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- Comment on Does anyone have tried minecraft java edition on mobile? 21 hours ago:
It’s worth noting that the full version of Luanti runs natively on Android, is fully free, and plays fully cross platform will all Luanti servers and other copies of Luanti.
One Android phone copy of Luanti can even serve the game to a few other players playing on PC or Android.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 1 day ago:
You can tell how competent someone is at something by how good they think AI is at that thing.
This is so true.
I recently had a colleague - ignorant of this perspective - give a training presentation on using AI to update a kind of bullshit job useless document.
Dozens of peers attended their presentation. They went on demonstrating relatively mindless prompt inputting for 40 minutes.
I keep remembering just how many people they shared their AI enthusiasm with.
I think they may honestly believe that AI has democratized the workplace, and that they will vibe code their way to successful startup CEO-ship in a year.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 1 day ago:
The phone space is ruled by apps. The phone makers and the companies developing apps prefer it this way.
That’s true, but for everything non-free, they always end up having a perfectly working web app that will accept my money.
- Comment on Harsh 2 days ago:
And the next night, try doing it again with Sony Walkmen.
- Comment on Microsoft triples down and blocks even more Microsoft Account bypasses on Windows 11 — an online account is non-negotiable 3 days ago:
I am also not negotiating on having a Windows account.
- Comment on More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It 5 days ago:
My prediction: Minecraft crossover DLC within a year of release.
Advertised with a chicken jockey riding on a covenant walker.
- Comment on More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It 5 days ago:
This feels sad for everyone involved.
There’s so many okay games that could be remastered into excellent ones.
If I didn’t have the Master Chief Collection, I would obtain my copy before Microsoft makes it have an “accident”.
- Comment on More Halo: Combat Evolved Remake Details Emerge, Including Who Is Making It 5 days ago:
Yes. Halo CE plus changes on a new engine sounds strictly worse.
- Comment on How do I make pictures less blinding if I prefer dark apps? 5 days ago:
On Lemmy, I just block users who post images with white backgrounds. They’re delightful users, but there aren’t that many of them, and it is worth it to keep my feed dark room friendly.
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- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 5 days ago:
politicians are very stupid when it comes to tech it seems.
They are so so so stupid, about this.
There will be so much blackmail and ruined political careers if these backdoors get installed.
A backdoor is never solely used by the folks one might hope would use it.
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 6 days ago:
I’ve noticed that a number of politicians show signs of sociopathy.
I think that’s a key difference.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 6 days ago:
Uh…
You and I have visited very different speedways.
Where I come from, if the engine turns over, it is race eligible.
And if the engine doesn’t turn over, there’s a cool giant fire breathing robot we can still feed the car to.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 6 days ago:
but you guys are we really so sure that subjecting others to the coercion of a prison-industrial complex is justified when all they’re doing is following their instincts?
Assume we’re not talking desert highway street racing - or places that no one cares:
Their instincts could kill my kid. The prison industrial complex is the nicer response.
People who routinely behave in ways that endanger children are unaware of how many of the rest of us own a good shovel and know a spot to get rid of their body.
How do we know that we’re not the ones who are actually bad people?
Oh. The ethical implications are truly complex, but they don’t matter because we won’t agree to live with them. Child endangerment doesn’t routinely lead to deep ethical introspection. People tend to just go with the instincts that allowed children to survive over so many generations.
And yes, this is also why so many bad laws get passed “for the children”.
My advice for street racers: do it out of sight of any parents, and we’ll away from anywhere that children play.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
My Compact Discs (CDs) and my compact disc players both still work fine.
Occasional visits to thrift shops have expanded my collection at very affordable prices.
The variety of music I enjoy is unimpressive but steady.
But the load times are very nice, and the network resilience is unmatched.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
Yes. It’s incredibly stupid. But I don’t see why anyone cares.
That said, I could absolutely believe that the rebranding was to deliberately destroy the brand, as part of some rich people destroy Toys R Us / Gamestop type of crap.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 1 week ago:
A friend and I graduated the same year, and both had potential as a coder or graphic designer.
