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peak_dunning_krueger ,

Internet companies usually have clauses that they can terminate the agreement at any time for any reason, including “because they feel like it”. They usually don’t have to tell you why, either.

Same deal with all the “licensing” things and “digital goods ownership”. In two words: you don’t.

But it’s been that way for ages.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Philosophy:

“That depends on your definitions, some may call philosophy a science, others may not, what do you think? Can you lick the philosophy?”

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Let’s be real here: They are trying to create a “platform”^TM and “ecosystem”^TM to later wall off, embrace, extend, extinguish or otherwise enshittify.

There is no actual problem they are solving.

It’s venture capital bait.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CfLt2jwZZs

peak_dunning_krueger ,

It said “cheaper” not “energy efficient”.

Wings are easy, jet engines are hard.

Besides, if you can do it with an electrical locomotive on the ground, the energy conversion to electricity of a power plant should be better than the energy conversion of a jet engine from fuel to movement.

So imo, cheaper seems plausible, energy efficient is a maybe.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Zacktronics

have made a few really really good programming / puzzle games.

Brace yourselfes

made crypt of the necrodancer and phantom brigade , both of which are really good ideas and if you haven’t checked them out, you should.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

That’s not good, but it’s not like we can switch to a more secure alternative. ;)

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Gumbies isn’t real, but if you can explain to me how CI/CL or github actions work using only their documentation I’m going to proverbially eat a hat.

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peak_dunning_krueger ,

If anyone seriously believes HP will develop two copies of operating software, one with “send everything to HP” and one without, they are delusional.

It may very well be that there will be a contract saying something completely different than what is happening in those machines.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Oh sure. They could do this. But they don’t.

But there is absolutely no way to verify what they are doing, no fear of getting caught and thus there is no incentive to behave with integrity.

At least my state of knowledge is that this: reproducible-builds.org isn’t fully functional and even if it were what HP does on their machines is closed source stuff.

And even if there were companies or organizations that are big enough to enforce transparency, like a big multinational or a government, there will be plenty of cases where smaller companies with sensitive data can’t, like doctors offices or independent lawyers.

It is way easier to charge for a “data privacy” subscription tier and then still just not honoring the wording of that, than to actually put in the effort.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Also, I’m not sure how much this applies to helldivers specifically, but from what I’ve seen, teams didn’t really teamwork. Because they didn’t have to.

This can be very bad because if it follows these steps:

  1. game is easy, no teamwork required, players learn to play the game without teamwork
  2. game gets harder, but some people can still manage solo, complain about “newbs” and tell them to "git gud"
  3. game gets even harder, now it’s impossible to play “quasi solo” but the environment is no longer fit to learn teamwork in the context of this game. “How” to work together effectively.

Then people will complain, justly, that they don’t have the tools and methods to beat the challenge. Which is correct. They don’t. But you can’t just tell people to “go play easy mode and learn the game”, when they are “max level” and put 40-100 hours into the game.

Of course the synergy tools still have to exist and I’m not knowledgeable about helldivers whether they do.

There is no good choice to “encourage” teamplay, except via creating “natural” funnels that people will “end up at” “organically”, and putting a challenge in front of them that they can only work with teamwork. But that means the challenge has to beat them, until they get it. And that may never happen.

One game I have found exceptional as a case study for what is “overpowered” and what isn’t, and why, is magic the gathering. All the “code” is public. The complaints are public. The bans are public, and explained. So if anyone here wants to nerd out about balance and doesn’t know mtg yet, there is a rabbit hole for you.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

If this is not a meme…

You know how you have to look up… errors when you don’t know what they mean?

That.

Figuring out how to do something specific, like UI, works just like that. All the time. It’s “looking up how it works”, then “messing around with it until it does” all the way down.

If you are just starting out, coding something in HTML and javascript might be intuitive, because you can see and run it right away. Otherwise you will have to figure out how to use some kind of UI framework in the language you’re using. Because they’re all different. Yeeeaaah…

I think it’s harder for compiled languages and easier for interpreted ones.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Where is the guitar?

