Hazzard

@Hazzard@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denuvo respond to their rep for tanking games - "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a CEO who doesn’t have a damn clue how code works. His description sounds like he thinks every line of code takes the same amount of time to execute, as if x = 1; takes as long as encryption/decryption.

  “Adding” code to bypass your encryption is obviously going to make things run way faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame that option #2 has these downsides. Personally, I’d probably prefer #2, and to live with some broken images.

  That said, lemm.ee is one of, if not the largest Lemmy instance, and has a certain responsibility to prioritize usability as a sort of “sane default” choice for many people looking into the fediverse. As such… yeah, I give it to option #3 here. If I (or others) was truly deeply moved by the privacy concern, there are an abundance of alternative options for that higher privacy standard, including full self-hosting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo, famed for hating emulation, likely using Windows PCs to emulate SNES games at its museum⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100%. I literally bought Echoes of Wisdom on Switch day one, dumped it, and played it in Ryujinx, installing mods to increase settings.

  I have the money, and am willing to part with it, but prefer a PC Quality experience. Heck, I’d even pay more for a PC version that didn’t have shader stutter and had real PC options.

  That said… I don’t expect it. Nintendo is very stuck in their ways, which has pros and cons. On the one hand, we’re getting good traditional game design, no layoffs, and no micro transactions, which is wonderful. On the other, we’re getting outdated hardware that’s just powerful enough to support their game design ideas (although we’re even seeing the cracks there now), and a diehard dedication to the old console exclusivity model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Follow RSS feeds from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m inclined to agree! That’s awesome, adding that to my following immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Follow RSS feeds from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, this is very interesting. I’m a sucker for emulator progress reports, just a fascinating intersection of programming, graphics, and gaming. My personal RSS feeds right now (which I’d love to add lemmy discussion to) are:

  dolphin-emu.org/blog/feeds/ pcsx2.net/blog/rss.xml www.libretro.com/index.php/feed/ blog.ryujinx.org/rss/ xenia.jp/feed.xml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PXSX2 got a large update + a new Mastodon account to go with it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They did overhaul the controller mapping in this update, along with just about everything else, so it would be worth checking out. I really can’t emphasize enough how massive this update is, it’s like the emulator leaping from 2010 to 2024, they’ve been exceptionally active over the past 4 years.

  Aren’t there emulators for newer platforms out there now?

  And of course. I assume you’re referring to RPCS3 for PS3. PS4 is also in the early stages of being emulated, with simple games being playable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, if only. Amazon has done everything in their power to bury and strip that number from the internet. Once upon a time that worked great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Storytime! Earlier this year, I had an Amazon package stolen. We had reason to be suspicious, so we immediately contacted the landlord and within six hours we had video footage of a woman biking up to the building, taking our packages, and hurriedly leaving.

  So of course, I go to Amazon and try to report my package as stolen… which traps me for a whole hour in a loop with Amazon’s “chat support” AI, repeatedly insisting that I wait 48 hours “in case my package shows up”. I cannot explain to this thing clearly enough that, no, it’s not showing up, I literally have video evidence of it being stolen that I’m willing to send you. It literally cuts off the conversation once it gives its final “solution” and I have to restart the convo over and over.

  Takes me hours to wrench a damn phone number out of the thing, and a human being actually understands me and sends me a refund within 5 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Legally responsible.

  I.E. If a federated instance hosted pedophilia, that content would be copied to, and served by, your instance’s infrastructure, which is obviously legally problematic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm creating a curated search engine for web developers. Asking for a feedback⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, what an interesting idea! I like this, on Monday I’ll test out switching to this as my main search engine for work and try to report back how it goes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy instances that are focused on mirroring Reddit content?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I like this idea, just because it means I could block your instance in my app and instantly filter out that kind of content, just like how someone can block lemmynsfw to get rid of almost all porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity apologizes and updates their infamous Runtime Fee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like a sensible overhaul, hitting the major issues with the fee, but still going ahead with a version of it. Big points for me:

  • Not retroactive. Only affecting the next version of Unity, and you can even opt out of updating to skip the fee.
  • Data is now reported by the customers. Still not sure how that plan to enforce this, but it’s a hell of a lot better than some arbitrary data collection scheme being baked into the game.
  • Free version is excluded. No charging tiny side projects, or students or something, it only affects already paying customers.

  Still not sure I love charging per install as a concept, and they’ve already overplayed their hand and burnt many bridges, but at least this implementation isn’t insanely hostile. Guess we’ll see how this plays out from here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fedi Admins of Lemmy, How do you keep your servers up to date without increasing downtime⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not much of an addition, but you’re absolutely right, in most systems that are expected to be highly available, there’s standard maintenance times, an agreement in place, and no critical use of the system is permitted to be scheduled in that regular time period. Any deployments are limited to that window, in case a rollback is necessary, data sync, etc.

  All of that is in addition to the type of high availability stuff you’re describing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the default setting for the startpage's feed "Local" and not "All"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Very true. As someone who likes the all feed as a decent way to find new communities and just generally see more content, it’s been a lot of using the “Block Instance” button, and I have NSFW turned off, there’s still an abundance of Lemmynsfw celeb type content. I won’t even consider enabling NSFW until we get that functionality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your thoughts on Skeleton(Svelte)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Having used tailwind a little bit, I have nothing but praise for it. Effortless copy/pasting of components with confidence, really nice look by default, easy tweaking, absolutely no management or planning required to organize your CSS, and it’s all right there, directly on your html, never anywhere you have to hunt for it. Feels very freeing to just… not think about CSS at all.

  And the “clutter” really is fine, modern IDEs with good syntax highlighting, plus a tailwind extension to help complete the class names and clean up accidental duplicates or conflicting properties, and you’re good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls | What started as criticism over errors in recent YouTube videos has escalated into allegations of sexual harassment, prompting the company t...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. The upload schedule has been a holy grail within LTT for a long time, and I truly believe it’s the root of all of this, yes, even the sexual harassment. When do you have time to make good HR policies? Pull people into HR for reprimanding? Have opportunities for others to second guess decisions? Do training? Or heck, even just have less tired and irritable people making in-the-moment stupid decisions?

  This uncompromising maximum velocity hurts everyone, and I hope they keep never bring it back to this pace, even after the process improvements they have planned.