[-] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

That person was already evil before they became a billionaire.

The amount of evilness from being a billionaire, separate from how they got there, is approximately the same for both of them.

Nobody "works for" a billion dollars.

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I'm working on a project to build a group of intentional communities in an old boarding school west of Portland. The property has fresh spring water, on site waste water treatment, orchards and a vineyard, and 20-30 acres we could use to grow food. I'm hopeful that one or two of the communities we organize to make use of the space will be focused on sustainability and renewable use of the resources available. If anyone here is interested in the project, I'd be happy to talk more. We're looking for potential co-owners, residents, community organizers, investors, etc.

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I'm trying to raise money to buy property in Oregon (USA) for a live/work intentional community. I need to find someone with experience in investment/lending pitches to distill my ideas and plans into something that investors and banks won't balk at. I'm open to referrals to anyone with this sort of skillset.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

It's a Block Pushing Game is a sokobanlike from the creator of Baba Is You. It's relatively short but has multiple novel mechanics. I enjoyed it enough to create a curses client for it.

PS: If you like Baba Is You, Hempuli publishes multiple new games per month, mostly clever sokoban-likes, at https://hempuli.itch.io/

[-] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago

humble games is a game publisher, only connected to humble bundle through corporate ownership. most games in humble bundles aren't published by humble games, and most games published by humble games don't end up in humble bundles

[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago

Instant messaging.

20 years ago, there were half a dozen competing major platforms (AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, etc), like today.

The difference is that you had your choice of half a dozen clients that could each talk to ALL of the platforms. Adium, Trillian, Kopete, etc.

Today's kids have no idea what we lost to the god of profit.

[-] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago

Article author seems to have completely fabricated the "10 more". There are no quotes from anyone even hinting at more whistleblowers existing, let alone ten more.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am sad that the current generation of federated social media/networks still doesn't have much, if any, implementation of web of trust functionality. I believe that's the only solution to bots/AI/etc content in the future. Show me content from people/accounts/profiles I trust, and accounts they trust, etc. When I see spam or scams or other misbehavior, show me the trust chain connecting me to it so I can sever it at the appropriate level instead of having to block individual accounts. (e.g. "sorry mom, you've trusted too many political frauds, I'm going to stop trusting people you trust")

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Android prompts me to "Block and Report Spam" for spam phone calls, in both the Phone app for regular phone calls and the Voice app for calls through Google Voice.

There is no way to report spam in either app without blocking the number.

Spammers and scammers change their phone numbers frequently. Daily or more, in the case of sophisticated large operations. Those numbers get reassigned to innocent users, who will forever be blocked from calling me.

"Dumb" phone number blocks should only last for maybe a month or a year, not forever. And we should have "smart" blocks, that sync to phone number registration databases and expire when the number changes hands.

This is going to become an increasingly impactful problem if we keep using phone numbers as identifiers while most phone number users don't keep the same number for decades.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Take everything you feel about this, and apply it to everyone you know who looks down on their peers who don't drink.

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People often ask why I contribute to open source projects or otherwise work on building automated tooling. They see me spending hours to automate a task or fix a bug that take seconds to do or avoid manually, in a way that the original XKCD comic says won't pay off. The disconnect seems to be that the comic and those people only consider time it saves me, not time it saves the tens to thousands to millions of other people who will use the script or patch or whatever when I publish it. So, here's a version of xkcd.com/1205 updated for making decisions that benefit a thousand people instead of just one.

[-] [email protected] 78 points 2 years ago

To be fair, CD/DVD burning peaked and declined extremely quickly in comparison to most other media technology. We went from nobody having a CD burner to most people ditching DVDs for blu ray and/or streaming in what, 15 years?

[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago

Because more people playing on Linux means more games get published for Linux, which is an outcome we want.

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https://github.com/ocelot-inc/ocelotgui/blob/19349c7334347eb37ef61b9694390581ea5db238/ocelotgui.cpp#L16896C5-L16896C29

I need to find this line of code based on the keywords "tnt_select" and "2^32", without specifying the repository because I'm looking for instances of the same bug in other projects. This repo is public, the file isn't obfuscated, the code is in the head of the default branch. I've tried Google, Github Code Search, Sourcegraph, and BigQuery on the Github data set. I've found a few ways to locate the .rst and .po documentation files that the bug was copied from, but none that find even this single example of it in actual source code files.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago

My proposal is for a mandated label on software and hardware to indicate that it will stop working when some online service goes offline.

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"When you fill out your complaint, provide as much information as you can."

"You cannot attach documents to your complaint."

"0/250 characters"

:/

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

https://www.pcgamer.com/students-dont-know-what-files-and-folders-are-professors-say/

Students don't know what files and folders are, professors say A whole generation has grown up with powerful search functions, and don't think about computers the same way.

Apparently this has become a widespread problem in colleges starting in the last decade.

[-] [email protected] 90 points 2 years ago

Web of trust is the solution. Show me vote totals that only count people I trust, 90% of people they trust, 81% of people they trust, etc. (0.9 multiplier should be configurable if possible!)

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I tried a couple of times to make https://www.reddit.com/r/cuttingedgegaming/ happen, but never reached many people. This community seems to mostly folks playing 1-2 year old games, I wonder if there are more of us who are playing older (but not "retro") games, particularly PC games?

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TL;DR: I want to see posts and comments from https://beehaw.org/c/technology and https://lemmy.ml/c/technology and https://lemmy.world/c/technology and https://midwest.social/c/technology etc in a single interface.

I like federation, but I hate balkanization. One IRC channel dissolving into fifty different Slacks/Discords all discussing the same topic is a story I've seen repeat many times over the last decade. That's what it feels like to come to Lemmy and see a community named "Technology" or "Gaming" or "Politics" on each of a dozen different instances.

I know I can subscribe to all of them, but that's not really the same. It's harder to manage, and still doesn't give me a way to see all the Technology communities without seeing the Politics communities at the same time.

Are there any features built into Lemmy on the server or web client, or in any other fediverse clients that work well with Lemmy, that will make interacting with these communities less jarring and more seamless? Or are there any development discussions about improving this part of the ux?

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