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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say that, but… there are a lot of, for example, Japanese companies that have been around for decades or centuries making great stuff the way they always had. Unless you’re saying Japan isn’t a capitalist country (I’d love to see how that argument plays out), I’d say there’s some difference in company culture that leads to enshittification.

  I’ve heard in some cases it happens when a new CEO takes over and they have no respect for the existing culture, and just want to “make their mark” by chasing short term profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  HP used to make a lot of great stuff. Their spectrum analyzers were the best in the business. At some point they flipped a switch and went into full enshittification mode. They burned all their bridges with their most loyal and informed customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone is an Entire Computer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easy to get mad at people for not knowing the things we know. It’s incredibly frustrating. But then they know things we don’t. Turns out there’s way too much stuff to know and we can’t all know everything.

  Modern life is unbelievably complicated and everyone is failing to manage that complexity to a level that would satisfy all the idealists. In light of all that, I find it hard to blame them for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bashir and Garek, Kirk and Spock

  How about Quark and Odo? I love both of these stick-in-the-mud cop vs lovable rogue duos!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That one time when he made cheese and it broke the ship⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A pseudonym cleverly concocted to avoid paying royalties to Naren Shankar, the writer of TNG 5x19: The First Duty, who was let go after TNG finished its run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are for marketing but not in the obvious way. Achievements really exist to tell game developers what parts of their game people are actually playing. Sure, some obscure achievements may be very hard to get and thus not tell them anything useful, but a lot of games have support basic checkpoint “achievements” like “start the game for the first time” or “play through the first level.”

  With enough of these, a game developer can tell what parts of their game were entertaining and engaging and what parts were not. Sometimes this information can be used to decide how to improve the game. Other times it may only be useful as a lesson for future games (by that developer) to learn from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forget cereal bars, what's your flavor of drug in the morning?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s actually going to use these if they’re not already a smoker / vaper? Maybe they’re just providing them so people don’t have to get up and go outside for 5-10 minutes to smoke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California law to require operating systems to check your age⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want an “approved OS”, I want to run my own customized Linux. Forcing everyone to use an approved OS is draconian.

  This is part of the war on general purpose computation, which could and should be viewed as an attack on human freedom in general.

  Cory Doctorow was talking about this over 15 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Confirmation bias is an incredibly stubborn human trait (and a near universal one at that). The particular issue this post is engaging with is called attitude polarization: two groups of people diverging more and more in their opinions despite being presented with the same evidence.

  Why are humans like this? I think it’s a survival trait that people conform to the opinions of their in-group and are reluctant to let go of opinions that are most central to their world-view. They’ve already invested a lot in both their in-group and their world-view, so rejecting all that is more costly to them than rejecting the truth about some particular fact (that they may not even care about that much).

  When you consider that beliefs and openly held opinions have different costs and different benefits depending on which group you belong to, it becomes a lot less obvious that abandoning a position is the right move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also after the first couple of KOs, the rest of the guys on that list are going off the grid, retiring to their yachts / chalets in the alps / volcano fortresses. Are we to expect a teenage would-be school shooter to do some Navy SEALs shit and land on a yacht with a black helicopter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Note that dietary calories are kilocalories, so 2,000 calories of food is 2,000,000 calories from a physics standpoint.

  This issue goes away if you use the proper SI unit, the joule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨capitalism vs humanity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any system that allows the formation of elites and the centralization of power will suffer the same fate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨capitalism vs humanity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s every system in a large society. The mistake we keep making is believing that systems can substitute for relationships and reputations at rooting out bad behaviour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian PM says former prince Andrew has suffered ‘extraordinary fall’ but that won’t prompt another republic referendum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you missed his point. He was talking about the monarchy which is a relationship between a nation and a particular set of individuals.

  The relationship between two nations is different. Ideally it shouldn’t depend at all on who leads those nations but in practice it’s affected a lot. But I think it’s not wise for a leader to let their personal feelings about the leader of another country affect diplomacy. That’s Trump’s folly.

  I say all this without a dog in the race, as a Canadian who likes Australians. I think Canada should work on improving relations with Australia and build a stronger partnership for mutual benefit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t play AAA games anymore (haven’t in years) but I still feel somewhat sympathetic to their plight. What has happened to them is the same thing that happened in the music industry and the film industry and a long time ago in the book publishing industry.

  The marketplace is too crowded with quality stuff and so it’s extremely difficult to compete with what’s already out there. The only real answer is to take massive risks and hope you can hit a home run. Unfortunately, AAA studios just like big movie studios aren’t set up to take risks anymore. They’re set up to spend a huge amount of money on a project that’s supposed to be guaranteed to succeed. Indies can survive more easily in this space because they’re small so they can take more risks.

  It’s like the dinosaurs after the asteroid impact. The big ones are dying off and the tiny ones are surviving and will eventually become birds. Or something I dunno!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Onions, garlic, chili powder, cayenne powder, smoked paprika, cumin powder, coriander powder, oregano, salt, and black pepper.

  Sauté the onions, add the garlic, then add fresh peppers, add all the spices, add tomatoes, add the browned meat.

