ICastFist

@ICastFist@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Saw movie franchise, but for mild annoyances⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can only escape this room once these four, 70+ old people understand how to play Super Bomberman 2 on the SNES

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust is Eating JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we please go back to making programs for the target OS and skip the browser dependency?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.11 out now with an in-game settings menu and better server browser⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any minecraft clone that uses non-blocky character models? Or how would one go to mod Luanti to use different meshes for some of the characters?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Palworld lacks in originality pretty much everywhere :P

  Still a fun game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Age of Empires was, afaik, the first RTS with UI on the bottom, Starcraft and Warcraft 3 both took inspiration from it, though they differed slightly on placement of information

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the makeup of the population of the region back when Jesus lived, he could have had white skin due to the Roman, Greek and Anatolian (modern Turkey) presences, though light hair would be super unlikely. Of course, the most likely appearance would’ve been that of a common Egyptian, almond-ish skin, #D5915A, and black hair

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think “Gotcha, filthy Mexican!” would be more likely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They haven't made too many family-friendly cartoons about an abusive husband in a toxic relationship since they stopped making The Flintstones.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think George was abusive, just someone dumber and lazier than Homer Simpson. Then again, I barely remember anything about the Jetsons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's making older games so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Then just buy it from them! See if I care!” - the shop owner, probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's making older games so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Grab a working, modded PSX (probably easier to find than unmodded), buy tubes of blank cds, go wild

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If You Ever Stacked Cups In Gym Class, Blame My Dad | Defector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember this thing being “kinda big” in Brazil around the mid-late 2010s because of a TV show that did a tournament with kids. Then it thankfully died out.

  Anyway, according to the article, the only reason this took off is because mr Fox, ex professional clown, was good at hyping up and teaching the thing to kids, once he became a PE teacher:

  If you skimmed over that clunky [rule explanation] paragraph, you’ve proved my dad’s foundational epiphany: You really need to see it to buy in.

  I’ve seen cup stacking in action. Yes, lots of speed and dexterity, but it’s as “fun” as watching people solve rubik cubes, in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MyceliumWebServer now connected to the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Copying some stuff from their wordpress site:

  A fungus web-service …

  • answers user requests and knowledge inserts over the social web
  • writes and reads data from the semantic web to collaborate with other fungi agents (this would ideally done with decentralized technology like solid pods, or other knowledge graphs, e.g. like wikidata.org or an own Jena Fuseki server)
  • develops a shared AI model (which is also written to the semantic web) based on decentralized federated learning (which would ideally be based on something like FlowerAi, but isn’t at the moment)
  • Can be accessed via the browser to answer requests and link to the other fungi it is connected to (which can be browsed through this)
  • implements a user-fungus symbioses-policy, which ensures the overall health of the web and humanity

  I’ll be honest, I personally see zero value in having an AI bot running here. I’d also poison rather than help AIs as much as I can.

  One can imagine this project as a decentralized huggingface, which (spoiler alert), could also enshittify.

  At least they’re honest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tumblr to join fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought tumblr’s porn part never recovered after the 2018 purge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah, tunafan9000??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My uneducated guess: the truck driver forgot to pull down the trailer lift after dumping whatever it was carrying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how you spent so much effort to say literally fuck all, instead of presenting a real use case that isn’t pumping out AI slop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Star Trek is dying." How would you sell it to a younger audience?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Trek was never a show for kids, so it’s not surprising kids don’t know about it. Star Wars and Harry Potter were for kids

  Star Trek has always been more about solving things without violence when possible, which means action sequences don’t happen often, so a significant portion of people won’t find any interest in it.

  To me, personally, Trek fails at simply not having “anything really going on”. I don’t know about more recent Trek shows, but there’s never anything that feels like a real threat, or any threat that goes beyond 2 episodes. Some of the exploration feels like “Oh, we’re just fucking bored, I guess, let’s see what we can find over that star system”, everything feels unbelievably safe. Sure, Kardassian assholes might capture you and torture you for shits and giggles, you never know when something with literal godlike powers might decide to show up and challenge the crew out of boredom, but that’s not a risk you’re at while exploring a weird world or solving a Sherlock mystery in the holodeck. For comparison: Battlestar Galactica had a permanent worry about (lack of) resources, being a fleet on the run with a single military ship to protect it against an overwhelming enemy and an “anyone could be a sleeping agent of the enemy” conflict. Not everything BSG did was good, but that overall setting and premise permeated everything.

  Put another way, what would be the most common answer to “What is Star Trek about?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kryptonite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any rock flying towards you over a certain speed can be considered a fatal weakness

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Misskey is fine on computer browsers (minus the absurd javascript resource hog, the page’s first load is slow as fuck), but I don’t think it has any decent FOSS app, mastodon apps don’t necessarily connect to misskey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems like solid advice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That and the previous comment perfectly describe 40k nurgle minis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  GPS apps made people forget how to navigate on their own

  Not really, tho. It makes it easier to get to places you’re unfamiliar with easily. Maybe it makes the “becoming familiar” less important for the brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that even stack overflow is being mostly answered by AI, don’t expect that to actually get better, unless you’re counting on sensitive coding data being “legally” siphoned from AI users

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  executives act like parasites

  WE MAED TEH PROFITZ!!!1!!1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s so much negligent work here I swear they did it on purpose.

  Depending on the place, it’s the “work insurance” - companies would usually think twice before firing the only person who can understand the spaghetti. Now they won’t need said person to generate “working” code

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The jihad starts with the tech bros’ butlers, that’d be very poetic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at how AI destroys things and “invent” solutions and you’ll pay yourself well.

  Yeah, I’m seeing the absolute deluge of AI shovelware games. I know it generates money due to sheer volume, but to me that’s just like all those online courses of “how to dropship”. You’re being one of the worst literal definitions of “waste of resources”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol does he even have the money/stocks/bank friends to buy at that price?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Will Save Dating Apps. Or Maybe Finally Kill Them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, it’s not “bad pairings”, it’s just a very good pairing (with fake AI profile) that “unfortunately” could never have a conversation outside the app

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I’d need more details. How exactly would my consciousness exist within the game? Would the game be subject to be modded or updated in the future? Like, Skyrim with mods is a good option, but World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy 14 would allow me to continue being social with real humans, but those latter games are very subject to future change.

  Back on the 1st question, there’s a significant difference if my consciousness occupies a random NPC or I become the equivalent of a player character. Also important: what would happen to me if the game crashed or the computer/servers went down for whatever reason?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can buy an external drive that plays both CD and DVD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we put our hands on our heads when something makes us also want to yell "NO!"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, never thought about that. Now I’m curious how far back we’d need to go in different cultures until we don’t see anyone doing this kind of thing - nowadays I think it’s pretty common around the globe.