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- Comment on There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel. 2 months ago:
The Learning Channel changed their name to TLC when they stopped carrying educational content.
- Comment on This Is Why You Should Never Store Your Retro Game Collection In A Shed | Time Extension 2 months ago:
Does putting a waterproof label sticker on the top of the disc prevent this sort of decay?
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
It’s a Block Pushing Game is a sokobanlike from the creator of Baba Is You. It’s relatively short but has multiple novel mechanics. I enjoyed it enough to create a curses client for it.
PS: If you like Baba Is You, Hempuli publishes multiple new games per month, mostly clever sokoban-likes, at hempuli.itch.io
- Comment on The Humble Games Situation Gets Messier With Claims Of Lies And Damage Control 3 months ago:
humble games is a game publisher, only connected to humble bundle through corporate ownership. most games in humble bundles aren’t published by humble games, and most games published by humble games don’t end up in humble bundles
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 6 months ago:
Article author seems to have completely fabricated the “10 more”. There are no quotes from anyone even hinting at more whistleblowers existing, let alone ten more.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
As a long time Pandora user… I never want to select individual songs. I want stations, vibes, playlists, etc.
- Comment on A specific practical objection to modern blocking culture 8 months ago:
Mastodon has timed muting, but only permanent blocking.
- Comment on Can we improve the Fediverse Allow-List Model? 9 months ago:
Some day most people are going to understand that “I want to post something visible to everyone in the world EXCEPT these specific people” is not a viable or reasonable or even possible approach to communication, and any attempts to make it work are doomed to failure.
- Comment on A specific practical objection to modern blocking culture 9 months ago:
It’s extremely unlikely … YOU, sure. But it’s absolutely certain that legit people will be blocked from contacting from those numbers to hundreds or thousands of other people.
- Submitted 9 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on Alec Baldwin charged for shooting; 10 months ago:
Since… about a decade ago? Noise cancellation/reduction has been an available feature in earmuffs marketed to firearms users for a while now.
- Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. 10 months ago:
Would you spend an hour fixing a problem that will only save you ten minutes total in the rest of your lifetime using the software?
- Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. 10 months ago:
How did you get from “People often ask” to “having recurring conversations with everyone you know”?
- Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. 10 months ago:
Most of my motivation here was recurring conversations with friends and colleagues and strangers about how much time I put into making small contributions to open source projects.
- Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. 10 months ago:
I’m going to click the [-] thread collapse button on Lemmy 50 times in the next ten minutes.
- Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. 10 months ago:
That area of the chart is for people with really repetitive jobs/hobbies. There are MANY jobs where you do the same 5-10 minute thing 50x a day.
- Submitted 10 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 53 comments
- Comment on The Outer Worlds w/ All DLC free until 26 Dec 2023 4PM UTC 10 months ago:
you’re mad that someone dared stand up to Gaben and his monopoly
And you can tell that by how much they complain(ed) about Itch, GoG, Desura, and other competitors, right?
- Comment on The Outer Worlds w/ All DLC free until 26 Dec 2023 4PM UTC 10 months ago:
Anyone have tips for getting through the checkout process on Firefox? There are a bunch of CORS violations that I don’t want to simply disable CORS to bypass.
- Comment on Fallout 3: GOTY Edition is free to keep for the next 24 hours on the Epic Games Store 10 months ago:
Sadly the checkout dialog has CORS violations that they probably don’t care to fix.
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at ‘https://payment-website-pci.ol.epicgames.com/purchase/xsrf?purchaseToken=XXX&flow=PURCHASE’. (Reason: Credential is not supported if the CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ is ‘*’).Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at ‘https://talon-service-prod.ecosec.on.epicgames.com/v1/init’. (Reason: Credential is not supported if the CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ is ‘*’).Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at ‘https://bam.nr-data.net/1/93a8bd5691?a=27815142&v=1.249.0&to=MlxXbUBZWkJUAkVQCgsWcktTUVhCdg5asdfKVVlcQBdEUEwMVFcRSklUQF9dWkU%3D&rst=1610&ck=0&s=67133c36f4b2d060&ref=https://store.epicgames.com/purchase&ap=271&be=712&fe=717&dc=347&fsh=0&perf=%7B%22timing%22:%7B%22of%22:1703387184928,%22n%22:0,%22f%22:712,%22dn%22:712,%22dne%22:712,%22c%22:712,%22s%22:712,%22ce%22:712,%22rq%22:712,%22rp%22:712,%22rpe%22:712,%22xx%22:1056,%22ds%22:1057,%22de%22:1059,%22dc%22:1428,%22l%22:1428,%22le%22:1429%7D,%22navigation%22:%7B%7D%7D&fcp=963’. (Reason: Credential is not supported if the CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ is ‘*’). - Comment on What search engine can find this line of code on Github? 11 months ago:
I have considered that approach. I’d probably do it in the cloud, in parallel, maybe even in a serverless compute environment. But it does seem like a big endeavor.
- Comment on What search engine can find this line of code on Github? 11 months ago:
Any chance you’d be willing to share those results? The site isn’t accepting signups any more.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
They can’t afford to do anything that would lose them a large slice of viewers. Same reason websites still support IE.
- Submitted 11 months ago to programming@programming.dev | 8 comments
- Comment on This should be illegal 1 year ago:
And then products without that label would gain at least a little a bit of market share. Most people still buy inefficient fridges because they are shinier, but at least a few read those yellow labels mandated by law and choose the more efficient ones.
- Comment on This should be illegal 1 year ago:
My proposal is for a mandated label on software and hardware to indicate that it will stop working when some online service goes offline.
- Comment on Does "Selfhosted" mean you actually have a server at home? 1 year ago:
Most people who “self host” things are still doing it on a server somewhere outside their home. Could be a VPS, a cloud instance, colocated bare metal, …
- Comment on What's your preference for a text chat server (e.g. IRC/XMPP/Matrix/Zulip/etc.)? 1 year ago:
I used Mattermost for a community project, but had trouble getting people to install/use/learn yet another client.
- Comment on Isn't it ironic, don't you think? 1 year ago:
It’s a legal complaint. Someone is going to get fined, likely thousands of dollars, if the complaint is substantiated. I strongly suspect a human will be reading the whole thing more than once, before proceeding to gather much more info.
- Submitted 1 year ago to programmer_humor@programming.dev | 12 comments
