calliope
@calliope@retrolemmy.com
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 days ago:
That way of playing Stellaris sounds really cool! It makes me want to install Stellaris again
- Comment on FCC could roll back rule requiring ISPs to list every fee, apparently, there are too many 5 days ago:
This was passed during the previous administration, so of course they’re trying to get rid of it.
“It’s not good for consumers it’s bad for business!”
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 5 days ago:
Ah, we’re to “blame Obama for this” instead of blaming the senators who outright refused to look at Supreme Court Justices for a year.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 days ago:
Also
about:profilesif it’s already running - Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 6 days ago:
For me, it’s a little different because of perceived influence.
DHH has always been the software equivalent of an Instagram influencer. He’s been selling himself as the mythical 10x programmer and wrote a corny business book with his co-founder.
Meanwhile, he was mainly working on Basecamp and racing million-dollar cars. A lot of his personal cars have been sold to YouTube influencers.
He has had a cult of personality built around him for years, and stupid people in some small software circles love him (clearly, by the rubygems takeover).
The Lemmy devs have no influence at all over software development. Just Lemmy.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 6 days ago:
As a former long-time Ruby developer who has also used Rails, I’ve always known DHH was a total douchebag.
It’s nice to know he’s being super obvious about it now. He’s always been insufferable.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
Huh! Apparently the main places you can taste castoreum nowadays (should you want to) are niche foods like Swedish liqueur. Otherwise it’s (understandably) quite expensive.
I was curious and found this article amusing as well:
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
That natural flavor? Vanilla.
- Comment on Introducing KRetro: a Libretro game emulator from KDE! (Alpha Release) 1 week ago:
This is an independent project for fun.
KRetro’s development started in 2023 with a desire to help build more apps for Plasma Mobile (shout out to Devin for the idea and help along the way). I worked on it for a while, but unfortunately got busy with school and other things. In addition, the Qt 6 transition came and went, which left KRetro effectively abandoned.
Thankfully, in 2024, Dexter Reed came through with an MR to port the KRetro codebase to Qt6. And finally, in 2025 with more time on my hands, I finally picked the project back up, bringing us to today!
The name? The K-prefix naming has mostly been phased out these days in KDE for new apps… you could say it is a retro naming scheme 😉
- Comment on Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image [GRAPHIC PHOTO] 1 week ago:
To use a different atrocity as an example, the Japanese saw the Chinese as “pigs” during the Nanjing Massacre.
It’s easy to see how dehumanizing your enemy has an effect. Here is an excerpt from The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang.
there were those in the imperial army who saw the Chinese as subhuman beings whose murder would carry no greater moral weight than squashing a bug or butchering a hog. In fact, both before and during the war members of the Japanese military at all levels frequently compared the Chinese to pigs. For example, a Japanese general told a correspondent: “To be frank, your view of Chinese is totally different from mine. You regard the Chinese as human beings while I regard the Chinese as pigs.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m not reading all that. Sorry about that, or I’m happy for you. Whichever you prefer.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
rsync can sometimes look similarly scary! I very clearly remember triple-checking what it’s doing.
rclone works amazingly well if you have hundreds of folders or thousands of files and you can’t be bothered to babysit a portal.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Tangentially, I don’t see people talk about rclone a lot, which is like rsync for cloud storage.
It’s awesome for moving things from one provider to another, for example.
- Comment on this level is amazing 1 week ago:
It’s one of my favorite sequences from any game!
- Comment on Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word 1 week ago:
The best you can do in any job is to care as little about them as they care about you.
They will barely read it, and they won’t care nearly as much as you do.
I resign my position as a [position], effective [DATE].
- Comment on Maxwell House to rebrand as Maxwell Apartment 1 week ago:
The obvious cynicism is coming from INSIDE YOUR (non-Maxwell) HOUSE!
- Comment on Maxwell House to rebrand as Maxwell Apartment 1 week ago:
It seems to be none of that. It just seems to be a marketing effort noting that it’s a low-cost coffee.
To celebrate the limited-time rebrand, the company is offering consumers a 12-month “lease” of Maxwell Apartment coffee, which is designed save coffee lovers across the United States money. For less than US$40, consumers can stock their pantry with a full year of coffee to save coffee enthusiasts more than US$1000 annually.
“Two-thirds of American adults drink coffee every day, which can add up quickly, especially these days,” says Holly Ramsden, Head of Coffee, North America at the Kraft Heinz Company.
“Maxwell House believes no one should have to go without great tasting coffee and Maxwell Apartment delivers the same delicious taste people know and love, at a value that celebrates all our fans are doing to make smart choices in their lives.
It’s cheap coffee. They’re literally going “hey, times are getting tougher. Who wants cheap coffee?” This is seems like the opposite of what you’re indicating.
- Comment on Maxwell House to rebrand as Maxwell Apartment 1 week ago:
Maxwell Apartment is a part of a limited-time marketing campaign
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 2 weeks ago:
I really appreciate this, you just saved me at least $20.
Microsoft’s user experience is awful at every step in a browser. I wanted to like XBox but it’s clear why they’re losing.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 weeks ago:
Huh.
Does anyone else think that ChatGPT is still using the data, they’re just not referencing Reddit directly?
This is how you can tell Reddit’s $200+/share price is insane. Over 10% of its value dropped based on a different unprofitable company’s references to ingested content.
Yikes!!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
I have been playing Crusader Kings III a bit, though I don’t know if I’m driven to continue.
I appreciate how complex the game is, and I find the kinda-historical aspects interesting… but I’m not sure if it’s a game I want to actively play, or a game that I’m glad exists but isn’t really for me.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
A previously-posted Gizmodo article said
Kabas reports that 1.7 million was 436% above a subscriber loss that’s typical for the same period
Which I thought was very useful.
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 2 weeks ago:
He’s been told his entire life he’s better than everyone else, it’s no wonder he convinces others.
He spent part of his youth benefiting from apartheid and being a German kid in an African town that literally glorified Nazism until the 1980s.
He got all of the $100,000 he first lost in bad investments from family and friends.
Celebrity billionaires, they’re just like us… lmao
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 2 weeks ago:
Correct, in the book they have multiple groups of soldiers that run ahead of there is a vanguard.
I’m reading it too because I read it over a decade ago and making it into a movie seemed stupid to me. So I wanted to know how stupid.
- Comment on Video Game History Foundation Offers Retro Magazine Subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
The 80s-90s one!
- Comment on Video Game History Foundation Offers Retro Magazine Subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
Nah, bagging and boarding something doesn’t turn it into something to speculate on.
They do that for storage and shipping purposes.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 2 weeks ago:
Which city builder? I think I have 300 hours in Cities Skylines by now
- Comment on Video Game History Foundation Offers Retro Magazine Subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
I could potentially see them doing this if they get a lot of those, but they might not. People kept magazines, but a lot of people didn’t keep the discs with them.
The foundation also has a few dozen demo discs cataloged, with mirrors at archive.org if you want to burn some!
- Comment on Video Game History Foundation Offers Retro Magazine Subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
I would opt out if it were available. I like magazines, but I don’t find old optical media useful at all.
- Comment on Video Game History Foundation Offers Retro Magazine Subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
No, they are just magazines!