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3 people making upbeat science fiction games.
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Migueldeicaza, to random
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To celebrate Google’s request at the EU to force Apple to open iMessage, today we celebrate the career promotions for every PM and VP at Google that gave us this bouquet of innovation:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

Longplay_Games,
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@radicalbyte @XenonNSMB I had wondered about the json/XML thing. I was in a bubble doing XML/XSLT stuff for ages when suddenly everything became json seemingly over night and I was like 🤷‍♂️

I will say that it's faster to write but it's so much harder to write a parser for without the metadata.

Longplay_Games,
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@radicalbyte @Migueldeicaza I agree, xmpp would be a good starting point imo.

ajroach42, to random
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I believe that Youtube's warnings about adblockers are the beginning of the end for Youtube as a citizen of the Open Web, and the latest volley in the fight that will end with the death of youtube-dl, invidious, etc.

This road leads to DRM powered by EME, and that would be the fulfillment of the promise made by EME when it was launched.

https://ajroach42.com/the-grim-future-of-youtube/

Longplay_Games,
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@ajroach42 That's a price point I'll jump into, though I'll have to see how the discoverability and UI stacks up.

Longplay_Games,
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@ajroach42 Only on the viewer side.

As a viewer, the experience for a stream was good, though trying to browse instances to find stuff to see was a nightmare

Longplay_Games,
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@ajroach42 I like it, but the font is pretty hard to read on some of the backgrounds. Nice trailer though!

apzpins, to random
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At times I feel like understanding #parody is a lost art. A running #pinball joke for loose coil wires has been "it should be wireless so this won't happen". As a gag I cut of the wire lugs from a dead coil and printed a custom Bluetooth wrapper for it. I posted that on social media.

The amount of "it can't work", "scam!" and calling me incompetent and/or stupid was just unbelievable. Some took time to explain why this can't possibly work. All this after all the PCB repair work I've posted.

Longplay_Games,
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@apzpins Reminds me of my annual april fools joke of posting a pic of a piece of fruit with mocap dots on it, and then a rendered pic of the same fruit and titling it "behind the scenes mocap shot"

I quit doing that when people started getting all mad how stupid i was to do motion capture on a piece of fruit.

Maybe this "computers for everyone" thing has gone too far.

godotengine, to godot
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A warm welcome to our latest Silver Sponsor! Null is a developer-friendly publisher of indie games for PC, Mac, and consoles.

https://null.com

Longplay_Games,
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@godotengine That's awesome news!

GameDeveloperDotCom, to random
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Report: Fall Guys developer Mediatonic "decimated" by Epic layoffs https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/report-i-fall-guys-i-developer-mediatonic-decimated-epic-games-layoffs?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Longplay_Games,
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@GameDeveloperDotCom Being successful isn't enough under capitalism.

niemanlab, to random
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"Figures from ad blocking companies indicate that YouTube’s crackdown is working, with hundreds of thousands of people uninstalling ad blockers in October." https://www.wired.com/story/youtubes-ad-blocker-crackdown-spurs-record-uninstalls/

Longplay_Games,
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@niemanlab Google, actively reducing web safety and security in the name of profit.
What a timeline we're in

dgar, (edited ) to random
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40-core GPU version of M3 Max dropping GPU benchmarks comparable to RTX 4080!

I’ll be expecting an upcoming Mac Mini with M3 Ultra with 80 core GPU that’ll make nVidia shit themselves.

Longplay_Games,
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@dgar Unlikely, since Nvidia is largely focused on cloud and embedded AI and rendering - and apple doesn't even dogfood their own systems as servers.

Longplay_Games,
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@dgar Maybe, but as much of a fan of ARM as I may be, apple has never been able to scale beyond personal.

If we're lucky, AMD and apple will eventually collaborate and drive nvtel straight out to the bin.

Longplay_Games,
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@dgar But do recall that the IBM/Motorola PPC chips were some of the best silicon on the planet, literally a baby version of the stuff IBM used in minis and mainframes and apple dumped it in favor of Intel to save a buck.

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    Longplay_Games,
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    @quincypeck @ryanhoulihan you have to hack it to change the theme?

    Longplay_Games,
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    @quincypeck @ryanhoulihan Oh good. I was wondering, since I'm used to being able to change every single tiny aspect to customize from launcher to default app to theme

    governa, to OpenAI
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    confirms attacks behind ongoing outages

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-confirms-ddos-attacks-behind-ongoing-chatgpt-outages/

    Longplay_Games,
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    @governa Can't they just use AI to filter them? I thought chatgpt was supposed to replace all forms of skilled labor.

    Longplay_Games, to random
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    I'm confused - where's "local" on the new Mastodon?
    That's where I spend the majority of my time.

    Longplay_Games,
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    @britt Looks like this was all just to chase after the bouncing ball?
    https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/mastodons-latest-release-makes-the-open-source-twitter-alternative-easier-to-use/

    No thanks. If I wanted to be on twitter... I'd be on twitter?

    Longplay_Games,
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    Oh, I see, it's the one with a globe that says "live feeds"

    That's... utterly ridiculous.

    Longplay_Games, to fediverse
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    Hope the can help with this:
    Looking for a music player for a very specific edge case.

    • Bluetooth
    • MicroSD
    • 8-9 hours battery
    • Smaller than a mobile phone (or a phone would be used instead)

    Been looking all over the internet and everything in this niche seems to either be very poorly reviewed or super sketchy.

    It's for someone in a demanding/harsh job that precludes just using a mobile for music/audiobooks.

    Longplay_Games, to random
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    I'd ask "is there a way to stop the new mastodon from autoexpanding images, from putting every single favorite in my notification with the entire web preview expanded, and to get favorite notifications without it showing the whole thing to me every time"

    But the answer is pretty obviously no.

    This version is a huge step backwards in user experience.

    Longplay_Games,
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    @Brett_E_Carlock I have not - those are instead of going to my instance's site directly?

    Longplay_Games, to random
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    I find it disturbing how many job openings there are right now for really obsolete tech + electric polygraph requirements.

    Did a whole bunch of old security people just die?

    Sorry, but I'm not being strapped to a chair just to manage your websphere infrastructure.

    Longplay_Games, to random
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    Has anyone tried using a FairPhone 4 in the US?
    How was your experience with it?
    How did you like the camera?

    Longplay_Games, to Halloween
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    Tonight's flick:
    Alien (1979)

    Longplay_Games, to random
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    Testing out the extremely inexpensive ($30) music player I purchased for someone with the help of the Fedi.

    So far, it's actually quite reasonably decent. It's not going to win any awards, but it's not DOA or garbage so far.

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