The choice to use “AI” was deliberate. That’s malicious enough.

Oh man, I know what I’m reading tonight.

A Verizon rep told me the other day that their cellular home internet is just as good as my symmetric gigabit fiber service. Fuck these companies.

As long as people keep buying this slop and as long as game studios don’t have strong unions, things will continue to degrade.

I’ve been able to return some games based on news that they will be adding kernel-level anti-cheat. I’m glad Valve is doing this right.

This is insane. I will be first in line for the kit when/if it becomes available

Ryujinx did everything right and legal. Let’s see how Nintendo supporters try to justify this one.

Oh, goodie, another locked-down ad and DRM machine.

Like all game mechanics, it can be implemented in a clumsy way, or as part of a rewarding movement system.

I think that skeuomorphism in games is a decent accessibility feature for people just getting into games, but also video games have been a cultural staple for decades, so it’s not really that necessary that games mimic real movement anymore.

I don’t have a good crouch-jump example, but games like Quake have taken jump movement tech to a crazy level, originally intended or not.

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=XhzK5fL1mj0

That’s a non-commercial license. It’s not open-source, just source-available.

https://github.com/vb000/LookOnceToHear/blob/main/LICENSE

I don’t know of an app that has all of them, but Pirate Solitaire is beautiful.

I can, but I’m not happy with it. If you containerize this setup, each container needs it’s own Calibre instance and it’s very inefficient. I run it on Proxmox and plan to either package it all in a single Docker image or roll it into my Ansible playbook on a different VM.

Sure. I don’t see how that affects what I said, though?

I hope the reason they took so long is that they were waiting on a really good color e-ink screen, but I doubt it. That said, I love my Kobo Sage and my LazyLibrarian + Calibre-web + Kobo Sync workflow, and if you can do the same on these, then they’ll probably be a good buy.

I use it to set and manage timers in the kitchen. It’s not as good as Google, and the setup to get timers working is hacky, but it does the job and has fully replaced my Google Home when combined with a home assistant dashboard I have on my kitchen wall.

Yes, and that would have happened months from now. The Taliban shut them down immediately.

Not really. The Taliban took control of .af a while ago. It wasn’t them taking control that broke things, it was that they specifically targeted certain domains and took them down using control they had secured previously, with queer.af being a great example.

Care to explain how this is clickbait?

Yet another project that claims to be open source, but isn’t actually licensed under an open source license. This one doesn’t even have an explicit license, so it’s “all rights reserved”

Neat, though.

EDIT: I really appreciate that hackster.io didn’t perpetuate that claim in their article. More news outlets need to be better at this.

EDIT 2: The creator has added a GPL 3 license to their repository :)

When I was in high school, before smartphones, I would sit on the left side of the classroom, put my flip phone in my left hand next to my thigh, and play Tetris one handed. I’d have my pencil in my right hand to make it look like I was taking notes and would pause periodically to look up and look like I was paying attention. It got me through the vast majority of classes haha.

I’m in. The multiplayer games that I mostly play are Civ 5/6, BG3, and Tetris Effect.

I’m looking forward to Ara: History Untold, but I’m biased bc my buddy is developing their AI system.

Keen, Cmdr.

The mouse was never the best tool for a lot of computing jobs, it was just what caught on.

I still primarily use my computers as a desktop, and I don’t like it when software requires me to reach over to my pointing device. When it does, the majority of the time I reach for a trackball which is far more comfortable.

After dabbling with tiling windows managers in Linux some years ago, I came to realize that pointing devices are often the slow way to do things.

The main thing I want a pointing device for these days is for scrolling through documents and web pages, and the vast majority of mice are just bad at that. Precision scrolling is only available on a handful of mice, and its niche enough that consistent software implementation is just not a thing.

I’ll still keep a mouse on hand for playing the occasional video game that works better with one, but that’s not really how I like to play games usually.

The idea that it shares the same features as anything else we consider “property” is the problem, so why call it property? The only thing that one can “own” in this regime is the license itself, and that doesn’t go away just because someone violates its terms.

Intellectual property is an umbrella term for copyright, patents, and trademarks used to make it sound like “property” is “stolen” when licensing agreements are violated.