How do you expect people to become rockstar codewithrockstar.com devs without a guitar?!

peak_dunning_krueger ,

…and whose fault is that, private publishing industry? Hmmm? Who didn’t invest here?

Also for allowing it to happen of course.

What games do you recommend for my girlfriend?

My girlfriend has never really gamed. But she’s now forced to move less than she would like to (health problem) and she’s getting bored. I was thinking of introducing her to a game or two that we could play together. She’s not the real action game type, and seeing as she has no experience with controller/mouse and keyboard...

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Factorio works, but it would probably help to give a guided to tour the store and genres, to figure out what she would like.

If she has really no exposure at all, playing just factorio is limiting yourself to eating one flavor of ice cream.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Yes, but I don’t think it matters. It’s not hyper specialized yet, but the initial problem of “there are no users” is gone. I don’t think anything can stop the fediverse now. The protocol is just too useful to not support.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Eh. Seems alright. Definitely not going to a cinema to see it. Gearbox milked the franchise to death, I really only liked Borderlands 2. Looks like Krieg is in this, which isn’t canonical. But fun. He also says nothing in the trailer?

My hate for what they did with tiny tina is unmeasurable. The character does not work when she is not a child. If they had put an actual child actor in their shoes and THEN made them blow up a lot of people, with gore, that would be the level tina is at. Like, if Borderlands had realistic graphics, it would be as PG 18 as Doom (2016) +. For understandable reasons. She is a traumatised child that got ate up by pandora and lived. On a revenge quest. All other characters +1 or +2 Tina gets a -20.

Not hating on the actor, lots of things can go wrong for the “magic” to not happen, most aren’t on them.

I actually don’t care for the prequel or BL1 backstory part. I’m not hooked by the premise.

Expectation is “mid”. If an opportunity to watch it falls right into my lap I might, but realistically I will probably forget it exists when the ad campaign is through.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Anyone got a commmand line tool change all my stuff? Because if I have to do change all the remotes all the time, for dozens of projects I’m going to lose my mind.

Also the migration on gitlab/codeberg looked like an amount of effort that doesn’t round down to zero.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are used in construction of the house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and methods. Be alerted, however, that kitchen should be designed to accommodate, among other things, my 1952 Gibson refrigerator.

That’s actually too easy, because electrical systems have been standardized for a long time.

Should be something like “15 highpowered electrical stoves, but keep the total power consumption below 15 Watts.”

Or, homeautomation and integration with google/alexa, but using the old fridge.

wawe , (edited ) to games
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Do you find open source games interesting/good thing as a gamer?

@games I am a game developer working on game called Mushy Score. I decided that my niche would be to create open source games. I think these could be helpful for developers or teachers to teach about games and how they are made. Most open source games are small game jam games, but there are few “real games” that are open source like 0 A.D. and Doom. As a non-developer do you think open source games could be good thing?

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Yes, but you have to remember that the developer community is absolutely tiny compared to the number of gamers.

It’s a neat gimmick, but 98% of the people who could be your audience will get nothing out of the game being open source.

I would really like it if certain specific games were more open source and more moddable, for example stellaris has an annoying formula hard coded that makes combat balancing and weapon modding very difficult. On the other hand, games like openRA exist and I’m not playing that and I’m not doing anything with the source either. That one even has fully functioning multiplayer, but it’s so built in that it’s hard to reuse for anything else. So you might end up being torn between making the game really good and making the tools and code really good.

I think the biggest appeal of open source games is as a learning resource. Maybe. idk.

Also, may I suggest panda3d, which I’m shilling for at every opportunity that I get, because it’s neat, 3d, open source and runs with C or python?

