Did you know that Miguel who founded the mono project is now working on porting the Godot editor to iPad

https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112328005668118023

https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112407809868401322

Note this is the *editor*… the games already run on iPad, this is *creating* games on iPad

Earlier today I edited my (small) set of Stack Overflow posts to add the sentence "I do not consent to my words being used to train OpenAI" to the end. Within hours, all these edits were reversed and I got a warning email for "removing or defacing content". I did not remove any content. If this small sentence is "defacing", it is a very minor defacement. In no way was the experience of other users made worse by me adding one sentence.

To Stack Overflow, you are not a person. You are "content".

Looks like installing the bsky pds server is done via the "curl this opaque installer.sh and run it". This isn't necessarily so bad, but if you look inside the installer.sh it turns out to silently install Docker. That's… interesting. I feel like that's a surprising thing for a script to do silently and in the background. Isn't that kinda heavyweight?

@mcc honestly ai is the most popular and fastest selling snake oil yet.

Ai uses to be a legitimate piece of tech used for telling NPCs where the player was and how to walk around an environment. Now it's just snake oil.
Generative art used to be art. Now it's snake oil.
Talking to a support agent used to be talking to a guy on tech support. Now it's talking to snake oil sold by the richest people in the world. Worst part is, it actually sells, but just like snakes, it'll eventually bite them.

@mcc And then the companies and people who cynically exploit our belief in the future to promote these scams have the audacity to tell us that we’re pessimistic about technology. We’re not! We love tech! We hate the bullshit, the scams.

@mcc
18XX, Karl Marx: I love the idea of communism

USSR: From now on people will associate that only with murderous totalitarian regimes

@mcc @johnayliff I think this might have to rock up in the next fantasy RPG I play in or run.

@mcc

Ferrets are not too different from this description.

@mcc https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6j18nm I remember to these little guys fondly

@mcc
Yeah and don't get me started on the netflix web interface 🤬
@lisamelton

@mcc With a graphics tablet* you can just magically teleport the cursor to wherever you want it, skip right past the boss battle to the win screen ^_^

(* pen tablet, Wacom, etc. dangit, why did they have to start calling oversized smaphos tablets? *shakes fist*)

@mcc idk im glad they finally gave us a way to watch uoutube videos

@mcc
- Good day, how can I help you today?
- I'd like two "I'm sorry, Dave, but I cannot let you do that" to go please.
- Sure, coming right up!

@mcc i wonder if the first child named by chatgpt has already been born

@mcc i can't believe relished brands like EIIEOIY and PGNEDAR would stoop to this level of quality

@mcc beware of what you manifest…

@mcc
If you really hate systemd there are alternative distros like Devuan:
https://www.devuan.org/
I'm not a fan of systemd, but I think it's too late to go back now - too many things rely on it.
The best we can hope is that its limited as much as possible to core functionality.

@mcc "Linux? Oh, you must mean gnu/systemd."

@mcc Welcome to the start of your hostage tour! You press the buttons WE want you to press. You jump through the hoops, WE want you to jump through!

There is no escape! ... unless you finish the tour.

(oh! please make sure to rate our app! k thks by!)

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At least you can always downgrade. But it's really a shame no one is making third-party apps for these kind of things anymore.

@mcc Me maintaining/supporting software: I don't know what the next phase of this meme is but it's the worst.

@mcc especially if you use NSIS and some of its more... obscure... features. You can do some amazing stuff if you're comfortable with assembly and/or ghidra, but it's far from easy

@mcc The absolute worst part is writing migration guides when you've spent too long having fun introducing new features. I have made my bed, now I must sleep in it.

@mcc If it were New Mexico or Colorado, I'd think this was advertising for Meow Wolf.

@mcc so, "Houses Who Walk Like Men" is a new rock band int he area? 😁

@mcc A WORLD WHERE HOUSES EVOLVE FROM MEN?!?!

@mcc

It's bootstraps all the way down.

@mcc In Haskell, the Tautological Algorithm is written "return () :: IO ()"

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32672814/where-is-the-realworld-defined for more details.

@mcc

“...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.”
~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Used to some things had rounded edges and some did not and I think that was pretty good but now everything has rounded edges and now that everything has rounded edges I want nothing to have rounded edges. I'm edged out. I simply cannot take any more edges

@mcc while this is nice to hear, and not unexpected, i must object to calling this "nerdsniping" as if linux users were somehow bamboozled into doing free work here.

the linux community operates under an unwritten cooperative social contract: users co-own the software & in return go the extra mile to improve it. even when the game provided is closed and for-sale, users still hold up their end of the deal; mostly out of habit, but it also renders the developer indebted to the community.

@mcc isn't that because a lot of Linux users work in IT and are themselves developers?
I'm a dev myself and I frequently report bugs I encounter in any software I use.

@mcc@mastodon.social That's a really good example of the FOSS spirit, even if the game itself isn't Free Software.

@mcc I thought they were just looking at ghosts in the room.

@mcc

@mcc love this post.

@mcc mastodon has me considering it for the first time, too…but i suspect i’m like 10% not technical enough for even the newbie-friendliest of distros

@mcc
Euh, not sure I follow you ??? Mastodon is an OS agnostic software.
I mean sure you will have different implemetations according to the OS but you will find a client and server software for all OSes (hem server for MacOS ?? not sure)

@mcc my mind flipped between first person gaming and FPGA related while reading this.

@mcc had kinda forgotten about 100 rabbits, last time i read something was before UXN. lovely little thing 😊

@mcc this was such a relief to read. I never doubted that I would be reading such a thing but it was still great to read it. thank you, thank you, thank you for everything.

@mcc The response seems really grown-up to me – FWIW

@mcc much appreciate a level headed response!