carotte

@carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6🤷‍♀️7⁩ ⁨⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  its funny to see millennials and older gen z making fun of younger gen z and gen alpha for their brainrot

  …as if the nyan cat, rage comics, and vine clips weren’t pretty much the same thing lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jamaican accent just makes me smile⁩ ⁨⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  i am aware of what creoles and pidgins are, yes. making fun of them is racism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jamaican accent just makes me smile⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  i agree, and maybe in a better world it wouldn’t be racist (it would still be glottophobic tho, but to what degree that is considered problematic depends tbf, “haha french sucks” jokes are glottophobia as well and that seems fine by most people)

  but we do not live in this better world where racial & colonial power structures are irrelevant, so making fun of Jamaican creole and Pidgin (as another commenter in this thread did…) is still fucking racist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jamaican accent just makes me smile⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  are you saying this to bait me or are you so obtuse as to think it’s the translating part i have an issue with, and not the “haha look this language is so silly! 🤣 this is better than therapy! 🤣” part

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jamaican accent just makes me smile⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah that’s just racism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can play that game too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  opinion: individualism is a plague and the generational war is a distraction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  admittedly “charlie kirk stan” was maybe not the best way to describe it (i got this from other people), he hasn’t posted much about him (other than to mourn his death lol), but

  Screenshot of a tweet by @awesomekling: In recent years I’ve attended multiple software conference talks that had unrelated extreme political rhetoric in slides, such as “fuck [name]” and “punch [group]”. Whenever this happened, some of the audience would clap and cheer, I’d roll my eyes, and the talk would get back on topic. Fast-forward to today, and look at how many people in our industry are openly celebrating the murder of someone they decided was a “nazi” and “fascist”. Turns out these people were more serious than I thought. As someone who’s repeatedly been called a “nazi” and “fascist” myself for disagreements with far-left ideology, I know how easily those labels get thrown around. And honestly, this is making me seriously reconsider which conferences I attend. There’s a hateful rot within our industry. It shouldn’t be socially acceptable to cheer for murder. We need to do more than roll our eyes.

  apparently he thinks the software industry has a nazi-hating problem??? lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  as a trans woman i’d rather not promote and fund (indirectly, but still) the people who want people like me dead

  i’d rather their white supremacy, misogyny and queerphobia not become the norm in open-source spaces, more than it already is…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  devs are charlie kirk stans, and consider(ed, they seem to have changed course on this, good) gender neutral pronouns to be “too political”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i’ve switched to HeliBoard on my tablet!

  i wouldn’t call it a drop-in replacement (i don’t think it has swipe-to-type or voice recognition for example, tho i could be wrong) but for me it works even better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s another non-fascist browser renderer yknow, with less hype around it but just as promising imo

  and also it’s made in rust so you know it’s good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  futo collaborates with and platforms curtis yarvin, a self-described fascist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  for further context on DHH, CEO and founder of 37signals: he also made omarchy, the infamous dodgy-personal-arch-config-turned-linux-distro, is in large part the reason why framework is in so much hot water right now, and the reason he’s bad (and why we’re mad at framework for collaborating with him) is he’s an open white supremacist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if something is sponsored by futo, shopify and 37signals??? run

  i trust Ea-nāṣir more than i trust DHH

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i’ll note that, as the article mentions, even apple and google haven’t removed the game in russia (at least not yet)

  are valve complicit, or just cowards?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yea, i guess someone saying “screws will not replace us” or “13% of the code, 50% of the bugs” (both real things i’ve seen people say) means nothing bad by it. dogwhistle? never heard of that! it’s just wholesome anti AI fun!

  i hope i don’t have to explain why saying something like this is bad, right? and that it’s not about AI being a marginalized group, because of fucking course it isn’t, that’s never been the point!

  like, when you see shit like “johnny the walrus”, a book written by a far right podcaster about how boys can’t become walruses, no matter how many medical interventions they have being forced on them, and that they’ll all grow out of their “wanting to become a walrus” phase, do you think it’s really about walruses? do you think when people say “this book is transphobic” what they mean is “people wanting to become walruses are a marginalized group comparable to trans people”? cause it’s the same shit here!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i say clueless because the first group enables the second group, by normalizing the idea that saying fictional slurs is Super Cool And Good And Fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism restaurant ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s two types of people who use “clanker”: clueless people who hate AI and want to make a Le Epic Star Wars Reference,

  and people who think racism is funny and cool but don’t like the (shrinking, but still…) social consequences that come with racism, so they decide to be Ironically Racist™ to AI instead (see also the people saying shit like “wireback”, “screws will not replace us”, “rosa sparks”, fucking “george droyd”, etc)

  i don’t think it takes much to figure out which group OOP is a part of

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True romance, despite everything.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this post is making fun of him for being gay, what else could it be? there’s no other joke here than “haha, what if clinton and trump were the couple in Famous Gay Movie?”

  why would you make fun of someone for something, if at some level, you didn’t believe that thing to be something one should be made fun of?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16 minutes of HyTale gameplay⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the game was bought by Simon (the guy who owns Hypixel and sold the game in the first place) and it looks like it’s back in development!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CF doing the world a solid...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  no, blahaj.zone was up, at least for me

  there were some issues with images tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CF doing the world a solid...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and nothing of value was lost.

  /j

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i wanted to check downdetector to see what was the issue

  downdetector was down because it relies on cloudflare too 🤦‍♀️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they don’t even run their servers anymore, it’s not like the fan servers are competing with them…

  is sony turning into another nintendo/disney? flexing their copyright muscle just because they can?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  look at Mastodon and it’s practically what’s happening there. bot farms don’t even bother setting up their own servers, they just go to mastodon.social (by far the largest instance) and bot from there. and because .social refuses to have manual approval for each account, the problem keeps happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I smard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A math equation: d/dx*2x (the derivative of 2x). Then, both d’s are crossed, and then both x’s, leaving 2 as the result.

  mats

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamepad for Linux Gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  can second 8BitDo, their stuff is awesome

  for 2D games (or games that are played with a d-pad rather), their Pro line is also very good! i have the Pro 2, and it works fantastic with Linux. idk about the Pro 3 but i can’t imagine it would be much different, and i heard the d-pad on that one is even better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A hypothesis⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  honestly i think part of the reason i’m a computer tinkerer now is my formative years were spent trying to run specific minecraft launchers, n64 emulators and other stuff on the family mac

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Betrayal ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  omg right??!?!? i hate when that happens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missed opportunity for Oneshot to come to GOG?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what GOG is doing is great and i commend their efforts (even tho i wish they’d relax their submission policies juuust a bit), and as a store, not having piles of shovelware is great!

  but as a preservation platform, GOG’s approach is inherently limited. they can’t have every game, and they can’t keep supporting every game. that’s the fundamental problem with them as far as preservation is concerned.

  the only way i can think of where we could have total game preservation is if every game ever made had it’s source code readily available, and all people were taught the programming skills necessary to make the games work on whatever future computers we have. that way, even the most obscure games which don’t have a passionate fanbase can be ported, fixed and played for years to come.

  which, obviously, is not something that’s doable, by GOG or by anyone else