  Chili is pretty simple. The key thing to get right is the spices and salt. If the flavour is weak then add more. Keep tasting and adjusting until it’s good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t always this way. There used to be intellectual conservatives like William F Buckley. His kind is practically extinct now.

  Here’s David Frum and Mona Charen essentially mourning over the lack of a party for them, since the complete takeover of the Republican Party by right wing populism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨allium gang rise up 🌰⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If by peppers you mean black pepper, sure. But sweet bell peppers are the same species as jalapeños: Capsicum annuum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They donate it all to charities…. Charities they set up with their relatives on the boards of trustees, who then get paid salaries from the charity’s endowment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I develop software for a PowerPC?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an old Mac Classic from 1990-1991 or so sitting in my basement collecting dust. I need to clean it up and crack it open to do a full recap soon. I’m going to grab a BlueSCSI to replace the internal hard drive with a fast SD card. These old machines absolutely FLY when you get them on solid state storage. It’s pretty amazing how nice they feel to use when everything loads instantly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fighting games have a product design problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with these games is ranked online multiplayer. Back in the arcade days no one knew the damn frame timings. People just played and had a good time with each other in person. Console ports brought that experience home so you could enjoy it with friends and family, without needing a roll of quarters. No one had any issues with anxiety over these games because you were just hanging out with friends playing a game together. Sometimes you won, sometimes you lost. If your brother’s Ryu was too good, you just challenged him to beat you with a different character.

  Online ranked play takes all that away. It makes the competition serious even if you don’t want it to be. Now you’re always being matched up against an equally skilled opponent playing their best character. You never feel like you’re making progress because every match is tough as nails. For people who thrive on competition, that’s great. For everyone else it really sucks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I develop software for a PowerPC?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There absolutely is a vintage Mac 68K and PowerPC development community, if you allow me to be loose with the word community. To my knowledge, there isn’t a single, centralized space for people discussing and sharing tips and projects for vintage Macs. Instead, there are a lot of different people and mini communities spread all over the place, not all of which are specific to development.

  First of all, there’s MARCHintosh and the wider community of vintage Mac retrocomputing enthusiasts, including Ron’s Computer Videos and Mac84.

  Next there’s the 68KMLA forums which, despite the name, also include PowerPC Macs for discussion. There’s

  Now, for cross-compiling, the main project I’m aware of is Retro68 which supports 68K and PowerPC targets. I’ve never used it though so I can’t vouch for it.

  If you’ve never developed software for Mac before, you’re going to want some documentation. Thankfully, there’s a nice library over at Vintage Apple! Also be sure to check out the various collections over at Internet Archive (the filtering options on the left are extremely powerful).

  To get more specific you’ll have to provide more specifics about the type of development you’re interested in. Is it Mac OS 9 or X? I assume you have an iMac G3 and you’ll want to run software on it. Have you serviced the machine to avoid damaging it with leaky capacitors or batteries? Have you replaced the mechanical hard drive with an SSD using an IDE/SATA converter?

  These are all things to consider if you want to keep your iMac going as a long term hobby!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice! I’ve been gradually playing through a bunch of NES classics: Faxanadu, Dragon Warrior, Blaster Master, Fire Emblem. The next game I want to go through is Castlevania 1 and then Ultima IV after that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only problem is too much choice!

  Seriously, when you’ve got thousands of ROMs and vintage PC games to choose from, it’s really difficult to land on one to play right now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really critical for me, to have it feel good.

  Daggerfall also had this issue with missing but you could get your accuracy up a lot more easily and then you’d hit pretty much every time. The graphics of Daggerfall are of course much less advanced than Morrowind but the “thwack” sounds in DF feel chunkier and heavier, and the simple animations have an abruptness to them that really works for the game. It’s quite strange but combat just feels better to me in Daggerfall than Morrowind.

  Of course Morrowind has the far better atmosphere, music, worldbuilding, exploration and all that. DF has the truly gargantuan dungeons though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just didn’t like hit chance being a thing in a first person melee game. At all. If my sword connects with the enemy then it should be a hit. When the game decides to roll a miss it makes the game feel broken. It’s like clicking an icon on your computer and it not opening up. Then you click again and it opens. If it’s just randomly not opening it feels broken and unreliable!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How does it poison their data to share your honest preferences with them? Doesn’t that give them the most accurate dossier possible so they can hit you with ads that micro-target your interests?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Groups of people don’t act the way individuals do. Sure, individuals can do some unpredictable things sometimes (but often it’s predictable in hindsight, they were just hiding their feelings) but groups are extremely chaotic. You need look no further than how crowds can spontaneously panic and create a stampede for no apparent reason.

  Elections might seem a lot more predictable because of polling but there have been many cases where polls were wrong and the election completely flipped!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo has never sold their consoles at a loss. They sell them at a small profit which then grows to a larger profit as the cost of making them decreases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Home video game sales peaked at $3.2 billion then fell to $100 million, a drop of nearly 97%. This collapse, largely blamed on Atari shoving out low quality games, lasted for 2 years until Nintendo released the NES in North America.