killeronthecorner

@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨43 pregnant men⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They had a baby in 0.2 months!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America last night⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh is it world war 3 again? Crumbs it’s come around fast this time hasn’t it. Are we up to them securing the oil fields yet, or are they still talking about WMDs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birthday Gift for Grandma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The games I have for my grandma are: Tetris DX, Mario’s Picross, Pokemon Yellow, Super Mario Bros Deluxe, and Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX.

  This made me want to be nine years old and going on a long trip again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Recycling 2: Electric Bugaloo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mood⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Studio Camelia shuts down a year after raising €300,000 on Kickstarter to fund JRPG (Alzara Radiant Echoes)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of that is to allow risky projects the opportunity to succeed in comfortable financial circumstances.

  Cases like this abuse the system to scam people while using the ToS to skirt legal implications. So it is fraud, just dressed up as a gambling.

  That said, the outcome is the same: don’t waste your money on Kickstarter unless you’d be willing to use the same money at a blackjack table

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Lemmy meta just dropped..⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a shortening of metagame

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was one of the big 5 in my mind. I never did any BB dev, but I remember looking into it at the time. If I couldn’t get a device for cheap or free it was inaccessible. Student life is what it is. By the time I made my webOS money they were already on the decline and considering a move to android so I didn’t consider it thereon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing well known on WP, and I don’t want to give names as it’ll dox me given reviews are out there somewhere.

  One was a different take on a Twitter app and another was a minimalist Instapaper app. I will say no more!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I developed one of the top ten apps in the webOS App Store. I released it about 6 months before they shuttered Palm and started the transition of webOS in to a vague “embedded and mobile things” open source OS that eventually ended up on, primarily, LG televisions.

  It was my first big success as a computer science student. When I started working on my next big app idea it was about 80% complete when the new dropped that they were discontinuing all phones and tablets. Palm used to send me free phones and tablets too, and I spent a lot of time in the community forums, I had reviews on webOS Nation, and so on

  I maintain to this day that enyo is one of the greatest app development frameworks ever written and I wonder what the landscape of web development would look like today if they’d moved faster to liberate it from mobile devices. The webOS team were also earlier adopters of nodeJS for their native services. It felt like living in the future using them at a time when the iPhone 4 was barely out.

  If you can believe it, after that I moved over to Windows Phone, where history repeated without the afterlife. After that, I felt cursed but, honestly, I chose both platforms because the stores weren’t saturated with 100 versions of every app imaginable.

  They were great times. Five big mobile platforms, free devices, open APIs to work with - it really was a digital gold rush.

  I now have LG TVs in every room and it’s so strange to use webOS in it’s final(?) form. Wonderfully, there’s a homebrew community just as there was back in the day, albeit on a much smaller scale. I’ve even made a wrapper for some home assistant features.

  webOS is dead. Long live webOS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Press F to pay respects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, but these problems are common to all the instances. Maybe I interpreted it wrong, it sounded like they were directly engaging the bad actors over management of the platform, and doing that rather than just quietly banning them and moving on.

  And to be clear I’m all for open collaboration and taking feedback, but I’ve seen this occur for Lemmy apps where loud and overbearing voices try and dominate the conversation to the benefit of noone, until Devs either stop responding or shut things down.

  Regardless, it’s sad to lose an instance and I hope the admins find something rewarding to invest in without having to deal with the internet’s worst members.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Slavic engineering gone too far?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or has it gone not too far enough!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Press F to pay respects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll.

  While I respect their decision I feel like these people will just move on to other instances to do the same thing.

  I don’t know all the details but it smells a bit “tolerant of the intolerant” and that these people should have been shown the door before it got to the point of shutting down (other reasons aside - they’re all valid)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's in the weather patterns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Show me the mars bars

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turned off by default in EEA, UK, Japan and Switzerland, for anyone interested (had to login to find out).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just use Jellyfin for this too, not sure I follow the issue but I haven’t used Plex since migrating

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 3 Has Been Designed to be ‘The Final Chapter’, It’s Claimed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like a dog with no eyes. Now I’m sad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Describing design problems and attributing them to “bad code” is part of the problem tbh. The issue in your example started long before any code was written.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common British L⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the Indian national dish

  Uh, no it isn’t…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨70% of games that require internet get destroyed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me building mega castles on my one man modded Rust server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Copilot Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning.

  Stealing this because it manages to put technical concerns into hand-waving manager speak.

  And a pretty solid article. I think leaning on micro-enhancements to performance a little to hard at the end but the rest jibes with my experiences working in a large company where non-technical bloviators are leading the charge of changing the approach field they don’t understand and have no training in.

  “We’re bringing AI to OKRs!” they say hungrily, as their weak arms attempt to pull the rug.

  “Sure you are”, I say, pretending to stumble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi, I’m the second data point, it’s nice to meet you. Do you know what time the others will be arriving?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can’t. Star Citizen is the Trump of videogames

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good times were had⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Introducing people to the alternate controller layout was like unlocking part of their brain they didn’t know was there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah I misread this

  It started refunding deposits for the $16,000 extra battery pack.

  You are correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Thanks for all the $16k loans at 0% shmucks. We’ve kept the interest we made while rates have been up and now you can have it back while they’re dropping. Of course, your money is now worth less than it was when you gave it to us during high inflation. Suck it losers. Love, T E S L A”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. seeks breakup of Google's ad-tech products after judge finds illegal monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Once upon a time they were the “good ads”. They had an unobtrusive but instantly recognisable ad-format that was reasonably tolerable and text-only. It was once they started showing sponsored search results that it became apparent they were willing to be subversive to get clicks.

  Their whole image was built around user trust and the moment they had everyone hooked they 180ed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literal interpretation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol I really shoulda looked it up first

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literal interpretation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably-crones-disease homies, represent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to strap the internet to someone’s face to distort their reality with it, as demonstrated by… Well, gestures broadly