The solution is for everyone to migrate to Jami, which is obviously the better option!

Lucky. My mom would just ask me to install M$Office 2013 instead

The company’s reason is “brand protection”:

We carefully reviewed the project you shared with us (https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors). While we appreciate the initiative, we found that this is primarily a Wacom-led project, and the potential impact for GAOMON would be quite limited. Even if we added support for our devices, the system would still show the device as a GAOMON model, but the overall setup would display Wacom branding. More importantly, participating would require sharing our device specifications directly with Wacom – which is not something we can consider.

The last part of that reply is very wrong.

The article also has a reply from Peter Hutterer, a “senior software engineer at Red Hat and a maintainer of Linux’s core input device handling infrastructure since decades”, which is worth reading.

You’re not a company dealing with massive inventories :P

AI is about to join the list of “stupid technologies that people should really wait and see before investing on”, which includes

• 3D TVs - complete dud
• Blockchain - useless for real world problems already solved by typical computing
• Metaverse - still one of the best jokes around
• Folding screen phones - overpriced junk
• Fully autonomous self driving cars - “Just around the corner” for the past 10 years

surveillance state, the end of personal computing

These two were coming way before showed AI, so I don’t think AI’s to blame here, just the typical technofeudal mindset of not wanting the serfs to own anything

What a load of bullshit

Huang said the ability of AI to design a website, analyze complex documents, guide advanced research or even plan a kitchen remodeling has helped to close the technological divide in America. People can now do advanced work on computers without having to know how to program or write software, he added.

Glorification of the boss mindset: why do something when you can just tell someone else to do it? Better yet, without paying! Plus, you can even say it that “you” did it!! Seriously, though, that thing is not closing, it is widening the tech divide in 'murica and elsewhere, increasing the number of people who don’t know what the fuck they’re even trying to do with a computer in the first place.

Huang said society will adapt to AI just as it did to automobiles. He said cars were once portrayed as killing children, but the world changed its norms by having sidewalks and crosswalks and stopping kids from playing in the streets.

Also speed limits, speed bumps, unleaded gas, safety regulations. You know, things which he obviously didn’t mention because that would bring attention to the current lack of regulation in AI space.

Big mistake after big mistake, yet the company remains profitable in its perpetual surveillance. Eat a shitberg, zuckerberg.

We used a one-piece body side, and so that means if you damage like the rear fender, the repair operation, depending on the level of the damage, you can either do body work or you have to cut out a portion of the panel, re-weld the new panel on,

So, a problem of design that didn’t really think about repairability

A truckload of molotovs comes to mind. Getting them within range is the tricky part

“premium” .eu.cc domains go for 10 dollars from them. The ones they let people have for free are less than 2 USD for registration and yearly renewal. I’m willing to lose these domains if they try to charge for it

Yeah, I’ll need to set that dyndns, my IP4 isn’t fixed. Haven’t checked the IP6 tho, might try it later today - leaving the router turned off for some 10 minutes, then turning it back on will give me the answer

First of all I would suggest getting your own domain.

Isn’t this what I just did? mydomain.eu.cc Even if I can’t get it to renew for free next year, the experience of setting stuff up should be worth it.

really need to be exposed to the internet to get updates?

From my limited understanding of APub, it needs to be exposed/findable in order to send updates and for my user@server to show up. I’ll be reading https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#server-to-server-interactions to know better

Can’t it pull them from other servers?

Tunnel through an existing server? Or what, exactly? Wouldn’t connecting through an existing fedi server also enforce its blocklist down to me?

As I don’t have any VPS, it sounds like I’ll have to rely with cloudflare’s tunnel then? That or register with one listed here? https://github.com/savyasathe/free-vps

A forum for premium porn sharing, it seems. Even the FAQ is for members only. simpcity.cr

• “I don’t remember how to do that thing, I remember the tutorial showed that”
• Go to tutorial
• Relearn
• Load game back to where you were

The alternative is the tutorial being accessible from within the game, like a manual. In no case the solution is “force the tutorial at the beginning of the game”

But such an arrangement could also pose novel governance challenges, given the complications of the U.S. trying to effectively regulate something it partially owns, while also arguably increasing the incentives for a federal bailout.

