I mean, I get it, but when the wrong tool is used so ubiquitously, you have to start asking questions about why people aren’t using the “right” tool. Forums seem to end up being hostile to newcomers, with all this “did you search the forum first you fucking noob?” mentality. Having a living place for real-time questions and discussion just feels better, same way email exchanges feel terrible after using Slack for so long. You can still have incredibly toxic people in real-time chat servers, obviously, but there just seems to be less overall stress to keep the posts in the forum “pristine” or… whatever that was.
Not being able to search for old content is a huge con to real-time chat. Even if the history is retained forever (in self-hosted instances), real-time messages just aren’t the best bits of data to recall later like forum posts. Clear drawback.
Still, people are using discord, not to spite forums, but because it works, is free, and is easy.
I had such a good time watching this movie. I had just gotten out of a bad relationship, and got tickets to see it at the Alamo draft house in SF in whatever amount of millimeter film is the cool one. It gave me life. I will never forget.
Also big lolz at more feet stuff were had haha, he knows what he’s doing.
Right, you do have to understand that either way, if you put something on the public internet, it is gone.
I don’t want a company to sell my data, making money off of me, then having the audacity to ask me for MORE money on top (nitro). It feels gross.
I don’t mind sharing bits of myself online otherwise.
The owners of federated instances can also just start selling your data too at any point. And as you said, advertisers will also just scrape public data trivially. Basically, the internet and world is a terrible place.
But Discord has cultivated a queer membership by serving a different need than those platforms: privacy.
Yeah, gonna stop reading right there. Discord is absolutely selling your data. Nothing against inclusivity features though.
Discord became ubiquitous because it works well, and is free. Take VC money, run at loss, get tons of users, enshittify, die because something better becomes good enough. It’s just another one of those speed runs, which will happen over and over again until the end of humanity.
I appreciate that earnest made a post yesterday, or maybe it was the day before, saying that he is not dead and hasn't given up on kbin. It's not on this magazine, so I'm not sure where it was since this seems to be the most appropriate one, but in any case....
It doesn’t NEED to be anything, this is run by Ernest, for free. It’s worse than that, he is paying for it and not being subsidized with ad revenue. He can totally ask for help if he wants, he can also say no to that and continue running the site on his own. You are not entitled to this, good grief.
This is like complaining that the little mom and pop sandwich shop can’t product sandwiches as fast and uniformly as Subway. This clearly isn’t for you, just go to Reddit or something if you want stability. I love the little slices of janky internet we get from activitypub, im sick of everything needing to become highly available around the globe supporting millions of requests per second with no downtime tolerance.
When I was kid, I could sit in front of TV for hours and sink a day or two away into a game and have no problem having to start the game over from the beginning. Time meant nothing to me and I wasted it like it was a near infinite resource....
Rocket League. Games are quick, you can play one or many in a session. I don’t know if epic has ruined it yet, but last I played the good old core game was still there.
This study compares two websites with similar design: the commercial Spotlight template from developers of Tailwind vs the same site with semantic CSS.
I use tailwindcss because it’s low level enough to get done what I want done, and it’s orders of magnitude fewer things I need to master. If you give a shit to read the docs you’ll find there is an “@apply” directive that can be used to move all the utility classes into css files, which is a must. My tailwind projects have not a single tailwind class name in the markup. When I need to get technical it’s trivial to add custom css.
Also, how do I verify that this fork isn't malware wrapped in emulator code?
The code is open source, you read it all, ensure that you download exactly the code you read, and you compile it yourself. That’s the only way, in general, to accomplish this.
I enjoy it, started playing recently! All the fun for me is in trying to find good loadouts completely on my own. I don’t want to watch some YouTuber show me the absolute maxed out best loadout, because that’s the entertainment to me. Progress is slow, I still haven’t cleared the game lol, but when I do, I know it will be my own choices that got me there. No shame in researching how to win if that’s your thing, I just love diving into games like this blind.
It’s more like asking a carpenter to build a hammer as their practical carpentry interview. It’s probably good they know about hammers, but what you actually want to know is if they can build cabinets.