“Intellectual property” as a concept is designed to trick people into thinking copyright, trademark, and patent infringement are equivalent to theft. It’s an incorrect and pernicious use of the word “theft”.

This is definitely shitty.

Related: JerryRigEverything just came out with a video about this and titled “I got robbed” and called it theft a bunch of times. This is copyright infringement, maybe trademark infringement, but not “theft” or “robbery”. No property or money was taken from any party such that they no longer have access to it. It’s important to be accurate about this.

Edit:

Here is a list of all the media I’ve found surrounding this that falsely claims stealing, theft or robbery:

• Techlinked “dbrand was ROBBED” https://youtu.be/2yEE34BeBnA?si=i0oKsJRV8CQUs4P0
• JerryRigEverything “I’VE BEEN ROBBED” https://youtu.be/byfWscC87Vg?si=XJosK1Ubor5fWueW
• Engadget “Dbrand is suing Casetify for allegedly stealing its casd and skin designs” https://www.engadget.com/dbrand-is-suing-casetify-for-allegedly-stealing-its-case-and-skin-designs-221012321.html
• dbrand “Casetify stole our products. Now we’re suing them.” https://twitter.com/dbrand/status/1727721586856222893

Constant connection to servers required to play, even if the entire game is being run locally.

I know it’s not ideal, but a bar chart design could either focus on the difference over time for each source, or the difference between sources at each time. This plot gives a good representation of both the differences between sources and the change in time for each source. It really drives home how far solar prices have fallen relative to other sources and in absolute terms.

Always online single-player is the dumbest thing. It’s disgusting.

everything from rearranging the keys (for instance I use vim, so I swap esc and capslock), to changing tap and hold behaviors (my capslock key does esc on tap and ctrl on hold), to really elaborate stuff like tap dances (https://thomasbaart.nl/2018/12/13/qmk-basics-tap-dance/), all while being configured directly on the firmware of the keyboard, so it just works no matter what computer it’s plugged into, and it doesn’t have any weirdness that comes with software remapping tools.

This has a lot of tight tolerances and lots of little things that have to go just right. Start with simple projects like brackets for things or raspberry pi enclosures. Look at printables.com or one of the other sites for inspiration.

If you’re new to 3D printing, this is not a good first project. Buy the kit from them. It will be cheaper to do that then to buy each necessary component in bulk and make everything from scratch.

I have a pair. They’re really cool, but I haven’t found a use case for them. They’re open-back, so I can’t use them when I’m working in public spaces. They require their own USB DAC/AMP, so I can’t use them in my analog chain at either my desktop or home theater. And the DAC/AMP requires too much power to use them with my phone, so I can’t use them while walking around. The only time I use them is when I’m working from home and for some reason I want to use my laptop in bed or in the living room instead of my desktop, which is rare.

Grayjay does not have sponsorblock. Grayjay does not sync my subscriptions across my other devices. Grayjay will not have YouTube features as they roll out. Etc.

Grayjay is basically newpipe (youtube scraper) + casting + centralized, unmoderated comments + other services.

YouTube Revanced is a patched, debloated version of YouTube itself.

Grayjay does a lot of cool stuff, but they are different tools for different problems. Youtube Revanced allows users to have a better Youtube experience on their phone without losing any functionality. Grayjay is asking users to change a lot about how they watch Youtube.

I don’t understand why people are calling grayjay a “better revanced” they have pretty different feature sets and solve different problems.

This reminds me of the solar roads stuff from about a decade ago. The blindspots on this project are huge, but the difference between this and the solar roads: the solar roads thing was a Kickstarter with a big marketing campaign, and this looks like a media organization is overplaying a small project, like the recent Verge article about that one dude’s cyberdeck project.

They “work historically” because workers fought “illegally” for years for the rights and protections that exist today. I don’t understand how this is defeatist. I’m all for worker power, and I’m glad these people are trying to push the needle further.

Pointing out that the current state of the law isn’t on their side is either “defeatist” because it has some implicit is/ought bias or implies that they won’t change anything, or it’s meaningless because they already know what they’re fighting against.

So? The whole point of organizing is that under capitalism, corporations hold way more bargaining power than individuals. Pointing out that a corporation isn’t “required” to cooperate is basically a non-statement.