Hahaha. With these two it’s like a 50/50 chance it’ll end that way or just be a back and forth cleaning session. With the other cat I’d say 75% odds on a boxing session.
Even beyond the realm of automated retail arbitrage, I am continuously shocked at the literal junk people will pay money for on eBay. I work in the durable goods industry and I have random odds and ends… extra components, parts, boards, etc. that just accumulate here so sometimes and I don’t know what to do with. So I slap them on eBay and without exception some punter buys them. Probably under the expectation that they’ll be able to flip it for a profit. But I have to figure that most consumers have no idea what the random handles or control boards or what have you would even fit. But someone wants to pay me to take my trash out of here, so… I guess I’m not complaining.
And then I see the retro nerd youtubers paying big bucks for hilariously out of date PC components. One of these days I should dredge that old milk crate full of ISA and AGP cards out of the basement and post them all.
For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you’ve already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!...
I'm also not convinced that ladder-climbing, whether one wants it or not, is a fundamental engine limitation. It might not be in the game, but that doesn't imply that it's an engine limitation.
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This guy modded climbable ladders into Fallout 4, which seems like a pretty good argument that it's not an engine limitation.
And not that I object per se to ladders, but when was the last time you climbed a ladder in real life? I haven't in quite some years. I mean, sure, it's one more interaction, and IIRC there are some fire escapes that had ladders somewhere in Fallout 4 in Boston. But you could make the same argument about interacting with all kinds of things, and it just seems odd for so many people here to mention specifically climbing ladders. I mean, you could fall and catch yourself, drive vehicles, rappel on a rope, skateboard, ice skate, grapple with enemies, zipline, sail a sailing boat, or God knows, any number of other player-object interaction functionality things that might be added. I suppose that any of them could theoretically add gameplay, but I don't see why the criticality of ladders.
What has kept me away from Wayland is the tendency to be dependent on the compositor for so much.
I use my preferred X11 window manager for largely aesthetic reasons, but by and large, I can swap it out and the rest of the software doesn’t give a damn. At most, you might have to tweak a RC file to fix missing custom assumptions (i. e. disabling decorations on full-screenified Proton games)
It seems like on Wayland, there’s a lot more of a “if you aren’t using GNOME or KDE, the odds something meaningful breaks are much higher.” Aside from the perceived bulk of these environments, they’re highly opinionated-- I suspect it would be a major production number to hammer them into a shape that looked like FVWM or WindowMaker, even if you only wanted to match a single theme’s aesthetics (as opposed to, say, FVWM’s dynamic configurability).
As to why a Scientology-owned group would care about such a matter, 404 Media suggested that it could have to do with Scientology E-meters, or electropsychometers. The Church of Scientology describes the machines as an “electronic instrument that measures mental state and change of state in individuals and assists the precision and speed of auditing” and that only a Scientology minister or training minister should use. 404 Media noted that some people collect the devices and, oddly enough, you can find E-Meters sold on eBay.
“My hunch is that the Scientologists think granting the hacking community permission to dig into their E-Meter software will expose the whole operation as snake oil. The request is like so many other anti-Right to Repair arguments: Manufacturers are afraid that access to repair materials will expose some of their other dirty secrets,” Chamberlain said.
Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work::Three visual artists are suing artificial intelligence image-generators to protect their copyrights and careers.
Sampling music is literally placing parts of that music in the final product. Gen AI is not placing pieces of other people’s art in the final image, in fact it doesn’t store any image data at all. Using an image in the training data is akin to an artist including that image on their moodboard. Except the AI’s moodboard has way more images and the odds of the work being too similar to a single particular image is lower than when a human does it.
Aside from Square, MS seem to have a good relationship with most Japanese publishers at the moment. Bamco, Capcom, Konami and Sega all support the format with Sega seemingly all in on Gamepass (the Yakuza franchise has been a mainstay on there since I signed up four odd years ago). Capcom just put a game on GP day one.
The most positive I’ve heard is that it is a by the numbers Bethesda rpg game. It doesn’t try to be anything more. If you liked fallout 4 and skyrim odds are you’ll like this.
Kbin has a separate tab within a community called “microblog” I think. Any hashtags set by the community are automatically followed in the “microblog” feed and can be fully interacted with.
This doesn’t bring threadiverse content into mastodon, but it does bring kbin users at least, into mastodon.
And with the @ing of lemmy communities, you can post from mastodon to lemmy. There’s some work to be done, for sure, but I think we’re close to a decent solution.
But also, 100% compatibility would be odd, wouldn’t you just switch platforms if you wanted the different functionality.
But also, 100% compatibility would be odd, wouldn’t you just switch platforms if you wanted the different functionality.
I don’t think there’s much point to a fediverse if there isn’t decent compatibility between platforms, especially if they both comprise plain text posts and replies.