I’m looking for a self hosted solution to this problem:
I want to create a full text search index from a collection of PDF manuals (text, not images, I don’t care about OCR here). There is a UI to search for text matches in documents, and clicking a search hit opens the PDF scrolled to where the search hit is (bonus points if the search hit is hilighted)
It really does need to be stated that AI code completion is indeed NOT a learning tool. It’s an accelerated “copy/paste code from stack overflow” tool. Useful in its own right if you just want some rough code fast, but it’s not going to teach you anything. There is no easy way out of having to deeply understand code. It’s your job as a programmer.
Yeah lol learning poker hands is all it does, which is trivial. The hard part of gambling is learning odds and how to bet. There is a little bit of odds calculation in the game, but it’s incredibly unrealistic with all the modifiers, and they change on each run.
Moon Studios – the developer behind beloved Metroidvania games Ori and the Blind Forest and Will of the Wisps – is gearing up to launch its next game, action-RPG No Rest for the Wicked, into early access. Ahead of that, its director has clarified that there’ll be no microtransactions included in the upcoming title at all,...
Deleted my 10+ year old reddit account years ago, along with all other social shit. Fun to see everyone else finally catching up :)
Stop giving VC backed companies free data. Please, I beg you all. I know this is preaching to the choir but I just wish more people gave a shit.
It’s bad enough that these companies pay other shitty companies for data dumps on you, but handing it over in absolute dump truck loads yourself for free is stupid.
It’ll never change. Those same shitty companies will just scrape these new communities in due time. I don’t have a point I guess, the world is fucked and the cycle will continue. May as well fight the good fight though.
For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. (lemmy.world)
ditch discord! (discuss.tchncs.de)
person backing up his car exploitable with the following four panels:...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) shows the masterful camera work of Quentin Tarantino, as he films this iconic scene one-handed. (startrek.website)
Absolutely brilliant 👌
Discord’s secret weapon against open source competitors (it’s PluralKit) (medium.com)
Why are FOSS platforms like Matrix having such a hard time getting users to migrate from Discord? Because of PluralKit.
Ernest needs to quickly delegate or this instance will quickly die
I appreciate that earnest made a post yesterday, or maybe it was the day before, saying that he is not dead and hasn't given up on kbin. It's not on this magazine, so I'm not sure where it was since this seems to be the most appropriate one, but in any case....
Games that respect your time.
When I was kid, I could sit in front of TV for hours and sink a day or two away into a game and have no problem having to start the game over from the beginning. Time meant nothing to me and I wasted it like it was a near infinite resource....
Tailwind vs. normal CSS - performance and size (nuejs.org)
This study compares two websites with similar design: the commercial Spotlight template from developers of Tailwind vs the same site with semantic CSS.
Suyu, a potential replacement for Yuzu (gitlab.com)
Let's discuss: Slay the Spire
I wanted to try a new type of post: just taking a particular videogame and see if there are others who would like to talk about it....
Coding interviews are effective (pcloadletter.dev)
How widespread is the use of Copilot, CodeWhisperer and other AI assistant in your company?
Balatro removed from sale temporarily due to age rating changing from 3+ to 18+ without warning. (twitter.com)
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/1430539e-bd87-4b2b-b421-fd3d4cbabf17.png
Baldur's Gate 3 developer asks fans to "please stop" sending threats over upcoming mod support (www.eurogamer.net)
Why there always gotta be ass holes??
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) ⭐ 6.7 | Comedy, Drama, Music (imdb.com)
Runtime: 1h 27m...
After Metroidvania success, Ori CEO leading new action RPG takes aim at Diablo 4: "No microtransactions and battle passes ... no $65 horse skins" (www.gamesradar.com)
Moon Studios – the developer behind beloved Metroidvania games Ori and the Blind Forest and Will of the Wisps – is gearing up to launch its next game, action-RPG No Rest for the Wicked, into early access. Ahead of that, its director has clarified that there’ll be no microtransactions included in the upcoming title at all,...
Is this a family reunion? (dmv.social)
cold y fresh!
Welcome to The Flavortown Gym (i.postimg.cc)
[News] Hayao Miyazaki’s "The Boy and the Heron" Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film (www.crunchyroll.com)