Chud: “There are some who seem to be ignorant of my ancestry. As I have subtly hinted for some time, the answer should be very clear: very European.”

Europeans: “…We’re kindly requesting you should never set foot on our beautiful continent. Thank you.”

Limiting the power mod reach is a good thing, but still, this will break Reddit. Ordinary users will not be lining up to step in as small time moderators. Especially if Reddit Inc is going to remove them if they do anything they don’t like.

Reddit Inc will just go “what the hell, we’ll throw more AI shit in the Automoderator. It’s not like it’ll do worse than the current arbitrary quagmire of moderation rules - or maybe it will be, who can tell the difference anyway”.

Well, whoever right-wing funnyboy made the original never went to school, so how would they even know?

Edit: …or if this is parody, then we must assume that a Platonic ideal of a right-wing funnyboy never goes to a school.

“Ah yes. The coming Darkness. I yearn it.” - Jeff Bezos, probably

When I moved from Twitter to Mastodon, I was, like, awww, they still call it microblogging over here, these are my people!

I previously used Tumblr. I wanted to start a photo blog, was researching WordPress.com, but since it’s run by the same company anyway, I decided to just use Tumblr after all. Every time the site hickups, I go “certainly, Matt Mullenweg is somehow behind this.”

I’ve yet to post properly on my development blog. If you use GitHub Pages, it uses Jekyll, which has blog support out of the box.

There aren’t that many Premium™ Gamers®, and trying to pretend that that is, like, a legitimate target demographic to pander to is just sad, folks.

(The funniest gamer influencer backlash I’ve seen lately was against some YouTuber who blew ~$2K on gaming desk and a chair and called it a “minimalist” setup. People at large rightfully went “are you shitting me”.)

Even being FOSS and cryptographically signed is just partial solution, frankly.

Even if the software is FOSS and publicly reviewed, that doesn’t ensure it’s what is actually running on the hardware, or that the hardware can be trusted. The whole system needs comprehensive open design and review - and it gets complicated fast.

Throwing cryptography at voting creates some intriguing complications with interesting solutions, what with the usual voting system requirements (separation of voter identity from ballots, while still allowing the voter to verify the ballot was received correctly, is a huge problem).

And there’s always someone going “WhY wE dOn’t jUst uSe bLoCkChAiN” as if that magically solves all of the problems 🤦🏻‍♀️

At this point, I can only say one thing fairly confidently:

We’re certainly living in a timeline

I use inverted Y look with pad controls. Because that makes so much more sense. (Normal mouse look is fine)

I like how many new games show accessibility settings on start but it’s still rare for them to have both subtitle settings and invert Y right there. And always a celebration when they are.

Games that don’t even let you invert Y are hella silly. I’m so glad Xbox lets you force the invert. Gotta figure out if you can do that in Windows/Linux.

After watching the video I linked in the desc, I actually was, like, “why the hell don’t public broadcasters just hire this guy (and other people like him) and just have them do public art lessons for kids forever?”…well, I guess American public broadcasting isn’t exactly in its golden age right now and I don’t think it will be in the current administration.

Am from Finland. If I had to answer the thread, I would have been like “oh, American tourists are usually the weirdest, but you’ve just gotta be patient with them, usually the people from the anglosphere are fairly chill once shit dies down. And the people from other parts of the world may have some strange customs but you’ve just gotta be patient with them. That’s, like, the Key. Of all customer service.”

Or, in this case, children thinking “oh, I’ll give them a 5 star rating, because they probably won’t read bad reviews, but they’ll be sure to read the good reviews. But joke’s on them, the good review is actually a bad review!” (…however, Google, despite being aware that “sarcasm” has been a thing for millennia, still thinks that star ratings are very serious and factual business.)

These days I’m usually just confused about autosaves. Especially in games that don’t have clear checkpoints. I don’t mind taking explicit saving away but don’t oversimplify it by trying to pretend saving isn’t even a thing that happens. Nothing more fun than pointlessly replaying 30 minutes.

(Technology that is needlessly oversimplified just sucks. I hate that if YouTube jams on my smart TV, there’s no option to, you know, shut it down or restart it. You have to literally go and pull the plug. Samsung thinks we’re bunch of idiots but they’re a bunch of idiots I tell you)

Also, explicit saving is still better. To quote one local game journalist, when the PC-focused game magazine expanded to cover consoles: “I want to save the game right away, not after I’ve been run over by a zombie in the subway five times.” /old person whinge of the week

I don’t want to go back to Reddit so I’m just going to assume r/okbuddychicanery is going to have a field day.

I started out with Slackware 3.0. It broke all the time. Tried Debian. Was happy ever since. Tried Ubuntu on laptops but later decided it’s just Debian with extra steps so I went with Debian after all.

I’m always like “du shows disk usage of files, and df shows how much of disk is free”.

“Redux” is the extended cut, which has ~45 extra minutes of stuff that was cut from the original theatrical release. Some of the scenes are great, but some could have been left on the cutting room floor. “The Final Cut” is basically the definitive extended version.

The most cyberpunk thing I’ve seen, oh, this week, I guess

That sounds like an old problem that is not specific to Reddit. If your email is on any address leak from any website or is on a spammer’s list, and a site allows people to request password resets by email rather than username, someone is going to do it.

How they intend to read your email is anyone’s guess, however. I’ve gotten a few requests like this from other websites, but of course, the sites are always like “if you didn’t request this, please disregard this, and consider changing your password just in case”.