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  1. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Building a deck revolving around pairs is the safest path to victory. And that unfortunately makes the game quite dull once you understand that. Edit: unless you want / are able to set your own...

    Building a deck revolving around pairs is the safest path to victory. And that unfortunately makes the game quite dull once you understand that.

    Edit: unless you want / are able to set your own goals, obviously. But that's not how I play :/

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Steam Winter Sale 2024: Hidden gems in ~games

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    My son was actually reading a Marsupilami comic (actually a "bande dessinée" as we say in French) a few days ago in his bed :) A character created by André Franquin, who is regarded as one of the...

    My son was actually reading a Marsupilami comic (actually a "bande dessinée" as we say in French) a few days ago in his bed :)

    A character created by André Franquin, who is regarded as one of the best and most influential comics artist in Belgium.

    5 votes

  3. Comment on Bridgy Fed, a project to connect the open social web, is now becoming a nonprofit in ~tech

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    Here's how I see it, and I understand it might sound a bit "Stallman-ish": I don't want my Mastodon posts to be available on Bluesky, or Threads, or any for-profit social network. The value of a...

    Here's how I see it, and I understand it might sound a bit "Stallman-ish": I don't want my Mastodon posts to be available on Bluesky, or Threads, or any for-profit social network.

    The value of a social network is tied to its userbase and its number of posts. If Bluesky becomes effectively interoperable with Mastodon, it means that all bridged fediverse servers are now adding value to Bluesky, without it contributing back. That's what I consider plundering.

    Though I 100% understand the point of view of other Mastodon users that see interoperability as a good thing, my personal opinion is that Mastodon has nothing to gain here, and I don't want my content - that I choose to post on a FOSS network - to be monetized by Bluesky.

  4. Comment on Bridgy Fed, a project to connect the open social web, is now becoming a nonprofit in ~tech

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    I consider the posts I write and the code I publish to be "free to enjoy". I'm glad if a post I wrote somewhere or one of my open source projects is helping you solve a problem. But "free to read...

    Stop putting your shit out on public if you want to control who reads it.

    I consider the posts I write and the code I publish to be "free to enjoy". I'm glad if a post I wrote somewhere or one of my open source projects is helping you solve a problem. But "free to read and use" does not mean "free to plunder and make a profit from".

    Is that a too optimistic wish? Maybe, but I'll continue to share my shit for free, and I'll continue calling them techbro sociopaths if their "business model" only works by monetizing stolen works.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    For me, the game very quickly went from "super addicting" to "alright I'm done" after my first win. I played for ~20 hours and only have like 3 wins, but I feel like I've seen everything it has to...

    For me, the game very quickly went from "super addicting" to "alright I'm done" after my first win.

    I played for ~20 hours and only have like 3 wins, but I feel like I've seen everything it has to offer. It's objectively a good game, but there is only so much depth and variety to it.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Stromae - Multitude, le film (full concert) (2023) in ~music

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    This is the full concert from Stromae's Multitude Tour, which was unfortunately cancelled back in 2023 because of Stromae's health. The whole video is entirely subtitled in English, Spanish, and...
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    This is the full concert from Stromae's Multitude Tour, which was unfortunately cancelled back in 2023 because of Stromae's health.

    The whole video is entirely subtitled in English, Spanish, and Italian.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Vermintide II was on sale a few weeks ago for like 1.40€, and I got much more than what I expected. It's basically Left 4 Dead in the dark fantasy world of Warhammer, with big rats instead of...

    Vermintide II was on sale a few weeks ago for like 1.40€, and I got much more than what I expected.

    It's basically Left 4 Dead in the dark fantasy world of Warhammer, with big rats instead of zombies. Absolutely fantastic game that's worth its full price, if you have at least a friend to coop with. Totally playable in solo but obviously less fun.

    The maps are gorgeous and have varied objectives and hidden items to collect, and the weapons are all fun and all feel different. It's ridiculously brutal and bloody, and there is a light RPG layer that lets you slowly unlock specializations and passive skills for your characters. There's loot too.

    The in-game store is full of real-money cosmetics, but I can't blame them, as they just released (literally today) a new free map. It's probably my favorite discovery of the year.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on 28 Years Later | Official trailer in ~movies

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    Ok so basically the opening sequence of 28 Weeks Later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3d7y1YrPvg

    that I asked him if he'd try to save me if I got cornered like in the movie, and his immediate and impassioned "fuck no"

    Ok so basically the opening sequence of 28 Weeks Later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3d7y1YrPvg

    5 votes

  10. Comment on Fedora moves towards Forgejo in ~comp

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    I run my own Gitea instance on a small VPS. It was quite easy to setup since it's containerized in Docker, but there was 2 pain points: SSH was suuuuper tedious to setup correctly (partly because...

    I run my own Gitea instance on a small VPS. It was quite easy to setup since it's containerized in Docker, but there was 2 pain points:

    • SSH was suuuuper tedious to setup correctly (partly because of Docker)
    • There is (or was?) a lack of documentation to correctly setup an Action Runner, making it more complicated than it actually was.

    Other than that, it's running as it should and is basically 0-maintenance.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Caves of Qud releases version 1.0 today in ~games

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    Caves of Qud follows most of the codes and conventions of traditional roguelikes, but it should be considered like an RPG with random dungeons and sidequests. There is a fixed main quest and NPCs,...

