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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as they can reduce the adblock usage, it is a win for them. 100% success is not the goal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there's a sort of "apocalyptic" event but there are still surviving communities, will people be able to make eyeglasses again, or are people with vision issues gonna be fucked?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we have surviving scientists and engineers? Then everything is easy-ish: Progress took time because we didn’t know anything, everything was trial and error. Now we know the correct forms of physical laws or their usable approximations so rebuilding is just a matter of time (generations maybe).

  If somehow the collective wisdom is lost, back to the stone ages with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a weird ass language. When you start, it feels easy because rules are rigid. Then you try to build longer sentences PROPERLY and you feel that it is cumbersome. Finally you try to talk to native speakers, and you see that native speakers also think it is cumbersome and they omit 50% of rules in dailyspeak. Then, your brain turns into a mush which cannot decide if past is ok here or do I do perfekt to not look like a posh journalist. Do I use genitive like a properboi or dativ like a correct streetboi? Oh wait, they call it Cola (female) in Germany but Cola (male) in Austria? Wait what? it’s not country specific but much more local than that and you can be wrong while in a car?

  It’s a mess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back then we had 10x games coming out, 1x games were good. Now we have 10000x games coming out but still 1x of the games are good. (Absolutately more good games, relatively almost nothing)

  Numbers are generated assisted-out of my ass. (Think fermi approximation.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a person who doesn’t care about graphics: New games are mostly shit. I’m allowed to do less (need animation for each action you know?), I’m allowed to have fewer monsters on the screen (polygon count you know?) takes 35+ GB and it makes my laptop fans go wrooom?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, did I write something wrong which negates that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How can you know a game is LGBTQ+ if they don’t talk about sex/gender? They look like normal humans to me, which differ in sexual preferences only? Example: How can you say this guy is gay without knowing his sexual preferences?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What if content amount is the problem and old search algorithms simply do not scale well? (Pagerank algorithm has bunch of assumptions, are they still true/good enough?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting and probably true⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We gave up “all-flat-terrain”, carbon neutral, semi-self driving things and got “this road is not paved so I’ll shake you so much that your baby will die”, “created new jobs: climate disaster control”, “just currently getting some self-driving capabilities”.

  I’m half-joking of course, cars are great for long distance travel but you could argue humanity would be far better (apart from GDP) if we have no roads in the cities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something is wrong..⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe being sentient is about saying no all the time: You are a sack of water made out of carbon and it always wants to simply fall but you have keep saying “no, we stand”, “no, we tilt slightly forward” (walk) etc.

  At night, when there’s nothing to do and you’ve already lost your battle against gravity (a comfy bed), maybe the helpful naysayer starts generating bullshit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you into dramatic NPCs? If no, you have to play it multiplayer with someone who gives a crap about pixel people.

  I tried playing it alone but every system in the game is puddle deep so I was only able to play until winter by myself.

  Then I played it with my girlfriend, and I spent 100 fondly remembered hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  going to a website (not tech savvy enough for this) vs going to the settings on an app and select a new icon (yay anyone can do it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Customarily, when doing these kind of calculations we ignore stuff which keep us alive because these things are needed regardless of economic contributions, since you know people are people and not tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software is evolving backwards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t miss the price haha, I miss its implications: If you were outside, you were outside; and there was no email which could hopefully find you well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software is evolving backwards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  24/7 connectivity was a mistake. I miss that brief window when we had cheap supercomputers in our pockets, but data was still expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game design question : how to make a "trapped" player character?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You write a very very very deterministic and guessable AI for the knight.

  Your princess sets the scene, then you watch helplessly as your knight fails or succeeds with the given help. So… a stop motion puzzle game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1/e is about 37%, maybe 1-1/e?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we silenced all the sources of misinformation/disinformation people would be agast at how quiet it is.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How can you sell it to people who “didn’t know they needed it” then? (“Bad” example -> luxury items, “good” example -> new tech which is actually helpful but hard to grasp yet)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Monopolies are bad mmkay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Appreciate the effort, but I can't handle my own shit. much less a extrovert instigating a million things to do on top of all that.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Saying no is communication, and even that is too much sometimes man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “story” of Hades is that the guy you control gets better over time and finally escapes. How else can you convey it? With text (cardinal sin)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70%⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You went back to the banking industry and you report this event as a good thing?