zagaberoo

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zagaberoo,

This is part of what I love about the Playdate.

zagaberoo,

The way people talk about people who don’t block ads is so funny.

I understand and respect the reasons people choose to use blockers, but ads honestly just aren’t that problematic for me in practice and are easy to avoid and ignore.

zagaberoo,

Of course; I’m just a lot more worried about the systemic problems of mass surveillance than any practical risk to me individially.

zagaberoo,

Drive-by malware tends not to be zero-days though. I’ve stayed safe for decades just by keeping my software up to date.

zagaberoo,

You say with such confidence. Is it so hard to imagine people can defend themselves with means other than ad blocking?

zagaberoo,

Huh? The point of this discussion is that I don’t need to block them to keep myself safe in sketchy corners of the web.

zagaberoo,

There’s no mention of anything like zero-days in that article. They only mention that it can target all major OSes, with no mention of cutting edge versions also being vulnerable.

Hilariously, the article directly supports my position as well:

The good news for some, at least: it likely poses a minimal threat to most people, considering the multi-million-dollar price tag and other requirements for developing a surveillance campaign using Sherlock

That’s a big part of my whole point. People who don’t do even a modicum of actual thought about a practical threat model for themselves love pretending that ad blocking isn’t primarily just about not wanting to see ads.

If Israel or some other highly capable attacker is coming after you, then fine, you really do need ad blocking. In that case malware in ads is going to be the least of your concerns.

Attacks that cast such a wide net as to be the concern of all web users are necessarily less dangerous because exploits need to be kept secret to avoid being patched.

There’s nothing wrong with taking extra precautions; I’m certainly not saying blocking ads is a bad idea. It’s the apparent confusion that an informed, tech-savvy person might choose not to block ads that makes me laugh.

zagaberoo,

The playdate is not meant to replace an emulator and buckets of roms. It’s its own game console with lots of great new games made by passionate devs.

I’ve played more of the 24 pack-in games than I’ve ever spent time actually playing with the multiple emulator station consoles I’ve set up over the years. I love seeing what new games devs put out on the catalog, too. No in-app-purchases or any such BS, so devs just have to try and make a game that’s worth your couple bucks up front.

The creative constraints of the 1-bit color and limited inputs push games in fun directions too. The crank is amazing as an analog rotation input, which has been missing from game consoles since the early 80s. Steering and aiming with the crank is so fluid and intuitive that it really adds to immersion.

It’s not the kind of thing everyone’s going to get $200 of value out of, but if it happens to be up your alley its truly incredible.

zagaberoo,

In between waiting for new games from season one, don’t forget to check out all the cool free games and ports you can sideload from itch.io! I love the port of the original Celeste.

zagaberoo,

Nope and yep. It’s an incredible tool, but it’s got a vim-sized learning curve to really leverage it plus other significant drawbacks. Still my beloved one-and-only when I can get away with it, but its a bit of a masochistic acquired taste for sure.

Template tweaking, as I imagine academia heavily relies on, is really the closest to practical it gets. You do still get beautiful results, it’s just hard to express yourself arbitrarily without really committing to the bit.

zagaberoo,

I adore Fossil as well. Having simple tools like a wiki and tickets built into each repo is rad.

zagaberoo,

Fountain pen writing may look nicer in most scenarios, but in terms of practicality they’re awful compared to ballpoints.

zagaberoo,

Can you really expect the kind of behavior that emerges from a disaster to be the behavior that people would maintain forever even in the absence of some unifying horror? The disaster creates temporary community unity which allows such incredible social cohesion at scale.

zagaberoo,

What does a well-functioning anarchist organization look like, though? How does one of any size prevent from fracturing into competing factions over time? If such organizations are limited to tight-knit community scales, I can’t see how it’s not eventual feudalism with extra steps.

zagaberoo,

Who’s barring cannabis users? Red Cross at least only has a problem if your decision-making appears impaired. They don’t even ask you to wait between smoking and donating as long as you’re thinking clearly enough.

zagaberoo,

Holy shit I think I have the same problem, mesh network and all. I assumed it was a driver issue; thanks for the pointer!

zagaberoo,

Don’t give Java the credit of inventing bytecode, it’s a much cooler concept than that

zagaberoo,

That’s essentially the table saw motto, which is why sawstop is such an amazing piece of technology.

Still for-profit assholes, but they did solve a very real problem that’s always been there.

zagaberoo,

“You’re dumb” is disrespectful, but “your code is shit” isn’t? How does the latter not reasonably imply the former?

Being respectful is taking the time to moderate “your code is shit” to something like “your code is not acceptable”. You might even go a modicum further into kindness with “there are aspects of your code I need you to improve”.

All express the same idea, some will leave the listener more open to internalizing the criticism.

zagaberoo,

Bad code, yes, calling it ‘shit’, no.

Stuff like this is a big part of why software circles are seen as so hostile and unwelcoming to outsiders.

You can be completely clear and frank without resorting to insult, mild though it may be. Just because you and people most like you understand that calling their work ‘shit’ doesn’t reflect on them personally, doesn’t mean it’s not significantly exclusionary.

Now, obviously you can get to know your reports well enough to understand whom would take ‘shit’ well, but that doesn’t mean it’s not generally important to temper criticism with kindness. Kindness never has to mean holding back criticism, just avoiding stooping to insult.

zagaberoo,

Billions of years of ancestors!

zagaberoo,

Because they want to keep receiving review copies of games.

Capitalism Can't Solve Climate Change (time.com)

And the IEA, for its part, expects China to continue to be the sole meaningful over-achiever. It recently revised upwards by 728 GW its forecast for total global renewables capacity additions in the period 2023–27. China’s share of this upward revision? Almost 90 percent. While China surges ahead, the rest of the world...

zagaberoo,

That was before people had experienced consumerism. It doesn’t make sense to compare people existing without knowing of consumerist luxuries to asking people to give them up. Not saying it’s hopeless, but it is human nature. It’s animal nature. We’ve just moved ourselves into a world where those advantages have become disadvantages.

zagaberoo,

Yep, 2020

zagaberoo,

Work Time Fun is a sort of strung-out Wario Ware that I really enjoyed back in the day. If you like minigames, trinkets, and grinding, then check it out.

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