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leon

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i make many things. i am mostly joking although i am completely serious. i am taller than you.

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mcc, to random
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Hello. My computer is not working. Can anyone give me some advice?

leon,
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@mcc actually it’s gnu/computer not working, or as I have taken to calling it, gnu PLUS computer not working

stroughtonsmith, to random
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My dream iPad is 15”, but, the way things have been going, if that machine ever does come to fruition it will be a $4,000 computer 🫠

leon,
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@stroughtonsmith 20” maxiPad would be great and funny

mcc, to random
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Perhaps I should just start a religion* around the principle of designing all aspects of life to minimize the profit your actions cause to incorporated entities

  • I would structure it this way because in the United States, doing a thing because a religion said to gives you special rights you would not get if you did the thing because you wanted to
leon,
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@mcc since every incorporated entity already acts in that way I suspect you might have been beaten to the punch

mcc, to random
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When Christine and I started dating I loved Star Wars and she loved Star Trek and we were like, ha ha, classic star-crossed geek scenario, this will be a running source of friction won't it. And then all these new shows and movies came out and it was like, wow! I got to see what was good about Star Trek, and Christine got an appreciation for Star Wars! And then they just kept making stuff and now Christine is complaining about how bad new Trek is and I'm complaining about how bad new Starwars is

leon,
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@mcc complaining about star trek is the most important part about star trek. that’s why half of star trek is bad, it's a feature

leon,
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@mcc like, there were professional writers and conscious human beings who made Threshold, its obviously it's nonsense to go infinite velocity because you found more efficient fuel and worked on it on your garage for a month, and exponentially more nonsensical for that to turn you into a promiscuous lizard, and it's obviously bad that that none of that ever has any kind of impact on the story which is entirely focused on get home as quickly as possible.

no-one could ever, ever think otherwise, or at least, still have the cognitive wherewithal to survive television production.

therefore, we are forced to conclude that it's intentional, and always has been

leon,
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@mcc am i saying that star trek is half an actual docudrama of the actual future in an attempt to temporally bootstrap the federation, made possible because of a PADD Gene Roddenberry discovered in the wreckage of a classified testflight in 1944 during his tenure in the military as a plane crash investigator, and half intentional dilution to avoid altering the authorities or causing a temporal paradox?

that the stress of having your view of reality completely unshifted was the root cause of his drug habits which lead to his untimely death, and that’s the reason why his son Rod is so actively involved in the franchise, because he inherited the PADD and the weighty responsibility of ensuring the future happens?

that would be preposterous

atomicpoet, to random
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Generally, I hate DRM because it doesn’t prevent piracy. It just penalizes customers for having the wherewithal to buy the product.

The pirates? They love DRM because there’s nothing they love more than the challenge of a crack. To them, DRM is literally a game.

For people who buy software with DRM, it just makes life more inconvenient.

leon,
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@atomicpoet hmm, a game that makes people who don't play it irritated and is really fun for the people who do? put that way it sounds like making drm would be really fun

atomicpoet, (edited ) to random
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Lots of people keep telling me “old” games are better.

I call B.S. on that whole notion.

I’m old enough to experience the near-infancy of gaming. My first console was an Atari 2600. I remember going to different arcades and seeing Pong cabinets in the corner.

Except for a brief year in 2004, I’ve never stopped gaming. And I can say with complete confidence that the quality of gaming has mostly improved.

By no means am I saying old games are crap. If that were true, I wouldn’t own so many of them. I still own an NES, Genesis, Saturn, etc. I still emulate Atari 2600. I have The C64 Mini.

I agree that many old games are some of the best games.

But nowhere near as many games were released in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and ‘00s as there are now. And of the games released, the batting average is nowhere near as good as you remember.

For every Yars Revenge there was an E.T.

For every Super Mario Bros. there was an Action 52.

For every Phantasy Star II there was a Desert Bus.

If this were not true, the Angry Video Game Nerd wouldn’t have been able to sustain an entire career talking about crappy old games for the past 20 years.

People also don’t consider the numerous creature comforts that have come to exist now that simply make gaming better. There was no online multiplayer. Input options were limited. Accessibility, such as colour blind mode in fighting games, didn’t even exist.

But the thing that gets me about so many of these retro gamers is they seem to believe that every game released nowadays is a DRM-laden AAA title teeming with micro-transactions.

This simply isn’t the case. The majority of games made nowadays are actually indie titles, made by small studios – some of them by solo developers – lacking DRM and micro-transactions. Tens of thousands of indie games get released every year. And every day, there’s an indie game released that blows away the retro game that inspired it.

Cuphead is better than Megaman. I’m sorry, it’s true. Not only does Cuphead have a better art style, it’s a more engaging and satisfying run-and-gun.

Yoku’s Island Express is better than Sonic Spinball. I mean, the fact I’m even making the comparison is absurd. Yoku’s Island Express has a richer pinball experience and a better story.

