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  1. Comment on Games: Your personal year in review for 2025 in ~games

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    I played and loved the Dredge last winter (with no DLCs) and have scheduled one more play through with DLCs this winter break. They are on sale right now and already in my cart :) My kids are...

    I played and loved the Dredge last winter (with no DLCs) and have scheduled one more play through with DLCs this winter break. They are on sale right now and already in my cart :) My kids are looking forward to it, too. Guess this will be our ultimate cosy Christmas game, what a weird bunch we are.
    As you said, everything about the game is good - the atmosphere, the story, the gameplay.

    I'll have to check Wytchwood, since I already own it (huh, how did that happen?).

  2. Comment on Cloud hosting in EU in ~comp

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    I've been quite satisfied (not 100%, but quite) with relatively cheap VPS's from Contabo. You can get quite nice boxes with large RAM for a price that shouldn't ruin you. Install Debian, docker...

    I've been quite satisfied (not 100%, but quite) with relatively cheap VPS's from Contabo. You can get quite nice boxes with large RAM for a price that shouldn't ruin you. Install Debian, docker and perhaps some docker app manager (I'm using caprover, which also handles reverse proxy, subdomains and TLS) and you can self host many apps on a single box, such as Nextcloud or Gitea.

    Storage is harder, I'm using american company in the end - Backblaze. I'm encrypting all my backups before transfer, but that only protects from part of the risks.

    For self-written software, caprover supports docker based auto-deploy from git repository, similar to Heroku or perhaps github/gitlab. It's very solid, only overhead is you have to wrap your app in docker image.

  3. Comment on Can we maybe have an informal agreement to avoid posting articles that require you to sell your firstborn child to the devil just to read them? in ~tildes

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    Two of my "favorite" examples of tracking technologies being used to great success: brexit and trump's first election (both by facebook's Cambridge analytica). Though it is probably impossible to...

    Two of my "favorite" examples of tracking technologies being used to great success: brexit and trump's first election (both by facebook's Cambridge analytica). Though it is probably impossible to determine their degree of successful usage of the tech, what I'm trying to say is that this has profound societal impact - unlikely positive. Saying "it doesn't affect me" is shortsighted.

    5 votes
  4. Comment on Can we maybe have an informal agreement to avoid posting articles that require you to sell your firstborn child to the devil just to read them? in ~tildes

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    Minor correction: it's not about cookies actually, at all. Cookies are an implementation detail. Those popups are asking for your consent to being tracked by the site, which can come in various...

    Minor correction: it's not about cookies actually, at all. Cookies are an implementation detail. Those popups are asking for your consent to being tracked by the site, which can come in various forms and technical implementations. Calling it "cookies" misses the point. It can mean gathering your data, correlating it with data from other sources, using it to determine strategy to adjust your views, selling it to the american government - anything.

    10 votes
  5. Comment on Valve announces new hardware: Steam Frame, Steam Controller, and Steam Machine in ~games

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    They said it will be less than 1000, so I expect 999 too.

    They said it will be less than 1000, so I expect 999 too.

  6. Comment on What code editor / IDE do you use (2025)? in ~comp

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    Microsoft is in their "Extend" phase with the VS Code.

    Microsoft is in their "Extend" phase with the VS Code.

    1 vote
  7. Comment on What code editor / IDE do you use (2025)? in ~comp

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    Ironic thing is that Zed has been the first IDE to boast AI powered features, if I remember correctly - but it has been surpassed by several "late" entrants in the meantime. Still, it is by far...

    Ironic thing is that Zed has been the first IDE to boast AI powered features, if I remember correctly - but it has been surpassed by several "late" entrants in the meantime. Still, it is by far the nicest and snappiest IDE I have tried in the last decade and I'm loving it. It's native and that has its implications. Plus, it has been opensourced.

    3 votes
  8. Comment on Some protein powders and shakes may contain high levels of lead in ~health

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    Insanity! (Sorry, I'm just too shocked by this unholy mix of measurement systems to write anything coherent)

    1g per lb

    Insanity!