“We should not take ‘tip money’ but force them to cough up 50% of the equity — to be dispersed to American citizens.” (Steve Bannon)

Couldn’t be a more obvious bailout.

Brazil recently had a similar situation with a bank (Banco Master) that wasn’t being as lucrative as it actually told investors, effectively running a pyramid scheme. Since the owner of said bank, Daniel Vorcaro, easily became friends with high ranking politicians, he easily got state govts and pension funds to buy his shit, which he used to pay some older investors.

The entire shit came crumbling down after a state bank, BRB, who already had a lot of money invested in Master, tried to buy his bank, the local congress denied that, then state governor insisted on the bailout buyout, at which point regulating agencies finally took their time to look into the situation and noticed that, oh no, there was no money there! Shit blew way out of proportion because Vorcaro seemed to be “close friends” with many politicians, all of which used govt agencies and companies to “invest” into the bank.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has discussed the idea with senior Trump administration officials periodically since the president began his second term, said two of the sources

Of course the idea came from Altman, he knows OpenAI is not going to be profitable at fucking all

discussions have centered on having the firms voluntarily cede the shares to the government, the people said. The returns on the investment could then be directed to public purposes, one of the people said, such as distributing a dividend payment to all American households.

Someone explain to me how do you pay dividends when you’re not profitable

I understand that, but a lot of gamers can figure some games out without a forced tutorial. WASD movement, jump with space, crouch with control, sprint with shift, move camera with mouse, shoot/attack with left click, etc. A lot of designers/developers became so desperate with the possibility that their game might be “someone’s first game of that type” that they choose to force everyone to play the tutorial right at the start, even players that finished the game and decided to start again, and leave it at that.

The tutorial as a main menu option fixes both problems.

Games are overwhelmingly made by and marketed to younger generations, argue analysts, while the older demographic is being ignored

They’re busy playing the stuff of their young days.

Any game that relies too much on quick reflexes will usually not be good for older people. Easier difficulties can mitigate that somewhat. Turn based games are perfect for all ages, you can take as long as you want to think your stuff through. You don’t need to make these games “for old people”. I also remember seeing a video that talked about a 70yo man who began playing Asheron’s Call (a 1999 MMORPG) with his grandson and really enjoyed the game, to the point he kept playing until it was shutdown for good.^[1]

The industry has spent 40 years chasing the same narrowly defined audience because it was the safest bet, until everyone was chasing it. Imagine if Hollywood only made movies for 18-year-old men. That’s roughly the bet games have been making.

True for big studios, false for indies, who, as always, prove time and time again that you can achieve success with “non standard” formulas, such as Balatro, Stardew Valley, Return of the Obra Dinn, Undertale (some survivorship bias is being applied here, lots of indies, even those that follow “standard formulas” more closely, fail to find success, even with good games)

There is a mismatch between the general investment in tutorials for the first few minutes, relative to where actually the player loss happens,

Make the fucking tutorial OPTIONAL and something you pick as an option in the fucking main menu. This isn’t rocket science.

But that brings you down to other categories that have been growing, like cosy[sic] games, casual games, and retro. And retro has an advantage in that audience in that you don’t need the latest [computer].

There is an important thing to keep in mind here: most casual games are predatory mobile shit. That market has been an absolute cesspool for something like 12 years now, which is almost as long as they existed. Yes, the games are “enjoyable”, because they’ve been finely tuned to be as addictive as possible.

“Give me those 60 year olds who watched Star Trek the original series,” he concludes. “Come on down, play Star Trek Online with me.”

STO? Pass. Unless we can kill this dude:

Haven’t they suffered through life enough?