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Not sure about unsung, but definitely heroes in my book.

andrew , to games
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The future of Xbox will be revealed on February 15th

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24070445/microsoft-xbox-business-update-event-future-february-15

@games

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Would you like to get some info going back to 2005 regarding the interest and effort Microsoft puts into PC gaming?

www.neogaf.com/threads/…/page-4#post-88868188

peak_dunning_krueger ,

“a AAA single-player shooter in today’s market was a truly awful idea”

store.steampowered.com/app/…/Immortals_of_Aveum/

1.1k reviews 75% positive

store.steampowered.com/app/379720/DOOM/ (2016)

125k reviews 95%

Git gud, EA, and make an actually competing product.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

And to be fair, this Orwellian oversight could be a good thing. Literally over the last few weeks, we’ve witnessed a huge manhunt for a guy suspected of being involved in a chemical attack. At the time of writing, he was last seen on the Victoria Line. So if this AI technology had already been rolled out across the Tube network, it could have conceivably been possible to find him before he had even left the station.

But what makes the tech powerful is also what makes it scary.

Really. Ya think. What gave it away.

You know what this feels like? It feels like this sketch www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4J4uor3JE

peak_dunning_krueger ,

So, this is kind of funny, because when you think “cyberpunk” “high tech, low life”, there always was/is the question of how this tech abundance but also poverty can coexist. Surely it takes a lot of money to build all this?

It’s waste. That’s the answer. It’s the repurposed, discarded corporate trash that didn’t meet the quarterly goal. It’s all starting to make sense you guys!! In new and terrifying ways!

peak_dunning_krueger ,

This is objectively not true, because social network effects are in place and there is a switching cost.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

The people in this thread are open source power users who don’t get and don’t want the features that discord offers. It’s no surprise you’d rather have your forum back. I don’t think that’s how it’s going to work.

Privacy is good and what discord does is bad. But don’t lecture me on how convient and nice it is to use or run something like matrix, if this is your idea of a user onboarding experience:

matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/matrix-for-im/

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Matrix isn’t competing with the experience of setting up another account on a different platform, with email, username, passwords, recovery key, display theme, notifications settings, content warnings, etc…

It’s competing with being able to click on a link to join a subgroup of a social network that people are already a part of and already signed into.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

To me it looks like the features are about 80% there, can’t find the screen sharing, login with QR doesn’t exist. Not really sure how to even search for some features because the naming is so extremely bad. “matrix automation” “element bot”. E.g. this is a very poor collection: element.io/integrations Looks like custom emotes are still missing.

But let’s say all of that exists and works.

What other features are essential for an opensource community that only discord provides?

I think we’re talking about different things then. I don’t need something for an opensource community. I need something for ALL communities I’m a part of. Because I’m already in 40 of them and 5 of them are FOSS projects. So switching those over increases friction, if it’s not a total replacement.

As for forums, they are for async. Are you going to seriously tell me discord is a good forum replacement?

This is inverted. I don’t need to defend why the platform I’m on is good, (it’s not), you need to explain why forums are supposed to be better (they are significantly worse).

Documentation belongs on a dedicated website, Issues belong on some gitlab or something instance. If I have a question, I want the answer reasonably quickly or I’m just not going to use the software you’re providing. If I’m nice, I’ll leave a post on the bug tracker that the install/getting started documentation didn’t work.

Forums serve no purpose anymore.

Right now, I’m going to stop using element/matrix again for the forseeable future because there are no communities with public rooms I’m interested in.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Exactly, it’s a different paradigm and I don’t want a forum.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

We’re talking about discord and why people use that and not other technology. 99% of the people on discord are not involved with FOSS, but they are what make the platform attractive.

programming.dev is useless and serves no purpose?

No, this instance is federated and not a traditional forum.

A budding community must be online 24/7 to provide support

No, it’s fine if that support is given via the git platform, and it’s also fine if it takes a while. And it’s also fine if the question goes unanswered.

imagine a community with many people and the chat moving forward quickly enough for your question to be out of scrolling view within minutes due to other discussions going on. Even in that scenario there is “no purpose” for a forum?

