Does anybody want to play “what are the consequences” bingo? My card has

• Trump signs an executive order that goes against 2A rights
• The perpetrator is made an example out of
• A new Flock contract in the city where Altman lives
• Altman hires 24/7 armed security

There’s a few of them. Notably, the guy who didn’t care that AI art is built on the back of copyright violations getting pissy about his AI-generated art not being eligible for copyright.

But more importantly here, I don’t think most artists in the gaming industry are in much of a position where they can stand by their artistic integrity. If every publisher pushes studios into using AI to be more “productive”, the choice becomes between slopping or starving—and most people don’t like starving.

We as consumers are the only ones that can afford to push back against this shit. Our survival doesn’t rely on buying DLSS 5 games so we have the ability to boycott them to send a message.

He has one hell of a smoker’s lung.

Right, thanks. I always get them mixed up

From a consumer perspective, if the choice is between C++ or nothing, or C++ and Electron, you take the application written in C++. They were probably already using C++, and most of the mature cross-platform UI toolkits are all designed around C or C++ anyways.

From a developer perspective… at least it’s not JavaScript.

GOG was recently bought from CDPR and is now owned by one of the co-founders, if I remember right. The focus shift towards finally giving the bare minimum of fucks about Linux likely has something to do with that.

Based on the wording of the screenshot in the post, DHL already paid to get it across the border and is waiting on OOP to pay them back their $450 before they do last-mile delivery.

Not paying them is a good way to get them to ship it back to the sender and refuse to deliver to the address until they’re made whole for both the import taxes and return shipping.

Agreed on both points.

If it was GOG and not EGS, the reaction would probably be very different. But, because people already hate Epic (for good reason), writing an article that appeals to schadenfreude makes for some easy ad revenue.

People also shouldn’t be idolizing corporations. They’re not our friends; we’re only a means to an end for them. The best case scenario for us is mutualism, and the worst case is parasitism. All it takes is a change in leadership or a change in circumstances to go from one to the other, and a constant need for growth encourages the parasitic enshittification we’re well acquainted with.

But you’re all rabid to hate on epic

If I had to pick between buying a game on Steam or Epic, I would pick the one which did some good things for consumers over the one that stuck their middle finger up at us.

There’s no denying that Valve’s contributions to DXVK, WINE, KDE, and Linux are a self-serving way to ensure Steam remains relevant after Microsoft locks Windows into a walled garden. Even so, the end result was an overall benefit for consumers. We would have had something like Proton eventually, but it would not have come nearly as quickly without their financial backing.

What has Epic done? A bunch of free games that I still don’t have enough time to play and would not have picked up anyways, great. That doesn’t make up for the rest of their wannabe-monopoly, anticonsumer practices like making exclusivity deals to railroad people into using their store by making sure gamers are denied the choice.

Fuck Epic, and fuck Tim Sweeney’s self-aggrandizing attitude. If he actually gave a shit about anything other than his ego, he would have spent his time leading Epic Games to challenge “the Steam monopoly” by providing a better customer experience, not posting on Twitter acting like the messiah of PC gaming.

They could use Scott Adam’s death to generate outrage against a privatized healthcare industry that can’t be assed to treat the people who paid for treatment… but that would be promoting class consolidarity against their owners, so they wouldn’t and didn’t.

The neat part is that you break both GNOME extensions and PolicyKit policies when removing Javascript files off of your hard drive.

“OK, I unplugged the computer. … No, I still hear air moving. … What? You mean the footrest? Why would I unplug that?”

There’s a whole lot of entitlement going on in that thread.

If the maintainers didn’t want to merge it because they had bigger issues to worry about, that’s that. Whining about it and trying to pressure them with prospects of “becoming obsolete [if you don’t merge this]” isn’t going to make a convincing argument.

They should either shut the fuck up and learn to RTFM, or maybe consider putting their money where their mouths are by actually paying to support the projects they seem to so desperately think they have a right to influence the direction of.

Yeah, ok. Now explain these:

• Closed as duplicate. Question is barely related to the supposed duplicate.
• Ask question about library X. Get answers for library Y, with demeaning remarks about having used library X instead of library Y.
• Newcomers have a solution. Can’t post it or even comment because minimum reputation requirements.
• Accepted answer is wrong. The useful advice is in another answer or its comments.

Looking on from the outside, Canadian citizens may be screwed either way the wind blows. Saying something as tone-deaf as this is going to convince people to keep strategically voting against him, so either he wins and sells out the country, or he loses and yall end up in the same two-party system that is easily captured by corporations and billionaires.

I didn’t want to make it sound too scary 😉

Seriously, though, git really needs an option to treat --force as --force-with-lease. In the exceedingly rare occasion where I might want to completely overwrite a branch, it should be extra explicit by having to type something like --force-and-overwrite.

Solution:

git commit --amend
git push --force

Problem:

The process of discovering best practices on how to keep a clean git history is a goddamned challenge.

...@lemmy.ml

Username checks out.

I don’t know what you’re Flocking abou—ahem— talking about.

The Justice Department said on Sunday it acted with an abundance of caution after receiving requests from alleged victims and their lawyers to remove information.

The unspoken part is that they were referring to political “victims and their lawyers”.