Piatro

@Piatro@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition to Repeal the Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the act has merits, there’s just not enough exceptions. The wording is so vague it considers a Minecraft server used by a group of friends who know eachother in the real world as being the same as fucking Facebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just waiting for all UK users to be banned from anything that isn’t Facebook or X. It’s absolutely ridiculous and a huge win for big tech as it locks us in to their platforms and their platforms only. Those of us with a bit of tech knowledge will work around it but it’s infuriating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Prince of Persia sands of time, Beyond Good and Evil, Rayman, Splinter Cell, etc. They were very prolific back when they and the rest of the industry understood that you couldn’t just bet all your money on a single title all the time, you had to have some dog-shit movie tie-ins and terrible Barbie games to keep the lights on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else find HiFi Rush highly overrated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved hi-fi rush. I loved the soundtrack, I loved how satisfying the combat system was while still being challenging to pull off consistently well. I always felt I was incentivised to vary my combos because of the DMC-like style meter. I loved the old-school 3d platformer feel as that was nostalgic for me. It was also just such a joyful game. Ok the story has down beats but overall it’s a really happy game. I absolutely loved my time with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s probably a correlation between people who are aware enough of reddit’s practices and policies to want to switch to Lemmy and people who are engaged in or by political discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't pay rent because devs just don't care⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I booked a flight recently, the translation engine was obviously having issues so instead of giving helpful labels for form fields it was stuff like: “{{ name.first }}”, which I could figure out for the most part, but then on submission I got an error with no description at all. I opened the dev tools and resubmitted the form to find the API response which gave me the actual error. 2 pages previously a form field hadn’t been set correctly by the web page (it was a drop-down, I selected an option, the error said it was null). I managed to force the field to populate properly and hey presto, submission works. Ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The XCOM Complete Humble Bundle is an awesome deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t even beat regular-length war. Damn snake lady and her BS action economy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming has a polarization problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only heard a couple people talk about it online (that I trust to be reasonable) and they basically said it was fine but didn’t blow them away. And that’s fine but it makes for boring “cOnTeNt”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK: Rooftop solar could reduce energy bill for the country's poorest families by almost a quarter, study says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is basically the argument for universal basic income, on top of eliminating poverty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK: Rooftop solar could reduce energy bill for the country's poorest families by almost a quarter, study says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all for supporting low-to-middle incomes but it’s still a huge investment for those not in (or just outside) that bracket. I can’t spend 10k now to see the return in 20 years, assuming the rates stay decent. It’s not practical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, it’s the immigrants’ fault that education has been underfunded for years and teaching is such a woefully underpaid career. Definitely the immigrants’ fault. No no don’t look at the last 14 years of Tory rule that included austerity!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent Hill 2 remake's narrative designer thinks one of the advantages to horror is that it's cheaper⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it certainly is a hell of a lot cheaper if you’re copying an existing game scene for scene…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actual Budget is a fantastic FOSS budgeting tool that you can self-host⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The self-contained electron app works better for most people I think.