I’ve played of it so far. I had a similar feeling about The Finals. Embark seems like a talented studio and I wish them the best as they go up against Bungie and Crytek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  🤦‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google wants to make its 2M-mile fiber network fully autonomous by year’s end⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly suspect antitrust is the reason Google hasn’t laid more fiber. They’re dangerously close to being broken up for so many other things adding this would be a very high risk gambit. Especially because ISPs are known for their shitty business practices and leveraging lawyers to maximum pain on any legitimate competition that threatens them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Something to implement signing given the key to sign with could almost certainly be created.

  I think the biggest reason this stuff hasn’t really happened is … there’s not much motivation and Apple will likely respond to such efforts unkindly so you might need to be a bit of a curious masochist (or at least in strange circumstances) to attempt such an effort 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t really; a cross compilation with a compiler that can generate the ARM instructions for Apple’s ARM CPUs should largely just work.

  However, it’s impossible to test the produced app without using an iPhone or MacOS’s tools to simulate running on an iPhone. You also are just going to have way less of an uphill battle using Apple’s tools and you’re likely to get better optimized binaries.

  You also don’t have to build iOS apps with Swift; C++ and things like Qt can be used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For MacOS you’re right, for iOS OP is right; you’re being a dick about it though, so maybe that’s the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated wiki software?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that could definitely be cool.

  Cost would be a big factor … Fandom got big by being free and eventually replaced (or heavily customized) mediawiki to the point it’s unrecognizable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LAN (local area network) games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything with a server software you can host can be played on LAN (okay probably not some things because they’re being weird but in general this is true).

  That means counter strike, Minecraft, supertuxkart, xonotic, enshrouded, pal world, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh yeah that’s been an increasing problem too. I had some guy last year just as dusk was starting to set with a bike headlight blinding me on the bike trail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100% this; I’ll see the same make a model go by, with LED lights, and it will be fine one time the next time I’ll be long 🔥 MY EYES 🔥.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But I have such a soft spot for how beautiful the console is from a design and hardware standpoint. That boxy gray box is such beauty.

  Agree to disagree lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Truthfully the you that’s reading this this second, might have just come into existence with all the memories you have now. There’s no way to know how volatile truth really is in our universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust is Eating JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But they are not the default option. And your new job may not use them.

  Who cares if it’s the default? If it’s the best tool, use it.

  It’s to have a reason for “going Rust” be the build system, especially in the context of something as new as a WASM context where basically any project is going to be green field or green field adjacent.

  Exceptions is a non standard exit point. And by “non standard” I’m not talking about the language but about its surprise appearance not specified in the prototype. Calling double foo(); you don’t know if you should try/catch it, against which exceptions, is it an internal function that may throw 10 level deep ?

  And that’s a feature not a bug; it gets incredibly tedious to unwrap or forward manually at every level.

  By contrast fn foo() -> Result<f64, Error> in rRst tell you the function may fail. You can inspect the error type if you want to handle it. But the true power of Result in Rust (and Option) is that you have a lot of ergonomic ways to handle the bad case and you are forced to plan for it so you cannot use a bad value thinking it’s good:

  You can do this in C++ en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/expected (and as I said, if you feel so inclined, turn off exceptions entirely); it’s just not the “usual” way of doing things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does the 3-2-1 rule look like for you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Kopia to B2, then on a monthly basis I copy the current Kopia repo to an external drive that’s otherwise kept offline in my house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust is Eating JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, maybe it’s not easy because they don’t provide debug information, but a sufficiently motivated person can debug a web assembly binary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust is Eating JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. It’s statically compiled and isn’t dependent on system binaries and won’t break if there if the system has the wrong version like C/C++, allowing you to distribute it as a single binary without any other installation steps

  You can do that with C++ too.

  2. Still produces fairly small binaries unlike languages like Java or C# (because of the VM)

  I mean, the jars are actually pretty small; but also I really don’t get the storage argument. I mean we live in a world where people happily download a 600 MB discord client.

  3. Is a modern language with a good build system (It’s like night and day compared to CMake)

  Meson exists … as do others.

  4. And I just like how the language works (errors as values etc.)

  Fair enough; though why? What’s wrong with exceptions?

  I work in a code base where I can’t use exceptions because certain customers can’t use exceptions, and I regularly wish I could because errors as values is so tedious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust is Eating JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The minifiers have long made JavaScript just as indecipherable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best place to get water from a hotel room is the shower head⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In what world is a shower more used than a sink?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They even sued a guy who spent 6 years writting, casting, shooting, and producing a full length live action Zelda movie. They released it online for about a week before it got taken down. Never to be downloaded by anyone who didn’t grab it right away.

  Man that would be soul crushing …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in a small company that doesn’t hire hardly at all… Stories like this scare me because I have no way to personally quantify how common that kind of attitude might be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in my own house, notice the @social.packetlosss.gg; our “houses” are just talking and that continued conversation is subject to ruud’s and I’s discretion. The way federation works, really nobody “owns” the content, there’s just an agreement on what the primary copy is. There’s no support for this in the software currently, but you could conceptually change which server is the primary copy at any time. The protocol and to some extent the content on it exist in an intangible space.

  IMO all Reddit did was strengthen their legal argument; they arguably already had the right to make a “book of reddit poems.” They just wanted to stack the deck on their side. Arguably you have the right to make a book of poems on Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think the big selling point for me is not the privacy on Lemmy, but control of conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The law is largely down to who argues better in court. There is precedent for reduced rights in public spaces. e.g. if you go into the town square and talk to someone and it’s caught on the camera of the mother a park bench away that’s recording her child … that’s not an illegal recording and she has the copyright on said recording. You have no legal right to ask the mother to delete the recording or delete your audio from the recording, even in a two party consent space because you have no right to privacy in a public setting like that.

  Similarly, when you post on Lemmy … it’s kind of good faith that if you delete something it actually gets deleted from the platform across all instances and that it’s not just visibility deleted but deleted from the databases under the hood.

  You do “own your content” but it’s pretty meaningless ownership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but there is a FOSS nature about it. At least ANYONE can do whatever they want with the comments and posts I make public instead of just whichever company pays reddit for API access.

  I mean… True; it’s just I wouldn’t characterize Lemmy as superior on privacy. Ideally we’d figure out a way to fix that, but I’m not sure we can really.

  And reddit has some legal jargon about co-owning the copyright to whatever you post over there but lemmy doesn’t so you technically have more protection here to your own intellectual property.

  This I’m not so sure about. You aren’t handing over ownership rights when you sign up for most (any?) instance, but your ownership right is effectively null and void.

  IANAL but arguably in a US court (at least) since Lemmy is effectively a true public place, you effectively lose the right to tell other people what they can do with your interactions.

  And privacy is a whole different can of worms as I don’t think ruud is harvesting telemetry to sell to advertisers and whatnot.

  That part is arguably true. It is harder to tie this data back to a particular user for the purposes of selling to advertisers.