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Longplay_Games, to random
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Now that my work for my prior dayjob is over, I have been able to return their apple laptop and now have room for my model M again.

Oh it feels so nice to once again do the majority of my typing on a real keyboard designed for real use. Had this thing since 1997 and I hope I die before it does :D

devnull, to fediverse
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Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but it seems trivial for a malicious service to send signed (against itself) activities to other inboxes to spoof content from other domains.

UNLESS the public key host matches the object identifier host, right? That'd be a sensible and low-effort way to ensure obj. integrity.

But that would preclude the use of a third-party http signature service, although I suppose that is only a potential implementation; nothing I've witnessed in the wild.

Longplay_Games,
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@devnull I remember when PGP first really started rolling and PKIs became a thing, we thought we had most of this problem solved.

Turns out - not so much.

Longplay_Games,
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@devnull IMO, you can never trust a service where you, the other party, and a third party have the keys to your convo.

I suspect encryption is still doomed simply because the average person cares so little about privacy and security that they'll discuss intimate details on speakerphone in a queue.

Longplay_Games, to indiegames
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It took years but we finally got a 10th review that Steam felt like counting (there's over 17 total reviews plus curators), so we have an official review rating on Steam for

Folks, pleare remember to review games. Stuff like Steam buries your games if you don't get enough reviews fast enough.

Longplay_Games, to random
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I was asked today about the ethics of substack, and where that sort of mid-length article writing could be hosted now...

I just have no answers. So I'm going to - where would you do that? Ko-fi perhaps?

dgar, to random
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Y’all realise that money is the problem, right?

Longplay_Games,
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@dgar To paraphrase an excellent quote from Oyate:
"If we tried to set up a native butcher store to serve native buffalo only to natives, some agency would be here with guns and permits in 15 minutes to tell us why we aren't allowed to do that"

Longplay_Games, to random
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I'd really love to see Hololens 2 side by side with the Apple Vision Pro.
Speaking as someone with some growing movement impairments making it harder and harder for me to do my regular work, I'd love to see which one (if either) would restore the most of my capabilities.

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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I played the new Star Trucker demo on Steam. And it's fun! It's basically "American Truck Simulator in Cowboy Bebop".

This game has potential. If you take the job seriously, you'd think you were there. Out there.

Star Trucker should be available in 2024.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380050/Star_Trucker/

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Longplay_Games,
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@TheSpaceshipper I was amused by this one because it was made by a publisher we pitched Smugglers to, and they said they weren't interested in the idea.

Then made this :D

Longplay_Games, to random
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If job application sites could stop doing stuff like exploiting job seekers to train their AIs, that'd be greaaaaat.

jamesthomson, (edited ) to random
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If you get an Apple Vision Pro today, and are looking for a native visionOS calculator, may I suggest my PCalc?

It's a universal purchase with the iOS version, so you might even already own a copy!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pcalc/id284666222?platform=appleVisionPro

Longplay_Games,
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@jamesthomson TIL people actually buy calculator apps

aral, to webdev
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You’d think folks writing the HTML spec would know the difference between an HTML attribute and inline JavaScript but you’d be mistaken and that’s why we can’t open a modal dialog without client-side JavaScript in 2024.

🤷

PS. What would be great to have is:

<dialog modal open></dialog>

So that a modally-open dialog can be streamed from the server without requiring client-side JavaScript to trigger it open when it loads.

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3567#issuecomment-373894397

Longplay_Games,
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@aral You'd think they could spell referrer, too

Longplay_Games, to random
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Really excited to see Oyate, the new documentary about the fight against the Dakota oil pipeline:
https://linktr.ee/oyatefilm

dreadfulsanity, to random
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Why are people around the world mentioning the German train schedules in the same breath as punctuality?

Trains running late is a running gag in Germany. 🤷‍♀️

Longplay_Games,
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@grrrr_shark @dreadfulsanity Very true, If you wish to take a train between two of the larger cities in the US (Phoenix and San Francisco), there's only one connecting train per day, and the arriving train is often too late to catch it. By hours.

Happened to me twice.

dgar, to random
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You matter.

Unless you moving at light-speed.

Then you energy.

Longplay_Games,
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@dgar If you're moving above light-speed, that's just tachyon

Longplay_Games, to linux
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I know an SAP and Oracle DBA looking for remote work in the US - anyone looking for one?

kyonshi, to random
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Do Catholic priests in other countries do their rounds to collect money and bless flats at the beginning of the year?
It's a thing here in Poland.

I don't think it's a thing back home in Germany, but I come from a very equal Catholic/Lutheran area and maybe it's different in other areas.

Anyway, we pretended to be a good Christian family again on the off-chance that the kids want to have first communion.

Longplay_Games,
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@Tim_Eagon @kyonshi Same here in the US, even in the relatively religious zone of NM where we have posadas that still isn't a thing.

k, to random
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I get first class when I’m travelling by train in Finland cos there’s free coffee and the price of a first class ticket is a rounding error compared UK equivalent.

There’s no coffee on the last train to Tampere (oh noes!) but I’ve been refunded 8e of my 29e (wtf!) ticket due to VR being a national disgrace.

You don’t get a refund for sitting in actual piss on the floor of a UK train, and the last coffee I attempted was from a fucking bag. (Toots passim)

Longplay_Games,
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@k And somehow everyone seems to admire the UK/US models of society.

Longplay_Games,
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@k That's certainly what cured my "american exceptionalism", spending any real time in actual first world countries.

Longplay_Games, to random
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@element's new sub space has some unbelievable bugs.

Stay the heck away from subspaces.

Longplay_Games, to random
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I mean, you can hate on Steam because of DRM, overhead, fees, asset-flips, hate speech, thinly disguised porn, AI-made games, or whatever - but there's also this:
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php

30%. I am supposed to give this dude $100 + 30% + fees of every game I put on Steam.

Now you know why we promote Itch and Gog, where at least the cut is smaller.

Longplay_Games,
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Something non-devs may not realize is that while steam takes 30% off the top, publishers take their cut from the remaining, as do engines like Unreal and Unity. Don't forget all the subscription model tools that go into dev as well.

It's not uncommon for a dev to sell a game and realize only a small fraction of the price. In theory this is to reward these other companies for their investment and foresight, but this is also why we use

ozoned, to lemmy EN
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@owncast i'm even more appreciative of you now! Having started that just a day ago, I've already been told by people obviously mich smarter tgan you or I how impossible owncast is. So now that we know that the software we're using, and you wrote, can't ever work, I guess we'll just pack it in huh? /s

Thank you again btw. People are insufferable and I'm sure you've already heard the garbage I'm getting and yet you trudge on. So thank you! You are appreciated.

Longplay_Games,
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@ozoned @owncast people saying: “It can’t be done,” are always being interrupted by somebody doing it.

Longplay_Games, to random
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I wish I were more disappointed that Humble's new 'learn to code' bundle is almost entirely exploitive AI BS.

Unfortunately, that's just who humble has become over the last while.

Longplay_Games,
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@britt And as you say - AI is a much harder, darker force to evade than a bunch of suspiciously racist monke memes.

Longplay_Games,
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@britt I truly hate using the term AI for those bots, much like I cringe when crypto is used for bitcoin... but some words just get ruined.

I went to uni specifically to study AI lol. Or rather, expert systems, as they were back in the 90s.

Longplay_Games,
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@britt Rather than express my own limited opinions about jargon generators, here's a great paper on the actual science: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3442188.3445922

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