    (Sorry, I'm just too shocked by this unholy mix of measurement systems to write anything coherent)

    2 votes
  9. Comment on Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover in ~comp

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    Well... The pessimist in me says: look how the community handled the WordPress power play...

    Well... The pessimist in me says: look how the community handled the WordPress power play...

    4 votes
  10. Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife's Windows 11 installation in ~tech

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    Yeah, that's because windows just can't do updates without screwing with your work. In the background for example. Without reboots. Situations like these happened to thousands of poor souls, even...

    Yeah, that's because windows just can't do updates without screwing with your work. In the background for example. Without reboots. Situations like these happened to thousands of poor souls, even the people in finance you mention, even to people presenting at conferences right on the stage and so on. Microsoft even had a page listing several stories like this and then finishing that its all worth it, the updates are the best.

    9 votes
  11. Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife's Windows 11 installation in ~tech

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    And if you are not using it... well, now you are.

    And if you are not using it... well, now you are.

    2 votes
  12. Comment on What words do you recommend? in ~talk

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    But don't conflate soldering with welding, lest you are ready for the consequences!

    But don't conflate soldering with welding, lest you are ready for the consequences!

    5 votes
  13. Comment on Survey results on books that people identify as shaping their life/personality after reading them in high school in ~books

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    Brutal. I feel It's like admitting guilt with no other interpretation possible.

    Brutal. I feel It's like admitting guilt with no other interpretation possible.

    4 votes
  14. Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store in ~tech

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    This is not one of them.

    This is not one of them.

    20 votes
  15. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~life.home_improvement

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    This is so intimate :) Thanks for sharing with us. I like the combination of old and new. Trying to guess from the interiors a bit of a view we get - is this central Europe? Prague perhaps?

    This is so intimate :) Thanks for sharing with us. I like the combination of old and new.
    Trying to guess from the interiors a bit of a view we get - is this central Europe?
    Prague perhaps?

  16. Comment on GPT 5 released in ~comp

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    Yes! And I was amazed at how good it was. But with one caveat: I used it exclusively as a "coder" - code generating model, always paired with some stronger model - such as Sonnet 4 or sometimes...

    Did you manage to have success with that?

    Yes! And I was amazed at how good it was. But with one caveat: I used it exclusively as a "coder" - code generating model, always paired with some stronger model - such as Sonnet 4 or sometimes GPT4.1 - to actually come up with the implementation plan. Once the plan was solid, 4.1 was able to take it and implement any needed changes, quickly and precisely.

    Additional details: This was in Roo Code, stronger model was "Architect" while 4.1 was used in "Code" mode. Mostly Python, but also some Typescript and bash.

    1 vote
  17. Comment on GPT 5 released in ~comp

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    Would you mind sharing some combination of tools you've used? I guess everyone knows about VS code + cline or forks, but for example, how did you leverage agentic coding together with Godot? It...

    Would you mind sharing some combination of tools you've used?
    I guess everyone knows about VS code + cline or forks, but for example, how did you leverage agentic coding together with Godot? It has its own IDE, doesn't it? What goes with it? Command line agents?

    1 vote
  18. Comment on GPT 5 released in ~comp

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    Minor, but: GPT4.1 was already a quite competent coding model. It was used as the default for Github Copilot, for example.

    Minor, but: GPT4.1 was already a quite competent coding model. It was used as the default for Github Copilot, for example.

    3 votes
  19. Comment on I have been using a neo-dumbphone for a week, here are my thoughts in ~tech

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    Yea, I should have probably mentioned this is in the EU. EU pushes (quite foolishly in my opinion) for every banking operation to be confirmed via 2FA using exclusively android or apple devices...

    Yea, I should have probably mentioned this is in the EU. EU pushes (quite foolishly in my opinion) for every banking operation to be confirmed via 2FA using exclusively android or apple devices with respective apps, which are often quite picky about the phones they support.

    1 vote
  20. Comment on I have been using a neo-dumbphone for a week, here are my thoughts in ~tech

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    Well phone without banking apps is useless and I don't expect anyone's selection of essential apps to contain banking apps from our tiny country.

    Well phone without banking apps is useless and I don't expect anyone's selection of essential apps to contain banking apps from our tiny country.

    2 votes