I chose to focus on coding, he chose to focus on graphic design.
I have had higher income and stronger job stability across my career, so far.
AI has affected both professions, but AI is still shit at doing either job correctly. It seems immediately obvious when companies shovel out AI slop images. It is less obvious when back end web server code is a vulnerable pile of shit. There’s a lot of “fuck around and find out” happening in AI over-adoption, right now.
The market for programming is at an all time low, with like 93% employment, last time I checked. - Which is still pretty nice.
The US gov predicts further recision of programming jobs next year. Recruiters reaching out make it seem - to me - like the demand is heating back up, again. But I’m some random person, and they’re scientists. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ If I were you I would trust them more than me.
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- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 1 week ago:
“Paweł undertook this challenge to raise money for the Diamond Soul Foundation, a charity he co-founded which supports people in their recovery from addiction. They also organize free one-week camps in Sicily for underprivileged children.”
Very cool.
- Comment on Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Yes. The Cybersecurity implications are… unfortunate.
For anyone who has put off locking their credit reports down…Well, I certainly would get that done.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Agreed, the battery life is way worse. I find tht features of full unlocked Android to be a worthwhile trade.
But my point is that the prices of various eInk Android tablets aren’t unreasonable anymore.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 weeks ago:
Unless Kindle prices came way down, Boox are comparable in price, nicer in features, and allow side loading any eBook or Android APK (including the Kindle APK, if you can still get a copy of it.)
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 2 weeks ago:
- The driving bits with that soundtrack were dope.
- The ghost catching mini game was fun, after learning how to play it through relentless trial and error.
- Being able to upgrade tools and vehicle was rare back then. And with enough experience, it could even rarely be done without making a game ending financial mistake.
- Marshmallow Man’s formation was right up there with the Ski Free Yeti as a metaphor for the everyone’s inevitable creep toward death. (Except we didn’t know to press “B” rather than not knowing to press “J”.)
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu Are Hiking Prices Again Next Month 2 weeks ago:
Yes. I will need to update my budget, as well.
How many zeroes should I add after the first one…
Perhaps I’ll list it as $0.000 this month, for a fun change.
- Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 2 weeks ago:
One thing to be aware of when emulating Dos era games: in most emulated environments, a game that crashes often means something is wrong with the emulation environment.
But DOS was… Special.
There are many brilliant techniques that result in strong compatibility with diverse code - that only gained popularity well after the DOS era of gaming.
It was very common back then to buy DOS software and never manage to get it to run on my own hardware, while it ran perfectly on my friend’s computer.
It’s part of why Shareware was crucial to software sales. If I tried to free version and it actually ran, I could confidently buy the rest of the game.
Anyway, all that to say, DOS emulation is not for the faint of heart. An accurately emulated environment can still be very unstable, depending on the game.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
For the rest of the world, there’s no reason to think we couldn’t regulate it in a reasonably privacy-friendly way.
You’re totally right in principle.
But the conversation for this pair of glasses is different, because of Meta.
If anyone believes that Meta obeys their local laws, please refer them my way for a pyramid business opportunity…(I believe I could easily rip them off, because I believe they are suckers.)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yes. I’m all for an open specification, local only version of this.
But I don’t think Meta releasing a set of smart glasses leaves anyone (other than possibly Zuckerberg) better off.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
There’s no reason it has to be one or the other, you’ve created a false dilemma
Well, there is a reason, specific to these glasses. The reason is Meta.
If someone tells me they trust Meta not to break the law or violate their privacy, I assume they haven’t been paying attention to Meta in the news.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Who would be the arbiter of truth in this instance?
I generally settle for panels of scientists. Scientists aren’t prone to agreeing on things, but much of (not all, life is cool and scary) what they do agree on is a pretty safe bet.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Holy mackerel!
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, this was my introduction to gaslighting. I guess I’m thankful for that.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. The Pluto thing is a huge violation of the “rule of cool”.
If there are bigger rocks than Pluto in orbit, we should promote some cool new big space rocks to be new secret bonus planets!