Beyond that, I agree, I don’t think these issues are hard. In more detail, a central issue is the simplicity with which microblogs format their feeds: everything is a post which are all assembled in a flat feed, with threading replies together being somewhat optional. There isn’t a sense of structure as lemmy/kbin have, with communities > posts > comments > replies. To me this is brutalist and unnecessary and limits the ability with which other platforms can be integrated. As mastodon completely dominated the fediverse, these limitations are actually somewhat severe, as a large part of the fediverse is constrained by this often without even knowing that there are other options.
‘Where ambition goes to die’: These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they’re desperate to get out.::Drawn by the promise of an emerging tech hub, some tech workers who flocked to Austin found a middling tech scene, subpar culture, and scorching heat.
“If I was a 22-year-old founder starting something I’d go to Silicon Valley because it’s going to increase your odds of success,” Gurley said, adding that it is easy for people to get distracted in Austin because they might be having too much fun and not focusing on building their businesses. “I think there’s a question whether you attract the most determined founders.”
I’m all for wind/solar expansion, but we shouldn’t underplay the challenges of keeping grid stability with pure renewables with the technology we have available today. As it stands, I think it would be great and borderline necessary to also expand nuclear power production alongside renewables for now.
For a small country like Sweden, producing everything in nuclear would destroy the market mechanism on pricing, leaving then with a monopoly.
Nobody except for maybe our far right party SD is calling for this, and the odds of us going this far backwards is close to zero. The amount of nuclear production needed to render all other means of production up here obsolete and uncompetitive is insane.
I get it’s probably because people just aren’t used to the idea of eating whale, but it’s odd you’re being downvoted when like that’s kinda the stance I think a lot of environmentalists have here in Norway, though I think the comparison is more to like venison than cows, because venison’s hunted but cows are raised. In the grand scheme of things, the beef industry does way more damage and has more ethical concerns than the strictly regulated whaling industry and we should be focusing our attention on that. I could be completely off though - I ain’t from Oslo and whale is regularly available on the supermarket shelves in the season so I’m obviously somewhat biased here. I know a lot of people have ethical concerns but like, I don’t get it. Pigs are smarter than a whale, but people aren’t upset at pork chops.
Also idk how reliable it is because obviously it’s a biased source, but according to the fishing industry pound for pound whale’s actually way better for the environment than any farmed red meat because you’re, y’know, not raising it.
They did say saudis bad tho, we should give the same nuance we expect from others. I don’t suppose the commenter you’re replying to supports Saudi arabia, it’s just odd that the nuance they’re seemingly willing to grant the saudis wont be given to Russia
In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first)....
Huh, it turns out anti-ad extremism is a thing after all. Your behavior here is especially odd when the developer himself is an active user you can easily reach out to, and there’s a dedicated community for constructive discussion of the app; yet you would rather compare its ads to people dying instead. And you’d say Sync is what makes everything worse somehow, out of all things in the world?
I am not vocally questioning your intention at this point in time, and would rather not be forced to. Do know that this is not a good look, and please mind your behavior going forward. Thanks.
It’s interesting they called first angle ‘British Projection’. I can see calling third angle ‘American Projection’ cause of ANSI, but it is still kinda odd.
Scooter cleaning Bandit (lemmy.ninja)
Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
EBAY Prices (i.imgur.com)
Why are so many things on Ebay even more expensive then what the item would be brand new from the store?...
Ideas for programming rizz? (i.imgur.com)
AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine (arstechnica.com)
[MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! (cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com)
For those who have pre-ordered it is already here, the rest have to wait a little longer. Starfield is finally here! Have you bought it, why or why not? If you’ve already played it, what do you think of it? We are very curious!...
The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)
In response to Wayland Breaks Your Bad Software...
Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists (arstechnica.com)
Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work (apnews.com)
Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work::Three visual artists are suing artificial intelligence image-generators to protect their copyrights and careers.
Former PlayStation exec joins Xbox to lead Japanese partnerships | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Mena Sato Kato previously led business development for first-party PlayStation games.
Starfield has been cracked (i.redd.it)
Relaying of Mastodon hashtags to Lemmy instances
Does something like this exist? As far as I can tell, setting something similar up would require:...
'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out. (www.businessinsider.com)
‘Where ambition goes to die’: These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they’re desperate to get out.::Drawn by the promise of an emerging tech hub, some tech workers who flocked to Austin found a middling tech scene, subpar culture, and scorching heat.
Swedish government removes nuclear power promise from website (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’ (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine tells critics of slow counteroffensive to 'shut up' (www.reuters.com)
Malaysia, India and Taiwan reject China's new territorial map (asia.nikkei.com)
Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way (chrlschn.medium.com)
In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first)....
My grandfather was an aircraft inspector for De Havilland in WWII. This is one of the notebooks he used to study for the job. He drew all the pictures. (ibb.co)
Chess World's 'Anal Bead' Cheating Saga Quietly Comes To An End (kotaku.com)