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o76923

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I'm a nerd who plays #Arknights and watches #anime. I'm a big fan of #StarTrek even though they canceled Prodigy. Looking for a job in data science, software engineering, or related fields. Recently started thinking of myself as a #furry.

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pettter, to random
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It's funny: Both Bandcamp and Patreon had the easiest and most straightforwardly long-term profitable business models imaginable: Sit between indie creatives and their fans, provide some basic services for mediation (comment sections, media posts, semi-global payment) and take enough of a cut of any payments to cover the costs and then some.

But because that business model wouldn't scale forever, they are instead being gutted, because ever increasing growth is the only model capital accepts

o76923,
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@pettter

That's not what killed Bandcamp. They died because Epic needed a service like theirs in their portfolio to claim a specific type of harm in a legal battle with Google over the Play store in order to bolster the rest of their case. They weren't subject to that type of harm so they had to buy a company, let Google punish them for owning it, then say "see, Google is doing this bad thing" in legal briefs.

Now that that court case is over, they have no reason to own Bandcamp anymore so they're selling it.

o76923, to random
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Next time I lose my remote, I should just look for my cat, Botch. She loves sitting on it so much, after all...

FedericoSchonborn, to random
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oh no

o76923,
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@FedericoSchonborn

This shouldn't be too surprising. They are currently the largest funder of open source projects globally.

o76923, to random
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I want to be angry but I'll try to be constructive instead. The best defense against that handful of abusive mods and their tool is to promote a better tool that they don't control. I would encourage all instance mods on the Fediverse to go to https://gui.fediseer.com/ and claim your instance.

Fediseer is a project that started to combat spam on Lemmy but has expanded to be a tool for instance admins on the Fediverse. Admins can endorse, hesitate, or censure other instances and provide a reason as well as receipts. All incoming and outgoing reports for an instance are clearly visible to help admins make informed decisions about defederation.

o76923, to random
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Wait, that's why the tech.lgbt admins finally shoveled out that statement? They were hoping for a last minute reprieve? But they called out that the person in charge of DotArt doctored screenshots. There's no chance she'll back down.

RE: https://tech.lgbt/users/david/statuses/111246596180189771

o76923, to VideoGames
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I am disappointed but not surprised that has the same disappointing "if there's crime, just plop down a police station" approach to the criminal justice system. Sure, they added the ability to limit police stations to specific districts and now prisons can be used for prison labor to boost manufacturing, but those are the opposite of what I want games to be doing. I want at least some of these games to be showing off alternatives to the current model, or at the very least spewing less .

Honestly though, the most disappointing of the bunch is still 1-1-2 Operator. It's a game where you are a dispatcher for emergency services and you get to manage squads of police, fire, and medical. That includes hiring staff, buying equipment, and some level of influence over how they respond. You legitimately have incentives in gameplay to equip most of your cops with tasers instead of guns and leave your SWAT team at the station when a police horse could address the issue just as well to save money.

Alas, the devs sided with All Lives Matter (at least partially in response to parts of their player base having people vocally demanding it). So instead of doing the incredibly natural outgrowth of what their system and mechanics already did by creating separate traffic enforcement, mental health services, and detective agencies to show how a city could work with a police force 1/10th the size, they went another way. The next expansions included civil unrest (adding terrorism and riot control) then a zombie apocalypse. [full disclosure: they did push back to do some good covid stuff]

It's particularly depressing because the big gimmick of 1-1-2 Operator over its predecessor is that it used data from Open Street Maps so you can play in over 10,000 real world cities, some of which with 3D mapping. They had the opportunity to let people try to defund police in their home town in a video game but went in a different direction for sales.

I really want the game that could have been. can be a way to explore the world in a way that lets us imagine better alternatives to the status quo. Reinforcing that crime just naturally appears and that it can be thwarted with greater force traps us in a shitty mindset.

o76923,
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@kwsapphire

I've only seen dev notes for how CS2 handles crime and it was nothing good. I'm assuming that they would have talked about it if they did anything to improve the system. Best we can hope for is DLC but I'm not holding my breath.

1-1-2 Operator isn't worse than other games in the genre by any stretch. The fact that you legitimately can do quite well with minimal force is a good thing. It's just that they had near unique potential to do something so much bigger that makes it tragic.

o76923,
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@ampersandrew

Unfortunately, I don't think there are great examples of it in the real world. That's part of why I'd hope to see it in a simulation video game. I know academics have studied it and I suspect that groups like M4BL would put them in touch with consultants they could hire for outside expertise.

I just know that it's a blind spot that they definitely aren't unaware of. It comes up on their forums, in comments on social media, and even gets articles published in the gaming press from time to time. Silence and nothing doesn't seem like an ideal response.

o76923, to trans
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One thing that's always confusing about my timeline is that the robots in / are called dolls but so are a bunch of women. Surely we can fix this with more specificity.

Dolls in Neural Cloud come in a few varieties, what are the most common ones? Tactical dolls and assist dolls, probably. So we can just call those t-dolls... Wait, damn it.

Maybe I can come at this from the other side. Trans women are real people who I interact with in a virtual world. The characters in Neural Cloud are artificial consciousnesses on the cusp of sentience who got trapped in a virtual world. Nope, that's not going to work either.

Both have cute outfits, both wrote computer code, both can use guns, both have to fight against the machinations of a weird organization draped in Christian imagery for weird reasons...

Hmmmm, this is trickier than I expected.

o76923, to random
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filler
Happy Spoopy Season

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o76923, to random
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Wait... Why is that defined both in style.scss and generated for inline css?

reads more; finds third definition

Maybe I'm just not cut out for contributing to FOSS projects.

freeplay, to random

*The New iFox ​:blobfoxfloof:​
Now with more floof.