    Caves of Qud follows most of the codes and conventions of traditional roguelikes, but it should be considered like an RPG with random dungeons and sidequests. There is a fixed main quest and NPCs, and the object descriptions and dialogues are (beautifully) hand-written. IMO it's closer to Elder Scrolls than it is to Shattered Pixel Dungeon

    When people talk about "random descriptions" I assume they talk about the generated history, like "Event ABC happened to Sultan FooBar in the village of XYZ in the year 123". That and (most) books that you can loot to earn XP are just filled with Markov strings.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on How decentralized is Bluesky really? in ~comp

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    2 problems: modern applications have dozens or hundreds of (transient) dependencies. Even if your app is "done", a security vulnerability can arise in any of those dependencies, and there is a...

    2 problems:

    1. modern applications have dozens or hundreds of (transient) dependencies. Even if your app is "done", a security vulnerability can arise in any of those dependencies, and there is a high probability that updating it would require non-trivial changes in your codebase.

    2. people are attracted to shiny new things, and your competitors will add new features and evolve their design. Your app from ten years ago might still be totally safe and functional, but it will feel ancient and probably cumbersome to use when compared to an app that came out this year.

  13. Comment on Favorite quick play tabletop game recommendations in ~games.tabletop

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    A thread I made last year asking for 2-players recommendations.

    A thread I made last year asking for 2-players recommendations.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s with world-first law in ~tech

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    All I'm reading everywhere this new law is discussed, is "that's useless, you can't enforce this". Besides the fact that there are technical means that can be used, I don't think that "how are...

    All I'm reading everywhere this new law is discussed, is "that's useless, you can't enforce this".

    Besides the fact that there are technical means that can be used, I don't think that "how are they going to enforce this?" is a question that should be relevant when enacting a law. Most things that are forbidden by law are not preventable (only punishable).

    You already can't register an account nearly anywhere if you're not 13. I think most people agree that this is a sane rule to apply, and removing that law would be a bad move. Yet it is not more enforceable than that new Australian law.

    Edit: I'm not criticizing you for asking that question, Promonk. It's a valid question whose answer is interesting. I meant that when I usually read comments asking it, they more than often imply "you can't enforce this, ergo this is useless".

    14 votes

  15. Comment on Someone made a dataset of one million Bluesky posts for 'machine learning research' in ~tech

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    That's why my "high-profile" open source projects are released under GPLv3. Free to use but not to profit from. Or at least much harder. That should be the default for everything freely published...

    This is what we do when we release source code under a particular license.

    That's why my "high-profile" open source projects are released under GPLv3. Free to use but not to profit from. Or at least much harder.

    That should be the default for everything freely published on the internet: do whatever you want with it, as long as you don't try to make money from it.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Call of Pripyat is the best one

    Call of Pripyat is the best one

  17. Comment on Is anyone planning to play Path of Exile 2? in ~games

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    In Diablo 4 (and indeed, many other online games), when you put the Deck into sleep mode (and back), you're effectively disconnected, need to go back to the main menu, reload everything, etc. So...

    In Diablo 4 (and indeed, many other online games), when you put the Deck into sleep mode (and back), you're effectively disconnected, need to go back to the main menu, reload everything, etc. So it deters you from playing quick sessions of a few minutes here and there, which is something I loved to do with Diablo 3 on Switch.

    And IMO there are ways to handle this gracefully without needing to reload the entire game from scratch : Kick me from the group I'm in, teleport me into town even, but I don't want to navigate menus and watch a loading screen.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Is anyone planning to play Path of Exile 2? in ~games

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    If it runs decently on the Steam Deck and if it can handle being put on sleep (something that Diablo 4 can't do), yeah probably.

    If it runs decently on the Steam Deck and if it can handle being put on sleep (something that Diablo 4 can't do), yeah probably.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Should I stop using Kagi because they do business with Yandex? in ~tech

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    Their response sucks, and it was already the same lame non-answer when they announced a partnership with Brave. You can't claim to be "neutral" - whatever that could mean - on (geo)political...

    Their response sucks, and it was already the same lame non-answer when they announced a partnership with Brave.

    You can't claim to be "neutral" - whatever that could mean - on (geo)political issues, while being THE paid search engine. As a user, if you choose to pay for a search engine, you're taking a stance that is definitely not neutral. Tech is not neutral.

    And it sucks because I want to see a viable internet business model that does not rely on big data and advertising, but it looks like it's only always going to be assholes all the way down, just of a different kind.

    13 votes

  20. Comment on How Bluesky, the rival of Elon Musk’s X, is seizing the moment in ~tech

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    I'm (relatively) active on Mastodon, but have a Bluesky account for all the non-tech stuff. As much as I like Mastodon and the Fediverse, Bluesky is a better product for the masses. Mastodon does...

    I'm (relatively) active on Mastodon, but have a Bluesky account for all the non-tech stuff. As much as I like Mastodon and the Fediverse, Bluesky is a better product for the masses. Mastodon does its job, ActivityPub makes it resistant to enshittification, but it's nothing more than a utilitarian social network. On the other hand, Bluesky feels fun.

    There's a variety of reasons for that difference, but IMO it boils down to the fact that open-source projects aren't fun first. They exist to solve an issue, they're inherently utilitarian first. A VC-backed product like Bluesky must be fun first to attract users and make money. And it works.

    And that's ok, I say that without judgement. Most of the fun things I was getting from Twitter (shitposters, videogames, art, ...) are now available on Bluesky. When Bluesky becomes enshittified, I will find these things elsewhere, just as I've been doing those last 2 years.

    25 votes