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yukichigai , 11 months ago to linux_gaming in Someone just rewrote Wipeout and ported it to Linux (and macOS)

Or even just a code review to see what kind of weird shit devs used to do.

Agreed, some really amazing stuff could be lurking there. Let us not forget the glory that is the Fast Inverse Square Root.

yukichigai , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to memes in "~~Don't~~ be evil"

In all seriousness we make sure things work with modern browsers, but you're never going to find a government agency requiring the latest and most advanced tech. For one thing, nothing in government moves fast enough to make that even remotely possible.

Also there's no way I'm gonna learn how to use some new piece of tech every few months. They don't pay us nearly enough for that kind of effort.

EDIT: Oh but I wasn't kidding about dropping support for IE6 recently. It was like a year or so ago, not last week, but still.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to memes in "~~Don't~~ be evil"

Your government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?

As a government programmer, let me assure you that we're so goddamn far behind modern tech we've only just stopped supporting IE6.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to reddit in Squabbles, another recent reddit alternative, seems to be taking the doomed "free speech" path

This isn't a dispute over tax code or which Star Trek is better, this is a bunch of bigots declaring a group of people don't deserve to live and pretending they aren't awful bigots because they're doing it "politely". That's not a "viewpoint", that's a declaration of war.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to reddit in Squabbles, another recent reddit alternative, seems to be taking the doomed "free speech" path

In other words, "you can pick on minorities as long as they aren't racial minorities." Yeah, great distinction.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to asklemmy in Do you still watch YouTube? Who do you follow?

Welp, I'm sold. Definitely trying that next time. Thanks.

Also you're the third person I've heard mention Tasting History so I'm definitely gonna give that a go. But when I'm not so damn hungry. :P

yukichigai , 11 months ago to asklemmy in Do you still watch YouTube? Who do you follow?

Been watching a lot of Ordinary Sausage lately. Such absolute culinary insanity and yet weirdly wholesome.

On the more soothing side of things, Townsends' cooking videos are usually just plain nice, not to mention surprisingly tasty. Never would've thought "literally put an unpeeled onion in the oven until it smells delicious" would be a viable recipe but it turns out it's amazing. Also, Mushroom Ketchup rules.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to asklemmy in Is there anything creative you've made that you're particularly proud of?

I've made a few mods for games over the years that always make me feel a little happy when I remember they exist. Usually its the ones that I made for my own personal tastes that turned out to be things other people really liked, too.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to memes in Holy Mother Forkin Shirtballs

They're replacing gold with "Community Points", which are of course built on THE BLOCKCHAIN and are specific to the subreddit, but also if you get enough you can have more direct control over the subreddit or... something?

Mostly it sounds like a thinly veiled system designed to let people spend money to buy influence over a subreddit. But hey, it's crypto-based so that makes it cool, right?

yukichigai , 11 months ago to asklemmy in What made you choose your instance?

That is useful, thanks. Though still not sure about searching for people, but meeeeeeeeeeh I can always use outside search and paste the contact info in myself.

Now if I can just get it so when I click on my message replies it actually jumps to my comment on multi-page threads.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to asklemmy in What made you choose your instance?

I just wish it was easier to use the microblogging side to interact with Mastodon. It's great that it interacts at all, but I still can't figure out how to get a feed of people I follow, or even search for people on Mastodon to follow in the first place.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to memes in What new Lemmings joining the party see

Also some of the best goddamn memes I've seen in a while. Seriously, it's rare I'll spot a meme on Reddit that I feel like reposting, but over the last three days I've found a good dozen on Lemmy where I was like "I have to share this with so-and-so".

yukichigai , 11 months ago to technology in How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk

What is with the enshitification of everything this last year? Is it because we didn’t actively overthrow the government through the Trump bs?

Close, it's because they did it, failed, and (so far) suffered no consequences for doing so. Pretty well signaled that it's open season for pulling whatever dystopian totalitarian crap you want and the worst that can happen is it won't work.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to linux in [Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck.

Right now we're in the "every other" release of Windows, the one that's shit. 7 was good, so 8 was shit. 10 was good, so now 11 is shit. I'm not surprised you're having problems.

Might try using 10 and see if that's any better. At a minimum it's not going to be nearly as picky about what it will or won't install on.

yukichigai , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in How do I find news without using Social Media?

I dunno if you consider news aggregators separate from social media, but if you do then FARK is still alive and kicking. Pretty good coverage of mainstream news from a huge variety of sources, plus some occasional coverage of the less mainstream stuff (usually mocking it if it's really out there). Doesn't have anywhere near the volume of content that social media has, but the quality is typically a lot better.