Jet Kave Adventure is better than Chuck Rock. The better game mechanics and story are in Jet Kave Adventure. Put those games side-by-side, and what I’m saying will be readily apparent.

When it comes to making video games, today’s indie developers have a huge advantage over game developers of yesteryear because, not only do they have access to better tools, they can learn from the old games an improve on them. In other words, they have the benefit of hindsight.

The question I have whenever these discussions arise is simply this: why aren’t you playing new indie games? Not only is the quality often superior, it’s a more affordable experience than spending C$30 on an old, used NES cartridge.

Why are you missing out on games like Shovel Knight, Pizza Tower, Toree 3D, Super House of Dead Ninjas, Untitled Goose Game – and many, many more?

leon,
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@atomicpoet My favourite thing about the modern indie game scene how it’s found super niche verticals - and in fact those super niche verticals are the safe choice! Before, if a 9 year old and a 50 year old from the other side of the planet couldn't figure it out in 5 minutes you'd be in trouble.

But now we can have stuff like Zach-likes and crazy hyper-detailed hardcore nerd stuff like Stationeer (which I only just discovered, somehow!) and the successfully kickstarted Starship Simulator, and that makes me very happy, and I know that there's tens of millions of people out there who are hyper into microgenres that I've never even heard about, and probably will never hear about, but I am so so happy for them.

So while there are definitely games that have taken the lessons of their ancestors to heart, delivering successful iterations on popular formulae, I think the true victory of modern games is getting situated into niches far away from the mainstream.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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(They need JIT, and Apple won't give them the entitlement)
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112304874800397616

leon,
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@stroughtonsmith @9to5Mac i wonder if there would be a way to pretranslate the instructions, like rosetta 2, rather than having to do it Just In Time with the right entitlements.

mcc, to random
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When I think about the security of a computer system, I have a specific scale I rate it on:

  1. The US government can crack it OR the government of China can crack it (equivalent)
  2. The government of Israel can crack it
  3. My friend Kristin could crack it
  4. The government of Russia can crack it
  5. A nation-state not listed above can crack it
  6. A well-qualified single infosec professional could crack it
  7. I could crack it
leon,
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@mcc I build level 0 systems sometimes. It’s a threefold approach:

  • don’t receive or store data
  • don’t do anything “valuable”
  • don’t let anyone know about them
mcc, to random
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Imagine a "base prime" number system where the base increases with each digit; that is, each digit N rolls over to 0 at P(N) where P(N) is the Nth prime number. Like:

1 = 1
10 = 2
100 = 6
1000 = 30
10000 = 210
100000 = 2310 (that's 210 * 11)

Impractical, but you can imagine it.

Questions:
Would this representation ever be useful?
Would prime numbers show up with any regular or interesting signature in the string representation?

leon,
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@mcc i think this should be immediately adopted for all business purposes

leon,
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@mcc we need to come together as a community to figure out a way to make business insanely expensive or impossible

the internet in the 90s was pretty close to this but it backfired horribly

like the metaverse was so close, if only people had shut their fucking mouths we would have had accounting departments running around catching budgets in fishing nets, artists getting big money for weird huge cubes and shit and everyone would have to wfh. so all that money went right into LLMs, directly. could have paid for new kinds of art for years but instead artists get shafted because they couldn't stfu and enjoy it

people are so obsessed proving themselves “smart” and “cool” by laughing publicly at the naked emperor, completely oblivious to:

  1. support local craftsmen
  2. naked emperors are easier to stab
  3. broke emperors can't afford armies
  4. sometimes embarrassed emperors lash out violently
  5. keyfabe
mcc, to random
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It is my opinion that the video game, "Tacoma", is underrated

leon,
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@mcc tacoma is what you fall into if you eat too many tacos

lea, (edited ) to random

PSA: Do not switch to the new Steam family sharing system unless you're actually only using it to share games with people in the same household.

The new system looks better than the old system on paper, but it has restrictions preventing you from sharing with people in other countries, it locks you into a single family and switching families or replacing family members has a 1 year cooldown.

Most importantly, once you activate the new system you will be locked out of the old system. Meaning I can't share games with any of my friends or my girlfriend anymore. (My bad, right now if you delete the family you actually do revert to the old sharing system. I don't know how much longer we'll have access to that, though. And I believe there is a 1 year cooldown if you actually want to join a family later)

I get that the system isn't intended to be used like this but... come on. It's been a thing for years. Just let us have our fun.

leon,
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@lea @SarahFaey does it restrict it to the same IP/network like Netflix?

breadly, to mastodon
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I mean, of course there's also a (very very wip) Mastodon client for Picotron, because why not? :blob_cat_sip:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=140880

leon,
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@breadly holy moly i had no idea that there were already networking apis

mcc, to random
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The phrase "I want someone to invent the AK-47 of ebikes" keeps drifting through my head

leon,
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@mcc i get what you mean, the low end of ebikes are a minefield. i love my beautiful trek allant+ 8 which is basically a bosch system with shimano gears and trek/bontrager everything else but it was terrifically expensive, a non-starter for delivery drivers

the primary danger though seems to be the batteries. that makes me think we need much more security around that shit. if a delivery company is allowed to pick between the reputable first party battery and the cheap dodgy aliexpress clone enabled by an open standard and economies of scale from standardisation, they'll pick the dangerous one every time and let their minimum wage workers take on the risk.

