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mcc, 6 months ago to random

Fascinating both for what it says about dev & what it says about statistics:

A gamedev realized Linux users were just 5.8% of their sales, but represented 38% of bug reports.

Then they looked at those numbers closer, and realized. Linux users were not experiencing more bugs. Almost none of the Linux-user bugs were Linux-related. Linux users were simply more likely to file bugs.

Their conclusion: A linux port pays for itself bc it nerdsnipes ppl into giving u free QA

https://techhub.social/@ozone89/111337250473454154

mcc, 10 days ago to random

Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

mcc, 9 months ago to random

"With a software death date baked into each model, older versions of these inexpensive computers are set to expire three to six years after their release. Despite having fully functioning hardware, an expired Chromebook will no longer receive the software updates it needs, blocking basic websites and applications from use…

[Pictured] A pile of Chromebooks with expired software sit in a classroom at Montera Middle School in Oakland, Calif"

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/24/built-in-software-death-dates-are-sending-thousands-of-schools-chromebooks-to-the-recycling-bin/

mcc, 5 months ago to random

Reverse GitHub Copilot, it doesn't write any code for you, instead it asks you to explain your code with non-specific questions and through the rubber duck effect this causes you to notice bugs and/or realize yourself how to proceed with coding. On the inside it is literally just Eliza (1964)

mcc, 10 months ago to random

Me, standing atop a cherry-blossom-swept bridge, re-sheathing my katana

mcc, 3 months ago to random

People who design APIs. I am begging you. It doesn't matter how "simple" or "intuitive" or "elegant" your API is. You need to include sample code.

mcc, 1 month ago to random

Fantasy world where they have been breeding dragons to be smaller and smaller until they have little toy dragons that can sit in your lap and are popular among noble ladies and if you leave them unattended in a home they will gather up all the low denomination change under dressers and such and push them into a corner to make a tiny $4.78 hoard to sit on

mcc, 7 months ago to random

When you have been using Mastodon for a while and you finally install Linux

mcc, 10 months ago to random

Logging on to Mastodon… I think I will read six hundred posts today. Perhaps I shall even indulge myself and read six hundred and one

mcc, 4 months ago to random

Various products on Amazon named "I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy" https://futurism.com/amazon-products-ai-generated

mcc, 5 months ago to random

Kensington Market, Toronto

mcc, 4 months ago to random

There has been a lot of talk about the problems with so-called "AI" but one I don't feel gets enough attention is that "AI" products are surveillance products. "AI" is inevitably run in a cloud service, and in order for the AI to know what to generate some amount of the context within your application— usually it's not clear to the user what context, or how much— has to get sent to the cloud. The more of my local app state that gets transmitted over the Internet, the less comfortable I am.

mcc, 10 months ago to random

Speedrunning is kinda cursed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQWT9rSkfM

Did you know this? Apparently if you bought a copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 in the US, depending on when you bought it the "bros" in the logo is either aligned left on the label or right.

If the logo on your cart is aligned right, you can't get a world record under current strategies.

And until last year, nobody realized this was a problem. It was believed the versions were functionally identical.

(image source reddit user stang189)

mcc, 10 months ago to random

Entire Internet is dying at once https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-confirm-three-strikes-policy-ad-blocking-test-3340826/

mcc, 8 months ago to random

Hi. You may have seen a boost from Sunday going around containing allegations from a former contributor about financial mismanagement by the Tusky project.

The Tusky project has just posted a response from the project contributors, written by twelve of us working collaboratively. The post's quite long, and I apologize for that, but the allegations were detailed so our response also needed to be. You can read it here, if you want:

https://opencollective.com/tusky/updates/tusky-contributor-response-to-nik-clayton

Or a TL;DR:

https://mastodon.social/@Tusky/110980432313299809

mcc, 10 months ago to random

If MS-DOS is so great then why didn't they make an MS-TRES

mcc, 4 months ago to random

Wait wait WAIT this just occurred to me, how did it take all the way until now for this to occur to me—

BitTorrent: Software Pirate

Bitcoin: Software Pyrite

mcc, 6 months ago to random

Link via @psilocervine on Cohost: Some investigative journalism inside Unity's road to briefly introducing a company-destroying "install fees" policy last month.

The most interesting takeaway here is the whole disaster really was just IronSource, who merged with Unity last year, puppeting the company into destroying IronSource's competitor AppLovin at all costs. An entire art form is a pawn to be sacrificed in a fight between two adtech companies you've never heard of

https://mobilegamer.biz/fuck-you-were-not-paying-inside-unitys-runtime-fee-fiasco/

mcc, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Today's enshittification:

https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/17725942479127?mkt_tok=Nzc4LU1FVS0yODEAAAGOoRg54PgTNgY6pGi8ZGCBo4RBceJYESjZG-ZTFTEPwCxC_xAx_R-KrDPcvdVF2feeZqO7NY8cMhIffMIHFn0dVK2zbT0IpKxC1k4SS3vEaNM&utm_campaign=ai_subprocessor&utm_content=help-center&utm_medium=email&utm_source=figma

Figma is adding "AI" and made all user content eligible as input. They sent an email to all users making a big benevolent show of allowing us to opt out. But

1. You're opted in automatically. Opting out requires action.
2. ONLY team/organization leaders can opt out. Do you, for work reasons say, do work on someone else's org? You're at their mercy.
3. "This setting doesn't apply to files in personal drafts, where AI features are always enabled"

mcc, 9 months ago to random

Vivaldi denounces "web environment integrity", Google's code-signing for browsers proposal, as "dangerous". Which is interesting, because Vivaldi is itself a Chrome fork. And unsurprising, because the most likely long-term outcome of Google's codesigning proposal is that websites will begin blocking versions of Chrome that are not compiled by Google. To Vivaldi, this is an existential threat.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/

(Via @deepbluev7)

mcc, 6 months ago to random

Just got fucking roasted by the "now trending" box on knowyourmeme dot com

mcc, 1 month ago to random

Strange science facts: In nuclear power, functional nuclear fission reactors were constructed as early as 1942, yet nuclear fusion remains elusive and can only be achieved for short periods. In jazz, on the other hand, jazz fusion was invented in the early 70s, and jazz fission remains purely theoretical even today

mcc, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

[POLL] (Part 1 of 2— if you vote in one poll please vote in the other— if you boost one poll please boost the other)

How do you, personally, feel about an app owned by the company that calls itself "Meta" (the operators of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and now "Threads") soon federating with "Mastodon"/"The ActivityPub Fediverse"?

mcc, 3 months ago to random

Naming my new AI startup DemiUrge™