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- Comment on 23 hours ago:
Megabonk, my beloved…
- Comment on If you wanted to create a long lasting community, is it better to create it on Piefed or on Lemmy? Does Piefed's development have the funding to go on long term? 1 day ago:
No worries, it wasn’t as clear as it could have been, for sure.
- Comment on If you wanted to create a long lasting community, is it better to create it on Piefed or on Lemmy? Does Piefed's development have the funding to go on long term? 1 day ago:
MetaFilter literally used Adobe Coldfusion to put together their site and the site is still using ColdFusion as of 2025. There wasn’t “backend development” in the same way there is for projects like Lemmy, Piefed, Mastodon, and so on. MeFi is only just considering rebuilding the site from scratch since 2024 and the main head of that exploratory project has been MIA for several months now.
- Comment on If you wanted to create a long lasting community, is it better to create it on Piefed or on Lemmy? Does Piefed's development have the funding to go on long term? 2 days ago:
This is the answer. Pretty sure, for example, MetaFilter is running bespoke code for their forum (which means no development at all), and it’s been online since 1999.
- Comment on Only a few years left 2 days ago:
Cancer at 42 over here.
- Comment on !@$& Homelab Networking 3 days ago:
When you do it for work, you log what you have changed each time you make a change to try to fix it, and you log what you revert, so you can keep track of what worked and what didn’t and have a clearer idea of what the solution was.
- Comment on Good job! 4 days ago:
I am glad I kept around my old pirated copies of Rosetta stone in various languages.
- Comment on Good job! 4 days ago:
Good job!
No, Anna.
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- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
*Night owl munches on a mouse while looking at meme in confusion
- Comment on Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog 6 days ago:
Yeah but it looks like this includes support for organization Office 365 accounts, so it’s not just something that only worked 20 years ago. If it only supported outdated Exchange servers that would be one thing, but it seems to support modern ones.
- Comment on GameStop workers say its trade anything day will be a huge mess 1 week ago:
The number of memestock bros who still hype Gamestop despite all the massive missteps they’ve made in the last few years is fucking unreal. They desperately meme “diamond hands” when they’re fucking bagholders.
- Comment on What ever you do, don't think of the number 37. 1 week ago:
My President sucked 37 dicks!
- Comment on Blue Man Coup 1 week ago:
He’s focusing so hard on his themes being timeless that he’s no longer challenging the audience. Which is why they’re only winning visual art Oscars.
I mean he’s been using visual shortcuts to human emotional states instead of, you know, character development since fucking Titanic, if not before.
The obvious example to contrast the Avatar films with is District 9, which came of the same year as the first Avatar film. The “prawns” of District 9 are absolutely ugly to behold, but they are “humanized” through character development instead of shortcuts like giving them giant, dewy, innocent looking eyes and making them look like innocent animals like cats or dogs. Cameron make the Na’vi aesthetically pleasing to humans because it’s easier to make them the “good guys” this way than it is if they looked like District 9’s “prawns.”
I mean, no shade, Cameron is good at using the techniques he has chosen as a way to short circuit his audience into feeling the things he wants them to feel… but that doesn’t make them not cheap, easy, and overall weak compared to serious character development since it’s a complete reliance on visual shortcuts to emotional depth without the actual emotional depth.
- Comment on 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them 1 week ago:
One of the few game developers trying to write for the medium of gaming instead of trying to write a book/movie and slap it into a game. One of the few who eschews the three-act arc so prevalent in plays and films.
He really understands that as a different medium you should play to the mediums strengths and how the medium functions for storytelling to synthesize meaning between gameplay and story. Writing for games shouldn’t be like writing for books or films because while analogous they are nowhere near the same kind of mediums.
The medium is the message.
-Marshall McLuhan
- Comment on Preparing for the hardware market disruption 1 week ago:
That’s the way to do it, smart planning. I’m glad you were able to make it happen even if it set you back more than you had hoped.
- Comment on Preparing for the hardware market disruption 1 week ago:
I only wish I had money to get in before prices bump up. 😭
Being poor sucks.
- Comment on Cams, anyone? 1 week ago:
I had never heard of this so went looking. Super useful stuff here!
A link for anyone interested: thingino.com
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 1 week ago:
Pretty sure there’s no nucleotide bases that start with the letter I though.
