[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 43 points 14 hours ago

Tesseract is an android app people could use to connect to lemmy. For some reason, the dev had several instances, words and users completely blocked within the code, without letting the person who downloaded even know about it, much less disable the blocks. One of the things it blocked were "mod abuse" communities.

As expected, things exploded once it was made public. No problem in having personal biases, everyone has them, but shipping an app with those biases baked in and hidden from the user is a shitty thing to do.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 15 hours ago

ublock origin -> create custom filter. Not gonna trust the EU for fucking up again

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 23 points 15 hours ago

Richard P. Gabriel, in his essay “The Rise of Worse-is-Better,” expounds on this theme (see Appendix A). His thesis is that the Unix design philosophy requires that all design decisions err on the side of implementation simplicity, and not on the side of correctness, consistency, or completeness. He calls this the “Worse Is Better” philosophy and shows how it yields programs that are technically inferior to programs designed where correctness and consistency are paramount, but that are evolutionarily superior because they port more easily. Just like a virus.

The highest achievement of the Unix-aesthetic is to have a command that does precisely one function, and does it well (...) This philosophy, in the hands of amateurs, leads to inexplicably mind-numbing botches like the existence of two programs, “head” and “tail,” which print the first part or the last part of a file, depending. Even though their operations are duals of one another, “head” and “tail” are different programs, written by different authors, and take different options!

From The Unix Hater's Handbook

(I like Linux, but it's not all sunshine and rainbows)

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 15 hours ago

"It wasn't aliens!" - Says the people who work at a flying saucer looking building! I bet it doubles as a landing place for the aliens!!!

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 15 hours ago

People like elon have a very narrow view of who counts as "people", everyone else is "the enemy"

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 19 hours ago

Not sure if that was ever properly tested in a court.

Freenet probably never had enough usage to get to that point

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 19 hours ago

Why make it a shader? Couldn't you get a similar effect by simply playing around with a Line2D node's color with a gradient?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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Works even with giphy, in my experience (browser only)

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 28 points 4 days ago

You forgot that the distilled ai is also evil and communist

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 24 points 4 days ago

Ah, the good old days of PS1 and 2.

On PC, it was insert the disc, install (takes a while), keep disc in, run game, crash, troubleshoot, give up.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 16 points 4 days ago

Instructions unclear, claude formatted my hard drive in FAT12 and deleted all my backups

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 29 points 4 days ago

As a Brazilian, I can tell you that the perception of Argentinians as snobs and racists is very old. It may have exacerbated during the world cup, but during several Libertadores da América games, there were many Argentinians fans calling Brazilian players monkey.

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The CD case was all warped due to heat, the CD didn't survive either :/

How long was it there? Some years, i think

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I don't know if this is stance specific, but whenever I create a new post and start typing the title, it'll list some "posts that might be related", limited to the community if it's already selected.

The problem is that the posts are almost never related to anything I'm writing in the title or might even write in the body at all. For instance, I just posted a question on how to poison videos against AI, the "might be related" posts were about Donald Trump and Epstein, with another post being about WoW Mists of Pandaria.

It seems to look for the post body for all the words in the title first instead of looking for any similar title first

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Ideally something that wouldn't leave viewers complaining about obvious artifacts or effects, but I'm willing to make some compromises

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submitted 3 weeks ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/til@lemmy.ca

Back in 2020, Brazil launched the PIX system of instant money transfer between any and every bank within the country. Meta was already trying to implement Whatsapp Pay in Brazil around late May, but was being held back by regulation agencies, on purpose, in order for PIX to rollout first. PIX started working around November 2020, while Whatsapp Pay was allowed to resume work in March 2021, but it fell flat and was scrapped away some time later.

For context, some 98% of Brazilian phones have whatsapp and it is the 2nd largest market for the app, only behind India. Had Meta gotten its way, a huge number of Brazilians would've had their finances controlled by Meta.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/til@lemmy.ca

The photo in the article shows the kind of webbing I used to think was made by spiders. The silk strands are usually around 90-100nm, or almost 100 times thinner than human hair

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I recently found out that you can get up to 3 free .eu.cc domain from GNAME, which also claims that you can renew for free when its within 90 days of expiring. So I got one to check it out.

Obviously, the next step is making one of my local machines act as the target destination for any queries to the address, so it becomes accessible for the wider web. I'm not entirely sure, however, what to configure on GNAME (there's the option to setup A and AAAA records, which I suppose I should just point to my IP, but there's also CNAME, TXT, NS, SRV and what configurations/programs my local server (rPi 3) needs to have running besides a webserver (Apache2 or Nginx)

My intent is to have it run a single-user fediverse server, possibly friendica, as it seems to have the best support for seeing all sorts of APub posts. If that proves too heavy for my old pi, I'll try one of the lightweight APub alternatives

I know I'll also need to do some configurations on my router, so I'd appreciate help on this, too.

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It's something that I often wondered. Acetone, even diluted as nail polish remover, does a great job of cleaning prints and, unlike IPA, doesn't leave the piece with an awful smell.

Is it mainly price, or are there other reasons?

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Title. I'm looking for resins with the lowest Shore hardness, the lowest one I've found (that I can buy on aliexpress) is Resione F39, with Shore 60-75A. Ideally, I'd want to get something closer to Shore 30-40A.

So, failing that, anyone with a higher understanding of chemistry can explain what additives are usually added, resulting in a cured resin with greater elasticity?

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Sauce - https://retrocdn.net/images/2/2e/EGM_US_086.pdf , page 96

"[Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain] is expected to offer at least 120 hours of gameplay."

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As I prepare to give art classes to younglings (10-11yo), I usually try to teach basic shapes with direct practice via chibi characters. I also take the opportunity to explain what usually makes a character or drawing "cute".

In any case, I present you Sanrio-Man, the salary-san. He is old, disgruntled, balding, overworked, but full of hopes, dreams and kawaii energy

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