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  1. Comment on How many trees are there in Skyrim? in ~games

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    I was way off, I only guessed: Don't be a coward, watch the video and make your own guess first 184,000

    I was way off, I only guessed:

    Don't be a coward, watch the video and make your own guess first 184,000
    10 votes

  3. Comment on Anyone else using the Zed editor? in ~comp

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    Especially for mouse input (but let's be honest, for every other type of binary up-down input too) the text editor should really let users specify if a keybind/shortcut responds to mouse-down or...

    Especially for mouse input (but let's be honest, for every other type of binary up-down input too) the text editor should really let users specify if a keybind/shortcut responds to mouse-down or mouse-up.

    Adherence to web standards isn't a good reason to deny users the ability to configure their text editor to work for them.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on Statement from Mozilla's new CEO in ~tech

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    Please link me directly to these rants you write of, because I can't find them. I looked at the article you linked in your comment above, and I looked at the pages it links to, and in none of...

    they've never of them have gone on explicitly racist/far-right rants about myths like white genocide like Kling has

    Please link me directly to these rants you write of, because I can't find them.

    I looked at the article you linked in your comment above, and I looked at the pages it links to, and in none of those various links did I actually find Kling himself "ranting about white genocide".

    Instead, the tweets of Kling's that I found being criticized, I would describe them as belonging to a thread of "criticism against DEI due to perceiving it as reverse discrimination" (or something along those lines).

    It's important to be accurate when levying these kinds of criticisms against someone. Inaccuracy makes such criticisms easier to dismiss.

    6 votes

  5. Comment on Statement from Mozilla's new CEO in ~tech

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    And "trust" is mentioned 9 times (10 if you count "antitrust"). I don't think word-counts are the best way to determine the main theme of an article.

    And "trust" is mentioned 9 times (10 if you count "antitrust"). I don't think word-counts are the best way to determine the main theme of an article.

    16 votes

  6. Comment on Statement from Mozilla's new CEO in ~tech

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    I removed Firefox To Evolve Into A "Modern AI Browser" from the title for two reasons: Especially coming from Phoronix, the inclusion of that quote in the title felt like ragebait It isn't the...

    I removed Firefox To Evolve Into A "Modern AI Browser" from the title for two reasons:

    1. Especially coming from Phoronix, the inclusion of that quote in the title felt like ragebait
    2. It isn't the main point or theme of the CEO's statement, so focusing on it in the title adds undue weight

    I would much rather people read the entire article from Mozilla and then write a comment, rather than first (or just) read "Firefox to evolve into a modern AI browser" and write a reaction to that.

    I have since changed the link from the Phoronix article to the actual source from Mozilla, and updated the title again to something neutral.

    30 votes

  7. Comment on Proposed amendments to Denmark's laws on copyright and broadcasting would see VPNs limited for common uses under changes to combat access to illegal streaming services in ~tech

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    I want everyone who reads this sentence to note: This is how authoritarians operate. They take an otherwise perfectly normal and benign desire, then use an endless barrage of rhetoric to twist the...
    • Exemplary

    Wanting internet anonymity is an extreme view that has dire complications for society at large.

    I want everyone who reads this sentence to note:

    This is how authoritarians operate. They take an otherwise perfectly normal and benign desire, then use an endless barrage of rhetoric to twist the perception of that desire into an "extreme view".

    Do not be fooled by these creepy arguments that the government must be able to track you online in order to combat <insert bad guys here>. It isn't true. It might make the jobs of investigators more difficult if <bad guys> are able to use technology like VPNs, but the liberties and right to privacy and anonymity of society as a whole should not be sacrificed at the alter of making investigators' jobs easier. It isn't worth it. The potential downsides for society are immeasurable.

    "The government must know what you do online" is an insane thing to believe in. It's authoritarian, it's creepy, and it is not in the interest of the average person.

    59 votes

  8. Comment on Twenty years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple in ~tech

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    Do me a favor, make yourself a reminder, and ask me in five years how my experience with "backing up my data" is going (or however else you want to describe it). I look forward to demonstrating...

    Do me a favor, make yourself a reminder, and ask me in five years how my experience with "backing up my data" is going (or however else you want to describe it). I look forward to demonstrating that all the problems you've had are in fact not universal.

    4 votes

  9. Comment on Twenty years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple in ~tech

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    That isn't what you originally wrote. But sure, I agree that if you host literally all of your data with Apple's services and want to migrate or back up that data to a non-Apple solution then that...

    The amount of self hosting needed to actually make up for what apple was providing to this person is not at all easily matched.

    That isn't what you originally wrote.

    But sure, I agree that if you host literally all of your data with Apple's services and want to migrate or back up that data to a non-Apple solution then that takes work. You need to manage files, passwords, authentication, email, and all the other stuff you mentioned.

    That's not a full time job though. "Full time job" is just rhetorical nonsense. You said "self hosting is a full time job". That's what I responded to. I don't care about the rest of your made up arguments about access tokens or whatever.

    13 votes

  10. Comment on Twenty years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple in ~tech

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    What's the point of writing something so misleading and hyperbolic? What purpose does it serve?

    Put your data in a NAS? Good luck, self hosting is a full time job

    What's the point of writing something so misleading and hyperbolic? What purpose does it serve?

    5 votes

  11. Comment on Twenty years of digital life, gone in an instant, thanks to Apple in ~tech

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    If you want super cheap but good email service and don't want to self-host, Purelymail's standard pricing is $10/year. They also offer an "advanced pricing" scheme that's based on your actual...