- Comment on Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation 1 week ago:
I’m not saying it was a majority issue, I’m saying the beginnings of the social turn against LGBTQ openness and inclusion has been brewing under the surface for a long time and this is potentially evidence of it.
- Comment on Don't forget to wipe 1 week ago:
I never wipe because I only eat cake.
- Comment on Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation 1 week ago:
Not just that, but this is free home-made ice cream.
- Comment on Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation 1 week ago:
so I think we could say that this trend of being a disgusting bigot is one which is being ‘allowed’ more recently than it once was in social media.
I always try to bring this up because honestly, if we go pretty far back in internet terms, we can see that this has actually been brewing for over a decade.
In 2013, EA won the Consumerist poll for “Worst Company in America.” While mostly people pointed to arguably rational reasons for these votes (DRM, microtransactions, badly made and released games), the COO of EA had some other thoughts as to why they got hammered so hard as the worst company:
In the past year, we have received thousands of emails and postcards protesting against EA for allowing players to create LGBT characters in our games. This week, we’re seeing posts on conservative web sites urging people to protest our LGBT policy by voting EA the Worst Company in America. That last one is particularly telling. If that’s what makes us the worst company, bring it on. Because we’re not caving on that.
When this happened in 2013, most of us thought this was absolute bunkum and just EA doing damage control. Now, I’m genuinely not so sure anymore. I think perhaps some suit at EA had noticed something happening, some change in the waters that had not yet become “mainstream” but was bubbling beneath the surface, slowly growing. People made fun of this response from EA, because we thought at the time “this is the modern era, those are just backwards fools stuck in the past that are complaining about LGBT inclusion, if they even exist at all, I bet EA is making it up to cover for how shitty they are.” But… were they?? At the time it was roundly dismissed because popular culture widely accepted LGBTQ inclusion, but now we’re on a backswing and people feel emboldened to be disgusting bigots and be loud and proud about being a exclusive asshat who hates people different than themselves. Has it just been brewing under the surface for over a decade?
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 1 week ago:
Peace Through Strength
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 1 week ago:
I think both of your arguments in this thread have merit. You are correct that it is a misused tool, and you are correct that the better solution is a more compassionate society. The other person is also correct that we at least make attempts to make such tools less available as paths to self harm. Since you used the analogy of people jumping off bridges, I have lived near bridges where this was common so barriers and nets were put up to make it difficult for anyone but the most determined to use it as a path to suicide. We are indeed failing people in a society that puts profit over human life first, but even in a more idealized society mental health issues and attempts at suicide would still happen and to not fail those people we would still need to do things like erect barriers and safeguards to prevent self-harm. In my eyes both of you are correct and it is not an either or issue as much as it is a “por que no los dos?” issue. Why not build a better society and still build in safeguards?
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 1 week ago:
You’re welcome. Easy mistake to make, I make it constantly, in fact haha!
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 1 week ago:
LLMs Have Lead to 14 Deaths
led not lead
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 week ago:
The new translation layer they’ve been working on for their new VR headset, the Steam Frame. Steam Frame runs on an ARM64 processor so Fex is a translation layer for x86/x64 games to play directly on the Steam Frame hardware. Honestly, in my personal opinion, it feels like a bigger and more impactful project than even Proton because it’s the first step to opening up PC gaming to other chip architectures other than the traditional x86/x64 Intel/AMD chips. What if you could buy an ARM64 Linux PC and still run your entire Valve library on it? That’s the potential future here.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 week ago:
Not even speculation, just shitposting.
Valve has done a ton of work on expanding their level of access in the gaming sphere, from Proton to the new Fex, but they are a PC gaming company, period.
SteamDeck doesn’t run Android, it runs full Linux.
Other Linux phone variants are in such infancy I doubt Valve would want to take on such a project in it’s current state. Maybe 10 years down the line, if their hardware gambits pay off.
Even then, mobile devices is a whole different ball game of working with cellular service vendors to get support for you device. Currently Valve doesn’t have to work with any vendors other than traditional PC and game peripheral parts providers, they don’t have to cut deals with xFinity or other ISPs to get their products to connect to them. They are not having to make deals with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. Getting into the phone sphere is such a huge undertaking, and while it’s a fun thought, it’s such a far-off and unlikely move for Valve.
- Comment on Hilary can't catch a break 1 week ago:
“Bubba was just asserting his dominance” will probably be the next excuse. “When you’re President, they let you do it.”
