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Did you know that Dansup who made PixelFed is working on a federated TikTok clone called Loops and it looks extremely good https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112331179499992996 Dansup has been posting a lot about the WIP and the design choices are very user-centric in a way that the Fediverse sometimes is not 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 Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here 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". Looking into how to set up a bluesky server. Noticed this bit here, in the documentation. That's an interesting way to spell "cannot" 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? 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 2008, me: I love the idea of cryptocurrency BITCOIN: The word "cryptocurrency" now means "financial scams based on inefficient write-only ledgers" 2018, me: I love the idea of the metaverse FACEBOOK: The word "metaverse" now means "proprietary 3D chat programs with no soul" 2022, me: I love the idea of procedurally generated content OPENAI: From now on people will associate that only with big corporations plagiarizing small artists and turning their work into ugly content slurry
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@mcc honestly ai is the most popular and fastest selling snake oil yet.  @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 USSR: From now on people will associate that only with murderous totalitarian regimes 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
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@mcc @johnayliff I think this might have to rock up in the next fantasy RPG I play in or run. @mcc https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6j18nm I remember to these little guys fondly In UI circles you sometimes see a (usually derogatory) label of "hover tunnel" given to a UI widget, like a clickless contextual menu, which requires you hover over an element then continue to hover over specific elements in order to keep the widget active. I would like to propose the term "Reverse Hover Tunnel" for the current YouTube front page, where you must move the mouse in strict and meticulous paths to avoid it beginning to autoplay random crap, possibly forever showing it as 10% watched
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 @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*) Various products on Amazon named "I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy" https://futurism.com/amazon-products-ai-generated
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 @mcc i can't believe relished brands like EIIEOIY and PGNEDAR would stoop to this level of quality Due to the extremely large number of basic functions "systemd" has usurped from other parts of the OS, a natural and interesting project would be to see if systemd can now exist independently apart from Linux, or rather, to ascertain what is the most minimal alternate kernel that could serve as a life support system for successfully running systemd. Since calling this "System System" would be absurd, the most logical name for such a project would be "d OS", or "DOS". In this Mastodon post I will
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@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!)  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. Me writing software: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me packaging software for release: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck. @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.
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@mcc If it were New Mexico or Colorado, I'd think this was advertising for Meow Wolf. The Tautological Algorithm is the only currently known O(0) algorithm, and is an algorithm for creating a universe. The algorithm works on the principle that in order to be invoked, there must already exist a universe for it to be invoked in, and it supplies this pre-existing universe as output.
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  @mcc In Haskell, the Tautological Algorithm is written "return () :: IO ()" See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32672814/where-is-the-realworld-defined for more details.  “...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.” 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
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 @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@mastodon.social That's a really good example of the FOSS spirit, even if the game itself isn't Free Software. Consider: People often remark that cats often suddenly stop and stare in strange directions, seemingly looking at nothing at all. What humans don't understand is that the cat is in fact not looking, but *listening*; the cat has heard something, and is turning its head so its ears are cupped in the direction of the sound. Implication: If elves were real, they would often as a group swiftly turn their heads to apparently stare at nothing at all, swiveling their ears slightly as they do so
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 @mcc my mind flipped between first person gaming and FPGA related while reading this. |
2. This one's weirder. Our CMake Target "Projects" were created automatically, using the automatic… wizard… thing, that Visual Studio asks you if you want to run it when it detects CMakeLists.txt. Each of these projects generated a CMakeSettings.json. However, it generated them *in the directory with the CMakeLists*. For one of our CMakeLists, this is very inconvenient because it's inside a submodule. Can I move the CMakeSettings.json into a directory other than the one with the CMakeLists?