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We already have your details.
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o76923,
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@freeplay

For the record, you currently can't do values greater than 5 for scaling. If you want to go bigger you need to either nest it or abuse negatives. Compare below

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o76923,
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@freeplay

It's not particularly well documented but now you know a workaround that goes up to around 20 million times before browsers start getting weird about it.

o76923,
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@Gray @freeplay

To paraphrase Sir Mix-a-Lot, "When it comes to foxes, I like 'em round, and big."

o76923, to random
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There won't be peace in the region until regime change replaces Hamas and their backers—the Israeli government. That might sound like madness to people unfamiliar with the region but, unfortunately, that's the situation. Let me of break it down.

There's an idea called the two state solution that was broadly supported by most Israelis and Palestinians (though specifics might be intractable). Basically, Palestine becomes a united independent country between the West Bank and Gaza instead of whatever it is under Israeli occupation. Historically, the biggest group against it were a subset of Palestinians who wanted all of their land back—eliminating Israel.

But there's another group that opposes it now, Israeli hardliners who want to purge all of Israel of Palestinians, in some cases all Arabs. Netanyahu is part of that group.

Pursuant to that goal, he has worked tirelessly to keep Hamas in power including directly funding them and having the military and intelligence agencies of Israel eliminate internal threats Hamas faced. That might sound insane but the two-state solution becomes much more likely if Gaza and the West Bank unite and Hamas is opposed to that.

This isn't some "Bush did 9/11" conspiracy nonsense. Their current finance minister said it back in 2015 and Netanyahu himself made a direct case for the necessity to fund Hamas at a Likud party meeting in 2019.

So we have two parties that nominally want to exterminate each other working together because they both agree that peace is the greater threat. War can't end in that kind of situation.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

o76923, to Anime
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I just watched Mother's Basement's seasonal rundown. Bocchi's popularity definitely influenced a lot of decision making by production companies this season because "This too is yuri" might as well by the tagline for half of the shows.

Maybe that's finally enough volume that we'll get some freaking dubs.

MariaTheMartian, to random

MARTIAN SLIME INVASION
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o76923,
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@MariaTheMartian

I really need to pitch $[slide.x=3,y.2,speed=5s,alternate :ms_slime:] as an animation equivalent to move for MFM but I am already so far behind on these...

o76923, to random
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I just saw someone describe themselves as "mooglepilled". I am not sure that I even want to know.

o76923, to GachaGaming
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I was curious if any games allowed players to access an to get information or even perform tasks. I had assumed the answer would be no or, at best, some newish small game by devs trying to get hired by a bigger company (like the team behind ).

It turns out, grand daddy of gacha games, allows exactly that. The game originally ran in Flash back in 2013 and used a REST based API where they POSTed JSON to send information. Over the decade of development including migrating to HTML5 and making dedicated apps hasn't changed that. Their API is even still on version 1.0, hilariously.

And it fostered exactly the kind of ecosystem that I was expecting. There are browser extensions, side programs, and tools for showing off your collection on social media. It's not perfect by any stretch since the API was clearly never designed to be used directly by players but they have allowed it to flourish anyway.

I hope that more games decide to try the retro thing of being player friendly in that specific way.

o76923,
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As a side note, apparently has something similar in GFLAlarm but with the caveat that there is no exposed API. It uses a combination of packet sniffing and emulation to get info the same way that you should be able to get it from a nice friendly API.

Props to the absolutely insane fans who made that possible.

mae, to random
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matrix not supporting custom emotes (officially in the standard) yet is honestly such a huge bar to me using it

o76923,
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@mae

Wait, they have a 3D VR standard for spatially aware stuff used in ThirdRoom.io but it can't handle custom emoji?

o76923, (edited ) to random
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Is The Amazing Digital Circus somewhere between Sword Art Online and Voyager's The Thaw but significantly more effed up?

mynameistillian, to random

incel gamers are so funny cuz if you put a non-male main character in a game they'll go all batshit. "woman in MY GAME? the world has gone woke" bro this is the closest equivalent to interacting with any girl you will ever get in your life

o76923,
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@mynameistillian

MGTOW is one of the routes that pipeline can take.

o76923, to random
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Well that's neat. The latest CSS I've got to handle colored silhouettes apparently does work with animated custom emoji. I was worried that I'd need a different approach to handle those.

I've gotten the HTML down to

<span class="recolor" style="--color:#FAA">cat 😸
  <span class="img-mask">
    <img data-v-160ae9b2="" class="mk-emoji custom" src="https://cdn.kitty.social/_/1304ef08-fe2a-46f3-b351-29ee65d9b372.gif" alt=":neocat_googly_blep:" title=":neocat_googly_blep:" decoding="async">
  </span>
</span>

where the img is unmodified from what Firefish outputs for an emoji and the <span class="recolor"> works without needing to be broken up around nested emoji. The <span class="img-wrap"> still has problems in the CSS but I consider this progress.

At least, it's progress unless I decide to give up and go with an SVG filter primitive for increased readability.

o76923,
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Or I could compromise by abusing the fact that the url() function in CSS allows you to create a pseudo-file. Then it would be unreadable and avoid using inline SVG.

.background {
  background: yellow;
  background: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='90' height='45'%3E%3Cpath d='M10 10h60' stroke='%2300F' stroke-width='5'/%3E%3Cpath d='M10 20h60' stroke='%230F0' stroke-width='5'/%3E%3Cpath d='M10 30h60' stroke='red' stroke-width='5'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
}

<cite>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/url</cite>

FirstProgenitor, to random
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Saying vtubers "graduate" sounds like a post-apocalyptic euphemism for being euthanized and then made into soylent green

o76923,
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@FirstProgenitor

It's weird that that's less disturbing than what it actually means.

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