Yes. Because it is functionally no different than a forum main page where so many new topics get created that questions people don’t get to get buried. And also, I’ve never seen that happen with chats. What I have seen is that people didn’t have time or interest to answer my question. Which is fine because they owe me nothing. But a forum would not have “solved” that.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Oh I agree, doesn’t prevent me from being locked into certain communities on discord.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Downgrading to a Floor-Top device? Sounds like you can’t go any lower, no thanks.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

The cost of switching to an unfamiliar Interface and workflow is high enough, charging money to do it will further increase the barrier to entry.

Paying for open source software sounds good on paper, but if it is required, the software will never accumulate the users to make the development have any meaning.

There has to be a “try it before you buy it” too. Otherwise the permutations of scams are obvious and nobody will fall for that. Idk how you would prove that the software works, without giving an actual copy of the software.

Also, legalities between different countries. You will just not get your money back from “trustworthy nigerian software dev who just needs 50$ to give you some software”.

So no.

Do donate if you can though. If you value the software you use, you will pretty obviously recognize the utility and the cost to you, should it go away.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

The game Mindustry is one example.

Yes. And as you can see it has 14k reviews on steam while factorio has 141k reviews.

It’s also a game, so there is no productivity gain or loss associated with it. There is no on call IT support, but you also don’t need any and if something breaks, you lose nothing except the ability to play THIS game for a short while. It’s not a… webserver you run your online shop through where every hour of downtime costs you X hundreds of euros or dollars.

The game was also made by what looks like one guy. It’s not, you know libre office. With hundreds and thousands of contributors and a huge problem of how to distribute the money.

Of course you’re allowed to distribute it. And of course you’re allowed to charge for it. But realistically, nearly nobody would use it.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

This is a good post, but I’m not sure it belongs in technology. Hmm.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

That is true, nevermind me.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

Eh. It’s a bit more handwavey than that. It’s whatever you want it to be.

Virtual reality was supposed to be simulated, but “actual still science fiction” levels of simulated. seamless 3d environment, intercepting nerve signals to look and intuitively control an avatar or ready player one had a haptic suit.

AR stems from that and was supposed to be “the real world, but cyber”. Or “VR, but with real world elements”. In the novel “virtual light”, it’s supposed to overlay that “datasturce of cyberspace” on the real world. Even then it was never really clear what purpose cyberspace as a 3d world would have, what data looks like or should look like, and what the advantage of that visualization would be. Or why would rather see that than what the world looks like.

Mixed reality is also that. Imo. It sounds the same to me too.

The whole thing is like hand gesture control. It looked great in minority report, but we had it since one of the 2010s xboxs and it went absolutely nowhere.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

The guy I want to hear from, this dude:

www.youtube.com/

posted every 3 months or less and he hasn’t uploaded for a 6 years.

I hope he’s alive and well tbh.

very upsetting (lemmy.ml)

captiona screenshot of the text: > Tech companies argued in comments on the website that the way their models ingested creative content was innovative and legal. The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has several investments in A.I. start-ups, warned in its comments that any slowdown for A.I. companies in consuming...

peak_dunning_krueger ,

I mean, I won’t deny that small bit of skill it took to construct a plausible sounding explanation for why the public should support your investment, because it’s “not illegal (yet)”.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

It’s just a well made game in an era of badly made games that hype themselves up bigger than they are.

Palworld is “just” good monster collection, good combat and some good survival crafting. I’m not going to play it, but it’s very easy to see the appeal.

It’s like the newer doom games. They’re “just” good shooters. You “just” get to go through well built levels, nice visuals and good music.

peak_dunning_krueger ,

There may be a few catches here and there, but overall the game works, the world is pretty big / big enough and the features are well designed and well paced enough to keep people entertained for several dozens of hours.

That’s what I mean by “well made”. It’s not an actually unfun game with bad explanations.

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