    If you want super cheap but good email service and don't want to self-host, Purelymail's standard pricing is $10/year. They also offer an "advanced pricing" scheme that's based on your actual usage. Depending on how much (or I guess how little) you use email, you could end up paying something like $3/year.

    4 votes

  13. Comment on At dusk, fifty people went to San Francisco's longest dead-end street and all ordered a Waymo at the same time in ~transport

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  16. Comment on Grocery stores are profiling online shoppers and charging them dynamic prices based on algorithmically determined affluence in ~finance

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    Haven't finished the video yet so I will probably change it again but I changed it to something a little more informative

    Haven't finished the video yet so I will probably change it again but I changed it to something a little more informative

    4 votes

  17. Comment on You’re probably using the wrong dictionary in ~books

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    Good shit. Love this. Thanks for posting! I looked up a lot of words from this article on Wiktionary and was pleased to see that most of their pages weren't totally dry and devoid of life, but...

    Good shit. Love this. Thanks for posting!

    I looked up a lot of words from this article on Wiktionary and was pleased to see that most of their pages weren't totally dry and devoid of life, but there's room for improvement.

    I'm tempted to wage the wiki warfare necessary to see those definitions improved.

    10 votes

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

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    Out of the blue, a friend bought me Battlefield 6 because he wanted someone to play with, so we have been doing that. I hate it. It's way too chaotic and fast-paced. To be fair, I don't play...

    Out of the blue, a friend bought me Battlefield 6 because he wanted someone to play with, so we have been doing that.

    I hate it. It's way too chaotic and fast-paced. To be fair, I don't play player-versus-player video games anymore. Generally haven't for years now. My idea of "fun" in a video game is no longer sweating it out in a virtual dick measuring contest against other people. I'm much happier playing exclusively with other people against semi-competent bot opponents. (That's why I play a ton of Insurgency/Sandstorm these days.)

    Battlefield 6 is just a massive clusterfuck of "run around and kill people until you die". It isn't fun. It's the FPS equivalent of brainrot. The "most video games are porn" that Over-Quoted Game Developer quoted about.

    I also think there is something about the design of Battlefield 6 that makes it feel "antisocial". Even when I did well in a match and my team won, I still didn't have fun or feel good. The game feels like work rather than play. I didn't feel that way in the past, when I still regularly played PvP FPS games. Maybe it's because I'm older now and my tastes have changed, but I really do think the design (and monetization) of these games has ruined them to their core.

    For example: it's stupid and bad design that you have to endlessly grind to unlock new weapons, attachment, gear, and other "toys" in the game you already paid (at least) $70(!!!) for. The in-your-face monetization and "buy this DLC to unlock future DLC" nag screens every time you launch the game don't help either. This is a dog shit "experience". Battlefield 6 isn't a video game made for me, it's an "experience" made for executives at EA/DICE/whoever-makes-Battlefield-these-days.

    So even though I've put way more than two hours into the game now, I'm going to request a refund and maybe Valve will do me a solid and rid my library of this piece of shit.

    Oh, I almost forgot to talk about the PvE in Battlefield 6:

    It doesn't exist.

    At least, it doesn't exist anymore than a superpositioned qubit exists, because DICE is constantly fucking with the "experience" and no one knows what's going on. Apparently the sweatier players are mad that people could (gasp!) exclusively play against bots and still earn full XP and progress and, you know, generally unlock things in the video game they already paid for, without fighting against real people.

    So now some PvE "servers" (all of which are actually just hosted by DICE, not actual server admin people???) no longer give full XP because go fuck yourself but other servers are exclusively XP bot farms where only one player is allowed in at a time because go fuck yourself but other servers say they're PvE and give full XP but they still let up to eight players join on each team because "PvE" doesn't mean anything anymore because go fuck yourself and did we mention you can buy a subscription to our RedSec DLC pass to get DLC for your DLC when that DLC releases at an indeterminate date because go fuck yourself?

    8 votes

  19. Comment on Have you ever designed/created a spaceship for fiction, RPGs, etc? How did you do it? in ~creative

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    The Starsector blog has some good posts on how they designed various ships for the game. The "Creating Threat" blog post is a good recent one. You could also find some design docs on the ship(s)...

    The Starsector blog has some good posts on how they designed various ships for the game. The "Creating Threat" blog post is a good recent one.

    You could also find some design docs on the ship(s) for Avatar (the blue alien people movies) and The Expanse for inspiration.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Against 'Metroidbrania': a landscape of knowledge games in ~games

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    Honestly I don't think I understand what "roguelike" means anymore, but I'm also low-key salty about how the word has been suffocated. Best I can tell, "roguelike" these days means "this game has...

    Honestly I don't think I understand what "roguelike" means anymore, but I'm also low-key salty about how the word has been suffocated.

    Best I can tell, "roguelike" these days means "this game has some sort of procedural generation and consequences for dying" which is so broad as to be useless.

    Meanwhile, the words "rogue-playing game" have been living in my head as an idea for a genre of games that are basically "Skyrim, but it looks like NetHack".

    There is a massive difference between NetHack and Dwarf Fortress and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and Dead Cells and Binding of Isaac and Balatro and Slay the Spire. I don't think it's unreasonable to want different words to categorize these games differently along the spectrum of "inspired (in apparently even the meagerest of ways) by Rogue".

    I guess we have those words though: "classic roguelike", "roguelike deckbuilder", etc.

    8 votes