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@yama@kinkycats.org @kaisla@eliitin-some.fi sue under UK libel law with a famously rich author's financial backing

@Fitzibitz@troet.cafe @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org Worse: whoever made the decision that AI be used, it then forces people to "become sort of lazy" Then their boss, who made the decision, will pass the blame on to the people using it

@jonmsterling When an eel bites your eye/and you scream and you die/...

@zzt@mas.to ...I'd allow it if it was a list of places someone ordered food from while working on a project solo?

@energisch_@troet.cafe @charette@mstdn.ca But better than pro rata for part time

@riley@toot.cat @glyph@mastodon.social With descriptions of the hardware where relevant (I may be thinking the Story of Mel)

@riley@toot.cat @glyph@mastodon.social Developing aesthetic sense certainly means developing the capacity to find something painful!... Awkwardly, we really don't collectively share the same tastes in code.

@slava@mathstodon.xyz @typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt @joe@f.duriansoftware.com any sufficiently involved game provides an OS-like layer somewhere in the engine to all the rest of it anyway

@riley@toot.cat @glyph@mastodon.social I'm certainly glad I didn't have to do dosbox's PC speaker support, or CRT-specific tricks on modern hardware! Then again, I will never again find myself subjecting a cat to the carrier wave of PC speaker sample playback...

@riley@toot.cat @glyph@mastodon.social (also lots of not-strictly-computational tricks abusing audio and video hardware)

@robrix@types.pl undead fascist regime

@amy @foxy I know I'd rather see someone in your situation lay it out on the table and let people make their own minds up! Don't underestimate your role doing things that aren't code, either.

@jonmsterling I was assuming you'd seen that before! If you poke around there's an entire song's worth of different people writing stuff about morays

@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz @mdione@en.osm.town Also, plenty of 720p phones for those who can still focus: if you're handing out copies of your slides, they should read fine on one (The bit you probably should check is the aspect ratio, especially if you've got code or similar)

@MisuseCase@twit.social @amydiehl@mstdn.social That was straight from TGIF of old

@Ninji@wuffs.org shite collector 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@pigworker@types.pl I learned a long time ago that people don't always [first] learn the thing you try to teach them - and assuming what they do learn is accurate enough and there's not a very imminent time constraint about them learning what you intended that's fine!

@Taneb@hacksrus.xyz Here's hoping it leads to improvements for you

@counting_is_hard@mathstodon.xyz @vc@mathstodon.xyz ...my life would look so different if I'd finished my Bachelor's eventually, y'know? But yeah, if this is an option for you, it's worth investigating

@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz turns out whoever the ruling class is, they're still rulers

@calcifer@masto.hackers.town the other option's for Big Firepower you can capture to be at best man-portable with significant setup time (the Doom 2016/Eternal chaingun options being nowhere near enough) a WW2 setting might let a really beefy protagonist lug around a captured MG42 and a few seconds' ammo along with their other kit, but not fire it without setting up a bipod or carry 30 seconds' worth of ammo, or for team PvE allow the corresponding teamwork

@julesh@mathstodon.xyz Some of us have been doing that longer than nonbinary was the umbrella

@cocaine_owlbear @itsfoss ecosystem lock-in for something that's not gaming? (I have 18 years' worth of piled up VST(i)s I need to check I can run before I get off windows on other hardware, which is not a small task - anyone about to suggest alternatives to the VST(I) collection should reconsider telling me to throw away all my instruments as if they were hardware) to be clear, that's one thing I personally wouldn't do on a deck - but genuine lock-in does happen to people as well as organisations and there's no rule that says steamdecks are only for games

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Thank fuck for that! (I gather the "Life in the UK" test for citizenship is a bit of a headfuck: I've jokingly reminded friends before that the lyrics they're looking for aren't "God save the Queen/a fascist regime...")