mcc, to random
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I like Sublime Text but I've been frustrated lately with limitations in its LSP implementation and it's always a little nervousmaking to be depending on a closed source program. Someone recommended as an alternative "Zed", which looks pretty nice albeit a little "baffling tiny icons everywhere". But then I looked in further and I'm not sure how open source it is plus it literally only runs on Mac. Their README links a tracking issue for Linux support, which was locked due to arguing. (1/3)

leon,
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@mcc zed’s chatgpt integration requires you input an API key. you definitely can’t use it accidentally.

mcc, to random
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An unusual thing about the fediverse is the size and content is such that whenever there's a spammer, the entire mastoverse winds up talking about it. Not even always requiring, like, a spam campaign. Sometimes the entire feed is talking about a single piece of spam.

leon,
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@mcc I kind of think that might have something to do with the fluorine-tier reactivity than a power asymmetry

I am literally talking about talking about talking about spam I am 1000% part of the problem

stroughtonsmith, (edited ) to random
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When Apple remembers to make new iPads again (any day now.), one thing I'd really like to see is an end to the baby apps. I don't want a stripped-down, half-assed 'iPad experience’ for anything. It's been fourteen years and I'm so over it. Give me real desktop-class apps across iPadOS and visionOS, feature for feature, that can scale all the way up to power a 5K External Display or spatial computing workstation.

A reorderable toolbar doesn't make for a 'desktop-class app’.

leon,
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@deeje @stroughtonsmith yes, exactly

if you can't write and distribute software on it, it's not really a proper computer

and i want to see them make Xcode on iPad with 100% SwiftUI without bailing out to UIKit

because if it can't make the most difficult studio UIs it's not really a proper UI framework

leon, to random
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yo what if the next apple vision was an accessory for a macbook pro

aluminium frame, plastic case, no processor, plugs right in to the macbook pro which does all the software and processing except the R1 is still in the headset. no eyesight display. optional audio pods to drive that price down even lower.

much less portable but you get, i don't know, 4 floating 4K displays on a pro, 6 on a max. way cheaper. i think it would slay.

simonbs, to random
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Apple rejected an update to Runestone because its App Store description mentions the app's price. This text has been included in the description for two years on iOS and for two releases on visionOS. I was inspired by Overcast, which also has a similar text, to add it to my app.

I strive to be transparent and upfront about the pricing of my app, and it has been fine for two years, but now Apple suddenly disapproves.

The inconsistency of Apple's reviewers is frustrating 😑 #RejectedByAppReview

Screenshot of Overcast on the App Store with the following part of its App Store description highlighted: “Current price for Overcast Premium is $9.99 USD per year, and may vary from country to country.”

leon,
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@simonbs my guess is that they want the restore purchase button to stick around after someone has bought premium because they expect apps to have multiple purchasables, and even want apps that don't to conform to the pattern for consistency and so users have a button to press

leon, to random
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At this point in time if you are making a UI framework you need to explain to me how i can make a Figma clone in it.

I do not care about your todo list, your form builder, your list-detail navigation or your page transition strategy. Those are not even table stakes, they're bus fare before you even get to the casino. I don't even care that you can do a block editor. Good for you.

If you have a serious UI framework and not a toy, show how you make a Figma - realtime, 2D freeform but with typographical, constraint based and explicit positioning, with fixed and floating guides and connections. Show me how easy it is and how performant it is. Show me how to structure my code to make it easy to build and collaborate.

Hard, expensive, premium UI has been about direct manipulation now for more than a decade and we're still pretending that the thing to demonstrate a library is ‘lol here's a wacky CRUD form app’

mcc, to random
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Always sincerely grateful when a youtuber does the "Saved You A Click" thing in the thumbnail

leon,
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@mcc what if there was a social network with just thumbnails so you didn't have to make the video or watch the video

mcc, to random
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I understand the first sentence here but not anything after it. Do I need to understand anything after the first sentence. Do I need to know what a bluebird is

leon,
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@mcc i would follow anyone who promised me it was 2017

mcc, to random
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Video begins with a shot of a cat sitting on a Roland Space Echo

ME: Oh, ha ha, that is so cute! Look at this beautiful ki—

[REALITY SINKS IN]

ME: Oh my god there are a finite number of those on Earth, the newest ones are 33 years old whereas the oldest are 49 and they have fragile purely mechanical components! Do not get cat hair anywhere near that thing!!! D:

leon,
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@mcc you seen these? https://gamechangeraudio.com/motor-synth-mkii/ i am trying very hard not to buy one

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