darkmatternoodlecow
@darkmatternoodlecow@programming.dev
- Comment on Hey, I'm new to GitHub! 8 months ago:
The “digital natives” 🙄
- Comment on Last Epoch 1.0 Patch Notes 8 months ago:
What a bizarre reply.
- Comment on Last Epoch 1.0 Patch Notes 8 months ago:
And yet even with chat disabled, “Welcome to Last Epoch chat!” still pops up every time you change zones, as it has since day 1 of the chat function being forced on users, even users playing offline, sometime last year. And while a bug like that might be irrelevant, it captures the essence of the experience of playing the game perfectly: incompetence and thoughtlessness shines through absolutely everywhere, and nothing works the way it ought to.
I wanted to love this game, but it’s impossible. I’m pretty sure the devs have their hearts in the right place, but they’re not good enough to maintain a game of this type and scope. Even the graphics look like a $5 asset pack from the Unreal store.
- Comment on ‘Kids Online Safety Act’ is a Trojan Horse For Digital Censorship. 8 months ago:
Does this suit you better? eff.org/…/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids…
- Comment on A preview of FOSS video generative AI 8 months ago:
I wish that guy would dial his fake enthusiasm down to about 20 percent.
- Comment on Western leaders point finger at Putin after Alexei Navalny’s death in jail 8 months ago:
I’m sure those pointing fingers will make Putin change course.
- Comment on The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests 8 months ago:
Consequences of this discovery for Elon Musk and X:
- Comment on Hare's first versioned release, 0.24.0 8 months ago:
If there’s one thing the history of computers has shown us beyond the shadow of doubt, it is that programmers cannot under any circumstance be trusted to manage memory.
- Comment on European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption 8 months ago:
Judgement is a valid spelling of the word.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 8 months ago:
So in your warped little world, people supporting Firefox over a browser made by an ad company are the direct cause of Firefox now focusing on AI?
- Comment on Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. 8 months ago:
If only there was an alternative to voice-assisted house management.
- Comment on How whatsapp is enabling lynching of beef eaters by cow protection vigilantes 8 months ago:
As much as I loathe Meta, this seems like a bizarre thing to say. Wouldn’t any messaging service by definition “enable” any and all behavior that requires any sort of communication? From chess tournaments and stamp collection field trips, across coffee dates and picking people up from school, to gang rapes and lynchings, couldn’t any communication channel be said to “enable” pretty much any activity on the planet? Weird shit.
- Comment on The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse 8 months ago:
Jesus Christ, buddy.
- Comment on The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse 8 months ago:
Healthy skepticism isn’t a solution, because most people do not possess this.
- Comment on The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse 8 months ago:
You’re not wrong, but your suggestion is completely disconnected from reality. You cannot fix any problem in the world by appealing to the potential in people to behave intelligently and rationally. As a group, they never will. As a group, they are monkeys without tails, incapable of rational thought and behavior.
- Comment on Strings do too many things 8 months ago:
And the boolean is revealed as the archvillain working behind the scenes, pulling the strings of all its minions.
- Comment on Strings do too many things 8 months ago:
Yeah! And integers do way too many things as well. Counters, indexes, number of orange slices in an orange, there’s just no end to the wacky things people try to make integers do, and it’s impossible to keep track of it all when looking at code. And floats? Don’t get me started on floats. Angles, probabilities, weights, heights, degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon … I’m getting dizzy just listing all these different things that floats do.
It’s a big problem, because there isn’t an easy way to fix it in every programming language known to man, and someone needs to write more articles about this to get more hits for their sites.
- Comment on Mozilla CEO Mitchelle Baker stepping down to Executive Chairwoman 8 months ago:
I assume that on the IRS returns form for Mozilla Foundation, the “related organization” that the CEO of Mozilla Corporation gets 5+ million from is probably Mozilla Corporation. But I don’t know.
- Comment on Mozilla CEO Mitchelle Baker stepping down to Executive Chairwoman 9 months ago:
I know, my comment didn’t make a lot of sense; her salary just triggered me tremendously the first time I heard what it was. This seemed like as good a place as any to express my disgust.
- Comment on Mozilla CEO Mitchelle Baker stepping down to Executive Chairwoman 9 months ago:
I guess an annual salary of one hundred trillion dollars, or however ridiculously much it was, wasn’t enough for her.
- Comment on WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps 9 months ago:
I wouldn’t trust Meta with one bit of my data, encrypted or not, under any circumstances whatsoever. It’s naive to the point of comedy to think megacorps can be trusted. Any future fines they might incur as a result of breaking the law will be so pathetically insignificant as to effectively amount to no fine at all. There is zero meaningful accountability, and consequently zero incentive for them to follow the rules.
- Comment on The first Americans have already been seen wearing the new augmented and virtual reality glasses Apple Vision Pro • 9 months ago:
Misleading user name.
- Comment on Musk says Tesla will hold shareholder vote ‘immediately’ to move company’s incorporation to Texas 9 months ago:
What a fucking loser.
- Comment on Tik Tok responds to Universal Music Group's statement: "TikTok has been able to reach 'artist- first' agreements with every other label and publisher." 9 months ago:
Not really, although I see your point. I just have a particular dislike of record companies.
- Comment on Any suggestions for overcoming addiction to capitalist big tech social media and streaming etc? 9 months ago:
You completely and utterly misunderstood my comment.
- Comment on Any suggestions for overcoming addiction to capitalist big tech social media and streaming etc? 9 months ago:
You’re overcomplicating things. Make the changes that are possible, don’t make the changes that aren’t. There’s no trophy for being an extremist. Live the life that makes you happy; that’s the point of it all. If leaving social media makes you happy, do it. If it doesn’t, don’t. It’s easy and uncomplicated.
- Comment on Tik Tok responds to Universal Music Group's statement: "TikTok has been able to reach 'artist- first' agreements with every other label and publisher." 9 months ago:
I know absolutely nothing about TikTok, but as someone who has been alive since vinyl records were the standard vehicle for music, I can tell you beyond the shadow of a doubt that Universal are the bad guys here. Record companies are the scum of the earth, absolute garbage human beings.