@alexr@tilde.zone so far Resident Evil 9 is doing a good job for me, features a protagonist I'm only calling out for daft things that we all know no other protagonist in the series would've been better about (there's just reason to expect better of her: I like her), and the first time it told me to pull Leon's Russian "that's too big to be a magnum" I didn't need it?

@boarders@mathstodon.xyz hell, I'll even grant that either choice is more natural in different contexts: 0 isn't natural when you're constructing the primes to play with, but if you're a Peano fan in a higher-order setting it can't help but be the default

@david@sunny.garden @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social There are some reasonable specific ways to use one without a keyboard and depending on the style you're after some extremely practical stands (that don't double as screen covers, sure) that used to be available for well under a tenner You can also use a BT or USB keyboard, so while Apple will be very happy if you go with theirs, you can use anything from the cheapest thing you could find to something ludicrously customised etc Meanwhile my Mini mostly just watches stuff, because it's still an improvement on using my phone So the Neo challenges it for "I wanted a laptop I can draw on", but if you didn't want it to be a laptop you're back to how well the app ecosystem now supports what you want to do. It's not what I use for music personally for example, but any iPad with a camera that does slow-mo and a tripod stand is a excellent training aid for sports etc if a coach wants to use that setup in their classes. Those of us who can comfortably write even glue scripts are inherently a minority and the majority have a lot of use cases like that: "let me use it as my whiteboard over zoom/whatever" has been lovely on the receiving end, for example!

@marjolica@social.linux.pizza @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net and conditions both ways: the ups feel higher, the downs feel lower and you're often anticipating those more than the ups each time you go round again anyway

@patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot What a shame. Buy the man a milkshake.

@yama@kinkycats.org @kaisla@eliitin-some.fi (this is absolutely an argument for legal compartmentalisation, but they'd still have been betting AIUK)

@robrix@types.pl (sorry, being UKian)

@pigworker@types.pl "ARGH" works too

@darkrat That'll be a good laugh once agentic AIs find their way to it!

@rntz@recurse.social it's the purple slop prover, what's there to be baffled by?... (screaming "WTF?!?!?!" isn't bafflement)

@calcifer@masto.hackers.town survival horror games supposedly take this more seriously (while still not starting you off with your entire arsenal, RE9 gives Leon a gun at the start he'll potentially prefer for the parts of the final boss fight that don't warrant explosives) unfortunately, on all but the hardest modes it's fairly easy to end up with a stockpile if you're a good shot and don't mind juking the odd weaker zombie

@cdrichards@mathstodon.xyz @chrisamaphone@hci.social one of the things I quite like about 10 Things I Hate About You is there aren't really any incidents of this between the main couple - they probably would've never noticed each other without the plot happening, but that's because neither of them is actively looking (in fact all the other guys come closer to it talking to each other)

@calcifer@masto.hackers.town (besides, why can't I scavenge from my victims? I get the idea, but it works better in other genres imo)

@jnsgc@social.vivaldi.net @evacide@hachyderm.io Given what it'd take to enforce it in jurisdictions that have good data protection laws?...

@alexr@tilde.zone "Remember this is the only one" is a good cookie in the circumstances

@cstross@wandering.shop And retailers who have to surveill for precise ages

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net See, OKCupid got around that by also being a great way to meet friends. Big AI is also a great way to cover your friends in verbal shite, I guess?

@jonmsterling @liamoc he's using fashware, what do you expect?

@calcifer@masto.hackers.town (Sniper Elite is a series I have a particular relationship with, because it's as close as you'll ever get to "your human opponents absolutely have it all coming" but unlike the more recent Wolfenstein games it's grounded enough that you'll notice the sorts of concerns that led to some of the things the Allies did in WW2 being made war crimes in the aftermath - the little bios also force you to look at some of the baseline unpleasantries like the conscripts who were kids when the Nazis took over I avoid single player titles with more modern/contemporary realisticish military settings unless it's very clear they're making an adequate effort to not be propaganda - I can think of one I never got round to that I'd be willing to but correspondingly had other reasons to be careful with when it was remotely new!)